The best channel imo is the Discovery Science channel; unlike the regular Discovery channel, they run mainly one hour science shows; no cooking shows, fix-up-your-house shows, and best of all no infomercials (even in the middle of the night). If you're an insomniac there will usually be something cool on, like an episode of Connections.
No, Slashdot is what Slashdot is. No more, no less. You have some preconceived notion of what Slashdot *should* be. If you want something else, go somewhere else, because SLASHDOT ALWAYS HAS AND ALWAYS WILL(probably) REPORT ON SOFTWARE.
Geeze, calm down, you'd think he insulted you personally.
Slashdot is a public media publication; as such we're perfectly within our right to ask that it be changed. Of course every suggestion is buried under flaming rants insisting that if we don't like it we shouldn't read it.
It's kind of a grade-school logical construction; which can be dismantled thusly--if I didn't like reading slashdot, I wouldn't post suggestions for what in my mind would improve it. I wouldn't care at all.
Sure, I -might- buy it, if I had an HDTV. But since they insist on selling HDTVs for a few thousand dollars more than I'm willing to spend, I'll stick with DVDs. And so will everyone else.
Ah well, at least there's always amusement value in watching the movie companies waste money.
The question originally was, who pays for the SEC web sites?
The SEC.
So the question becomes, who pays for the SEC. The answer is, simply, only those who benefit from the SEC's operation. The SEC is funded by the fees investors pay on stock transactions, and this more than pays for the SEC budget. They decreased the fee last year because they were taking in several times what they spent, and the Republicans in Congress had a problem with that (personally, if the fees weren't onerous I think they should have kept it going at those rates)
This company is the same one that claimed to have cloned human embryos, so we're already aware of their preference of press releases to peer-reviewed journals.
Red Hat seems to be in way over its head; they've been overvalued for so long that people overestimate their presence in the IT market. It's entirely possible for Red Hat to make a profit at selling and servicing Linux, but the market just isn't big enough for a supposedly multi-billion dollar company. I don't blame them for keeping their distance from the investment community.
Yeah but the point is that many US organizations can afford, and do afford, a lot more than a T1.
Are T1 lines even remotely cost-effective anymore? I was under the impression that business-class cable or DSL lines could provide similiar speeds at a fraction of the price.
Well, not sure why everyone seems to assume I just made up that figure, but I'm curious to see what other people's calculations would be. I assumed a 1 inch sphere of titanium, though admittedly I fudged the air density and viscosity (well, I made sure they fell within the range of possible values for air at 0 atmospheres), but I wasn't going to kill myself over a comment on slashdot. If someone has a more accurate value, by all means post it.
If you get hit in the head by a piece of titanium travelling approximately 1300 feet per second, you probably won't have to worry about medical bills, or much of anything else for that matter.
Don't overreact; the Judge had to rule on law, and that's what she did. It's not like once the cameras are barred MS will be able to do something sneaky; the state AGs are not as sympathetic to MS as the Ashcroft "Justice" Department is.
Controversial maybe, but Darwin had a lot of supporters; his theories of evolution meshed very neatly with all the paleontological discoveries that had been made just before he published them. It catapulted him into the forefront of scientific discussion, and his name on it would have only been dismissed by ardent creationists. The scientific establishment would have had very little problem with it.
At some point you just have to say, "who cares?". What are hackers (oooh I didn't use the term crackers, quick flame him) going to gain from watching me read slashdot, or nytimes.com, or any number of sites I would read to stave off the mind-crushing boredom?
You're assuming that the human population will stay at relatively the same amount. If the earth and every planet we colonize colonizes another planet every 50 years or so, we'll run out of planets a lot sooner than you think.
As sent to the freebsd-announce mailing list, Kris Kennaway is resigning as Security Officer.
I didn't know any actually managed to make it long enough to resign. Aren't they usually killed a few minutes after they beam down to a planet, or blown up by an exploding console?
Sure, if you have to put it together yourself or buy it from some shady distributor on the Pacific Rim, or it's easily hackable. But retail-market consumer electronics that aren't meant to be taken apart often get blasted here...
Wait until we have portable videophones, where the person shows up in the monitor real-time.
Yeah, I know that this is slashdot, and I'm supposed to be all cynical about technology that doesn't have any real use, but that's going to be so freaking cool.
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When did we become such elitists?
This is Slashdot. Just about every post involves elitism, from the constant MS bashing, to the contempt towards the rest of the population for not subscribing to whatever extreme ideologies the posters do, to the reaction towards the most minor technical mistake with pages upon pages of scorn. Personally I find this amusing, though not out of extreme hatred of MS.
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The best channel imo is the Discovery Science channel; unlike the regular Discovery channel, they run mainly one hour science shows; no cooking shows, fix-up-your-house shows, and best of all no infomercials (even in the middle of the night). If you're an insomniac there will usually be something cool on, like an episode of Connections.
No, Slashdot is what Slashdot is. No more, no less. You have some preconceived notion of what Slashdot *should* be. If you want something else, go somewhere else, because SLASHDOT ALWAYS HAS AND ALWAYS WILL(probably) REPORT ON SOFTWARE.
Geeze, calm down, you'd think he insulted you personally.
Slashdot is a public media publication; as such we're perfectly within our right to ask that it be changed. Of course every suggestion is buried under flaming rants insisting that if we don't like it we shouldn't read it.
It's kind of a grade-school logical construction; which can be dismantled thusly--if I didn't like reading slashdot, I wouldn't post suggestions for what in my mind would improve it. I wouldn't care at all.
I like Red Hat, just like I like my local pizza place. My appreciation of them doesn't mean I think they should morph into Fortune 500 companies.
Sure, I -might- buy it, if I had an HDTV. But since they insist on selling HDTVs for a few thousand dollars more than I'm willing to spend, I'll stick with DVDs. And so will everyone else.
Ah well, at least there's always amusement value in watching the movie companies waste money.
The question originally was, who pays for the SEC web sites?
The SEC.
So the question becomes, who pays for the SEC. The answer is, simply, only those who benefit from the SEC's operation. The SEC is funded by the fees investors pay on stock transactions, and this more than pays for the SEC budget. They decreased the fee last year because they were taking in several times what they spent, and the Republicans in Congress had a problem with that (personally, if the fees weren't onerous I think they should have kept it going at those rates)
There's always the Frobozz Magical Pre-IPO Investment Company.
This company is the same one that claimed to have cloned human embryos, so we're already aware of their preference of press releases to peer-reviewed journals.
Red Hat seems to be in way over its head; they've been overvalued for so long that people overestimate their presence in the IT market. It's entirely possible for Red Hat to make a profit at selling and servicing Linux, but the market just isn't big enough for a supposedly multi-billion dollar company. I don't blame them for keeping their distance from the investment community.
Yeah but the point is that many US organizations can afford, and do afford, a lot more than a T1.
Are T1 lines even remotely cost-effective anymore? I was under the impression that business-class cable or DSL lines could provide similiar speeds at a fraction of the price.
Well, not sure why everyone seems to assume I just made up that figure, but I'm curious to see what other people's calculations would be. I assumed a 1 inch sphere of titanium, though admittedly I fudged the air density and viscosity (well, I made sure they fell within the range of possible values for air at 0 atmospheres), but I wasn't going to kill myself over a comment on slashdot. If someone has a more accurate value, by all means post it.
If you get hit in the head by a piece of titanium travelling approximately 1300 feet per second, you probably won't have to worry about medical bills, or much of anything else for that matter.
Don't overreact; the Judge had to rule on law, and that's what she did. It's not like once the cameras are barred MS will be able to do something sneaky; the state AGs are not as sympathetic to MS as the Ashcroft "Justice" Department is.
Controversial maybe, but Darwin had a lot of supporters; his theories of evolution meshed very neatly with all the paleontological discoveries that had been made just before he published them. It catapulted him into the forefront of scientific discussion, and his name on it would have only been dismissed by ardent creationists. The scientific establishment would have had very little problem with it.
At some point you just have to say, "who cares?". What are hackers (oooh I didn't use the term crackers, quick flame him) going to gain from watching me read slashdot, or nytimes.com, or any number of sites I would read to stave off the mind-crushing boredom?
Guglielmo Marconi is still around?! And still involved with wireless communication media, I see...
If SGI really wants to dominate a market, they should sell PC cases...I know I'd spend a hell of a lot of money on something that cool-looking.
Nothing like kicking a site when it's down.
Oh well said. All NASA seems to have done for the past few decades is Small Science, at Big Science prices.
We need more Freeman Dysons in NASA, and less accountants, bureacrats, and cogs-in-the-machine engineers.
It wouldn't be so bad if they don't plan everything so far in advance that they've even erased HOPE that they'll do something interesting.
Space should be opened up for everyone, not just those with advanced degrees in aeronautical engineering.
You're assuming that the human population will stay at relatively the same amount. If the earth and every planet we colonize colonizes another planet every 50 years or so, we'll run out of planets a lot sooner than you think.
It's our money, shouldn't we have a say as to what it should be spent on?
As sent to the freebsd-announce mailing list, Kris Kennaway is resigning as Security Officer.
I didn't know any actually managed to make it long enough to resign. Aren't they usually killed a few minutes after they beam down to a planet, or blown up by an exploding console?
Sure, if you have to put it together yourself or buy it from some shady distributor on the Pacific Rim, or it's easily hackable. But retail-market consumer electronics that aren't meant to be taken apart often get blasted here...
Wait until we have portable videophones, where the person shows up in the monitor real-time.
Yeah, I know that this is slashdot, and I'm supposed to be all cynical about technology that doesn't have any real use, but that's going to be so freaking cool.
When did we become such elitists?
This is Slashdot. Just about every post involves elitism, from the constant MS bashing, to the contempt towards the rest of the population for not subscribing to whatever extreme ideologies the posters do, to the reaction towards the most minor technical mistake with pages upon pages of scorn. Personally I find this amusing, though not out of extreme hatred of MS.
Oh, like there's much of anything outside the borders of NYC. I think it's safe to consider us the world, or the most important part of it...