I have cd's and cdrws that are coming up on 10 years old now and still work.
You forget that CDs have a fairly large amount of error correction built into them to compensate for minor scratches and aging. If a disc degrades to the point that your drive reports errors then the degradation has been going on for some time.
The Shalebridge Cradle level has such stifling atmosphere, it's almost like a blanket of dread covers you. A few times I had to pause and give the game a break. Random noises that sounds almost like human whispers, a gloomy repressive building... brrr... got a chill thinking about it.
...ditto here, I bought one for work as a test unit. The thing needs a reboot at least twice a week with only 4 wireless clients testing through it. Can't wait to try the new dd-wrt firmware.
I think the problem is that the BSD code may not be considered "clean room" by the Linux people, hence it's "dirty" (not my opinion) and not to be touched. You can probably trace a lot of this obsession to the SCO lawsuit.
I really hope the OpenBSD group's steadfast stance on "blob" is maintained. The Linux guys, who overall don't seem to mind blob, sound like they're starting to see the light. In the end it can only be good for all open source, not just OpenBSD.
Intern: Professor Morrison, we've had over 800,000 similar
requests for a replacement penis and hand! Morrison: Ahhh, yes.
News of our discovery must have made it to Slashdot!
Won't work on iPod. Won't work on any portable music player. This'll go the way of Circuit City's DIVX and they'll blame piracy for the failure of their inflexible system.
FTA: Each server is responsible for an individual "sim," or 16 acres
of virtual "Second Life" land. At peak usage that means that each server is
handling about three users."
That sounds like a point of failure.
What would happen if a large group of mischievous users organize and decide
to visit the same 16 acres of land simultaneously?
"This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world," Allchin told the audience.
Countless millions of customers have complained about spyware and viruses for years but it takes an MS exec to fumble before their eyes open? No wonder people get disenfranchised with big corporations.
They have two products listed: a keyboard (#54) and the Xbox 360 (#89). Odd for a company that focuses mainly on software. Apple has a decent showing, even Ubuntu Linux shows up at #27.
I've been a hard atheist my whole life and don't buy that we get morals only from religion. We're social animals, it's in our best interests to help other members of our 'tribe'. This is seen in virtually every type of primate.
We're "good" to others because it what works best for helping our species advance.
We have a daughter due in July (really! I'm reproducing now...)
In a few years I imagine she'll ask "Daddy... who's Captain
Copyright?" and I'll say "Sweetie, he's like God." She'll reply "What
do you mean, Daddy, all knowing, all powerful and something to be in
awe of?" "No dear," I'll reply, "a make-believe thing people in power use against the
masses to keep them scared."
Manitoba Telephone System.:)
Blah. spent ~10 minutes going through mts.ca looking for rates but can't find 'em. Anyhow, with the cost of the line, unlisting fees (a few $/month) and both taxes (14%) it was just shy of $40. I recall thinking that the $15 was well under half as much as the phone line.
I'm cell-only as well. When I had an alarm system installed at my house the cheapest POTS line (for monitoring) was something like $40/month. The alarm company had a radio rig they can install if you don't have POTS. Cost was $200 and the extra wireless charge was $15/month. It's paid for itself ages ago.
Anything that requires POTS won't sell to a growing number of people.
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They're QuicktimeVR, not plain vanilla screenshots. You can pan, zoom and tilt the camera.
Like really? Like that'd be like cool when it like returns...
I have cd's and cdrws that are coming up on 10 years old now and still work.
You forget that CDs have a fairly large amount of error correction built into them to compensate for minor scratches and aging. If a disc degrades to the point that your drive reports errors then the degradation has been going on for some time.
I'll second that!
The Shalebridge Cradle level has such stifling atmosphere, it's almost like a blanket of dread covers you. A few times I had to pause and give the game a break. Random noises that sounds almost like human whispers, a gloomy repressive building... brrr... got a chill thinking about it.
...ditto here, I bought one for work as a test unit. The thing needs a reboot at least twice a week with only 4 wireless clients testing through it. Can't wait to try the new dd-wrt firmware.
I think the problem is that the BSD code may not be considered "clean room" by the Linux people, hence it's "dirty" (not my opinion) and not to be touched. You can probably trace a lot of this obsession to the SCO lawsuit.
I really hope the OpenBSD group's steadfast stance on "blob" is maintained. The Linux guys, who overall don't seem to mind blob, sound like they're starting to see the light. In the end it can only be good for all open source, not just OpenBSD.
Being Slashdot, you have to praise the editors for what they didn't do. In this case they didn't write it as Micro$oft, MicroShaft or MicroShit.
Good job, boys! Have a cookie!
Intern: Professor Morrison, we've had over 800,000 similar requests for a replacement penis and hand!
Morrison: Ahhh, yes. News of our discovery must have made it to Slashdot!
It was by Laura DiDio. They may as well have had Steve Ballmer make the judgement.
Won't work on iPod. Won't work on any portable music player. This'll go the way of Circuit City's DIVX and they'll blame piracy for the failure of their inflexible system.
So one cold Canadian winter evening some British bobbies will kick in my doors and bust me?
FTA: Each server is responsible for an individual "sim," or 16 acres of virtual "Second Life" land. At peak usage that means that each server is handling about three users."
That sounds like a point of failure. What would happen if a large group of mischievous users organize and decide to visit the same 16 acres of land simultaneously?
Take a stroll through our modern world with John C. Dvorak's hilarious take.
Darn, the summary is mislinked to typical Dvorak filler. Where's the 'hilarious take'?
"This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world," Allchin told the audience.
Countless millions of customers have complained about spyware and viruses for years but it takes an MS exec to fumble before their eyes open? No wonder people get disenfranchised with big corporations.
stupidslashdot page filler needed here. oh how I hate that.
Nice way to use a non-story to introduce the new layout.
They kicked it in at 9:30 my time (32 minutes ago). I was editing a journal entry, reloaded and thought I was having an acid flashback for a sec.
The font is AWFUL. Maybe it looks good on a Linux box or on a Mac, but the subjective readability of Slashdot's text on IE6 has just dropped by 50%.
Try increasing the font size. I did in Firefox on Win2k and it's much better, at least I won't have eye cancer by 2008.
They have two products listed: a keyboard (#54) and the Xbox 360 (#89). Odd for a company that focuses mainly on software. Apple has a decent showing, even Ubuntu Linux shows up at #27.
I've been a hard atheist my whole life and don't buy that we get morals only from religion. We're social animals, it's in our best interests to help other members of our 'tribe'. This is seen in virtually every type of primate.
We're "good" to others because it what works best for helping our species advance.
We have a daughter due in July (really! I'm reproducing now...) In a few years I imagine she'll ask "Daddy... who's Captain Copyright?" and I'll say "Sweetie, he's like God." She'll reply "What do you mean, Daddy, all knowing, all powerful and something to be in awe of?" "No dear," I'll reply, "a make-believe thing people in power use against the masses to keep them scared."
Manitoba Telephone System. :)
Blah. spent ~10 minutes going through mts.ca looking for rates but can't find 'em. Anyhow, with the cost of the line, unlisting fees (a few $/month) and both taxes (14%) it was just shy of $40. I recall thinking that the $15 was well under half as much as the phone line.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The full cost with taxes and being unlisted was just shy of $40.
Slight tangent.
I'm cell-only as well. When I had an alarm system installed at my house the cheapest POTS line (for monitoring) was something like $40/month. The alarm company had a radio rig they can install if you don't have POTS. Cost was $200 and the extra wireless charge was $15/month. It's paid for itself ages ago.
Anything that requires POTS won't sell to a growing number of people.
Why do people try to do physical things to "destroy" magnetic media.
Hard drives from my workplace can have data on it from human studies (MRI, spectroscopy, etc.) and must be treated as highly confidential.
At least once a year I do a "drill & fill" on hard disks. Wipe 'em, Drill 'em, Fill 'em (with glue ) before disposal.
I sleep well at night, but then again I'm one of those OpenBSD kooks who encrypts his swap space.