What an average slashdot reader wants in a program is completely different than the vast majority of computer users.
The majority of people on slashdot are programmers, unix administrators, and the like. These types of people usually want different things than most mainstream computer users.
If you're going to write opensource software, go ahead and follow their advice.
If your intention is to make money, take a look around and see what programs are making the most money. Say what you want about Microsoft and AOL, but you can't deny they make a shitload of money.
My best advice is this: Ignore everything you read on slashdot. Look at which software companies are making the most money, then try to determine why people are spending money for their programs.
I've been waiting for years for Linux to have finer control of process scheduling.
I hope someday that Linux will use a method similar to Irix, where you can specify a priority from 0 to 255, modify it's timeslice, and make it realtime or timeshared. This was one of the best things about Irix, and something I could really use for Linux.
I once wrote a little program like this which calculated the amount of time you spent sneezing. In my case, it amounted to over an entire day of my life spent nothing but sneezing.
This is really a useless article. Some rich fuck is selling a car on ebay.wooohoo! Who gives a fuck.
In other news today.
United Devices recently announced a distributed client to aid anthrax research. They also have distributed clients to help find cures for cancer and alzheimers. They only have windows clients right now, but they can be downloaded here.
He wasn't an FBI agent in evolution. He was a college professor (prior to that he worked in the army doing science/medicine research). Remember the Anthrax vaccine he made with all the sideffects?
I heard this on TechTV yesterday. You would think slashdot would have posted this before since they're owned by VA. Is VA going to change it's stock symbol as well? SFTW?
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But I certainly don't trash talk a bunch of people who have given me more useful stuff out of sheer altruism in a day than I'll produce over a lifetime.
Well, I certainly won't dispute your lack of contribution.
But what has debian really contributed to the Linux community? Apt-get??? Maybe there is something really useful debian has made, but I certainly can't think of any right now. Please feel free to englighten me.
Stop being a typical linux sheep and start thinking for yourself. When you open your eyes you might come closer to seeing things the way they really are. Linux developers are motivated by money and ego, not "altruism".
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Debian users are hypocritical. There's non-free, which is a part of their distribution. Why is it included if they're so sincere? All debian users use it. So what's the big deal?
Face it, capitalism works. It even works with opensource software, which is why Redhat, Suse, etc, are all much better distributions. There's no opensource project which is written "for the good of the community". The vast majority of opensource software are written in order to make money.
How many of the main linux developers work for redhat? VA? Suse? Linus used his fame to get a job he wouldn't have otherwise got. Developers also love to write and sell books and get paid well by publishers like o'reilly. Good for them. Don't alienate people about licenses and with your elitist attitudes.
Debian developers are the scum of the Linux world. Boycott Debian! BOYCOTT DEBIAN! BOYCOTT THE FUCKING DEBIAN GOAT FUCKERS THEN RAPE THEM UP THEIR FUCKING STINKY ASSHOLES WITH A GODDAMN FUCKING RUSTY RAZORBLADE
Yep. Sound blaster live cards (and probably many others) have the ability to record anything that plays through the soundcard to a wav file. You could then convert it from wav->mp3 and redistribute on a P2P, burn it to CD, or keep it after you unsubscribe from the service.
The point is, slashdot does this kind of shit all the time. They just recently posted an article about an operating system that doesn't exist. They consistantly post inaccurate information. Half of the stories are politically biased or laced with pissing contest type commentary (ie. snide comments about konqueror, linux vs. ms, redhat vs. debian, whatever).
I just wish slashdot would stick to accurate and technically important articles.
Having said that, all you stupid moderators can mod me down and fuck off. You're all a bunch of CmdrTaco wannbe karmawhores anyway.
I used to work exclusively with SGI hardware and software in a broadcasting environment. HDTV output is fairly new in the SGI world - I'm thinking it came out about two years ago. This HDTV input/output board was made only for the very high end servers (only onyx2 servers afaik). Information about the HDIO card is here.
It is not supported in the most common machines used at TV stations, the Octane and the O2. There have been rumours that an HDTV card was being developed for the Octane, but as far as I know it hasn't been released.
SGI hardware is, IMO, overpriced. We usually would buy a barebones system (no memory, no monitor, etc) and then buy the parts from third party vendors. At the same time, SGI and the Irix operating system offers much more than you can get out of a standard windows or macintosh system, such as really fine grained scheduling control, guranteed I/O and frame rates, which is very important to engineers.
PC's are improving (and in many areas surpassing), but are not yet at the level of SGI servers for specialized broadcasting environments.
How about an opensource solution to this? Maybe an RFC, which specifies HTML tags for ratings? Then the filters could be built into the browser (where it can be turned on or off, require passwords, whatever)
It wouldn't be perfect, but nothing is. I think the majority of adult site owners would do it if it will only take them a few seconds and wouldn't get messy (no pun intended) with congress and lawyers.
I have used debian in the past (migrated from slackware to debian), but I personally prefer redhat, so I choose to use it instead.
I believe that voicing your opinion (bitching as you put it), especially in combination with spending (or not spending) money, is very effective. This is as true in software as it is in everything else, including government.
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What an average slashdot reader wants in a program is completely different than the vast majority of computer users.
The majority of people on slashdot are programmers, unix administrators, and the like. These types of people usually want different things than most mainstream computer users.
If you're going to write opensource software, go ahead and follow their advice.
If your intention is to make money, take a look around and see what programs are making the most money. Say what you want about Microsoft and AOL, but you can't deny they make a shitload of money.
My best advice is this: Ignore everything you read on slashdot. Look at which software companies are making the most money, then try to determine why people are spending money for their programs.
I've been waiting for years for Linux to have finer control of process scheduling.
I hope someday that Linux will use a method similar to Irix, where you can specify a priority from 0 to 255, modify it's timeslice, and make it realtime or timeshared. This was one of the best things about Irix, and something I could really use for Linux.
CVS... does not check for quality or if it breaks anything.
If you've been following Linux kernel development the last year or so, you could say the same about Linus.
I once wrote a little program like this which calculated the amount of time you spent sneezing. In my case, it amounted to over an entire day of my life spent nothing but sneezing.
I'm sure the time spent typing is even more.
List of majors of developers that I've worked with:
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Physics
Library Sciences
Math
English
Meteorology
and quite a few which had no degree
The majors people had really had no effect on the quality of code they wrote.
This is really a useless article. Some rich fuck is selling a car on ebay.wooohoo! Who gives a fuck.
In other news today.
United Devices recently announced a distributed client to aid anthrax research. They also have distributed clients to help find cures for cancer and alzheimers. They only have windows clients right now, but they can be downloaded here.
He wasn't an FBI agent in evolution. He was a college professor (prior to that he worked in the army doing science/medicine research). Remember the Anthrax vaccine he made with all the sideffects?
Aha! This is where Osama bin Laden is hiding!
Wires are so 20th century. If you're going to shell out the money, look into getting a good wireless network.
I heard this on TechTV yesterday. You would think slashdot would have posted this before since they're owned by VA. Is VA going to change it's stock symbol as well? SFTW?
But what has debian really contributed to the Linux community? Apt-get??? Maybe there is something really useful debian has made, but I certainly can't think of any right now. Please feel free to englighten me.
Stop being a typical linux sheep and start thinking for yourself. When you open your eyes you might come closer to seeing things the way they really are. Linux developers are motivated by money and ego, not "altruism".
Debian users are hypocritical. There's non-free, which is a part of their distribution. Why is it included if they're so sincere? All debian users use it. So what's the big deal?
Face it, capitalism works. It even works with opensource software, which is why Redhat, Suse, etc, are all much better distributions. There's no opensource project which is written "for the good of the community". The vast majority of opensource software are written in order to make money.
How many of the main linux developers work for redhat? VA? Suse? Linus used his fame to get a job he wouldn't have otherwise got. Developers also love to write and sell books and get paid well by publishers like o'reilly. Good for them. Don't alienate people about licenses and with your elitist attitudes.
Debian developers are the scum of the Linux world. Boycott Debian! BOYCOTT DEBIAN! BOYCOTT THE FUCKING DEBIAN GOAT FUCKERS THEN RAPE THEM UP THEIR FUCKING STINKY ASSHOLES WITH A GODDAMN FUCKING RUSTY RAZORBLADE
We are living in an embedded world, and I am an embedded girl.
Larry Ellison offers a free copy of oracle to everyone. It can be found on oracle's website.
Yep. Sound blaster live cards (and probably many others) have the ability to record anything that plays through the soundcard to a wav file. You could then convert it from wav->mp3 and redistribute on a P2P, burn it to CD, or keep it after you unsubscribe from the service.
If this were true, why couldn't Alan Cox spend one day writing a driver to get winmodems to work?
The point is, slashdot does this kind of shit all the time. They just recently posted an article about an operating system that doesn't exist. They consistantly post inaccurate information. Half of the stories are politically biased or laced with pissing contest type commentary (ie. snide comments about konqueror, linux vs. ms, redhat vs. debian, whatever).
I just wish slashdot would stick to accurate and technically important articles.
Having said that, all you stupid moderators can mod me down and fuck off. You're all a bunch of CmdrTaco wannbe karmawhores anyway.
There is no replay 400. This is probably referring to the replay 4000. Again, nice fact checking slashdot.
you stupid FUCKHOLES@#@%$@!#$!
I used to work exclusively with SGI hardware and software in a broadcasting environment. HDTV output is fairly new in the SGI world - I'm thinking it came out about two years ago. This HDTV input/output board was made only for the very high end servers (only onyx2 servers afaik). Information about the HDIO card is here.
It is not supported in the most common machines used at TV stations, the Octane and the O2. There have been rumours that an HDTV card was being developed for the Octane, but as far as I know it hasn't been released.
SGI hardware is, IMO, overpriced. We usually would buy a barebones system (no memory, no monitor, etc) and then buy the parts from third party vendors. At the same time, SGI and the Irix operating system offers much more than you can get out of a standard windows or macintosh system, such as really fine grained scheduling control, guranteed I/O and frame rates, which is very important to engineers.
PC's are improving (and in many areas surpassing), but are not yet at the level of SGI servers for specialized broadcasting environments.
someone must have infiltrated their DNS servers
How about an opensource solution to this? Maybe an RFC, which specifies HTML tags for ratings? Then the filters could be built into the browser (where it can be turned on or off, require passwords, whatever)
It wouldn't be perfect, but nothing is. I think the majority of adult site owners would do it if it will only take them a few seconds and wouldn't get messy (no pun intended) with congress and lawyers.
I don't think windows 3.0 is really an OS - how about dos 3.0?
not as cool as the cobalt cube. Nothing beats it. wewp!
I have used debian in the past (migrated from slackware to debian), but I personally prefer redhat, so I choose to use it instead.
I believe that voicing your opinion (bitching as you put it), especially in combination with spending (or not spending) money, is very effective. This is as true in software as it is in everything else, including government.