Because looking at the other entries makes me feel the list is not even moderated and doesn't even "comply" with the morals of the Catholic Broadcast Organisation (KRO, but translated). There's one picture of a Turkisch woman ("Nilgün Yerli") with a subscript of "Turkse Troel", which could be considered quite derogatory (near the meaning of "Slut"). Others on the list also don't come close to the "pureness" of a saint, at least not from what I can tell.
And let's face it, people like Linus as a representative and leader of the kernel development, but I suspect nobody on the kernel mailinglist will call Linus a saint;-)
What if the entertainment industry did concentrate on making movies and distributing them in a free and copyable way and using open standards...
What fun would there be left for the geeks? Nothing to do all day but work(?), watch movies and play music freely... No more "who gets to break the latest copy-protection first"./. could just pack in and die with all those geeks happily enjoying their favorite movies all the time;-)
it's one thing to karma whore, it's another to accuse others of the offence, even though the posting you want modding down was 45 minutes earlier than the shameless, karma whoring copycat that's now somewhere at the top of the page...
karma sucks anyway, it's useful additions to the discussion that are valuable, dupes happen, live with it...
Being a "victim" of the telecom crash myself, I feel like speaking freely about the not so positive parts here...
In the last 5-10 years, there's been a constant push to develop more and newer technology to sell to willing customers (in the highly developed parts of the planet). This was in blind disregard of then common sense that enough is enough, if you don't need more features you're not going to buy it.
Meanwhile, the amount of technology standards and "blueprints" for communication systems is advanced enough to last quite a while without new developments. Some refinement is good, but wider implementation of this technology would do much more good in the world, for peace and equality (thereby reducing risks of conflict between nations and peoples!). If every moderately developed country would have basic internet and telephony services available for 80-90% of the people for reasonable prices. The world would be much better off than with another way to get broadband for a few above average rich people.
Of course, the need for food, shelter, education and freedom rises far above the need for communication and internet facilities. Also 3 million people a year are dying of aids, and so on and so forth... Life is not about more bandwidth (really!)
I can't help but notice that in this particular topic Funny seems to be the more popular rating...
Either the current set of moderators is on pills or worse, or the system is so flawed that a Funny:5 outweighs an Interesting:5 or Insightful:5 (or Informative:5).
I would suggest that a topic with an informative (or other serious positive attribute) rated comment should be placed above a similarly rated Funny rating. (Sorry for the spurious use of Rate*;-)
To me this is a topic devoid of any Fun. The mere fact that there are so many comments rated as funny suggests that posters/moderators are trying to reduce the seriousness of this topic.
Or is Slashdot secretly manipulated by DMCA supporters trying to limit the damage to their reputation;-)
I think you don't understand the principle of an act of civil disobedience in this manner...
See this comment: by Zathrus? which explains it very well.
There's also another comment by Bolke which also gives a hint about how this is commonly done in the Netherlands to overrule or straighten out laws using the justice system.
Disclaimer: I'm from the Netherlands, so the heat is still a few kms in front of me...
What I don't understand is that Bruce Perens is an exception to the rule. Whatever happened to civil disobedience as a way to make unambiguously clear that the government has gone too far and needs to rethink it's policies.
If Americans don't stand up more forcefully, the US will either infect the whole world with their orwellian shite or (I sure hope this happens) they will at some point in the near future be ignored as something that a free country cannot follow without losing essential freedoms.
Three cheers to Bruce Perens and anyone who follows his example!
I agree, size doesn't matter too much anymore soon. Of course people will keep dreaming up bigger things to store and games will probably keep coming on multiple discs.
But the most important things these days is bandwidth, there are now two major bottlenecks in a PC: from CPU to RAM and from RAM to permanent (random access) storage.
Also, as discs make more noise when they spin faster and people want ever more quiet PCs, the experienced noise of storage devices will most likely be a more important factor than how much it can store.
And probably energy consumption for portable devices...
This really looks like a bought statement, because it rephrases the well known point that standards promote competition, but it wrongly equals this with the dominant OS platform (which is dominant because of an illegal monopoly).
True, AMD benefits from the binary compatibility it has with Intel processors, but they wouldn't be interesting to consumers without the Windows monopoly. If any other OS would have been dominant (as much as MS windows) AMD would work towards running the same OS natively, because it sells CPUs...
On the other hand, if commercial drive had not occured as much as it has and standards would have been dominant on a different "layer" (application data, network protocols) the competition would be on which processors are best able to perform or are cheapest to produce or have the best operating power-usage.
Purely due to the monopoly, application (office) data is currently a (choking, uneasy) de facto standard and processors are (for the PC market) judged by how fast they can run windows. Of course, if AMD doesn't see any other OS taking over the dominant position, their strategy would be to sell as much CPUs for the dominant OS.
So basicly this says that AMD sees no competition upsetting the monopoly of MS, even with a negative outcome for MS in the trial.
Having read the site for compilercache, I fail to understand why the parent is (by some) moderated as funny.
It may be my lack of understanding, but it seems rather wasteful to recompile everything when only a few files are changed. Same goes for changed comments.
Ok, a NUMA achitecture is nice to have for compiling, but it's probably a lot more useful for things that cannot be cached at all (rendering, simulations, etc. they've been mentioned already).
I would moderate the parent as interesting or informative....
Of course, I realise this is from a european perspective, but apart from some module for the Visor, I haven't seen any GPRS support for PalmOS terminals. GPRS would be ideal for this kind of terminal!
Maybe an IPAQ with a GPRS pccard would cover that market, but IIRC that's a heavy load to carry around!
On a slightly different note, I'm looking for a replacement of my broken palmIII. I don't want to spend too much money on a device that won't be doing much more than note-taking and address-keeping (and encrypted password keeping!!!). So far, the only candidate that was affordable and sufficient was the Palm V(x), but that's no longer available in Europe (or even the US I believe). The others are too simple, clucky or expensive.
An IPAQ with linux on it would be interesting, but then that would have to support and synchronise with my Linux desktop for the applications I mentioned above, is that currently an option?
Twice I fell for the same mistake, $quot;Beginning/Prof. Linux Programming"
Linux is of course more than just the kernel, but the subjects covered in these books are mostly not Linux specific.
On the other hand, good books about beginning/advanced Linux Kernel Programming are hard to find or don't exist at all.
Or can someone recommend some good books on how to program (modules/networking/drivers) for the Linux Kernel?
I know this is (slightly) off-topic, but maybe of interest anyway...
recently I've been looking for an alternative to Mandrake (now running 8.0 with kde2.2), so I've been checking out the web-sites of Suse, Debian and now also Progeny Debian...
One thing both debian and mandrake have in common is a convenient way to get security updates. With suse and progeny, the process of getting updates and security fixes isn't very clear from the website. (they may have a similar tool/service like MandrakeUpdate or dselect, but I don't know if they check mirrors and security sites...)
So I guess the createria for selecting a distro, for me are:
ease of use/install
up-to-date apps/gui
security fixes and upgrades in one simple app
text-based configuration and package tools
... (probably a lot more, but the above are most important)
Of course Mandrakeforum is very interesting and useful for news and tips. I think more distros should have them!
Not just any black woman, but a smart one with a couple of PhD degrees in some technical or biological subject. She also must be a mother and probably a wife (although who needs a first man anyway).
You need someone who cares for your country and her children and has long term vision!
(answers to implied questions: no I'm not a US citizen, no I'm not a woman, no I'm not black, yes I do have a degree (not a PhD), no I don't have children and I also don't have a significant other)
Here's a workaround in case they don't have that fixed by the time the CD offically goes to press:
This is probably a very misleading statement in itself: From what I understand from the mandrakeforum, the official release that is going to be sold on CD will have the KDE2 release candidate, so it's probably the rc1 of mandrake 7.2 that will be sold in boxes. The 7.2 iso's were released when KDE2 packages were finished.
That means that the iso's are very likely more recent than cds in the boxes in stores!!!
Actually, this is not that strange a concept. In fact a lot of universities and companies are looking into ways to make something like this work in the real world.
Look at the Mobicom 2000 website to see what kind of subjects were presented and discussed there....
A lot of these research projects are funded by the millitary, because ad-hoc networks are an obvious solution for situations where you don't have or cannot trust the infrastructured networks (be they wireless or wired).
Both wireless LAN and Bluetooth are capable of ad-hoc networks, but higher layers (the IP layer) must have some form of configuration to talk to each other. This is being developed in the IETF in the MANET and ZeroConf working groups.
Speed of these networks will improve over time, the other developments are at least as important and they will take some more years to mature I believe, so when it all comes together, heaven is upon us;-)
Another interesting subject is ubiquitos or pervasive Internet. Meaning the accessibility of Internet in all (reasonably capable) devices and in all physical locations.
One complication is that Internet should not just be accessible to the rich, but also the poor and the people in the developing countries (this is important for a lot of reasons, but I digress...)
the I-paq does have some kind of expansion capability (see at compaq) unfortunately the expansions page is missing.
The demo I saw at Mobicom 2000 was pretty convincing and they had a sleeve for compact-flash and one for PC-cards. All that's needed is drivers for the ethernet and wireless lan cards.
For that matter, why just Ethernet support, I want wireless ethernet support, I hate wires!
Simon
Why is it that in these cases the people and the "law" always forget that it matters who said what and for what reason.
Of course, judging the severity of a lot of the above could be left to a judge and/or jury (whichever law-system your country/state has), but the people directly involved (the adults, not the kids) should be able to recognise the nature and severity of this case. Which is IMHO not that harmful and not that severe, considering that this is a pubescent teenager with his back against a wall.
Why don't the parents of either side's kids go talk to the school-management or each other? Solve this on the adult level, but out of courts...
Considering all the verbal abuse and other stuff in tv-series, movies, bathroom-walls, magazines, etc. It isn't surprising that Ian Lake didn't think he was breaking any laws. And to all those US-citizens: this isn't worth wasting your tax-money (or your childrens mental health) over!
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Especially when it gets built by !
Because looking at the other entries makes me feel the list is not even moderated and doesn't even "comply" with the morals of the Catholic Broadcast Organisation (KRO, but translated). There's one picture of a Turkisch woman ("Nilgün Yerli") with a subscript of "Turkse Troel", which could be considered quite derogatory (near the meaning of "Slut"). Others on the list also don't come close to the "pureness" of a saint, at least not from what I can tell.
;-)
And let's face it, people like Linus as a representative and leader of the kernel development, but I suspect nobody on the kernel mailinglist will call Linus a saint
(Sorry to burst your bubble...)
Simon
What if the entertainment industry did concentrate on making movies and distributing them in a free and copyable way and using open standards...
/. could just pack in and die with all those geeks happily enjoying their favorite movies all the time ;-)
What fun would there be left for the geeks? Nothing to do all day but work(?), watch movies and play music freely... No more "who gets to break the latest copy-protection first".
Exporting Stephen Hawking requires a lot more effort!
it's one thing to karma whore, it's another to accuse others of the offence, even though the posting you want modding down was 45 minutes earlier than the shameless, karma whoring copycat that's now somewhere at the top of the page...
karma sucks anyway, it's useful additions to the discussion that are valuable, dupes happen, live with it...
Being a "victim" of the telecom crash myself, I feel like speaking freely about the not so positive parts here...
In the last 5-10 years, there's been a constant push to develop more and newer technology to sell to willing customers (in the highly developed parts of the planet). This was in blind disregard of then common sense that enough is enough, if you don't need more features you're not going to buy it.
Meanwhile, the amount of technology standards and "blueprints" for communication systems is advanced enough to last quite a while without new developments. Some refinement is good, but wider implementation of this technology would do much more good in the world, for peace and equality (thereby reducing risks of conflict between nations and peoples!). If every moderately developed country would have basic internet and telephony services available for 80-90% of the people for reasonable prices. The world would be much better off than with another way to get broadband for a few above average rich people.
Of course, the need for food, shelter, education and freedom rises far above the need for communication and internet facilities. Also 3 million people a year are dying of aids, and so on and so forth... Life is not about more bandwidth (really!)
Simon
I can't help but notice that in this particular topic Funny seems to be the more popular rating...
;-)
;-)
Either the current set of moderators is on pills or worse, or the system is so flawed that a Funny:5 outweighs an Interesting:5 or Insightful:5 (or Informative:5).
I would suggest that a topic with an informative (or other serious positive attribute) rated comment should be placed above a similarly rated Funny rating. (Sorry for the spurious use of Rate*
To me this is a topic devoid of any Fun. The mere fact that there are so many comments rated as funny suggests that posters/moderators are trying to reduce the seriousness of this topic.
Or is Slashdot secretly manipulated by DMCA supporters trying to limit the damage to their reputation
Oh well, paranoia can only go so far...
Simon
I think you don't understand the principle of an act of civil disobedience in this manner...
See this comment: by Zathrus? which explains it very well.
There's also another comment by Bolke which also gives a hint about how this is commonly done in the Netherlands to overrule or straighten out laws using the justice system.
Disclaimer: I'm from the Netherlands, so the heat is still a few kms in front of me...
What I don't understand is that Bruce Perens is an exception to the rule. Whatever happened to civil disobedience as a way to make unambiguously clear that the government has gone too far and needs to rethink it's policies.
If Americans don't stand up more forcefully, the US will either infect the whole world with their orwellian shite or (I sure hope this happens) they will at some point in the near future be ignored as something that a free country cannot follow without losing essential freedoms.
Three cheers to Bruce Perens and anyone who follows his example!
Simon
But the most important things these days is bandwidth, there are now two major bottlenecks in a PC: from CPU to RAM and from RAM to permanent (random access) storage.
Also, as discs make more noise when they spin faster and people want ever more quiet PCs, the experienced noise of storage devices will most likely be a more important factor than how much it can store.
And probably energy consumption for portable devices...
sorry, I forgot to check anonymous coward...
no whoring intended
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde
ftp://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde (http)
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/desktops/kde/ (http)
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde (http)
ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde (http)
ftp://download.au.kde.org/pub/kde (http)
ftp://download.at.kde.org/pub/kde/ (http)
ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/mirrors/kde/ (http)
source: http://www.kde.org/ftpmirrors.html
This really looks like a bought statement, because it rephrases the well known point that standards promote competition, but it wrongly equals this with the dominant OS platform (which is dominant because of an illegal monopoly).
True, AMD benefits from the binary compatibility it has with Intel processors, but they wouldn't be interesting to consumers without the Windows monopoly. If any other OS would have been dominant (as much as MS windows) AMD would work towards running the same OS natively, because it sells CPUs...
On the other hand, if commercial drive had not occured as much as it has and standards would have been dominant on a different "layer" (application data, network protocols) the competition would be on which processors are best able to perform or are cheapest to produce or have the best operating power-usage.
Purely due to the monopoly, application (office) data is currently a (choking, uneasy) de facto standard and processors are (for the PC market) judged by how fast they can run windows. Of course, if AMD doesn't see any other OS taking over the dominant position, their strategy would be to sell as much CPUs for the dominant OS.
So basicly this says that AMD sees no competition upsetting the monopoly of MS, even with a negative outcome for MS in the trial.
I tried chat.cnn.com, but it doesn't have much channels right now, but I guess that could change quickly once it's slashdotted ;-)
Having read the site for compilercache, I fail to understand why the parent is (by some) moderated as funny.
It may be my lack of understanding, but it seems rather wasteful to recompile everything when only a few files are changed. Same goes for changed comments.
Ok, a NUMA achitecture is nice to have for compiling, but it's probably a lot more useful for things that cannot be cached at all (rendering, simulations, etc. they've been mentioned already).
I would moderate the parent as interesting or informative....
Of course, I realise this is from a european perspective, but apart from some module for the Visor, I haven't seen any GPRS support for PalmOS terminals. GPRS would be ideal for this kind of terminal!
Maybe an IPAQ with a GPRS pccard would cover that market, but IIRC that's a heavy load to carry around!
On a slightly different note, I'm looking for a replacement of my broken palmIII. I don't want to spend too much money on a device that won't be doing much more than note-taking and address-keeping (and encrypted password keeping!!!). So far, the only candidate that was affordable and sufficient was the Palm V(x), but that's no longer available in Europe (or even the US I believe). The others are too simple, clucky or expensive.
An IPAQ with linux on it would be interesting, but then that would have to support and synchronise with my Linux desktop for the applications I mentioned above, is that currently an option?
/Simon
Twice I fell for the same mistake, $quot;Beginning/Prof. Linux Programming"
Linux is of course more than just the kernel, but the subjects covered in these books are mostly not Linux specific.
On the other hand, good books about beginning/advanced Linux Kernel Programming are hard to find or don't exist at all.
Or can someone recommend some good books on how to program (modules/networking/drivers) for the Linux Kernel?
Ok, so the next version will close the connection in 1 minute. I don't see this helping in the future...
I know this is (slightly) off-topic, but maybe of interest anyway...
recently I've been looking for an alternative to Mandrake (now running 8.0 with kde2.2), so I've been checking out the web-sites of Suse, Debian and now also Progeny Debian...
One thing both debian and mandrake have in common is a convenient way to get security updates. With suse and progeny, the process of getting updates and security fixes isn't very clear from the website. (they may have a similar tool/service like MandrakeUpdate or dselect, but I don't know if they check mirrors and security sites...)
So I guess the createria for selecting a distro, for me are:
Of course Mandrakeforum is very interesting and useful for news and tips. I think more distros should have them!
is a black woman for president!
Not just any black woman, but a smart one with a couple of PhD degrees in some technical or biological subject. She also must be a mother and probably a wife (although who needs a first man anyway).
You need someone who cares for your country and her children and has long term vision!
(answers to implied questions: no I'm not a US citizen, no I'm not a woman, no I'm not black, yes I do have a degree (not a PhD), no I don't have children and I also don't have a significant other)
This is probably a very misleading statement in itself: From what I understand from the mandrakeforum, the official release that is going to be sold on CD will have the KDE2 release candidate, so it's probably the rc1 of mandrake 7.2 that will be sold in boxes. The 7.2 iso's were released when KDE2 packages were finished.
That means that the iso's are very likely more recent than cds in the boxes in stores!!!
please someone say I'm wrong.....
Look at the Mobicom 2000 website to see what kind of subjects were presented and discussed there....
A lot of these research projects are funded by the millitary, because ad-hoc networks are an obvious solution for situations where you don't have or cannot trust the infrastructured networks (be they wireless or wired).
Both wireless LAN and Bluetooth are capable of ad-hoc networks, but higher layers (the IP layer) must have some form of configuration to talk to each other. This is being developed in the IETF in the MANET and ZeroConf working groups.
Speed of these networks will improve over time, the other developments are at least as important and they will take some more years to mature I believe, so when it all comes together, heaven is upon us ;-)
Another interesting subject is ubiquitos or pervasive Internet. Meaning the accessibility of Internet in all (reasonably capable) devices and in all physical locations.
One complication is that Internet should not just be accessible to the rich, but also the poor and the people in the developing countries (this is important for a lot of reasons, but I digress...)
The demo I saw at Mobicom 2000 was pretty convincing and they had a sleeve for compact-flash and one for PC-cards. All that's needed is drivers for the ethernet and wireless lan cards.
For that matter, why just Ethernet support, I want wireless ethernet support, I hate wires! Simon
Isn't it a lot cheaper to put the movie on a harddisk and ship it using snail-mail?
Or do they have such a tight JIT schedule?
Why is it that in these cases the people and the "law" always forget that it matters who said what and for what reason.
Of course, judging the severity of a lot of the above could be left to a judge and/or jury (whichever law-system your country/state has), but the people directly involved (the adults, not the kids) should be able to recognise the nature and severity of this case. Which is IMHO not that harmful and not that severe, considering that this is a pubescent teenager with his back against a wall.
Why don't the parents of either side's kids go talk to the school-management or each other? Solve this on the adult level, but out of courts...
Considering all the verbal abuse and other stuff in tv-series, movies, bathroom-walls, magazines, etc. It isn't surprising that Ian Lake didn't think he was breaking any laws. And to all those US-citizens: this isn't worth wasting your tax-money (or your childrens mental health) over!