Right but... if you call, does that establish a business relationship with the production company, webhosting company, etc, and they can harvest your phone number and be void of the No Call List???
1. Post random phone number on large website 2. Wait for people to call it, or better yet, post a comment on/. containing it. 3.... 4. Profit
Really, why is it important that Transmeta jump on this before Intel? Just because Linus works (worked?) for them??
Competition drives this industry, and so far Intel has consistently put out good, reliable, fast architecture (at least for desktop PCs...). At least I have been happy with it. I'm sure if you write drivers or compilers or other assembly code, you may prefer the instruction sets of another arch, but for the end-user of Intel products (99.9% of you I'm sure), I see no problem with Intel.
I'm not bashing Transmeta either, like I said competition is good, but seriously, why does the/. crowd seem to have a bias against Intel??
And I know this is/. so it's obligatory, but don't just reply to this and say asinine things like "because they suck" or "they're a giant corp like M$". They got that way for a reason, you know.
Just my $23.. inflation's a bitch ain't it!
Oh and what's the deal with the/. server(s) being so flaky today??
Hmm... You must have one of those "mini" keyboards without the keypad, or without the arrows and home/del/ins/etc keys?? I sure don't see many keyboards without it... You must have a Sony VAIO!:\
Ok, backtick is not all that useful, but still it's a character key, not a special function key, so it stays.
And how can you lose the tilde key!?!? Ever used linux?? As in, your home directory is ~homedir (for most unices/shells). Or, moreso, ever typed an URL in a web browser?? As in, www.whatever.com/~username??
SysRq key I find to be useful in Windows - can't beat screen captures with Ctrl-PrintScreen (which shares with SysRq).
Ok, I do however agree with you on one note - Insert needs to stay... Moreso than using it for toggling overwrite mode, though, I think people (myself included) love to use Shift-Insert for paste! Works in Linux and Windows (usually).. so I never have to think about which OS I'm using and what key combo to use for paste (which I use all the time). Anyway, it's a moot point because Insert isn't going anywhere - it's way to ubiquitous.
In other words, buy a different friggin' keyboard man! They cost like what, 10 bucks!:)
Wait, that's a pen?? I thought it was my friend's name who had an orchiectomy (one testicle removed)... At least that's what everyone calls him.. Well, that or Mono-nut.
Whoa there son... This is/. ! You can't just post knee-jerk reactions! >:)
I think you're sort of missing the point.. You are comparing apples to oragnes. DVDs are a removable media format. It's not very easy to say, take out your hard drive and bring it to your friends house every time you want to swap pornos or whatever it is that you do.
Yes, for long-term archival you could just fill up a HD and set it on the shelf. But with DVD, the cost does go down as you burn more and more of them (the line approaches the cost of a DVD and the cost of the drive gets swallowed up). Also, it's easy and convenient to distribute data to others on DVD versus a hard drive. There's also the chance that hardware for reading DVDs will be more accessible in the long-term future than hardware for plugging in and accessing a hard drive.
I won't even get into the problems I faced when trying to cram a hard drive full of my home movies into the tray on my component DVD player for the family to watch at Christmas...
Remember, your uses of a storage medium may very well differ from say, a movie producer's, or a Radiologist's, or an IT firm's. Also, keep in mind that it's an emerging technology and of course cost is an issue when you're still paying for R&D. Did you go out and buy a CD-burner when they costed $600 and discs were $5?? I doubt it, but I'd be willing to bet that you have one now and find many uses for it....
Wow... I am finishing my last semester in CS right now, and if I were asked to describe my current feelings, they would be your post - VERBATIM. I mean, my thoughts exactly.
the weird part is, the vast majority of people outside the field still give reactions such as "well you're going to get a great job, computers are the way to go" and such.. the general public, even though it knows that the industry is "down", still seems to feel that the individual worker in the field is somehow still very well off.
Isn't it great attending "career fairs" (which are more like flea markets and we're the one's up for sale), applying for hundreds of jobs all online, with no personal interaction until you achieve a status of "third-level interviewing candidate" like you just completed a few boards of a vid game...
Actually, he was beaten to death in prison. From some unofficial website:
Jeff met his end on November 28, 1994, when he was viciously attacked by Christopher Scarver, a convicted killer on antispychotic medication, Scarver -- who claimed to be Christ because he was a carpenter and his mother's name was Mary -- killed the lethargic cannibal and former chocolate factory worker, along with another inmate, convicted wife killer Jesse Anderson, with a bar from a piece of exersize equiptment.
At least in the Madison, WI area. They bought @home's infastructure here, and I had the 768k service until this week, when they knocked me up to 2MB service at no extra charge.. Bandwidth testers show that I'm getting pretty close to that. yippeee!!
Just to clear this up for you - a "penny" is the common term for a one-cent copper coin used in the U.S. It's really the *only* term for that coin in fact, nobody says "I'll give you a one-cent piece for you thoughts." When referring to a price, *usually* we'd say cents, however, as in "That gum costs twenty-five cents", not twenty-five pennies.
This is old news - RIAA sending out threats to college students - nothing new. They were doing it last year too.
And, if the editors would read the story, they'd see that it says "Then when the poor student has picked himself up from the floor and the blood returns to his face, the lawyers will say broadly: "OK, we'll let you off the fine if you agree to pay, let's say, a mere $15,000".
Not exactly the $50,000 that it says in the posting. In all fairness, the article does mention one instance of someone having to settle for $50k.
Or you consider the countless emails that Linux and Mac users had to delete from their inboxes, or the lost bandwidth they had to share with the Windows world...
This is funny - one of the head sysadmins for UW's network ops gave a firewall talk in one of my grad classes last semester. I remember him saying that they recently put a packet filter on their FW to block NTP requests because they started getting high numbers of them..
They thought that maybe somewhere someone had published a net time server in a document or whatever and that an IT department was deploying it on workstations or there was a document floating around telling people to set it up as their time server...
Never noticed this happening before.. There is a typo on the article synapsis on the front page, but not on the article page itself (ie if you click Read More).
From the front page: Steve Jobs' gut reaction, quoted in the article: 'It think it sucks!'"
From the article page: Steve Jobs' gut reaction, quoted in the article: 'I think it sucks!'"
Is someone really manually retyping these twice?:-\
I hope, if so, that Slashdot has at least employed a Cadre of Elite Geese to do this... Oh yea it says right here that they have.
I personally think it would be a real pain to have bills of different sizes in my wallet. Especially if they made some of them too big for standard wallets (which I doubt they would), which means that they would have to start making them smaller. Our bills are already smaller than a lot of countries'. I could see losing them or accidentally having smaller bills between larger ones and handing them over to a cashier who isn't scrupulous and pockets the extra ones..
It would be interesting to know what the decline in revenue payphones generate is over the last, say, 10 years. Anyone have info on that?
At least, I assume they have declined in revenue (at least figuring in for inflation and the price level). Maybe usage statistics would be more of an indication?
But if you're looking for something a little more than crash, bang, wallop then this second instalment will leave you cold. Reloaded is crammed full of the cod philosophy that fans of the original loved but which left me distinctly unimpressed.
Huh??? So if you're a fan of the philosophy it will leave you cold, but yet it is crammed full of the philosophy that fans of the original loved??
If you're looking for a deep, meaningful cinematic experience then The Matrix Reloaded is not for you. But if it's a non-stop rollercoaster ride you're after, then this movie is light years ahead of anything that's gone before.
Ok great, so it's going to be a good action flick, but why does he assume that even though it is 'crammed full' of the philosophy content, that you won't like it? Just because he wasn't a fan of that part of the film?
methinks this review was written rather hastily, no?
Slashdot Mirror
Right but... if you call, does that establish a business relationship with the production company, webhosting company, etc, and they can harvest your phone number and be void of the No Call List???
/. containing it. ...
1. Post random phone number on large website
2. Wait for people to call it, or better yet, post a comment on
3.
4. Profit
And if you look at the bottom of the page you linked to, it explicitly states that it was a hoax...
Really, why is it important that Transmeta jump on this before Intel? Just because Linus works (worked?) for them??
/. crowd seem to have a bias against Intel??
/. so it's obligatory, but don't just reply to this and say asinine things like "because they suck" or "they're a giant corp like M$". They got that way for a reason, you know.
/. server(s) being so flaky today??
Competition drives this industry, and so far Intel has consistently put out good, reliable, fast architecture (at least for desktop PCs...). At least I have been happy with it. I'm sure if you write drivers or compilers or other assembly code, you may prefer the instruction sets of another arch, but for the end-user of Intel products (99.9% of you I'm sure), I see no problem with Intel.
I'm not bashing Transmeta either, like I said competition is good, but seriously, why does the
And I know this is
Just my $23.. inflation's a bitch ain't it!
Oh and what's the deal with the
Hmm... You must have one of those "mini" keyboards without the keypad, or without the arrows and home/del/ins/etc keys?? I sure don't see many keyboards without it... You must have a Sony VAIO! :\
:)
Ok, backtick is not all that useful, but still it's a character key, not a special function key, so it stays.
And how can you lose the tilde key!?!? Ever used linux?? As in, your home directory is ~homedir (for most unices/shells). Or, moreso, ever typed an URL in a web browser?? As in, www.whatever.com/~username??
SysRq key I find to be useful in Windows - can't beat screen captures with Ctrl-PrintScreen (which shares with SysRq).
Ok, I do however agree with you on one note - Insert needs to stay... Moreso than using it for toggling overwrite mode, though, I think people (myself included) love to use Shift-Insert for paste! Works in Linux and Windows (usually).. so I never have to think about which OS I'm using and what key combo to use for paste (which I use all the time). Anyway, it's a moot point because Insert isn't going anywhere - it's way to ubiquitous.
In other words, buy a different friggin' keyboard man! They cost like what, 10 bucks!
Wait, that's a pen?? I thought it was my friend's name who had an orchiectomy (one testicle removed)... At least that's what everyone calls him.. Well, that or Mono-nut.
Whoa there son... This is /. ! You can't just post knee-jerk reactions! >:)
I think you're sort of missing the point.. You are comparing apples to oragnes. DVDs are a removable media format. It's not very easy to say, take out your hard drive and bring it to your friends house every time you want to swap pornos or whatever it is that you do.
Yes, for long-term archival you could just fill up a HD and set it on the shelf. But with DVD, the cost does go down as you burn more and more of them (the line approaches the cost of a DVD and the cost of the drive gets swallowed up). Also, it's easy and convenient to distribute data to others on DVD versus a hard drive. There's also the chance that hardware for reading DVDs will be more accessible in the long-term future than hardware for plugging in and accessing a hard drive.
I won't even get into the problems I faced when trying to cram a hard drive full of my home movies into the tray on my component DVD player for the family to watch at Christmas...
Remember, your uses of a storage medium may very well differ from say, a movie producer's, or a Radiologist's, or an IT firm's. Also, keep in mind that it's an emerging technology and of course cost is an issue when you're still paying for R&D. Did you go out and buy a CD-burner when they costed $600 and discs were $5?? I doubt it, but I'd be willing to bet that you have one now and find many uses for it....
"Disney announced a new set-top box built for them BUY SAMSUNG that will hold movies downloaded over the air..."
:)
Now the editors are hiding subliminal messages in the form of "typos" !!
Wow... I am finishing my last semester in CS right now, and if I were asked to describe my current feelings, they would be your post - VERBATIM. I mean, my thoughts exactly.
the weird part is, the vast majority of people outside the field still give reactions such as "well you're going to get a great job, computers are the way to go" and such.. the general public, even though it knows that the industry is "down", still seems to feel that the individual worker in the field is somehow still very well off.
Isn't it great attending "career fairs" (which are more like flea markets and we're the one's up for sale), applying for hundreds of jobs all online, with no personal interaction until you achieve a status of "third-level interviewing candidate" like you just completed a few boards of a vid game...
Actually, he was beaten to death in prison. From some unofficial website:
Jeff met his end on November 28, 1994, when he was viciously attacked by Christopher Scarver, a convicted killer on antispychotic medication, Scarver -- who claimed to be Christ because he was a carpenter and his mother's name was Mary -- killed the lethargic cannibal and former chocolate factory worker, along with another inmate, convicted wife killer Jesse Anderson, with a bar from a piece of exersize equiptment.
At least in the Madison, WI area. They bought @home's infastructure here, and I had the 768k service until this week, when they knocked me up to 2MB service at no extra charge.. Bandwidth testers show that I'm getting pretty close to that. yippeee!!
This happens to me in Mozilla 1.4 also, and happens after submitting moderations as well.
"The fingers you have used to dial, are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm, now." -- Ma Bell Operator
Just to clear this up for you - a "penny" is the common term for a one-cent copper coin used in the U.S. It's really the *only* term for that coin in fact, nobody says "I'll give you a one-cent piece for you thoughts." When referring to a price, *usually* we'd say cents, however, as in "That gum costs twenty-five cents", not twenty-five pennies.
;)
Just my two pennies.
Honey, why does the robot dog keep humping my leg lately???
This is old news - RIAA sending out threats to college students - nothing new. They were doing it last year too.
And, if the editors would read the story, they'd see that it says "Then when the poor student has picked himself up from the floor and the blood returns to his face, the lawyers will say broadly: "OK, we'll let you off the fine if you agree to pay, let's say, a mere $15,000".
Not exactly the $50,000 that it says in the posting. In all fairness, the article does mention one instance of someone having to settle for $50k.
Or you consider the countless emails that Linux and Mac users had to delete from their inboxes, or the lost bandwidth they had to share with the Windows world...
My sig beat up your honors sig.
This is funny - one of the head sysadmins for UW's network ops gave a firewall talk in one of my grad classes last semester. I remember him saying that they recently put a packet filter on their FW to block NTP requests because they started getting high numbers of them..
They thought that maybe somewhere someone had published a net time server in a document or whatever and that an IT department was deploying it on workstations or there was a document floating around telling people to set it up as their time server...
Looks like they finally got to the bottom of it!
Linux Users Say SCO is Beating Up on Them
Never noticed this happening before.. There is a typo on the article synapsis on the front page, but not on the article page itself (ie if you click Read More).
:-\
From the front page:
Steve Jobs' gut reaction, quoted in the article: 'It think it sucks!'"
From the article page:
Steve Jobs' gut reaction, quoted in the article: 'I think it sucks!'"
Is someone really manually retyping these twice?
I hope, if so, that Slashdot has at least employed a Cadre of Elite Geese to do this... Oh yea it says right here that they have.
International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting
Bwahahahah
How about the M 1.0x10^4 ??
The the nextgen can be M 1.0x10^5, and so on... This way in 5 years we only have to remember the exponent and not the number 100000000000!
I personally think it would be a real pain to have bills of different sizes in my wallet. Especially if they made some of them too big for standard wallets (which I doubt they would), which means that they would have to start making them smaller. Our bills are already smaller than a lot of countries'. I could see losing them or accidentally having smaller bills between larger ones and handing them over to a cashier who isn't scrupulous and pockets the extra ones..
Besides, then my G-stacks wouldn't look as neat!
It would be interesting to know what the decline in revenue payphones generate is over the last, say, 10 years. Anyone have info on that?
At least, I assume they have declined in revenue (at least figuring in for inflation and the price level). Maybe usage statistics would be more of an indication?
But if you're looking for something a little more than crash, bang, wallop then this second instalment will leave you cold. Reloaded is crammed full of the cod philosophy that fans of the original loved but which left me distinctly unimpressed.
Huh??? So if you're a fan of the philosophy it will leave you cold, but yet it is crammed full of the philosophy that fans of the original loved??
If you're looking for a deep, meaningful cinematic experience then The Matrix Reloaded is not for you. But if it's a non-stop rollercoaster ride you're after, then this movie is light years ahead of anything that's gone before.
Ok great, so it's going to be a good action flick, but why does he assume that even though it is 'crammed full' of the philosophy content, that you won't like it? Just because he wasn't a fan of that part of the film?
methinks this review was written rather hastily, no?
Now all the young inhabitants of M45S3 will be war-flying to hijack our intergalactic internet connections.
Maybe we should use something a little better than WEP...