Exactly. Remember playing with you first RC car? It got stuck on all sorts of things and flipped over and got stuck upside down.
Then they came up with those dual track-driven machines that didn't even have servos, just cheap DC motors. Not only did they do all steering via the "tank-treads", but by designing the body to fit between the belt/track/treads, the designers ensured the machine could be flipped completely over without getting stuck. Not to mention that it navigate terrain much more treacherous than a wheeled RC car.
First, it's pretty sad when the NYT scoops slashdot on a major piece of linux news like this.
Slashdot is a blog. The meaning of the word blog defines how slashdot operates: slashdot links to (mainly user submitted) news stories and webpages. Therefore, it is the nature of a blog to always be "scooped".
Furthermore, slashdot is a bunch of geeks and nerds getting together on the internet... there is not much sadder than that to any "normal" people although I'll be the first to admit journalists may not fit that definition.
Talk to your boss or somebody else who will listen to you AND has the power to do something.
Wait. That person doesn't exist? (Well DUH, if they did you probably wouldn't be posting this on/. now would you?) Congrats! You are being used by a bunch of moneygrubbing bastards.
Why not take your obivious skills and dedication someplace else? There are thousands of assholes to work for... why not find one with a disposition like yours?
why is it so bad to know other people's salaries? why should that be confidential? the only reason I can think of is that company x is embarrassed to be paying most it's employees so little and a few employees so much. reminds of ben franklin's saying: "a countrymen between two lawyers (or employers in this case) is like a fish between sharks."
On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.
the ring tone that they use on that show sends shivers down my spine everytime i hear it, even if it isn't on the show.. i just wait for the really loud obnoxious yelling to begin. damn you trigger happy tv!
How many productive years of this poor kid's life have been wasted fighting these morons? I feel bad for all the crap he has had to go through, when he seems to be capable of producing good things in terms of software...
The article said he was 16 when the whole thing started (and of course i remembered), but what is his age now?
Actually, if you ever used themes.org when this whole thing was going down, you would note that apple forced themes.org to remove its GTK aqua themes.
But, who really cares? you can clone the aqua "skin" easily enough by taking screenshots or just saving the images offered by the apple server depicting OS X and liberally gimping them.
Hell... isn't apple ever going to get used to people ripping off their innovations?:
My uniden 900mhz phone rocks! It is by far the best phone I've ever owned. The base station has it's own battery pack so you can still talk wirelessly during power outages and unpluggings. The battery for the base station also pops out at the touch of a button, so you can swap it with the phone's drained battery; there is never an issue of not having a phone. Does this sound like an ad yet? The reception is perfectly clear - even three stories away through brick and steel - in my experience. The headset is nice too, especially if you don't prefer microwave antennas near your face.here is a link to a uniden 900MHz DSS phone.
Although this seems like a great idea, most solar panels on earth can only extract 3 to 5 percent of the sun's energy per meter squared. Furthermore, it takes a huge amount of electrical power to actually get the silicon to form in those nice crystals in the first place. Thus, most solar panels in use right now are "catching up" on repaying all that energy dumped to make them.
Luckily for us, some people are working on making amorphous silicon crystals which don't have the big power requirement to make, instead they use really nasty chemicals (oh well, gotta try something) to produce the amorphous silicon. Also, I was wondering what would happen if the laser "missed" and took out, say, Redmond, Washington? Is putting a huge laser in orbit something we really want to do? Just think of the Alan Parson's Project... (i mean dr. evil's laser...)
just like in the "dark ages" of western civilisation, horrible things were done and repeated many times: horrible tortures, the catholic church, millions of innocents suffering at the hands of "god" - their local noble etc ad nauseum.
I agree... we should revamp or re-invent computing as soon as possible: we know many of the current mistakes and problems and their causes. However, as knowledge is spread, the rest of them will realize that animals are friends and not food; of course many of these realizations will come as billions die of starvation.... but hey... evolution will continue despite technology.
enjoy now while it lasts, because next has the potential to be very different......
hahaha, yeah.. i can see hammond building out my window. It's really hard to find your way around inside too, but there is some good rock climbing on the backside there...
Good point. You must consider those who are actually designing the ads, and who they are employed by. It seems that banner ads are designed merely to trick the surfer into clicking them, rather than tempting the surfer with interesting/useful stuff. That is, ad designers are herding clicks, rather than sales. This is not beneficial to anyone, except the person making the ad (merely because they get paid).
This is hardly surprising, considering that "front page" and "front page express" and other such mindless graphical code slaughtering programs are so common. What I'm trying to get at here is that bad banner ad design roughly correlates with bad HTML (or what have you) design: there are few webpages with intelligent features, good layout and easy navigation, however, there are at least a billion other pages that are horrible in one or more ways.
Thus, to single out banner ads is like saying "wow.. the headlights on this pinto really suck", when you should be saying "wow.. this whole car really sucks!"
yeah, just like Jaron Lanier says: people are finding out that people can't write code well in general. I suppose, in several years, in a history book someplace it will say: "Thus, the computer age served a purpose: to highlight for humans how incredibly stupid/blind they really are."
you have to admit, the guy you are replying to has a point. For an article written by a phd, it has an extremely repetitive structure with only one
(as he pointed out above) "specific" example.
furthermore, the article reeks of zealotry (which i was hoping that the widespread study of science would help end >:-) and seems to be written in a manner meant specifically to inflame the passions of theists/creationists/whoever.
besides, to anyone who has learned pretty much any biology within the last few years already knew that evolution does in fact occur, and you can measure it just like anything else. Whether life originated in a primordial soup or on an asteroid or whatever is completely unknown, it could have happened through any or all of these multitudinously varied creation theories... but who cares??? You can't do anything with that information other than laugh at whoever ends up being wrong about their creation theory (which is probably all of us) be it supernatural or chemical. this said, go do something useful!
you actually aren't too far off. as selective pressure slowly disappears in most places, allelic frequencies suddenly start to shift.. randomly...so over time, humans should start to see an increase in "undesirable" traits, which could range from thousands (millions) of diseases or many other things...oh also for this to happen, i think exponential population growth has to be occuring (which it is, btw).
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The car also plays a key roll
Exactly. Remember playing with you first RC car? It got stuck on all sorts of things and flipped over and got stuck upside down.
Then they came up with those dual track-driven machines that didn't even have servos, just cheap DC motors. Not only did they do all steering via the "tank-treads", but by designing the body to fit between the belt/track/treads, the designers ensured the machine could be flipped completely over without getting stuck. Not to mention that it navigate terrain much more treacherous than a wheeled RC car.
Actually, many vehicles that navigate extreme terrain or that are required to have extreme durability or strength use tracks.
This reminds me that our hilariously 6-wheeled mars rover can't even navigate a loose 25 degree slope.. heh.. even jeeps can do that!
First, it's pretty sad when the NYT scoops slashdot on a major piece of linux news like this.
Slashdot is a blog. The meaning of the word blog defines how slashdot operates: slashdot links to (mainly user submitted) news stories and webpages.
Therefore, it is the nature of a blog to always be "scooped".
Furthermore, slashdot is a bunch of geeks and nerds getting together on the internet... there is not much sadder than that to any "normal" people although I'll be the first to admit journalists may not fit that definition.
Talk to your boss or somebody else who will listen to you AND has the power to do something.
/. now would you?) Congrats! You are being used by a bunch of moneygrubbing bastards.
Wait. That person doesn't exist? (Well DUH, if they did you probably wouldn't be posting this on
Why not take your obivious skills and dedication someplace else? There are thousands of assholes to work for... why not find one with a disposition like yours?
that's really funny.
ie 5.00 collapsed instantly
but then i read the code, "input type crash'?
anyway, as it turns out the word doesn't have to be crash.. you can use any word you want, i used "killie" and got the same results...
lizard man URL:
f ol k/lizardman/
http://www.polarboy.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/freaky
why is it so bad to know other people's salaries? why should that be confidential? the only reason I can think of is that company x is embarrassed to be paying most it's employees so little and a few employees so much. reminds of ben franklin's saying: "a countrymen between two lawyers (or employers in this case) is like a fish between sharks."
No, no, no, NO! you got it all wrong.
/proper/ und3rpants gnome business model is:
the
1. Stockpile underwear.
2. ???
3. Profit.
This code snippet can be applied to your thing too:
1. Stockpile arthropods.
2. ???
3. Profit.
See? easy AND fun!
mod parent up!
On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.
Hey, you really don't like wallpaper!
the ring tone that they use on that show sends shivers down my spine everytime i hear it, even if it isn't on the show.. i just wait for the really loud obnoxious yelling to begin. damn you trigger happy tv!
How many productive years of this poor kid's life have been wasted fighting these morons? I feel bad for all the crap he has had to go through, when he seems to be capable of producing good things in terms of software...
The article said he was 16 when the whole thing started (and of course i remembered), but what is his age now?
According to that same page: (labs.google.com/glossary)
"Sorry, there are no definitions for moore's law"
That just about settles it, now doesn't it?
But, who really cares? you can clone the aqua "skin" easily enough by taking screenshots or just saving the images offered by the apple server depicting OS X and liberally gimping them.
Hell... isn't apple ever going to get used to people ripping off their innovations?:
and now:
and soon to come:
yeah..
My uniden 900mhz phone rocks! It is by far the best phone I've ever owned. The base station has it's own battery pack so you can still talk wirelessly during power outages and unpluggings. The battery for the base station also pops out at the touch of a button, so you can swap it with the phone's drained battery; there is never an issue of not having a phone. Does this sound like an ad yet? The reception is perfectly clear - even three stories away through brick and steel - in my experience. The headset is nice too, especially if you don't prefer microwave antennas near your face.here is a link to a uniden 900MHz DSS phone.
just how gullable are we supposed to be, Taco?
Although this seems like a great idea, most solar panels on earth can only extract 3 to 5 percent of the sun's energy per meter squared. Furthermore, it takes a huge amount of electrical power to actually get the silicon to form in those nice crystals in the first place. Thus, most solar panels in use right now are "catching up" on repaying all that energy dumped to make them.
... (i mean dr. evil's laser...)
Luckily for us, some people are working on making amorphous silicon crystals which don't have the big power requirement to make, instead they use really nasty chemicals (oh well, gotta try something) to produce the amorphous silicon.
Also, I was wondering what would happen if the laser "missed" and took out, say, Redmond, Washington? Is putting a huge laser in orbit something we really want to do? Just think of the Alan Parson's Project
anything that you just scratched. that's nasty.
just like in the "dark ages" of western civilisation, horrible things were done and repeated many times: horrible tortures, the catholic church, millions of innocents suffering at the hands of "god" - their local noble etc ad nauseum.
I agree... we should revamp or re-invent computing as soon as possible: we know many of the current mistakes and problems and their causes. However, as knowledge is spread, the rest of them will realize that animals are friends and not food; of course many of these realizations will come as billions die of starvation.... but hey... evolution will continue despite technology.
enjoy now while it lasts, because next has the potential to be very different......
hahaha, yeah.. i can see hammond building out my window. It's really hard to find your way around inside too, but there is some good rock climbing on the backside there...
please moderate the parent up!
do you have a source to back that up?
maybe your skiis come off, but my 8 foot long ski umping skis don't.
you probably also think cars are safe.
stickdeath.com?!?!?
Good point. You must consider those who are actually designing the ads, and who they are employed by. It seems that banner ads are designed merely to trick the surfer into clicking them, rather than tempting the surfer with interesting/useful stuff. That is, ad designers are herding clicks, rather than sales. This is not beneficial to anyone, except the person making the ad (merely because they get paid).
This is hardly surprising, considering that "front page" and "front page express" and other such mindless graphical code slaughtering programs are so common. What I'm trying to get at here is that bad banner ad design roughly correlates with bad HTML (or what have you) design: there are few webpages with intelligent features, good layout and easy navigation, however, there are at least a billion other pages that are horrible in one or more ways.
Thus, to single out banner ads is like saying "wow.. the headlights on this pinto really suck", when you should be saying "wow.. this whole car really sucks!"
yeah, just like Jaron Lanier says: people are finding out that people can't write code well in general. I suppose, in several years, in a history book someplace it will say: "Thus, the computer age served a purpose: to highlight for humans how incredibly stupid/blind they really are."
you have to admit, the guy you are replying to has a point. For an article written by a phd, it has an extremely repetitive structure with only one (as he pointed out above) "specific" example.
furthermore, the article reeks of zealotry (which i was hoping that the widespread study of science would help end >:-) and seems to be written in a manner meant specifically to inflame the passions of theists/creationists/whoever.
besides, to anyone who has learned pretty much any biology within the last few years already knew that evolution does in fact occur, and you can measure it just like anything else. Whether life originated in a primordial soup or on an asteroid or whatever is completely unknown, it could have happened through any or all of these multitudinously varied creation theories... but who cares??? You can't do anything with that information other than laugh at whoever ends up being wrong about their creation theory (which is probably all of us) be it supernatural or chemical. this said, go do something useful!
you actually aren't too far off. as selective pressure slowly disappears in most places, allelic frequencies suddenly start to shift.. randomly...so over time, humans should start to see an increase in "undesirable" traits, which could range from thousands (millions) of diseases or many other things...oh also for this to happen, i think exponential population growth has to be occuring (which it is, btw).
yeah,