There's a Vonnegut novel, "Slapstick," that involves the plot point of the President of the US giving everyone new randomly-from-amongst-a-certain-set-of-words-and-n umbers-assigned middle names. The idea was exactly what you say -- that now everyone has a new "family". Typically loopy Vonnegut, but ultimately an interesting idea (which is also typical Vonnegut behavior).
"Has the balls," or in the more likely case, has the family/school connections to bum enough money off of banks or investors.
And keep in mind that many of these buisenesses that he's talking about still have yet to prove thair viability -- in fact, their potential to profit is often based solely off of the abilities and long hours of IT workers that are socially bullied into overwork and treated like interchangeable cogs in a boss's machine, with no security to prevent them from being dumped on the street at the first downturn. That was the point of the article, not taht bosses don't deserve to get paid more.
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Coffee-crack. You take crack and cut it with Folgers before smoking.
Well, it might be all the places where Arab-Americans have been unconstitutionally "detained," or in the heart of the DARPA "Total Information Awareness" database that Ashcroft and Poindexter want to build using federal and corporate databases (you know, like Verizon's).
Also live from Montclair... I just get tired of people going on as if any old freak could live here (and why would they want to?) I'll have you know that you have to pass a strict exam in order to live in NJ....
I read the exact same thing. I, however, thought nanotech pants would be normal-sized, but endowed with several standard sci-fi add-ons... enhanced speed, adaptive camoflage, and, most importantly, "evacuation reclamation" for material replentishment. I mean, who wouldn't want to be able to piss bullets for real?
So let me get this straight. Their productivity software, Office, that uses de facto document standards and which can currently be sold for a profit, they have no intention of porting to Linux.
But a broken, hole-y DRM/anti-privacy schema, accepted by only a few and generally looked on with suspicion, being developed with no profits in the near future to -- that, they're porting to Linux.
So Diablo II has finally come around! I've been playing ProgressQuest for several months now, mostly because you don't have to deal with all the tedious "click-and-kill" that Diablo (and EverQuest, and DAoC, etc) saddle you with. Looks like those guys over at Blizzard have finally learned what Grumdrig has known for a while -- people just want to see their character grow!
Sub $25 Wireless networking setup, including router and card.
Already there, my friend:
Network Starter Kit, Oct 11
Computers4Sure has the NETGEAR SB104 10BASE-T Ethernet Network Starter Kit $25.95. Includes 2 10/100 Ethernet cards, cables, and a 4 port 10T Hub. (source, http://www.techbargains.com/... currently the 11th item down the list)
I think the problem is that the government and various commercial entities keep changing/adding to the statutes in ways that make it easier to "lawfully" track down your identity. Even if it's "legal" to beat an ISP owner with a brick until he gives the IP logs for last Tuesday, it goes against the original intent. Obviously, that example is hyperbole, but very recently, the RIAA was trying to use the infamous DMCA to force Verizon to reveal their user logs.
"Just works" != "Just works speedily." During my Win95 reinstalls, it detected the ethernet card, the video card, the sound card, and ran them all seamlessly. No distro I tried was able to do this, in KDE, in Gnome, or in IceWM. Apparently RH 8.0 isn't going to, either.
Is Linux going to offer me an alternative to Windows that DOESN'T involve me buying new hardware? Because if I do have to buy new hardware, I'll end up getting a Mac with OS X. That's Linux's crossroads -- the question is not "can a Linux install be a replacement for WindowsXP?" (although that'd be nice too)... it needs to start with "can a Linux install be a replacement for Windows 95?"
Does OS X run on the guy's Celeron? What about his Toshiba laptop?
I have an old 233 mHz Dell kicking around. It runs the most blessedly stable Win95 install you could hope for, courtesy of 2 intentional drive-wipes right after purchase. It is my general backup computer. I've played around with Linux, and having put Mandrakes 7.2, 8.2, and 9.0, and Lycoris Amethyst on, I can safely say that none of them 'just worked' (so far, only Mandrake 7.2 worked with my sound card without a hassle). I was thinking about RH as the next test distro, but no longer.
Anyway, the point is that OS X seems like a great system. I would love to run it. But I'm not going to go out and drop $1000 on new hardware from Mr. Jobs. I have hardware. I want to get away from running Windows on it for purposes other than games. Linux made much of its name by supporting older systems. It shouldn't be too much to ask that it 'just works' on these systems.
Oh, well done, now he's going to get slashdotted by everyone who, realizing the main story's site is down, feels the need to go look at SOMETHING made of legos....;)
Let's see if we can nuke a few other servers while we're at it.
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While I agree with you that this is not, necessarily, a permenant switch, I think it's still cause to grab the old tinfoil. Do the boys in C.R.A.B (Cheney, Runsfeld, Ashcroft, and Bush, in order of the amount they actually run the country) show any sign of LESSENING the fever pitch of war so aptly and lyrically described in the "Julius Caeser" quote at the top of the page? Not until they decide to listen to their own general and back off Iraq (or at least get some legal justification for anything). The rollercoaster will be forced up, and up, and up... until it's impossible to get back down without spilling some blood.
Depends. Will they have high-quiality programming like "6 Feet Under," "Mind of the Married Man," "The Sopranos" , the most recently released-to-tv movies, and, most importantly, no commercials? Then yes, maybe I would, for the few I watch (SciFi, A&E, History, whatever Law & Order is on at the moment).
I like watching a program all the way through. The only reason I channel surf is (surprise!) commercials.
Oooh, paying for TV. My god... that would be like... well, like cable is now. I pay for TBS (Turner Broadcasting Station... hi Ted!), and I pay for HBO, etc etc etc. HBO is some of the best programming out there, and they don't have commercials.
I never used Kazaa... but I (used to) highly recommend KazaaLite. All of the functionality, none of the spyware. Oh well, back to my from-source LimeWire v1.6b.
Slashdot Mirror
A page using CSS Level 2 in IE (pc), Chimera (Gecko on the Mac).
Now, that same page using Safari
You may notice some differences.
Because KHTML supports CSS like tissue paper supports wet bricks.
KHTMLs CSS Level 2 compliance is for crap. Gecko's, by contrast, is fully up to spec.
There's a Vonnegut novel, "Slapstick," that involves the plot point of the President of the US giving everyone new randomly-from-amongst-a-certain-set-of-words-and-n umbers-assigned middle names. The idea was exactly what you say -- that now everyone has a new "family". Typically loopy Vonnegut, but ultimately an interesting idea (which is also typical Vonnegut behavior).
"Has the balls," or in the more likely case, has the family/school connections to bum enough money off of banks or investors.
And keep in mind that many of these buisenesses that he's talking about still have yet to prove thair viability -- in fact, their potential to profit is often based solely off of the abilities and long hours of IT workers that are socially bullied into overwork and treated like interchangeable cogs in a boss's machine, with no security to prevent them from being dumped on the street at the first downturn. That was the point of the article, not taht bosses don't deserve to get paid more.
Coffee-crack. You take crack and cut it with Folgers before smoking.
Well, it might be all the places where Arab-Americans have been unconstitutionally "detained," or in the heart of the DARPA "Total Information Awareness" database that Ashcroft and Poindexter want to build using federal and corporate databases (you know, like Verizon's).
But really, that is neither here nor there.
Also live from Montclair... I just get tired of people going on as if any old freak could live here (and why would they want to?) I'll have you know that you have to pass a strict exam in order to live in NJ....
I read the exact same thing. I, however, thought nanotech pants would be normal-sized, but endowed with several standard sci-fi add-ons... enhanced speed, adaptive camoflage, and, most importantly, "evacuation reclamation" for material replentishment. I mean, who wouldn't want to be able to piss bullets for real?
So let me get this straight. Their productivity software, Office, that uses de facto document standards and which can currently be sold for a profit, they have no intention of porting to Linux.
But a broken, hole-y DRM/anti-privacy schema, accepted by only a few and generally looked on with suspicion, being developed with no profits in the near future to -- that, they're porting to Linux.
Uh.... HUH.
So Diablo II has finally come around! I've been playing ProgressQuest for several months now, mostly because you don't have to deal with all the tedious "click-and-kill" that Diablo (and EverQuest, and DAoC, etc) saddle you with. Looks like those guys over at Blizzard have finally learned what Grumdrig has known for a while -- people just want to see their character grow!
oop. Gotta read more carefully. My bad.
Already there, my friend:
Well, not QUITE < $25. But durn close!
I think the problem is that the government and various commercial entities keep changing/adding to the statutes in ways that make it easier to "lawfully" track down your identity. Even if it's "legal" to beat an ISP owner with a brick until he gives the IP logs for last Tuesday, it goes against the original intent. Obviously, that example is hyperbole, but very recently, the RIAA was trying to use the infamous DMCA to force Verizon to reveal their user logs.
"Just works" != "Just works speedily." During my Win95 reinstalls, it detected the ethernet card, the video card, the sound card, and ran them all seamlessly. No distro I tried was able to do this, in KDE, in Gnome, or in IceWM. Apparently RH 8.0 isn't going to, either.
Is Linux going to offer me an alternative to Windows that DOESN'T involve me buying new hardware? Because if I do have to buy new hardware, I'll end up getting a Mac with OS X. That's Linux's crossroads -- the question is not "can a Linux install be a replacement for WindowsXP?" (although that'd be nice too)... it needs to start with "can a Linux install be a replacement for Windows 95?"
Does OS X run on the guy's Celeron? What about his Toshiba laptop?
I have an old 233 mHz Dell kicking around. It runs the most blessedly stable Win95 install you could hope for, courtesy of 2 intentional drive-wipes right after purchase. It is my general backup computer. I've played around with Linux, and having put Mandrakes 7.2, 8.2, and 9.0, and Lycoris Amethyst on, I can safely say that none of them 'just worked' (so far, only Mandrake 7.2 worked with my sound card without a hassle). I was thinking about RH as the next test distro, but no longer.
Anyway, the point is that OS X seems like a great system. I would love to run it. But I'm not going to go out and drop $1000 on new hardware from Mr. Jobs. I have hardware. I want to get away from running Windows on it for purposes other than games. Linux made much of its name by supporting older systems. It shouldn't be too much to ask that it 'just works' on these systems.
Oh, well done, now he's going to get slashdotted by everyone who, realizing the main story's site is down, feels the need to go look at SOMETHING made of legos.... ;)
Let's see if we can nuke a few other servers while we're at it.
While I agree with you that this is not, necessarily, a permenant switch, I think it's still cause to grab the old tinfoil. Do the boys in C.R.A.B (Cheney, Runsfeld, Ashcroft, and Bush, in order of the amount they actually run the country) show any sign of LESSENING the fever pitch of war so aptly and lyrically described in the "Julius Caeser" quote at the top of the page? Not until they decide to listen to their own general and back off Iraq (or at least get some legal justification for anything). The rollercoaster will be forced up, and up, and up... until it's impossible to get back down without spilling some blood.
Unless you're poor, black, and live in Tulia, Texas.
Fortunately, while the people in the database are poor and black, they're living in Delaware. Phew.
Better not make take a picture of your friend standing in front of a piece of modern sculpture... otherwise it's off to the brig with ye!
May I just say that this is completely fscking brilliant? Wish I was allowed to mod anymore ;)
Maybe these innovations belongs in the same ranks. Hopefully, the success level will be a considerable amount higher. ;-)
Depends. Will they have high-quiality programming like "6 Feet Under," "Mind of the Married Man," "The Sopranos" , the most recently released-to-tv movies, and, most importantly, no commercials? Then yes, maybe I would, for the few I watch (SciFi, A&E, History, whatever Law & Order is on at the moment).
I like watching a program all the way through. The only reason I channel surf is (surprise!) commercials.
Oooh, paying for TV. My god... that would be like... well, like cable is now. I pay for TBS (Turner Broadcasting Station... hi Ted!), and I pay for HBO, etc etc etc. HBO is some of the best programming out there, and they don't have commercials.
Isn't this the company that was proposed as a gatekeeper to our government -- that is, use Passport to authenticate citizens?
Disgusting.
I never used Kazaa... but I (used to) highly recommend KazaaLite. All of the functionality, none of the spyware. Oh well, back to my from-source LimeWire v1.6b.