Where was he able to get a Linux box and play with it enough to become obsessed?
For what it's worth, I imagine our friend is obsessed about many, many things. Sliced bread, for instance.
Then perhaps Smith & Wesson and GLOK, et al should be accused of "harboring."
Nah, I don' t buy it. Microsoft didn't force the virus writer to exploit their (albeit buggy) code anymore than S&W forced the murderer to kill two people. Bullets can have the unfortunate side-effect of killing the wrong people. Code can have the unfortunate side-effect of being poorly written and, therefore, destructive to a company.
It's taken years for the courts to not laugh out smoker v. tobacco company lawsuits. And that only happen when it became at least circumstantially clear that the tobacco companies knew their products addicted and harmed folks.
Prove that MS wanted to bolster their bottom line by making buggy code. Prove that they made this knowledge available to neer-do-wells. Prove that MS let it all happen. Then you've got a case. Otherwise, just go after the guys that took the gun and murdered two people.
Some other possibilities:
"You've got Linux. Click Yes to run Cancer Eradicator. You've clicked No. Running Cancer Eradicator."
"I. LOVE. THIS. COMPANY. YEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"We're sorry. Slashdot.org can not be reached from your webbing area."
"I've got five figures."
"I'm sorry. Web pages about 'Linux' can not be found. Transferring you to www.cancer.org."
"
I know that others have posted articles about PCI3.0 only to have them rejected by Slashdot's lovable, but invisible, ultimately unaccountable know-it-alls.
Why does a story about PCI3.0 get the green-light THIS time?
Maybe it's time for another FAQ:
Q: Why does slashdot routinely reject meaty articles on new technology only to accept the same matter from other folks days later?
A:/. quality can't be taught or attained. What I mean is: If you have to ask, you'll never know. Now, go away, biotch.
I had, at one time, needed to find the life-cycle of a mosquito. You know the stuff; what do the eggs look like, how long is the gestation period, how dangerous is pre-birth, how long does a mosquito live?
I found no less than five books in the library that had this information -- from children's picture books, to information from historical studies.
But I could not, for the life of me, find this simple, seemingly well-known and scientifically qualified information on-line. There were many links to.edus studying mosquitos and their social structures, but current studies focus way beyond the life-cycle and, unfortunately, assume that most folks (everyone?) already know and understand the life-cycle.
Granted this is but one example, but I have encountered other instances where historical information available in multiple copies offline does not exist online. It's a case where the time to take dead-tree matter and convert it to HTML or even PRE may be more valuable to current projects.
From the/. blurb:
>American publishing companies preparing to wage
>war on the idea of reading books for free
Damn! This makes it sound like publishing companies are finally fed up with libraries loaning out _paper_ books, when the real issue is e-books. And, yes, that _is_ a potential issue for publishers.
I know a couple of decent TV news desks looking for Sensationalist Writers...
Computer Consultants are all over the place in the printing industry. Most of them are nice and informative and I've met quite a number of them. But while each has his or her own experience and methods of planning and suggestion, there is one absolute truth.
Every consultant -- no matter how kind or not -- eventually mentions that "other consultants" don't put the customer first, rip off companies, make decisions based on the commission, and yada, yada, yada. This is usually followed up by some self-serving statement about how "I" don't do those things.
Forget ethics! Where's the truth? "They" can't _all_ be bad. And the person in front of me _at the time_ can't always be the paragon of Good Consulting(tm).
All these guys just need to grow up and stop performing business with Usenet-style flames and snipes.
that this guy predicted the death of the Internet. I have little faith that he'll predict much else since it was entirely obvious, even when he made his prediction in the mid-90's, that the Internet would succeed. (Once the business world gets behind something, it's usually made to succeed.)
What is it with this guy? He's a good inventor; ethernet is great! Invent more stuff! Stop being the party pooper!
Why all the cries of, "I don't get it. Is this journalism?"
Microsoft, now having the scarlet letter "M" (Monopoly) painted upon its breast, has now graduated fully from envy to enemy. (Of course, for some, they have always been enemy). I expect to see many more of these, "X-Microsoft employee tells all. Scandalous parties in the most unfortunate circumstances. Boy barely escapes. What hath M$ wrought," etc., etc.
Folks, the interest is easy. We lap up this stuff.
Now, the "point"... That's another matter entirely. Having much to do with the bias of the interviewer, interviewee, reader, publication, etc.
Ancestry.com intrigued me, so I wanted to see if I could find my grandfather, who died in the early 80's.
I typed in my last name and his home state; a bunch of "death" listings came up. I found my grandfather among them.
I also found that a girl, whom I attended grammar school with for a short time, who I would not remember except for the fact she had the same last name, died in 1995 at the age of 24.
Now, I'm curious as to why she died and I'm searching high and low around the net to see if I can find the cause.
Far be it from me to throw cold water on such a hot topic, but I find myself wondering whether MAME's true purpose is to archive?
Up until this article, most of the stuff I had read about MAME -- which I found in doing research for an article about arcade game emulating for Digital Home Entertainment magazine -- was about hot "cool" it is to be able to play old arcade games.
I agree with the "cool"ness of it all. It's still even a bit mindblowing that those tall cabinets that towered over me so as a kid can now all be reduced and saved into a place barely 1/32 my size. And, yes, the games are fun.
But now comes this article that adds the title "archive" to the scene -- a title that turns all the "how cool this is" articles on their sides. Suddenly emulating because a "study" and MAME's author becomes something of, at best, a scholar and archivist and, at worst (or even better, depending on your viewpoint), a liberator of code from dust and closets everywhere.
I'm not at all against either viewpoint. I love MAME and use it regularly. But I'm wondering if this article is an actual reflection of MAME's author's and the community's motivations. Is it that? Or is it an atttempt to place a happier, more tolerable face on something the arcade industry -- at least those that still own those titles -- finds very ugly: property theft?
The bad news is that if "The War In Heaven" sells, expect a slew of Christian (and soon, no doubt, Jewish and Muslim) save-the-soul games marketed by greedy Web entrepeneurs who want to appear wholesome while raking in big money.
Why is this bad news if they're good games? Because they're religion based? Or for other reasons?
It's not bad news at all. In fact, the struggles any of these games represent are pretty much the same -- good vs. evil.
If Katz's implication is that it's bad because it's "religion," then I don't really agree, but it's certainly an American point of view, eh?
"Don't foist your religion on me! Freedom of worship! Freedom of worship!!!!"
But I say: Don't buy it. There's more than enough room on the shelves, as far as I'm concerned.
Slashdot Mirror
Where was he able to get a Linux box and play with it enough to become obsessed?
For what it's worth, I imagine our friend is obsessed about many, many things. Sliced bread, for instance.
Then perhaps Smith & Wesson and GLOK, et al should be accused of "harboring."
Nah, I don' t buy it. Microsoft didn't force the virus writer to exploit their (albeit buggy) code anymore than S&W forced the murderer to kill two people. Bullets can have the unfortunate side-effect of killing the wrong people. Code can have the unfortunate side-effect of being poorly written and, therefore, destructive to a company.
It's taken years for the courts to not laugh out smoker v. tobacco company lawsuits. And that only happen when it became at least circumstantially clear that the tobacco companies knew their products addicted and harmed folks.
Prove that MS wanted to bolster their bottom line by making buggy code. Prove that they made this knowledge available to neer-do-wells. Prove that MS let it all happen. Then you've got a case. Otherwise, just go after the guys that took the gun and murdered two people.
Clever translation of the logo into ASCII, if you ask me. Too bad they didn't italicize it. Pentium !!!
Dong. Dong Dong Dee-Dong.
Some other possibilities: "You've got Linux. Click Yes to run Cancer Eradicator. You've clicked No. Running Cancer Eradicator." "I. LOVE. THIS. COMPANY. YEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" "We're sorry. Slashdot.org can not be reached from your webbing area." "I've got five figures." "I'm sorry. Web pages about 'Linux' can not be found. Transferring you to www.cancer.org." "
Hehe...
I can't wait to hear MSN pronounce names like:
Barlow
Chakotay
Jimy
Orangejello (pronounced "orahn-jzello" -- I SWEAR this is REAL!!)
Why does a story about PCI3.0 get the green-light THIS time?
Maybe it's time for another FAQ:
Q: Why does slashdot routinely reject meaty articles on new technology only to accept the same matter from other folks days later?
A: /. quality can't be taught or attained. What I mean is: If you have to ask, you'll never know. Now, go away, biotch.
I had, at one time, needed to find the life-cycle of a mosquito. You know the stuff; what do the eggs look like, how long is the gestation period, how dangerous is pre-birth, how long does a mosquito live?
.edus studying mosquitos and their social structures, but current studies focus way beyond the life-cycle and, unfortunately, assume that most folks (everyone?) already know and understand the life-cycle.
I found no less than five books in the library that had this information -- from children's picture books, to information from historical studies.
But I could not, for the life of me, find this simple, seemingly well-known and scientifically qualified information on-line. There were many links to
Granted this is but one example, but I have encountered other instances where historical information available in multiple copies offline does not exist online. It's a case where the time to take dead-tree matter and convert it to HTML or even PRE may be more valuable to current projects.
O_v
All you classic gamers:
Good inside-look at Atari's collapse down toward the end of the interview.
From the /. blurb:
>American publishing companies preparing to wage
>war on the idea of reading books for free
Damn! This makes it sound like publishing companies are finally fed up with libraries loaning out _paper_ books, when the real issue is e-books. And, yes, that _is_ a potential issue for publishers.
I know a couple of decent TV news desks looking for Sensationalist Writers...
Computer Consultants are all over the place in the printing industry. Most of them are nice and informative and I've met quite a number of them. But while each has his or her own experience and methods of planning and suggestion, there is one absolute truth.
Every consultant -- no matter how kind or not -- eventually mentions that "other consultants" don't put the customer first, rip off companies, make decisions based on the commission, and yada, yada, yada. This is usually followed up by some self-serving statement about how "I" don't do those things.
Forget ethics! Where's the truth? "They" can't _all_ be bad. And the person in front of me _at the time_ can't always be the paragon of Good Consulting(tm).
All these guys just need to grow up and stop performing business with Usenet-style flames and snipes.
Fooey.
This means that IE can't post your surfing habits, software version, etc. to Microsoft.
Hurry! This day may be the last truly private day you ever have!
Three men in a small room with hex wrenches, a couple of duffel bags, and a guy with a big "honking" laugh.
Considering that and the known critical mass of each of these men's egos, I'm thinking's its a new, efficient way to masterbate.
What is it with this guy? He's a good inventor; ethernet is great! Invent more stuff! Stop being the party pooper!
Why, I just saw an Amiga representative on ZDTV boast about the 70,000 Amiga applications sure to be run on their updated/platform-indy OS.
Of course, if the question were: "How many Applications _run_ in Windows," then, of course, we'd have to say "zero." Anyone up for an explorer crash?
Why all the cries of, "I don't get it. Is this journalism?"
Microsoft, now having the scarlet letter "M" (Monopoly) painted upon its breast, has now graduated fully from envy to enemy. (Of course, for some, they have always been enemy). I expect to see many more of these, "X-Microsoft employee tells all. Scandalous parties in the most unfortunate circumstances. Boy barely escapes. What hath M$ wrought," etc., etc.
Folks, the interest is easy. We lap up this stuff.
Now, the "point" ... That's another matter entirely. Having much to do with the bias of the interviewer, interviewee, reader, publication, etc.
And you're right. No "news" here.
Just thought I'd share...
Ancestry.com intrigued me, so I wanted to see if I could find my grandfather, who died in the early 80's.
I typed in my last name and his home state; a bunch of "death" listings came up. I found my grandfather among them.
I also found that a girl, whom I attended grammar school with for a short time, who I would not remember except for the fact she had the same last name, died in 1995 at the age of 24.
Now, I'm curious as to why she died and I'm searching high and low around the net to see if I can find the cause.
I'll post here if I find anything.
Up until this article, most of the stuff I had read about MAME -- which I found in doing research for an article about arcade game emulating for Digital Home Entertainment magazine -- was about hot "cool" it is to be able to play old arcade games.
I agree with the "cool"ness of it all. It's still even a bit mindblowing that those tall cabinets that towered over me so as a kid can now all be reduced and saved into a place barely 1/32 my size. And, yes, the games are fun.
But now comes this article that adds the title "archive" to the scene -- a title that turns all the "how cool this is" articles on their sides. Suddenly emulating because a "study" and MAME's author becomes something of, at best, a scholar and archivist and, at worst (or even better, depending on your viewpoint), a liberator of code from dust and closets everywhere.
I'm not at all against either viewpoint. I love MAME and use it regularly. But I'm wondering if this article is an actual reflection of MAME's author's and the community's motivations. Is it that? Or is it an atttempt to place a happier, more tolerable face on something the arcade industry -- at least those that still own those titles -- finds very ugly: property theft?
Why is this bad news if they're good games? Because they're religion based? Or for other reasons?
It's not bad news at all. In fact, the struggles any of these games represent are pretty much the same -- good vs. evil.
If Katz's implication is that it's bad because it's "religion," then I don't really agree, but it's certainly an American point of view, eh?
"Don't foist your religion on me! Freedom of worship! Freedom of worship!!!!"
But I say: Don't buy it. There's more than enough room on the shelves, as far as I'm concerned.
o.