Cheers to that. How very capitalist. Since when are we in some sort of ogligarchy? This is America. I vote with my dollars. RIAA CD's are nothing but shit anyway. I don't buy new music. I don't DOWNLOAD new music. It sucks, period, so I don't consume it. Same with movies. Ok, granted once on a blue moon a decent movie comes out. More often than not, hollywood just shits out giant movie turds.
Personally, I'd rather have a glass rod shoved up my urethra and shattered than subject myself to their crap.
Sorry MPAA and RIAA, it's over. You lost. Be good sports.
But really, preventing the POSSIBILITY *IS* important, you reckon? I mean, what if there IS a flesh eating bacteria, for whatever strange reason, on Mars and it came back to Earth with the explorers? I think maybe we'd regret it when the entire human population is eaten alive.
I mean, when it comes to spending 100B on a Mars mission, why not throw in 20 bucks for a few cans of Lysol?
Yes, and the worst part of it is that these are the same people who control the news--what we know. They control what we know, and therefore control what we think.
Besides a handful of people on Slashdot, not many average Americans realize this. Average America is stupid, and wants to be led around by corporations, because that is easier than caring.
They are holding us (the people of the future, the embracers of new technology) BACK.
I'm still thinking about what we can do about this, but the fact is that it's US versus the corporations and because of their control over information, average America also.
Fuck congress, we can write them all we want, it's not going to change anything. We need to start a new country, with only people who are forward looking. We can trade with America, sell them new cool stuff.
We won't fight any wars.
And we'll put men on Mars 20 years before the U.S.
I'm tired of this shit. I'm bored. AMERICA is BORING. Television is BORING. Movies are BORING. I haven't been truely excited about anything in a long time. And I know a lot of others who feel exactly the same way as I do.
Yes, the internet has made us impatient. Because we know what IS possible, the way the world could be. A beautiful place. Yet all we get is held back by Average America, and corporations who are run by old men as a sort of game amongst themselves.
We could all be in space right now. We have the technology. I would love to see the Earth from space. That would be truely exciting and interesting. Where is the public space travel? WHY THE FUCK ARE WE STILL LIVING IN THE 50's?!
Because the same people who were in power then are in power now. Fuck this country. I want a new one that's based on technology. That new country is the Internet. So, while they can make their laws and whatever in the REAL world, I will always be free here.
If they ever try to take that away from me forcably, there's going to be a fight.
Still have much to think about, but I'm getting there. More later.
It's a WORLD WIDE WEB of documents, linked by hyperlinks. WTF were they expecting?
They can use techniques to prevent people from linking to their stories, but then they would also prevent search engines from doing their work.
This is truely a farce. The problem is the judges in this country don't understand this shit. They don't understand this is a new world. They only understand the old storefront walk in the door then go pick out your book style that everything used to be like.
Nowadays, you can jump from page 36 of Time to page 99 of Slashdot to your favorite porn site. This is the beauty of the web. People who don't realize this and try to be stupid for the sake of profit and profit alone are retards.
That's it, I said it. They are retards. Don't worry, one day all the old and stupid people will die (hopefully of natural causes) and then we won't have to worry about them any more.
Think of how powerful media corporations are. They are truely the ones that make or break a politician.
And how hard would it be to arrainge a few hookers, some hidden cameras, etc. and then save it 'til the next election. Or worse, blackmail him now.
And how hard would it be to just digitally fake the whole thing with blue screens and some graphics people.
Scary these days. It's hard to know who's really telling the truth. Then again, it's always been this way. You just have to have blind faith that everything's going to work out.
The only problem I have with these workers is their inability to speak English, and their unwillingness to get their kids to speak English/learn much of anything in school. Then they have 5 kids per family.
I like being able to communicate with the people I work with. I don't want to learn spanish either. but I guess that is the only solution, since they aren't going to change for America. That's ok, America has a long history of absorbing other cultures into it's own, this is just one more.
So learn spanish, teach your new amigo linux (even a child can operate it), and soon he'll be learning english to read the man pages.
Dunno. It's late, I'm coffeed up, and my mouth is dry.
I learned from the website that the 3 chip projectors use 3 chips each at 1280x1024 (1 for each color). That works out to more than 3000x1600. Also it is my understanding that the picture is much brighter because the lamp isn't being switched. I dunno. I will check it out for myself. There is a theater here in Vegas that has DLP.
No shit, I can't believe they don't have off-site backups. Isn't that rule number one in critical data management? I mean, if you lose the data, what was the point in the first place of keeping it?! BAH
Yeah, AS/400s are pretty crazy. We have a few here at work, a couple of 32-processor jobs with about 1.5TB of storage between the two. The way the PC clients interact with the system is quite fascinating.
They are super slow but rather robust. And as you said, IBM support is top notch. All the hardware is monitored internally, and then the machine can pop up a warning message for the operator who's running it. Then the machine dials out and sends a service request to IBM. I was sitting here when a drive crashed (1 of 108) and I heard the modem dial out, then I swear 4 minutes later IBM called to schedule service.
Of course, this sort of equipment and service costs money. But the system I'm sitting next to right now counts about 900 MILLION dollars a year in revenue so it's worth it--it absolutely MUST be running 24/365. Forget 99.999 or whatever microsoft is touting.
I saw a little 4 proc e-series one on ebay for a half-mil; that doesn't include the service contract..
You see a lot of them in State and Federal government, and as a poster mentioned, casinos and hotels.
As I am sitting here right now serving the masses of idiots, I can fully identify with what you speak about.
I feel this problem will burn itself out as more computer literate people are released into the marketplace and more computer illiterate people die.
Let's hope so.
I think the main problem is that computers are 102371 times more complex than the most advanced car. I mean, think about it; you put the key in, turn it, and then there is one wheel, some pedals, and maybe a lever or two. It's natural and simple, so easy anyone can do it. Yet there are still fucks who CAN'T drive and who kill people and keep insurance rates high. And I would bet this is the same 10% of the population that calls tech support when their caps lock key is on.
Really, I hate to say this, but I'm starting to agree with the Scientologist's notion that we should do away with the bottom 10% of society. Sometimes when I'm working here, I wish I had a button I could press while I'm explaining what I mean by "task bar" that instantly sterilizes my customer.
Step 2: Go down to walmart and pick up 3 or 4 five-dollar alarm clocks.
Step 3: Wire the speaker outputs of each alarm clock to your PA system.
Label each clock for what the alarm is set for. Or maybe you could spend a few extra bucks and get one that has multiple alarms instead of 3 separate alarm clocks.
Or even better, use windows, download a shareware program that plays sound events. Then you don't have to worry about compiling in sound support, x,y,z, the headaches, trials and tribulations you will go thru being "new to linux" just to get some stupid clock setup.
Don't bother. I'm almost certain you can get some sort of standalone commercial timer unit also. For much cheaper.
China: Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 200,886,946 (2001 est.)
India: Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 164,410,461 (2001 est.)
USA: Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 70,819,436 (2001 est.)
Fit for service: ~35,000,000
And don't forget the rest of the world; we are outnumbered 20-one with just our most feared enemies. We mustn't forget that just because we have a little bit of water separating us from everyone else.
Interesting you should mention war and space in one posting. Because there was a study done in the 60's by a commission to determine what, if any, are the possible ramifications of, well, total peace on Earth (disarmament). It examined the functions of war, and possible substitutes.
Besides the visible, military function of war, there are several nonmilitary functions; those critical to transition (to peace) can be summarized in five principal groupings:
ECONOMIC. War has provided both ancient and modern societies with a dependable system for stabilizing and controlling national economies. No alternate method of control has yet been tested in a complex modern economy that has shown itself remotely comparable in scope or effectiveness. A large space program, however, could possibly provide the same effect, provided it used enough resources.
POLITICAL. The permanent possibility of war is the foundation for stable government; it supplies the basis for general acceptance of political authority. It has enabled societies to maintain necessary class distinctions, and it has ensured the subordination of the citizen to the state, by virtue of the residual war powers inherent in the concept of nationhood. No modern political ruling group has successfully controlled its constituency after failing to sustain the continuing credibility of an external threat of war. But under one world government, a political system could be built soley around the exploration and mapping of space.
SOCIOLOGICAL. War, through the medium of military institutions, has uniquely served societies, throughout the course of known history, as an indispensible controller of dangerous social dissidence and destructive antisocial tendencies. As the most formidable of threats to life itself, and as the only one susceptible to mitigation by social organization alone, it has played another equally fundamental role: the war system has provided the machinery through which the motivational forces governing human behavior have been translated into binding social allegiance. It has thus ensured the degree of social cohesion necessary to the viability of nations. No other institution, or groups of institutions, in modern societies, has successfully served these functions. Except space travel.
ECOLOGICAL. War has been the principal evolutionary device for maintaining a satisfactory ecological balance between gross human population and supplies available for its survival. It is unique to the human species.
CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC. War-orientation has determined the basic standards of value in the creative arts, and has provided the fundamental motivational source of scientific and technological progress. The concepts that the arts express values independent of their own forms and that the successful pursuit of knowledge has intrinsic social value have long been accepted in modern societies; the development of the arts and sciences during this period has been corollary to the parallel development of weaponry. Since the space race, space travel has been driving forward technology even faster than war; communications satellites, computers, nutrition, the list is endless.
Obviously, war is very important to society. So, in a society without war, a suitable replacement for these "non-military" functions of war must be found.
One of the best possible substitute institutions is a large space program.
Why does someone who works in a grocery store have to be a "nutcase" and why isn't it a "normal job"? Plenty of smart people work jobs like that; in fact, I would bet that the managers of those stores probably all have college degrees.
A store manager is not some shitty job. These people are in charge of hundreds of employees, millions in merchandise and millions in cash. Not to mention an entire giant building which needs electricity, HVAC, the floors and bathrooms need to be clean all the time, plus all of the tools like meat slicers, ovens, freezers, cash registers, accounting, payroll, scheduling, sales, bitchy customers, etc etc. I can go on, but I think you get the point.
Yes, working at a grocery store is not a regular job. It is much more challenging. So get a life you unwise person.
It may seem strange to you, but even some college educated people LIKE working easy jobs. He probably has time to go home and work on his campaigning or brilliant ideas like the Space Tax Act. Sure, he's not making big bucks, but there is more to life than working all the time.
Besides, don't most PoliSci master's become politicians? So, it looks like he's getting plenty out of his education--he's just working at the grocery store also. That could be good for his political career--he is in touch with his constituents.
You know, Microsoft is on Internet2. They have a site, research.microsoft.com that's stuck on it (which routes to them internally). I always wondered why I could hit 1meg a second to windowsupdate.microsoft.com from the campus I used to work at... Then I found out.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, who would do that? It's almost like the "agents" of whatever "agency" that killed them was wanting to make it obvious these people were killed.
Yet the police mysteriously overlook everything.
The truth is, you can't trust anyone. Especially when money is involved. It's the one thing that can get you anything.
Remember that.
Yeah. It's been fairly obvious all along. I didn't need a silly newspaper story to tell me someone's killing microbilolgists.
Cheers to that. How very capitalist. Since when are we in some sort of ogligarchy? This is America. I vote with my dollars. RIAA CD's are nothing but shit anyway. I don't buy new music. I don't DOWNLOAD new music. It sucks, period, so I don't consume it. Same with movies. Ok, granted once on a blue moon a decent movie comes out. More often than not, hollywood just shits out giant movie turds.
Personally, I'd rather have a glass rod shoved up my urethra and shattered than subject myself to their crap.
Sorry MPAA and RIAA, it's over. You lost. Be good sports.
Yeah, until the black oil changes form and crawls out of the building.
But really, preventing the POSSIBILITY *IS* important, you reckon? I mean, what if there IS a flesh eating bacteria, for whatever strange reason, on Mars and it came back to Earth with the explorers? I think maybe we'd regret it when the entire human population is eaten alive.
I mean, when it comes to spending 100B on a Mars mission, why not throw in 20 bucks for a few cans of Lysol?
Yeah, maybe turn the "information economy" into a real FREE MARKET (like it's supposed to be)! Great idea!
Print up some posters. It's gurrilla marketing time.
Yes, and the worst part of it is that these are the same people who control the news--what we know. They control what we know, and therefore control what we think.
Besides a handful of people on Slashdot, not many average Americans realize this. Average America is stupid, and wants to be led around by corporations, because that is easier than caring.
They are holding us (the people of the future, the embracers of new technology) BACK.
I'm still thinking about what we can do about this, but the fact is that it's US versus the corporations and because of their control over information, average America also.
Fuck congress, we can write them all we want, it's not going to change anything. We need to start a new country, with only people who are forward looking. We can trade with America, sell them new cool stuff.
We won't fight any wars.
And we'll put men on Mars 20 years before the U.S.
I'm tired of this shit. I'm bored. AMERICA is BORING. Television is BORING. Movies are BORING. I haven't been truely excited about anything in a long time. And I know a lot of others who feel exactly the same way as I do.
Yes, the internet has made us impatient. Because we know what IS possible, the way the world could be. A beautiful place. Yet all we get is held back by Average America, and corporations who are run by old men as a sort of game amongst themselves.
We could all be in space right now. We have the technology. I would love to see the Earth from space. That would be truely exciting and interesting. Where is the public space travel? WHY THE FUCK ARE WE STILL LIVING IN THE 50's?!
Because the same people who were in power then are in power now. Fuck this country. I want a new one that's based on technology. That new country is the Internet. So, while they can make their laws and whatever in the REAL world, I will always be free here.
If they ever try to take that away from me forcably, there's going to be a fight.
Still have much to think about, but I'm getting there. More later.
It's a WORLD WIDE WEB of documents, linked by hyperlinks. WTF were they expecting?
They can use techniques to prevent people from linking to their stories, but then they would also prevent search engines from doing their work.
This is truely a farce. The problem is the judges in this country don't understand this shit. They don't understand this is a new world. They only understand the old storefront walk in the door then go pick out your book style that everything used to be like.
Nowadays, you can jump from page 36 of Time to page 99 of Slashdot to your favorite porn site. This is the beauty of the web. People who don't realize this and try to be stupid for the sake of profit and profit alone are retards.
That's it, I said it. They are retards. Don't worry, one day all the old and stupid people will die (hopefully of natural causes) and then we won't have to worry about them any more.
Cheers!
Think of how powerful media corporations are. They are truely the ones that make or break a politician.
And how hard would it be to arrainge a few hookers, some hidden cameras, etc. and then save it 'til the next election. Or worse, blackmail him now.
And how hard would it be to just digitally fake the whole thing with blue screens and some graphics people.
Scary these days. It's hard to know who's really telling the truth. Then again, it's always been this way. You just have to have blind faith that everything's going to work out.
Look at AOL-TW. Hahaha
We live in a DEMOCRACY! THOSE BASTARDS WORK *FOR US*. All we have to do is get all of America to agree.
Yeah, in bytes. I wonder how many digits that would be?
The only problem I have with these workers is their inability to speak English, and their unwillingness to get their kids to speak English/learn much of anything in school. Then they have 5 kids per family.
I like being able to communicate with the people I work with. I don't want to learn spanish either. but I guess that is the only solution, since they aren't going to change for America. That's ok, America has a long history of absorbing other cultures into it's own, this is just one more.
So learn spanish, teach your new amigo linux (even a child can operate it), and soon he'll be learning english to read the man pages.
Dunno. It's late, I'm coffeed up, and my mouth is dry.
Cheers.
Of course now you're going to be getting coupons for AfroSheen from the printer.
I learned from the website that the 3 chip projectors use 3 chips each at 1280x1024 (1 for each color). That works out to more than 3000x1600. Also it is my understanding that the picture is much brighter because the lamp isn't being switched. I dunno. I will check it out for myself. There is a theater here in Vegas that has DLP.
...does that mean that once theaters go DLP the tickets will be cheaper?!
Sorry, bad joke.
Lesson #2: IBM can handle the problem.
Lesson #3: Microsoft and the PC cannot.
The End.
No shit, I can't believe they don't have off-site backups. Isn't that rule number one in critical data management? I mean, if you lose the data, what was the point in the first place of keeping it?! BAH
Yeah, AS/400s are pretty crazy. We have a few here at work, a couple of 32-processor jobs with about 1.5TB of storage between the two. The way the PC clients interact with the system is quite fascinating.
They are super slow but rather robust. And as you said, IBM support is top notch. All the hardware is monitored internally, and then the machine can pop up a warning message for the operator who's running it. Then the machine dials out and sends a service request to IBM. I was sitting here when a drive crashed (1 of 108) and I heard the modem dial out, then I swear 4 minutes later IBM called to schedule service.
Of course, this sort of equipment and service costs money. But the system I'm sitting next to right now counts about 900 MILLION dollars a year in revenue so it's worth it--it absolutely MUST be running 24/365. Forget 99.999 or whatever microsoft is touting.
I saw a little 4 proc e-series one on ebay for a half-mil; that doesn't include the service contract..
You see a lot of them in State and Federal government, and as a poster mentioned, casinos and hotels.
As I am sitting here right now serving the masses of idiots, I can fully identify with what you speak about.
I feel this problem will burn itself out as more computer literate people are released into the marketplace and more computer illiterate people die.
Let's hope so.
I think the main problem is that computers are 102371 times more complex than the most advanced car. I mean, think about it; you put the key in, turn it, and then there is one wheel, some pedals, and maybe a lever or two. It's natural and simple, so easy anyone can do it. Yet there are still fucks who CAN'T drive and who kill people and keep insurance rates high. And I would bet this is the same 10% of the population that calls tech support when their caps lock key is on.
Really, I hate to say this, but I'm starting to agree with the Scientologist's notion that we should do away with the bottom 10% of society. Sometimes when I'm working here, I wish I had a button I could press while I'm explaining what I mean by "task bar" that instantly sterilizes my customer.
Ah, one can dream. Shit, the phone.
Step 1: FORGET LINUX
Step 2: Go down to walmart and pick up 3 or 4 five-dollar alarm clocks.
Step 3: Wire the speaker outputs of each alarm clock to your PA system.
Label each clock for what the alarm is set for. Or maybe you could spend a few extra bucks and get one that has multiple alarms instead of 3 separate alarm clocks.
Or even better, use windows, download a shareware program that plays sound events. Then you don't have to worry about compiling in sound support, x,y,z, the headaches, trials and tribulations you will go thru being "new to linux" just to get some stupid clock setup.
Don't bother. I'm almost certain you can get some sort of standalone commercial timer unit also. For much cheaper.
China:
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 200,886,946 (2001 est.)
India:
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 164,410,461 (2001 est.)
USA:
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 70,819,436 (2001 est.)
Fit for service:
~35,000,000
And don't forget the rest of the world; we are outnumbered 20-one with just our most feared enemies. We mustn't forget that just because we have a little bit of water separating us from everyone else.
Interesting you should mention war and space in one posting. Because there was a study done in the 60's by a commission to determine what, if any, are the possible ramifications of, well, total peace on Earth (disarmament). It examined the functions of war, and possible substitutes.
Besides the visible, military function of war, there are several nonmilitary functions; those critical to transition (to peace) can be summarized in five principal groupings:
ECONOMIC. War has provided both ancient and modern societies with a dependable system for stabilizing and controlling national economies. No alternate method of control has yet been tested in a complex modern economy that has shown itself remotely comparable in scope or effectiveness. A large space program, however, could possibly provide the same effect, provided it used enough resources.
POLITICAL. The permanent possibility of war is the foundation for stable government; it supplies the basis for general acceptance of political authority. It has enabled societies to maintain necessary class distinctions, and it has ensured the subordination of the citizen to the state, by virtue of the residual war powers inherent in the concept of nationhood. No modern political ruling group has successfully controlled its constituency after failing to sustain the continuing credibility of an external threat of war. But under one world government, a political system could be built soley around the exploration and mapping of space.
SOCIOLOGICAL. War, through the medium of military institutions, has uniquely served societies, throughout the course of known history, as an indispensible controller of dangerous social dissidence and destructive antisocial tendencies. As the most formidable of threats to life itself, and as the only one susceptible to mitigation by social organization alone, it has played another equally fundamental role: the war system has provided the machinery through which the motivational forces governing human behavior have been translated into binding social allegiance. It has thus ensured the degree of social cohesion necessary to the viability of nations. No other institution, or groups of institutions, in modern societies, has successfully served these functions. Except space travel.
ECOLOGICAL. War has been the principal evolutionary device for maintaining a satisfactory ecological balance between gross human population and supplies available for its survival. It is unique to the human species.
CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC. War-orientation has determined the basic standards of value in the creative arts, and has provided the fundamental motivational source of scientific and technological progress. The concepts that the arts express values independent of their own forms and that the successful pursuit of knowledge has intrinsic social value have long been accepted in modern societies; the development of the arts and sciences during this period has been corollary to the parallel development of weaponry. Since the space race, space travel has been driving forward technology even faster than war; communications satellites, computers, nutrition, the list is endless.
Obviously, war is very important to society. So, in a society without war, a suitable replacement for these "non-military" functions of war must be found.
One of the best possible substitute institutions is a large space program.
Why does someone who works in a grocery store have to be a "nutcase" and why isn't it a "normal job"? Plenty of smart people work jobs like that; in fact, I would bet that the managers of those stores probably all have college degrees.
A store manager is not some shitty job. These people are in charge of hundreds of employees, millions in merchandise and millions in cash. Not to mention an entire giant building which needs electricity, HVAC, the floors and bathrooms need to be clean all the time, plus all of the tools like meat slicers, ovens, freezers, cash registers, accounting, payroll, scheduling, sales, bitchy customers, etc etc. I can go on, but I think you get the point.
Yes, working at a grocery store is not a regular job. It is much more challenging. So get a life you unwise person.
It may seem strange to you, but even some college educated people LIKE working easy jobs. He probably has time to go home and work on his campaigning or brilliant ideas like the Space Tax Act. Sure, he's not making big bucks, but there is more to life than working all the time.
Besides, don't most PoliSci master's become politicians? So, it looks like he's getting plenty out of his education--he's just working at the grocery store also. That could be good for his political career--he is in touch with his constituents.
Anyway, you must not be a college graduate.
You know, Microsoft is on Internet2. They have a site, research.microsoft.com that's stuck on it (which routes to them internally). I always wondered why I could hit 1meg a second to windowsupdate.microsoft.com from the campus I used to work at... Then I found out.