I like his sig. The Constitution Party dreams of someday being the American Taliban. I would encourage those nutjobs to advertise their beliefs every chance they get, so that the other 99% of the people on the planet know who to avoid.
Of course, I knew lots of people who said, "You know the scene where Neo shoots everything? That was the best part!"
The lobby scene and the helicopter scene were two of the best parts. The rain of empty shell casings below the door gun in the helicopter was beautiful -- visually, probably one of the most memorable scenes ever. And, the wire work in the lobby set new standards for action movies.
I don't know what parts of the movie you enjoyed. Until the second movie came out, I got a kick out of the Gnostic stuff and the other Stoner Philosophy 101 references. They were cool, they made the movie more fun to watch, and were decent filler between the awesome visuals and sound production. Sadly, I can't watch the filler between the cool parts of the movie anymore without whincing while thinking about the other two movies in the series. The sequels really ruined the original for me.
Flaws in the basic building blocks of networking and computer science... "It is time to ask the harder questions about the ways of computer architecture we've been using for the past 30 years. Is it time to scrap the von Neumann architecture?"
This is the only interesting part of the article. I couldn't care less what they do with the OSI layers. As long as someone writes about it as well as Stevens wrote about TCP/IP, it'll take me a month of reading and programming to get under my belt. We all learned Pascal, then C++, then C++ again when the standard came out, then Java, and Lisp, and Smalltalk, and Perl, andd Python, and C#, and a half-dozen more languages as the need came up. Now, you have to learn a few new networking layers and protocols. No big deal -- you should be pretty damned familiar with learning different implementations of stuff you already understand.
But, replacing the von Neumann architecture means changing just about everything I know. That's big. Everything is von Neumann. All the computational models, all the theory, all the basic underpinnings of what I know... it's all pretty much out the window once von Neumann goes. It's not just a dozen evenings at home with a book and reference implementation to relearn all of that stuff, either. It's relearning nearly all the Computer Science I know, and probably learning a whole bunch of new Maths to go with it.
P.S. This post is valid XHTML, to the point that I can control.
It's people like you who have fucking ruined slashdot. You go around exposing the group think and the general shodiness of the moderation process. You and your ilk just have to point out that the Editors don't bother to read their own damn site, the posters don't read the articles, and the moderators don't bother to read the posts. You point out that Slashdot has a signal-to-noise ratio bigger than CmdrTaco's mom, and that no effort has been made to fix it.
And, now you're not even posting in fucking XHTML.
You fucking slashdot ruining asshole!
No, wait. Were you trolling me? Oh... nevermind. Carry on.
I think I understand the point you're trying to make, but I don't know if I agree. I don't believe that animated japanese movies are enjoyed only by painfully clueless people who live in their mother's basement, unable to carry on a normal conversation.
The question was, "why would a sub be an (intrinsically) better translation than a dub?" I imagine there are intelligent people out there who could give valid reasons. Just because most anime fans on this site come off even more clueless than the normal slashdot horde doesn't mean they're all incapable of delivering a coherent answer, as you implied.
if you want an accurate translation of the original script, that you should watch the films subtitled.
Why would the subtitles be any better translation than voice dubbing? If you really wanted an accurate translation of the original script, you should read the original script in japanese.
Yesterday, there were 20 accepted stories. It would be nearly impossible to edit all of those stories up the the standards required by a professional website. If you figure 20 minutes a story, that's over six hours of work, every single day!. Combined with school and a job and a social life, that's too much to expect from one one guy running a hobby website out of his dorm room in his spare time.
Developers need admin access to their development machines. They probably don't need admin access to their desktop machine (singular). Whether or not every developer has admin access on the integration machines is a choice for the development managers (not IT). Only a small subset of developers will have admin access on the staging/daily build servers. Almost no-one will have admin access on the live/final buid server.
And, why would your techs ned to reimage a workstation? Why can't the developers reimage the workstation themselves? It should be only a few clicks for a developer to re-image, and then perhaps a half hour or so of waiting while everything loads across the network and installs itself. After it reboots, *bing*, 100% complete re-imaged workstation, ready to be logged into again by the user, with no extra work at all.
At least, that's how I thought thats how every developer worked. I guess it must be different in small shops, with only 15,000 workstations.
People don't do things because they recieved a positive reward for doing it in the past. People do things because they expect a positive reward for it in the future. Often, the two are related. But, for gullible people involved in get-quick-rich schemes like sending spam, there often isn't any relation at all. Gullible people will send spam expecting to make money, and then, for any one of a thousand reasons, will tell other people they did make money. Now, more gullible people expect to make money sending spam.
Right now, spam is just another get-rich-quick scheme, just like multi-level marketing and late night real-estate infomercials. I have no reason to believe that the mouth-breathers bragging about getting rich sending spam are telling the truth. They tell people they are rich. They may even believe they are rich. But I have never seen any evidence (apart from their own testimony) that they are rich.
And, a thousand slashdot posts later, a million more people are convinced that people send spam because it makes money.
NO. People send spam because they're inconsiderate, stupid assholes hoping to get-rich-quick on the internet.
For telephone conversations that are broadcast outside of American jurisdiction: Yes, it is routine.
Do you recall when the hot-head Chinese pilot rammed the US reconnaissance plane three years ago? (Or, when the hot-head US pilot rammed the Chinese fighter plane, depending on which part of the world you live in.) What, exactly, do you think the tens of millions of dollars worth of signal processing computers on that plane were being used for? Why do you think the Chinese (and other countries) were so upset about our electronic reconnaissance? It's not because they're afraid we might get tapes of some doofus telling his mistress that he wishes he was a tampon so he could live in her pants.
And, if you believe this type of reconnaissance is done entirely for national security, you are badly mistaken.
The guy in India told you the truth -- he didn't know how the telnet interface worked, and he told you. The guy in America told you a bull-shit lie -- he didn't know how the telnet interface worked, so he told you that using it would void your warranty.
The primary value of a laptop is that everone else at the meeting is going to have a computer that looks exactly like yours. The primary value of a lunchbox is that everyone you meet is going to look at you like you have two heads and three arms.
A lunchbox may certainly be better, but I haven't seen one in real life for almost 20 years (well, I have one in my garage, but it's 20 years old). I'm not big on the whole "do what everyone else does" thing away from work, but at work I enjoy drawing attention to myself in positive ways, not by being strange and different.
I think this would be a great machine. I think every developer has had days that were nothing but
lug the laptop to the conference room and plug it in, followed by
lug the laptop to a co-workers desk and plug it in, followed by
lug the laptop back to your desk and plug it in, followed by
lug the laptop to the client's site and plug it in, followed by
lug the laptop home and plug it in
, just to do it all again in the next morning.
It's rare that I won't have power for more than a half hour at a time. But it's not rare to wish to have a portable computer that was cheaper, faster, and with a bigger screen.
newbies and technophobes -packages are the way they get stuff onto their machines
For any sane human being, packages are the way to get stuff onto a machines. If you can't find a package that works for your distribution, you should roll your own package.
The alternative is to do a make && make test && make install and hope like hell the make uninstall works the next time you want to upgrade. (Yeah, right).
The object of poker isn't to get the highest hand. That's just luck.
The object of poker is to make the most money. That's entirely skill.
Your chances of playing 20 hands and never having a higher hand than your hypothetical "newbie who never folds" are one in a million (actually, 1 in 2^20). Figuring out which hand is your winning hand, and figuring out how to make the other guy bet on his losing hand, involves skill, skill, skill, and skill.
Would you care to name a cardgame based on luck and chance? Unless you're playing a game geared towards five year olds, nearly all cardgames are games of skill.
The second modem that comes up claims to have a 16550/A compatible UART. Doesn't that mean it's not a Win Modem? I'm afraid I haven't used a modem in a long, long time, though -- I don't have a clue how you tell the difference between a WinModem and one with a built-in serial port.
Actually, aren't there Linux drivers for the more popular WinModems yet? Maybe unlike nVidia graphic cards, there isn't much geek market for low priced linux modems. Maybe the modem manufacturers know something you don't -- maybe anyone who uses Linux is going to be willing to pay extra for a decent external modem anyhow, since in general a Linux machine generally ends up costing more than a Windows machine anyhow.
You're free to buy cheap Nike shoes made by Vietnamese children in sweatshops, asshole. If you don't agree that sending American Boys to kill and die for the Freedom for the Consumer is a worthwhile cause, then you're either a traitor or a terrorist. Either way, you deserve to be publically hung by the neck until dead.
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Yeah, because everyone knows it's the language that matters, not the libraries. Maybe if they ported Linux and X to all the platforms...
(Of course it's on topic. I mentioned Linux, and this is Slashdot.)
Yeah, or it could all be developed in the same language, if a C compiler was available for all the machines.
My question is, would an internet website fall into that catigory [of sedition]
Asking if a website could be sedition is like asking if a handgun could be murder.
I like his sig. The Constitution Party dreams of someday being the American Taliban. I would encourage those nutjobs to advertise their beliefs every chance they get, so that the other 99% of the people on the planet know who to avoid.
Someone from the Constituion Party calling Libertarians the lunatic fringe is rich, sweet irony.
Keep your filthy, imaginary, shit-throwing sky ape out of my government.
Of course, I knew lots of people who said, "You know the scene where Neo shoots everything? That was the best part!"
The lobby scene and the helicopter scene were two of the best parts. The rain of empty shell casings below the door gun in the helicopter was beautiful -- visually, probably one of the most memorable scenes ever. And, the wire work in the lobby set new standards for action movies.
I don't know what parts of the movie you enjoyed. Until the second movie came out, I got a kick out of the Gnostic stuff and the other Stoner Philosophy 101 references. They were cool, they made the movie more fun to watch, and were decent filler between the awesome visuals and sound production. Sadly, I can't watch the filler between the cool parts of the movie anymore without whincing while thinking about the other two movies in the series. The sequels really ruined the original for me.
So, MySQL is distributed under the GPL, and PHP is distributed under a license incompatible with the GPL.
How is this MySQL's problem?
Flaws in the basic building blocks of networking and computer science... "It is time to ask the harder questions about the ways of computer architecture we've been using for the past 30 years. Is it time to scrap the von Neumann architecture?"
This is the only interesting part of the article. I couldn't care less what they do with the OSI layers. As long as someone writes about it as well as Stevens wrote about TCP/IP, it'll take me a month of reading and programming to get under my belt. We all learned Pascal, then C++, then C++ again when the standard came out, then Java, and Lisp, and Smalltalk, and Perl, andd Python, and C#, and a half-dozen more languages as the need came up. Now, you have to learn a few new networking layers and protocols. No big deal -- you should be pretty damned familiar with learning different implementations of stuff you already understand.
But, replacing the von Neumann architecture means changing just about everything I know. That's big. Everything is von Neumann. All the computational models, all the theory, all the basic underpinnings of what I know... it's all pretty much out the window once von Neumann goes. It's not just a dozen evenings at home with a book and reference implementation to relearn all of that stuff, either. It's relearning nearly all the Computer Science I know, and probably learning a whole bunch of new Maths to go with it.
That's gonna hurt.
Get the fuck off my lawn, you ingrates.
YHBT.
P.S. This post is valid XHTML, to the point that I can control.
It's people like you who have fucking ruined slashdot. You go around exposing the group think and the general shodiness of the moderation process. You and your ilk just have to point out that the Editors don't bother to read their own damn site, the posters don't read the articles, and the moderators don't bother to read the posts. You point out that Slashdot has a signal-to-noise ratio bigger than CmdrTaco's mom, and that no effort has been made to fix it.
And, now you're not even posting in fucking XHTML.
You fucking slashdot ruining asshole!
No, wait. Were you trolling me? Oh... nevermind. Carry on.
Is this "trolls in a circlejerk day" on Slashdot?
Could the two of you talk about how the robots you've invented in your mind are affected by the DMCA, the RIAA, and software patents?
Since you're using embedded linux, has SCO tried to sue you yet?
Has John fucking Titor come to steal your pretend robots yet?
Get the fuck off my lawn, you ingrates.
I think I understand the point you're trying to make, but I don't know if I agree. I don't believe that animated japanese movies are enjoyed only by painfully clueless people who live in their mother's basement, unable to carry on a normal conversation.
The question was, "why would a sub be an (intrinsically) better translation than a dub?" I imagine there are intelligent people out there who could give valid reasons. Just because most anime fans on this site come off even more clueless than the normal slashdot horde doesn't mean they're all incapable of delivering a coherent answer, as you implied.
if you want an accurate translation of the original script, that you should watch the films subtitled.
Why would the subtitles be any better translation than voice dubbing? If you really wanted an accurate translation of the original script, you should read the original script in japanese.
Yesterday, there were 20 accepted stories. It would be nearly impossible to edit all of those stories up the the standards required by a professional website. If you figure 20 minutes a story, that's over six hours of work, every single day!. Combined with school and a job and a social life, that's too much to expect from one one guy running a hobby website out of his dorm room in his spare time.
Developers need admin access to their development machines. They probably don't need admin access to their desktop machine (singular). Whether or not every developer has admin access on the integration machines is a choice for the development managers (not IT). Only a small subset of developers will have admin access on the staging/daily build servers. Almost no-one will have admin access on the live/final buid server.
And, why would your techs ned to reimage a workstation? Why can't the developers reimage the workstation themselves? It should be only a few clicks for a developer to re-image, and then perhaps a half hour or so of waiting while everything loads across the network and installs itself. After it reboots, *bing*, 100% complete re-imaged workstation, ready to be logged into again by the user, with no extra work at all.
At least, that's how I thought thats how every developer worked. I guess it must be different in small shops, with only 15,000 workstations.
People don't do things because they recieved a positive reward for doing it in the past. People do things because they expect a positive reward for it in the future. Often, the two are related. But, for gullible people involved in get-quick-rich schemes like sending spam, there often isn't any relation at all. Gullible people will send spam expecting to make money, and then, for any one of a thousand reasons, will tell other people they did make money. Now, more gullible people expect to make money sending spam.
Right now, spam is just another get-rich-quick scheme, just like multi-level marketing and late night real-estate infomercials. I have no reason to believe that the mouth-breathers bragging about getting rich sending spam are telling the truth. They tell people they are rich. They may even believe they are rich. But I have never seen any evidence (apart from their own testimony) that they are rich.
And, a thousand slashdot posts later, a million more people are convinced that people send spam because it makes money.
NO. People send spam because they're inconsiderate, stupid assholes hoping to get-rich-quick on the internet.
For telephone conversations that are broadcast outside of American jurisdiction: Yes, it is routine.
Do you recall when the hot-head Chinese pilot rammed the US reconnaissance plane three years ago? (Or, when the hot-head US pilot rammed the Chinese fighter plane, depending on which part of the world you live in.) What, exactly, do you think the tens of millions of dollars worth of signal processing computers on that plane were being used for? Why do you think the Chinese (and other countries) were so upset about our electronic reconnaissance? It's not because they're afraid we might get tapes of some doofus telling his mistress that he wishes he was a tampon so he could live in her pants.
And, if you believe this type of reconnaissance is done entirely for national security, you are badly mistaken.
The guy in India told you the truth -- he didn't know how the telnet interface worked, and he told you. The guy in America told you a bull-shit lie -- he didn't know how the telnet interface worked, so he told you that using it would void your warranty.
Yeah, outsourcing sucks.
The primary value of a laptop is that everone else at the meeting is going to have a computer that looks exactly like yours. The primary value of a lunchbox is that everyone you meet is going to look at you like you have two heads and three arms.
A lunchbox may certainly be better, but I haven't seen one in real life for almost 20 years (well, I have one in my garage, but it's 20 years old). I'm not big on the whole "do what everyone else does" thing away from work, but at work I enjoy drawing attention to myself in positive ways, not by being strange and different.
- lug the laptop to the conference room and plug it in, followed by
- lug the laptop to a co-workers desk and plug it in, followed by
- lug the laptop back to your desk and plug it in, followed by
- lug the laptop to the client's site and plug it in, followed by
- lug the laptop home and plug it in
, just to do it all again in the next morning.It's rare that I won't have power for more than a half hour at a time. But it's not rare to wish to have a portable computer that was cheaper, faster, and with a bigger screen.
newbies and technophobes -packages are the way they get stuff onto their machines
For any sane human being, packages are the way to get stuff onto a machines. If you can't find a package that works for your distribution, you should roll your own package.
The alternative is to do a make && make test && make install and hope like hell the make uninstall works the next time you want to upgrade. (Yeah, right).
The object of poker isn't to get the highest hand. That's just luck.
The object of poker is to make the most money. That's entirely skill.
Your chances of playing 20 hands and never having a higher hand than your hypothetical "newbie who never folds" are one in a million (actually, 1 in 2^20). Figuring out which hand is your winning hand, and figuring out how to make the other guy bet on his losing hand, involves skill, skill, skill, and skill.
Would you care to name a cardgame based on luck and chance? Unless you're playing a game geared towards five year olds, nearly all cardgames are games of skill.
How can you tell? What do you look for to say "this is a winmodem" ?
You've certainly already hit this: http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=half+height+in ternal+modem.
The second modem that comes up claims to have a 16550/A compatible UART. Doesn't that mean it's not a Win Modem? I'm afraid I haven't used a modem in a long, long time, though -- I don't have a clue how you tell the difference between a WinModem and one with a built-in serial port.
Actually, aren't there Linux drivers for the more popular WinModems yet? Maybe unlike nVidia graphic cards, there isn't much geek market for low priced linux modems. Maybe the modem manufacturers know something you don't -- maybe anyone who uses Linux is going to be willing to pay extra for a decent external modem anyhow, since in general a Linux machine generally ends up costing more than a Windows machine anyhow.
You're free to buy cheap Nike shoes made by
Vietnamese children in sweatshops, asshole. If you don't agree that sending American Boys to kill and die for the Freedom for the Consumer is a worthwhile cause, then you're either a traitor or a terrorist. Either way, you deserve to be publically hung by the neck until dead.