... you effectively have 'disabled' the mod system, but left it there for those that like to use it.
In a sense, yes. I browse at -1, but still like to see the moderations just as a reference.
Most, but not all, of the time, -1s deserve to be -1s. It's the handful of exceptions (moderated -1 - I disagree with you, this occurs distressingly often in any Microsoft or Linux related article) that keep me looking at everything.
Emacs has a programmable definition of page and several flavors of functions called when the page up/page down keys are hit. They're called `scroll-down' and `scroll-up' so we're probably not infringing on Microsoft's patent even though we were first.
I did the 10-day trial thing (December 2006) and found it a bit different with respect to grouping.
Leveling up was painful, in the extreme. Unlocking the inner city (market place?) was painful and required groups to get through the waterworks, etc.
I had gained entry to a guild by the end of the trial and had some friends to play with when I found I had made an uber noobish mistake. I was playing on a European server in the US. It took some days of phone calls (after I had bought a full account) to discover that I had lost all that effort.
When I tried going through the same steps on a US server, it was just too tedious and I gave up pretty quickly.
At the same time, I got World of Warcraft - it had none of the same difficulties. And, since WoW plays on computers I *like* to use, as versus being something MIcrosoft Windows only, I've kept playing it.
Besides being solo friendly (and increasingly so in the year and a half I have played it), it is family friendly in that one can keep playing even with severely restricted family/job time commitments.
I love these sort of RPG games and have been playing them on computer for almost 30 years. It's a pity that D & D Online was done so poorly. The graphics were very cool, but the gameplay sucked, big time.
If it was unfair, it will get slaughtered in metamoderation.
Guess what - the article is about San Francisco.
True, but it did not mention SFO. I've taken pictures inside of SFO and haven't had a problem. It was deep inside the international terminal.
Legal or not, I would not take pictures of the security checkpoint. Those goons derive great joy in making people suffer and no doubt would not like having their actions captured for posterity.
I was sent to Beijing for work the week before the IOC came to select it for this Olympics. It is a filthy, polluted city. (I have lived most of my life in metro Los Angeles and metro Tokyo). There are many scary looking men in uniforms wearing jack boots and carrying automatic weapons. There was an army of unhappy looking people out on the roads every where picking up garbage. The happiest part of the trip was clearing customs and seeing the airplane that would take me back to Tokyo.
This is a replay of the 1936 Olympics, as should be clear by now.
My wife's family lives on a rice paddy in rural Japan and the air looks exactly the same as it does in Beijing all summer long.
(I've never been to Beijing in the summer, but I was in Beijing the week before the IOC got there and what I saw and breathed made Los Angeles and Tokyo look like pristine rural parks).
It varies from place to place. Tokyo and the Kanto plains is quite polluted even in the rice paddies. So is Osaka/Kobe and Kansai. Higher up is clear.
You do not see the air in the Philippines, usually even in Manila despite the humidity.
The point is when the humidity level is that high, you can't tell visually how polluted a city is.
I do claim firat post. I wrote about this in 1980 (I hope I still have the manuscript and rejection slip to prove it). I sure hope there isn't a patent involved.
The executive summary? While the newer Vista security provisions do make it harder to execute arbitrary code, there are still some exploitable holes, mostly because of legacy support, and the fact that some well known vendors still aren't compiling their code/plugins with the proper compiler switches.
You have a lower slashdot ID than me and you still cannot see what is wrong with that picture?
KDE, especially KDE 3 is very nice. (I have my doubts about KDE 4, but no doubt I will switch to it when it is ready). It puts the awkward Microsoft Windows interface to shame.
I'll let others react to your other points, but as for me, give me Linux + KDE3 and I am happy.
I don't understand the Windows hate - XP's a perfectly decent product. Same with MS Office. I run either Windows or Linux depending on what I'm doing.
Nice job of astroturfing. Clap, clap.
I do not particularly hate Microsoft so much as I simply do not care. Microsoft Windows XP crashes too much for me to take it seriously and Microsoft Office has a user interface from hell that makes me curse aloud when I am forced to use it (which is not to say that Star Office or whatever they call it now is much better - just browsing a document requires me to click on "discard changes" to drop the window when I've only been reading the bloody thing).
Just give me documents, email, etc. that I can read on any machine in any way I want. And if you prefer Microsoft, more power to you.
Maybe not video of the event itself, but talk shows, discussions, etc.
I guess you have not seen USian Olympic TV broadcasts. The talk shows/discussions etc. are *most* of what they show.
I'm certainly not going to attempt to describe the drama in the 800m race - it's something that you have to have been there to really understand. But I would *much* rather watch that, than some "human interest" video about a participant.
I *am* a sports fan. Give me the straight sports and the coverage I saw (my late wife avidly watched it and hence, so did I) in Japan swore me off forever from the frustrating TV "coverage" that goes on in the US.
If I *could* turn to a dozen or two dozen different channels with Olympic sports on them, I might consider watching.
And to the losers who say "It's sport or games or whatever, WHO CARES?" I say, there are a vast majority of engineer/scientist types who appreciate the so-called "fine arts" and sports than liberal arts majors who have the vaguest clue about anything technical.
Probably. If my wife demanded it, I would. I tend to watch the summer Olympics if it is convenient (I'm not much of TV watcher) because it brings back memories of track & field in my school days.
Of course, after being spoiled by broadcast TV coverage of the Olympics in Tokyo where there was 4 or 5 channels of different events to choose from, I would never ever willingly watch US TV coverage unless they paid me (a lot) to do so.
When my children get older, I'll probably reverse myself. The Olympics is a great inspiration for young people and I do hope my sons become school boy athletes before they follow in dad's footsteps and become desk jockeys behind a computer.
Funny that you should bring up Adolph Hitler. This is a replay of the 1936 Olympics and I was in Beijing the week before the Olympic commmittee traveled there to choose it - there was an army of people out picking up garbage and what not. I guess they did not have vacuum cleaners large enough to clear out all the dirty[1], polluted air though.
Indeed, Media Sentry + PRC is a match made in... well somewhere I'd rather not go.
[1] On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is the least polluted air and 10 is max polluted, Los Angeles CA USA, where I lived for almost 2 decades ranked about a 5 when I moved away. Tokyo Japan ranked about a 7 when I lived there 2000-2003, and Beijing in 2001 ranked 10. I hope someone does not die in the marathon, but I won't be watching to find out.
People with little or no computer experience might actually be better candidates for Linux than experienced Windows users, because they aren't already used to doing things differently.
People with little or no computer experience are actually better candidates for Linux than experienced Windows users, because they aren't already used to doing things differently.
There fixed that for you.
(And I did something like that for my mother before I moved half way across the world and she did just fine. 1999 worked as "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" in that situation).
Hoo ray!!!! for Blizzard. World of Warcraft runs on Macs out of the box and they coordinated with the Wine developers to make the Warden work there too.
Funny that the game companies trying to make WoW-killers forget the fact that WoW runs on just about everything. Why exclude any market share you can get, especially with an MMO type game where most of the point is playing with other people?
As a long time Linux User, I would love to see Linux take over the desktop mainstream computers.
As a long time Unix and Linux developer/user, I would love to see Linux take over the desktop enterprise computers. How many people use Microsoft at home because that is the environment used at work?
Oh wait... advancing enterprise Linux usage at work is in my job description.
i just happen to have a little horse sh%* on my boots
Be thankful it was not an international flight. That can spread stuff like hoof & mouth disease.
It's funny that to enter countries with problems like that (eg the Philippines) you are made to walk over a special disinfectant[1] before you are allowed entry, while upon entering the US, they only have signs with stern warnings DO NOT DO THAT.
I sure hope people feel safe at SFO because of the perpetual threat level orange (whatever the heck that is supposed to mean). NAIA has had a terminal bombing in the last couple of years and the difference in security is stark (you cannot even enter the building before being searched and going through a metal detector and that's only the first checkpoint). One cannot help but think that US security is only for show and putting travelers in their place.
[1] The one and only time I rode a bus from the south of Mindanao to the north coast, they stopped the bus 3 times en route to make us do that.
I overheard a conversation about how the shoe check was being phased out at some airports? Is that true? Or is it only for international flights?
Nope. At least at SFO they only make you take off your shoes once. At NAIA coming back, I had to do it twice (my last trip home was last week). On the other hand, there is a terrorist problem in the Philippines and airport bombings are not unheard of so I appreciate extra security there.
this kind of abuse has not been in clinton era, or even reagan era. but it is, in bush era.
I call BS on that. You have to go back a century to find a President who was not interested in expanding Federal Government control (President Taft).
But to name the same names as you did, the Reagan administration successfully demonized financial privacy ("money laundering") as well introducing civil forfeiture, and the "Patriot" Act was largely written and rejected piece by piece during the Clinton administration by Freeh and Reno. Bush II is just carrying on a tradition that will be continued by either of the two clowns running for the "major" parties in this election cycle.
Slashdot Mirror
... you effectively have 'disabled' the mod system, but left it there for those that like to use it.
In a sense, yes. I browse at -1, but still like to see the moderations just as a reference.
Most, but not all, of the time, -1s deserve to be -1s. It's the handful of exceptions (moderated -1 - I disagree with you, this occurs distressingly often in any Microsoft or Linux related article) that keep me looking at everything.
Emacs has a programmable definition of page and several flavors of functions called when the page up/page down keys are hit. They're called `scroll-down' and `scroll-up' so we're probably not infringing on Microsoft's patent even though we were first.
>quote>... now we're going to start working on current events in WOW?
GNN, Gnomeregan News Network, "Crisis at Da Portal!" with Mar'Lee reporting. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/downloads/movies.html
There's also a Gadgetzan Times http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/gadgetzantimes/archives.html
"Two photovoltaic solar power plants will be built in San Luis Obispo County in California
Oh wait ...
Well, so long as it near Paso Robles or Carissa Plains, I won't worry overmuch.
I did the 10-day trial thing (December 2006) and found it a bit different with respect to grouping.
Leveling up was painful, in the extreme. Unlocking the inner city (market place?) was painful and required groups to get through the waterworks, etc.
I had gained entry to a guild by the end of the trial and had some friends to play with when I found I had made an uber noobish mistake. I was playing on a European server in the US. It took some days of phone calls (after I had bought a full account) to discover that I had lost all that effort.
When I tried going through the same steps on a US server, it was just too tedious and I gave up pretty quickly.
At the same time, I got World of Warcraft - it had none of the same difficulties. And, since WoW plays on computers I *like* to use, as versus being something MIcrosoft Windows only, I've kept playing it.
Besides being solo friendly (and increasingly so in the year and a half I have played it), it is family friendly in that one can keep playing even with severely restricted family/job time commitments.
I love these sort of RPG games and have been playing them on computer for almost 30 years. It's a pity that D & D Online was done so poorly. The graphics were very cool, but the gameplay sucked, big time.
How the fuck was my comment modded flamebait?
If it was unfair, it will get slaughtered in metamoderation.
Guess what - the article is about San Francisco.
True, but it did not mention SFO. I've taken pictures inside of SFO and haven't had a problem. It was deep inside the international terminal.
Legal or not, I would not take pictures of the security checkpoint. Those goons derive great joy in making people suffer and no doubt would not like having their actions captured for posterity.
Get married in Japan. It's woman's work to take out the garbage there.
see how many China haters there are on Slashdot
I was sent to Beijing for work the week before the IOC came to select it for this Olympics. It is a filthy, polluted city. (I have lived most of my life in metro Los Angeles and metro Tokyo). There are many scary looking men in uniforms wearing jack boots and carrying automatic weapons. There was an army of unhappy looking people out on the roads every where picking up garbage. The happiest part of the trip was clearing customs and seeing the airplane that would take me back to Tokyo.
This is a replay of the 1936 Olympics, as should be clear by now.
My wife's family lives on a rice paddy in rural Japan and the air looks exactly the same as it does in Beijing all summer long.
(I've never been to Beijing in the summer, but I was in Beijing the week before the IOC got there and what I saw and breathed made Los Angeles and Tokyo look like pristine rural parks).
It varies from place to place. Tokyo and the Kanto plains is quite polluted even in the rice paddies. So is Osaka/Kobe and Kansai. Higher up is clear.
You do not see the air in the Philippines, usually even in Manila despite the humidity.
The point is when the humidity level is that high, you can't tell visually how polluted a city is.
And that is nonsense.
I do claim firat post. I wrote about this in 1980 (I hope I still have the manuscript and rejection slip to prove it). I sure hope there isn't a patent involved.
The authors expect these problems to be addressed in future releases of Windows and browser plugins shipped by third parties.
Ah, fixed never. I see.
The executive summary? While the newer Vista security provisions do make it harder to execute arbitrary code, there are still some exploitable holes, mostly because of legacy support, and the fact that some well known vendors still aren't compiling their code/plugins with the proper compiler switches.
You have a lower slashdot ID than me and you still cannot see what is wrong with that picture?
The infinite customizability of KDE
KDE, especially KDE 3 is very nice. (I have my doubts about KDE 4, but no doubt I will switch to it when it is ready). It puts the awkward Microsoft Windows interface to shame.
I'll let others react to your other points, but as for me, give me Linux + KDE3 and I am happy.
I don't understand the Windows hate - XP's a perfectly decent product. Same with MS Office. I run either Windows or Linux depending on what I'm doing.
Nice job of astroturfing. Clap, clap.
I do not particularly hate Microsoft so much as I simply do not care. Microsoft Windows XP crashes too much for me to take it seriously and Microsoft Office has a user interface from hell that makes me curse aloud when I am forced to use it (which is not to say that Star Office or whatever they call it now is much better - just browsing a document requires me to click on "discard changes" to drop the window when I've only been reading the bloody thing).
Just give me documents, email, etc. that I can read on any machine in any way I want. And if you prefer Microsoft, more power to you.
Maybe not video of the event itself, but talk shows, discussions, etc.
I guess you have not seen USian Olympic TV broadcasts. The talk shows/discussions etc. are *most* of what they show.
I'm certainly not going to attempt to describe the drama in the 800m race - it's something that you have to have been there to really understand. But I would *much* rather watch that, than some "human interest" video about a participant.
I *am* a sports fan. Give me the straight sports and the coverage I saw (my late wife avidly watched it and hence, so did I) in Japan swore me off forever from the frustrating TV "coverage" that goes on in the US.
If I *could* turn to a dozen or two dozen different channels with Olympic sports on them, I might consider watching.
And to the losers who say "It's sport or games or whatever, WHO CARES?" I say, there are a vast majority of engineer/scientist types who appreciate the so-called "fine arts" and sports than liberal arts majors who have the vaguest clue about anything technical.
Would many people pay to watch the Olympics?
Probably. If my wife demanded it, I would. I tend to watch the summer Olympics if it is convenient (I'm not much of TV watcher) because it brings back memories of track & field in my school days.
Of course, after being spoiled by broadcast TV coverage of the Olympics in Tokyo where there was 4 or 5 channels of different events to choose from, I would never ever willingly watch US TV coverage unless they paid me (a lot) to do so.
When my children get older, I'll probably reverse myself. The Olympics is a great inspiration for young people and I do hope my sons become school boy athletes before they follow in dad's footsteps and become desk jockeys behind a computer.
Funny that you should bring up Adolph Hitler. This is a replay of the 1936 Olympics and I was in Beijing the week before the Olympic commmittee traveled there to choose it - there was an army of people out picking up garbage and what not. I guess they did not have vacuum cleaners large enough to clear out all the dirty[1], polluted air though.
Indeed, Media Sentry + PRC is a match made in ... well somewhere I'd rather not go.
[1] On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is the least polluted air and 10 is max polluted, Los Angeles CA USA, where I lived for almost 2 decades ranked about a 5 when I moved away. Tokyo Japan ranked about a 7 when I lived there 2000-2003, and Beijing in 2001 ranked 10. I hope someone does not die in the marathon, but I won't be watching to find out.
Why would anyone want to Pirate the Olympic broadcasts?
I'll name one. Compare TV coverage in the United States versus a truly free country like Japan. Exclusive broadcast rights truly sucks, big time.
Are you allowed to change channels if you do not like the particular Olympic event being shown?
People with little or no computer experience might actually be better candidates for Linux than experienced Windows users, because they aren't already used to doing things differently.
People with little or no computer experience are actually better candidates for Linux than experienced Windows users, because they aren't already used to doing things differently.
There fixed that for you.
(And I did something like that for my mother before I moved half way across the world and she did just fine. 1999 worked as "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" in that situation).
The proprietary games we play are mostly Blizzard
Hoo ray!!!! for Blizzard. World of Warcraft runs on Macs out of the box and they coordinated with the Wine developers to make the Warden work there too.
Funny that the game companies trying to make WoW-killers forget the fact that WoW runs on just about everything. Why exclude any market share you can get, especially with an MMO type game where most of the point is playing with other people?
Cubicles are generally not inhabited by platform zealots.
I inhabit a cubicle and I don't do Microsoft Windows (or vi for that matter), you insensitive clod!
As a long time Linux User, I would love to see Linux take over the desktop mainstream computers.
As a long time Unix and Linux developer/user, I would love to see Linux take over the desktop enterprise computers. How many people use Microsoft at home because that is the environment used at work?
Oh wait ... advancing enterprise Linux usage at work is in my job description.
i just happen to have a little horse sh%* on my boots
Be thankful it was not an international flight. That can spread stuff like hoof & mouth disease.
It's funny that to enter countries with problems like that (eg the Philippines) you are made to walk over a special disinfectant[1] before you are allowed entry, while upon entering the US, they only have signs with stern warnings DO NOT DO THAT.
I sure hope people feel safe at SFO because of the perpetual threat level orange (whatever the heck that is supposed to mean). NAIA has had a terminal bombing in the last couple of years and the difference in security is stark (you cannot even enter the building before being searched and going through a metal detector and that's only the first checkpoint). One cannot help but think that US security is only for show and putting travelers in their place.
[1] The one and only time I rode a bus from the south of Mindanao to the north coast, they stopped the bus 3 times en route to make us do that.
I overheard a conversation about how the shoe check was being phased out at some airports? Is that true? Or is it only for international flights?
Nope. At least at SFO they only make you take off your shoes once. At NAIA coming back, I had to do it twice (my last trip home was last week). On the other hand, there is a terrorist problem in the Philippines and airport bombings are not unheard of so I appreciate extra security there.
this kind of abuse has not been in clinton era, or even reagan era. but it is, in bush era.
I call BS on that. You have to go back a century to find a President who was not interested in expanding Federal Government control (President Taft).
But to name the same names as you did, the Reagan administration successfully demonized financial privacy ("money laundering") as well introducing civil forfeiture, and the "Patriot" Act was largely written and rejected piece by piece during the Clinton administration by Freeh and Reno. Bush II is just carrying on a tradition that will be continued by either of the two clowns running for the "major" parties in this election cycle.