I have to agree with you even though I normally hate seeing ALL CAPS REPLIES. Mind you, all lowercase, a la ee cummings, can be pretty annoying too although it seems to be more in the domain of little girls and i's dotted with hearts.
I would suggest, if anyone would listen, that you propose changing the lameness filter to apply only to anonymous posts. That way OOG_THE_CAVEMAN could continue to provide us with his insightful comments here at slashdot.
Censorship is bad enough when applied by people. But when it is applied with machines it is just plain bad... IT'S LIKE 1984 MAN!
It does seem a little drastic. Perhaps the CPU manufacturers should start encrypting their serial numbers internally and offer a common opcode to get it out so that it could be compared against the packaged serial number. This could be done by scrupulous OEM's to ensure that a chip shipment has not been tampered with.
Of course, if you buy your stuff off the back of a truck you're on your own -- but this would still allow one to verify their chip without tearing it apart.
Would you give up your $100k linux sysadmin job for lower wages to make a difference?
Make a difference? It's not exactly like working for greenpeace for cripes sake.
I know I'd give up my 30K sysadmin job for a job at the patent office. Come to think of it though, your comment was absolutely pointless so I'll just stay where I am.
And at the same time, I can record the concert across the street and sell it.
This is a good point in more ways than one. There's nothing to prevent you from selling a recording from across the street -- although I'll bet the bands' shysters would have a different view of things and would most likely persue you until you ran out of resources in your fight to publish your latest 'Sounds of the Stadium' album.
One of the biggest problems I've found with Napster, et al., is that the quality of mp3's that I've downloaded have often been questionable. This is the reason I've abandoned using napster. If I were the record companies (which I'm not) I'd be flooding the net with shite quality mp3's to try to convice people to give up on the napster thing. There's also the question of bandwidth. I've got a cable modem and the download speeds are great. Uploads are another matter. I can see 300 to 400 KB/s coming down the pipe but only 14KB/s going up. While using napster I often found that this to be a problem. You'd find users claiming to have T1 connections but download times would be unacceptable.
Purpure, chief sable, bend azure, molet or at middle chief, square or at sinister chief, arrowheads argent dexter and sinister.
This must be what my friends hear when I'm talking code. Not a clue what you're talking about here, I had no idea there was so much to heraldry, I'm gonna have to check this out.
And were exactly do you think the NY Times or the Washington Post get the vast majority of their stories? Most journalism is just pointing to other journalists work. Slashdot does do interviews quite often which should qualify as original work. Welcome to the new journalism.
The catholics do the same thing with Wine, unleavened bread and 'holy' water. People used to pay big money for these little items.
BTW, this isn't intended to be anti-catholic but rather to point out that paying for spiritual comfort doesn't really have anything to do with the item being hocked. The analogy could be extended to pretty well any religion on earth, some of them were just more successful than others.
Perhaps if the CoS apologises for their wrong-doings in 500 years...
The damage done by Microsoft has already been done. They have already established their crappy office suite as a standard.
Linux and open source will eventually catch up and Microsoft will be fscked.
Breaking up this company now will accomplish nothing. Opening them up to the litigators would hurt them substantially more and would be a better way to penalise them and to compensate the companies that have, over the years, been fucked over by Billy boy and his bunch of lackey bastards.
He gave them his bloody email address for cripesake. It's not spam if you give them your email address. He is the one who's reasoning that his email address should only be used to send him 'emergency' messages. Did the company claim that they wouldn't send him online advertising? Not bloody likely.
And even if they did, big fucking deal. This guy's a cry baby whiner. Either that or a Salon columnist.
Scientists are still not sure what exactly grits are though. An exploratory mission to the southern US is planned for next year. Last year's mission was waylayed by a week of Mardi Gras, so it was not an entirely fruitless mission.
I think SCSI2 was 2 metres and that it was extended with the advent of SCSI3 but don't quote me on that. BTW, I've had no problem with cat5 10/100T going up to 100m. You need a pretty big living room if you have a distance problem with cat5 ethernet. And if you have a distance problem with fibre you'd be more despised than Bill Gates in this forum.
I suggest you try 'fdisk'. BeOS is a lame attempt at a decent OS for PC's and while it runs, upon first install at least, more smoothly than Windoze it still has a non-existant security model and, let's face it, the single most important issue for long term stability is the security of the file system. If you run Linux as root you're bound to do damage. Anyone want to buy a copy of BeOS?
Did anyone else notice a passing resemblance, a certain, je ne sais quois, between the new Volkswagon beetle and the iMac? Something about the lines that makes me think about that car whenever I see an iMac. I wonder whose inspiration the iMac designers were drawing on when they came up with this thing. Then again I cannot really imagine why, other than laziness, that anyone would want to clone of an iMac let alone own one. To whit, blech!
I tend not to use these types of programs too much, mostly to read the inevitable word, excel and pp documents that arrive on my desk as attachments. For that I use StarOffice. Works like a charm. The only time I boot back to Windoze these days is to work on Windoze programs. Inevitably I'll find a way around that too (the Borland/Corel deal comes to mind).
Come on. The guy's 78 years old for cripes sake. Boomers range in age from 55 down to about 40 or so. But he is an old fart. That much we can agree on.
If you just can't stomach the idea of contributing any $$ to AOL, the thought makes me nauseous - no maybe that's from too many pints last night - you might consider IBM since they have access points for suits pretty well everywhere in the world. I did the trip from Montreal to LA a couple of years ago and believe me, there are not too many cyber-cafe's in bumfuck kansas (don't forget your bible.) Fun trip all around though. I recommend staying in as many dinky little 50's circa Motel's rather than the horrible chain motels. YOu can get a room in most of these places for 20 to 30 bucks a night and some of them are real architectural gems.
I read a review, can't recall where but I'm pretty sure it was a/. reference, that compared the athlon architecture to the G4. The gist of the comparison was that the athlon and G4 each had their good points but that overall they would perform similarly with day to day use.
I'm not so sure that that figure isn't about right. Most of those users who claim that they're happy with Microsoft probably boot up, write a letter and send a few emails. Then they shutdown and turn off the box. That's how my parents use their computer. Stability isn't an issue for these users and they see all the chest thumping, especially from within the Linux community, as overblown. Of course, those of us who do use our computers for more than 1 hour a day find stability to be one of the biggest issues with the Microsoft Windoze fiasco. I don't particularly care if Microsoft gets broken up into smaller fragments or not. I'm just going to sit back and watch and enjoy while the company crashes and burns.
I hope you don't mean to imply that non-xtians are satanists, not that there's anything wrong with Satanists (they're certainly less annoying than most xtians;) I thought that their symbol looks kind of like toyota's.
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I would suggest, if anyone would listen, that you propose changing the lameness filter to apply only to anonymous posts. That way OOG_THE_CAVEMAN could continue to provide us with his insightful comments here at slashdot.
Censorship is bad enough when applied by people. But when it is applied with machines it is just plain bad ... IT'S LIKE 1984 MAN!
sort of
Of course, if you buy your stuff off the back of a truck you're on your own -- but this would still allow one to verify their chip without tearing it apart.
Somebody better do it before Apple does, otherwise we'll be stuck with these buttugly beige plastic computers forever.
Make a difference? It's not exactly like working for greenpeace for cripes sake.
I know I'd give up my 30K sysadmin job for a job at the patent office. Come to think of it though, your comment was absolutely pointless so I'll just stay where I am.
This is a good point in more ways than one. There's nothing to prevent you from selling a recording from across the street -- although I'll bet the bands' shysters would have a different view of things and would most likely persue you until you ran out of resources in your fight to publish your latest 'Sounds of the Stadium' album.
One of the biggest problems I've found with Napster, et al., is that the quality of mp3's that I've downloaded have often been questionable. This is the reason I've abandoned using napster. If I were the record companies (which I'm not) I'd be flooding the net with shite quality mp3's to try to convice people to give up on the napster thing. There's also the question of bandwidth. I've got a cable modem and the download speeds are great. Uploads are another matter. I can see 300 to 400 KB/s coming down the pipe but only 14KB/s going up. While using napster I often found that this to be a problem. You'd find users claiming to have T1 connections but download times would be unacceptable.
This must be what my friends hear when I'm talking code. Not a clue what you're talking about here, I had no idea there was so much to heraldry, I'm gonna have to check this out.
He's right about the importance of persuing XML as a standard though, but, as many have stated already, XML has no place in the kernel.
And were exactly do you think the NY Times or the Washington Post get the vast majority of their stories? Most journalism is just pointing to other journalists work. Slashdot does do interviews quite often which should qualify as original work. Welcome to the new journalism.
BTW, this isn't intended to be anti-catholic but rather to point out that paying for spiritual comfort doesn't really have anything to do with the item being hocked. The analogy could be extended to pretty well any religion on earth, some of them were just more successful than others.
Perhaps if the CoS apologises for their wrong-doings in 500 years ...
Linux and open source will eventually catch up and Microsoft will be fscked.
Breaking up this company now will accomplish nothing. Opening them up to the litigators would hurt them substantially more and would be a better way to penalise them and to compensate the companies that have, over the years, been fucked over by Billy boy and his bunch of lackey bastards.
He gave them his bloody email address for cripesake. It's not spam if you give them your email address. He is the one who's reasoning that his email address should only be used to send him 'emergency' messages. Did the company claim that they wouldn't send him online advertising? Not bloody likely.
And even if they did, big fucking deal. This guy's a cry baby whiner. Either that or a Salon columnist.
Death to legitimate spammers!
Scientists are still not sure what exactly grits are though. An exploratory mission to the southern US is planned for next year. Last year's mission was waylayed by a week of Mardi Gras, so it was not an entirely fruitless mission.
Yeah but theirs is blue.
Would you want the Canadians getting this kind of technology? Ask Laurence Godfrey if you're not certain.
I think SCSI2 was 2 metres and that it was extended with the advent of SCSI3 but don't quote me on that. BTW, I've had no problem with cat5 10/100T going up to 100m. You need a pretty big living room if you have a distance problem with cat5 ethernet. And if you have a distance problem with fibre you'd be more despised than Bill Gates in this forum.
I suggest you try 'fdisk'. BeOS is a lame attempt at a decent OS for PC's and while it runs, upon first install at least, more smoothly than Windoze it still has a non-existant security model and, let's face it, the single most important issue for long term stability is the security of the file system. If you run Linux as root you're bound to do damage. Anyone want to buy a copy of BeOS?
Did anyone else notice a passing resemblance, a certain, je ne sais quois, between the new Volkswagon beetle and the iMac? Something about the lines that makes me think about that car whenever I see an iMac. I wonder whose inspiration the iMac designers were drawing on when they came up with this thing. Then again I cannot really imagine why, other than laziness, that anyone would want to clone of an iMac let alone own one. To whit, blech!
I tend not to use these types of programs too much, mostly to read the inevitable word, excel and pp documents that arrive on my desk as attachments. For that I use StarOffice. Works like a charm. The only time I boot back to Windoze these days is to work on Windoze programs. Inevitably I'll find a way around that too (the Borland/Corel deal comes to mind).
Come on. The guy's 78 years old for cripes sake. Boomers range in age from 55 down to about 40 or so. But he is an old fart. That much we can agree on.
If you just can't stomach the idea of contributing any $$ to AOL, the thought makes me nauseous - no maybe that's from too many pints last night - you might consider IBM since they have access points for suits pretty well everywhere in the world. I did the trip from Montreal to LA a couple of years ago and believe me, there are not too many cyber-cafe's in bumfuck kansas (don't forget your bible.) Fun trip all around though. I recommend staying in as many dinky little 50's circa Motel's rather than the horrible chain motels. YOu can get a room in most of these places for 20 to 30 bucks a night and some of them are real architectural gems.
I read a review, can't recall where but I'm pretty sure it was a /. reference, that compared the athlon architecture to the G4. The gist of the comparison was that the athlon and G4 each had their good points but that overall they would perform similarly with day to day use.
Er, if there has been no shipping date specified then it seems they'll have no problems with meeting their deadline.
I'm not so sure that that figure isn't about right. Most of those users who claim that they're happy with Microsoft probably boot up, write a letter and send a few emails. Then they shutdown and turn off the box. That's how my parents use their computer. Stability isn't an issue for these users and they see all the chest thumping, especially from within the Linux community, as overblown. Of course, those of us who do use our computers for more than 1 hour a day find stability to be one of the biggest issues with the Microsoft Windoze fiasco. I don't particularly care if Microsoft gets broken up into smaller fragments or not. I'm just going to sit back and watch and enjoy while the company crashes and burns.
I hope you don't mean to imply that non-xtians are satanists, not that there's anything wrong with Satanists (they're certainly less annoying than most xtians ;) I thought that their symbol looks kind of like toyota's.