Where oh where are my mod points?? The only reference to Bush at all is in the BBC blurb (as opposed to an actual story) that says "the Bush administration has decided not to press for a breakup". And yes, the DoJ is part of the Bush administration. At no point does it say that Pres. Bush asked them to, or really anything else at all. Sheesh.....
I've had my Handspring Visor Deluxe for about 5 months now and discovered *yesterday* that it has a built-in microphone. There are no apps that ship with it that use it, and I hadn't heard about anyone hacking it to be useful. Am I missing something? Turning it into a voice-recorder would be nifty, and I can think of other things (voice-activated, etc) but it appears that you need to buy something like the Visor Phone to get any use out of it. Has anyone come up with a cool hack?
Not that you did an out-and-out comparision or anything, but please don't put Mormonism next to Scientology.:-) I realize that not everybody likes the mormons, but to put us in the same class as the hubbardites, well, it's just not nice;-)
I've noticed many, many, comments with abortive parents, that couldn't possibly have been offensive and/or libelous. I would guess that they are having problems with their database or code, both of which are brand new (if you haven't seen the couple stories on it lately). Much more likely than all of a sudden a/. editor going on a rampage with the delete key.
As an employee of Micron Tech, I *wish* prices were high and ever increasing *grin*. Unlike the other posters, I saw the sarcasm.....
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Not to point out the glaringly obvious but I hardly think something named (expanded) *DEBIAN* Music Distrobution is a "start-from-scratch" proposition. And completely replacing your kernel, and (probably) other major software with real-time versions, as well as a different orientation (probably easier setup, we all know musicians aren't techies;-), etc, does constitute a good reason for forking the distro, at least for a while. Maybe once they get it all shaken out and the bugs worked out they will merge back, but at least for now it is a wise idea.
I think the "subtle" part is that unless you are specifically looking to make ties between mormon history (and your sentence also describes Lehi's journey to the promised land) and BG, it's not going to smack you in the face. OTOH, if you *are* looking to make comparisions, you can't go five minutes without stumbling on another one:-)
However, MSN hasn't made their isp business based on the "closed circuit" model, previously supporting (and still supporting for old customers) the standard: pop. The fact that they are moving *away* from an open standard to a closed one, and that they are one of the largest isps, is definite and legitimate cause for concern and/or outcry. OTOH, if they had started out "AOL-like", this *wouldn't* have even made it to a slashback, because it wouldn't be news.
... the Oracle ThinkNIC? I've searched all over the 'net, and keep finding links to old info ("the roo password is 4getit!!!" Wahoo. Like you can't change it by booting editing the iso and reburning), but no links to stuff like "heres what I did, how I did it, and here's the iso for you to download so you don't have to replicate all my hard work. I have the beefy machine to host it, I have the monitor to use, and can quickly string the cable to the part of the house my nic will end up at, but after many nights of both searching and trying myself, I'm about ready to give up. Which would be a shame as I got my nic for free, and I hate to throw away free hardware. Help? Anyone? Anyone?
Funny, how the/. editors didn't do anything but post what the NON-SLASHDOT EMPLOYEE submitted into the queue. So please point your biased finger at gergi. And they covered the benchmarks showing IIS faster quite well (search for "mindcraft" if you don't believe me). I don't recall *anyone* around here saying that apache is faster than IIS. Or Zeus. Or aolserver. It's just more supported via documentation on the 'net and well-rounded via modules that you can plug in. The larger user base almost guarantees that if you have a problem, someone else has had it before, and posted it somewhere along with the solution.
Dunno about Northern Exposure, but the Space:1999 episodes *are* on DVD. I work with a S:1999 freak who owns most of them, some of them twice (once on video, once on dvd). I'm sure searching around the 'net will get you links to buy, I'm too lazy to do it for you:-)
"Of course there will be people who have had Windows 9x (or even NT) installations that crashed once an hour, but for some odd reason, it usually always seems to happen to those people who are the most fanatic anti Microsofters."
Funny, when you say it that way, you make it seem their fault. OTOH, you could say it this way: Those who have had the most problems with Microsoft products, seem to have the most polarized opinions. Just like I don't like a certain type of car because I owned one, and it was a certifiable lemon. Just like I don't like certain motherboards because when I sold them retail, they had a habit of returning to me with a couple weeks or month (while other brands didn't). Now, are all of those *my* fault, or am I simple a consumer (and businessman) with opinions based on previous experiences? Other than that, nice troll-like comment to end an otherwise fairly decent post.
That, um, wasn't his point. His point was that doing it one way for networking, and another for disks, is not *consistent*. And stuff that isn't consistent doesn't lend itself to intuitiveness. And I don't see the word Linux in his post at all, though he does promote MacOS. So to flame him for 1/2 of his example, and using Linux as a "counterexample" is fairly blatantly stupid.
Have a nice day.
(BTW: to whomever mod'ed this up as "insightful", lay off the bad drugs. Sheesh.)
wait until you meet retail customers. Seriously, as a survivor of the retail business (3 looong years as a salesman and front-line face-to-face tech support), I'm here to tell you: You Ain't Seen Nothing, Yet (tm)!
Well, good luck, cuz you're gonna need it. I just wish I could see the look on your face when you have to answer the question for the seventh time in the same day (NO! C64's DON'T run if you snap off the cartridge inside the computer), and realize that users actually aren't that bad:-)
You don't understand. QNX released their RTP for free download *OCTOBER 2ND, 2000*. That's almost *four* months ago, with their first update over a month ago now. That would be like slashdot running a story on the linux 2.4 kernel being released three months from now. Accurate? Yes. Timely? Not on your life. Also, though/.'s searching sucks, I *know* they covered this when it *was* timely. Thus, on tope of being really and truly late, it's redundant:-) As for people who missed it the first time.... Well, not to put a damper on your enthusiasm about it, but if this release was actually significant (i.e., actual apps, real driver support, anyone using it outside of truly hardcore geeks or embedded people), you would have heard about it through the grapevine before now:-) Unfortunely, it is lacking in all of those areas, and the wonderful design of the OS itself doesn't make up for the fact that it's useless on 3 our of my 4 computers, and only adquate on the fourth. Whew, didn't mean to turn this into a rant:-)
Um, would this be the same RTP that QNX offered free for commercial use.....last year? Oh, yeah. It is. Even the front page of get.qnx.com says "Posted January 18, 2001". I.e., they've been offering their RTP for free for quite a while now, and have even updated it once! A month ago. I don't usually rag on/. for redundant or late posts, but they covered this when it was actually news, and it's been literally *months*. That's bad. Real bad.
Yes, the Force was a synonym for God in Star Wars, and a lot of people believe in that sort of God, i.e., one that is unknown and unknowable. However, as one of those literal minded people;-), I *do* believe that God was a man, and went through the same process we are going through (i.e., life, love, and death).
To take this *completely* off-topic (hence the title change), I would submit that if God is truly our "Father in Heaven", the *only* long-term goal that he could have is to help us become like him. A lot of religous people get nervous at this point B-) The Eternal Plan that I envision includes an family that stretches back into infinity, with every generation striving to help it's children achieve the same status it has reached, with the children being us, but also God before us, and his parents before him. I can't imagine anything else that fits my premise, which is that God loves us, he is our spiritual Father, and that he is real, made of flesh and bone.
Well, there goes my carefully built up karma hoard:-) And to think I got all the way up to 15....
Oh, and the omnipresent thing is something thought up by Catholics, not something that is actually in the Bible (IIRC). In case you couldn't tell, I'm not Catholic B-)
Religous zealots *refuting* the assertion that there is life on other planets??!??? Haven't you ever seen "Contact"? It's *scientists* that laugh at SETI and other attempts to look for extraterrestrial life. Religous *nuts* are all for alien life, as they would almost immediately transform aliens into "god-like figures". Now, as a religous person myself, (i.e., I go to church every Sunday and pray regularly) I think it would be the epitome of arrogance to think that God brought this galaxy into being, let alone the Universe, simple for one dinky planet on the outer edges of the Milky Way. I mean, that's ludicrous:-)
Much more likely is that what is going on here is that same as has been going on with other worlds since the beginning of time (as we know it), and will probably continue on long after Earth is slagged into molten lava when the Sun novas. Anybody who believes in a real God, not an "all encompassing spirit that surrounds and binds us" (nods to Yoda), will admit that we are not alone in the Universe. It is pure and utter hubris to think otherwise.
/me apologizes for Mozilla's screwed up formatting
Actually, I understand:-) I was just poking fun at the people who can't see an affordable, low-profile machine without starting to spew "MP3 Player! MP3 Player!" over and over and over again. If you want to see what I mean, go over to the recent discussion on tiny machines + linux, or the "hack the set-top boxes" story, or the affordable linux machines article on the front page right now, or, or, or.... I'm sure you know what I mean.
Just think, you could make a really sweet mp3 player out of this!! All it would need is a sound card that fits the profile, a rack for your living room (it'll look nice next to the T.V., hon, I promise!) and someone stupid enough to do it!! Man, I can see the rush on these already. I gotta go buy one before they are sold out...
Oh, and remember, when you start seeing "Howto convert your Netra into a Home MP3 Playing Machine" websites springing up all over the 'net, you heard it here first!
Do you happen to know how the Matrox G400/450 OpenGL implementation is coming? I've heard reports (via Raster) that it is still somewhat flaky and doesn't support the full spectrum of stuff it should. Is that going to change anytime soon, or that something to wait for after Doom III test is released?
For the other two fellows who didn't catch it, he was saying putting Hemos and CmdrTaco in there would result in less double postings. Nothing else. For the same reason, you aren't putting Rasterman and Mandrake in there to work on the kernel. Of course, they are working as hard as they can already, and if I know the four of them (note, I don't know Linux, Alan, Jens, or Ted) they would spend a lot more time drinking Guiness and arguing over whose turn it is to get the twinkies, then any real work;-) (given this situation)
Nice try, troll. But associating the *huge* printing industry with Win2k isn't going to fly. The call of the paperless office has been ringing for more than a decade, and there has been no significant change in paper usage, except *upwards*. Also, here you will see Micron Tech's stock over the same time period. While not matching exactly, the curve is pretty daggon close to HP's, and Micron just had their most profitable quarter ever, by far. What does that prove? Just that yet again stock price is a poor judge of a CEO's ability to lead a company, or their performance, either one.
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Where oh where are my mod points?? The only reference to Bush at all is in the BBC blurb (as opposed to an actual story) that says "the Bush administration has decided not to press for a breakup". And yes, the DoJ is part of the Bush administration. At no point does it say that Pres. Bush asked them to, or really anything else at all. Sheesh.....
look down and see if it was April Fools? This headline would fit in with all the other stuff that /. spews out on that day....
I've had my Handspring Visor Deluxe for about 5 months now and discovered *yesterday* that it has a built-in microphone. There are no apps that ship with it that use it, and I hadn't heard about anyone hacking it to be useful. Am I missing something? Turning it into a voice-recorder would be nifty, and I can think of other things (voice-activated, etc) but it appears that you need to buy something like the Visor Phone to get any use out of it. Has anyone come up with a cool hack?
Not that you did an out-and-out comparision or anything, but please don't put Mormonism next to Scientology. :-) I realize that not everybody likes the mormons, but to put us in the same class as the hubbardites, well, it's just not nice ;-)
Thanks,
I've noticed many, many, comments with abortive parents, that couldn't possibly have been offensive and/or libelous. I would guess that they are having problems with their database or code, both of which are brand new (if you haven't seen the couple stories on it lately). Much more likely than all of a sudden a /. editor going on a rampage with the delete key.
As an employee of Micron Tech, I *wish* prices were high and ever increasing *grin*. Unlike the other posters, I saw the sarcasm.....
Not to point out the glaringly obvious but I hardly think something named (expanded) *DEBIAN* Music Distrobution is a "start-from-scratch" proposition. And completely replacing your kernel, and (probably) other major software with real-time versions, as well as a different orientation (probably easier setup, we all know musicians aren't techies ;-), etc, does constitute a good reason for forking the distro, at least for a while. Maybe once they get it all shaken out and the bugs worked out they will merge back, but at least for now it is a wise idea.
Sheesh.....
I think the "subtle" part is that unless you are specifically looking to make ties between mormon history (and your sentence also describes Lehi's journey to the promised land) and BG, it's not going to smack you in the face. OTOH, if you *are* looking to make comparisions, you can't go five minutes without stumbling on another one :-)
However, MSN hasn't made their isp business based on the "closed circuit" model, previously supporting (and still supporting for old customers) the standard: pop. The fact that they are moving *away* from an open standard to a closed one, and that they are one of the largest isps, is definite and legitimate cause for concern and/or outcry. OTOH, if they had started out "AOL-like", this *wouldn't* have even made it to a slashback, because it wouldn't be news.
HTH,
... the Oracle ThinkNIC? I've searched all over the 'net, and keep finding links to old info ("the roo password is 4getit!!!" Wahoo. Like you can't change it by booting editing the iso and reburning), but no links to stuff like "heres what I did, how I did it, and here's the iso for you to download so you don't have to replicate all my hard work. I have the beefy machine to host it, I have the monitor to use, and can quickly string the cable to the part of the house my nic will end up at, but after many nights of both searching and trying myself, I'm about ready to give up. Which would be a shame as I got my nic for free, and I hate to throw away free hardware. Help? Anyone? Anyone?
Thanks,
Funny, how the /. editors didn't do anything but post what the NON-SLASHDOT EMPLOYEE submitted into the queue. So please point your biased finger at gergi. And they covered the benchmarks showing IIS faster quite well (search for "mindcraft" if you don't believe me). I don't recall *anyone* around here saying that apache is faster than IIS. Or Zeus. Or aolserver. It's just more supported via documentation on the 'net and well-rounded via modules that you can plug in. The larger user base almost guarantees that if you have a problem, someone else has had it before, and posted it somewhere along with the solution.
*plonk*
Dunno about Northern Exposure, but the Space:1999 episodes *are* on DVD. I work with a S:1999 freak who owns most of them, some of them twice (once on video, once on dvd). I'm sure searching around the 'net will get you links to buy, I'm too lazy to do it for you :-)
"Of course there will be people who have had Windows 9x (or even NT) installations that crashed once an hour, but for some odd reason, it usually always seems to happen to those people who are the most fanatic anti Microsofters."
Funny, when you say it that way, you make it seem their fault. OTOH, you could say it this way: Those who have had the most problems with Microsoft products, seem to have the most polarized opinions. Just like I don't like a certain type of car because I owned one, and it was a certifiable lemon. Just like I don't like certain motherboards because when I sold them retail, they had a habit of returning to me with a couple weeks or month (while other brands didn't). Now, are all of those *my* fault, or am I simple a consumer (and businessman) with opinions based on previous experiences? Other than that, nice troll-like comment to end an otherwise fairly decent post.
Have A Nice Day.
That, um, wasn't his point. His point was that doing it one way for networking, and another for disks, is not *consistent*. And stuff that isn't consistent doesn't lend itself to intuitiveness. And I don't see the word Linux in his post at all, though he does promote MacOS. So to flame him for 1/2 of his example, and using Linux as a "counterexample" is fairly blatantly stupid.
Have a nice day.
(BTW: to whomever mod'ed this up as "insightful", lay off the bad drugs. Sheesh.)
wait until you meet retail customers. Seriously, as a survivor of the retail business (3 looong years as a salesman and front-line face-to-face tech support), I'm here to tell you: You Ain't Seen Nothing, Yet (tm)!
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Well, good luck, cuz you're gonna need it. I just wish I could see the look on your face when you have to answer the question for the seventh time in the same day (NO! C64's DON'T run if you snap off the cartridge inside the computer), and realize that users actually aren't that bad
You don't understand. QNX released their RTP for free download *OCTOBER 2ND, 2000*. That's almost *four* months ago, with their first update over a month ago now. That would be like slashdot running a story on the linux 2.4 kernel being released three months from now. Accurate? Yes. Timely? Not on your life. Also, though /.'s searching sucks, I *know* they covered this when it *was* timely. Thus, on tope of being really and truly late, it's redundant :-) As for people who missed it the first time.... Well, not to put a damper on your enthusiasm about it, but if this release was actually significant (i.e., actual apps, real driver support, anyone using it outside of truly hardcore geeks or embedded people), you would have heard about it through the grapevine before now :-) Unfortunely, it is lacking in all of those areas, and the wonderful design of the OS itself doesn't make up for the fact that it's useless on 3 our of my 4 computers, and only adquate on the fourth. Whew, didn't mean to turn this into a rant :-)
Um, would this be the same RTP that QNX offered free for commercial use.....last year? Oh, yeah. It is. Even the front page of get.qnx.com says "Posted January 18, 2001". I.e., they've been offering their RTP for free for quite a while now, and have even updated it once! A month ago. I don't usually rag on /. for redundant or late posts, but they covered this when it was actually news, and it's been literally *months*. That's bad. Real bad.
Yes, the Force was a synonym for God in Star Wars, and a lot of people believe in that sort of God, i.e., one that is unknown and unknowable. However, as one of those literal minded people ;-), I *do* believe that God was a man, and went through the same process we are going through (i.e., life, love, and death).
:-) And to think I got all the way up to 15....
To take this *completely* off-topic (hence the title change), I would submit that if God is truly our "Father in Heaven", the *only* long-term goal that he could have is to help us become like him. A lot of religous people get nervous at this point B-) The Eternal Plan that I envision includes an family that stretches back into infinity, with every generation striving to help it's children achieve the same status it has reached, with the children being us, but also God before us, and his parents before him. I can't imagine anything else that fits my premise, which is that God loves us, he is our spiritual Father, and that he is real, made of flesh and bone.
Well, there goes my carefully built up karma hoard
Oh, and the omnipresent thing is something thought up by Catholics, not something that is actually in the Bible (IIRC). In case you couldn't tell, I'm not Catholic B-)
Heh. I forgot the ;-) Sorry...
Religous zealots *refuting* the assertion that there is life on other planets??!??? Haven't you ever seen "Contact"? It's *scientists* that laugh at SETI and other attempts to look for extraterrestrial life. Religous *nuts* are all for alien life, as they would almost immediately transform aliens into "god-like figures". Now, as a religous person myself, (i.e., I go to church every Sunday and pray regularly) I think it would be the epitome of arrogance to think that God brought this galaxy into being, let alone the Universe, simple for one dinky planet on the outer edges of the Milky Way. I mean, that's ludicrous :-)
Much more likely is that what is going on here is that same as has been going on with other worlds since the beginning of time (as we know it), and will probably continue on long after Earth is slagged into molten lava when the Sun novas. Anybody who believes in a real God, not an "all encompassing spirit that surrounds and binds us" (nods to Yoda), will admit that we are not alone in the Universe. It is pure and utter hubris to think otherwise.
/me apologizes for Mozilla's screwed up formatting
Actually, I understand :-) I was just poking fun at the people who can't see an affordable, low-profile machine without starting to spew "MP3 Player! MP3 Player!" over and over and over again. If you want to see what I mean, go over to the recent discussion on tiny machines + linux, or the "hack the set-top boxes" story, or the affordable linux machines article on the front page right now, or, or, or.... I'm sure you know what I mean.
Just think, you could make a really sweet mp3 player out of this!! All it would need is a sound card that fits the profile, a rack for your living room (it'll look nice next to the T.V., hon, I promise!) and someone stupid enough to do it!! Man, I can see the rush on these already. I gotta go buy one before they are sold out...
Oh, and remember, when you start seeing "Howto convert your Netra into a Home MP3 Playing Machine" websites springing up all over the 'net, you heard it here first!
Do you happen to know how the Matrox G400/450 OpenGL implementation is coming? I've heard reports (via Raster) that it is still somewhat flaky and doesn't support the full spectrum of stuff it should. Is that going to change anytime soon, or that something to wait for after Doom III test is released?
For the other two fellows who didn't catch it, he was saying putting Hemos and CmdrTaco in there would result in less double postings. Nothing else. For the same reason, you aren't putting Rasterman and Mandrake in there to work on the kernel. Of course, they are working as hard as they can already, and if I know the four of them (note, I don't know Linux, Alan, Jens, or Ted) they would spend a lot more time drinking Guiness and arguing over whose turn it is to get the twinkies, then any real work ;-) (given this situation)
Nice try, troll. But associating the *huge* printing industry with Win2k isn't going to fly. The call of the paperless office has been ringing for more than a decade, and there has been no significant change in paper usage, except *upwards*. Also, here you will see Micron Tech's stock over the same time period. While not matching exactly, the curve is pretty daggon close to HP's, and Micron just had their most profitable quarter ever, by far. What does that prove? Just that yet again stock price is a poor judge of a CEO's ability to lead a company, or their performance, either one.