So, now guys can drive, drink coffee, talk on their cells, and search for "Petrified Natalie Portman" all at the same time. The roads are going to be really safe.
Seriously, the on-the-fly translation is very cool.
The PR states that it is still in beta, but www.google.com/palm returned 5 hits for 'farts', while google proper had about 15000. I would have figured that they would use the same database, so I don't really understand the difference.
The issue is about limiting free speech -- you're not allowed to pretend to be someone else by using their name.
Yes, but I am allowed to use their name to criticize them, or their product, and this has long been upheld by the courts.
If someone had registered verizonwireless.com and tried to sell cellular phones, the verizon people would have a very valid claim. But I am allowed to tell people just how bad CocaCola is, and do not need to refer to them as a 'softdrink company located in Atlanta'.
My point, and 2600's, is that business are becoming the most powerful forces in the world today, and in their quest from ever increasing amounts of money, they are trampling over individuals' rights.
We must stand up to the freedoms we have always had, otherwise we will find ourselves with none.
Emmanuel Goldstein has morphed from a small publisher of a {h|cr}acking mag, low audience radio guy, into one of the preeminent defenders of individuals' liberties in the internet era.
On multiple fronts, he is defending our right to freedom of speech, and protecting us from giant behemoth corporations who want to restrict what we say, and even what we think.
It is easy to see the parallel with Larry Flint, who began simply as a publisher of a porno mag, and became a very important of champion of civil liberties.
More and more (we read it on/. every day) companies are trying to control the net, and, by extension, the future of both news and entertainment. By getting laws passes which make it illegal to look at someone else's software, or link to another site, or even express a thought (Verizon probably does suck!) their power is growing enormously.
We should applaud Emmanuel, and follow his example. If individuals do not stand up for our right to watch moves, listen to music, or criticize a company, we will lose those rights, and we will have no defense against the McDonalds-Nike-AOL-TimeWarner-Microsoft-General Electric conglomerates, the 'Big Brother' of the future.
Having done my undergraduate CS at NYU, the 'N' in the Gnu Nyu Ada Translator (GNAT - how many people knew that), and having studied under two of the developers of that system (their company's site) I was fortunate enough to be exposed to virtues of this language.
The Ada syntax is very similar to Pascal's, but the language is very similar to Java (especially thread support). Once you get accustomed to using the language, you notice that you can be very, very productive using it, much more than in C++. I would also say that the learning curve (minus the time to familiarize yourself with the syntax if you are coming from the C/C++ world) is pretty easy to climb, and you can be proficient at it soon.
For my compiler class, we needed to write a compiler for a (the non OO) subset of Ada95. I chose to write mine in Ada95, because we were allowed to use the GNAT lexer/parser (which was written in A95 as well). I would strongly recommend that anyone wanting to learn large scale programming or who is developing something that will be open source, should take a look at the source code. It is clearly written, well documented, easily understood, and even beautiful. It is a wonderful example of how someone should write code if the expect others to read it. It also shows just how beautiful and understandable the language is.
since the gifted math and english classes at my h.s. consisted of mostly the same students
The skills at effective communication are very similar to understanding mathematics. Writing a convincing essay is very much like proving something in math: you have a hypothesis, state some 'theorems' ('facts' from some other author, or from your experience), and using logic, draw conclusions.
Of course, this is not the same as being poetic, and being a great literary writer (requiring artistic talent, etc., which I don't have) but communicating your ideas clearly requires the same skills if you are talking about math or anything else.
math is the closest one can get to pure thought
I share this opinion. Unfortunately, I cannot get that close, so I'm studying CS:).
I strongly believe that the two most important courses are Math and English (not really English, but the language of the country you are in.) They both develop two very different but equally important skills.
Math is very important because it develops abstract thinking. It is where you learn to break a problem down and think logically. Yes, the average person probably does not use much more than arithmetic during their day, but the skills of critical thinking are used all the time.
Recently there has been reforms in the math curriculum, at all grade levels, including the misnamed 'Harvard Calculus'. These reforms aim to encourage people to devote more time to 'understanding' and 'exploring' the math, without being rigorous: relying on calculators and estimation.
Although, on the surface, these reforms sound like a good idea, they do not work as expected. Students become reliant on these techniques, can pass all their exams by graphing a curve and looking for the maxima, and never gain any real understanding of what is going on.
It is only through working through laborious problems (be they long division or finding integrals) that a student will finally, really understand what is going on. Students do a few problems, step by step, until it just 'clicks' and they then understand the purpose of each of those steps, and what the problem really 'means'. Just typing something into a calculator, and looking for the minima, does not really teach anything: it does not explain why there is a minima, and why it is at that point.
English is the other very important skill. It teaches communication, which is the most important skill one can have. Being able to read with understanding, and communicate ones thoughts clearly, is a skill surprisingly very few people have.
It is only through spending a lot of time reading until you gain comprehension, or repeatedly re-writing something until it is clear and concise, that you can learn to communicate clearly.
So often, I am surprised at office memos (and even newspaper articles) that re logic-less and make absolutely no sense.
Clearly, these are the two skills most important for success, and the teaching of them should not be softened.
So, this story is hard to find, so I don't know if anyone will ever read this post, but Qtronix makes (made) exactly what you want. I have one, new, in-box, and if you can't find one elsewhere, you can contact me for some kind of trade. E mail me at daniel@NO.marques.SPAM.com
What a crazy show... Every episode scores of people blew up crashing into walls, or falling off cliffs. Their was a money and a little kid who lived in the trunk of the car and were obviously heavily medicated. This was some far out shit, but I can't believe that are going to use it to educated.
Writing, publishing, and reading "bomb making texts or racist propaganda" is not illegal and should never be. In order to have "good" free speech, where you can criticize governments, etc. you must allow "bad" free speech. Any restriction we allow on speech is arbitrary, and once we allow an arbitrary line to be drawn (except for the strict definitions of slander, libel, fire in crowded theater stuff) that line can be easily moved to limit the so called "good" free speech.
I found the following at the web site of Americans For Banning Source Code. This is some pretty scary stuff.
If you are an honest, hard-working, tax-paying, God-fearing American you should be very afraid - a new plague is threatening our children, threatening ourselves, and threatening the moral foundations on which our great nation has been built. Far more dangerous than atheism, communism, or even liberalism, this plague threatens to destroy all that is holy and sacred in this great land. It threatens to tear America apart at the seams, to cause widespread chaos and panic, and to leave America firmly in the grasp of Sodomites and Satanists. This gruesome plague is none other than the benignly named "Source Code". Americans For Banning Source Code (AFBSC) is attempting to stop the spread of this plague, and we desperately need your help before all is lost.
Source Code was originally developed by University "Ivory Tower" intellectuals in the 1950s as a secret language for communication between Communists, Free Masons, and Homosexuals. It has been used since as a tool of the Zionist Media Elite to control the general Christian, patriotic, population of this great nation. With the use of Source Code, good Americans have fallen victim to the nefarious plans of the Satan-worshiping Illuminati and the anti-American New World Order.
Source Code has appeared in and produced both homosexual and bestiality pornography. Source Code has lead to the disappearance of the factory job, the decline of real wages, and the destruction of the family. Source Code has been accused of leaking nuclear secrets to the Chinese, spying on American businesses for the French, and causing the fire at the Branch Davidians compound in Waco, Texas.
Source Code is a known pedophile and has lured innocent children away from the safety of their God-fearing homes and into its evil clutches. Source Code is a key component of the liberal Jewish media, and helps the dissemination of their leftist propaganda - promoting Zionist, pro United Nations, pro Welfare State views. Source Code has caused both the increase in gasoline prices and laws requiring mandatory use of seat belts. Source code is responsible for the volcano eruption in Japan, the earthquakes in Turkey, and the increased popularity of soccer.
Source Code is a know atheist, pacifist, and anarchist, and has been an outspoken critic of the NRA.
Source Code has been shown to cause cancer, and even worse, painful hemorrhoids. Source Code supports the tree-hugging, granola eating freaks at Green Peace, and the sick animal lovers at PETA, in their pathetic attempt to keep us from paving over parks and eating meat. Source Code is the reason your wife no longer loves you. Source Code is the reason your daughter is a promiscuous whore and your son is a drug-addicted queer.
Source Code has performed over 80% of the annual abortions in America, and is responsible for 75% of police officers killed in the line of duty. Source Code increased the amount of immigration to the United States, filling our streets with dirty, smelly foreigners scheming to take your job and rape your wife. Source Code promoted the black guy at work to a position above yours. Source Code defended Bill Clinton, and secretly ensured his acquittal during the impeachment trial. Source Code wants to put mandatory trigger locks on your guns, and is the reason you can no longer carry your AK-47 to the supermarket.
Source Code causes 9 out of 10 fatal automobile accidents, and 95% of airline disasters. Source Code is the leading cause of male pattern baldness, erectile difficulty, premature ejaculation, and impotence. Hopefully, by now, you agree with AFBSC that Source Code presents the greatest danger facing our society today, and that we must do whatever it takes to stop it. Proceed as follows:
1:Call your Congressman, Senators, and Governor and insist that something be done about Source Code. 2:Organize a bunch of your friends, get blindingly drunk, and form a militia - in anticipation of the day you will need to stand up to Source Code for the sake of us all. 3:Print copies of this flyer, and distribute them at weddings, funerals, graduations, etc. to ensure that the general public is informed of this grave threat. 4:Put on your white hood, stand at a busy intersection, and shout "down with Source Code" for hours on end. Then place a burning cross in Source Code's front yard. 5:Finally, rent a Natalie Portman flick, cook up some hit grits, and poor them down your pants.
I did not read the file, but I have heard that Lindbergh was investigated for being a Nazi sympathizer (which he was, he once accepted a medal from Hitler and said some really pro hitler stuff.)
I should have previewed, multiple errors. Here is the fixed version.
A real time OS is one in which every event (responding to a signal, etc.) is supposed to occur within a time constraint.
Now there is hard-real-time and soft-real-time. A hard real time system guarantees that the event will occur in no more than x time (and no less than y) unless the system is down. A soft-real time system tries to meet those constraints, but it is not critical if it does and it might not meet them (soft is much easier to implement).
When you deal with streaming video, you would like real-time performance, but it is not critical if a few frames are dropped here and there, so usually a soft real time sys is good enough. However, the system which deploys the airbag on your car, or guides cruise missiles, should probably guarantee to work within the time bounds.
A real time OS is one in which every event is guarenteed to (responding to a signal, etc.) occur within a time constraint.
Now there is hard-real-time and soft-real-time. A hard real time system guarantees When you deal with streaming video, you would like real-time performance, but it is not critical if a few frames are dropped here and there, so usually a soft real time sys is good enough. However, the system which deploys the airbag on your car, or guides cruise missiles, should probably guarantee to work within time bounds.
Hey, I submitted this story to slashdot really early on Sunday morning - only to have it rejected.
It got posted to slashdot after all, so the community got a chance to learn about this, and nothing was lost (except my pride:)
However, I have to wonder about the editors (all those new, post andover and post valinux guys). If someone rejected a piece that Hemos thought was worthy of being posted, it means they have a different sense of what constitutes a good slashdot article. Which is OK, because different editors can disagree (of course, this seemed like a pretty obvious slashdot piece - and obviously Hemos agreed). The problem being, what if this article had only been submitted once, and was rejected - the community would suffer.
A lot of these new editors have been reading slashdot for a lot less time then some of the readers, wield way too much power, and don't really understand what the community is looking for. People who don't know what we want are controling what we get!
I think some system should be in place, where the editors' actions can be observed, at least by the chief slashdotters (cmdrtaco, hemos). When an article is rejected, it should list who rejected it, so the heads (and us readers) can learn what kind of decisions an editor is making. Perhaps the system could be semi-automatic, when you submit a story, it should log the url of the page, and an editor can see if other submissions to the same page have been made, and their status. Therefor, we can avoid repeat posts, and someone like cmdrtaco or hemos could see if some of the new editors were rejecting good stuff.
Your sys admin can set up a web interface to the Exchange server. I think it is called webmail. Now from any computer in the world you can use a webpage that mimics almost all the functions in outlook.
This is very, very useful, because I can avoid going into work as much as possible.
Why should OSS and linux fans care if someone's grandma uses windows, or if windows is the machine of choice for 80% of the people out there? What difference does it make?
We should be very proud of the software our community has build (I haven't contributed shit, so I give thanks to everyone who has). We should be thankful that we do indeed have a choice, that we have this great os, and great compilers, etc. that we are free to use and modify. And we can spread our knowledge and try and convince our companies and friends about this alternative. And we can work on making it easier to install and use, so that beginners can have an easier time.
But why should we care if linux ever overtakes ms in number of systems? Why should we care if most people still use windows? What difference does it make? As long as no one takes away my ability to use linux, as long as the community thrives and continues to improve and develop new software, then it is good with me. Yes, it would be nice if I could do my taxes under linux, etc., but its really not important - Linux does not need to be the end-all solution. The people who's needs are met by linux will use it, those who's aren't won't. And unless you own shares in RedHat (et. al), market share shouldn't bother you.
Footnote: Of course, you can claim that the greater the market share, the greater the demand for software, and the increased likelyhood that titles are developed for Linux. This argument is correct, but not necessarily applicable: you switched to linux because it was better at what you needed it for, if your needs change, then you can switch to a different platform in the future (expecially easy because you financial investment in Linux has been minimal.)
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, you guys were right, and I was wrong, I missed that link.
In my defense, it does not say "1-5 out of 15000" (like on the regular page) but only "1-5".
So, now guys can drive, drink coffee, talk on their cells, and search for "Petrified Natalie Portman" all at the same time. The roads are going to be really safe.
Seriously, the on-the-fly translation is very cool.
The PR states that it is still in beta, but www.google.com/palm returned 5 hits for 'farts', while google proper had about 15000. I would have figured that they would use the same database, so I don't really understand the difference.
I'll assume you are not trolling.
The issue is about limiting free speech -- you're not allowed to pretend to be someone else by using their name.
Yes, but I am allowed to use their name to criticize them, or their product, and this has long been upheld by the courts.
If someone had registered verizonwireless.com and tried to sell cellular phones, the verizon people would have a very valid claim. But I am allowed to tell people just how bad CocaCola is, and do not need to refer to them as a 'softdrink company located in Atlanta'.
My point, and 2600's, is that business are becoming the most powerful forces in the world today, and in their quest from ever increasing amounts of money, they are trampling over individuals' rights.
We must stand up to the freedoms we have always had, otherwise we will find ourselves with none.
screwVerizon.com seemed available.
Emmanuel Goldstein has morphed from a small publisher of a {h|cr}acking mag, low audience radio guy, into one of the preeminent defenders of individuals' liberties in the internet era.
/. every day) companies are trying to control the net, and, by extension, the future of both news and entertainment. By getting laws passes which make it illegal to look at someone else's software, or link to another site, or even express a thought (Verizon probably does suck!) their power is growing enormously.
On multiple fronts, he is defending our right to freedom of speech, and protecting us from giant behemoth corporations who want to restrict what we say, and even what we think.
It is easy to see the parallel with Larry Flint, who began simply as a publisher of a porno mag, and became a very important of champion of civil liberties.
More and more (we read it on
We should applaud Emmanuel, and follow his example. If individuals do not stand up for our right to watch moves, listen to music, or criticize a company, we will lose those rights, and we will have no defense against the McDonalds-Nike-AOL-TimeWarner-Microsoft-General Electric conglomerates, the 'Big Brother' of the future.
Having done my undergraduate CS at NYU, the 'N' in the Gnu Nyu Ada Translator (GNAT - how many people knew that), and having studied under two of the developers of that system (their company's site) I was fortunate enough to be exposed to virtues of this language.
The Ada syntax is very similar to Pascal's, but the language is very similar to Java (especially thread support). Once you get accustomed to using the language, you notice that you can be very, very productive using it, much more than in C++. I would also say that the learning curve (minus the time to familiarize yourself with the syntax if you are coming from the C/C++ world) is pretty easy to climb, and you can be proficient at it soon.
For my compiler class, we needed to write a compiler for a (the non OO) subset of Ada95. I chose to write mine in Ada95, because we were allowed to use the GNAT lexer/parser (which was written in A95 as well). I would strongly recommend that anyone wanting to learn large scale programming or who is developing something that will be open source, should take a look at the source code. It is clearly written, well documented, easily understood, and even beautiful. It is a wonderful example of how someone should write code if the expect others to read it. It also shows just how beautiful and understandable the language is.
since the gifted math and english classes at my h.s. consisted of mostly the same students
:).
The skills at effective communication are very similar to understanding mathematics. Writing a convincing essay is very much like proving something in math: you have a hypothesis, state some 'theorems' ('facts' from some other author, or from your experience), and using logic, draw conclusions.
Of course, this is not the same as being poetic, and being a great literary writer (requiring artistic talent, etc., which I don't have) but communicating your ideas clearly requires the same skills if you are talking about math or anything else.
math is the closest one can get to pure thought
I share this opinion. Unfortunately, I cannot get that close, so I'm studying CS
I strongly believe that the two most important courses are Math and English (not really English, but the language of the country you are in.) They both develop two very different but equally important skills.
Math is very important because it develops abstract thinking. It is where you learn to break a problem down and think logically. Yes, the average person probably does not use much more than arithmetic during their day, but the skills of critical thinking are used all the time.
Recently there has been reforms in the math curriculum, at all grade levels, including the misnamed 'Harvard Calculus'. These reforms aim to encourage people to devote more time to 'understanding' and 'exploring' the math, without being rigorous: relying on calculators and estimation.
Although, on the surface, these reforms sound like a good idea, they do not work as expected. Students become reliant on these techniques, can pass all their exams by graphing a curve and looking for the maxima, and never gain any real understanding of what is going on.
It is only through working through laborious problems (be they long division or finding integrals) that a student will finally, really understand what is going on. Students do a few problems, step by step, until it just 'clicks' and they then understand the purpose of each of those steps, and what the problem really 'means'. Just typing something into a calculator, and looking for the minima, does not really teach anything: it does not explain why there is a minima, and why it is at that point.
English is the other very important skill. It teaches communication, which is the most important skill one can have. Being able to read with understanding, and communicate ones thoughts clearly, is a skill surprisingly very few people have.
It is only through spending a lot of time reading until you gain comprehension, or repeatedly re-writing something until it is clear and concise, that you can learn to communicate clearly.
So often, I am surprised at office memos (and even newspaper articles) that re logic-less and make absolutely no sense.
Clearly, these are the two skills most important for success, and the teaching of them should not be softened.
So, this story is hard to find, so I don't know if anyone will ever read this post, but Qtronix makes (made) exactly what you want.
I have one, new, in-box, and if you can't find one elsewhere, you can contact me for some kind of trade.
E mail me at daniel@NO.marques.SPAM.com
Sprite. Old school, but its stills cool.
What a crazy show...
Every episode scores of people blew up crashing into walls, or falling off cliffs.
Their was a money and a little kid who lived in the trunk of the car and were obviously heavily medicated.
This was some far out shit, but I can't believe that are going to use it to educated.
Here are the links to the two patents:
Patent 1
Patent 2
This system is getting totally out of hand.
Writing, publishing, and reading "bomb making texts or racist propaganda" is not illegal and should never be. In order to have "good" free speech, where you can criticize governments, etc. you must allow "bad" free speech. Any restriction we allow on speech is arbitrary, and once we allow an arbitrary line to be drawn (except for the strict definitions of slander, libel, fire in crowded theater stuff) that line can be easily moved to limit the so called "good" free speech.
I found the following at the web site of Americans For Banning Source Code. This is some pretty scary stuff.
If you are an honest, hard-working, tax-paying, God-fearing American you should be very afraid - a new plague is threatening our children, threatening ourselves, and threatening the moral foundations on which our great nation has been built. Far more dangerous than atheism, communism, or even liberalism, this plague threatens to destroy all that is holy and sacred in this great land. It threatens to tear America apart at the seams, to cause widespread chaos and panic, and to leave America firmly in the grasp of Sodomites and Satanists. This gruesome plague is none other than the benignly named "Source Code". Americans For Banning Source Code (AFBSC) is attempting to stop the spread of this plague, and we desperately need your help before all is lost.
Source Code was originally developed by University "Ivory Tower" intellectuals in the 1950s as a secret language for communication between Communists, Free Masons, and Homosexuals. It has been used since as a tool of the Zionist Media Elite to control the general Christian, patriotic, population of this great nation. With the use of Source Code, good Americans have fallen victim to the nefarious plans of the Satan-worshiping Illuminati and the anti-American New World Order.
Source Code has appeared in and produced both homosexual and bestiality pornography. Source Code has lead to the disappearance of the factory job, the decline of real wages, and the destruction of the family. Source Code has been accused of leaking nuclear secrets to the Chinese, spying on American businesses for the French, and causing the fire at the Branch Davidians compound in Waco, Texas.
Source Code is a known pedophile and has lured innocent children away from the safety of their God-fearing homes and into its evil clutches. Source Code is a key component of the liberal Jewish media, and helps the dissemination of their leftist propaganda - promoting Zionist, pro United Nations, pro Welfare State views. Source Code has caused both the increase in gasoline prices and laws requiring mandatory use of seat belts. Source code is responsible for the volcano eruption in Japan, the earthquakes in Turkey, and the increased popularity of soccer.
Source Code is a know atheist, pacifist, and anarchist, and has been an outspoken critic of the NRA.
Source Code has been shown to cause cancer, and even worse, painful hemorrhoids. Source Code supports the tree-hugging, granola eating freaks at Green Peace, and the sick animal lovers at PETA, in their pathetic attempt to keep us from paving over parks and eating meat. Source Code is the reason your wife no longer loves you. Source Code is the reason your daughter is a promiscuous whore and your son is a drug-addicted queer.
Source Code has performed over 80% of the annual abortions in America, and is responsible for 75% of police officers killed in the line of duty. Source Code increased the amount of immigration to the United States, filling our streets with dirty, smelly foreigners scheming to take your job and rape your wife. Source Code promoted the black guy at work to a position above yours. Source Code defended Bill Clinton, and secretly ensured his acquittal during the impeachment trial. Source Code wants to put mandatory trigger locks on your guns, and is the reason you can no longer carry your AK-47 to the supermarket.
Source Code causes 9 out of 10 fatal automobile accidents, and 95% of airline disasters. Source Code is the leading cause of male pattern baldness, erectile difficulty, premature ejaculation, and impotence. Hopefully, by now, you agree with AFBSC that Source Code presents the greatest danger facing our society today, and that we must do whatever it takes to stop it. Proceed as follows:
1:Call your Congressman, Senators, and Governor and insist that something be done about Source Code.
2:Organize a bunch of your friends, get blindingly drunk, and form a militia - in anticipation of the day you will need to stand up to Source Code for the sake of us all.
3:Print copies of this flyer, and distribute them at weddings, funerals, graduations, etc. to ensure that the general public is informed of this grave threat.
4:Put on your white hood, stand at a busy intersection, and shout "down with Source Code" for hours on end. Then place a burning cross in Source Code's front yard.
5:Finally, rent a Natalie Portman flick, cook up some hit grits, and poor them down your pants.
I did not read the file, but I have heard that Lindbergh was investigated for being a Nazi sympathizer (which he was, he once accepted a medal from Hitler and said some really pro hitler stuff.)
I should have previewed, multiple errors. Here is the fixed version.
A real time OS is one in which every event (responding to a signal, etc.) is supposed to occur within a time constraint.
Now there is hard-real-time and soft-real-time. A hard real time system guarantees that the event will occur in no more than x time (and no less than y) unless the system is down. A soft-real time system tries to meet those constraints, but it is not critical if it does and it might not meet them (soft is much easier to implement).
When you deal with streaming video, you would like real-time performance, but it is not critical if a few frames are dropped here and there, so usually a soft real time sys is good enough. However, the system which deploys the airbag on your car, or guides cruise missiles, should probably guarantee to work within the time bounds.
A real time OS is one in which every event is guarenteed to (responding to a signal, etc.) occur within a time constraint.
Now there is hard-real-time and soft-real-time. A hard real time system guarantees
When you deal with streaming video, you would like real-time performance, but it is not critical if a few frames are dropped here and there, so usually a soft real time sys is good enough. However, the system which deploys the airbag on your car, or guides cruise missiles, should probably guarantee to work within time bounds.
Hey, I submitted this story to slashdot really early on Sunday morning - only to have it rejected.
:)
It got posted to slashdot after all, so the community got a chance to learn about this, and nothing was lost (except my pride
However, I have to wonder about the editors (all those new, post andover and post valinux guys). If someone rejected a piece that Hemos thought was worthy of being posted, it means they have a different sense of what constitutes a good slashdot article. Which is OK, because different editors can disagree (of course, this seemed like a pretty obvious slashdot piece - and obviously Hemos agreed). The problem being, what if this article had only been submitted once, and was rejected - the community would suffer.
A lot of these new editors have been reading slashdot for a lot less time then some of the readers, wield way too much power, and don't really understand what the community is looking for. People who don't know what we want are controling what we get!
I think some system should be in place, where the editors' actions can be observed, at least by the chief slashdotters (cmdrtaco, hemos). When an article is rejected, it should list who rejected it, so the heads (and us readers) can learn what kind of decisions an editor is making. Perhaps the system could be semi-automatic, when you submit a story, it should log the url of the page, and an editor can see if other submissions to the same page have been made, and their status. Therefor, we can avoid repeat posts, and someone like cmdrtaco or hemos could see if some of the new editors were rejecting good stuff.
There is nothing worse that a society that censors all criticism of itself.
The moderators are going overboard. You criticize them and you get burned!?!?!?
what is so insiteful about this crap?!?!?!?!
moderators suck!
Your sys admin can set up a web interface to the Exchange server. I think it is called webmail. Now from any computer in the world you can use a webpage that mimics almost all the functions in outlook.
This is very, very useful, because I can avoid going into work as much as possible.
We don't say arse you freak!!!!!!!!! (unless we are making fun of you brits and scots).
I agree!
Why should OSS and linux fans care if someone's grandma uses windows, or if windows is the machine of choice for 80% of the people out there? What difference does it make?
We should be very proud of the software our community has build (I haven't contributed shit, so I give thanks to everyone who has). We should be thankful that we do indeed have a choice, that we have this great os, and great compilers, etc. that we are free to use and modify. And we can spread our knowledge and try and convince our companies and friends about this alternative. And we can work on making it easier to install and use, so that beginners can have an easier time.
But why should we care if linux ever overtakes ms in number of systems? Why should we care if most people still use windows? What difference does it make? As long as no one takes away my ability to use linux, as long as the community thrives and continues to improve and develop new software, then it is good with me. Yes, it would be nice if I could do my taxes under linux, etc., but its really not important - Linux does not need to be the end-all solution. The people who's needs are met by linux will use it, those who's aren't won't. And unless you own shares in RedHat (et. al), market share shouldn't bother you.
Footnote: Of course, you can claim that the greater the market share, the greater the demand for software, and the increased likelyhood that titles are developed for Linux. This argument is correct, but not necessarily applicable: you switched to linux because it was better at what you needed it for, if your needs change, then you can switch to a different platform in the future (expecially easy because you financial investment in Linux has been minimal.)
I meant /. does not support "pre" tags.
I'm really batting 1000 today.
Company Name Microsoft Corporation
/. does not support tags.
Name Mr. Tux The penguin
Title Linux Mascot
Email tux@linux.org
Phone # 555.1212
Fax # 555.1212
Those bastards! Thats it, the next kernel should be named Bill_Gates!!!!!!
Sorry about the repetition. I just learned the hard way that