Since Perl development is a bit "questionable", I'm guessing $55K usd will buy a ton of LSD and cocaine. I can't wait to see if the poor guy even lives after ingesting so many drugs, but what features he adds.
The people at FUNAC would like to hire you. Please visit and see if you're interested, as I think they would be elated to hire you and your family via the conditions at http://funac.org/blog/.
Grettings fellow/.'ers! After watching Eddie Izzard and consuming massive amounts of peyote tonight, I had a vision - a vision of software being released that reeks of Satan doing.
The voices in my head are telling me that the Parsec LAN-Test is it!
The About page states - "Parsec is going to introduce you to a whole new universe." Blasphemy! There is but one universe, the one that God has given us. Do not even think for a second that the universe Parsec will introduce you to is not one of nothing but eternal pain and fire!
Further down the page -"To facilitate the creation of new galaxies" Heretical! We cannot create galaxies. Perhaps statues made of ear wax in the glorious visage of Natalie Portman, but not glaxies!
Lastly, this test release is for GNULIX and MacOS only. Where is support for the glorious operating system made by God (Bill Gates) himself? NOWHERE!
I will say a prayer and take a shot of whiskey for each of your souls tonight.
With love,
This is a Microsoft/Nazi/Roman Catholic ploy
on
Palm Pilot Robot Kit
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· Score: 1
"however, we do not yet provide PPRK code for gcc."
The provided software is not GNULIX friendly. Yes I know it will still compile with a "free" compiler from Metroworks, but still...
This is evil capitalist proprietary software. I ask you, is the PalmPilot "open souce?" Is the microcode for the robotic parts "open source?" Is there any guarantee that deep down inside the PalmPilot there is not code that will discharge all 5 monsterous volts of power at the user?
no, no, and NO! It reeks of a plot by the Pope himself (Bill Gates) to get you to purcahse Windows ME. So, Grigoriy Reshko, Illah Nourbakhsh, Matthew Mason, and Garth Zeglin, if you are reading this - come forth! Convince a drunken troll that you are not the spaen of Satan himself. I dare you!
Heed my warning, this is just the beginning.
"Proof that not everything requires scads of hardware or the latest processor -- sometimes small is beautiful."
Yes timothy, finally a voice of reason! Despite the wickedness of this example, I agree. I think, ney I decree, that all/.'ers will sell thier 1ghz Athlons and UltraSparc IIIs and purchase TRS-80s.
You are sitting at your computer. Your 14.4 modem is humming, and your browser is open to a blank window.
> OPEN slashdot.org
Loading....done!
>READ SLASHDOT
1. "Masturbatory Habits of Geeks in Post Columbine Era - by JonKatz"
2. "Signal11 Looses Virginity...to Natalie Portman!!! - by CmdrTaco"
3. "Linus Admits he Decided to Write Linux While on LSD - by CmdrTaco"
4. "BSD: FooBSD 0.0.0.2d Released -by Michael"
5. "Interactive Fiction Competition 2000 Begins -by Michael"
>OPEN 5
Loading....done!
>REPLY
You need to specify how to reply.
>REPLY INSIGHTFUL
Sorry faeryman, I cannot allow you to do that.
>REPLY INFORMATIVE
Sorry faeryman, I cannot allow you to do that.
> REPLY SOME STUPID PIECE OF CRAP THAT ILL WRITE AT 2:30 AM WHILE DRUNK AND IF THE MOD_SQUAD BETTER GIVES A +5, Funny TO ILL SOIL MY PANTS
Posting...done!
>OPEN beowulf.org
Loading....done!
>IMAGINE
Imagine what?
>IMAGINE A BEOWULF CLUSTER OF THESE THINGS!!!!!!!
*drool*
The member list. Read down at the bottom, at the "Additional thanks to" section. Or rather read the BLANK space there.
Yes my fellow working class GNULIX user, those bastard capitalists programmers list only themselves as creating KBasic. I ask you - should not the man who created thier keyboards be listed too? Or the workers at the powerplant who provide the electricity needed for them to program? Or even Ivan who runs the breadstore down the road for providing nourishment to the programmers?
I also see they have released this software under the GPL. Blasphemy! Marx is spinning in his grave at this. How can the bourgeoisie release such foul capitalist inspired code under the sacred socialist liscence - the GPL?
Yes my fellow men, abandon KBasic as you would abandon your class in society. As you would embrace Lenin, embrace the One True BASIC - GWBASIC!
look in the upper lefthand corner - "Thomas.jpg". IANAL (BIAAT -but i am a troll), but isn't it illegal to provide pictures of young children?
did "Thomas" agree to having his photograph on the global internet? (NO!)
is this visage of "Thomas" being gazed upon by a large number of sex-starved geeks right now? (YES!)
are the remaining pictures listed in the filebrowser pictures of "Thomas" in various forms of undress? (PERHAPS!)
just like downloading MP3S promotes communism, using XFce promotes paedofile style behavior. do what any good hearted X-Windows user would do and use CDE.
CDE - Promoting consentual sexual relations between people of compatible ages since 1982!
i used XFce maybe 2 or 3 years ago on an old 486 (which is being used as a footrest atm). it was the only wm that i could get to run at any speed with like 6 megs of ram in the system.
so all you pansies running gnome on your 1ghz athlons with 128 megs of ram, i bet this 486 runs X just as fast as your system.
If you are from 20 years in the future and somehow reading this, please answer my questions:
1 - Have there been any advances in prewarmed ground corn since 2000? Or is hot grits just passe and lukewarm oatmeal is where it's at?
2 - What is the status of Beowulf clustering? More importantly, could I even imagine a circa 2020 Beowulf cluster?
3 - What is the current status of the Miss Portman? If she is unmarried then my plan has failed:(
4 - Tom Christiansen - Once and for, is this guy dead!?!
5 - #5 is more of a request. Can you please browse the 20 year old Slashdot archives and tell me what this post god mod'ed too? If it's not +5, Insightfull...frrr
I don't think it's too much for the MPAA to say what platforms thier product can (and can't) run on.
If you made a certain line of clothing, wouldn't you want the option of who couldn't and who could wear them? Look at Tommy Hilfiger...he rightfully doesn't want African-Americans wearing his clothings. DeCSS takes away a producers right to control his product.
Carmack was responsible for the popularity of OGL in the gaming market...now he's in team with M$.
DirectX is already winning (Linux doesn't support it yet either), Bungie got bought by M$ (kiss anymore good Mac games goodbye), and now Carmack is going to program in DirectX for the X-Box.
OpenGL will be as dead as SCO is by the end of the year. Sorry.
Okay. I know you will very well call me a stick in the mud for this one, but I must be a bit more pessimistic than the article or the general air for the IBM 405GP is.
I've followed the development of the for a while now, even having a few email conversations with Jonathon Thompson, Quong Ho Thoc, and Hagr Itstein (three lead developers). I told them about a few of my concerns but it looks like marketing prevailed:(
While yes, I am a fan of Linux and OSS (hell, I've used been running Slackware since version 2 and my firewalls run OpenBSD), I don't see Linux being the right tool for this. I don't want to see this product fail since I know IBM is a good company. By all means everything else they made was a success, but the IBM 405GP looks like it will be a flop.
Why?
(1) Security - This is a big concern for me. Imagine some evil hacker getting control of this baby...now imagine if this was used in your bank or a military instituion. See the problem? While I commend the design of Open Souce, perhaps allowing the innerworkings of this to be accessable by a hacker is not good, even more so when it's an embedded system.
Check out these sites, they explain why the needs for your desktop's security (which Linux can provide) are on the other end of the spectrum for bank/B2B/military security (which Linux cannot provide): The CIA's spin Military disablement cpsr.org
(2) Expansion architecture - Check the specs on this thing. While a PCI slot is normally a good thing, wouldn't MCA or a propietary bus be better suited for this? Linux runs on the MCA fine, and I think it's low overhead and fault-tolerant properties are better than a run of the mill PCI slot for this. Or a new bus design could be implemented. IBM benefits with better performance, we as a comunity benefit from more GPL code being released. Sound good?
(3) Operating system - [flamesuit] I like Linux, but I don't think Linux is the best tool for this. IBM has made the decision to go with Linux, so I'll respect that. But I must say that WindowsCE or QNX would be better. We know who WindowsCE is backed by, but I must admit Mico$oft'$ embedded OS department knows thier stuff. Look at the recent Sharp handhelds - fine work and I think the same design could be applied to the IBM 405GP. If you don't want to recognize MS products though, I can understand. QNX would be just as valid (and in some ways such as power usage and latency) even better than WindowsCE and Linux. Scalibility and performance are key here, and QNX can deliver better than Linux.[/flamesuit]
Again, I don't like being negative but I don't think the IBM 405GP will do that well. I want to be proved wrong though, I want to see Linux progress and gain market share, and I want to see IBM be profitable....but Linux just ain't gonna cut it for this one my friends. Please tell me I'm wrong.
So called "slave labor" is resposible for the majority of work done. A "factory on a stick" will do nothing more than leave millions of people un-employed. While the wages and safety conditions might not be something to write home about, sweatshops produce so much for us. It is a slap in the face against these workers to even suggest that the geeks could create a way to replace them.
Would you like to be faced with un-employment one day because some hacker across the ocean found a way to replace with you a new gadget?
I cannot for the life of me understand the the blatent anti-Asian sentiment expressed in your nickname. Our mutual friend, Quong Ho, has been there many times for you in the past. And now what do you do?
Slander his physical appearance!
I am deeply offended by this. Quong is a good friend of mine, but even worse is the hypocrisy expresed by a so called 'Christian' - YOU! Why do you even bother to attend church...maybe to grovel on your knees and beg for forgivness for your wretched hate-filled life?
Luckily, Quong does not read this site. If he did I am sure he would seek out his "friends" user info. And there, rather than kind words, he will find hate-filled sentiments against his race!
Frankly I am disgusted Roundeye. While I am not of Asian blood, I feel Quong's pain. Was it not enough that you got him drunk and stole 35 dollars from him at Leslie's party? Was it not enough that called his mother a "gook" behind her back? Was it not enough that you offered to "turn in his research paper" while he was ill - then threw it in the rubbish basket?
Now every comment you make on this webboard bears an anti-Asian air to it. I hope the other readers of Slashdot can see through your thin veil of intelligence and compassion to see the truth of what you are.
Slashdot Mirror
Since Perl development is a bit "questionable", I'm guessing $55K usd will buy a ton of LSD and cocaine. I can't wait to see if the poor guy even lives after ingesting so many drugs, but what features he adds.
First off, let me say I feel for you...I really do. Arcades, gambling or not, can be a vital part of the economy and thier removal isn't right.
I was reading the other day and noticed the people at FUNAC.org are looking to hire Malaysians as per the terms given at http://funac.org/blog/.
If I was Malaysian (I'm half Korean, half British) I'd apply since it seems like a good deal. Just a heads up.
Hello sir.
The people at FUNAC would like to hire you. Please visit and see if you're interested, as I think they would be elated to hire you and your family via the conditions at http://funac.org/blog/.
Thanks.
Hentai Robots.
(those will never be available in the states. pick me one up too, please.)
Grettings fellow /.'ers! After watching Eddie Izzard and consuming massive amounts of peyote tonight, I had a vision - a vision of software being released that reeks of Satan doing.
The voices in my head are telling me that the Parsec LAN-Test is it!
The About page states - "Parsec is going to introduce you to a whole new universe." Blasphemy! There is but one universe, the one that God has given us. Do not even think for a second that the universe Parsec will introduce you to is not one of nothing but eternal pain and fire!
Further down the page -"To facilitate the creation of new galaxies" Heretical! We cannot create galaxies. Perhaps statues made of ear wax in the glorious visage of Natalie Portman, but not glaxies!
Lastly, this test release is for GNULIX and MacOS only. Where is support for the glorious operating system made by God (Bill Gates) himself? NOWHERE!
I will say a prayer and take a shot of whiskey for each of your souls tonight.
With love,
"however, we do not yet provide PPRK code for gcc."
/.'ers will sell thier 1ghz Athlons and UltraSparc IIIs and purchase TRS-80s.
The provided software is not GNULIX friendly. Yes I know it will still compile with a "free" compiler from Metroworks, but still...
This is evil capitalist proprietary software. I ask you, is the PalmPilot "open souce?" Is the microcode for the robotic parts "open source?" Is there any guarantee that deep down inside the PalmPilot there is not code that will discharge all 5 monsterous volts of power at the user?
no, no, and NO! It reeks of a plot by the Pope himself (Bill Gates) to get you to purcahse Windows ME. So, Grigoriy Reshko, Illah Nourbakhsh, Matthew Mason, and Garth Zeglin, if you are reading this - come forth! Convince a drunken troll that you are not the spaen of Satan himself. I dare you!
Heed my warning, this is just the beginning.
"Proof that not everything requires scads of hardware or the latest processor -- sometimes small is beautiful."
Yes timothy, finally a voice of reason! Despite the wickedness of this example, I agree. I think, ney I decree, that all
With love,
You are sitting at your computer. Your 14.4 modem is humming, and your browser is open to a blank window.
> OPEN slashdot.org
Loading....done!
>READ SLASHDOT
1. "Masturbatory Habits of Geeks in Post Columbine Era - by JonKatz"
2. "Signal11 Looses Virginity...to Natalie Portman!!! - by CmdrTaco"
3. "Linus Admits he Decided to Write Linux While on LSD - by CmdrTaco"
4. "BSD: FooBSD 0.0.0.2d Released -by Michael"
5. "Interactive Fiction Competition 2000 Begins -by Michael"
>OPEN 5
Loading....done!
>REPLY
You need to specify how to reply.
>REPLY INSIGHTFUL
Sorry faeryman, I cannot allow you to do that.
>REPLY INFORMATIVE
Sorry faeryman, I cannot allow you to do that.
> REPLY SOME STUPID PIECE OF CRAP THAT ILL WRITE AT 2:30 AM WHILE DRUNK AND IF THE MOD_SQUAD BETTER GIVES A +5, Funny TO ILL SOIL MY PANTS
Posting...done!
>OPEN beowulf.org
Loading....done!
>IMAGINE
Imagine what?
>IMAGINE A BEOWULF CLUSTER OF THESE THINGS!!!!!!!
*drool*
With love,
Taco, do what you will to change the moderation on /. but don't even think about removing -1, Troll.
I've spent so much time with her I cannot deny she is my soulmate, and to remove her would be the final blow against my wretched trolling life.
With love,
I'm sure you're saying "Oh komrad faeryman! Why not?"
The member list. Read down at the bottom, at the "Additional thanks to" section. Or rather read the BLANK space there.
Yes my fellow working class GNULIX user, those bastard capitalists programmers list only themselves as creating KBasic. I ask you - should not the man who created thier keyboards be listed too? Or the workers at the powerplant who provide the electricity needed for them to program? Or even Ivan who runs the breadstore down the road for providing nourishment to the programmers?
I also see they have released this software under the GPL. Blasphemy! Marx is spinning in his grave at this. How can the bourgeoisie release such foul capitalist inspired code under the sacred socialist liscence - the GPL?
Yes my fellow men, abandon KBasic as you would abandon your class in society. As you would embrace Lenin, embrace the One True BASIC - GWBASIC!
Thank you.
With love,
http://www.xfce.org/xfce-snap-large.jpg
look in the upper lefthand corner - "Thomas.jpg". IANAL (BIAAT -but i am a troll), but isn't it illegal to provide pictures of young children?
did "Thomas" agree to having his photograph on the global internet? (NO!)
is this visage of "Thomas" being gazed upon by a large number of sex-starved geeks right now? (YES!)
are the remaining pictures listed in the filebrowser pictures of "Thomas" in various forms of undress? (PERHAPS!)
just like downloading MP3S promotes communism, using XFce promotes paedofile style behavior. do what any good hearted X-Windows user would do and use CDE.
CDE - Promoting consentual sexual relations between people of compatible ages since 1982!
With love,
i used XFce maybe 2 or 3 years ago on an old 486 (which is being used as a footrest atm). it was the only wm that i could get to run at any speed with like 6 megs of ram in the system.
so all you pansies running gnome on your 1ghz athlons with 128 megs of ram, i bet this 486 runs X just as fast as your system.
all hail code-bloat!
With love,
If you are from 20 years in the future and somehow reading this, please answer my questions:
:(
1 - Have there been any advances in prewarmed ground corn since 2000? Or is hot grits just passe and lukewarm oatmeal is where it's at?
2 - What is the status of Beowulf clustering? More importantly, could I even imagine a circa 2020 Beowulf cluster?
3 - What is the current status of the Miss Portman? If she is unmarried then my plan has failed
4 - Tom Christiansen - Once and for, is this guy dead!?!
5 - #5 is more of a request. Can you please browse the 20 year old Slashdot archives and tell me what this post god mod'ed too? If it's not +5, Insightfull...frrr
Thank you.
With love,
i want to make love with you peter
:o)
I am wearing a Lain t-shirt right.now!
<insert freaky organ music here>
ever heard of something called "sarcasm!"
flamebait my ass.....this site sickens me.
...DeCSS is a BadThing.
I don't think it's too much for the MPAA to say what platforms thier product can (and can't) run on.
If you made a certain line of clothing, wouldn't you want the option of who couldn't and who could wear them? Look at Tommy Hilfiger...he rightfully doesn't want African-Americans wearing his clothings. DeCSS takes away a producers right to control his product.
GNU/Linux - The nigger of the movie industry.
click my email addy
fox this shit rob..im a lazy drunken bastard and dont know how
I said this before, but no one listened.
Carmack was responsible for the popularity of OGL in the gaming market...now he's in team with M$.
DirectX is already winning (Linux doesn't support it yet either), Bungie got bought by M$ (kiss anymore good Mac games goodbye), and now Carmack is going to program in DirectX for the X-Box.
OpenGL will be as dead as SCO is by the end of the year. Sorry.
I used to program ID3 tag editors..and yeah, it would take about an hour to make an app to strip that bad boy out.
try again record comps, this wont work.
Okay. I know you will very well call me a stick in the mud for this one, but I must be a bit more pessimistic than the article or the general air for the IBM 405GP is.
:(
I've followed the development of the for a while now, even having a few email conversations with Jonathon Thompson, Quong Ho Thoc, and Hagr Itstein (three lead developers). I told them about a few of my concerns but it looks like marketing prevailed
While yes, I am a fan of Linux and OSS (hell, I've used been running Slackware since version 2 and my firewalls run OpenBSD), I don't see Linux being the right tool for this. I don't want to see this product fail since I know IBM is a good company. By all means everything else they made was a success, but the IBM 405GP looks like it will be a flop.
Why?
(1) Security - This is a big concern for me. Imagine some evil hacker getting control of this baby...now imagine if this was used in your bank or a military instituion. See the problem? While I commend the design of Open Souce, perhaps allowing the innerworkings of this to be accessable by a hacker is not good, even more so when it's an embedded system.
Check out these sites, they explain why the needs for your desktop's security (which Linux can provide) are on the other end of the spectrum for bank/B2B/military security (which Linux cannot provide):
The CIA's spin
Military disablement
cpsr.org
(2) Expansion architecture - Check the specs on this thing. While a PCI slot is normally a good thing, wouldn't MCA or a propietary bus be better suited for this? Linux runs on the MCA fine, and I think it's low overhead and fault-tolerant properties are better than a run of the mill PCI slot for this. Or a new bus design could be implemented. IBM benefits with better performance, we as a comunity benefit from more GPL code being released. Sound good?
(3) Operating system - [flamesuit] I like Linux, but I don't think Linux is the best tool for this. IBM has made the decision to go with Linux, so I'll respect that. But I must say that WindowsCE or QNX would be better. We know who WindowsCE is backed by, but I must admit Mico$oft'$ embedded OS department knows thier stuff. Look at the recent Sharp handhelds - fine work and I think the same design could be applied to the IBM 405GP. If you don't want to recognize MS products though, I can understand. QNX would be just as valid (and in some ways such as power usage and latency) even better than WindowsCE and Linux. Scalibility and performance are key here, and QNX can deliver better than Linux. [/flamesuit]
Again, I don't like being negative but I don't think the IBM 405GP will do that well. I want to be proved wrong though, I want to see Linux progress and gain market share, and I want to see IBM be profitable....but Linux just ain't gonna cut it for this one my friends. Please tell me I'm wrong.
Honestly?
So called "slave labor" is resposible for the majority of work done. A "factory on a stick" will do nothing more than leave millions of people un-employed. While the wages and safety conditions might not be something to write home about, sweatshops produce so much for us. It is a slap in the face against these workers to even suggest that the geeks could create a way to replace them.
Would you like to be faced with un-employment one day because some hacker across the ocean found a way to replace with you a new gadget?
I didn't think so.
Roundeye, so we meet again.
I cannot for the life of me understand the the blatent anti-Asian sentiment
expressed in your nickname. Our mutual friend, Quong Ho, has been there many
times for you in the past. And now what do you do?
Slander his physical appearance!
I am deeply offended by this. Quong is a good friend of mine, but even worse is
the hypocrisy expresed by a so called 'Christian' - YOU! Why do you even bother
to attend church...maybe to grovel on your knees and beg for forgivness for your
wretched hate-filled life?
Luckily, Quong does not read this site. If he did I am sure he would seek out
his "friends" user info. And there, rather than kind words, he will find
hate-filled sentiments against his race!
Frankly I am disgusted Roundeye. While I am not of Asian blood, I feel Quong's
pain. Was it not enough that you got him drunk and stole 35 dollars from him at
Leslie's party? Was it not enough that called his mother a "gook" behind her
back? Was it not enough that you offered to "turn in his research paper" while
he was ill - then threw it in the rubbish basket?
Now every comment you make on this webboard bears an anti-Asian air to it. I
hope the other readers of Slashdot can see through your thin veil of
intelligence and compassion to see the truth of what you are.
A LIAR!
A HYPOCRITE!
A HATE-MONGER!
FOR SHAME ROUNDEYE, FOR SHAME!
In the words of Keanu - "Whoa."
looks like i beat you at your own game john :P
nope