I wonder if it's sure upfront how many absentee ballots _will_ return.
If we're expecting 2300, will we wait forever until that Nov-6-stamped ballot makes its travel from the inlands of Tibet to the US?
Major Linux distribution vendors such as Red Hat
Inc. (stock: RHAT), Caldera Systems Inc. (stock:
CALD), TurboLinux, and SuSe have developed their
latest releases to exploit the kernel when it is ready.
Aha! So it's true! All major Linux houses are in fact hackers trying to exploit the linux kernel!
Maybe the steep steps as a result of using integers are a little misleading, but I think the main idea of this scale is informing the public with a single number between 0 and 10, to indicate severity of the impact.
After all, a not-so-certain probability of a really really big rock is just as scaring/bad as a somewhat more certain impact of a small rock.
The real engineers at NASA etc. wil surely use just both numbers (probability and energy) instead of that silly number.
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In that case I'll murder someone and bury him 10 foot deep in the woods.
Then, when I get prosecuted, I'll say I can only afford $1 in my defense, which would result in the DA's obligation not to spend more than $1 for the case.
And $1 is not enough to by the shovel to dig up the body.
Could someone enlighten us with the respective advantages in terms of bandwidth?
Television (coax) uses 40Mhz-800Mhz, so I would say coax would have enough bandwidth to go from the customers house to the CO at the end of the street, from which cable companies have enough fiber already.
What is the advantage of making that last couple of meters also fiber?
On the contrary, my dear AC friend.
My karma was indeed dropping, I just lost my +2 ability, so I decided to post some obvious redundant semi-explaining stuff and indeed, moderators did bite.
Other companies (hopefully) should forced not to copy intel, and to come up with some new stuff.
Hmm, patents used to protect IP and force other competitors to come up with own ideas!
Could it be this is actually a Slashdot story cheering the advantages of patent law?
Wanna bet tomorrow an internal memo will leak out stating that Microsoft indeed made all this fuzz up and leaked the code deliberately in order to prevent Linux from becoming a main-stream OS?
Do those two imply that people not only actually log in as root (which you shouldn't, you should use "su" or "su -" if you need the environment), but even run a whole X session as root?
Even if root permissions is neccessary for installing packages or mounting CDs, wouldn't it be better to put that one admin user in group "admin" or "wheel" and make kpackage suid?
The most unpronouncable name of a beach-resort in the world!
All Germans come to this place in the Netherlands because they don't have their own resorts. Little joke: They're only worthy to stay if they can actually pronounce the name, if they can't, we'll kick them out!
For those who are wondering: vmware cannot do NFS:PU either, because although you can install DirectX7, the vmware graphics "adapter" is not capable of handling DX acceleration.
Unreal Tournament runs perfectly in vmware, tho.
(for sufficiently small (read low framerates) values of perfect)
How can I really give Mozilla a try when it segfaults on startup?
Dn't only talk the talk by submitting bugfixes! Walk the walk and fix them instead of just file bugs.
Enough ranting.
I'm sure I'll get moderated down for this as a troll... (read: obligatory note appended to make sure no on has the nerve to moderate me down anymore and everyone will bend over backwards to moderate me up!)
I noted that part of the humor in your post about the "surver".
What you probably missed is that if you change your sig, all generated pages (i.e. all comments) will display the new sig. Check your posts now.
I really thought you had no clue that you can also post at +1 instead of +2 and were (unnecessarily for a change..) bashing Slashdot. I don't see the reason to post a not-so-funny comment with speelingerror at +2 and then complain about it.
I once followed a link that brought me to/metamod.pl but now every now and then I get asked for that page. I'd like to see an option in the preferences "Not interested in metamoderation".
I am interested in moderation tho.
M2 just isn't interesting, in the last couple of months I've only "Unfair"-d *one* moderation...
(yes I do metamoderate, only to get rid of that stupid line on top of the mainpage)
I think I've seen about 20 articles on the Cuecat so far. One thing I don't get.
Why is it that "my" community is always there when it comes to ruining legitimate businesses? As soon as some company comes up with a neat device and accompanying businessmodel (I-Opener, Cuecat), there's a whole bunch of geeks that are ready to ruin the company by finding all kinds of little loopholes in some law.
What would you do if you were a company and saw your product ruined by a couple of kiddies who obviously never had anything to do with running a business before? Sit there and watch your dollars go down the drain?
I'm not saying you are doing the wrong thing, after all, there's this subarticle in some subsection of some USPO law that says you're in your right, but imagine Amazon finding some loophole in some law that enables them to ruin other people's businesses, would you agree with Amazon? Or would you despise this company?
Why is it always that "we" are right and "them companies" are wrong when it comes to finding smart ways to do business or break other people's businesses.
OK. I'm European, and I wouldn't mind getting an H1B at all. I'll read the terms, including the one that says that the govt. can change the terms at will, and I'll agree with them.
And have a great time in the US and make more money than I would make back home.
And isn't there someting like applying for permanent status after you've been in the US for a while? Could someone enlighten me?
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if it's sure upfront how many absentee ballots _will_ return.
If we're expecting 2300, will we wait forever until that Nov-6-stamped ballot makes its travel from the inlands of Tibet to the US?
Just a question
Aha! So it's true! All major Linux houses are in fact hackers trying to exploit the linux kernel!
I knew it!
So now you know it's true, you only have to bribe up to 270 people to get your man in the Office.
I'd like to see those ballots.
Did someone take them home and scan them in?
Or are there pics of them online in any form somehow?
one of the more clever tricks to lure the slashdot editors into posting yet another "my distro is beeger than yours" holy war.
(note: looking at how obvious the submitter tries to start a distro-war, it doesn't take to much cleverness to lure the editors)
Wanna bet there will not be any useful discussion in this thread?
I really wish Slashdot would start moderation on articles too, then this would be dismissed as Flamebait fast enough.
Maybe the steep steps as a result of using integers are a little misleading, but I think the main idea of this scale is informing the public with a single number between 0 and 10, to indicate severity of the impact.
After all, a not-so-certain probability of a really really big rock is just as scaring/bad as a somewhat more certain impact of a small rock.
The real engineers at NASA etc. wil surely use just both numbers (probability and energy) instead of that silly number.
In that case I'll murder someone and bury him 10 foot deep in the woods.
Then, when I get prosecuted, I'll say I can only afford $1 in my defense, which would result in the DA's obligation not to spend more than $1 for the case.
And $1 is not enough to by the shovel to dig up the body.
So the whole thing about mentioning the words president and kill in 1 sentence on IRC are real?
:)
We better start using "figlet" for our encryption on IRC.
Fortunately I'm on a +ski channel, hahah.
Could someone enlighten us with the respective advantages in terms of bandwidth?
Television (coax) uses 40Mhz-800Mhz, so I would say coax would have enough bandwidth to go from the customers house to the CO at the end of the street, from which cable companies have enough fiber already.
What is the advantage of making that last couple of meters also fiber?
On the contrary, my dear AC friend.
My karma was indeed dropping, I just lost my +2 ability, so I decided to post some obvious redundant semi-explaining stuff and indeed, moderators did bite.
The joke's on you!
Indeed...
DDR = Deutsche Demokratische Republik (yeah right!) aka East Germany
BRD = Bundesrepublik Deutschland (federal republic of Germany) aka West Germany
I hope this DDR (the RAM) will do better than the other DDR, which is no longer.
Hmm, patents used to protect IP and force other competitors to come up with own ideas!
Could it be this is actually a Slashdot story cheering the advantages of patent law?
Oh my god!!
Wanna bet tomorrow an internal memo will leak out stating that Microsoft indeed made all this fuzz up and leaked the code deliberately in order to prevent Linux from becoming a main-stream OS?
History repeating, folks!
Icon? Logged in as root?
Do those two imply that people not only actually log in as root (which you shouldn't, you should use "su" or "su -" if you need the environment), but even run a whole X session as root?
Even if root permissions is neccessary for installing packages or mounting CDs, wouldn't it be better to put that one admin user in group "admin" or "wheel" and make kpackage suid?
"Scheveningen"
The most unpronouncable name of a beach-resort in the world!
All Germans come to this place in the Netherlands because they don't have their own resorts. Little joke: They're only worthy to stay if they can actually pronounce the name, if they can't, we'll kick them out!
For those who are wondering: vmware cannot do NFS:PU either, because although you can install DirectX7, the vmware graphics "adapter" is not capable of handling DX acceleration.
Unreal Tournament runs perfectly in vmware, tho.
(for sufficiently small (read low framerates) values of perfect)
Could you explain what stage 5 was and how you did it? The guys from Sweden explained every step except for stage 5.
Thanks in advance!
How can I really give Mozilla a try when it segfaults on startup?
Dn't only talk the talk by submitting bugfixes! Walk the walk and fix them instead of just file bugs.
Enough ranting.
I'm sure I'll get moderated down for this as a troll... (read: obligatory note appended to make sure no on has the nerve to moderate me down anymore and everyone will bend over backwards to moderate me up!)
Ivo
I noted that part of the humor in your post about the "surver".
What you probably missed is that if you change your sig, all generated pages (i.e. all comments) will display the new sig. Check your posts now.
I really thought you had no clue that you can also post at +1 instead of +2 and were (unnecessarily for a change..) bashing Slashdot. I don't see the reason to post a not-so-funny comment with speelingerror at +2 and then complain about it.
Oh well....
Regards,
Leto
I wonder how I can get rid of the metamod link.
/metamod.pl but now every now and then I get asked for that page. I'd like to see an option in the preferences "Not interested in metamoderation".
I once followed a link that brought me to
I am interested in moderation tho.
M2 just isn't interesting, in the last couple of months I've only "Unfair"-d *one* moderation...
(yes I do metamoderate, only to get rid of that stupid line on top of the mainpage)
Ivo
Listen, you whiny. I've been seeing your sig all over the place now. If you hate your karma so much, then get a new account.
P.S. Didn't you see the checkbox that says "No Score +1 Bonus" when you post a comment? Quit whining, jeez.
Ivo
(posted at +2 so this loser hopefully sees it)
I really wonder what iloveschool.co.kr does there above microsoft, geocities, ebay and altavista.
I think I've seen about 20 articles on the Cuecat so far. One thing I don't get.
Why is it that "my" community is always there when it comes to ruining legitimate businesses? As soon as some company comes up with a neat device and accompanying businessmodel (I-Opener, Cuecat), there's a whole bunch of geeks that are ready to ruin the company by finding all kinds of little loopholes in some law.
What would you do if you were a company and saw your product ruined by a couple of kiddies who obviously never had anything to do with running a business before? Sit there and watch your dollars go down the drain?
I'm not saying you are doing the wrong thing, after all, there's this subarticle in some subsection of some USPO law that says you're in your right, but imagine Amazon finding some loophole in some law that enables them to ruin other people's businesses, would you agree with Amazon? Or would you despise this company?
Why is it always that "we" are right and "them companies" are wrong when it comes to finding smart ways to do business or break other people's businesses.
There goes my karma, but I had to say it.
Ivo
OK. I'm European, and I wouldn't mind getting an H1B at all. I'll read the terms, including the one that says that the govt. can change the terms at will, and I'll agree with them.
And have a great time in the US and make more money than I would make back home.
And isn't there someting like applying for permanent status after you've been in the US for a while? Could someone enlighten me?
Ivo
A friend of mine took it when he moved out, but he got it while he was working as an intern at Philips research labs here in the Netherlands.
Sorry