Despair has also petitioned the court to require defendants to submit a handwritten letter which repeats the phrase ":-( is a registered trademark of Despair, Inc." one-thousand times.
Pfft. Like I've seen a pen and paper lately. How 80's is that?
if I'm a bit skeptical. I wasn't too impressed with Lucas's use of CGI. And if this thing's supposed to be almost entirely CGI based as the slide presentation states.. well we'll see.
Morgan Freeman is a nice addition. It's been so long since I read the Rama series that I'm not sure who he'll be playing but you can't really go wrong with him in a movie. It's like casting Kevin Spacey. You know you'll get a good performance.
It does tend to make you wonder what Stanley Kubrick would have done with it though.
During the height of the whole DC/:Cue:cat controversy I explained it and discussed it with our company president. Who, admittedly, is not a bad businessman IMHO.
He said afterwards and I quote: "That has got to be the most DUMBASS idea I've ever heard." He went and searched all his business journals, found all the related articles and gave them six months before they folded.
How, exactly, does the U.S. government enforce any regulation on servers outside it's borders? What's to keep someone from moving their host to Europe?
For this to work every government in the world would have to agree on how and when the regulation would happen. Anyone wanna place bets on the chances of that happening?
I dunno. I get the feeling I've just been trolled. Either way the trolls of/. can take lessons from this guy.:)
The president of our company held on to his little DOS copy of Wordstar until just last year. He would actually type out his official correspondence in that and send them to a 9-pin dot matrix printer (which he also refused to give up).
The way I got him to give it up was by convincing him that it wasn't Y2K compatible and could conceivably wreck his machine.
First off let me state that I am a Heinlein fanatic.
But this is not his best work. Not by a long shot. It lacks his usual character development and humor.
Having said that though... this book was a major milestone at the time. I've read a lot of social commentary that attributes the beginning of the Haight-Ashbury hippy movement to this book. Which when you think about it you can see the similarities.
The funny part is... Heinlein stated in his memoirs that he didn't understand why. He thought they were missing the whole point. It's my understanding that he wrote the book to debunk the whole concept of religion. Not to promote Free Love.
He related a story in his memoirs that every so often while he and Virginia were living on their ranch in Colorado a 'hippy' would drop by the house and want to discuss the book. He'd be polite, answer their questions the best he could, then merrily send them on their way just as fast as he could get them out of the house.
Bob was not a hippy. Bob Heinlein if you read his non-fiction works was a Commie-Hating Gun-Toting Quasi-Intellectual Paranoid Nut(tm). At the same time that he was promoting his views on sex he was also spouting off about the evils of Communism, how the survivalists were the only sane people on the planet, how government sucked, etc.
No this was not his best work. But it was accessible to the run-of-the-mill non-sci-fi reader. That's why it succeeded.
Alright I've seen the question answered already. Price, performance, and the ability to meet their demand. This is all true.
However the question I have is... is either company looking into and/or developing something not based on x86 architecture?
Isn't there going to be some point where the developers have to sit back and realize that they've done all they can with it?
I realize that this will potentially cause huge problems both in hardware and software but I think both companies would be doing themselves a favor to start planning for that day now.
I think the key thing to remember here is that eventually somebody's going to figure out a way to make money off this.
And it's going to be a lot of money.
If the only problem they have is logistics (which the article seems to imply) then that'll be solved. Maybe not in five years but someone will figure it out.
And when being in space becomes profitable we're going to see a huge boom both in flights and a continuing presence.
Redmond, WA - In keeping with his long term business alliance with processor manufacturer Intel, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, when informed of Intel's decision to not support SMP for it's upcoming P4, rose from his desk, drove to a local gun dealer, bought a pistol and a single bullet.
He returned to his desk, loaded the newly acquired pistol, took careful aim at his foot and pulled the trigger.
I think the biggest story to come is what happened with the TV media and their handling of Florida. With it's 25 electoral votes it's a major prize.
Personally I watched the results come in on CNN. I was stunned when after they had given Florida to Gore they took it back. And then they did the same thing with Bush.
You can't do that. The Western voters are influenced by what they see on the Eastern results. I don't care what you say they have to be. Gore having Florida (momentarily) was hugely influential especially considering that they were already projecting that he was going to get California's 54.
We're going to see some serious criticism and finger pointing over the use of exit polls and voting results models.
Alright. So if I may ask... what data would you like to see?
What we had was GWB saying that teen violence and disregard for human life was rising. Jamie showed us 5 years of statistics from one source and 24 years of statistics from another showing how that wasn't true.
So I'm confused. How exactly did he fail to make his point?
He wasn't trying to imply that there was a correlation. Just the opposite. GWB implied there was.
First off jamie let me say that was very well presented. You made your point well. The next time you see Katz please show him how you used facts and figures. =)
Politicians will be politicians. They present us with FUD and then tell us how they'll fix it. Such is the state of campaigning within the US these days. "What have you done for me lately and what will you do for me in the near future." Unfortunately I don't foresee an end to that anytime in the near future.
The answer to your question is that they can't justify it. They bank on the assumption that no one will check the figures like you did. Candidates want to take the moral high ground whenever they can. And they will. Publicly at least.
Like I've always said since this sort of debate started, the real influence on teaching kids right from wrong isn't the entertainment media that they're provided with. It's their parents. My 11 yo son kicks ASCII at TFC but wouldn't hurt a fly IRL. He knows the difference.
I would like to patent the method for starting a fight with your spouse/significant other using a single word.
Initial conditions:
1. Be in the presence of your SO somewhere in public. Best results for this method are found at the beach or someplace similar where scantily clad people frequent.
2. Eyes open and scanning steadily upon a crowd of people unknown to you.
3. SO attentive and waiting for you to screw up.
Procedure:
1. Find someone of the gender matching your sexual preference that is attractive to you. Inhale softly.
2. Stare at your target for a few seconds to make sure your SO knows what you're doing.
3. Speak the word "Wow!".
4. Wait for the shit to hit the fan.
Patent applicant will not be held responsible for any legal proceedings or hospital bills resulting in the successful use of this method.
Well I didn't mean that specifically but that's true.
What I had more in mind was 'You downed 7.8G last month. You owe $foo.00'. I wouldn't know if that was true or not. I just don't track my usage that closely. And I have no desire to.
Under a metered system what's to prevent them from inflating the usage statistics? Logs? Please. All of us on here know about the reliability of logs.
My only response to that would be the fact that the number of 'average' users is way above the number of spammers out there. And I've never been a fan of punishing the majority because a minority of idjits ruin it for everyone. But that's just me.
What the article fails to point out is the benefit to the company on having a flatrate billing plan. You have an account. You pay this much. We care not what you do with it.
Instituting any metering system will raise the operating costs due to the trouble it takes to track usage.
And how exactly would you do that anyway. Total bits per month? Total online time?
Too many variables and way too open for abuse by unsavory providers. There's little wrong with a flat rate system IMHO.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm?
Pfft. Like I've seen a pen and paper lately. How 80's is that?
Oh and :-(
(bastages)
Morgan Freeman is a nice addition. It's been so long since I read the Rama series that I'm not sure who he'll be playing but you can't really go wrong with him in a movie. It's like casting Kevin Spacey. You know you'll get a good performance.
It does tend to make you wonder what Stanley Kubrick would have done with it though.
He said afterwards and I quote: "That has got to be the most DUMBASS idea I've ever heard." He went and searched all his business journals, found all the related articles and gave them six months before they folded.
They've got 2 months left. :)
And so what do I see as the top story on /. the next day?
THIS!!!
Man if this is how my year's gonna go I may swear off keyboards. Damn damn DAMN!
How, exactly, does the U.S. government enforce any regulation on servers outside it's borders? What's to keep someone from moving their host to Europe?
For this to work every government in the world would have to agree on how and when the regulation would happen. Anyone wanna place bets on the chances of that happening?
I dunno. I get the feeling I've just been trolled. Either way the trolls of /. can take lessons from this guy. :)
But kindergarten?
What are they going to do? Paste cutout construction paper apples to the monitor? Fingerpaints on the mouse?
And for nap time do we really want to teach them to fall asleep at the keyboard like we do at that age?
The president of our company held on to his little DOS copy of Wordstar until just last year. He would actually type out his official correspondence in that and send them to a 9-pin dot matrix printer (which he also refused to give up).
The way I got him to give it up was by convincing him that it wasn't Y2K compatible and could conceivably wreck his machine.
He bought it. =)
But this is not his best work. Not by a long shot. It lacks his usual character development and humor.
Having said that though... this book was a major milestone at the time. I've read a lot of social commentary that attributes the beginning of the Haight-Ashbury hippy movement to this book. Which when you think about it you can see the similarities.
The funny part is... Heinlein stated in his memoirs that he didn't understand why. He thought they were missing the whole point. It's my understanding that he wrote the book to debunk the whole concept of religion. Not to promote Free Love.
He related a story in his memoirs that every so often while he and Virginia were living on their ranch in Colorado a 'hippy' would drop by the house and want to discuss the book. He'd be polite, answer their questions the best he could, then merrily send them on their way just as fast as he could get them out of the house.
Bob was not a hippy. Bob Heinlein if you read his non-fiction works was a Commie-Hating Gun-Toting Quasi-Intellectual Paranoid Nut(tm). At the same time that he was promoting his views on sex he was also spouting off about the evils of Communism, how the survivalists were the only sane people on the planet, how government sucked, etc.
No this was not his best work. But it was accessible to the run-of-the-mill non-sci-fi reader. That's why it succeeded.
However the question I have is... is either company looking into and/or developing something not based on x86 architecture?
Isn't there going to be some point where the developers have to sit back and realize that they've done all they can with it?
I realize that this will potentially cause huge problems both in hardware and software but I think both companies would be doing themselves a favor to start planning for that day now.
And it's going to be a lot of money.
If the only problem they have is logistics (which the article seems to imply) then that'll be solved. Maybe not in five years but someone will figure it out.
And when being in space becomes profitable we're going to see a huge boom both in flights and a continuing presence.
He returned to his desk, loaded the newly acquired pistol, took careful aim at his foot and pulled the trigger.
He is listed in satisfactory condition.
Personally I watched the results come in on CNN. I was stunned when after they had given Florida to Gore they took it back. And then they did the same thing with Bush.
You can't do that. The Western voters are influenced by what they see on the Eastern results. I don't care what you say they have to be. Gore having Florida (momentarily) was hugely influential especially considering that they were already projecting that he was going to get California's 54.
We're going to see some serious criticism and finger pointing over the use of exit polls and voting results models.
And I'm gonna enjoy every damned minute of it. =)
Didn't you JUST say that DoS attacks weren't cool?
Hypocrite.
You know it was one thing when it was console game and only a crowd of 3 or so could watch and see how bad I sucked at Tempest.
There's not a chance in Hell I would play it in front of a crowd of 500.
In the immortal words of Tim Allen, "I would rather smash my balls flat with a wooden mallet."
Tech #1: Dude! Watch where you're going with that thing! You're gonna hit the big floating rock!
Tech #2: Nah. We'll miss it by a mile. Three at least. Quit back-terminal driving ya pansy.
Not surprising really. I thought the same thing when he was still running.
The thing that got me though... I matched better to Pat Buchanan than I did Nader.
Pardon me while I go shoot myself now.
Where the FUCK is my boss.
Brb.
What we had was GWB saying that teen violence and disregard for human life was rising. Jamie showed us 5 years of statistics from one source and 24 years of statistics from another showing how that wasn't true.
So I'm confused. How exactly did he fail to make his point?
He wasn't trying to imply that there was a correlation. Just the opposite. GWB implied there was.
Politicians will be politicians. They present us with FUD and then tell us how they'll fix it. Such is the state of campaigning within the US these days. "What have you done for me lately and what will you do for me in the near future." Unfortunately I don't foresee an end to that anytime in the near future.
The answer to your question is that they can't justify it. They bank on the assumption that no one will check the figures like you did. Candidates want to take the moral high ground whenever they can. And they will. Publicly at least.
Like I've always said since this sort of debate started, the real influence on teaching kids right from wrong isn't the entertainment media that they're provided with. It's their parents. My 11 yo son kicks ASCII at TFC but wouldn't hurt a fly IRL. He knows the difference.
Why? Because that's what I taught him.
Initial conditions:
- 1. Be in the presence of your SO somewhere in public. Best results for this method are found at the beach or someplace similar where scantily clad people frequent.
Procedure:2. Eyes open and scanning steadily upon a crowd of people unknown to you.
3. SO attentive and waiting for you to screw up.
- 1. Find someone of the gender matching your sexual preference that is attractive to you. Inhale softly.
Patent applicant will not be held responsible for any legal proceedings or hospital bills resulting in the successful use of this method.2. Stare at your target for a few seconds to make sure your SO knows what you're doing.
3. Speak the word "Wow!".
4. Wait for the shit to hit the fan.
What I had more in mind was 'You downed 7.8G last month. You owe $foo.00'. I wouldn't know if that was true or not. I just don't track my usage that closely. And I have no desire to.
Under a metered system what's to prevent them from inflating the usage statistics? Logs? Please. All of us on here know about the reliability of logs.
My only response to that would be the fact that the number of 'average' users is way above the number of spammers out there. And I've never been a fan of punishing the majority because a minority of idjits ruin it for everyone. But that's just me.
Thanks for the reply.
Instituting any metering system will raise the operating costs due to the trouble it takes to track usage.
And how exactly would you do that anyway. Total bits per month? Total online time?
Too many variables and way too open for abuse by unsavory providers. There's little wrong with a flat rate system IMHO.
However... I think it's obvious the term 'staff meeting' is lost on the /. editors.
Might wanna consider doing that guys.