If I was a student at Penn State I'd be asking for a partial refund of my fees. How do you Penn students feel about your fees going to this?
Yeh, and I'm sure they'd refund them just like the refund fees for blind people that don't watch tv and fat people that don't use the rec. center and crippled people that can't use the pool.
What's the surprise? People with any kind of feel for the pulse of technology have known for a long time that once digital sales of music finally started to not totally suck, they'd catch on.
GameSpy: Do you think that gamers might be concerned about in-game spoilers before seeing the final movie this holiday?
Steve Gray: They shouldn't be. While we have some real cool sneak peak looks at pieces of the upcoming movie, we worked closely with New Line Cinema and Peter Jackson to make sure we aren't doing anything to spoil the film experience. I think we've got the best of both worlds. We've got enough stuff from the upcoming film to make it a great preview, but not so much that anyone should worry about us giving away critical pieces of the movie.
Have any of you seriously followed the atkins diet regiment and not had it work for you? I'd be interested in hearing of cases where closing following atkin's suggestions hasn't worked. Everyone that I know who has followed it has lost weight.
couldn't you just set it up so that non-free.debian.org or whatever just pointed to the real non-free site that was run by whatever organization decided to run the non-free stuff. Or would providing a url that worked with existing sources.list's be too much like debian endorsing non free software?
Can't we just get a checkbox on our preferences page that says "I'm a lawyer". Then we can have a little shark icon that displays next to our username.
If they implemented that, I think I'd seriously consider becoming a lawyer just for the cool points on slashdot.
Nice to see that Microsoft is continuing the stupid naming scheme they started back in the old days with dosshell. Now they will have Microsofts-Hell also.
Large Scale Collaborative Editing sounds a lot like the million monkeys million keyboards idea. I suppose it would work out well if a majority of the people involved were significantly knowledgeable, but otherwise I can't imagine it working too great.
The php documentation at php.net is kind of half and half. There is the regular documentation of functions and then it allows for user added comments at the bottom. Most of the user comments account for special situations and undocument changes and are extremely helpful.
In general entire collaborated doc's don't make sense, but allowing a large group of people to submit changes and updates works well.
In my mind wiki and the like are stupid because people will end up changing valid information just because they don't like the wording or something and so it will move back and forth without ever changing.
There is a collaborative typography website that allows people to click pixels to change color to make a large blob resemble a character. The character starts to emerge generally after 100 or so clicks, but if you follow the snapshots, it never gets any better after that, it just goes back and forth between little fixes never getting any more distinct.
when the kernel goes to exec an interpreted file that doesn't have a #! at the beginning, it always uses/bin/sh Exactly, and if you are using anything other than sh, you know to do the who # !/bin/shell thing at the top of the script
I'd say give them $100. You aren't obligated to give out bonuses, but a hundred dollars or so is a nice gift. Maybe give them a canned ham and $100. You're in business to make a profit, you shouldn't feel obligated to divide the profits by 5 and give everyone a share. You are the boss for a reason.
All the more reason to turn to piracy. I'm sure a lot of people that would have stuck with their existing version of OS X are going to just pirate a newer version. The amount of piracy in response to this dumb move from apple will probably exponentially outweigh the amount of legal upgrades.
Sorry, but I have to throw my two cents in here. I've been helping my Dad work out a web site for the union he's in (I love him to death, but damn... how hard is it to make a freaking tag?)
Just take it over, it sounds like it wouldn't be a hard side project, and a union should have no problem paying someone for their skilled labor.
Considering that nearly every lindows branded app is really just a rebranded opensource project, I wonder which opensource project they are going to rip off for this.
Sounds like its mozilla based.. anyone know of an opensource project that is mozilla based that does this?
Look, there are 8 gliders like this - 4 directions, and 2 states, if I remember right. Why on earth did he pick one that goes DOWN? Why not pick one that goes up and right?
The Napster Card will cost $14.85, entitling the user to 15 downloads -- in line with prices of newer rivals -- and will be available at 14,000 locations in mid-November at such major retail chains as Best Buy (BBY: down $1.17 to $53.64, Research, Estimates), CompUSA, Safeway (SWY: down $0.35 to $21.16, Research, Estimates), Rite Aid (RAD: down $0.06 to $5.68, Research, Estimates) and Duane Reade (DRD: down $0.30 to $13.50, Research, Estimates).
It's kind of odd how the stock prices are down for every company that is planning on selling these pre-paid napster cards.
It would free up $900,000,000,000 annually, which could be used to feed the entire rest of the planet. And since the only reasonable explanation for the US to turn veggie is pathological idealism, that's probably what they'd do with the money.
But it wouldn't be used to feed people. You are attempting to use those circular vegetarian arguments that appeal to people's feelings, rather than making arguments that are based in reality. If it makes you feel better not to eat meat, more power to you, but don't be deluded into thinking you are making the world a better place.
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I can't wait for the next step after they get these approved to help the crippled, when they allow anyone with a few bucks to get these implants.
If I was a student at Penn State I'd be asking for a partial refund of my fees. How do you Penn students feel about your fees going to this?
Yeh, and I'm sure they'd refund them just like the refund fees for blind people that don't watch tv and fat people that don't use the rec. center and crippled people that can't use the pool.
What's the surprise? People with any kind of feel for the pulse of technology have known for a long time that once digital sales of music finally started to not totally suck, they'd catch on.
GameSpy: Do you think that gamers might be concerned about in-game spoilers before seeing the final movie this holiday?
Steve Gray: They shouldn't be. While we have some real cool sneak peak looks at pieces of the upcoming movie, we worked closely with New Line Cinema and Peter Jackson to make sure we aren't doing anything to spoil the film experience. I think we've got the best of both worlds. We've got enough stuff from the upcoming film to make it a great preview, but not so much that anyone should worry about us giving away critical pieces of the movie.
This is a patent covering backing up preferences on a remote server so that someone can safely upgrade their OS or move computers.
Which is a stupid patent as well considering the amount of prior art on that.
Have any of you seriously followed the atkins diet regiment and not had it work for you? I'd be interested in hearing of cases where closing following atkin's suggestions hasn't worked. Everyone that I know who has followed it has lost weight.
couldn't you just set it up so that non-free.debian.org or whatever just pointed to the real non-free site that was run by whatever organization decided to run the non-free stuff. Or would providing a url that worked with existing sources.list's be too much like debian endorsing non free software?
Can't we just get a checkbox on our preferences page that says "I'm a lawyer". Then we can have a little shark icon that displays next to our username.
If they implemented that, I think I'd seriously consider becoming a lawyer just for the cool points on slashdot.
2. Recursive invocation of main, printing randomize letters and spaces of length 11 until you print hello world.
I like that one.
Nice to see that Microsoft is continuing the stupid naming scheme they started back in the old days with dosshell. Now they will have Microsofts-Hell also.
Large Scale Collaborative Editing sounds a lot like the million monkeys million keyboards idea. I suppose it would work out well if a majority of the people involved were significantly knowledgeable, but otherwise I can't imagine it working too great.
The php documentation at php.net is kind of half and half. There is the regular documentation of functions and then it allows for user added comments at the bottom. Most of the user comments account for special situations and undocument changes and are extremely helpful.
In general entire collaborated doc's don't make sense, but allowing a large group of people to submit changes and updates works well.
In my mind wiki and the like are stupid because people will end up changing valid information just because they don't like the wording or something and so it will move back and forth without ever changing.
There is a collaborative typography website that allows people to click pixels to change color to make a large blob resemble a character. The character starts to emerge generally after 100 or so clicks, but if you follow the snapshots, it never gets any better after that, it just goes back and forth between little fixes never getting any more distinct.
when the kernel goes to exec an interpreted file that doesn't have a #! at the beginning, it always uses /bin/sh
Exactly, and if you are using anything other than sh, you know to do the who # !/bin/shell thing at the top of the script
I still program in plain vanilla bourne shell (because it's the Right Thing(tm) to do), but my user shell is bash instead of tcsh.
The right thing to do if you enjoy using backticks and eval statements.
I'd say give them $100. You aren't obligated to give out bonuses, but a hundred dollars or so is a nice gift. Maybe give them a canned ham and $100. You're in business to make a profit, you shouldn't feel obligated to divide the profits by 5 and give everyone a share. You are the boss for a reason.
All the more reason to turn to piracy. I'm sure a lot of people that would have stuck with their existing version of OS X are going to just pirate a newer version. The amount of piracy in response to this dumb move from apple will probably exponentially outweigh the amount of legal upgrades.
Sorry, but I have to throw my two cents in here. I've been helping my Dad work out a web site for the union he's in (I love him to death, but damn... how hard is it to make a freaking tag?)
Just take it over, it sounds like it wouldn't be a hard side project, and a union should have no problem paying someone for their skilled labor.
Considering that nearly every lindows branded app is really just a rebranded opensource project, I wonder which opensource project they are going to rip off for this.
Sounds like its mozilla based.. anyone know of an opensource project that is mozilla based that does this?
Look, there are 8 gliders like this - 4 directions, and 2 states, if I remember right.
Why on earth did he pick one that goes DOWN?
Why not pick one that goes up and right?
I agree, the one that goes up is way cooler.
This is a proposal that we adopt one - the glider pattern from the Game of Life.'"
Since I could really care less, I say we adopt your idea. Make sure it's an opensource/ copyright free graphic though.
Just break down and pay for Norton Ghost or a similar program. That way when it doesn't work, you can make them fix it.
The Napster Card will cost $14.85, entitling the user to 15 downloads -- in line with prices of newer rivals -- and will be available at 14,000 locations in mid-November at such major retail chains as Best Buy (BBY: down $1.17 to $53.64, Research, Estimates), CompUSA, Safeway (SWY: down $0.35 to $21.16, Research, Estimates), Rite Aid (RAD: down $0.06 to $5.68, Research, Estimates) and Duane Reade (DRD: down $0.30 to $13.50, Research, Estimates).
It's kind of odd how the stock prices are down for every company that is planning on selling these pre-paid napster cards.
It would free up $900,000,000,000 annually, which could be used to feed the entire rest of the planet. And since the only reasonable explanation for the US to turn veggie is pathological idealism, that's probably what they'd do with the money.
But it wouldn't be used to feed people. You are attempting to use those circular vegetarian arguments that appeal to people's feelings, rather than making arguments that are based in reality. If it makes you feel better not to eat meat, more power to you, but don't be deluded into thinking you are making the world a better place.
I forgot, do we like Microsoft on tuesdays?
It's a shame that IBM can't buy out SCO without a bunch of assholes making a lot of money. IBM should do some crazy hostile takeover of SCO.