IIRC, Hemos said that it began to suck when they got the domain. CmdrTaco asked them all during one episode of GiS when Slashdot began to suck. I'm not sure which episode as they haven't worked out the written transcripts yet. Perhaps they should get a stenographer like they have in courtrooms with those funky keyboards with phenomes on them? That would be nice. Especially for episodes where we don't know what they said.
Anyway, this means it's been sucking for a long time. Perhaps it's now just intolerably noticeable?
I've always thougth it was rather funny that there is an AOL Europe. I mean, it makes good business sense (be ubiquitous) and I know they have a name for themselves and all..but shouldn't it be EOL or something? (Err. I wonder how many Spaniards would want to buy the new SOL ISP? Probably as many as would want to buy a Nova:) (note: the Nova was a car that failed to sell in Spain as "no va" means "no go" in spanish:) ) ).
When you kick it, your works become public domain.
Errr. So, I want Foo&Bar's new CD. I'm going to their concert tonight. I'll take a gun and blow their heads off. Now their works are in the public domain. While I hate all this "We don't want to maintain it and we don't want you to have it. Buy our new console!" stuff, people would be quite afraid to make anything of any quality and then copyright it. And those who did have stuff under copyright would probably be quite afraid for their lives and would probably stop making whatever it was that they were making.
And who holds the copyright on a work when there are multiple designers/creators?
Wouldn't a.txt file have a different icon than a.vbs file? Although, still, it's rather confusing to people to think that stuff is hidden when they think they can see it(I saw ".txt". not ".vbs".) Maybe someone should put out a "virus" to change the default icon for.vbs files to a skull and crossbones? That would be harder for people to instinctively open. (AAAGH!! Poison!!! Delete delete delete!!!)
If you do it where there are bugs (like I did) then you can use a propane torch and a tooth pick to help to get them out, just need to be delicate.
By "bugs" do you mean things like ants and flies? Or do you mean bubbles that get into the varnish? If it's either of the two, I can see how a tooth pick can help get them out (though it would be rather difficult to clean varnish off ants and flies). But a propane torch!? First, isn't varnish flammable? Second, how would this help get bubbles out? And torch the ants? That would not help them one bit. I'm not sure whether you mean bugs literaly or figuratively anf you're really talking about bubbles.
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So, does this move mean that beta.slashdot.org will go away? That was rather interesting at times. It was a bit more liberal than the regular Slashdot. I know, hard to believe. Check it out!
Ah. Correct. I was referring to holes in both places. Sometimes (on the DAT tapes I have) there are holes on the tape itself to tell the drive when it's reached the beginning or the end of a tape. And then you can copy-protect regular cassete tapes by popping out some little notch.
[S|He]'s saying that this media probably is the same as regular VHS media except with a few small holes at some point in the tape.
If you look at the beginning and end of DAT tapes for computers, you'll see that there are small holes there through which the drive shines a light. On the other side of the tape, there is a light sensor. When it senses the light, it says "Ah, beginning of tape." or "Ah, end of tape."
3.5" High-density disks store 1.44MB of data. Double-density disks store 720K. (720K * 2 = 1.44MB) The only difference between the two types of disks is that the 1.44MB disks have this extra hole in the upper-left corner. Your disk drive shines a light through that to see if it's a DD or HD disk. So, some people started to punch out that hole on DD disks and turn them in to HD disks, doubling their capacity. (Useful for 720K AOL disks.)
Now, for these tapes, there will probably be some sort of pattern of holes in the beginning and/or end of the tape, telling the unit that it is a digital tape. With the right tools, and knowing where to put the dots, assuming that the tape is the same material, we could turn ordinary, cheap VHS tapes in to high-quality, expensive digital tapes. Of course, then it would quickly be posted on a webpage, sent to Slashdot, and then Phillips would fix it. Sort of like the iOpener. Geesh, gotta keep that stuff underground!
Many french people think also that it's the best language in the world (because their are often laguage impaired, and speak only their native language, so they don't know what an other language might be).
Reminds me of how Americans think of English (Note: I live in America).
First, the intro music was much better this show. Not so bad as when the intro goes way too long.
Also, was that little blip at the end intended? Or was that a reflection of an error in "post"? Speaking of "post", Nate, what program do you use for the mixing, etc? I know there's Goldwave, but he's only got a Windows port. What is it that you use to mix GiS?
It looked to me to be VLB (Vesa Local Bus). It came out after ISA and was/is faster than ISA. PCI came out shortly after (before? I'm not really sure) and there was a brief struggle before PCI won out. The advantage to VLB was that you could still use your old ISA stuff. I've only seen VLB slots on 486 motherboards. PCI was probably faster and now definately is. PCI is also smaller (shorter) and doesn't mean you have to have a long motherboard for the cards. I'm sure someone else could improve on what I've said here.
Oh, and no, they are not VLB, they just look like it. They go in to some kind of passive board. Something like that. (Read earlier posts) But it would be cool if I could put a dual Celeron 500 board with 1 gig of RAM on my old 486 for compiling kernels on a RAM disk:). It would greatly improve compiling speed. Now, if they'd only make a 16-bit ISA version for my 386 SX.
so the whole web is illegal now? No. Only the part that lives in Japan. That's what makes these rulings so goofy. If you ban something in one country, the nature of the web means that it will still get around. Remember that TCP/IP was designed so that, even if there was a break in the system (say, an entire city bombed to the ground) there would be redundant links and the information would get to it's destination via one of these links. I wonder what the inventors of TCP/IP think now of what their invention is doing. It makes lots of good stuff possible (very quick communication) and, at the same time, lots of bad stuff possible (illegal distribution of copyrighted works). Well, I guess you pretty much HAVE to have a balance. Whenever you design something that works very well in our favor, there's usually a bad side effect. For example: cars. They get us pretty quickly from A to B. But, then sometimes people/animals are killed by them. And then there's the pollution. The same goes for electricity. And WATER! (rain == good... flood == bad) Thank GOD for balance.
How about an ASCII movie? Some of my friends and I have joked about making ASCII pr0n. Or maybe ANSI would be better because there would be colors. Does anyone know of an ASCII movie format? would this be hard to do? There are apparently already JPG/BMP/GIF -> ASCII converters. Otherwise, who would sit around making this ascii of a nude.
I usually make a point of listening to them. I have all, err, 25? (That's including e3.1) And the Bill Gates thing and some other stuff, I think. I've even listened to some of them over again. It would be really nice if someone who does teletyping (?? is that it? I mean the people who do the CC stuff on TV or in court) could whip out their typing thing and textify the shows for us. Then we could update the files where, perhaps, we think that's not exactly what was said.
Speaking of not knowing what exactly was said, what DID CmdrTaco say in the beginning? Hemos then says "I thought he said 'That's what happens when Buddy starts slapping'" And they were all going "Eww!" Like he REALLY DID say that but it was a gross thing to say. Is that what he said?
Perhaps if it had been "!kcor uoY !tfosoricM oG", there would have been no problem. But remember Papa John's? (They make pizza.) They said they were "Better". And Pizza Hut sued them. They did not say "We are better than Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Donatos, and your local pizza vendor!" They just said "Better Ingredients, Better Pizza" and got whooped in court.
or even to learn how to program computers so they can join the benefits of the technology enconomy.
Sounds like a good idea except that it reminds me of something we learned about in religion class; for some people, poor, starving people especially, God (or whatever you want to call...err...it) can be a slice of bread. For others, God can be the love of a friend. But you cannot enjoy the love of a friend before your other basic needs are met. Relating more to your post, yes, teaching them to use computers and to participate in the "technological revolution" (yea! I'm trendy!) would be wonderful but I think we'd have to be sure that their other, more, err, Darwinian?, needs were met. After all, if you were on the verge of starvation, would you like gobs of computing power or a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich? Hmm, perhaps that was the wrong question to ask on this forum. I think my point is somewhat obvious....just in case, no, we couldn't just throw computers at them when they are starving, we'd have to wait for them to be well-nourished. Or better yet, we in the first world could get our heads out of our asses and realize that there are other freaking people on our rock!
That's interesting. Although, perhaps something more along the lines of a (-2, Offensive) could be available. After all, not *ALL* -1 posts are offensive. Most are innocuous(sp?) and just annoying.
As wrong as I think it would be, these are the sorts of posts that could be considered for deletion or possibly a -2 where only long-time, positively-karma'd, registered users (or some smaller group of slashdot readers) could read them.
Or maybe that is not the answer. But I didn't feel I should sit back and ignore it.
Perhaps they should consider aiming at home-networkers looking for inexpensive flat-panel terminals as well.
But I thought that the reason that they are selling the service immediately is that people were modding them so they didn't have to buy the service. The reason they can't sell $99 flatpanel systems is that they would go down the tubes. These things must not cost only $99 to produce because, if they did, they wouldn't care if people were installing Linux on them because Netpliance would still be gaining a profit. If everyone is buying these i-openers and installing Linux on them, Netpliance is not getting any profit
That's why they can't target home-networkers who are looking for a cheap flatpanel system.
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You mean at Fiesta Lanes? Too bad that place is going. I never went there much. But it was an...err..interesting place. Sawmill Lanes was like heaven when I went there.
It really is sad that the place is going, they're going to put some shops there. They'll probably poop out and be deserted and then people will wish they had a bowling alley there. Bah!
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Terribly offtopic (thus I post as AC to protect my karma).
I just "got" your.sig. I knew I had heard that somewhere! (From Sneakers. I guess you'd have to see the movie to get it. Strange movie. Not like what I envision Hackers to be. Who was that lady? She was the perfect social engineer;))
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Warner Bros. has ... business ties with ... AOL
... who included Winamp in their browser! Which is a tool used for playing MP3s! Wow! It's like there's this big web!
:) ]
Ah, yes. And AOL owns Netscape
[I feel like an anime character using so many exclamation points..
IIRC, Hemos said that it began to suck when they got the domain. CmdrTaco asked them all during one episode of GiS when Slashdot began to suck. I'm not sure which episode as they haven't worked out the written transcripts yet. Perhaps they should get a stenographer like they have in courtrooms with those funky keyboards with phenomes on them? That would be nice. Especially for episodes where we don't know what they said.
Anyway, this means it's been sucking for a long time. Perhaps it's now just intolerably noticeable?
I've always thougth it was rather funny that there is an AOL Europe. I mean, it makes good business sense (be ubiquitous) and I know they have a name for themselves and all..but shouldn't it be EOL or something? (Err. I wonder how many Spaniards would want to buy the new SOL ISP? Probably as many as would want to buy a Nova :) (note: the Nova was a car that failed to sell in Spain as "no va" means "no go" in spanish :) ) ).
When you kick it, your works become public domain.
Errr. So, I want Foo&Bar's new CD. I'm going to their concert tonight. I'll take a gun and blow their heads off. Now their works are in the public domain. While I hate all this "We don't want to maintain it and we don't want you to have it. Buy our new console!" stuff, people would be quite afraid to make anything of any quality and then copyright it. And those who did have stuff under copyright would probably be quite afraid for their lives and would probably stop making whatever it was that they were making.
And who holds the copyright on a work when there are multiple designers/creators?
Dammit! This stuff is all so sticky!
Wouldn't a .txt file have a different icon than a .vbs file? Although, still, it's rather confusing to people to think that stuff is hidden when they think they can see it(I saw ".txt". not ".vbs".) Maybe someone should put out a "virus" to change the default icon for .vbs files to a skull and crossbones? That would be harder for people to instinctively open. (AAAGH!! Poison!!! Delete delete delete!!!)
That's AMAZING! Where'd you get a case with a 12" bay?
/.ers, someone will find one :))
(Knowing
If you do it where there are bugs (like I did) then you can use a propane torch and a tooth pick to help to get them out, just need to be delicate.
By "bugs" do you mean things like ants and flies? Or do you mean bubbles that get into the varnish? If it's either of the two, I can see how a tooth pick can help get them out (though it would be rather difficult to clean varnish off ants and flies). But a propane torch!? First, isn't varnish flammable? Second, how would this help get bubbles out? And torch the ants? That would not help them one bit. I'm not sure whether you mean bugs literaly or figuratively anf you're really talking about bubbles.
Check out the story from beta.slashdot.org. And while you're there, you may try giving it one last load test before it goes live.
So, does this move mean that beta.slashdot.org will go away? That was rather interesting at times. It was a bit more liberal than the regular Slashdot. I know, hard to believe. Check it out!
Bye-bye beta.slashdot.org! We'll miss you!
Ah. Correct. I was referring to holes in both places. Sometimes (on the DAT tapes I have) there are holes on the tape itself to tell the drive when it's reached the beginning or the end of a tape. And then you can copy-protect regular cassete tapes by popping out some little notch.
(Thanks for the clarification)
[S|He]'s saying that this media probably is the same as regular VHS media except with a few small holes at some point in the tape.
:)
If you look at the beginning and end of DAT tapes for computers, you'll see that there are small holes there through which the drive shines a light. On the other side of the tape, there is a light sensor. When it senses the light, it says "Ah, beginning of tape." or "Ah, end of tape."
3.5" High-density disks store 1.44MB of data. Double-density disks store 720K. (720K * 2 = 1.44MB) The only difference between the two types of disks is that the 1.44MB disks have this extra hole in the upper-left corner. Your disk drive shines a light through that to see if it's a DD or HD disk. So, some people started to punch out that hole on DD disks and turn them in to HD disks, doubling their capacity. (Useful for 720K AOL disks.)
Now, for these tapes, there will probably be some sort of pattern of holes in the beginning and/or end of the tape, telling the unit that it is a digital tape. With the right tools, and knowing where to put the dots, assuming that the tape is the same material, we could turn ordinary, cheap VHS tapes in to high-quality, expensive digital tapes. Of course, then it would quickly be posted on a webpage, sent to Slashdot, and then Phillips would fix it. Sort of like the iOpener. Geesh, gotta keep that stuff underground!
Hmm...coherent enough?
Many french people think also that it's the best language in the world (because their are often laguage impaired, and speak only their native language, so they don't know what an other language might be).
Reminds me of how Americans think of English (Note: I live in America).
First, the intro music was much better this show. Not so bad as when the intro goes way too long.
Also, was that little blip at the end intended? Or was that a reflection of an error in "post"? Speaking of "post", Nate, what program do you use for the mixing, etc? I know there's Goldwave, but he's only got a Windows port. What is it that you use to mix GiS?
It looked to me to be VLB (Vesa Local Bus). It came out after ISA and was/is faster than ISA. PCI came out shortly after (before? I'm not really sure) and there was a brief struggle before PCI won out. The advantage to VLB was that you could still use your old ISA stuff. I've only seen VLB slots on 486 motherboards. PCI was probably faster and now definately is. PCI is also smaller (shorter) and doesn't mean you have to have a long motherboard for the cards. I'm sure someone else could improve on what I've said here.
:). It would greatly improve compiling speed. Now, if they'd only make a 16-bit ISA version for my 386 SX.
Oh, and no, they are not VLB, they just look like it. They go in to some kind of passive board. Something like that. (Read earlier posts) But it would be cool if I could put a dual Celeron 500 board with 1 gig of RAM on my old 486 for compiling kernels on a RAM disk
so the whole web is illegal now? No. Only the part that lives in Japan. That's what makes these rulings so goofy. If you ban something in one country, the nature of the web means that it will still get around. Remember that TCP/IP was designed so that, even if there was a break in the system (say, an entire city bombed to the ground) there would be redundant links and the information would get to it's destination via one of these links. I wonder what the inventors of TCP/IP think now of what their invention is doing. It makes lots of good stuff possible (very quick communication) and, at the same time, lots of bad stuff possible (illegal distribution of copyrighted works). Well, I guess you pretty much HAVE to have a balance. Whenever you design something that works very well in our favor, there's usually a bad side effect. For example: cars. They get us pretty quickly from A to B. But, then sometimes people/animals are killed by them. And then there's the pollution. The same goes for electricity. And WATER! (rain == good ... flood == bad) Thank GOD for balance.
How about an ASCII movie? Some of my friends and I have joked about making ASCII pr0n. Or maybe ANSI would be better because there would be colors. Does anyone know of an ASCII movie format? would this be hard to do? There are apparently already JPG/BMP/GIF -> ASCII converters. Otherwise, who would sit around making this ascii of a nude.
I usually make a point of listening to them. I have all, err, 25? (That's including e3.1) And the Bill Gates thing and some other stuff, I think. I've even listened to some of them over again. It would be really nice if someone who does teletyping (?? is that it? I mean the people who do the CC stuff on TV or in court) could whip out their typing thing and textify the shows for us. Then we could update the files where, perhaps, we think that's not exactly what was said.
Speaking of not knowing what exactly was said, what DID CmdrTaco say in the beginning? Hemos then says "I thought he said 'That's what happens when Buddy starts slapping'" And they were all going "Eww!" Like he REALLY DID say that but it was a gross thing to say. Is that what he said?
Perhaps if it had been "!kcor uoY !tfosoricM oG", there would have been no problem. But remember Papa John's? (They make pizza.) They said they were "Better". And Pizza Hut sued them. They did not say "We are better than Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Donatos, and your local pizza vendor!" They just said "Better Ingredients, Better Pizza" and got whooped in court.
or even to learn how to program computers so they can join the benefits of the technology enconomy.
Sounds like a good idea except that it reminds me of something we learned about in religion class; for some people, poor, starving people especially, God (or whatever you want to call...err...it) can be a slice of bread. For others, God can be the love of a friend. But you cannot enjoy the love of a friend before your other basic needs are met. Relating more to your post, yes, teaching them to use computers and to participate in the "technological revolution" (yea! I'm trendy!) would be wonderful but I think we'd have to be sure that their other, more, err, Darwinian?, needs were met. After all, if you were on the verge of starvation, would you like gobs of computing power or a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich? Hmm, perhaps that was the wrong question to ask on this forum. I think my point is somewhat obvious....just in case, no, we couldn't just throw computers at them when they are starving, we'd have to wait for them to be well-nourished. Or better yet, we in the first world could get our heads out of our asses and realize that there are other freaking people on our rock!
That's interesting. Although, perhaps something more along the lines of a (-2, Offensive) could be available. After all, not *ALL* -1 posts are offensive. Most are innocuous(sp?) and just annoying.
As wrong as I think it would be, these are the sorts of posts that could be considered for deletion or possibly a -2 where only long-time, positively-karma'd, registered users (or some smaller group of slashdot readers) could read them.
Or maybe that is not the answer. But I didn't feel I should sit back and ignore it.
Perhaps this is the object of your desire?
I'd stop having to worry about all the idiots on the road.
Yeah. You'd only have to be concerned with buggy code.
Coming in 2004: The Microsoft Beetle. It's their biggest bug yet!
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Perhaps they should consider aiming at home-networkers looking for inexpensive flat-panel terminals as well.
But I thought that the reason that they are selling the service immediately is that people were modding them so they didn't have to buy the service. The reason they can't sell $99 flatpanel systems is that they would go down the tubes. These things must not cost only $99 to produce because, if they did, they wouldn't care if people were installing Linux on them because Netpliance would still be gaining a profit. If everyone is buying these i-openers and installing Linux on them, Netpliance is not getting any profit
That's why they can't target home-networkers who are looking for a cheap flatpanel system.
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You mean at Fiesta Lanes? Too bad that place is going. I never went there much. But it was an...err..interesting place. Sawmill Lanes was like heaven when I went there.
It really is sad that the place is going, they're going to put some shops there. They'll probably poop out and be deserted and then people will wish they had a bowling alley there. Bah!
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Terribly offtopic (thus I post as AC to protect my karma).
.sig. I knew I had heard that somewhere! (From Sneakers. I guess you'd have to see the movie to get it. Strange movie. Not like what I envision Hackers to be. Who was that lady? She was the perfect social engineer ;))
I just "got" your
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