Surely the attraction of puzzles on Slashdot is not the puzzle itself, but the chance to solve in the company of, and hopefully ahead of, the rest of the Slashdot audience - the assumption being that there are some bright minds around here.
It's really just about ego - who wouldn't kill to tell their grandchildren that "I solved the Slashdot Christmas Chess puzzler of 2000".
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The goal as it stands today is to release OS X on time, at almost any cost; this will most likely result in Consumer supporting all Apple-branded Macs that shipped with a G3/G4 processor (the jury appears to still be out on the 3400/G3) and a smattering of previous-generation machines (7500/7600/7300, 8500/8600, 9500/9600). Earlier machines than that, although Apple does hope to support them, are rumored to be first in line as casualties of approaching deadlines.
Shortly thereafter (near the end of the third or beginning of the fourth quarter), Apple engineers and Darwin developers will likely work together to bring Consumer to all PCI PowerMacs, including most clones -- probably in time for Apple's stated "this time next year" deadline to bundle Consumer with all new Macs.
Pre-PCI Macs have always been outside the scope of Mac OS X, and it is unlikely that Apple will take on the tremendous task of attempting to support NuBus and the very different motherboard chipsets that those generations of Macs used. There is always hope, of course, that the Darwin project may take on this task if there is sufficient demand.
So there you have it, if you trust Mac OS Rumors.
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Apple isn't doing this stupid crap like MS, seperating 'workstation' from 'home user.'
Well, they do have OS X Server which is certainly a different beast to Mac OS X Consumer which we're talking about here. They've just drawn the line between their two OS products in a different place.
I've got to get into astronomy, no question about it. Any science where I can ask for money to go and look for things that you can't see, that we just think may exist sounds like a hoot!
Maybe I can get some money to see if any light really does come out of black holes. $1,000,000 and a few years later i'll be able to publish, add a banner ad to my homepage, and laugh as it gets slashdotted, carrying me to financial indepedence.
My Uni's computer science department had a homepage for "women in computing" as part of the student computing society - so i thought i'd head over and see what they're up to - only to get a 404 document not found! Looks like things really are desperate.
Isn't the problem getting women (and men for that matter) to choose computer science while they are in high school. I think that the problem is that there isn't enough computer science in high school - so the only people who are going to be interested are the nerdy boys (hi guys!). If cs was studied more at high school it would legitimise it for the girls.
I read an interview last week with an astronaut who had taken photos from space - he said that the old story that you could see the wall of china from space is just a myth.
Then again, i suppose the astronauts could just get together and makeup whatever story they wanted - it's not like we're going to go and check ourselves.
And most of us just let it happen -- most of us tend to accept our computer's workings as immutable, that we are chained to an irrational, vindictive, uncontrollable machine destined to rule over our 9-to-5 days."
If slashdot keeps serving up color schemes like this and keeps dominating my 9-to-5 days, then I really will have to accept it!
still, at least now I know #CCCC66 is the hex for spewy green/yellow.
instead of searching for onClick onMouseOver etc. you should define a list of acceptable tags and only allow those.
If you try and define what you can't use, you will always be one step behind - you'll either forget tags, or new tags will catch you out. An "allow these tags only" approach is the correct way to do it. A "disallow these tags" approach in inherently flawed.
the reason for blocking the sites was to determine the 'impact on our Internet bandwidth'
surely they can measure the bandwidth usage as it happens rather than by blocking it and measuring the difference. Sounds to me like they are protecting the monopoly.
maybe they should block traffic to slashdot and see how much things improve!
I'm a subscriber to Telstra Cable, and I'm very happy with the new arrangement. For my monthly fee of AUS$65, I was getting 100MB traffic, with 35c per MB over the 100MB. Now I'm getting 250MB, with 28c per MB over the 250MB - for the same fee.
I don't see what the problem is - there is adequate compensation. My unmetered traffic at present is definately not more than the 150MB difference. It's definately a benefit for me.
When is the addendum to the addendum to the Slashdot Effect Internet Paper detailing the effect of Slashdot on the Slashdot Effect Internet Paper addendum due?
Seeing as being published on a regular basis seems to be the key to academic funding these days, it looks like someone has found something to keep their career moving.
if a slow processor can be overclocked to 1 GHz, by supercooling, then upgrading the processor to something that naturally does 1 GHz, and THEN applying the same cooling, should give you an AWESOME speed!
is a 700MHz processor (the one that was frozen) really that slow? It looks like freezing is only ever going to get you something you are going to get in a few months anyway.
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It's really just about ego - who wouldn't kill to tell their grandchildren that "I solved the Slashdot Christmas Chess puzzler of 2000".
From Mac OS Rumors:
The goal as it stands today is to release OS X on time, at almost any cost; this will most likely result in Consumer supporting all Apple-branded Macs that shipped with a G3/G4 processor (the jury appears to still be out on the 3400/G3) and a smattering of previous-generation machines (7500/7600/7300, 8500/8600, 9500/9600). Earlier machines than that, although Apple does hope to support them, are rumored to be first in line as casualties of approaching deadlines.
Shortly thereafter (near the end of the third or beginning of the fourth quarter), Apple engineers and Darwin developers will likely work together to bring Consumer to all PCI PowerMacs, including most clones -- probably in time for Apple's stated "this time next year" deadline to bundle Consumer with all new Macs.
Pre-PCI Macs have always been outside the scope of Mac OS X, and it is unlikely that Apple will take on the tremendous task of attempting to support NuBus and the very different motherboard chipsets that those generations of Macs used. There is always hope, of course, that the Darwin project may take on this task if there is sufficient demand.
So there you have it, if you trust Mac OS Rumors.
Well, they do have OS X Server which is certainly a different beast to Mac OS X Consumer which we're talking about here. They've just drawn the line between their two OS products in a different place.
It covers some problems with the Stanford study, and what questions we should be asking.
In other words, a server on the other side of the world can have a *.cx domain name.
Looks like Roblimo wants to be considered as a potential president!
Maybe I can get some money to see if any light really does come out of black holes. $1,000,000 and a few years later i'll be able to publish, add a banner ad to my homepage, and laugh as it gets slashdotted, carrying me to financial indepedence.
Isn't the problem getting women (and men for that matter) to choose computer science while they are in high school. I think that the problem is that there isn't enough computer science in high school - so the only people who are going to be interested are the nerdy boys (hi guys!). If cs was studied more at high school it would legitimise it for the girls.
Let's see - 7Mb multiplied by a few thousand bored slashdotters equals how many gigabytes? Yeah, that should shut them down for a while!
Then again, i suppose the astronauts could just get together and makeup whatever story they wanted - it's not like we're going to go and check ourselves.
If slashdot keeps serving up color schemes like this and keeps dominating my 9-to-5 days, then I really will have to accept it!
still, at least now I know #CCCC66 is the hex for spewy green/yellow.
If you try and define what you can't use, you will always be one step behind - you'll either forget tags, or new tags will catch you out. An "allow these tags only" approach is the correct way to do it. A "disallow these tags" approach in inherently flawed.
my university has a strong research presence in antartica, and from what i know i'm sure Nomad would have a lot more charisma than most of them.
at least Nomad won't spend it's time wondering why antartic stories don't impress the opposite sex!
surely they can measure the bandwidth usage as it happens rather than by blocking it and measuring the difference. Sounds to me like they are protecting the monopoly.
maybe they should block traffic to slashdot and see how much things improve!
and should be given the appropriate respect!
Another reason for using old technology in space is that there is so long between the design of a project, and its approval and funding.
When the money finally comes, nobody wants to redesign the whole project.
I don't see what the problem is - there is adequate compensation. My unmetered traffic at present is definately not more than the 150MB difference. It's definately a benefit for me.
Seeing as being published on a regular basis seems to be the key to academic funding these days, it looks like someone has found something to keep their career moving.
is a 700MHz processor (the one that was frozen) really that slow? It looks like freezing is only ever going to get you something you are going to get in a few months anyway.
big deal.
i think i'll just take out a patent on posting patent stories on slashdot - that'll fix it.