Anyone else catch this paragraph: I received a mudslide of emails and read several forum submissions here on Full On 3D, over at 3DNow.Org, Anandtech and Slashdot (which, ironically, chose to post this ragtag editorial but turned down the opportunity to get the word about 3DNow.Org, the 3DNow! coding workshop or Linux3D.Net out - go figure how much that makes them a gossippy place over one that cares for Linux and coders).
The BBC is very fast. They put stuff up in that little Java thing in about 5 mins, and get a story in 10-15 or less. For instance the failed, then sucessful shuttle launch. BBC wrote how it failed right away, while places like CNN took a while to put stuff up.
I've seen this a few times and it is just sad(and very funny) that people can't figure out some of the easiest fucking things. They had one they showed a guy a picture of a giraffe and asked him what it was and he said it was a cheetah or something. And another time they asked a bunch of people how many stars are on the flag and a bunch didn't get it.
The reason it looks like Slashdot is because it uses Slashdot's code. I don't like the look as much though, I wish he just changed the green to red and left the rest alone. Slashdot looks good how it is.
Yes, everything changes, but then again it doesn't. Think about it: is anyone ever gonna want a machine that sits in their lap w/ a 50" monitor? Hell no. You wouldn't be able to see the whole screen without moving your head all around. The fact is that laptop screen size will soon get to it's max(it if hasn't already, 16.5 sounds awfully big).
I think desktop screen size may get somewhat bigger, but probably 24" is as big as you'd want unless you were sitting a ways away from the screen.
Since I have done been researching Slashdot for over 20 years now with a broad range of test subjects from around the world, I have discovered that these comments are posted, without fail, no matter what the article, and usually before the poster has read the article. I will cover them here so no one needs to say them and waste more vaulable space:
1) Does it run Linux? 2) How about a Beowulf cluster(an alteration goes like "Damn, wouldn't a Beowulf cluster of (insert computer chip, iBook, Red Hat Stock, anything really, in here) be sweet?") 3) This isn't news for nerds! 4) FIRST POST 5) MEEPT 6) MS Sucks 7) Apple sucks 8) Where can I get the source code? 9) No source code? Damn this thing is a piece of shit.(note, source code is required even if the item in discussion does not have source code, it's a freedom thing)
If I have missed any, please feel free to contribute to the standard Slashdot response. Once we have a good list, we should work on making a program that will automatically go to a story and post one of these comments at random, saving valuable time for the people who would have had to spend that time letting their brain rot while they typed.
Q. Can I create an AirPort network in a classroom? A. Yes. With AirPort-enabled iBook computers and an AirPort Hardware Access Point, you can create a wireless network in your classroom. You can also add more access points to provide coverage for your entire school.
Someone else was asking about getting a neiborhood T1 and sharing with these things, I'd say that's a yes.
Also, the fact that an Apple tech can remove the CD-ROM drive, and that they say there is "currently" no DVD upgrade makes me think that it might be possible, if not from Apple from a third party.
Well I don't really see it as a problem that/. posts a story you really don't want posted. It shouldn't be any big deal to you.
It annoys me more when they ignore big stories that I'd like to talk about(shuttle launch for one).
I don't really see what you could have said about the aniversary of the moon launch, it's not really an event.
The thing is that "stuff that matters" is fairly inclusive, and I wouldn't mind if they had more news and political type stories(maybe only those that had a special signifigance to nerds, but maybe not). I think it's fairly telling that the stories with the most comments have been ones about Columbine(news, political stuff), and the Iraq bombing(same thing). Obviously people care about those things, why not have more of it?
I believe that actually is a theory. I almost definitely read about either in "A Brief History of Time" or a Carl Sagan book if not both. But no one really cares because it'd be basically impossible to prove and would have no impact on anything.
I remember this, but the way I remember was a little different. I believe I learned about it in some museum in Canada(Montreal or Toronto, I don't known which).
Anyway, what I remember is that they had the subjects in one room, and the people who thought they were giving a shock in another. The subjects would be asked questions, and if they answered incorrectly, they'd be shocked(or so the shockers thought). And there would be people there that told them to keep shocking no matter what. And I was all or almost all the people kept shocking the subjects even after they were believed to be unconsious or dead(IIRC, they'd ask a question, and the subject wouldn't answer, so they'd shock 'em).
OK, right now when I look at the comments there are 6 at the top level. 4 are marked down, and say Troll. The moderators are going insane with the need to moderate every post there is. Also some people cannot take a joke, and it seems almost any joke these days is marked Troll or Flamebait. Give me a break.
How do you keep birds from flying into the beam area
This is an interesting question to me. Also think of planes(they would be easier to control though). Hopefully NASA is well on their way to solving the dispersion problem, but the problem of things overhead seems like it would be very difficult to solve.
You're saying that somehow radiation in the air will cause bacteria in the air to evolve into antibiotic resistant bacteria? Why? Wouldn't it be far more likely that they'd evolve into radiation resistant bacteria? They would have no benefit from being antibiotic resistant.
I skimmed through it again. The only stuff I can really point to is "fucking", "bullshit", and "Bill Clinton shooting off his prick". BTW, I do find this fairly offensive for what would normally be in a magazine article. But I guess it's more the style. After reading it again I found what he was saying(or how he said it)was really pissing me off. I don't know, it seems very similiar to something I've read before. I don't know, he seems to have some common sense at least(something in short supply these days, IMO).
These boys were not sociopaths, made by watching one too many horror flicks; they were sociopaths who happened to like horror/action movies.
This is the difference between correlation and causation, things which no one can distinguish between these days(at least no one in the media).
Marilyn Manson (who the Columbine boys actually did not listen to) wrote an article about how he sees the media as involved. It's interesting; probably not what the average parent would expect.
Hmm, it was an interesting article. I didn't agree with him totally though, and it seems he uses words like "fuck" just for shock value. But I do agree more with him more than most.
I think on one level my response to this would be "well, how many people do justify a change?" because i think it would be an okey thing if there were some isolated cause for it.
How many people? I don't know. But when the crime rate is down, the murder rate is down, the % of crimes in which guns were involved is down, it's absurd to call for tons of new laws and new rules(e.g. my HS searched everyone coming into the school for final exams, is that even legal?). I heard somewhere that 19 laws were broken by those kids getting their guns(or by the people who bought thte guns for them), so why do we need more laws? the NRA says they just think the current laws should be nforced and that sounds pretty reasonable to me.
The Matrix makes violence look incredibly cool. The whole scene where they go in in trenchcoats and kill about 20 cops with a combination of Uzis, shotguns, martial arts, etc. All in slow-motion is one of the coolest movie scenes I've ever seen.
But that doesn't mean I'd ever consider going into my school or something and doing that. That's the difference between sane people who watch a movie like that, and insane people. Insane people would go kill people after seeing that(or at least some people would like to believe it's that simple).
I just wish people would let us be responsible for ourselves. I shouldn't be punished because of one incident of violence.
I think everyone should take a step back from this and look at why we are doing all these crazy things. It all leads almost directly out of Columbine. It was tragic to be sure, but to make major changes in laws and/or our society after 15 people die in a fairly isolated incident is ridiculous.
Why cut off communications? I mean, it seems cruel and almost evil to not let the guys talk to their families or to any human beings in the last moments of their lives.
Also, almost exactly 30 years from when the landing happened. Is the reason they know about this that the gov't has to release secret stuff after 30 years(I know there's some type of time period after which the gov't declassifies documents).
However, even were there to be a radical government change (most likely through a Constitutional Convention rather than a violent overthrow) it'd be the vocal minority (mainly X-ian Right) that would most likely take over.
This is wha3t I'm worried about. There are some people these days saying some crazy things. And the scary thing is that Americans seem to like these views, hopefully in moderation but who knows what happens on election day. Look at what Gary Bauer(sp?) is saying. This guy wants to be president!
Just for an example of Gary Bauer: He was on Crossfire and one of the hosts was asking him to say good or bad to these changes(I'm trying to remember correctly but you'll get the idea):
Host: Teenage out of wedlock birth down Gary: Not good if the people are killing their babies(that was his phrase)
Host: Teen abortion down Gary: Not good if they're using condoms and birth control devices(it seems that he doesn't want people, or at least teens, to haev access to condoms at all)
Host: Teen pregnancy down Gary: basically same answer as above
The other thing this guy is doing is going around the country saying that there is a war being waged between two halves of the country. One half is like Eric Harris and Dylan Kleibold(Columbine killers), and the other half is like this girl(can't remember her name), that was killed because she said she believed in God. And he says he can't believe that people can go around worshiping Nazis in school but they can't pray.
People like this make me so sick.
BTW, Pat Robertson is on Larry King Live today, I'll be watching.
Slashdot Mirror
I received a mudslide of emails and read several forum submissions here on Full On 3D, over at 3DNow.Org, Anandtech and Slashdot (which, ironically, chose to post this ragtag editorial but turned down the opportunity to get the word about 3DNow.Org, the 3DNow! coding workshop or Linux3D.Net out - go figure how much that makes them a gossippy place over one that cares for Linux and coders).
Ouch
The BBC is very fast. They put stuff up in that little Java thing in about 5 mins, and get a story in 10-15 or less. For instance the failed, then sucessful shuttle launch. BBC wrote how it failed right away, while places like CNN took a while to put stuff up.
I've seen this a few times and it is just sad(and very funny) that people can't figure out some of the easiest fucking things. They had one they showed a guy a picture of a giraffe and asked him what it was and he said it was a cheetah or something. And another time they asked a bunch of people how many stars are on the flag and a bunch didn't get it.
The reason it looks like Slashdot is because it uses Slashdot's code. I don't like the look as much though, I wish he just changed the green to red and left the rest alone. Slashdot looks good how it is.
Yes, everything changes, but then again it doesn't. Think about it: is anyone ever gonna want a machine that sits in their lap w/ a 50" monitor? Hell no. You wouldn't be able to see the whole screen without moving your head all around. The fact is that laptop screen size will soon get to it's max(it if hasn't already, 16.5 sounds awfully big).
I think desktop screen size may get somewhat bigger, but probably 24" is as big as you'd want unless you were sitting a ways away from the screen.
ah yes, or the, damnit you posted this one last week
also: I hate Jon Katz(and variations thereof)
What a way to start, the lesson is: preview before posting
Since I have done been researching Slashdot for over 20 years now with a broad range of test subjects from around the world, I have discovered that these comments are posted, without fail, no matter what the article, and usually before the poster has read the article. I will cover them here so no one needs to say them and waste more vaulable space:
1) Does it run Linux?
2) How about a Beowulf cluster(an alteration goes like "Damn, wouldn't a Beowulf cluster of (insert computer chip, iBook, Red Hat Stock, anything really, in here) be sweet?")
3) This isn't news for nerds!
4) FIRST POST
5) MEEPT
6) MS Sucks
7) Apple sucks
8) Where can I get the source code?
9) No source code? Damn this thing is a piece of shit.(note, source code is required even if the item in discussion does not have source code, it's a freedom thing)
If I have missed any, please feel free to contribute to the standard Slashdot response. Once we have a good list, we should work on making a program that will automatically go to a story and post one of these comments at random, saving valuable time for the people who would have had to spend that time letting their brain rot while they typed.
you can get the streaming movie from Apple or ZDNet
the actual file would be huge as the keynote was about an hour long, so I doubt you'll ever see a file you can grab
Q. Can I create an AirPort network in a classroom?
A. Yes. With AirPort-enabled iBook computers and an AirPort Hardware Access Point, you can create a wireless network in your classroom. You can also add more access points to provide coverage for your entire school.
Someone else was asking about getting a neiborhood T1 and sharing with these things, I'd say that's a yes.
Also, the fact that an Apple tech can remove the CD-ROM drive, and that they say there is "currently" no DVD upgrade makes me think that it might be possible, if not from Apple from a third party.
Well I don't really see it as a problem that /. posts a story you really don't want posted. It shouldn't be any big deal to you.
It annoys me more when they ignore big stories that I'd like to talk about(shuttle launch for one).
I don't really see what you could have said about the aniversary of the moon launch, it's not really an event.
The thing is that "stuff that matters" is fairly inclusive, and I wouldn't mind if they had more news and political type stories(maybe only those that had a special signifigance to nerds, but maybe not). I think it's fairly telling that the stories with the most comments have been ones about Columbine(news, political stuff), and the Iraq bombing(same thing). Obviously people care about those things, why not have more of it?
I believe that actually is a theory. I almost definitely read about either in "A Brief History of Time" or a Carl Sagan book if not both. But no one really cares because it'd be basically impossible to prove and would have no impact on anything.
If you had 1/4 a brain, you'd realize the comment was a joke and implied that it was a good article.
I remember this, but the way I remember was a little different. I believe I learned about it in some museum in Canada(Montreal or Toronto, I don't known which).
Anyway, what I remember is that they had the subjects in one room, and the people who thought they were giving a shock in another. The subjects would be asked questions, and if they answered incorrectly, they'd be shocked(or so the shockers thought). And there would be people there that told them to keep shocking no matter what. And I was all or almost all the people kept shocking the subjects even after they were believed to be unconsious or dead(IIRC, they'd ask a question, and the subject wouldn't answer, so they'd shock 'em).
That is really scary to think about.
If this post is moderated down oh well.
that was pretty funny, though I'm not sure you meant it as a joke(sounded like it). If you want "real" news, watch some CBN. Yeah, right.
Cynthia could make a porn video and make people pay for it to raise money. I can see why that robot gets mad when she leaves :)
This is an interesting question to me. Also think of planes(they would be easier to control though). Hopefully NASA is well on their way to solving the dispersion problem, but the problem of things overhead seems like it would be very difficult to solve.
You're saying that somehow radiation in the air will cause bacteria in the air to evolve into antibiotic resistant bacteria? Why? Wouldn't it be far more likely that they'd evolve into radiation resistant bacteria? They would have no benefit from being antibiotic resistant.
Not the arcos!!! Noooooo
Oh well, I'll just go to SCURK and put them back, hehehe....
I skimmed through it again. The only stuff I can really point to is "fucking", "bullshit", and "Bill Clinton shooting off his prick". BTW, I do find this fairly offensive for what would normally be in a magazine article. But I guess it's more the style. After reading it again I found what he was saying(or how he said it)was really pissing me off. I don't know, it seems very similiar to something I've read before. I don't know, he seems to have some common sense at least(something in short supply these days, IMO).
These boys were not sociopaths, made by watching one too many horror flicks; they were sociopaths who happened to like horror/action movies.
This is the difference between correlation and causation, things which no one can distinguish between these days(at least no one in the media).
Marilyn Manson (who the Columbine boys actually did not listen to) wrote an article about how he sees the media as involved. It's interesting; probably not what the average parent would expect.
Hmm, it was an interesting article. I didn't agree with him totally though, and it seems he uses words like "fuck" just for shock value. But I do agree more with him more than most.
I think on one level my response to this would be "well, how many people do justify a change?" because i think it would be an okey thing if there were some isolated cause for it.
How many people? I don't know. But when the crime rate is down, the murder rate is down, the % of crimes in which guns were involved is down, it's absurd to call for tons of new laws and new rules(e.g. my HS searched everyone coming into the school for final exams, is that even legal?). I heard somewhere that 19 laws were broken by those kids getting their guns(or by the people who bought thte guns for them), so why do we need more laws? the NRA says they just think the current laws should be nforced and that sounds pretty reasonable to me.
The Matrix makes violence look incredibly cool. The whole scene where they go in in trenchcoats and kill about 20 cops with a combination of Uzis, shotguns, martial arts, etc. All in slow-motion is one of the coolest movie scenes I've ever seen.
But that doesn't mean I'd ever consider going into my school or something and doing that. That's the difference between sane people who watch a movie like that, and insane people. Insane people would go kill people after seeing that(or at least some people would like to believe it's that simple).
I just wish people would let us be responsible for ourselves. I shouldn't be punished because of one incident of violence.
I think everyone should take a step back from this and look at why we are doing all these crazy things. It all leads almost directly out of Columbine. It was tragic to be sure, but to make major changes in laws and/or our society after 15 people die in a fairly isolated incident is ridiculous.
Why cut off communications? I mean, it seems cruel and almost evil to not let the guys talk to their families or to any human beings in the last moments of their lives.
Also, almost exactly 30 years from when the landing happened. Is the reason they know about this that the gov't has to release secret stuff after 30 years(I know there's some type of time period after which the gov't declassifies documents).
This is wha3t I'm worried about. There are some people these days saying some crazy things. And the scary thing is that Americans seem to like these views, hopefully in moderation but who knows what happens on election day. Look at what Gary Bauer(sp?) is saying. This guy wants to be president!
Just for an example of Gary Bauer: He was on Crossfire and one of the hosts was asking him to say good or bad to these changes(I'm trying to remember correctly but you'll get the idea):
Host: Teenage out of wedlock birth down
Gary: Not good if the people are killing their babies(that was his phrase)
Host: Teen abortion down
Gary: Not good if they're using condoms and birth control devices(it seems that he doesn't want people, or at least teens, to haev access to condoms at all)
Host: Teen pregnancy down
Gary: basically same answer as above
The other thing this guy is doing is going around the country saying that there is a war being waged between two halves of the country. One half is like Eric Harris and Dylan Kleibold(Columbine killers), and the other half is like this girl(can't remember her name), that was killed because she said she believed in God. And he says he can't believe that people can go around worshiping Nazis in school but they can't pray.
People like this make me so sick.
BTW, Pat Robertson is on Larry King Live today, I'll be watching.