This is not a troll/flamebait. Mods, keep your pants on.
If OpenSSH is open source, and it is known that there *is* a hole in it, why are people on/. running around like chickens with their heads cut off clammoring about how the person who found it should tell us what it is? The whole idea is that "many eyes..." so why didn't we just go out and find it?
SearchEngineWatch.com was compared the good and the bad of both engine. And so it begins
They wrote the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time. Quotes here anyone? Is this a quote? Are they summarizing? We'll never know
Whenever you type in a query, we're actually looking for the communities after you type the query. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. Google's approach or Teoma's approach??
It's also unlike the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories. Last time I checked, "the approach" was singular
I'm not trying to be a troll or a grammar_nazi here, but is just a little proofreading too much to ask for? This write-up is nearing the 1.0 sentence-to-error ratio
Apparently the moonbouncing site is being updated from at least beyond Alpha Centuri, seeing as how its design dates from circa 1996. *cowers under desk from BLINK tag flashbacks*
Poorly made cars cost the US $XX Billion/year, shoddy toilet seats cause millions in health insurance costs, and badly done yardwork costs millions in property value reductions.
Seriously though, why do people expect software to be perfect? It's designed by humans, made by humans, tested by humans, and used by humans. I'd be willing to bet that 85% of the people complaining about some bug in their software are the same people that opted to get the new version 3 months earlier and for 2/3 the cost than to get the "perfect" version that would have taken longer and cost more money.
The situation is a basic economic trade-off. Consumers are consistently choosing to save money when contracting for software without realizing that, hey, big surprise, the money you're not spending is the money that was going to fix all the bugs that are costing productivity now.
Software makers are only to blame in that they offer their customers the option to have buggy software sooner rather than tested software later. If these organizations would stop trying to cut corners and not squeeze every last drop of blood out of the developers in an effort to get the product out the door by the end of the week, maybe it wouldn't be crashing every half hour. When was the last time you heard about engineers taking shortcuts to make sure a construction project finished on time? It's unheard of in physical projects, but in software, consumers think they can get ahead by not waiting/paying for a completely finished product
These CD's aren't about stopping Napster/Morpheus/Kazaa/etc, they're about taking away our right to time shift and give the record companies the ability to charge us over and over again for the same music.
Team leader Dr Ping Koy Lam says it involved creating a laser beam, its disembodiment and the recreation of the original beam in a different location
The team was understood to be using a device known to insiders as a "video camera", although how it functions exactly was not disclosed during their press release
I always thought of the explosion sounds in space as being heard from inside the exploding object, not at camera. This accounts for both the synchronicity of the sound and the image, and the fact that there's any sound at all. Not to mention, IT'S A FREAKING MOVIE/TV SHOW, get over yourselves!
I don't understand why this was even posted. Is michael in a bad mood? Was someone amused, informed, or given insight by this review? U-571 is over a year old. Maybe I can submit a scathing review of Mission to Mars that spoils the ending and gives the reader no insight whatsoever about why someone might actually like the movie?
Honestly, if I saw a nearly two-year-old movie that was as bad as Daryl here makes it out to be, I'd get on with my life instead of writing a two page review that makes up words like "esplode" and submitting it to slashdot. This review doesn't accomplish anything -- I don't think anyone who doesn't pursue the genre would rent this movie in the first place, and even if they did, it wouldn't be such a great tragedy that we need to prevent it by posting reviews online.
Why don't we have useful reviews about current movies? You know, the kind that tell you "This is a great movie for war buffs" or "Don't see this if you don't like cheesy special effect explosions", and can actually be used to select what movie you're going to go see with your friends on Friday? I'm not going to go so far as to say JonKatz writes better reviews ("I snuck in through the air vent so I wouldn't have to pay to see K-Pax, but I left after 20 minutes anyway when I found out it wasn't about alien abductions after all"), but this review is like watching Harry Knowles lecture you about the new series on the sci-fi channel, corn-nut breath and all.
One problem with the new faster-than-God chips is that the clock signal has to switch every clock cycle (duh). Most waste heat comes from the switching from 1 to 0 or vice versa, so that shiny new 1.7 GHz P4 laptop is going to be making that clock signal heat 3 times faster than the 600 MHz machine you're using now. If CPU makers went for more aggressive parallelism (AMD for x86, IA-64 long term, etc) the clock wouldn't need to switch nearly as fast, saving us a lot of wasted energy. Of course, Joe Consumer is still only looking at the clock speed when buying a new laptop, so manufacturers are stuck to following the market and driving battery life into the ground
Email on your sleeve?
on
Paintable LCDs
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· Score: 4, Funny
Slim, plastic LCDs sewn into fabric could display e-mail or text messages on your sleeve.'
Just great, the next MS email virus is going to spam my shirt sleeve with "--> IDIOT HERE -->" text to let everyone know I'm not using a secure email client:(
The study also found that adults were attracted to articles with bolded text which was used for spelling out everything for people who don't like to actually invoke reading comprehension, although some words and phrases were randomly bolded for no apparent reason.
{Name} from {site} wrote in to tell us about a new [disc/disk/cd/drive/toaster] that can hold [10/100/1000/5000] [MB/GB/TB/PB] and is backward compatible with [nothing/5 1/2" floppy drives/iomega clik!]. The new format is only [.25/1/5] [mm/inches/yards] across and is resistant to [scratches/heat/proton decay]. Unfortunately, due to [patents/liscensing issues/censorship] from [MS/USPS/IBM/Disney] this will probably never get off the ground. Guess I'll stick to using [DVD-RAM/punch cards/LS-120] for now.
I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that a subscription service better do more than just disable ads. The editing here leaves a lot to be desired. In short:
Use a spell-checker! It dose bother sone of us!
Actually read the article before posting a link to it. By read, I mean, read, not "skim", not "make sure it's not goatse.cx", not "post and let a +5 comment tell you what it actually said"
Some shred of discretion instead of posting anti-MS blabber attached to anything even remotely related to the company
Link-checking. See #2. The article earlier about the football team blaming linux that was actually from a sports humor columnist? Hello?
Reposting. I don't like to get deja vu when I read a news site, it makes me wonder if I'm senile
This may be the new internet economy, but I think/.'ers want more than not-ads for their money
1) Taco is referring to the RIAA boycott, and has given up (due to...?)
2) Napster is shut down and he's too lazy to run gnutella to do his music piracy
Either way it's a nice way to start a flame war in the comments section, which seems to be all Taco's commentary seems to be good for
President G.W. Bush announced a plan for the new "Meteor Wars" meteoroid defense plan, which would help protect Americans from malicious extra-terrestrial projectiles.
"Although America does not cover a large portion of the Earth's surface, it is largest in its heart, and that is what we must protect" said the President last Monday, ignoring protestors yielding placards bearing the slogan "Outer space is mother nature too, let meteors live"
The current design involves launching a pre-emptive nuclear missile into the upper atmosphere, detonating near the meteor and deflecting its path toward nations such as Canada or France.
Colin Powell remarked about the new plan, "We feel we can obtain up to 95% accuracy in detonating these missiles above ground. The environmental consequences of the nuclear material will be minimal, as most detonations should talk place above Montana or North Dakota."
Slashdot Mirror
..or you can finger him... /.ers fingering him at once*
*pictures thousands of
I think this is going to be a very uncomfortable day for someone
I think the /. editors are probably the last people that should be making quips about grammar, especially aimed at a system that can spell correctly
(-1, Flamebait)
(-1, Troll)
This is not a troll/flamebait. Mods, keep your pants on.
/. running around like chickens with their heads cut off clammoring about how the person who found it should tell us what it is? The whole idea is that "many eyes ..." so why didn't we just go out and find it?
If OpenSSH is open source, and it is known that there *is* a hole in it, why are people on
SearchEngineWatch.com was compared the good and the bad of both engine.
And so it begins
They wrote the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time.
Quotes here anyone? Is this a quote? Are they summarizing? We'll never know
Whenever you type in a query, we're actually looking for the communities after you type the query. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system.
Google's approach or Teoma's approach??
It's also unlike the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories.
Last time I checked, "the approach" was singular
I'm not trying to be a troll or a grammar_nazi here, but is just a little proofreading too much to ask for? This write-up is nearing the 1.0 sentence-to-error ratio
Apparently the moonbouncing site is being updated from at least beyond Alpha Centuri, seeing as how its design dates from circa 1996. *cowers under desk from BLINK tag flashbacks*
Poorly made cars cost the US $XX Billion/year, shoddy toilet seats cause millions in health insurance costs, and badly done yardwork costs millions in property value reductions.
Seriously though, why do people expect software to be perfect? It's designed by humans, made by humans, tested by humans, and used by humans. I'd be willing to bet that 85% of the people complaining about some bug in their software are the same people that opted to get the new version 3 months earlier and for 2/3 the cost than to get the "perfect" version that would have taken longer and cost more money.
The situation is a basic economic trade-off. Consumers are consistently choosing to save money when contracting for software without realizing that, hey, big surprise, the money you're not spending is the money that was going to fix all the bugs that are costing productivity now.
Software makers are only to blame in that they offer their customers the option to have buggy software sooner rather than tested software later. If these organizations would stop trying to cut corners and not squeeze every last drop of blood out of the developers in an effort to get the product out the door by the end of the week, maybe it wouldn't be crashing every half hour. When was the last time you heard about engineers taking shortcuts to make sure a construction project finished on time? It's unheard of in physical projects, but in software, consumers think they can get ahead by not waiting/paying for a completely finished product
Although as the article says, it will be a while before we can pit androids vs humans on the same field....."
:)
Unless, of course, those androids happen to be buzzsaw wielding, flame throwing, high voltage instruments of death himself (and we mix up the rules a bit)
Let's face it, you'd watch it
I think this is a good sign that it's time to throw out my 8-track player
CDs designed to thwart Napster-style piracy...
These CD's aren't about stopping Napster/Morpheus/Kazaa/etc, they're about taking away our right to time shift and give the record companies the ability to charge us over and over again for the same music.
Team leader Dr Ping Koy Lam says it involved creating a laser beam, its disembodiment and the recreation of the original beam in a different location
The team was understood to be using a device known to insiders as a "video camera", although how it functions exactly was not disclosed during their press release
I always thought of the explosion sounds in space as being heard from inside the exploding object, not at camera. This accounts for both the synchronicity of the sound and the image, and the fact that there's any sound at all. Not to mention, IT'S A FREAKING MOVIE/TV SHOW, get over yourselves!
Don't look directly at the eclipse!
where repeated stories aren't errors, they're features
Honestly, if I saw a nearly two-year-old movie that was as bad as Daryl here makes it out to be, I'd get on with my life instead of writing a two page review that makes up words like "esplode" and submitting it to slashdot. This review doesn't accomplish anything -- I don't think anyone who doesn't pursue the genre would rent this movie in the first place, and even if they did, it wouldn't be such a great tragedy that we need to prevent it by posting reviews online.
Why don't we have useful reviews about current movies? You know, the kind that tell you "This is a great movie for war buffs" or "Don't see this if you don't like cheesy special effect explosions", and can actually be used to select what movie you're going to go see with your friends on Friday? I'm not going to go so far as to say JonKatz writes better reviews ("I snuck in through the air vent so I wouldn't have to pay to see K-Pax, but I left after 20 minutes anyway when I found out it wasn't about alien abductions after all"), but this review is like watching Harry Knowles lecture you about the new series on the sci-fi channel, corn-nut breath and all.
Another excuse for not doing my homework -- "The paper was alll finished, but a strangelet killed my hard drive"
One problem with the new faster-than-God chips is that the clock signal has to switch every clock cycle (duh). Most waste heat comes from the switching from 1 to 0 or vice versa, so that shiny new 1.7 GHz P4 laptop is going to be making that clock signal heat 3 times faster than the 600 MHz machine you're using now. If CPU makers went for more aggressive parallelism (AMD for x86, IA-64 long term, etc) the clock wouldn't need to switch nearly as fast, saving us a lot of wasted energy. Of course, Joe Consumer is still only looking at the clock speed when buying a new laptop, so manufacturers are stuck to following the market and driving battery life into the ground
Making links in random words in your post does not help readers find information any quicker when there's no discernable pattern in what they're for
Slim, plastic LCDs sewn into fabric could display e-mail or text messages on your sleeve.'
:(
Just great, the next MS email virus is going to spam my shirt sleeve with "--> IDIOT HERE -->" text to let everyone know I'm not using a secure email client
The study also found that adults were attracted to articles with bolded text which was used for spelling out everything for people who don't like to actually invoke reading comprehension, although some words and phrases were randomly bolded for no apparent reason.
Imagine if I had a Beowu... ahh, screw it
{Name} from {site} wrote in to tell us about a new [disc/disk/cd/drive/toaster] that can hold [10/100/1000/5000] [MB/GB/TB/PB] and is backward compatible with [nothing/5 1/2" floppy drives/iomega clik!]. The new format is only [.25/1/5] [mm/inches/yards] across and is resistant to [scratches/heat/proton decay]. Unfortunately, due to [patents/liscensing issues/censorship] from [MS/USPS/IBM/Disney] this will probably never get off the ground. Guess I'll stick to using [DVD-RAM/punch cards/LS-120] for now.
This may be the new internet economy, but I think
There are two possiblities here
...?)
1) Taco is referring to the RIAA boycott, and has given up (due to
2) Napster is shut down and he's too lazy to run gnutella to do his music piracy
Either way it's a nice way to start a flame war in the comments section, which seems to be all Taco's commentary seems to be good for
President G.W. Bush announced a plan for the new "Meteor Wars" meteoroid defense plan, which would help protect Americans from malicious extra-terrestrial projectiles.
"Although America does not cover a large portion of the Earth's surface, it is largest in its heart, and that is what we must protect" said the President last Monday, ignoring protestors yielding placards bearing the slogan "Outer space is mother nature too, let meteors live"
The current design involves launching a pre-emptive nuclear missile into the upper atmosphere, detonating near the meteor and deflecting its path toward nations such as Canada or France.
Colin Powell remarked about the new plan, "We feel we can obtain up to 95% accuracy in detonating these missiles above ground. The environmental consequences of the nuclear material will be minimal, as most detonations should talk place above Montana or North Dakota."
Any bets on how long before the local 2600 group writes a complete DeCSS implementation on it?