I'm reminded of my experience trying to join the programmer's club at my school:
Me: Hi, my name's Amit, my friends call me Pikachu. Club President: I guess I'll call you Amit then.
Yeah...
One of my friends has tried to get me to join Topcoder every day since he discovered it a month or so ago. He's loving it. I otoh would rather be working on one of my own stupid projects than compete for someone else's recognition. Then again, my friend also picked up a job @ Kodak in Rochester, while I'm stuck here doing dinky webcoding. Whee.
Bullshit! My G550 is working just fine on my WinXP box. If fucking with the IRQ settings doesn't do anything for you, try d/ling the beta drivers from the site & loading those up.
I respect this artist's skill, but I'm not gonna pay for a painting because I can just download this jpeg.
I respect this musician's lyrical ability, but I'm not gonna buy their album because I can download their MP3z.
I respect these actors, actresses, and the director who made them do their thing, but I'm not gonna pay for a movie ticket because I'm sticking it to the man with DivX.
Stallman isn't asking you to pay jack shit, he's asking for a freaking single syllable! 4 bytes! G N U/! He doesn't want to molest your daughter, rape your wife, or take away your rights, he just wants recognition for a freaking foundation that just happens to have these high fucking ideals, ideals which you hold dearly! WTF?
and now we eagerly await your posting of the results. Will AbiWord pass your stringent criteria? Will it fall like so many office clones before it?
I'm intrigued by the '20 times smaller than Word' that AbiWord is described as, but if it can't handle nonstandard documents, it's useless to me as well...
That's kinda the point. I actually check out the website being advertised and look for an email address with the same domain as the site, and then I let loose.
I wonder if this has anything to do with me responding to every spam I get from a.cn domain with: "The weapons you paid for are on their way. I'm more than happy to support the Falun Gong. Free Tibet!"
Christian Science Monitor is usually a reputable paper, if only because they have their own reporters doing the work instead of tacking stuff onto ap/reuters stuff.
The spaces are due to the slashdot lameness filter. Yay perl.
Click on the links, otherwise you don't get all the details. French-friendly exocet missile? Huh? Unless you click through you don't realize that the British radar thought the exocet missile was a friendly munition since the British arsenal included exocets. Any munition headed straight at you is probably not friendly.
Remember what Roswell did? Bottles of tabasco sauce sent to the producers or something? Mailbomb them with lots of alcohol (Bender likes to drink) and maybe they'll notice and not cancel Futurama. They'll definitely notice it more than some stupid online petition.
We don't necessarily have to be able to vote on submissions on the queue, as long as we get to look at them... I know that's what I'm looking forward to...
I'm very very serious: I was so fucking shocked by what I saw, it didn't even occur to me to submit it to slashdot. I stopped watching X-Files last season, but I saw on an ad that the Lone Gunman were featured in this ep so I stayed to watch...
If you're upset about spoilers, don't be. Knowing what happens isn't going to blunt it when you see it happens:(
I hate Chris Carter. I hope the feds catch him typing "ALLAH BOMB PRESIDENT" to someone on Instant Messenger.
By 'First', I'm hoping they make this an annual thing, so when it's time for me to graduate I can apply for a job then.
Who cares about low pay? Benefits and stable job are all I need... And what're the odds the government will try to claim my hobby programming as their own IP?
Slashdot Mirror
here.
I'm reminded of my experience trying to join the programmer's club at my school:
Me: Hi, my name's Amit, my friends call me Pikachu.
Club President: I guess I'll call you Amit then.
Yeah...
One of my friends has tried to get me to join Topcoder every day since he discovered it a month or so ago. He's loving it. I otoh would rather be working on one of my own stupid projects than compete for someone else's recognition. Then again, my friend also picked up a job @ Kodak in Rochester, while I'm stuck here doing dinky webcoding. Whee.
EFC ended Saturday night. I wonder if there was anyone still watching the show besides me?
"Their aim is to encourage an "open source" ethos for tough design and technology challenges."
Redesign the wheel and tell the underserved community members to RTFM if they have a problem using the redesigned wheel?
Good: Opera 6.02 is small and fast.
Bad: Opera 6.02 STILL can't remember my slashdot cookies.
When will someone get a clue and put a stop to this type of digital extortion?
Easy:
Most defendants, including us, want to opt to bail out for a smaller licensing fee of $30,000.
When people stop making money by patenting fake things and suing people and making money.
but the media is unpredictable and unreliable in terms of which stories they encapsulate.
If you have a problem, if no one else can help you, and if you can get them to accept your submission, maybe you can hire ASK SLASHDOT!
Otherwise, just pass this along to everyone you know and hopefully something will come of it.
Chainmail! The solution to all of life's problems...
"And it looks pretty simple, too"
By simple are we talking about some of our fellow slashdotters hook the rest of us up, or are we talking simple for millionaire phds.
Bullshit! My G550 is working just fine on my WinXP box. If fucking with the IRQ settings doesn't do anything for you, try d/ling the beta drivers from the site & loading those up.
This is the type of article that makes me want to subscribe.
I respect this artist's skill, but I'm not gonna pay for a painting because I can just download this jpeg.
/! He doesn't want to molest your daughter, rape your wife, or take away your rights, he just wants recognition for a freaking foundation that just happens to have these high fucking ideals, ideals which you hold dearly! WTF?
I respect this musician's lyrical ability, but I'm not gonna buy their album because I can download their MP3z.
I respect these actors, actresses, and the director who made them do their thing, but I'm not gonna pay for a movie ticket because I'm sticking it to the man with DivX.
Stallman isn't asking you to pay jack shit, he's asking for a freaking single syllable! 4 bytes! G N U
and now we eagerly await your posting of the results. Will AbiWord pass your stringent criteria? Will it fall like so many office clones before it?
I'm intrigued by the '20 times smaller than Word' that AbiWord is described as, but if it can't handle nonstandard documents, it's useless to me as well...
That's kinda the point. I actually check out the website being advertised and look for an email address with the same domain as the site, and then I let loose.
It was "Resident of Evil Creek". Get it right.
I wonder if this has anything to do with me responding to every spam I get from a .cn domain with: "The weapons you paid for are on their way. I'm more than happy to support the Falun Gong. Free Tibet!"
but doesn't raw caffeine kill humans on contact? Absorbed through skin & all? Are they sure this is a good thing to be spraying around?
"The federal regulations proved too burdensome."
Hello?! Aren't these regulations in place to prevent we-had-to-destroy-the-village-to-save-it syndrome?
Give the person Richard Stallman's home phone #. Then tell the person to call up and ask "What's the big deal about the GPL?"
Problem solved.
Christian Science Monitor is usually a reputable paper, if only because they have their own reporters doing the work instead of tacking stuff onto ap/reuters stuff.
The spaces are due to the slashdot lameness filter. Yay perl.
Click on the links, otherwise you don't get all the details. French-friendly exocet missile? Huh? Unless you click through you don't realize that the British radar thought the exocet missile was a friendly munition since the British arsenal included exocets. Any munition headed straight at you is probably not friendly.
If you're an ASP type of guy, try this. You have to plan ahead a bit, but DIY beats not having to deal with people who aren't polite about linking.
Remember what Roswell did? Bottles of tabasco sauce sent to the producers or something? Mailbomb them with lots of alcohol (Bender likes to drink) and maybe they'll notice and not cancel Futurama. They'll definitely notice it more than some stupid online petition.
The House just voted to split the INS in two, so what's a few more government agencies while we're at it?
We don't necessarily have to be able to vote on submissions on the queue, as long as we get to look at them... I know that's what I'm looking forward to...
I'm very very serious: I was so fucking shocked by what I saw, it didn't even occur to me to submit it to slashdot. I stopped watching X-Files last season, but I saw on an ad that the Lone Gunman were featured in this ep so I stayed to watch...
:(
If you're upset about spoilers, don't be. Knowing what happens isn't going to blunt it when you see it happens
I hate Chris Carter. I hope the feds catch him typing "ALLAH BOMB PRESIDENT" to someone on Instant Messenger.
By 'First', I'm hoping they make this an annual thing, so when it's time for me to graduate I can apply for a job then.
Who cares about low pay? Benefits and stable job are all I need... And what're the odds the government will try to claim my hobby programming as their own IP?
I don't suppose GM has released any statistical data on any findings from these packages?