I don't want to stream audio from the net ever, actually. I want physical objects I can put, physically, into physical devices. I want to be able to put them on a rack when I'm not using them so visitors can admire my taste in music by simply looking at the shelves...
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Re:end of pay phones?!?
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No no no! It was the rest of the Golgafrinchams who died of a disease contracted from a dirty telephone. The Telephone Sanitisers made it to Fintlewoodlewix safe and sound!
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Re:Found it... sort of.
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That's the thing that really pisses me off. Everybody out there wants everything handed to them on a plate - everything free. Bollocks. The world does not work like that.
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Similarly, I have seen a lot of Douglas Adams stuff online, but I don't know if he knows about it. However, I hope he approves.
Actually, I believe that Adams will sue the arse off anyone infringing his copyright, and quite right too. I believe his lawyers have already shut down a few people for this very crime.
Harlan Ellison may be a complete pain in the arse, but he's right. Copyright theft is evil, and it's time all you "We want everything handed to us on a plate and we don't want to pay for it ever" mob grew up and realised that you are ruining people's livelihoods!
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Of course, you do realise that the vast majority of the population are going to think this is a book about breaking into computers, don't you. After all, that is pretty much what the word actually means now to the man in the street
(who used to think it was someone not terribly good at something).
The whole thing sounds deeply nauseating and glad I threw my copy of "The Hacker's Dictionary" in the bin some time ago.
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Umm, Photoshop supports industry standards such as CMYK and Pantone(TM), and Gimp doesn't?
Don't get me wrong, I think Gimp is a great package for what it is, and if you just want to noodle around with scanned in photos then it's brilliant. Then again nobody is going to buy Photoshop for home use anyway, so Adobe don't really lose out in that market (Unless you have more money than sense, of course, in which you may buy Photoshop for messing about with).
But for professional use, if it doesn't support the industry standards, then it's just a toy.
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My guess is Erhardt (sp?) Seminar Training. Some wacky mind-control thing where you spend from 9 am until midnight locked in a room and degraded by their wacky mind-control programmers, and not even allowed to go to the toilet alone, for two whole days until you are A Better Person.
Complete Bollocks! And more than a little sinister. Offshoots of this cult include Life Training which works in exactly the same way, and each inductee will try to recruit everyone they know or cut them off entirely and never speak to them again...
Not just complete bollocks, but evil bollocks!
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What happened in Space:1999 was that the moon was being used as a vast nuclear waste dump, but a spacecraft ferrying loads into the dump crashed, this ignited the nuclear waste and drove the moon out of orbit.
Nobody ever even attempted to explain how come if the moon was going so fast it could travel between solar systems in a week, that it could slow down enough in solar systems that the workhorse "Eagle" ships could go from the moon to a nearby planet and back again!
Bad science! Very Bad Science Indeed!
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Re:A community site deserves the BBC.
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You really are a know-nothing bozo, you know that, don't you?
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As a television licence payer...
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I'd rather the BBC put its money into developing new and worthwhile television and radio programming, rather than bailing out some failed dot-com that was only ever somewhere else on the internet where people can talk bollocks. As if there weren't already enough of those!
Bad move BBC, you don't need a financial black hole like h2g2!
As a Hitch-Hiker fan, I'd like to see Douglas Adams WRITE A NOVEL!!! Maybe he's forgotten how or something, but for the last almost ten years all he's done is generate clouds of hot air.
Oi! Adams! Nooo!!! Stop generating enormous piles of bullshit and do what made you famous enough to generate those piles in the first place!
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VaLinux was and probably always will be a company that builds expensive linux machines for elite linux users
According to this article at The Register,...the company would discontinue building custom hardware. "It was never core to our business model and we can't afford those investments,"...
Again, according to the Reg, VA are going to be concentrating on software engineering and software customisation.
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Words fail me to express just how much this kind of thing really pisses me off. Not only were the moon landings America's greatest achievement, but the greatest achievement in world history. MEN WALKED ON THE MOON
It really pisses me off when loonies, nitwits and nincompoops deny this with some mad story proving that they have long relinquished any grasp on reality that they ever may have had.
A couple of years ago I saw David Percy expound his loony theories at the Fortean Times convention in London. I have seldom heard such outright bollocks, and I'm glad to say that he was resoundedly heckled by the audience.
The thing that really scares me is that, well, it's getting on for thirty years since the last moon landing, and I'm scared programmes like this will lead to future generations accepting these crackpot theories.
I may be invoking Godwin's law, but wasn't it Goebbels who said if a lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth, or something like that? And he didn't have the benefit of lies repeated on international television!
We need to refute the loony conspiracists at every turn. They Are WRONG and They Are MAD
And I'm really pissed off about this.
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"This redneck will take a raincheck
On that cybersex.
It's just new fangled chicken chokin'
For that Generation X.
I need me a real live woman
Who's sittin' on top and damn near comin,
I reject Cybersex"
Is it adultery? Only if wanking counts as adultery.
Just as I was thinking that psychology types writing books about cybersex was so early 90's, too. Oh dear.
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Missed a few points there.
1. Modern computers are far more liable to fail in space NO MATTER what software they run. This is due to increased radiation outside the atmosphere interfering with the CPU. Even if you run Linux! This is the reason why CPUs used in space vehicles are outdated, because they have gone through a vigourous hardening and testing procedure to check their suitability to space travel. i.e. the recent computer upgrade to the Hubble involved a processor (486, wasn't it?) many years obsolete by desktop standards. But it was a specially radiation-hardened chip and so less liable to fail in space.
2. If an astronaut's laptop running email crashes, this is not a big deal. If the space shuttle's guidance computer crashes, this IS a big deal. This is why they've not upgraded the systems much over the years. This is why aerospace companies have very strict protocols of design - Rapid Application Development is NOT what they want! They want very slow and careful application development using formal methods. (IMHO, Open Source wouldn't work. Joe Hacker may be a linux whizkid but does he know about telemetry? Thrust vectors? Navigation? Do you trust him to?) The last programming problem was Ariane, as far as I know. and they fixed that by the time they launched the second one.
The reason this Apollo Guidance Computer is designed like this is because it was the best they could do at the time, and as someone else commented, wasn't quite good enough as Neil Armstrong had to fly the LEM out of the programmed course to a safe landing.
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Well said!
That's the thing that sometimes pisses me off on Slashdot. Everyone's oh so quick with the putdowns and alleged jokes, but nobody seems to engage their brain and actually THINK.
This kind of technology when perfected will be a boon to all but the most severely disabled, allowing them to operate machinery both to improve their lifestyle and to take jobs they may be currently unable to do.
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Nice to see that Europe is leading the way on this. After all, Dresdner is based in Frankfurt and London...
Makes a nice change from all the Amerocentric stuff...
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Ah well. At least this may advance space travel. Wars (and preparation for wars) have always advanced technology some - planes, computers, jet engines, rocketry. etc.
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They NEED to have editors, and lots of them.
(A) to filter out the crap which they will most assuredly get.
(B) to check that submissions aren't ripped off Britannica or Encarta or Funk & Wagnall or whatever. It may balk RMS to have his editors use Encarta, but they'll need to. If it turns out an entry in this is ripped off, they will have their arses sued off before you can say 'Zygote'.
(C) To check spelling and grammar. Really.
How they're going to reward all these editors is another thing. Professional editors don't work for free...
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Slashdot Mirror
So where the hell do all these shite "Police's funniest home videos" programmes they show on Sky come from?
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
I don't want to stream audio from the net ever, actually. I want physical objects I can put, physically, into physical devices. I want to be able to put them on a rack when I'm not using them so visitors can admire my taste in music by simply looking at the shelves...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
No no no! It was the rest of the Golgafrinchams who died of a disease contracted from a dirty telephone. The Telephone Sanitisers made it to Fintlewoodlewix safe and sound!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Sod the shoe phone.. look at THESE!
Hubba Hubba!
(Yes, I know I'm sad!)
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APPLAUSE
That's the thing that really pisses me off. Everybody out there wants everything handed to them on a plate - everything free. Bollocks. The world does not work like that.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Similarly, I have seen a lot of Douglas Adams stuff online, but I don't know if he knows about it. However, I hope he approves.
Actually, I believe that Adams will sue the arse off anyone infringing his copyright, and quite right too. I believe his lawyers have already shut down a few people for this very crime.
Harlan Ellison may be a complete pain in the arse, but he's right. Copyright theft is evil, and it's time all you "We want everything handed to us on a plate and we don't want to pay for it ever" mob grew up and realised that you are ruining people's livelihoods!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Of course, you do realise that the vast majority of the population are going to think this is a book about breaking into computers, don't you. After all, that is pretty much what the word actually means now to the man in the street (who used to think it was someone not terribly good at something).
The whole thing sounds deeply nauseating and glad I threw my copy of "The Hacker's Dictionary" in the bin some time ago.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Umm, Photoshop supports industry standards such as CMYK and Pantone(TM), and Gimp doesn't?
Don't get me wrong, I think Gimp is a great package for what it is, and if you just want to noodle around with scanned in photos then it's brilliant. Then again nobody is going to buy Photoshop for home use anyway, so Adobe don't really lose out in that market (Unless you have more money than sense, of course, in which you may buy Photoshop for messing about with).
But for professional use, if it doesn't support the industry standards, then it's just a toy.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
My guess is Erhardt (sp?) Seminar Training. Some wacky mind-control thing where you spend from 9 am until midnight locked in a room and degraded by their wacky mind-control programmers, and not even allowed to go to the toilet alone, for two whole days until you are A Better Person.
Complete Bollocks! And more than a little sinister. Offshoots of this cult include Life Training which works in exactly the same way, and each inductee will try to recruit everyone they know or cut them off entirely and never speak to them again...
Not just complete bollocks, but evil bollocks!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
I've just remembered who Alan Cox reminds me of.
"Adam Douglas" in Gary Spencer Milledge's "STRANGEHAVEN" comic.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
What happened in Space:1999 was that the moon was being used as a vast nuclear waste dump, but a spacecraft ferrying loads into the dump crashed, this ignited the nuclear waste and drove the moon out of orbit.
Nobody ever even attempted to explain how come if the moon was going so fast it could travel between solar systems in a week, that it could slow down enough in solar systems that the workhorse "Eagle" ships could go from the moon to a nearby planet and back again!
Bad science! Very Bad Science Indeed!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
You really are a know-nothing bozo, you know that, don't you?
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
I'd rather the BBC put its money into developing new and worthwhile television and radio programming, rather than bailing out some failed dot-com that was only ever somewhere else on the internet where people can talk bollocks. As if there weren't already enough of those! Bad move BBC, you don't need a financial black hole like h2g2! As a Hitch-Hiker fan, I'd like to see Douglas Adams WRITE A NOVEL!!! Maybe he's forgotten how or something, but for the last almost ten years all he's done is generate clouds of hot air. Oi! Adams! Nooo!!! Stop generating enormous piles of bullshit and do what made you famous enough to generate those piles in the first place!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
VaLinux was and probably always will be a company that builds expensive linux machines for elite linux users
...the company would discontinue building custom hardware. "It was never core to our business model and we can't afford those investments," ...
Again, according to the Reg, VA are going to be concentrating on software engineering and software customisation.
According to this article at The Register,
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Words fail me to express just how much this kind of thing really pisses me off. Not only were the moon landings America's greatest achievement, but the greatest achievement in world history.
MEN WALKED ON THE MOON
It really pisses me off when loonies, nitwits and nincompoops deny this with some mad story proving that they have long relinquished any grasp on reality that they ever may have had.
A couple of years ago I saw David Percy expound his loony theories at the Fortean Times convention in London. I have seldom heard such outright bollocks, and I'm glad to say that he was resoundedly heckled by the audience.
The thing that really scares me is that, well, it's getting on for thirty years since the last moon landing, and I'm scared programmes like this will lead to future generations accepting these crackpot theories.
I may be invoking Godwin's law, but wasn't it Goebbels who said if a lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth, or something like that? And he didn't have the benefit of lies repeated on international television!
We need to refute the loony conspiracists at every turn. They Are WRONG and They Are MAD
And I'm really pissed off about this.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
In the words of the legendary Mojo Nixon,
"This redneck will take a raincheck
On that cybersex.
It's just new fangled chicken chokin'
For that Generation X.
I need me a real live woman
Who's sittin' on top and damn near comin,
I reject Cybersex"
Is it adultery? Only if wanking counts as adultery.
Just as I was thinking that psychology types writing books about cybersex was so early 90's, too. Oh dear.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
But you'd be nowhere without the Chinese. They invented gunpowder centuries before America existed.
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Ok, so Britain decides to do this, all by themselves
So? We just want better weather!
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Missed a few points there. 1. Modern computers are far more liable to fail in space NO MATTER what software they run. This is due to increased radiation outside the atmosphere interfering with the CPU. Even if you run Linux! This is the reason why CPUs used in space vehicles are outdated, because they have gone through a vigourous hardening and testing procedure to check their suitability to space travel. i.e. the recent computer upgrade to the Hubble involved a processor (486, wasn't it?) many years obsolete by desktop standards. But it was a specially radiation-hardened chip and so less liable to fail in space.
2. If an astronaut's laptop running email crashes, this is not a big deal. If the space shuttle's guidance computer crashes, this IS a big deal. This is why they've not upgraded the systems much over the years. This is why aerospace companies have very strict protocols of design - Rapid Application Development is NOT what they want! They want very slow and careful application development using formal methods. (IMHO, Open Source wouldn't work. Joe Hacker may be a linux whizkid but does he know about telemetry? Thrust vectors? Navigation? Do you trust him to?) The last programming problem was Ariane, as far as I know. and they fixed that by the time they launched the second one. The reason this Apollo Guidance Computer is designed like this is because it was the best they could do at the time, and as someone else commented, wasn't quite good enough as Neil Armstrong had to fly the LEM out of the programmed course to a safe landing.
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Well said!
That's the thing that sometimes pisses me off on Slashdot. Everyone's oh so quick with the putdowns and alleged jokes, but nobody seems to engage their brain and actually THINK.
This kind of technology when perfected will be a boon to all but the most severely disabled, allowing them to operate machinery both to improve their lifestyle and to take jobs they may be currently unable to do.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Nice to see that Europe is leading the way on this. After all, Dresdner is based in Frankfurt and London...
Makes a nice change from all the Amerocentric stuff...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Ah well. At least this may advance space travel. Wars (and preparation for wars) have always advanced technology some - planes, computers, jet engines, rocketry. etc.
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Nobody (least nobody posting at >=1) seems to have pointed out the obvious parallel here.
Linus Torvalds is Finnish
Nokia are Finnish
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This sounds like it could easily become the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Earth
But h2g2 is already supposed to be that!
Although admittedly they both stand the same chance, which is probably not very much.
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They NEED to have editors, and lots of them.
(A) to filter out the crap which they will most assuredly get.
(B) to check that submissions aren't ripped off Britannica or Encarta or Funk & Wagnall or whatever. It may balk RMS to have his editors use Encarta, but they'll need to. If it turns out an entry in this is ripped off, they will have their arses sued off before you can say 'Zygote'.
(C) To check spelling and grammar. Really.
How they're going to reward all these editors is another thing. Professional editors don't work for free...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems