Hmm, if they were to become available, I'd head right for McDonald's, pick up a cup of coffee, and "spill" it on said robot. When everything shorts out and crashes, my family has it made for the rest of their lives. What right does McDonald's have selling coffee capable of killing me?? Woohoo!
The interface doesn't matter much to me as long as a site has good content. I've seen many comments here over the ages of people bitching because some other site has a similar design to Slashdot. That said, at least it allows you to see all the items and a quick blurb easily. Anything is better than the big magazine sites, where the actual text of a column is one thin column surrounded by 143 images and spread over 13 pages. Ick.
For a much easier method, I'd suggest setting up the Zope server with Squishdot. squishdot.org I believe is it's site. It is certainly easier to get going for novices. Then you can concentrate on the site content rather than the backend.
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Athlon is faster/better/cheaper (pick two:)
No, pick three. There is little reason to bother with the more expensive box from Intel unless you like the logo/name. You can have a 700Mhz (OEM) Athlon and motherboard for the price of just a P3/700 (OEM). SMP is still missing in the Athlon world, but I just keep failing to find things that can keep my ancient A/550 busy for very long to warrant SMPness.
First of all, never trust the "media." Pretty much all of them have one goal, to push their agenda. They'll gripe about NASA blowing $100 million here and there, Ken Starr blowing $50 million because one person refused to tell the truth, but when the president (or his wife) want to go around the world giving billions in aid at every stop, well that's noble. This last trip ran up a tab of $70 million just for the Air Force. That's not even taking Secret Service and the like into account, just flying him and his enterage around. The media is in a position today of being able to feed lapdog couch potatoes anything they want. So, they make decisions, NASA out, Social Security in. And once they've made up their mind, you better agree or you'll kill senior citizens.
The current priorities in the speeches politicians want to give nowadays involve "how I will give you money." And the average Joe Schmoe laps it up like the trained monkeys they are. So, we have a group of politicians that have put American into a Gimme-state, so the budgets have to be adjusted appropriately. I don't see NASA getting a worthwhile increase in budget for a good 8-10 years. We'll have to go through a couple more presidents before the whole political arena will change enough to allow ideas other than gimme programs. Watch raw Algore speeches on CSPAN (c-span.org has has real video I believe for those of you outside this country, check listings for "Road to the Whitehouse"). It is all, "I will give you X {m,b}illion dollars for {education,social security,welfare,cigarette smokers,etc}. Gearge Bush will kill you."
I can recall all the way back to about 1991, then President George Bush gave a little speech calling for humans on Mars by 2010 (might have be 2020). Here we are already in 2000, and we haven't mastered landing craft there. We (the American people as a whole) just don't give a damn about space today. Kennedy gave a similar speech, with the side-effect of being killed two days later, but we did make it to the moon in under 10 years. For the last thirty years, since we stopped associating with the moon, all we've been is a shuttle service for satellites and growing tomatoes in space. I think we've pretty well mastered that, let's move on to something more challenging people!:)
Check all the headers of your message. Often SMTP servers will report what IP address you connected from. So it may have something like "Received: from silverlight.net (123.45.67.89)..." They could then do a lookup on that IP and see you connected to silverlight's server from an AOL IP.
Well, I take it from the press release from Netpliance themself:
"In response to recent reports of the unauthorized reconfiguration of its i-opener Internet appliance, Netpliance, Inc. (NPLI) announced that it has implemented hardware changes to prevent reconfigurations of i-opener Internet appliances produced after March 20, 2000"
As to what exactly they've done, no one knows until they get one and open it up to see what's different. Many have had theories, but until someone gets one, who knows. The most severe to me would be completely yanking the IDE port and connecting points on the motherboard so no one could try and solder on a new connector.
I know of someone that ordered one a couple days after the March 11 post here on Slashdot, and hasn't yet received it. They said it'd take 7-10 days, but my guess is they've put a hold on shipments while they re-tooled their manufacturing process to do these "hardware changes." Perhaps they're even getting ready to ship these new ones now that they're charging people's credit card and adding the internet service. But really, it's all speculation. Feel free to disbelieve...
That's more of the distribution's role, not GNOME or KDE's. I haven't had much trouble telling people about rpm -i, rpm -U, rpm -e. The trouble comes in people getting to know the idea of users and root and all. But the package management must be kept at the distribution level so users only have one thing to worry about for their entire dist, not one for the dist, one for GNOME, one for KDE, etc.
Aside from the little fact that no Circuit City has any in stock, it sounded like the perfect plan. CC is just the store front, you go in, are amazed at the demo machine, they have one shipped in from Taiwan (or wherever) to the store, you pick it up. Now, seeing as Netpliance has not shipped any units out for a long time, even for those who ordered long before the 20th, I'd wager that what you got at CC is the non-hackable one.
Television (as in Taxi) wasn't really his forte. It was a means to getting the name recognition so he could go on and do national tours. His specials were nicer, but didn't have the full bang the live performances had. That, or you don't get it because he wasn't a comedian. It would be like whining because Windows programs don't run on Linux. Those people expect all PCs to behave like Windows. His performance isn't that of a traditional stand-up comic, setup-punchline-laugh. Nonetheless, it is folks like you that kept him going. 90% of an audience will hate him, boo him, etc while the other 10% (like myself) are laughing our asses off at you people. Once you put him in perspective, you see all the emotions he gets the audience into, and thus the humor.
So slowly leech the content off and do it right. I'm sure they'd bitch if someone was downloading everything at once, but put plenty of sleep calls in a simple script. Then put it all into a more proper database, and make it 100x better. It would be more interesting to search run searches on all the fields.
Much of the problem lies in people's unwillingness to think. They prefer to be fed things via the television than yell at it, "You didn't invent the f*ing Internet, mofo!" like myself. In the one vein where a few of them select someone to head up the country, they choose the one with nice hair and says, "I feel your pain." You'll end up with the same if people actually voted for all these hollywood award shows, basing things on how nice the dress was in some scene of Titanic, or how cute a mouse looks.
Anyway, it is important to teach these people to put two and two together. The longer they sit there being fed from the television, the more rights will be given up to Washington. The only thing worse than having these lazy types choosing things for you, is allowing them to choose politicians who want to decide what to do with you.
Maybe I just expect more out of a movie to mark it as great. I went through the thing easily able to guess what comes up next. Keanu goes through the entire thing being a clueless schmuck, then all at once he knows all. I mean, what's the sense in that? Build it up gradually. I see all these Hollywood movies using computer animations more as a crutch to their poor storytelling skills. Something simple, like Life of Brian/Holy Grail, is a much better story, not cliched scene after scene.
Now they want to remake Planet of the Apes, no doubt to add as much useless CGI as they can and make Charleton Heston's girlfriend even more scantily clad. I wouldn't be surprised if they took out the "damned dirty apes" line with "you poor misguided fellows" for fear that monkeys everywhere will be insulted, or it'll only cause a greater gap between moneky-human relations. Can't we all just get along?
If I ever find myself in Hollywood, I'll be sure to find a way to piss on that sign.;)
The only movie worth spit last year was Man on the Moon, plain and simple. I even vote for Kaufman as Man of the Millennium. What could be a better performance than 30-45 minutes of a guy eating mashed potatoes on stage? What's most pathetic is even the comedy award show last week on Fox failed to give it many awards. There's gotta be a conspiracy there, or a monopoly on the award-granting hierarchy.
I have many such buttons on this device I call a remote. I would have used it had I tuned into the oscars, but Tivo knows me better than that. I mean, what's the point in any of these award shows? Every "speech" is the same. They get up there, cry, say it's an honor to just be nominated, claim the other nominees were just as good, say they never expected / have nothing ready, then go on to thank every director/producer/people you never heard of and never will again, then they wrap it up thanking their parents/spouse for putting up with their arrogance, etc. Why go through this 46 times every year, when you could be watching the Sopranos or something worthwhile?
An exception is granted for women/gay folk. I recognize that they enjoy watching Joan/Melissa Rivers gab on end about gowns and how they don't have the breasts the other actresses have.
What's with you people and your obsession with The Matrix? Is it that it used computers to do animations? I mean, I didn't find the story very interesting. You can find just as many fancy-pseudo buzzwords in the last couple seasons of Sliders. Speaking of which, in the reruns on SciFi channel last week, they had the one where the O'Connell boys up and left. It is really stupid now with that fake Quinn and the Diana girl. They do nothing but spew out crap about the quantum fluctuations. I mean come on, with the real Quinn they didn't bore us with the math, it was an interesting side-topic. But here they move it to the forefront.
Anyway, what really is the point of obsessing over Matrix? I've seen better sci-fi from the movies on MST3k.
SOAR (Searchable Online Archive of Recipes) is pretty close to what you propose, only with all food, not just Pizza. And, it's under a pretty free license, basically "copy but don't claim it's your own work."
A couple times a year this super computer show thing comes to town. You can pick up simple computers like this for around $300, but with floppy, cdrom, keyboard, etc. Aside from the odd case, does this thing have any real benefits over a standard small tower PC?
Of course, it started with some crazies hiring lawyers to cover their own lunacy, now all schools, workplaces, etc have to take a proactive stance on all these "no tolerance" issues.
That musta been back in the days of risks, and accepting the consequences. Not anymore, everyone's a victim. These students need to claim Internet addiction, and that they need to get treatment. Cry on television a few times, and they'll be set.
When I first went down to my university, I plugged the provided coax into my TV and found they had all the HBO, Showtime, etc channels. I though "cool" and watched away. A year later (or so) I go down on opening day, and there's only plain cable. After asking around, I come to find out someone like five years earlier had went on the roof and removed a filter from the cable connection. I found it a pretty funny college prank, giving the entire dorm full access for free for so long. But, nonetheless it is theft, just they could only prosecute those who actually did it, if they knew.
You ever think they may just be addicted to the mild electricity passing through the CAT5, sitting in their rooms sucking on it like there's no tomorrow? Hey, if kids are stupid enough to go around sniffing glue/paint/anything-they-can, there's gotta be similar morons.
What goes with these public area net connections is the fact that they'll go idle much of the day, thus only transferring a few megs of the university's bandwidth. If you have no life and want to sit in the Union all day with your laptop, go for it. Or if you have to drag your computer downstairs to the lab, the University's banking that there aren't too many of those sort of people. Thus they are little drain on their available transfer limits. As we have seen with the napster bans, universities don't have unlimited bandwidth.
But, when you connect these public ports to your private room, you will certainly download tons more. Before the university wires a dorm, they gather their statistics on how much is used and must be able to financially support those more heavily used connections. Plus, as others have said, that's one less port for someone who actually drags their computer to the lab. I know at my university, around finals time the labs always filled up. If their CAT5 is in a port, and they are out getting a pizza or ice cream, is that fair that there is a line of students waiting to plug in their computers into ports while they just come home, turn on, and go?
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Hmm, if they were to become available, I'd head right for McDonald's, pick up a cup of coffee, and "spill" it on said robot. When everything shorts out and crashes, my family has it made for the rest of their lives. What right does McDonald's have selling coffee capable of killing me?? Woohoo!
The interface doesn't matter much to me as long as a site has good content. I've seen many comments here over the ages of people bitching because some other site has a similar design to Slashdot. That said, at least it allows you to see all the items and a quick blurb easily. Anything is better than the big magazine sites, where the actual text of a column is one thin column surrounded by 143 images and spread over 13 pages. Ick.
For a much easier method, I'd suggest setting up the Zope server with Squishdot. squishdot.org I believe is it's site. It is certainly easier to get going for novices. Then you can concentrate on the site content rather than the backend.
Athlon is faster/better/cheaper (pick two:)
No, pick three. There is little reason to bother with the more expensive box from Intel unless you like the logo/name. You can have a 700Mhz (OEM) Athlon and motherboard for the price of just a P3/700 (OEM). SMP is still missing in the Athlon world, but I just keep failing to find things that can keep my ancient A/550 busy for very long to warrant SMPness.
First of all, never trust the "media." Pretty much all of them have one goal, to push their agenda. They'll gripe about NASA blowing $100 million here and there, Ken Starr blowing $50 million because one person refused to tell the truth, but when the president (or his wife) want to go around the world giving billions in aid at every stop, well that's noble. This last trip ran up a tab of $70 million just for the Air Force. That's not even taking Secret Service and the like into account, just flying him and his enterage around. The media is in a position today of being able to feed lapdog couch potatoes anything they want. So, they make decisions, NASA out, Social Security in. And once they've made up their mind, you better agree or you'll kill senior citizens.
The current priorities in the speeches politicians want to give nowadays involve "how I will give you money." And the average Joe Schmoe laps it up like the trained monkeys they are. So, we have a group of politicians that have put American into a Gimme-state, so the budgets have to be adjusted appropriately. I don't see NASA getting a worthwhile increase in budget for a good 8-10 years. We'll have to go through a couple more presidents before the whole political arena will change enough to allow ideas other than gimme programs. Watch raw Algore speeches on CSPAN (c-span.org has has real video I believe for those of you outside this country, check listings for "Road to the Whitehouse"). It is all, "I will give you X {m,b}illion dollars for {education,social security,welfare,cigarette smokers,etc}. Gearge Bush will kill you."
:)
I can recall all the way back to about 1991, then President George Bush gave a little speech calling for humans on Mars by 2010 (might have be 2020). Here we are already in 2000, and we haven't mastered landing craft there. We (the American people as a whole) just don't give a damn about space today. Kennedy gave a similar speech, with the side-effect of being killed two days later, but we did make it to the moon in under 10 years. For the last thirty years, since we stopped associating with the moon, all we've been is a shuttle service for satellites and growing tomatoes in space. I think we've pretty well mastered that, let's move on to something more challenging people!
Check all the headers of your message. Often SMTP servers will report what IP address you connected from. So it may have something like "Received: from silverlight.net (123.45.67.89)..." They could then do a lookup on that IP and see you connected to silverlight's server from an AOL IP.
Just a guess.
Well, I take it from the press release from Netpliance themself:
"In response to recent reports of the unauthorized reconfiguration of its i-opener Internet appliance, Netpliance, Inc.
(NPLI) announced that it has implemented hardware changes to prevent reconfigurations of i-opener Internet appliances produced after March 20, 2000"
As to what exactly they've done, no one knows until they get one and open it up to see what's different. Many have had theories, but until someone gets one, who knows. The most severe to me would be completely yanking the IDE port and connecting points on the motherboard so no one could try and solder on a new connector.
I know of someone that ordered one a couple days after the March 11 post here on Slashdot, and hasn't yet received it. They said it'd take 7-10 days, but my guess is they've put a hold on shipments while they re-tooled their manufacturing process to do these "hardware changes." Perhaps they're even getting ready to ship these new ones now that they're charging people's credit card and adding the internet service. But really, it's all speculation. Feel free to disbelieve...
That's more of the distribution's role, not GNOME or KDE's. I haven't had much trouble telling people about rpm -i, rpm -U, rpm -e. The trouble comes in people getting to know the idea of users and root and all. But the package management must be kept at the distribution level so users only have one thing to worry about for their entire dist, not one for the dist, one for GNOME, one for KDE, etc.
Aside from the little fact that no Circuit City has any in stock, it sounded like the perfect plan. CC is just the store front, you go in, are amazed at the demo machine, they have one shipped in from Taiwan (or wherever) to the store, you pick it up. Now, seeing as Netpliance has not shipped any units out for a long time, even for those who ordered long before the 20th, I'd wager that what you got at CC is the non-hackable one.
Television (as in Taxi) wasn't really his forte. It was a means to getting the name recognition so he could go on and do national tours. His specials were nicer, but didn't have the full bang the live performances had. That, or you don't get it because he wasn't a comedian. It would be like whining because Windows programs don't run on Linux. Those people expect all PCs to behave like Windows. His performance isn't that of a traditional stand-up comic, setup-punchline-laugh. Nonetheless, it is folks like you that kept him going. 90% of an audience will hate him, boo him, etc while the other 10% (like myself) are laughing our asses off at you people. Once you put him in perspective, you see all the emotions he gets the audience into, and thus the humor.
So slowly leech the content off and do it right. I'm sure they'd bitch if someone was downloading everything at once, but put plenty of sleep calls in a simple script. Then put it all into a more proper database, and make it 100x better. It would be more interesting to search run searches on all the fields.
Much of the problem lies in people's unwillingness to think. They prefer to be fed things via the television than yell at it, "You didn't invent the f*ing Internet, mofo!" like myself. In the one vein where a few of them select someone to head up the country, they choose the one with nice hair and says, "I feel your pain." You'll end up with the same if people actually voted for all these hollywood award shows, basing things on how nice the dress was in some scene of Titanic, or how cute a mouse looks.
Anyway, it is important to teach these people to put two and two together. The longer they sit there being fed from the television, the more rights will be given up to Washington. The only thing worse than having these lazy types choosing things for you, is allowing them to choose politicians who want to decide what to do with you.
Maybe I just expect more out of a movie to mark it as great. I went through the thing easily able to guess what comes up next. Keanu goes through the entire thing being a clueless schmuck, then all at once he knows all. I mean, what's the sense in that? Build it up gradually. I see all these Hollywood movies using computer animations more as a crutch to their poor storytelling skills. Something simple, like Life of Brian/Holy Grail, is a much better story, not cliched scene after scene.
;)
Now they want to remake Planet of the Apes, no doubt to add as much useless CGI as they can and make Charleton Heston's girlfriend even more scantily clad. I wouldn't be surprised if they took out the "damned dirty apes" line with "you poor misguided fellows" for fear that monkeys everywhere will be insulted, or it'll only cause a greater gap between moneky-human relations. Can't we all just get along?
If I ever find myself in Hollywood, I'll be sure to find a way to piss on that sign.
The only movie worth spit last year was Man on the Moon, plain and simple. I even vote for Kaufman as Man of the Millennium. What could be a better performance than 30-45 minutes of a guy eating mashed potatoes on stage? What's most pathetic is even the comedy award show last week on Fox failed to give it many awards. There's gotta be a conspiracy there, or a monopoly on the award-granting hierarchy.
I have many such buttons on this device I call a remote. I would have used it had I tuned into the oscars, but Tivo knows me better than that. I mean, what's the point in any of these award shows? Every "speech" is the same. They get up there, cry, say it's an honor to just be nominated, claim the other nominees were just as good, say they never expected / have nothing ready, then go on to thank every director/producer/people you never heard of and never will again, then they wrap it up thanking their parents/spouse for putting up with their arrogance, etc. Why go through this 46 times every year, when you could be watching the Sopranos or something worthwhile?
An exception is granted for women/gay folk. I recognize that they enjoy watching Joan/Melissa Rivers gab on end about gowns and how they don't have the breasts the other actresses have.
Yesterday.
What's with you people and your obsession with The Matrix? Is it that it used computers to do animations? I mean, I didn't find the story very interesting. You can find just as many fancy-pseudo buzzwords in the last couple seasons of Sliders. Speaking of which, in the reruns on SciFi channel last week, they had the one where the O'Connell boys up and left. It is really stupid now with that fake Quinn and the Diana girl. They do nothing but spew out crap about the quantum fluctuations. I mean come on, with the real Quinn they didn't bore us with the math, it was an interesting side-topic. But here they move it to the forefront.
Anyway, what really is the point of obsessing over Matrix? I've seen better sci-fi from the movies on MST3k.
SOAR (Searchable Online Archive of Recipes) is pretty close to what you propose, only with all food, not just Pizza. And, it's under a pretty free license, basically "copy but don't claim it's your own work."
A couple times a year this super computer show thing comes to town. You can pick up simple computers like this for around $300, but with floppy, cdrom, keyboard, etc. Aside from the odd case, does this thing have any real benefits over a standard small tower PC?
Of course, it started with some crazies hiring lawyers to cover their own lunacy, now all schools, workplaces, etc have to take a proactive stance on all these "no tolerance" issues.
That musta been back in the days of risks, and accepting the consequences. Not anymore, everyone's a victim. These students need to claim Internet addiction, and that they need to get treatment. Cry on television a few times, and they'll be set.
When I first went down to my university, I plugged the provided coax into my TV and found they had all the HBO, Showtime, etc channels. I though "cool" and watched away. A year later (or so) I go down on opening day, and there's only plain cable. After asking around, I come to find out someone like five years earlier had went on the roof and removed a filter from the cable connection. I found it a pretty funny college prank, giving the entire dorm full access for free for so long. But, nonetheless it is theft, just they could only prosecute those who actually did it, if they knew.
You ever think they may just be addicted to the mild electricity passing through the CAT5, sitting in their rooms sucking on it like there's no tomorrow? Hey, if kids are stupid enough to go around sniffing glue/paint/anything-they-can, there's gotta be similar morons.
What goes with these public area net connections is the fact that they'll go idle much of the day, thus only transferring a few megs of the university's bandwidth. If you have no life and want to sit in the Union all day with your laptop, go for it. Or if you have to drag your computer downstairs to the lab, the University's banking that there aren't too many of those sort of people. Thus they are little drain on their available transfer limits. As we have seen with the napster bans, universities don't have unlimited bandwidth.
But, when you connect these public ports to your private room, you will certainly download tons more. Before the university wires a dorm, they gather their statistics on how much is used and must be able to financially support those more heavily used connections. Plus, as others have said, that's one less port for someone who actually drags their computer to the lab. I know at my university, around finals time the labs always filled up. If their CAT5 is in a port, and they are out getting a pizza or ice cream, is that fair that there is a line of students waiting to plug in their computers into ports while they just come home, turn on, and go?