Yes, it is. For every Crusoe chip you get, part of Linus Torvalds has been genetically grafted into the chip. Who knows! If you keep it waterered just right, it might grow into your very own sexy as hell Linus clone
Speaking of LART and it's original Usenrt meaning, I wonder if it is possible to put a LART function in the slashcode (SlashLART??), and cut down on the Hot Grits and Naked and petrified posts? But then again it would probably just be abused, as I just had moderator access and spent all my points moderating up posts that were moderated down by people with no sense of humor. *Sigh*
If everybody here registered a free email at Waveamerica, and used it as a spam account (For recieving, not distributing) it would take down thier server in a matter of minutes! What is this? Have I finally found a good use for spam??
I forget who said it, but I once heard a quote saying 'It has been postulated that if you had infinite monkeys banging away at infinite keyboards, one of them would reproduce the works of William Shakespear. Thanks to the Internet, we now know that this is not true.'
Ever read Stranger in a Strange land? The reason that they sent a manned mission to Mars was because they kept losing thier probes. Could somebody in NASA be sabotaging the probes in hope that they will send a manned mission to 'investigate' any possible extraterrestrial causes? Makes one wonder....
Constant harrasment, and a juicy out-of-court settlement with a non-disclosure agreement. If you had spent the last two weeks being hounded by corporate awyers day in, day out, and all of a sudden they offered to 'buy' your software, would you not also cave in to the pressure?
Finally! I will be able to design and build my giant Lego Mech of Death with which to take over the world! Seriously though, I remember as a child having these great ideas for different lego creations, but not haveing the correct pieces to make it work. This software can fix such problems in that you can just design it into the software, and wen you have the cash just buy the peices to make it. Now if they only GPL it and port it to *nix
Yes, he was, he also developed the MIRV, helped with ICBMs, advised Reagan on the SDI, and more or less devoted his life to developing technologies to further the cause of mass destruction. "He's a danger to all that is important. I really do think it would have been a better world without Teller" -- physicist I. I. Rabi, 1973. Go here for a pseudo-not-quite-tribute
It seems such a waste to just de-orbit and burn such a network. I do not know the asking price for thier fleet of satellites, but you think somebody would have jumped at the offer, after all, look at what this is, a global communications network, in place and ready to go, all you need to do is pay Motorola a few hundred million a quarter to keep them up. You think at least Microsoft would have bought them so they could beam out messages of kindness and benevolence to all the unsuspecting proles below, all while using the same network to co-ordinate thier anti Linux armies, spy on everybody, and direct thier Big Brother bombers and Victory battleships to take over the world.
I would love to see some of the best coders and operating systems people put together a new OS from scratch using the latest techniques. Ideally this would create an ultra stable and very modular system.
Check out BEos
You just may be impressed, now if only people would develop for it....
Superior Uptime- Name one non-Unix based OS that can beat a unix based OS for number of hours of uptime. Uptime is money, and if your server is offline, you are losing money. And the thing that drives this industry, or any industry for that matter, is the almighty bottom line.
Scalability- You can run Unix on damn near anythi ng out there. Alpha, Sparc, x86, PowerPC, and the great thing about it is, for the most part, that means you can quickly and easily port your files from one platform to another, not to mention embedded systems.
Multiple User Environment- Let me give you an example here. I work for a large, multinational office supply company, and we have a catolog sales division. The way this division is set up as far as hardware goes, is one box running Unix, and about 200 dumb terminals that log into that box. Yes, they bitch that they cannot go online etc, but they are just logging items from the catolog to be delivered, they do not need anything else. And these terminals are a hell of a lot cheaper than a networked PC. Even if you are networking PC's, however, you cannot beat the reliability of a Unix server.
I could keep going on and on and on, but foe all these applications and more, Unix is the best, if not only choice, and unix is so adaptable, it wil continue to rise to future challenges in the computer industry
Call me naive and overly optimistic, but to somewhat respond to all the paranoia I have seen flying around on this subject, why does anyone think Intel even WANTS to track it's employees. Yes, I know all the corporate PR on this subject (I DO work for a multinational, and yes, only trust them as far as I can throw them), but to understand big mean megacorp (TM) you must think like it's executives:
This is the Infrmation Age (Or at least thats what my marketing people tell me)
My Children have a computer (Assuming the exec has children, this is just an example)
They have internet access
They are more productive on class assignments because they have internet access (Remember, a good fast connection and cable preclude actually having to PARENT your children)
So, maybe if I give my employees computers and internet access, they will be more productive on take-home assignments and therefore make me more money so I can buy that second fleet of yachts.
I want to know why everybody seems to think that this is the opening salvo in more Big Brother tactics from Corporations? The Tactics of Northwest aside (one company among THOUSANDS), what the employees do at home is thier buisiness, and the corporations, in thier pursuit of the almighty bottom line, are not going to pour the money into survaillence of every customer without expecting a great return, and there is just no return there. Now, if it were the Government giving out these PC's, I would worry......
This is an interesting technology, and I wionder about the other uses beyond genetic engineering. What with the new work they are doing with stem cells to combat diabetes (http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/02/28/health.stemc ells.reut/index.html) such ' smart cells' if you will, could be genetically altered to introduce all manners of items int a subject. Think of a genetically altered cell made to produce insulin with the chip controlling the flow based on blood sugar for diabetics. Another thing to watch though is how the immune system reacts to these items.
It is funny you mention that, because back in the 80's there was a point where Steve Jobs proudly proclaimed that Apple Computer Inc. had purchased a Cray to help design the next Apple Computer, to which the CEO of the Cray corporation responded that that was funny, because Cry had purchased an Apple to help design the next Cray. A bit of Historical geek trivia for you all
Fianlly, a large monolithic computer related corporation is being sued for producing and distributing a defective and/or sub-standard product. If this case is found in the favor of the plaintiffs, it will set the precedent that software makers are responsible for thier products when thier products do not perform correctly. If this case does set a precedent, irresponsible programming and features that take into account the fact that a large majority of the users out there really don't know what they are doing will be forced to become a thng of the past, and I think we can all think of two companies that have used these practices for years.
So, just how compatible are these devices going to be with devices like the Apple AirPort??? Yes, the use the same IEEE standard, but say I have my nice little Mac AirPort network running and I have this great little Linux PC that I would like to integrate into it. Would I need yet another transponder base for the PC's, or am I going to be able to get this hot little wireless card and run it off of my Air Port base station?
Also, does anybody know if the LinuxPPC guys or the YellowDog Linux people have drivers for the Apple AirPort cards yet? Considering the fact that Linux has Appletalk built into the Kernel, if these cards are indeed compatible with the AirPort, They would be a natural selection for cross-platform networking. Not to mention a great excuse to work on Darwin OS or the Mac Linux flavors for added geekpoints (TM).
It is sad to see them give up on what was to be such a promising project. So, does anybody know if they plan to run another test of thier microprobe technology??
And here is hoping that the mostly Republican congress (who have a very bad track record when it comes to funding for space exploration) does not try to slash the NASA budget in an attempt to garner more votes in the elections later this year. One must just love Partisan Politics, neh?
Actually, I think this Idea has some merit. A time capsule of different format, popular stories, the meta-moderation debate, etc. I think it would be good to show the progression of not only the community that is Slashdot, but a progression of just what you can do with Perl Scripting, bailing wire and duct tape.
I'm sorry, this just may be me, but this is downright Orwellian. It makes me very glad I do not live in Oz. After al, if anyone could just access any information they wanted about me off of a website, including consumer records, websites most visited, etc, what would be the point in maintaining any semblance of a private life.
Support or no support, BSD is waning as most geeks don't see it as 'cool' enough and most buisinesses are still under the thumb of M$, that, and what non tech CEO has even heard of it?
Yes, uncle sam leaves you alone if you are clean, look just like everyone else, are not suspected of subversion because you voice your opinions, in other words, as long as you are clean and toe THIER line. My great Grandmother was hauled in in the 50's to be questioned, all for the simple reason she immigratewd from Belorus in 1918, therefore she MUST be a communist because she still communicared with family members. All this without a warrant. The american dream is a nightmare, and we do NOTHING about it but bitch.
Stand up for your rights before we no longer have the right to stand
The Idea has Merit, at least under US law, based on the assumption that cracking, say a US government box IN the US is considered breaking and entering, and foreigners can be prosecuted on this. It would be a legal nightmare for any lawyer or Judge though, so I would say go ahead.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, it is. For every Crusoe chip you get, part of Linus Torvalds has been genetically grafted into the chip. Who knows! If you keep it waterered just right, it might grow into your very own sexy as hell Linus clone
Speaking of LART and it's original Usenrt meaning, I wonder if it is possible to put a LART function in the slashcode (SlashLART??), and cut down on the Hot Grits and Naked and petrified posts? But then again it would probably just be abused, as I just had moderator access and spent all my points moderating up posts that were moderated down by people with no sense of humor. *Sigh*
If everybody here registered a free email at Waveamerica, and used it as a spam account (For recieving, not distributing) it would take down thier server in a matter of minutes! What is this? Have I finally found a good use for spam??
Thanks for the info, and I love your (now deleted ) E-Mail addy
I forget who said it, but I once heard a quote saying 'It has been postulated that if you had infinite monkeys banging away at infinite keyboards, one of them would reproduce the works of William Shakespear. Thanks to the Internet, we now know that this is not true.'
Ever read Stranger in a Strange land? The reason that they sent a manned mission to Mars was because they kept losing thier probes. Could somebody in NASA be sabotaging the probes in hope that they will send a manned mission to 'investigate' any possible extraterrestrial causes? Makes one wonder....
Sorry, just theorizing, working for a large Multinational, I know how they tend to work.
Constant harrasment, and a juicy out-of-court settlement with a non-disclosure agreement. If you had spent the last two weeks being hounded by corporate awyers day in, day out, and all of a sudden they offered to 'buy' your software, would you not also cave in to the pressure?
Finally! I will be able to design and build my giant Lego Mech of Death with which to take over the world! Seriously though, I remember as a child having these great ideas for different lego creations, but not haveing the correct pieces to make it work. This software can fix such problems in that you can just design it into the software, and wen you have the cash just buy the peices to make it. Now if they only GPL it and port it to *nix
Ah, but they do already have it for Mac
Yes, he was, he also developed the MIRV, helped with ICBMs, advised Reagan on the SDI, and more or less devoted his life to developing technologies to further the cause of mass destruction. "He's a danger to all that is important. I really do think it would have been a better world without Teller"
-- physicist I. I. Rabi, 1973. Go here for a pseudo-not-quite-tribute
It seems such a waste to just de-orbit and burn such a network. I do not know the asking price for thier fleet of satellites, but you think somebody would have jumped at the offer, after all, look at what this is, a global communications network, in place and ready to go, all you need to do is pay Motorola a few hundred million a quarter to keep them up. You think at least Microsoft would have bought them so they could beam out messages of kindness and benevolence to all the unsuspecting proles below, all while using the same network to co-ordinate thier anti Linux armies, spy on everybody, and direct thier Big Brother bombers and Victory battleships to take over the world.
Seems a shame....
I would love to see some of the best coders and operating systems people put together a new OS from scratch using the latest techniques. Ideally this would create an ultra stable and very modular system.
Check out BEos
You just may be impressed, now if only people would develop for it....
Unix will never die, and here is why.
Superior Uptime- Name one non-Unix based OS that can beat a unix based OS for number of hours of uptime. Uptime is money, and if your server is offline, you are losing money. And the thing that drives this industry, or any industry for that matter, is the almighty bottom line.
Scalability- You can run Unix on damn near anythi ng out there. Alpha, Sparc, x86, PowerPC, and the great thing about it is, for the most part, that means you can quickly and easily port your files from one platform to another, not to mention embedded systems.
Multiple User Environment- Let me give you an example here. I work for a large, multinational office supply company, and we have a catolog sales division. The way this division is set up as far as hardware goes, is one box running Unix, and about 200 dumb terminals that log into that box. Yes, they bitch that they cannot go online etc, but they are just logging items from the catolog to be delivered, they do not need anything else. And these terminals are a hell of a lot cheaper than a networked PC. Even if you are networking PC's, however, you cannot beat the reliability of a Unix server.
I could keep going on and on and on, but foe all these applications and more, Unix is the best, if not only choice, and unix is so adaptable, it wil continue to rise to future challenges in the computer industry
Call me naive and overly optimistic, but to somewhat respond to all the paranoia I have seen flying around on this subject, why does anyone think Intel even WANTS to track it's employees. Yes, I know all the corporate PR on this subject (I DO work for a multinational, and yes, only trust them as far as I can throw them), but to understand big mean megacorp (TM) you must think like it's executives:
This is the Infrmation Age (Or at least thats what my marketing people tell me)
My Children have a computer (Assuming the exec has children, this is just an example)
They have internet access
They are more productive on class assignments because they have internet access (Remember, a good fast connection and cable preclude actually having to PARENT your children)
So, maybe if I give my employees computers and internet access, they will be more productive on take-home assignments and therefore make me more money so I can buy that second fleet of yachts.
I want to know why everybody seems to think that this is the opening salvo in more Big Brother tactics from Corporations? The Tactics of Northwest aside (one company among THOUSANDS), what the employees do at home is thier buisiness, and the corporations, in thier pursuit of the almighty bottom line, are not going to pour the money into survaillence of every customer without expecting a great return, and there is just no return there. Now, if it were the Government giving out these PC's, I would worry......
This is an interesting technology, and I wionder about the other uses beyond genetic engineering. What with the new work they are doing with stem cells to combat diabetes (http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/02/28/health.stemc ells.reut/index.html) such ' smart cells' if you will, could be genetically altered to introduce all manners of items int a subject. Think of a genetically altered cell made to produce insulin with the chip controlling the flow based on blood sugar for diabetics. Another thing to watch though is how the immune system reacts to these items.
It is funny you mention that, because back in the 80's there was a point where Steve Jobs proudly proclaimed that Apple Computer Inc. had purchased a Cray to help design the next Apple Computer, to which the CEO of the Cray corporation responded that that was funny, because Cry had purchased an Apple to help design the next Cray. A bit of Historical geek trivia for you all
Fianlly, a large monolithic computer related corporation is being sued for producing and distributing a defective and/or sub-standard product. If this case is found in the favor of the plaintiffs, it will set the precedent that software makers are responsible for thier products when thier products do not perform correctly. If this case does set a precedent, irresponsible programming and features that take into account the fact that a large majority of the users out there really don't know what they are doing will be forced to become a thng of the past, and I think we can all think of two companies that have used these practices for years.
So, just how compatible are these devices going to be with devices like the Apple AirPort??? Yes, the use the same IEEE standard, but say I have my nice little Mac AirPort network running and I have this great little Linux PC that I would like to integrate into it. Would I need yet another transponder base for the PC's, or am I going to be able to get this hot little wireless card and run it off of my Air Port base station?
Also, does anybody know if the LinuxPPC guys or the YellowDog Linux people have drivers for the Apple AirPort cards yet? Considering the fact that Linux has Appletalk built into the Kernel, if these cards are indeed compatible with the AirPort, They would be a natural selection for cross-platform networking. Not to mention a great excuse to work on Darwin OS or the Mac Linux flavors for added geekpoints (TM).
It is sad to see them give up on what was to be such a promising project. So, does anybody know if they plan to run another test of thier microprobe technology??
And here is hoping that the mostly Republican congress (who have a very bad track record when it comes to funding for space exploration) does not try to slash the NASA budget in an attempt to garner more votes in the elections later this year. One must just love Partisan Politics, neh?
Actually, I think this Idea has some merit. A time capsule of different format, popular stories, the meta-moderation debate, etc. I think it would be good to show the progression of not only the community that is Slashdot, but a progression of just what you can do with Perl Scripting, bailing wire and duct tape.
I'm sorry, this just may be me, but this is downright Orwellian. It makes me very glad I do not live in Oz. After al, if anyone could just access any information they wanted about me off of a website, including consumer records, websites most visited, etc, what would be the point in maintaining any semblance of a private life.
Support or no support, BSD is waning as most geeks don't see it as 'cool' enough and most buisinesses are still under the thumb of M$, that, and what non tech CEO has even heard of it?
Yes, uncle sam leaves you alone if you are clean, look just like everyone else, are not suspected of subversion because you voice your opinions, in other words, as long as you are clean and toe THIER line. My great Grandmother was hauled in in the 50's to be questioned, all for the simple reason she immigratewd from Belorus in 1918, therefore she MUST be a communist because she still communicared with family members. All this without a warrant. The american dream is a nightmare, and we do NOTHING about it but bitch.
Stand up for your rights before we no longer have the right to stand
The real reason productivity is not up is threefold:
1: Internet access AKA E-Mail
2: Solitare
3: BSOD
Thos are our best weapons, that and total blind obedience to the status quo.
Nobody expects a corporate inquisition
The Idea has Merit, at least under US law, based on the assumption that cracking, say a US government box IN the US is considered breaking and entering, and foreigners can be prosecuted on this. It would be a legal nightmare for any lawyer or Judge though, so I would say go ahead.