Hey, numbnuts! Do ya reckon the rapid moderation might be because you really are off topic? Just maybe? No?
Well, what the hell does early moderation have to do with: Apple, OSX, Darwin, thick books, big ticket hardware, attempting to make newbie guides relevant to Unix gurus, deluding long-time Mac freaks into believing that they are using a real operating system, or Disney rip-off cartoon platypii(*)? ???, profit!!! (oops, Freudian typo - sorry folks!)
(*) Does anyone else see the Huey/Dewey/Louie -> Hexley similarity?
Re:A users perspective of Red Hat 8 and KDE
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We would all appreciate ti if you would make correctiosn to your speeling!
(Hint: If you type more than about 100 wpm, it's usually worth the extra 20 wpm to check for common typographical errors, unless you are writing for your own benefit)
I gotta say that's the closest usernum to mine that I have ever noticed. I normally don't even look at the usernum, but in this thread, well...
Oh, and to slashdot goes the obligatory
"Hippo birdie two ewes"
Consumer marketing is irrelevant to the kernel
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Linux Kernel 3.0?
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To a consumer, 3.0 sounds like a better product than 2.6
The Linux kernel alone is not a consumer product.
By itself, it is not very useful, but when you bundle it with a couple of hundred other utilities, applications and environments and call it a distribution, the distribution becomes a consumer product. When you strip it bare and embed it into a device, the device becomes a consumer product. When you load it onto a general purpose computer and call it an appliance, the appliance becomes a consumer product.
When it comes to the kernel, there is no need for consumer level marketing trickery.
At face value this does sound really dumb. But if someone could build a "wave cancellation" device that listens to the sounds coming into my cubicle...and then transmits that same sound 180 degrees out of phase towards me, thus turning my cubicle into my own private quiet space...I would be very very happy glad for it.
You mean so that you can't hear the fire alarm? Great idea!
Build it yourself and you might just earn yourself an honourable mention in the Darwin awards
The ability to have tattoos that change their appearance depending on physiological conditions would open up new worlds of expression.
The Japanese had this in their traditional body art for many years until recently. It's a white ink that is almost transparent on pale skin, but becomes quite distinctly visible when the skin is blushed. IIRC, it was traditionally applied to women as an erotic decoration. When the woman was especially aroused, her skin would blush and her tattoo would light up like Las Vegas.
This particular tattoo ink is now extremely unpopular and may even be illegal because of its major downside - it's a lead-based pigment.
Perhaps this guy can shed more light on the topic.
Not explosive except in pretty odd geometries, you say?
Do you mean odd geometries like high school chemistry experiments at standard temperature and pressure?
You know, the one in which you pass a current through water (a bit like charging a hydrogen fuel cell really), then collect the product gases in test tubes and check the contents of each test tube with a glowing splint of wood?
Do you remember what the effects of O2 and H2 on the splint were? That's right my friend. The O2 caused the splint to glow brighter (and possibly re-ignite), while the H2 caused a very definite "POP!".
That "POP!", in case you have not yet realised, was a small scale *explosion*.
Now, I rather imagine that a *destructive* explosion is a very small risk when dealing with fuel cells for small devices like laptops, but I would take the risk more seriously for larger batteries.
Think of what might happen when you build the genetic algorithm into say, a radio transmitter. It could automatically recover from a defective component or a strong source of interference by applying the GA to reconfigure itself to match the most efficient configuration of available components and environmental conditions.
Self-optimisiing, self repairing circuitry - wouldn't that be valuable?
Yep, I had the very same thing... during a root canal filling. I know exactly what you are on about. First, he tried the standard local anaesthetics and then a nerve block. When it finally became patently obvious that neither approach had worked, he opted for the injection directly into the nerve.
And then this... Dentist : I'm very sorry. I can tell that this is not just imagined pain, but I can't give you any more anaesthetic. You're going to have to bear with it.
Me: (shuddering and convulsing as he drills) : AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! HUUCCHHH!! NNNGGGOO!!!
Never again! Fuck that! From now on, if it needs filling, it gets pulled out. No correspondence will be entered into.
Exactly! The project is a lot more than just it's codebase.
Once you have released the source code under an open license, such as the GPL, the source becomes ours(*) but the project is still yours.
If someone submits a patch that strays from your mission, or you don't understand, or uses the wrong bracing style, you don't have to accept it. It's your project after all, and if they don't like it, they can fork themselves!
So some upstart has forked a new project with different aims from yours, but based on the same original codebase. Big deal!
In fact, congratulations! Your code is useful to someone other than yourself. It feels good doesn't it?
If the project is uninteresting, or has ideals and aims that are widely disagreed with, it'll get precious few coders onboard, and as such, it probably deserves to fade away. If not, it'll quite likely get a decent following and will thrive. Such is natural selection.
Those are simply the risks and responsibilities that go along with the benefits of releasing your code to the community.
* Yeah, I know... all work is automatically copyrighted by the Author(s), but I'm trying to make a point. Allow me a little linguistic leeway here, okay?
The infra-red that they are talking about is merely a representation in visible wavelengths. Even if it did manage to output IR from RGB signals, it wouldn't be much use. You don't really imagine that people can ACTUALLY see infra-red do you? (or ultra-violet, for that matter)
Slashdot Mirror
"Zero" non numerum est!
Meanwhile the cat says:
"Fuck off, it's MY couch!"
:You must have been pretty hungry yuorself then, tough guy.
;)
Fair call!
Hey, numbnuts! Do ya reckon the rapid moderation might be because you really are off topic? Just maybe? No?
Well, what the hell does early moderation have to do with:
Apple,
OSX,
Darwin,
thick books,
big ticket hardware,
attempting to make newbie guides relevant to Unix gurus,
deluding long-time Mac freaks into believing that they are using a real operating system,
or Disney rip-off cartoon platypii(*)?
???,
profit!!! (oops, Freudian typo - sorry folks!)
(*) Does anyone else see the Huey/Dewey/Louie -> Hexley similarity?
We would all appreciate ti if you would make correctiosn to your speeling!
(Hint: If you type more than about 100 wpm, it's usually worth the extra 20 wpm to check for common typographical errors, unless you are writing for your own benefit)
Aww, c'mon now! Five disks isn't that bad. That's only a little over 7 meg. I remember when a full Slack distro was over 30 disks...
What? What's that you say? Five what ?
I gotta say that's the closest usernum to mine that I have ever noticed. I normally don't even look at the usernum, but in this thread, well...
Oh, and to slashdot goes the obligatory
"Hippo birdie two ewes"
The Linux kernel alone is not a consumer product.
By itself, it is not very useful, but when you bundle it with a couple of hundred other utilities, applications and environments and call it a distribution, the distribution becomes a consumer product. When you strip it bare and embed it into a device, the device becomes a consumer product. When you load it onto a general purpose computer and call it an appliance, the appliance becomes a consumer product.
When it comes to the kernel, there is no need for consumer level marketing trickery.
You mean so that you can't hear the fire alarm? Great idea!
Build it yourself and you might just earn yourself an honourable mention in the Darwin awards
There has gotta be something seriously wrong with the whole internet when first post on slashdot complains about the site being slashdotted.
Or better yet, something along these lines.
(Aw, c'mon. You just knew someone was gonna post it!)
BZZZZZZT!
Thanks for playing. But it takes endeavour to get there. If you consider it work, you are a slave, otherwise, you are free.
Well, I never really considered myself a hacker, but it seems that I am... I just happen to be employed as a sysadmin.
I meant this guy.
Not explosive except in pretty odd geometries, you say?
Do you mean odd geometries like high school chemistry experiments at standard temperature and pressure?
You know, the one in which you pass a current through water (a bit like charging a hydrogen fuel cell really), then collect the product gases in test tubes and check the contents of each test tube with a glowing splint of wood?
Do you remember what the effects of O2 and H2 on the splint were? That's right my friend. The O2 caused the splint to glow brighter (and possibly re-ignite), while the H2 caused a very definite "POP!".
That "POP!", in case you have not yet realised, was a small scale *explosion*.
Now, I rather imagine that a *destructive* explosion is a very small risk when dealing with fuel cells for small devices like laptops, but I would take the risk more seriously for larger batteries.
Of course it's useful science.
Think of what might happen when you build the genetic algorithm into say, a radio transmitter. It could automatically recover from a defective component or a strong source of interference by applying the GA to reconfigure itself to match the most efficient configuration of available components and environmental conditions.
Self-optimisiing, self repairing circuitry - wouldn't that be valuable?
Eeewwwwww?
/bin/bash (and scads of other *nix-ish utils from cygwin and others) on windows makes my win32 experience bearable!
Are you crazy?
Yep, I had the very same thing... during a root canal filling. I know exactly what you are on about. First, he tried the standard local anaesthetics and then a nerve block. When it finally became patently obvious that neither approach had worked, he opted for the injection directly into the nerve.
And then this...
Dentist : I'm very sorry. I can tell that this is not just imagined pain, but I can't give you any more anaesthetic. You're going to have to bear with it.
Me: (shuddering and convulsing as he drills) : AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! HUUCCHHH!! NNNGGGOO!!!
Never again! Fuck that! From now on, if it needs filling, it gets pulled out. No correspondence will be entered into.
Honest politicians and the paperless office.
Exactly! The project is a lot more than just it's codebase.
Once you have released the source code under an open license, such as the GPL, the source becomes ours(*) but the project is still yours.
If someone submits a patch that strays from your mission, or you don't understand, or uses the wrong bracing style, you don't have to accept it. It's your project after all, and if they don't like it, they can fork themselves!
So some upstart has forked a new project with different aims from yours, but based on the same original codebase. Big deal!
In fact, congratulations! Your code is useful to someone other than yourself. It feels good doesn't it?
If the project is uninteresting, or has ideals and aims that are widely disagreed with, it'll get precious few coders onboard, and as such, it probably deserves to fade away. If not, it'll quite likely get a decent following and will thrive. Such is natural selection.
Those are simply the risks and responsibilities that go along with the benefits of releasing your code to the community.
* Yeah, I know... all work is automatically copyrighted by the Author(s), but I'm trying to make a point. Allow me a little linguistic leeway here, okay?
The infra-red that they are talking about is merely a representation in visible wavelengths. Even if it did manage to output IR from RGB signals, it wouldn't be much use. You don't really imagine that people can ACTUALLY see infra-red do you? (or ultra-violet, for that matter)
You are almost right about the morons.
You are one of the 98%!
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No Sir, I don't like it!