Ummm. Let me speculate a bit. If bio-fuel is oil-like, wouldn't an oil company be interested in it? They are already dealing with the stuff. With this they don't have to buy it from some far off land and ship it here. They don't have to drill and explore for it. They simply feed it! That sounds like a great deal for an oil company.
That would almost make sense, except it doesn't account for the 'Supply and Demand' concept correctly. Currently there is a higher demand for oil than there is 'supply'. Whether this is because they are hoarding the oil or we are running out is debatable. The point is, as they decrease the supply, the price goes up. The difference between this and other supply-and-demand economies is that our demand for oil will stay the same for some time, as people move on to mass forms of transit and alternative energy sources.
This is kind of like diamonds. If you could make artificial diamonds, that are exactly the same as regular diamonds, but extremely cheap to produce, then the diamonds are no longer scarce, and DeBeers goes out of business.
Droid: "I am fluent in over 6 million forms of communication. How may I be of service?" You: "Can't you make this security line go any faster?" Droid: "It's against my programming to impersonate a deity."
Then after you get fed up dealing with a droid and smash it to bits, you say "I'm going to have a drink at the bar"
Droid: "I'm sitting here in pieces, and you're having delusions of grandeur!"
The 1,000 jobs created by this plant are a far cry from the 100,000 that were killed on Feb 13-15, 1945. The city of dresden was basically annihilated by American and British allied forces in 3 days by 1250 sorties. They used a firebomb technique to make sure that they could kill as many people as they could. These were refugees, not Nazi soldiers.
Bombing of Dresden
1. DNS Zone transfers 2. IP addresses are sequential
You need to get your head out of your 1970s-security policy ass
Jeez i wish i had mod points, youre so right.
I went through the same thing at my last company. Even though the servers had Internet routeable IP's I still had to log into one main machine by name and then hop from there (/etc/hosts had the names in it).
My company recently moved from an all Sun/Solaris/Sybase shop to Dell/Linux/Postgres. I spent alot of time with RedHat engineers and Sales people and my name somehow got around the company, and ended up in the lap of someone who was working in their Product Development department. He gave me a call and interviewed me on my experiences with postgresql, asking me what kind of applications we were using, why we chose postgres, and where we were getting our support from. He hinted that they might be producing a postgresql product.
If RedHat is in fact using postgres, kudos to them for picking a RDBMS with row-level locking, failover, and several other enterprise level database product features. And kudos to the PGSQL team for creating a wonderful product. Our websites run much better on our new platform than our old.
It uses the same protocols as gaim, so it saves your buddy list on the server, which is good.
It uses GTK. NICE.
I had click "send" instead of hitting . This was very annoying.
Import/Export Buddy list from windows. Sweet, I had to copy mine over by hand to gaim. Wish I had this.
Interface: OK. Ugly, but ok.
The only preferences I could find were Save Password, Log on Automatically, and the server address. Come on! Let me at least change the sounds and stuff! I believe Gaim even lets you change sounds for each individual user!
All in all, its always good to see a company AOL's size take linux seriously, but this is a substandard implementation of a decent product. I like IM. I especially like gaim, and I will stick with it right now, as it is the better product (doesn't hurt that its open source either).
Gaim rules this product. Use it instead.
Anime Music / J-Pop / J-Rock
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Its interesting that so many people are recommending anime movies/episodes, but noone is recommending any Anime Music / Japanese Pop (AKA J-Pop).
I've been listening to this stuff for about a year, and I must say that it is really really awesome (and this is coming from someone who used to listen to punk music exclusively before finding J-pop) There is just something super cool about a Japanese girl singing.... anyways...
There is the Straight Pop music like Coco Lee (who is hopefully about to make a breakthrough in the US) S.E.S (actually Korean, I believe) and SPEED. These are huge popstars in Asia, who can probably be compared to Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera in America (except these bands are cool and American Pop sucks!)
There is also the more R&B/Sexy-Style JPOP with Artists like Utada Hikaru, Namie Amuro, and Ami Suzuki. These are the more serious artists who are probably aiming for a more adult crowd instead of teens.
As far as Anime Music goes, check out the following soundtracks: Magic Knight Rayearth, Lain (by the Awesome J-rock band BOA, along with some really cool techno and stuff), Neon Genesis and Gundam Wing (TWO MIX soundtrack!)
These in my opinions are the essentials, but be sure to keep looking cause there is a whole lot of stuff out there I havent even mentioned! I wouldn't reccomend buying J-Pop, unfortunately as the imports are super expensive. I saw a Utada Hikaru CD (Automatic --an awesome album) for 46 dollars at an anime convention recently! That was just tooo rediculous for me, so I continue to thank Napster for helping give me a continuous supply of new J-Pop.
IE is free because it promotes their horrible MSN portals: MSN.com, hotmail.com, windowsmedia.com, among others I imagine.
Netscape decided to make Navigator free long ago so they could "push" people to their "Netcenter" or whatever its called portal, as well as trying to get people to use the "Shop" button on their browser.
They did this by making their portal the default home page for their browser, which the average computer user won't/doesnt know how to change.
Why don't we just build a real-life C3PO? It would be much easier to build an army of ditzy droids with bad english accents than to teach over 6 billion people a new 'internet' language.
On top of that, robots are just damned cool. I hope to see the day where they are walking among us just like on the Jetsons or some crap.
This probably has something to do with the fact that at one time Acer was selling parts as new when they were in fact used. I believe this was probably strictly their computers, but either way, it makes sense to me.
Oh yeah, I believe thats why their name is AOpen now.
I don't think their parts are all that bad though... I have one of their 10x dvd players... aside from the fact that I can't get it to do true surround sound with my SBLive 128 and FPS 2000 speakers, it works very nicely. I have also installed about 100 of their modems, and countless cdroms at the last company I worked for... nary a problem, and by the way, thier support is pretty decent too.
Although I personally am against am against censorware, and censorship in general, I used to work for an ISP which wanted to implement "Kid-Safe" internet. I researched all of the different filtering products out there and came to the conclusion that I-Gear was the best product out there. In my opinion the algorithym that they used was fairly advanced.
What pisses me off, however is the fact that in the product advertisements they say that they list is constantly updated by humans. Now I am lead to believe this is bullshit.
I still am not *completely* opposed to filtering... there are sooo many people out there whom are so terrified that their kids will *gasp* find a nude picture on the net, or they might come across something that implys that there may in fact not be a god, or whatever, and these people would not allow their children to use the internet if it weren't for this sort of option.
I think that the guys at peacefire are generally doing a good thing here, but they still kinda need to get a clue. There is more to this software than they are letting on. First of all, the software allows two accts, one filtered and one not filtered. If a kid says that a site is ok, but the software is blocking it (I had this happen with a greeting card site once-- completely clean FYI) the parent can log on, check it out, allow the child to see the site for 5 minutes (i believe) and then email the admin, who can make the page always allowed.
How bad is that?
Please also keep in mind that the site is very unscientific and could possibly be very misleading. They only showed the first 50 of the.edu sites (although it seems these would be among the first sites that I-Gear's developers would check for offensiveness, since they have "hundreds" of people combing the net for bad sites)
Just keep that in mind.
And as for people blaming all of this on Symantec... It has little to do with them. They just recently bought the company that used to make I-Gear... UR-Labs.
Let me get this straight... does this mean I'll actually be able to play DVD's in a conventional manner (without DeCSS) in Linux? I sure hope so, because I will soon be buying an ATI All in Wonder 128 and a DVD drive. I assumed I would have to boot into windows to view the DVD's properly, since MPEG playback is very shoddy on my machine.
This makes me very happy... now I can code and watch Anime at the same time.
Whee hee.
-- Neil
Re:Harrah. Huh? Why slashdot so sloooow.
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I love news like this. This is why i hit slashdot like 50 times a day instead of going to cnn or abcnews.com or even cnet or wired... Because I like Geeky news, and I want to be on the cutting edge of things. Yeah, I could wait till Red Hat issues a press release on the subject, or until official word hits ZD-Net or some crap like that, but I'd rather be on the cutting edge of things.
So, in short, for those of you complaining that this "isn't" news or saying that/. shouldn't report on every new software release or whatever, quit your damned complaining. If you don't like it, go read one of the sites mentioned above, live a boring life, you're obviously not "geeky" enough for Slashdot. Go somewhere else.
Amidst the few noteable exemptions are satellite news feeds and stuff but you hardly need such a staellite service.
Hardly need such a satellite service? You obviously know nothing about the media world... most of the Reuters, Associated-Press, Knight-Ridder, and other news wirefeeds mostly rely on satellite... I am a sysadmin for a local newspaper and its network of websites (www.nandotimes.com), and we use the hell out of those satellites (albeit the fact that they are slower than 56k modems).
And i dont know how much they rely on them, but i always see plenty of dishes on the rooftops of banks... so I'm pretty sure they use the hell out of them.
The interfaces for these are surely very proprietary but for Linux to survive in this sort of business field, the kernel developers, et al. are going to have to strive to make this sort of thing work.
I may be mistaken, since I usually don't pay much attention to normal news, but it seems like we now have a budget surplus (although we still are deeply in debt)
Now that Andover and Slashdot have a large amount of capital, are there any future plans for expansion? Should I expect Geeks in Space to be syndicated, or see a Slashdot TV show (maybe on zdtv?), and what about print media? We have Yahoo and Wired, why not Slashdot on paper? I would really like to see a Slashdot magazine, one which is less news oriented, and more culture oriented (Jon Katz would probably love this).
I personally think it would be great if i could pick up Slashdot at the newsstand.
Slashdot Mirror
Ummm. Let me speculate a bit. If bio-fuel is oil-like, wouldn't an oil company be interested in it? They are already dealing with the stuff. With this they don't have to buy it from some far off land and ship it here. They don't have to drill and explore for it. They simply feed it! That sounds like a great deal for an oil company.
That would almost make sense, except it doesn't account for the 'Supply and Demand' concept correctly. Currently there is a higher demand for oil than there is 'supply'. Whether this is because they are hoarding the oil or we are running out is debatable. The point is, as they decrease the supply, the price goes up. The difference between this and other supply-and-demand economies is that our demand for oil will stay the same for some time, as people move on to mass forms of transit and alternative energy sources.
This is kind of like diamonds. If you could make artificial diamonds, that are exactly the same as regular diamonds, but extremely cheap to produce, then the diamonds are no longer scarce, and DeBeers goes out of business.
The oil cartels WANT scarcity.
these things are giving me a big splitting headache too.
also for those of you who own nokia phones, PLEASE change your ringtone from the default. that is the one i hate most.
4.5 million teeth have fallen out due to this promotion.
I can see it now:
Droid: "I am fluent in over 6 million forms of communication. How may I be of service?"
You: "Can't you make this security line go any faster?"
Droid: "It's against my programming to impersonate a deity."
Then after you get fed up dealing with a droid and smash it to bits, you say "I'm going to have a drink at the bar"
Droid: "I'm sitting here in pieces, and you're having delusions of grandeur!"
I dont know, its the best I could do...
maybe you should write your own article.
The 1,000 jobs created by this plant are a far cry from the 100,000 that were killed on Feb 13-15, 1945. The city of dresden was basically annihilated by American and British allied forces in 3 days by 1250 sorties. They used a firebomb technique to make sure that they could kill as many people as they could. These were refugees, not Nazi soldiers. Bombing of Dresden
Makes sense that you can build a big-ass AP that will provide a large 802.11 blanket, but how is my laptop's little antenna going to talk back to it?
Good for security? Are you insane?
1. DNS Zone transfers
2. IP addresses are sequential
You need to get your head out of your 1970s-security policy ass
Jeez i wish i had mod points, youre so right.
I went through the same thing at my last company. Even though the servers had Internet routeable IP's I still had to log into one main machine by name and then hop from there (/etc/hosts had the names in it).
Lame.
And some of us like IRIX just fine, thank you :-)
some of us like watching grass grow, too.
i still dont understand why you have have to control this thing with your anal sphincter.
smear vaseline on your monitor. the text will appear just as blurry as if you were using 'font smoothing' under windows 98.
My company recently moved from an all Sun/Solaris/Sybase shop to Dell/Linux/Postgres. I spent alot of time with RedHat engineers and Sales people and my name somehow got around the company, and ended up in the lap of someone who was working in their Product Development department. He gave me a call and interviewed me on my experiences with postgresql, asking me what kind of applications we were using, why we chose postgres, and where we were getting our support from. He hinted that they might be producing a postgresql product.
If RedHat is in fact using postgres, kudos to them for picking a RDBMS with row-level locking, failover, and several other enterprise level database product features. And kudos to the PGSQL team for creating a wonderful product. Our websites run much better on our new platform than our old.
Not so bad... but not so good either.
It uses the same protocols as gaim, so it saves your buddy list on the server, which is good.
It uses GTK. NICE.
I had click "send" instead of hitting . This was very annoying.
Import/Export Buddy list from windows. Sweet, I had to copy mine over by hand to gaim. Wish I had this.
Interface: OK. Ugly, but ok.
The only preferences I could find were Save Password, Log on Automatically, and the server address. Come on! Let me at least change the sounds and stuff! I believe Gaim even lets you change sounds for each individual user!
All in all, its always good to see a company AOL's size take linux seriously, but this is a substandard implementation of a decent product. I like IM. I especially like gaim, and I will stick with it right now, as it is the better product (doesn't hurt that its open source either).
Gaim rules this product. Use it instead.
Its interesting that so many people are recommending anime movies/episodes, but noone is recommending any Anime Music / Japanese Pop (AKA J-Pop).
I've been listening to this stuff for about a year, and I must say that it is really really awesome (and this is coming from someone who used to listen to punk music exclusively before finding J-pop) There is just something super cool about a Japanese girl singing.... anyways...
There is the Straight Pop music like Coco Lee (who is hopefully about to make a breakthrough in the US) S.E.S (actually Korean, I believe) and SPEED. These are huge popstars in Asia, who can probably be compared to Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera in America (except these bands are cool and American Pop sucks!)
There is also the more R&B/Sexy-Style JPOP with Artists like Utada Hikaru, Namie Amuro, and Ami Suzuki. These are the more serious artists who are probably aiming for a more adult crowd instead of teens.
As far as Anime Music goes, check out the following soundtracks: Magic Knight Rayearth, Lain (by the Awesome J-rock band BOA, along with some really cool techno and stuff), Neon Genesis and Gundam Wing (TWO MIX soundtrack!)
These in my opinions are the essentials, but be sure to keep looking cause there is a whole lot of stuff out there I havent even mentioned! I wouldn't reccomend buying J-Pop, unfortunately as the imports are super expensive. I saw a Utada Hikaru CD (Automatic --an awesome album) for 46 dollars at an anime convention recently! That was just tooo rediculous for me, so I continue to thank Napster for helping give me a continuous supply of new J-Pop.
IE is free because it promotes their horrible MSN portals: MSN.com, hotmail.com, windowsmedia.com, among others I imagine.
Netscape decided to make Navigator free long ago so they could "push" people to their "Netcenter" or whatever its called portal, as well as trying to get people to use the "Shop" button on their browser.
They did this by making their portal the default home page for their browser, which the average computer user won't/doesnt know how to change.
Why don't we just build a real-life C3PO? It would be much easier to build an army of ditzy droids with bad english accents than to teach over 6 billion people a new 'internet' language.
On top of that, robots are just damned cool. I hope to see the day where they are walking among us just like on the Jetsons or some crap.
This probably has something to do with the fact that at one time Acer was selling parts as new when they were in fact used. I believe this was probably strictly their computers, but either way, it makes sense to me.
Oh yeah, I believe thats why their name is AOpen now.
I don't think their parts are all that bad though... I have one of their 10x dvd players... aside from the fact that I can't get it to do true surround sound with my SBLive 128 and FPS 2000 speakers, it works very nicely. I have also installed about 100 of their modems, and countless cdroms at the last company I worked for... nary a problem, and by the way, thier support is pretty decent too.
--Neil
Where the hell are my doritos?
Although I personally am against am against censorware, and censorship in general, I used to work for an ISP which wanted to implement "Kid-Safe" internet. I researched all of the different filtering products out there and came to the conclusion that I-Gear was the best product out there. In my opinion the algorithym that they used was fairly advanced.
.edu sites (although it seems these would be among the first sites that I-Gear's developers would check for offensiveness, since they have "hundreds" of people combing the net for bad sites)
What pisses me off, however is the fact that in the product advertisements they say that they list is constantly updated by humans. Now I am lead to believe this is bullshit.
I still am not *completely* opposed to filtering... there are sooo many people out there whom are so terrified that their kids will *gasp* find a nude picture on the net, or they might come across something that implys that there may in fact not be a god, or whatever, and these people would not allow their children to use the internet if it weren't for this sort of option.
I think that the guys at peacefire are generally doing a good thing here, but they still kinda need to get a clue. There is more to this software than they are letting on. First of all, the software allows two accts, one filtered and one not filtered. If a kid says that a site is ok, but the software is blocking it (I had this happen with a greeting card site once-- completely clean FYI) the parent can log on, check it out, allow the child to see the site for 5 minutes (i believe) and then email the admin, who can make the page always allowed.
How bad is that?
Please also keep in mind that the site is very unscientific and could possibly be very misleading. They only showed the first 50 of the
Just keep that in mind.
And as for people blaming all of this on Symantec... It has little to do with them. They just recently bought the company that used to make I-Gear... UR-Labs.
Just trying to set things a little straight --
-- Kneel (uber-geek)
Hmm.... reminds me of Windows Update, Smart Update, and ActiveX (to some extent).
Yeah, a better idea would be to download the shell script, read it, then run it.
--Kneel
Let me get this straight... does this mean I'll actually be able to play DVD's in a conventional manner (without DeCSS) in Linux? I sure hope so, because I will soon be buying an ATI All in Wonder 128 and a DVD drive. I assumed I would have to boot into windows to view the DVD's properly, since MPEG playback is very shoddy on my machine.
This makes me very happy... now I can code and watch Anime at the same time.
Whee hee.
-- Neil
The slashdot article with the most comments is Evolution is a Myth in Kansas with 1505 comments
You should click the link to your left that says "HOF" -- hall of fame... jeez... -Kneelius the Great
I love news like this. This is why i hit slashdot like 50 times a day instead of going to cnn or abcnews.com or even cnet or wired... Because I like Geeky news, and I want to be on the cutting edge of things. Yeah, I could wait till Red Hat issues a press release on the subject, or until official word hits ZD-Net or some crap like that, but I'd rather be on the cutting edge of things.
/. shouldn't report on every new software release or whatever, quit your damned complaining. If you don't like it, go read one of the sites mentioned above, live a boring life, you're obviously not "geeky" enough for Slashdot. Go somewhere else.
So, in short, for those of you complaining that this "isn't" news or saying that
Amidst the few noteable exemptions are satellite news feeds and stuff but you hardly need such a staellite service.
Hardly need such a satellite service? You obviously know nothing about the media world... most of the Reuters, Associated-Press, Knight-Ridder, and other news wirefeeds mostly rely on satellite... I am a sysadmin for a local newspaper and its network of websites (www.nandotimes.com), and we use the hell out of those satellites (albeit the fact that they are slower than 56k modems).
And i dont know how much they rely on them, but i always see plenty of dishes on the rooftops of banks... so I'm pretty sure they use the hell out of them.
The interfaces for these are surely very proprietary but for Linux to survive in this sort of business field, the kernel developers, et al. are going to have to strive to make this sort of thing work.
--Neil Cooler
Unix Admin, Nando Media
I may be mistaken, since I usually don't pay much attention to normal news, but it seems like we now have a budget surplus (although we still are deeply in debt)
Now that Andover and Slashdot have a large amount of capital, are there any future plans for expansion? Should I expect Geeks in Space to be syndicated, or see a Slashdot TV show (maybe on zdtv?), and what about print media? We have Yahoo and Wired, why not Slashdot on paper? I would really like to see a Slashdot magazine, one which is less news oriented, and more culture oriented (Jon Katz would probably love this).
I personally think it would be great if i could pick up Slashdot at the newsstand.