It is official; Netcraft confirms: Slashdot is dying!
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when IDC confirmed that Slashdot market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all network traffic for wasting time at work. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Slashdot has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test...
Just kidding! Good job everyone. Keep up the good work, and try not to lose market share to groklaw!!!
Michael Bolton: We get caught laundering money, we're not going to white-collar resort prison. No, no, no. We're going to federal POUND ME IN THE ASS prison.
This ought to splash some cold water of reality on those of us who think that geek girls with a cute face and a hot bod are somehow "do-able" or "marry-able". Look, she probably sees you as just another exiled program bound for deletion - it's nothing personal.
The only "seer" of technology for me is Augur, and he doesn't use Windows.
At any rate, only a person with truly innovative and revolutionary approach has the insight to guess how technological advances will influence societies. Gates' approach has been to buy out companies he can't compete with, and then re-branding the acquired products. It was true with PC-DOS v1.0, and it continues to be true to this day.
This is like Osama Bin Laden filing a federal lawsuit in Washington D.C. alleging that George W. Bush is interfering with Bin Laden's rights to advance the agenda of fundamentalist Islam and kill innocent Americans.
Deckard: Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance, stop. Move in, stop. Pull out, track right, stop. Center in, pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. Center and stop. Enhance 34 to 36. Pan right and pull back. Stop. Enhance 34 to 46. Pull back. Wait a minute, go right, stop. Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Give me a hard copy right there.
Reminds me of a cartoon shortly after the Tiananmen Square Massacre that depicts Premier Deng saying, "Smile, martial law in Beijing has been lifted... anyone found not smiling will be executed."
This news from Russia makes me wonder whether USSR isn't dead, but, as Calvin and Hobbs liked to say, "transmorgrified". If so, then Americans have been deceiving themselves that they have somehow "won" the Cold War.
...is being updated, that's all. If you read your history, you will see that the reason China has a habit of making large, grandiose plans is that they are desperate to address embarrassing deficiencies. When the nation's space agency announces that outer-space seeds have higher mineral contents, I cannot help but chuckle. Of course, their 100-year time line does say something about the practicality of the plan.
As part of an operating systems course I am currently taking, we watched a video of a presenter from Intel who lectured on the changes associated with the Itanium processor. In his presentation (see the video at http://online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/040218-ee 380-100.asx), he pointed out that Intel has gone from having one or two major ideas to drive chip design to having fifteen or twenty minor ideas that they can cram in. The thinking is that if they can amass enough of these "little ideas" together, they can probably cobble together enough performance enhancement to justify production and sales of these chips. Part of the issue is that, as the author of this article also admits, there is currently no "big ideas" coming around the bend in terms of truly revolutionary performance increase.
The problem, though, is that when you introduce many smaller features, you cannot always anticipate how these features will interact with one another. This is why it is counterintuitive to many people that "new and improved" is not always so, and that you actually risk introducing bugs into the design more subtle than you can detect. That, combined with the continuing support for legacy code, means that complexity (and power consumption) goes through the roof with each iteration. While it is a testament of the robustness and versatility of the x86 architecture that it has survived thus far, one could argue that the architecture *had* to survive because we couldn't come up with the next paradigm shift.
The good news is that there are solutions to this situation. The bad news is that all of the solutions involve massive change in the way the software industry clings to the tried-and-true, or truly revolutionary innovation in chip re-architecture, or billions of dollars, etc. As the article points out, experience with EPIC has demonstrated how NOT to introduce a completely new architecture. There is no easy way out, but there are several possible paths.
This "cert" is in the same camp as the thoroughly pointless MCSA and MCDST. For every friggin' level of technical ability there must now be a "recognition" for achievement, the cover story being that not only do we need a diverse pool of talents of varying level (which is true, because it makes little sense to send a CCIE to re-cable a living room), but we also need to recognize them individually for all those little steps that they take.
Reminds me of those people who would put down "CCIE-Written" as one of the "certs" that they have earned on their way to the big leagues. Either you have the necessary skills, or you don't. Stop using Mickey Mouse certs to hide your lack of technical knowledge. As for organizations that certify people and companies that recognize these certs, stop enabling pretenders from crowding out the contenders.
Now that their XML proposal is getting fast-tracked and their connection to SCO-IBM uncovered, M$ needs an easy pinata to beat to a pulp so as to appear as the second coming of Captain America.
Slashdot Mirror
...then Roy Batty's last line would have been, "Like... tears in the methane."
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Slashdot is dying!
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when IDC confirmed that Slashdot market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all network traffic for wasting time at work. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Slashdot has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test...
Just kidding! Good job everyone. Keep up the good work, and try not to lose market share to groklaw!!!
Urea nitrate? And this article was from the "spray-the-terror-away" department?
Why, that should have been from the "pissing-the-night-away" department. Any Chumbawamba fan should have thought of it.
"I get blown up, I get up again,
And you're never gonna keep me down
I get blown up, I get up again,
And you're never gonna keep me down..."
...they introduce pleasant-looking weatherwoman, and cheesy muzak.
Michael Bolton: We get caught laundering money, we're not going to white-collar resort prison. No, no, no. We're going to federal POUND ME IN THE ASS prison.
This ought to splash some cold water of reality on those of us who think that geek girls with a cute face and a hot bod are somehow "do-able" or "marry-able". Look, she probably sees you as just another exiled program bound for deletion - it's nothing personal.
Read the title again: "Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement".
That wouldn't be "Gates", would it?
Excellent! That song is hilarious!!!
...will be a .PST file.
First 500 MB are free? That is, until it hits that 2 GB limit. Then everything goes down the toilet.
Lt. Barclay?
Why did the /. editors allow this drivel to go through, admitting in the brief write-up that there isn't any science behind this?
/. != FUD.
I thought
"I AM SPARTACUS!!!"
Let's see whether Microsoft runs out of cruciforms first or the Open Source community runs out of people first.
It's on.
At any rate, only a person with truly innovative and revolutionary approach has the insight to guess how technological advances will influence societies. Gates' approach has been to buy out companies he can't compete with, and then re-branding the acquired products. It was true with PC-DOS v1.0, and it continues to be true to this day.
That was the whole point of SS Botany Bay. Watch "Space Seed", then Star Trek II.
Except in that case they neglected to kill off Khan and his followers BEFORE sending them on their way.
This is like Osama Bin Laden filing a federal lawsuit in Washington D.C. alleging that George W. Bush is interfering with Bin Laden's rights to advance the agenda of fundamentalist Islam and kill innocent Americans.
"'dark stars'... 'they could still be with us'... 'ghosts'"
Geez, with Lucas announcing that more Star Wars movies are coming, it's sad that /. has been infiltrated by the Sith.
These are not the sequels you are looking for.
...ROT13 *is* easier to manage and deploy.
Deckard: Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance, stop. Move in, stop. Pull out, track right, stop. Center in, pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. Center and stop. Enhance 34 to 36. Pan right and pull back. Stop. Enhance 34 to 46. Pull back. Wait a minute, go right, stop. Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Give me a hard copy right there.
... but you may find it an inconvenient truth.
Reminds me of a cartoon shortly after the Tiananmen Square Massacre that depicts Premier Deng saying, "Smile, martial law in Beijing has been lifted... anyone found not smiling will be executed."
This news from Russia makes me wonder whether USSR isn't dead, but, as Calvin and Hobbs liked to say, "transmorgrified". If so, then Americans have been deceiving themselves that they have somehow "won" the Cold War.
I thought they were Symantec and AVG.
Oh, you mean *PUBLICLY* acknowledged virus writers?
...is being updated, that's all. If you read your history, you will see that the reason China has a habit of making large, grandiose plans is that they are desperate to address embarrassing deficiencies. When the nation's space agency announces that outer-space seeds have higher mineral contents, I cannot help but chuckle. Of course, their 100-year time line does say something about the practicality of the plan.
As part of an operating systems course I am currently taking, we watched a video of a presenter from Intel who lectured on the changes associated with the Itanium processor. In his presentation (see the video at http://online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/040218-ee 380-100.asx), he pointed out that Intel has gone from having one or two major ideas to drive chip design to having fifteen or twenty minor ideas that they can cram in. The thinking is that if they can amass enough of these "little ideas" together, they can probably cobble together enough performance enhancement to justify production and sales of these chips. Part of the issue is that, as the author of this article also admits, there is currently no "big ideas" coming around the bend in terms of truly revolutionary performance increase.
The problem, though, is that when you introduce many smaller features, you cannot always anticipate how these features will interact with one another. This is why it is counterintuitive to many people that "new and improved" is not always so, and that you actually risk introducing bugs into the design more subtle than you can detect. That, combined with the continuing support for legacy code, means that complexity (and power consumption) goes through the roof with each iteration. While it is a testament of the robustness and versatility of the x86 architecture that it has survived thus far, one could argue that the architecture *had* to survive because we couldn't come up with the next paradigm shift.
The good news is that there are solutions to this situation. The bad news is that all of the solutions involve massive change in the way the software industry clings to the tried-and-true, or truly revolutionary innovation in chip re-architecture, or billions of dollars, etc. As the article points out, experience with EPIC has demonstrated how NOT to introduce a completely new architecture. There is no easy way out, but there are several possible paths.
This "cert" is in the same camp as the thoroughly pointless MCSA and MCDST. For every friggin' level of technical ability there must now be a "recognition" for achievement, the cover story being that not only do we need a diverse pool of talents of varying level (which is true, because it makes little sense to send a CCIE to re-cable a living room), but we also need to recognize them individually for all those little steps that they take.
Reminds me of those people who would put down "CCIE-Written" as one of the "certs" that they have earned on their way to the big leagues. Either you have the necessary skills, or you don't. Stop using Mickey Mouse certs to hide your lack of technical knowledge. As for organizations that certify people and companies that recognize these certs, stop enabling pretenders from crowding out the contenders.
Now that their XML proposal is getting fast-tracked and their connection to SCO-IBM uncovered, M$ needs an easy pinata to beat to a pulp so as to appear as the second coming of Captain America.