I think it is a mistake to judge information solely by the fact that it was posted anonymously. Some of the best stuff I've come across on/. was posted anonymously.
second that. Just the simple fact that they are involved makes this whole project suspect. Monsanto is the kind of company that will most likely bring about the kind of conditions that will require us to fall back on a seed vault in the first place.
meta moderations should catch that. I personally think that a bad mod caught during meta moderations should revoke your UID or something like that to make you start at the bottom of the ladder again, hopefully to do better this time. We already have karma, we might as well have reincarnation:)
You make excellent points. Indeed, I am a sample of 'one' but the number of people I have met is much larger than just 'one', in fact during the 5 years I have spent in Canada I have probably met several thousand people. And it's true that not all of them are bigots, but by far the majority of the 'real Canadians' that I have met would definitely fit that category. More so outside of the major population centers than in them (most experience with Toronto and Montreal when it comes to big cities and rural Northern Ontario for 'small town Canada'). I think I have seen a pretty good cross section of Canada and I am actually surprised at the very large gap between my experience and the image that Canada tries to project. I can not recall having ever heard someone in europe refer to another human being as 'trash' but I have heard this many times from the mouths of so-called 'respectable canadian citizens' and on one occasion even from the mouth of a uniformed member of the Toronto police. That leaves me with very very little respect. I could go on like this for a while but I really see no point, as you have correctly observed I am a sample of one and as such my experience may very well be an anomaly. But I think that I have spent enough time in Canada to at least convince myself that there is more than your average 'come to Canada' brochure is letting on. The Canada that I have seen is full of official policies about equality but a lot of racism and bigotry under the hood. That does not extend to all individuals I've met, I am just contrasting this to other countries that I have experience with and for a country that is basing a very large amount of its population growth on immigration this came as a very large shock to me. best regards,
Jacques.
Yes, it is so good that subway employees now get the final word on who is and is not a foreigner. I've met a large number of Canadians, as an employer and a temporary resident and I can tell you from that experience that a large number of so called 'foreigners' in Canada (landed immigrants would be the appropriate term) speak better English, are more trustworthy and in general are more polite than the people that call themselves Canadians. I've seen overt racism, both against people with off-white skin colours as well as ethnic groups (native Canadians), fraud and a total lack of education on the part of 'Canadians', but none of that by first generation immigrants./me thinks you have something against Pakistani's or Indians and that you resent having to serve them. After all, they're the ones that apparently keep you employed mr. Subway. If Canadians wouldn't be so politically correct all the time and able to take a joke as well as display some *REAL* tolerance instead of make-believe then Canada would potentially be one of the nicer countries on the planet. As it is it is just America warmed over with a large dollop of racism thrown in.
as an example of why antique computers and emulators are still useful, I find that the smaller machines are much less intimidating to kids that are trying to 'grok' the entirety of a computer. A linux distro is so vast that you could never completely understand it from one end (the boot) to the other (your user interface). These old machines are *much* more friendly to that kind of curiosity. I am running 'brandy' (a BBC basic V clone) in a window to teach my son a bit about programming and I find that he takes to it much faster than to most other environments. There something really rewarding about typing: 10 LINE 0,0,1280,1024 RUN and getting a line on the screen, or even doing it in direct mode. I'm not even sure if there is any other modern equivalent that is in actual use that gives you that kind of return-on-time-invested. Most GUI based frameworks would require tons of code before you could draw that line, which is a surefire way to kill off any interest (no, see we first have to open the window and get a handle...).
I think it's high time someone found out which files those were and share the bejezus out of them just to make sure that it all averages out again. It sounds like those files need a lot of sharing, about 250,000 times in total.
no kidding. It has gotten to the stage that the only valid outlet about this whole farce seems to be to bitch about it online. This is the only safetyvalve that I can see, and I have often wondered if having that safetyvalve isn't in part what is holding the lid on. For now. In times before the online fora people would not be writing 'letters to the editor' at nearly the same volume as what is happening online today. It's as if the political battlefield has solidified online. I believe that is only part of the picture though. Sure, political parties use the online 'arena' to duke it out, but at the same time everybody that vents their spleen online is less likely to do so IRL. Once the anger is expended, that's it. Another reason why some threads devolve into bush bashing is because it is getting harder and harder to find areas where bush & co haven't messed things up. They are universally seen as being owned by 'big business' and that means that a lot of fields are automatically related to bush & co's idiotic policies. Just to name a few: copyright, stem cell research, energy policy, climate policy, campaign reform and so on. It's probably harder to find a field that has not been corrupted or touched in a negative way by these goons than it is to find fields that are not.
windows '95 probably was the most stable release of windows that MS ever made. This must have been partly due to the fact that at the time an internet connection was very much optional and viruses had to spread slowly. There was also no 'backchannel' for paydirt to be delivered to the perp, so the worst that could happen was data desctruction. I often wonder what would have happened to the IT world if MS would have wised up at the time and bought out one of the unixes of the time (SGI would have been a good start) and built their empire on that instead of trying to reinvent the wheel badly.
In other news, large hordes of nerds are being arrested all over the planet while injecting nubile females with what appears to be insect venom. Natalie Portman in intensive care after a severe allergic reaction.
While walking down the street 'security' cameras will perform face recognition on everybody walking by. The 'search space' problem will be solved by tracking you all day long, so it is a relatively small problem compared to recognizing a random face. Installed during the terrorism craze in the beginning of the century they now serve a different master. Once tracked you stay tracked. Then the advertising kicks in, small, weak laser based units will beam targeted advertising straight onto your retina while you're walking by. On your way to the mall to buy a pair of jeans ? Maybe in the need of a new vehicle (after all, you're walking). Targeted ads never were named more aptly, and you're being sold to the highest bidder, one of the stores that you are going to pass anyway will surely hit you, another 'kill' for the admasters.
PDF's had a pretty good automatic 'informative' rating in my book to this date, I'll have to review that and degrade it. IMNSHO this is the most stupid thing adobe could have done. I'm sure they'll make some $ on the decision but it sure seems like a short sighted move to me.
well, apparently we differ in one big respect. If I 'knew' people that ran botnets I'd beat the shit out of them and I would not claim to 'know' them any longer. Assholes like that will sooner or later give governments an excuse large enough to regulate the internet. To actually brag on/. about the size of your acquaintances bot net is a new low.
I think in france the backlash was mostly because they felt threatened in being able to live the 'french way' that prompted this. France is pretty heavy on food culture and McDonalds in france was apparently literally unthinkable according to some. The term 'haute cuisine' is the culinary opposite of what McDonalds stands for. (both are probably equally unhealthy in the long run;) )
Keep in mind that in France you have to keep your business meetings in french, you have to use the 'proper' french words which were made up after the fact even if a perfectly good english word had already been adopted.
France is very protective of its (perceived) culture. Which is funny because that puts them in stasis and stasis is the death of any culture.
Quebec is even funnier, they are more french than the french in this respect.
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I think it is a mistake to judge information solely by the fact that it was posted anonymously. Some of the best stuff I've come across on /. was posted anonymously.
second that. Just the simple fact that they are involved makes this whole project suspect. Monsanto is the kind of company that will most likely bring about the kind of conditions that will require us to fall back on a seed vault in the first place.
meta moderations should catch that. I personally think that a bad mod caught during meta moderations should revoke your UID or something like that to make you start at the bottom of the ladder again, hopefully to do better this time. We already have karma, we might as well have reincarnation :)
Thank you for taking the time to answer my post.
You make excellent points. Indeed, I am a sample of 'one' but the number of people I have met is much larger than just 'one', in fact during the 5 years I have spent in Canada I have probably met several thousand people. And it's true that not all of them are bigots, but by far the majority of the 'real Canadians' that I have met would definitely fit that category. More so outside of the major population centers than in them (most experience with Toronto and Montreal when it comes to big cities and rural Northern Ontario for 'small town Canada').
I think I have seen a pretty good cross section of Canada and I am actually surprised at the very large gap between my experience and the image that Canada tries to project. I can not recall having ever heard someone in europe refer to another human being as 'trash' but I have heard this many times from the mouths of so-called 'respectable canadian citizens' and on one occasion even from the mouth of a uniformed member of the Toronto police. That leaves me with very very little respect. I could go on like this for a while but I really see no point, as you have correctly observed I am a sample of one and as such my experience may very well be an anomaly. But I think that I have spent enough time in Canada to at least convince myself that there is more than your average 'come to Canada' brochure is letting on. The Canada that I have seen is full of official policies about equality but a lot of racism and bigotry under the hood. That does not extend to all individuals I've met, I am just contrasting this to other countries that I have experience with and for a country that is basing a very large amount of its population growth on immigration this came as a very large shock to me.
best regards,
Jacques.
Yes, it is so good that subway employees now get the final word on who is and is not a foreigner. /me thinks you have something against Pakistani's or Indians and that you resent having to serve them. After all, they're the ones that apparently keep you employed mr. Subway.
I've met a large number of Canadians, as an employer and a temporary resident and I can tell you from that experience that a large number of so called 'foreigners' in Canada (landed immigrants would be the appropriate term) speak better English, are more trustworthy and in general are more polite than the people that call themselves Canadians.
I've seen overt racism, both against people with off-white skin colours as well as ethnic groups (native Canadians), fraud and a total lack of education on the part of 'Canadians', but none of that by first generation immigrants.
If Canadians wouldn't be so politically correct all the time and able to take a joke as well as display some *REAL* tolerance instead of make-believe then Canada would potentially be one of the nicer countries on the planet. As it is it is just America warmed over with a large dollop of racism thrown in.
as an example of why antique computers and emulators are still useful, I find that the smaller machines are much less intimidating to kids that are trying to 'grok' the entirety of a computer. A linux distro is so vast that you could never completely understand it from one end (the boot) to the other (your user interface). These old machines are *much* more friendly to that kind of curiosity. I am running 'brandy' (a BBC basic V clone) in a window to teach my son a bit about programming and I find that he takes to it much faster than to most other environments.
There something really rewarding about typing:
10 LINE 0,0,1280,1024
RUN
and getting a line on the screen, or even doing it in direct mode.
I'm not even sure if there is any other modern equivalent that is in actual use that gives you that kind of return-on-time-invested. Most GUI based frameworks would require tons of code before you could draw that line, which is a surefire way to kill off any interest (no, see we first have to open the window and get a handle...).
America exports war like no other country in the world at the moment.
I think it's high time someone found out which files those were and share the bejezus out of them just to make sure that it all averages out again. It sounds like those files need a lot of sharing, about 250,000 times in total.
> People must really be pissed at Bush.
no kidding. It has gotten to the stage that the only valid outlet about this whole farce seems to be to bitch about it online. This is the only safetyvalve that I can see, and I have often wondered if having that safetyvalve isn't in part what is holding the lid on. For now.
In times before the online fora people would not be writing 'letters to the editor' at nearly the same volume as what is happening online today. It's as if the political battlefield has solidified online. I believe that is only part of the picture though. Sure, political parties use the online 'arena' to duke it out, but at the same time everybody that vents their spleen online is less likely to do so IRL. Once the anger is expended, that's it.
Another reason why some threads devolve into bush bashing is because it is getting harder and harder to find areas where bush & co haven't messed things up. They are universally seen as being owned by 'big business' and that means that a lot of fields are automatically related to bush & co's idiotic policies. Just to name a few: copyright, stem cell research, energy policy, climate policy, campaign reform and so on. It's probably harder to find a field that has not been corrupted or touched in a negative way by these goons than it is to find fields that are not.
thank you.
so when a European customer orders something before Americans make up their minds that's politics ?
gp asked for CP/M, parent advises to go for DOS instead and gets modded informative ???
You are certainly not speaking as a linguist, flys ???
Well, at least you got 'mice' right.
hey, it's only *nearly* impossible, that means it is certainly possible.
so, now all we really need is a unified field theory that reconciles gravity and love as being one and the same... calling dr. Hawking...
http://ww.com/task.cc.html
for the skeptics.
this is unreleased source.
enjoy the read and if you spot any bugs I'd be delighted to hear about them.
for what it's worth, I wrote my own, multi user, multi tasking unix clone somewhere in 92/93
what were you doing ?
windows '95 probably was the most stable release of windows that MS ever made. This must have been partly due to the fact that at the time an internet connection was very much optional and viruses had to spread slowly. There was also no 'backchannel' for paydirt to be delivered to the perp, so the worst that could happen was data desctruction. I often wonder what would have happened to the IT world if MS would have wised up at the time and bought out one of the unixes of the time (SGI would have been a good start) and built their empire on that instead of trying to reinvent the wheel badly.
that's very impressive. is that a general thing or just this once ?
In other news, large hordes of nerds are being arrested all over the planet while injecting nubile females with what appears to be insect venom. Natalie Portman in intensive care after a severe allergic reaction.
as if humans would ever take the credit for things found in nature...
The Future Of Advertising
While walking down the street 'security' cameras will perform face recognition on everybody walking by. The 'search space' problem will be solved by tracking you all day long, so it is a relatively small problem compared to recognizing a random face. Installed during the terrorism craze in the beginning of the century they now serve a different master. Once tracked you stay tracked. Then the advertising kicks in, small, weak laser based units will beam targeted advertising straight onto your retina while you're walking by. On your way to the mall to buy a pair of jeans ? Maybe in the need of a new vehicle (after all, you're walking). Targeted ads never were named more aptly, and you're being sold to the highest bidder, one of the stores that you are going to pass anyway will surely hit you, another 'kill' for the admasters.
PDF's had a pretty good automatic 'informative' rating in my book to this date, I'll have to review that and degrade it. IMNSHO this is the most stupid thing adobe could have done. I'm sure they'll make some $ on the decision but it sure seems like a short sighted move to me.
well, apparently we differ in one big respect. If I 'knew' people that ran botnets I'd beat the shit out of them and I would not claim to 'know' them any longer. /. about the size of your acquaintances bot net is a new low.
Assholes like that will sooner or later give governments an excuse large enough to regulate the internet. To actually brag on
well, I used to but then I grew up...
I think in france the backlash was mostly because they felt threatened in being able to live the 'french way' that prompted this. France is pretty heavy on food culture and McDonalds in france was apparently literally unthinkable according to some. The term 'haute cuisine' is the culinary opposite of what McDonalds stands for. (both are probably equally unhealthy in the long run ;) )
Keep in mind that in France you have to keep your business meetings in french, you have to use the 'proper' french words which were made up after the fact even if a perfectly good english word had already been adopted.
France is very protective of its (perceived) culture. Which is funny because that puts them in stasis and stasis is the death of any culture.
Quebec is even funnier, they are more french than the french in this respect.