When will slashdot start providing an automatic mirror for personal pages that it links to. The poor guys servers probably don't know what's hit them!!
Personally. i'm apalled that slashdot is running ads like these after all the hundreds of articles that have appeared on the pages stating the opposite.
I know they have to make money through advertising bu they can, and should, refuse to carry ads like these.
Would an anti-abortion website carry a banner ad for the nearest abortion clinic - I don't think so. Slashdot should not be carry pro-microsoft advertising.
I use the UK mirror service alot, even since university and now five years on.
It's a great, underused and under reported service. Download times on most UK backbones are blazingly fast but these days, with seemingly so much bandwidth around, noone seems to want to worry about using mirrors. I just got the complete gnome 2.6 source at 50kb/s, better that the 11kb/s my DSL link managed from the main site.
Hey,
Here's the thing you see, there are a million and one ways we can all use less electricity and keep every gadget we run and more, here's some examples:
Monitors - How many are still running CRTs? Throw it away, get a TFT and it'll pay for itself in saved power within three years.
Lightbulbs - Not using energy efficient ones? No excuse - they use less that half the power and produce just as much light (40w = 100w).
Appliances - Trying to save on your white goods? make sure you buy ones with clear information on the electricity they use, again, a little more spent on purchace can easily make itself back in bills.
Compact your trash!!!
Don't buy the most overpackaged one in the store!!!
Here's some harder ones...
Heating - Thermal transfer heating is a viable alternative (bore two holes, about 50' each into the ground, pump some luquid with suitable thermal properties around them and the heat from the earth can be used to warm your house in summer and cool it on winter. Perhaps not one for Alaska but easy for anywhere temperate.
Flame bate:
I really wouldn't expect an American to understand this. Your domestic appliances haven't seen an update since 1963 (they're still brown and come with stick-on wood effect trip for christs sake!), Your have the most unbeleavable bigger is better attitude (the Biggest Taco, the Biggest Burger, the Biggest Fridge, the Biggest car), Your utility companies operate a quite unbeleavable coroprate profit model (can you say Enron), you don't build sidewalks and so drive EVERYWHERE - even down the street to where you shop and eat, in corner malls and complexes made of the same textured, moulded concrete containing the same shops repeated mile after endless mile.
We don't like to complain about the Linux kernel because we don't pay for it but I was getting very frustrated at new things being included while existing bugs (like usb-storage and datafab CF card readers) were not being addressed.
Let's hope that the kernel ships with nothing broken.
This kind of thing is happening all the time and increasingly so around the world.
A few years ago a lab in the UK admitted that most of it's results were flawed because of some permanent contamination within it's main testing machine, and they had been for several years.
I also remember a case where cells grown in culture and used around the world were discovered to be the wrong kind (liver instead of lung?) after the research had been going on for 10 years or so, wasting billions in money and years of work.
It's unherently unsound doing research on a captive, interbread population. You wouldn't trust it in humans - so why is it OK in animals and cultures?
What's this about wheel nails? Are American rules differerent from the UK?
I would recommend...
1. Rubber tyres
2. Bearing and axle
3. Keep the wheel base fairly wide compared to the buggy height, this will about any dangerous tips at speed.
4. Keep steering simple
5. Make sure EVERYTHING is tight, real belt and braces. Don't screw when you can screw and glue, don't nail when you can bolt. Most crashes are caused when racers can't take the strain and start to disintergrate. You need to be Robust.
I regularly fly around at 200 feet during the course of my job. 600ft is pretty high really, and certainly high enough for an above-average helecopter pilot to maintain control while flying down a wide city street.
Guys - this is third grade science stuff, it's so dumb/partonising being shown a site that talks about something as mundane as this. Stop dumbing down/.
The fact that people think this is cool just says something about the state of the education system in whatever countries they are from that they managed to get this far in life never having heard of pin-hole photography.
Has anyone noticed it's getting harder to upgrade pcs? I can't just get a new processor a year after my old one. because by then the processors seem to need new motherboards, faster memory etc...
I'm never buying a cretive product again since they failed to release a remote for the original NJB despite basicly telling people they would.
Now i'm left with something that's only about half as useful as it could me (i.e. having to get up and move across the room everytime I want to change tracks) Thanks for nothing Creative.
Love or hate HP I find their more expensive (i.e. SCL [scanner control language] based) scanners are pretty much the best supported under Linux. They are quite open about the SCL specs and usb models are well supported - my 5200C has been working perfectly with Xsane since I got it.
Why are you beating up on the guy who submitted this patent is clearly 'taking the mick' out of the US patent office, and maybe he has a good point - the way to make them see the error of their ways might be to submit ever more obvious and ludicrous patent applications (disguised as very serious proposals) until they realise that we're making fun on them.
There's no better way of making an organsation change then making it realise that it's an object of ridicule.
Oh, great. We use up one resource and when we find another one we just go ahead and talk about how we can use that one up too.
Way to go humanity.
Maybe we should be looking at creating hydrogen, not just digging it up - just means more mines, more waste and undoubtedly more exploitation of poor people and economies who will undoubtedly be the people that the oil companies exploit when they switch from digging for oil to digging for hydrogen.
I think it's a little unfair to blame the problems that this site has been having today on the switch from BSD to Windows, ever heard of the "Slashdot Effect?" The servers are probably hurting right now.
Of course, being a Microsoft product, it might just have been hacked!
IMHO, DMCA or not, these products only have one use (Anyone who says they're for making 'backups' can kiss my ass).
They're for use in Piracy, pure and simple - and in the end, Nintendo have the legal right to be paid for their intellectual property, like it or not.
You can try to look around this point all you like but in then end you've got to admit that. It's very convenient to try to look at this with rose-tinted glasses, I bet when most people are saying is "great, no more free gameboy games".
It's just a shame that a sensible legal test can't exist for this, rather than the DMCA.
A global network running at 56k or higher, wireless, no "pay per meg/min" charges, that enables everyone with one of these devices to communicate in real time with anyone else with a device. Funded by UN/Gov'ts? Funded by private advertising? Funded by running it as a charity and only charging running costs, with richer areas subsidising poorer areas? In any event, giving thousands of children from around the world one of these and the means to stay connected to each other would be damn cool.
Slashdot Mirror
When will slashdot start providing an automatic mirror for personal pages that it links to. The poor guys servers probably don't know what's hit them!!
'does linux have a lowet tco'
Personally. i'm apalled that slashdot is running ads like these after all the hundreds of articles that have appeared on the pages stating the opposite.
I know they have to make money through advertising bu they can, and should, refuse to carry ads like these.
Would an anti-abortion website carry a banner ad for the nearest abortion clinic - I don't think so. Slashdot should not be carry pro-microsoft advertising.
I use the UK mirror service alot, even since university and now five years on.
It's a great, underused and under reported service. Download times on most UK backbones are blazingly fast but these days, with seemingly so much bandwidth around, noone seems to want to worry about using mirrors. I just got the complete gnome 2.6 source at 50kb/s, better that the 11kb/s my DSL link managed from the main site.
I for one will be sad to see it go.
Yeah,
I retract my previous flamebate. Just seeing if I could stir up a reaction.
Things aren't what they were on the internet, 5 years ago a flamebate like that would have seen my inbox filled!
Regards
Dan.
Hey,
Here's the thing you see, there are a million and one ways we can all use less electricity and keep every gadget we run and more, here's some examples:
Monitors - How many are still running CRTs? Throw it away, get a TFT and it'll pay for itself in saved power within three years.
Lightbulbs - Not using energy efficient ones? No excuse - they use less that half the power and produce just as much light (40w = 100w).
Appliances - Trying to save on your white goods? make sure you buy ones with clear information on the electricity they use, again, a little more spent on purchace can easily make itself back in bills.
Compact your trash!!!
Don't buy the most overpackaged one in the store!!!
Here's some harder ones...
Heating - Thermal transfer heating is a viable alternative (bore two holes, about 50' each into the ground, pump some luquid with suitable thermal properties around them and the heat from the earth can be used to warm your house in summer and cool it on winter. Perhaps not one for Alaska but easy for anywhere temperate.
Flame bate:
I really wouldn't expect an American to understand this. Your domestic appliances haven't seen an update since 1963 (they're still brown and come with stick-on wood effect trip for christs sake!), Your have the most unbeleavable bigger is better attitude (the Biggest Taco, the Biggest Burger, the Biggest Fridge, the Biggest car), Your utility companies operate a quite unbeleavable coroprate profit model (can you say Enron), you don't build sidewalks and so drive EVERYWHERE - even down the street to where you shop and eat, in corner malls and complexes made of the same textured, moulded concrete containing the same shops repeated mile after endless mile.
Why is it that we have this never ending need for more powerlines and more electricity rather than looking for alternatives with any real conviction?
I agree. My HL1250 works great with Linux, warms up and prints quickly and has fairly cheap toner.
This is great.
We don't like to complain about the Linux kernel because we don't pay for it but I was getting very frustrated at new things being included while existing bugs (like usb-storage and datafab CF card readers) were not being addressed.
Let's hope that the kernel ships with nothing broken.
D,
I mean, usually I can see the interest in most /. articles, but with this, who the hell cares??
This kind of thing is happening all the time and increasingly so around the world.
A few years ago a lab in the UK admitted that most of it's results were flawed because of some permanent contamination within it's main testing machine, and they had been for several years.
I also remember a case where cells grown in culture and used around the world were discovered to be the wrong kind (liver instead of lung?) after the research had been going on for 10 years or so, wasting billions in money and years of work.
It's unherently unsound doing research on a captive, interbread population. You wouldn't trust it in humans - so why is it OK in animals and cultures?
Horray for XML. Let's just home that it's embraced by more people as a universal data format and leads to greater openness in Computing!
What's this about wheel nails? Are American rules differerent from the UK?
I would recommend...
1. Rubber tyres
2. Bearing and axle
3. Keep the wheel base fairly wide compared to the buggy height, this will about any dangerous tips at speed.
4. Keep steering simple
5. Make sure EVERYTHING is tight, real belt and braces. Don't screw when you can screw and glue, don't nail when you can bolt. Most crashes are caused when racers can't take the strain and start to disintergrate. You need to be Robust.
The Americas Cup 2003 is NOT held once every three years - I beleive that the next race will be the Americas Cup 2006.
I regularly fly around at 200 feet during the course of my job. 600ft is pretty high really, and certainly high enough for an above-average helecopter pilot to maintain control while flying down a wide city street.
Guys - this is third grade science stuff, it's so dumb/partonising being shown a site that talks about something as mundane as this. Stop dumbing down /.
The fact that people think this is cool just says something about the state of the education system in whatever countries they are from that they managed to get this far in life never having heard of pin-hole photography.
Has anyone noticed it's getting harder to upgrade pcs? I can't just get a new processor a year after my old one. because by then the processors seem to need new motherboards, faster memory etc...
I'm never buying a cretive product again since they failed to release a remote for the original NJB despite basicly telling people they would.
Now i'm left with something that's only about half as useful as it could me (i.e. having to get up and move across the room everytime I want to change tracks) Thanks for nothing Creative.
Etc....
Love or hate HP I find their more expensive (i.e. SCL [scanner control language] based) scanners are pretty much the best supported under Linux. They are quite open about the SCL specs and usb models are well supported - my 5200C has been working perfectly with Xsane since I got it.
Someone why whinges.
Why are you beating up on the guy who submitted this patent is clearly 'taking the mick' out of the US patent office, and maybe he has a good point - the way to make them see the error of their ways might be to submit ever more obvious and ludicrous patent applications (disguised as very serious proposals) until they realise that we're making fun on them.
There's no better way of making an organsation change then making it realise that it's an object of ridicule.
Oh, great. We use up one resource and when we find another one we just go ahead and talk about how we can use that one up too.
Way to go humanity.
Maybe we should be looking at creating hydrogen, not just digging it up - just means more mines, more waste and undoubtedly more exploitation of poor people and economies who will undoubtedly be the people that the oil companies exploit when they switch from digging for oil to digging for hydrogen.
I think it's a little unfair to blame the problems that this site has been having today on the switch from BSD to Windows, ever heard of the "Slashdot Effect?" The servers are probably hurting right now.
Of course, being a Microsoft product, it might just have been hacked!
IMHO, DMCA or not, these products only have one use (Anyone who says they're for making 'backups' can kiss my ass).
They're for use in Piracy, pure and simple - and in the end, Nintendo have the legal right to be paid for their intellectual property, like it or not.
You can try to look around this point all you like but in then end you've got to admit that. It's very convenient to try to look at this with rose-tinted glasses, I bet when most people are saying is "great, no more free gameboy games".
It's just a shame that a sensible legal test can't exist for this, rather than the DMCA.
A global network running at 56k or higher, wireless, no "pay per meg/min" charges, that enables everyone with one of these devices to communicate in real time with anyone else with a device. Funded by UN/Gov'ts? Funded by private advertising? Funded by running it as a charity and only charging running costs, with richer areas subsidising poorer areas? In any event, giving thousands of children from around the world one of these and the means to stay connected to each other would be damn cool.