I wish people would consider their choices of words a bit more carefully - there is a difference between "plan on not fixing" and "do not plan to fix". One says they've decided not to, the other says they haven't decided one way or the other.
>Weve just had 9/11/02, and bush is attacking >Iraq, and your talking about TESTING PRODUCTS >FOR WEB APPLICATIONS? MY GOD PEOPLE GET SOME >PRIORTIES!!!!
If the web is full of buggy applications, the terrorists have already won.
>something about how the US came in and kicked >nazi ass
If anyone can be said to have "kicked nazi ass", it was the Russians... sure, it cost them a lot of lives, but they did more to beat the Germans than anyone else.
>Let's just say that I saw two teams in a tug of >war, and both sides aren't budging either way.
Except this isn't really the case with WW2.
Without US intervention, Britain was doomed to fall eventually. Did we sweep in just in the nick of time and pull the Brits from the jaws of defeat? Not really.
Would the Brits have eventually been defeated? Yes.
Operation Sealion had been postponed indefinitely, but eventually Hitler would have turned his sights back to Britain. Probably after conceding that he was not capable of sweeping through Russia as planned. But it would have happened.
Perhaps a more valid comparison would have been two teams playing tug of war... but one team has a big picnic basket full of sandwiches and sodas, while the other team just keeps getting tired. Eventually, the team with supplies will win.
The US didn't win the war for everyone, but it couldn't have been won without their help.
>Like the real world is anything like an RTS >game, where you just need to build a building, >and suddenly, you can train troops you couldn't >train before.
Nah, Jedi would be pretty sophisticated troops, so you'd need a barracks (basic type) to go along with the church (advanced type).
But once you had the church, you could build a temple housing the Jedi council, and really kick ass.
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>>JVC is spitting out VHS systems for >$100 a pop... >making them for $100 each, that's the trick.
Stupid slashdot, interpreting my less-than as opening an HTML tag. If I'm posting in PLAIN TEXT, don't interpret it, dammit!
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>Launch any gtk+ application, like say...gimp.
[ snip ]
>Now hit Ctrl-N
>Now hit Backspace
>Now hit Ctrl-Alt-Shift-N.
Wow. How INTUITIVE!
That's much easier than having logical consistent shortcuts in the first damn place.
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Good call.
I wish people would consider their choices of words a bit more carefully - there is a difference between "plan on not fixing" and "do not plan to fix". One says they've decided not to, the other says they haven't decided one way or the other.
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>Weve just had 9/11/02, and bush is attacking
>Iraq, and your talking about TESTING PRODUCTS
>FOR WEB APPLICATIONS? MY GOD PEOPLE GET SOME
>PRIORTIES!!!!
If the web is full of buggy applications, the terrorists have already won.
(my talking about testing products? what?)
>Well, that sounds like an excellent motivator to
>try harder to get it right the first time!
Name one major software product that has been bug-free from initial release.
For that matter, name one major software product that has ever been bug-free at any point in its lifetime.
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>But PBS is inherently owned by the public
Wow, they are?
I want my Sesame Street tote bag, and I want it NOW.
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>"They left that wide open for a sequel."
My sister, after seeing Fellowship, complained that "It just STOPS, it doesn't END!"
And she HAS read the books!
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>I'm hopeful for that Lord of the Rings trilogy
>they're working on...
Yeah, but all the way through that first one I couldn't help but think I'd heard the story before.
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>There was an easter egg in the original
>advanture, just a silly blinking dot
Sure, but the silly blinking dot took you to the secret room.
Warren Robinett has been credited with the first easter egg in a video game, courtesy of that "silly blinking dot".
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>something about how the US came in and kicked
>nazi ass
If anyone can be said to have "kicked nazi ass", it was the Russians... sure, it cost them a lot of lives, but they did more to beat the Germans than anyone else.
Mad props to the RAF from '40 to '43, though.
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>Let's just say that I saw two teams in a tug of
>war, and both sides aren't budging either way.
Except this isn't really the case with WW2.
Without US intervention, Britain was doomed to fall eventually. Did we sweep in just in the nick of time and pull the Brits from the jaws of defeat? Not really.
Would the Brits have eventually been defeated? Yes.
Operation Sealion had been postponed indefinitely, but eventually Hitler would have turned his sights back to Britain. Probably after conceding that he was not capable of sweeping through Russia as planned. But it would have happened.
Perhaps a more valid comparison would have been two teams playing tug of war... but one team has a big picnic basket full of sandwiches and sodas, while the other team just keeps getting tired. Eventually, the team with supplies will win.
The US didn't win the war for everyone, but it couldn't have been won without their help.
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>Yes, actually it does. At the 'mirror' site, the
>letter *order* is reversed, but individual
>letters themselves are not
heyyyyy, you're right. I wasn't looking at examples, I was just spouting off the top of my head.
What an asshole *I* am. Who the hell do I think I am? I've got SOME DAMN NERVE.
Er.. yeah. D'oh.
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>This gives an interesting effect to the )
>parenthesis( and ]other[ similar }characters{
No, actually it doesn't.
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.SEOHS NWOLC gnikcuf si anihC .sessa diputs rieht pu meht kcuF.
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(htimS niveK ot sporp etairporppa)
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>The term wardialing was used long before the
>movie.
Got a cite for that?
Every reference I've ever seen has referred to Wargames as the inspiration for the name.
This includes all the programs that came out in the mid 80's to mimic the behavior.
Even the old long distance service code hacking programs usually gave some credit to Wargames for inspiration...
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>people can't (or won't) RTFM
Ever tried to read the manual for imported furniture?
And you thought electronics manuals could be scary...
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If you're THAT low on memory, you're not likely to have a 128 meg video card.
Or a 64 meg card, even.
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>The time you spend at work, you ought to be
>working, not sending personal email, making
>personal calls, or anything besides work-related
>stuff.
Does reading Slashdot count as "work-related stuff"?
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>it's going to be NAS
If it's NAS, is it technically software RAID (as you originally described)?
To me, "software RAID" indicates the RAID process is being done by the CPU in the box, not by external hardware.
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>12 IDE disks on one RAID controller.
That's nice (seriously, that's kinda cool). Did you catch the part where he said "software RAID"?
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>At about 400 a drive for the WDC 200gb, that's
>4800 dollars.
Something tells me he's not talking about IDE drives if he's building an array of 12 of them.
I'm also guessing that with the kind of money he's looking to spend, he's not building an mp3 server for himself.
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>Like the real world is anything like an RTS
>game, where you just need to build a building,
>and suddenly, you can train troops you couldn't
>train before.
Nah, Jedi would be pretty sophisticated troops, so you'd need a barracks (basic type) to go along with the church (advanced type).
But once you had the church, you could build a temple housing the Jedi council, and really kick ass.
-l
>>JVC is spitting out VHS systems for >$100 a pop ...
>making them for $100 each, that's the trick.
Stupid slashdot, interpreting my less-than as opening an HTML tag. If I'm posting in PLAIN TEXT, don't interpret it, dammit!
>JVC is spitting out VHS systems for >$100 a pop
It's easy to make VHS systems for >$100 each.
making them for $100 each, that's the trick.
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Of course.
There are no Linux / BSD users running on Athlon XP 2600's, because those lean mean operating systems don't need that much power, right?
The upgrade race has nothing to do with the OS. It has to do with geeks having dick-waving contests.
>what you'll actually get is a coupon for $10 off
>the purchase of your next penis enlarger
That kind of thing's not my bag!
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(hey, if people can make Dr. Evil "trillion dollars" references...)