Anyone see the logic behind this?
The only _possible_ motivation I can see might be an attempt to try to commercialize space travel (since its pretty dead right now as far as government spending goes). Maybe this is a ditch effort to get people interested in space again.
Otherwise, this doesn't make much sense...I mean the space movies (like apollo 13) so far have been pretty damn good quality (with modern hollywood effects); aka, i don't see anyone complaining about realism. Actually, a movie made in space will probably be _less_ appealing, because of restraints in space/etc...it'll probably be harder to dish out all the mind-blowing hollywood effects everyone has come to expect in movies nowadays. This is completely ignoring the inherent safety issues. Not to mention...how you gonna fit an entire cast up there? If not, how you gonna make a movie with 2 or 3 people?
Magius_AR
Porn degrading?!?...god i tire of hearing that.
I'd like to ask Jenna or Kobe or Chasey or any of those other porn stars if they feel degraded.
Just because you find someone or something physically attractive does not mean you are ignorant to that person's other qualities
If someone has a great intellect, does that mean its wrong to appreciate their body? Why does everyone _always_ assume that just because someone has a good body, those who admire it do not appreciate any other part of them? Sure, we don't know them, but the same goes for any other stranger you meet. When a 30 year old doctor with a degree in nuclear physics feels insulted when you assume he's horrible in bed, is this not degrading as well? These stereotypes are brought on by YOUR ilk. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt before I meet them, I _HATE_ prejudice. Why can't you ignorant porn bashers do the same?
Hell, I _wish_ I could be a porn star...the salary must be great, and it must be one hell of a fun job.
Well I think you people that think the porn industry is degrading are more ignorant of women than people like I. It never even entered into my mind that porn degrades women. For that to happen, you would actually have to think that porn stars are somehow lesser than you. Aka, YOU are the people degrading women, not I.
So Jenna, if you're reading this and wanna have a nice intellectual conversation, I'd be up for that...if you wanna romp in the sack a bit, I'd be up for that too. Grow up you sexually immature porn bashing twits.
OK, might as well throw my two cents into the argument.
You vi people are nuts...powerful, vi is...simple, easy to use, and practical it is not.
All text editors should DEFAULT to input mode. The very concept of a text editor means that 95% of the time you will be INPUTTING TEXT. But vi goes _out of its way_ to boot you out of text input mode at EVERY possible opportunity (running any command, searching for words, backspacing, etc)
Frankly, that's insane. No other text editor (to my recollection) behaves like this. Also, yes the commands are cryptic. Like many people, I don't have the time (or motivation) to sit down and memorize all the obscure 2 or 3 letter combinations out of the book (most likely to forget them later)
Pico is a damn fine program. It isn't without its flaws (it doesn't have as much "functionality" as vi, it can be a bitch if you don't shut word wrap off when programming, etc), but frankly its still a hell of alot nicer to use than vi. I just wish it came defaultly on more systems so I didn't have to suffer through using vi now and then (yes, I _do_ know vi)
Now that I think about it, I doubt many "vi" users have even tried the other text editors. One of my friends is something of a vi zealot and I think we were arguing this issue once and he was bitching about how Wordpad sucked since he could shift his cursor over words at a time in vi, but not in Wordpad. I loaded up Wordpad, held down the Ctrl key and pushed the right arrow a bunch of times and he's like "Whoa, you can do that?" Bah, I say to you all.
All you'd have to do is record at a different bitrate or normalize the song differently, or change pitches slightly, and it would no longer match.
I find it hard to believe they can account for all these things. Not to mention they'd have to scan the entire song, because of differing file lengths, they couldn't simply grep out a specific "time-slice" of info. That'd be murder on mem/cpu processing time.
By then we had called Cisco for help. They couldn't help us until they saw the switch config and
got a chance to review it. We were spent. We had to go to bed and stay down for the night.
Next morning we're back at Exodus and the situation hasn't changed -- our network is unreachable to the outside world. I was hoping that during the wee hours of the morning
the Cisco 6509 had become sentient and fixed its own configuration or perhaps a friendly hacker had cracked into it and fixed it for us, or perhaps ball lighting would travel down a
drain spout and shock our cage back to life like those heart paddles paramedics use... "It's a miracle!" No such luck.
So I called Cisco tech support. I wish had done this sooner
Out of curiosity, who the hell did you call first at Cisco if it wasn't tech support?
Cisco: "Hello, this is sales & marketing."
Slashdot: "Yes, we're having problems with our server"
Cisco: "Umm, we can't help you"
(several hours pass...)
Cisco: "Hello, tech support."
Slashdot: "Hi, we're having server problems."
Cisco: "Oh, piece of cake, here's your problem"
Also, out of curiosity, why haven't you guys hired a Cisco buff dude? At least someone over there has to be Cisco competent or certified or something. I mean you're Slashdot, that's gotta mean something. The mentality of "Server malfunctioning? Let's reboot and make it better" is what I expect from a Windows admin;P
It's bad enough they aren't planning to release Final Fantasy 9 for the computer, what chance do we have of getting to 21?
Anyways, I agree with the marketing trend of "flashy graphics" over "gaming value and playability" and it sucks...I miss the days of FF1, FF2, and FF3...now _that's_ gaming.
Magius_AR
Re:Hardware companies don't "shift to software" --
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Umm, dude, Microsoft _never_ sold hardware.
Point is, Compaq did, but I guess they finally realized that their product (and service) sucks.
Aka, they're switching to software (last ditch effort).
Heh, if all you're looking for is a pay raise, get a MS in Compsci instead.
However, if you're looking for:
- 2 more years of extensive Excel training
- The art of creating daily Powerpoint presentations that make no sense, have a lot of pretty diagrams, and are littered with buzzwords
- The secret of how to get paid for spending a day of doing nothing but going to meetings, going to lunch with contractor, and responding to email
- A new position steeped in technical ignorance
I'm disappointed that Java is "taking over" so to speak in the job market. I've recently graduated college and interviewed with a bunch of companies and they seemingly all wanted Java programmers. Needless to say, this isn't good for me who hates the language.
I wish above all that someone would recode C or C++ to be cross-platform, because I swear (i'd put money on it) that the MINUTE they did, no one would even mention the word Java anymore. C++ can do OO fine, is much more powerful and low-level based (as compared to Java), and has a time-earned reputation of stability.
No "beginning" language should do most of the stuff for you. Java does garbage collection, handles pointers for you, has high level functions, etc
People don't learn to program by having all these things done for them. Hell, I'd like to see an "initial" Java programmer trying to learn C (memory leak, what's that?) C++ is a great place to start. It has all the power of C w/ OO and other goodies.
It's one of those languages you're either _really_ good at or _Really_ suck at.
I've taken C, C++, Java, Perl, Smalltalk, some Pascal, and a slew of other things, and am fairly competent in all of them. However, two weeks into my Beginning Lisp course, I was already dropping it from my schedule.
Nothing against the language, but its not a good place to start. It'll just frustrate alot of people.
They are gonna learn it all someday, no matter how hard to try to hide it. So either you can let them find out and run into it one day on their own (by simply censoring them til they get pissed off and find ways around you) or you can educate them.
I'm not advocating introducing your 6 year old kids to your pron collection, but kids find out about this stuff looooong before "adult" age (what is it, 18?) I'd choose earlier exposure with parental guidance over the alternative myself.
I mean, in many foreign countries, nudity is prevalent on public tv or in some public places, because its accepeted...people, including children have been desensitized. Its not a bad thing.
So don't try to shield your children from the world. They have nothing better, and frankly nothing more they'd rather do with their time, than seek out and explore with youthful curiosity. Be a guiding force, not a cage.
_UNAUTHORIZED_ portscanning should be illegal. If testing your own system or if a friend asks you to test his system, thats one thing. However, portscanning without permission (whether for legal purposes or not) should be illegal. These "casing" techniques are a crucial step in the takeover of any system. Its alot harder to crack something when you're going in deaf and blind. I think this is a step in the right direction. Computers are allowed to give out too much info as is.
Magius_AR
dude, I go to RPI too
and frankly, I don't WANT a laptop...
they suck next to a desktop...are more expesnive, harder to easily upgrade, crappy screen, crappy keyboard, crappy mouse button/pad, battery that runs out if u forget to plug it in
i hate everything about laptops...I'm glad I wasn't part of the freshman year that made laptops required. I have two computers, but you'll _never_ see me with a laptop. And I'm disgusted to think they would force such crap upon those of us that prefer desktops (caus frankly, some people can't afford both)
and very much like the napster issue, I think classroom laptops would be used more for leisure/gaming/fun/diverting purposes than real useful ones (not to say some ppl wouldn't actually use them for work purposes)
I've been going to college for 3 years now and I've learned very little (i believe i could have taught it all to myself in a few months, tops)
College isn't for learning. It's for getting a stupid piece of paper that you need to access a large portion of the job market out there. Sadly, MGMT ppl know nothing of actual intelligence. They view degrees as competence and treat ppl accordingly. I know of someone who does hiring for a company and they simply toss out any resumes they get which don't have college degrees (without even looking at them).
Its very ignorant, sad, but true.
It's also the only reason I've forced myself to suffer through these 3 years of college so far.
I console myself with the fact I'm almost done.
I could never understand the people who are pro-Napster.
Just because something is popular does not make it illegal.
Mp3 sites (most of which had copyrighted material) were around looong before Napster ever came out, but no one bitched because it wasn't "popular"
Still today Gnutella/Freenet/whatever...there's a BILLION programs out there to do the same damn thing, but no one bitches about them because they aren't "popular"...frankly, thats just stupid.
Napster didn't do anything...just because their database contains a majority of copyrighted artists doesn't make them liable. Hell, the search engines out there must have 70% of their databases filled up with porn sites (wild guess), but you don't see anti-porn advocates shouting bloody murder. The blame is being pointed in the wrong place. The users are at fault...just as if they were to do anything illegal over FTP or HTML or Gnutella or telephone or any other form of data communication. Napster is just another means of transferring data, and just because everyone knows about it (it was the first to be "popular") shouldn't be reason to place blame. Napster tried to satisfy the demands of Metallica when they complained (by banning users), and Metallica STILL sued them. So as far as honor goes, I think Napster has alot more class than Metallica.
religion receives no respect here for a reason.
this is an intelligent grounds for discussing FACTUAL information...and from experience, I'm learned that much of religion (not all) is neither factual nor very intelligent...most of it is ancient nonsensical beliefs that people cling to like a life preserver to keep from sinking in an ocean of reality (I'm mainly decrying christianity here, for I wouldn't be so arrogant as to decry all of religion, many of which I know nothing of)
I have no problems with stuff like
2 = to
4 = for
u = you
however, stuff like 4mat and 4m is a pain in the ass trying to read. I can see replacing commonly used words with shortcuts (even Slashdotters are guilty or this...words like "mobo" and the equivalent)
but hell, when you just start making any old word out of these things, it just gets to be a little too much.
Slashdot Mirror
Magius_AR
Otherwise, this doesn't make much sense...I mean the space movies (like apollo 13) so far have been pretty damn good quality (with modern hollywood effects); aka, i don't see anyone complaining about realism. Actually, a movie made in space will probably be _less_ appealing, because of restraints in space/etc...it'll probably be harder to dish out all the mind-blowing hollywood effects everyone has come to expect in movies nowadays. This is completely ignoring the inherent safety issues. Not to mention...how you gonna fit an entire cast up there? If not, how you gonna make a movie with 2 or 3 people? Magius_AR
I'd like to ask Jenna or Kobe or Chasey or any of those other porn stars if they feel degraded.
Just because you find someone or something physically attractive does not mean you are ignorant to that person's other qualities
If someone has a great intellect, does that mean its wrong to appreciate their body? Why does everyone _always_ assume that just because someone has a good body, those who admire it do not appreciate any other part of them? Sure, we don't know them, but the same goes for any other stranger you meet. When a 30 year old doctor with a degree in nuclear physics feels insulted when you assume he's horrible in bed, is this not degrading as well? These stereotypes are brought on by YOUR ilk. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt before I meet them, I _HATE_ prejudice. Why can't you ignorant porn bashers do the same?
Hell, I _wish_ I could be a porn star...the salary must be great, and it must be one hell of a fun job.
Well I think you people that think the porn industry is degrading are more ignorant of women than people like I. It never even entered into my mind that porn degrades women. For that to happen, you would actually have to think that porn stars are somehow lesser than you. Aka, YOU are the people degrading women, not I.
So Jenna, if you're reading this and wanna have a nice intellectual conversation, I'd be up for that...if you wanna romp in the sack a bit, I'd be up for that too. Grow up you sexually immature porn bashing twits.
Magius_AR
Send 1999 pennies, 1999 nickels, 1999 dimes, etc...one less than the max of each amount accepted as legal :>
I'm sure that's still plenty enough to piss someone off...damn, if I ever get a company, I'm so doing this to the first person to sue me :>
Magius_AR
You vi people are nuts...powerful, vi is...simple, easy to use, and practical it is not.
All text editors should DEFAULT to input mode. The very concept of a text editor means that 95% of the time you will be INPUTTING TEXT. But vi goes _out of its way_ to boot you out of text input mode at EVERY possible opportunity (running any command, searching for words, backspacing, etc)
Frankly, that's insane. No other text editor (to my recollection) behaves like this. Also, yes the commands are cryptic. Like many people, I don't have the time (or motivation) to sit down and memorize all the obscure 2 or 3 letter combinations out of the book (most likely to forget them later)
Pico is a damn fine program. It isn't without its flaws (it doesn't have as much "functionality" as vi, it can be a bitch if you don't shut word wrap off when programming, etc), but frankly its still a hell of alot nicer to use than vi. I just wish it came defaultly on more systems so I didn't have to suffer through using vi now and then (yes, I _do_ know vi)
Now that I think about it, I doubt many "vi" users have even tried the other text editors. One of my friends is something of a vi zealot and I think we were arguing this issue once and he was bitching about how Wordpad sucked since he could shift his cursor over words at a time in vi, but not in Wordpad. I loaded up Wordpad, held down the Ctrl key and pushed the right arrow a bunch of times and he's like "Whoa, you can do that?" Bah, I say to you all.
Magius_AR
Q: Congratulations Jean Luc, you're dead!
Magius_AR
P.S. That was the same episode Piccard got lucky ;P (good episode)
All you'd have to do is record at a different bitrate or normalize the song differently, or change pitches slightly, and it would no longer match.
I find it hard to believe they can account for all these things. Not to mention they'd have to scan the entire song, because of differing file lengths, they couldn't simply grep out a specific "time-slice" of info. That'd be murder on mem/cpu processing time.
Magius_AR
Also, out of curiosity, why haven't you guys hired a Cisco buff dude? At least someone over there has to be Cisco competent or certified or something. I mean you're Slashdot, that's gotta mean something. The mentality of "Server malfunctioning? Let's reboot and make it better" is what I expect from a Windows admin ;P
Magius_AR
It doesn't look like they changed much (at a glance), they might as well just had made an expansion pack plugin.
Magius_AR
This could be good...the US needs some competition to give them a good kick in the pants to get us back in the space "race"
To think, we were headed in the right direction only when blinded by fear and greed. That's sad.
Magius_AR
It's bad enough they aren't planning to release Final Fantasy 9 for the computer, what chance do we have of getting to 21?
Anyways, I agree with the marketing trend of "flashy graphics" over "gaming value and playability" and it sucks...I miss the days of FF1, FF2, and FF3...now _that's_ gaming.
Magius_AR
Point is, Compaq did, but I guess they finally realized that their product (and service) sucks.
Aka, they're switching to software (last ditch effort).
I'm eager to see their death. Inferior product.
do { spawn_alive(); run(); shoot_rapidly(); get_shot(); die(); } until TRUE==FALSE
You would think people would get bored
However, if you're looking for:
- 2 more years of extensive Excel training - The art of creating daily Powerpoint presentations that make no sense, have a lot of pretty diagrams, and are littered with buzzwords - The secret of how to get paid for spending a day of doing nothing but going to meetings, going to lunch with contractor, and responding to email - A new position steeped in technical ignorance
Go for the MBA
I wish above all that someone would recode C or C++ to be cross-platform, because I swear (i'd put money on it) that the MINUTE they did, no one would even mention the word Java anymore. C++ can do OO fine, is much more powerful and low-level based (as compared to Java), and has a time-earned reputation of stability.
No "beginning" language should do most of the stuff for you. Java does garbage collection, handles pointers for you, has high level functions, etc
People don't learn to program by having all these things done for them. Hell, I'd like to see an "initial" Java programmer trying to learn C (memory leak, what's that?) C++ is a great place to start. It has all the power of C w/ OO and other goodies.
It's one of those languages you're either _really_ good at or _Really_ suck at.
I've taken C, C++, Java, Perl, Smalltalk, some Pascal, and a slew of other things, and am fairly competent in all of them. However, two weeks into my Beginning Lisp course, I was already dropping it from my schedule.
Nothing against the language, but its not a good place to start. It'll just frustrate alot of people.
Just remap your keyboard ;P
One thing to keep in mind:
They are gonna learn it all someday, no matter how hard to try to hide it. So either you can let them find out and run into it one day on their own (by simply censoring them til they get pissed off and find ways around you) or you can educate them.
I'm not advocating introducing your 6 year old kids to your pron collection, but kids find out about this stuff looooong before "adult" age (what is it, 18?) I'd choose earlier exposure with parental guidance over the alternative myself.
I mean, in many foreign countries, nudity is prevalent on public tv or in some public places, because its accepeted...people, including children have been desensitized. Its not a bad thing.
So don't try to shield your children from the world. They have nothing better, and frankly nothing more they'd rather do with their time, than seek out and explore with youthful curiosity. Be a guiding force, not a cage.
Magius_AR
_UNAUTHORIZED_ portscanning should be illegal. If testing your own system or if a friend asks you to test his system, thats one thing. However, portscanning without permission (whether for legal purposes or not) should be illegal. These "casing" techniques are a crucial step in the takeover of any system. Its alot harder to crack something when you're going in deaf and blind. I think this is a step in the right direction. Computers are allowed to give out too much info as is. Magius_AR
dude, I go to RPI too
and frankly, I don't WANT a laptop...
they suck next to a desktop...are more expesnive, harder to easily upgrade, crappy screen, crappy keyboard, crappy mouse button/pad, battery that runs out if u forget to plug it in
i hate everything about laptops...I'm glad I wasn't part of the freshman year that made laptops required. I have two computers, but you'll _never_ see me with a laptop. And I'm disgusted to think they would force such crap upon those of us that prefer desktops (caus frankly, some people can't afford both)
and very much like the napster issue, I think classroom laptops would be used more for leisure/gaming/fun/diverting purposes than real useful ones (not to say some ppl wouldn't actually use them for work purposes)
I've been going to college for 3 years now and I've learned very little (i believe i could have taught it all to myself in a few months, tops)
College isn't for learning. It's for getting a stupid piece of paper that you need to access a large portion of the job market out there. Sadly, MGMT ppl know nothing of actual intelligence. They view degrees as competence and treat ppl accordingly. I know of someone who does hiring for a company and they simply toss out any resumes they get which don't have college degrees (without even looking at them).
Its very ignorant, sad, but true.
It's also the only reason I've forced myself to suffer through these 3 years of college so far.
I console myself with the fact I'm almost done.
I could never understand the people who are pro-Napster.
Just because something is popular does not make it illegal.
Mp3 sites (most of which had copyrighted material) were around looong before Napster ever came out, but no one bitched because it wasn't "popular"
Still today Gnutella/Freenet/whatever...there's a BILLION programs out there to do the same damn thing, but no one bitches about them because they aren't "popular"...frankly, thats just stupid.
Napster didn't do anything...just because their database contains a majority of copyrighted artists doesn't make them liable. Hell, the search engines out there must have 70% of their databases filled up with porn sites (wild guess), but you don't see anti-porn advocates shouting bloody murder. The blame is being pointed in the wrong place. The users are at fault...just as if they were to do anything illegal over FTP or HTML or Gnutella or telephone or any other form of data communication. Napster is just another means of transferring data, and just because everyone knows about it (it was the first to be "popular") shouldn't be reason to place blame. Napster tried to satisfy the demands of Metallica when they complained (by banning users), and Metallica STILL sued them. So as far as honor goes, I think Napster has alot more class than Metallica.
"and here i am using my own lungs like a sucker!" - Homer Simpson
religion receives no respect here for a reason.
this is an intelligent grounds for discussing FACTUAL information...and from experience, I'm learned that much of religion (not all) is neither factual nor very intelligent...most of it is ancient nonsensical beliefs that people cling to like a life preserver to keep from sinking in an ocean of reality (I'm mainly decrying christianity here, for I wouldn't be so arrogant as to decry all of religion, many of which I know nothing of)
I have no problems with stuff like 2 = to 4 = for u = you however, stuff like 4mat and 4m is a pain in the ass trying to read. I can see replacing commonly used words with shortcuts (even Slashdotters are guilty or this...words like "mobo" and the equivalent) but hell, when you just start making any old word out of these things, it just gets to be a little too much.