the label is printed clearly on the side of the box and it says, "Will not work if taken outside of," then it's really not that big of a deal, right? Because if it's clearly marked, then someone's just gonna manufacture a product that doesn't have region limits, and they're gonna mark it down as slightly cheaper and clean house. As long as they label it, it's not a big deal. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
and enjoy what experience you're getting. remember, some people's idea of a co-op experience is, "fetch ma coffee boy!" and so on. the company's taking a big chance hiring high school students when for just a little more money, they could have gotten real engineers that are more reliable and less likely to cause trouble. when you're older, they'll give you more responsibilities. or when you've been there longer, whichever comes first. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
it's an 'easy to use' language, will it produce executables that can handle the limited resources of a PDA comparibly to a system-level language like C? Is that the PDA's selling point, that it's easy to program? With the IPaq and others, you can't just use Linux as the selling point of a PDA anymore, right? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Did Norad ever announce an upper limit on what they could track? I realize you were joking, but still, if someone wanted to DDoS the US Military, this is how they would do it, right? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Re:Oracle/Java on FreeBSD
on
Is BSD Dying?
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· Score: 1
If it's 'mission critical' doesn't cost not become an issue? Or am I being naive? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
they'll just clone themselves over and over and over. of course, there might be a ten-fifteen year wait between the troll we kill and the time he returns to harrass us on the forums, but i like to think that slashdot will have improved it's anti-troll just a wee bit by then. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
some guy (it was in an issue of Discovery magazine, I forget which one) has worked out a Unified theory of stuff that works just fine if you eliminate time from all equations. so what we're 'experiencing' is just an infinite number of universes strung together to make it appear as if we're moving from one state to another.
with that in mind, hyperdimensional calimari that are fake 3-dimensional death to escape not-as-smart-as-we-think-we-are scientists doesn't sound that implausible, ne? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Would it kill you people to find a lawyer in your area and pay the small fee to get him to tell you whether or not you have a case? It might be much more relevant, plus you'd have an immediate two way feedback, instead of having to dig through -1 to see whose good advice got through and whose got modded down. Plus, they'd know more about any local laws which might apply. You never know. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
They need to be brought into the 21st century. That includes: running water in every house, always on electricity (fuck California, look at the other 49 states, they're doing just dandy), functional roads, democracy that doesn't involve civil war (say what you want about the Florida debacle but no one died!), decent medicine (BillG is working on that), oh and of course the willingness to accept sexual education and stop the male chauvanism that's turning the continent into a fucking blackhole.
Come to think of it, the internet would probably work incredibly well for the last one. Unless of course their net connect was censored for 'indecent material'... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It can't be done, the German government is oppressive, there are technical details (holeholeholehole, wow, they're dumb!)...
60 some years ago, a bunch of people fell asleep at the board, and millions of people died. I don't think this is about MP3z or oppressive government, I just think they're scared shitless about it happening again. We (America) have never truly suffered. (oh no, a bunch of us don't have jobs, what will we do? oh no, we have to pay several cents more for gas, what will we do? oh no, they're taxing our tea but we don't get any say in their government, what will we do? bullshit, that doesn't count.) I don't think it's right for us to criticize the solution because we don't fully understand the problem domain. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
There's a huge difference between being PC and being a stereotypical jackass. The joke was racist, bigotted, and completely uncalled for. Had the poster said such to my face, my fist would have sailed through his face before he had a chance to add, "j/k!" Had someone else objected and you given your response in my presence, I would be the one apologizing as I removed my foot from your nutsack.
I do believe we were discussing new developments in India's aerospace industry's direction. Racist jokes had no place in it. Political Correctness has nothing to do with it. Grow up. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
The highest priorities for THAAD I believe are Taiwan and Israel. And Israel (with or w/out American help, I remember not) tested a laser capable of taking down missiles. Whether or not that's related to NMD is beyond me. We are planning to share it though. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"How the news and game entertainment industry will reach supremacy while simultaneously pushing the borders of technological know-how remains unclear."
Am I the only one who thinks that major advances in consumer hardware and software exist for the sole purpose of playing games? I mean, the internet wasn't exactly meant for real-time communication, but the game industry seems to be taking it in stride... I'm sure they'll come up with stuff.
A recent Byte article talked about the Next Generation Internet and the government mandated promises that were supposed to be fulfilled. Among them were high end streaming audio and video, and I'm not so sure about the video part, but the audio part was handled pretty decently by MP3 (and Ogg Vorbis, and WMA, etc...)... So not all advances are going to come from geeks (academia), the entertainment people will be involved with it quite a bit methinks.
The news people? Push? ^^;; --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I have a horrific memory but I'm doing ok in classes... Don't you have to know more in order to operate a PDA/computer? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It is kind of fun to push underpowered hardware to the breaking point. Maybe some sort of high end floating point emulation can be added to ease developer's pains? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Re:bitching wont stop... I hope scoop doesnt eithe
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Freshmeat II
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· Score: 1
"but do you anyone would kill his own baby/creation ? NO"
I'm guessing you meant to say 'do you know anyone' and yes, I do. Me! I've aborted tons of projects just short of completion because I couldn't handle how crappily it had turned out compared to my vision of it. It's always painful. I'm always upset with the way it just didn't turn out the way I wanted it to. And then there are people who both criticize me and encourage me. The critics can go fuck themselves, if they want it, they can build it them-fucking-selves. The supporters suck, they want it, but they don't understand why I can't let them have it!
What's more painful than a child that doesn't live up to expectations because the parent was incompetent? I can see Linus going through extreme pains to kill his baby if he felt hurt enough to do it...
If scoop can't handle the criticism, he should go ahead and put it out of his misery. Why get hurt by people who can't appreciate your efforts? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
There's shitloads of junk up there that "solar winds, atmospheric drag and other factors" haven't dealt with yet... I like the lazer idea though. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Microsoft's XML parser. Of course that'll only work if you're on NT/2k, but whatever. MSXML hit v3, and you know Microsoft: by the time it hits v3, most of the bugs have been worked out.
Incidently, I could be wrong but I believe that SAX was easier to use than DOM. That's just my opinion though... You'd be better served finding someone who knows both and asking them... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Maybe it's just me, but how many people missed the following? Clinton told drug companies: "Lower your fucking prices or I will make sure that patent laws are not enforce in Africa so other people can make your drugs and sell them at a fraction of the cost." There was an executive order to that effect. Bush, I believe, just suspended that eo.
Now if I could just dig up the URLs to confirm this:( Anyone wanna help me out? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
appear to be saying that if you clone an infertile couple, you'll get an infertile child. isn't the point of selecting the genes of the clone to prevent 'defects' like that?
blahblahblah, i know selecting the genes you want goes against nature and natural selection and all that good stuff, but i think saying that 'the clone of an infertile couple will be infertile' is unreasonable... right? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Alien Resurrection? Maybe Gattica or something, but Alien 4 was just plain silly...
In any case, if couples are infertile, am I the only one who thinks adoption is a better alternative to cloning? Yes, there's the vanity of having a child who will more likely than not resemble one of the parents, and yes, there is the biological imperative of passing on your genes, but dammit, them's a lot of babies out there without parents... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Slashdot Mirror
the label is printed clearly on the side of the box and it says, "Will not work if taken outside of ," then it's really not that big of a deal, right? Because if it's clearly marked, then someone's just gonna manufacture a product that doesn't have region limits, and they're gonna mark it down as slightly cheaper and clean house. As long as they label it, it's not a big deal.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
and enjoy what experience you're getting. remember, some people's idea of a co-op experience is, "fetch ma coffee boy!" and so on. the company's taking a big chance hiring high school students when for just a little more money, they could have gotten real engineers that are more reliable and less likely to cause trouble. when you're older, they'll give you more responsibilities. or when you've been there longer, whichever comes first.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
it's an 'easy to use' language, will it produce executables that can handle the limited resources of a PDA comparibly to a system-level language like C? Is that the PDA's selling point, that it's easy to program? With the IPaq and others, you can't just use Linux as the selling point of a PDA anymore, right?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Did Norad ever announce an upper limit on what they could track? I realize you were joking, but still, if someone wanted to DDoS the US Military, this is how they would do it, right?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
If it's 'mission critical' doesn't cost not become an issue? Or am I being naive?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I would pay cash to be considered a 'weapon for science'!
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
they'll just clone themselves over and over and over. of course, there might be a ten-fifteen year wait between the troll we kill and the time he returns to harrass us on the forums, but i like to think that slashdot will have improved it's anti-troll just a wee bit by then.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
some guy (it was in an issue of Discovery magazine, I forget which one) has worked out a Unified theory of stuff that works just fine if you eliminate time from all equations. so what we're 'experiencing' is just an infinite number of universes strung together to make it appear as if we're moving from one state to another.
with that in mind, hyperdimensional calimari that are fake 3-dimensional death to escape not-as-smart-as-we-think-we-are scientists doesn't sound that implausible, ne?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Would it kill you people to find a lawyer in your area and pay the small fee to get him to tell you whether or not you have a case? It might be much more relevant, plus you'd have an immediate two way feedback, instead of having to dig through -1 to see whose good advice got through and whose got modded down. Plus, they'd know more about any local laws which might apply. You never know.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
They need to be brought into the 21st century. That includes: running water in every house, always on electricity (fuck California, look at the other 49 states, they're doing just dandy), functional roads, democracy that doesn't involve civil war (say what you want about the Florida debacle but no one died!), decent medicine (BillG is working on that), oh and of course the willingness to accept sexual education and stop the male chauvanism that's turning the continent into a fucking blackhole.
Come to think of it, the internet would probably work incredibly well for the last one. Unless of course their net connect was censored for 'indecent material'...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It can't be done, the German government is oppressive, there are technical details (holeholeholehole, wow, they're dumb!)...
60 some years ago, a bunch of people fell asleep at the board, and millions of people died. I don't think this is about MP3z or oppressive government, I just think they're scared shitless about it happening again. We (America) have never truly suffered. (oh no, a bunch of us don't have jobs, what will we do? oh no, we have to pay several cents more for gas, what will we do? oh no, they're taxing our tea but we don't get any say in their government, what will we do? bullshit, that doesn't count.) I don't think it's right for us to criticize the solution because we don't fully understand the problem domain.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
There's a huge difference between being PC and being a stereotypical jackass. The joke was racist, bigotted, and completely uncalled for. Had the poster said such to my face, my fist would have sailed through his face before he had a chance to add, "j/k!" Had someone else objected and you given your response in my presence, I would be the one apologizing as I removed my foot from your nutsack.
I do believe we were discussing new developments in India's aerospace industry's direction. Racist jokes had no place in it. Political Correctness has nothing to do with it. Grow up.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
The highest priorities for THAAD I believe are Taiwan and Israel. And Israel (with or w/out American help, I remember not) tested a laser capable of taking down missiles. Whether or not that's related to NMD is beyond me. We are planning to share it though.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"How the news and game entertainment industry will reach supremacy while simultaneously pushing the borders of technological know-how remains unclear."
Am I the only one who thinks that major advances in consumer hardware and software exist for the sole purpose of playing games? I mean, the internet wasn't exactly meant for real-time communication, but the game industry seems to be taking it in stride... I'm sure they'll come up with stuff.
A recent Byte article talked about the Next Generation Internet and the government mandated promises that were supposed to be fulfilled. Among them were high end streaming audio and video, and I'm not so sure about the video part, but the audio part was handled pretty decently by MP3 (and Ogg Vorbis, and WMA, etc...)... So not all advances are going to come from geeks (academia), the entertainment people will be involved with it quite a bit methinks.
The news people? Push? ^^;;
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I have a horrific memory but I'm doing ok in classes... Don't you have to know more in order to operate a PDA/computer?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It is kind of fun to push underpowered hardware to the breaking point. Maybe some sort of high end floating point emulation can be added to ease developer's pains?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"but do you anyone would kill his own baby/creation ? NO"
I'm guessing you meant to say 'do you know anyone' and yes, I do. Me! I've aborted tons of projects just short of completion because I couldn't handle how crappily it had turned out compared to my vision of it. It's always painful. I'm always upset with the way it just didn't turn out the way I wanted it to. And then there are people who both criticize me and encourage me. The critics can go fuck themselves, if they want it, they can build it them-fucking-selves. The supporters suck, they want it, but they don't understand why I can't let them have it!
What's more painful than a child that doesn't live up to expectations because the parent was incompetent? I can see Linus going through extreme pains to kill his baby if he felt hurt enough to do it...
If scoop can't handle the criticism, he should go ahead and put it out of his misery. Why get hurt by people who can't appreciate your efforts?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
What the fuck is this magical 'Tidy' that you refer to, and where can I pick one up?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
There's shitloads of junk up there that "solar winds, atmospheric drag and other factors" haven't dealt with yet... I like the lazer idea though.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
the Kasparov ad was hella friggin cool. But it would have killed you to wait until the game was over to post?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Microsoft's XML parser. Of course that'll only work if you're on NT/2k, but whatever. MSXML hit v3, and you know Microsoft: by the time it hits v3, most of the bugs have been worked out.
Incidently, I could be wrong but I believe that SAX was easier to use than DOM. That's just my opinion though... You'd be better served finding someone who knows both and asking them...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Maybe it's just me, but how many people missed the following? Clinton told drug companies: "Lower your fucking prices or I will make sure that patent laws are not enforce in Africa so other people can make your drugs and sell them at a fraction of the cost." There was an executive order to that effect. Bush, I believe, just suspended that eo.
:( Anyone wanna help me out?
Now if I could just dig up the URLs to confirm this
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
are you referring to Nosferatu the serial animation or something else?
link = http://www.museoffire.com/Nosferatu/index.htm for the goatse.cx weary
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
appear to be saying that if you clone an infertile couple, you'll get an infertile child. isn't the point of selecting the genes of the clone to prevent 'defects' like that?
blahblahblah, i know selecting the genes you want goes against nature and natural selection and all that good stuff, but i think saying that 'the clone of an infertile couple will be infertile' is unreasonable... right?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Alien Resurrection? Maybe Gattica or something, but Alien 4 was just plain silly...
In any case, if couples are infertile, am I the only one who thinks adoption is a better alternative to cloning? Yes, there's the vanity of having a child who will more likely than not resemble one of the parents, and yes, there is the biological imperative of passing on your genes, but dammit, them's a lot of babies out there without parents...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057