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Well, we've got 2500 wide eyed freshmen showing up two weeks from now, and a brigade of ResNet people around to get them all connected.
To be brutally honest, most of the resnet people are monkeys; fortunatly nowadays you don't need much more than that to get a plug and play ethernet card working on a modern computer with DHCP.
One of my friends, who works for resnet, is going to do his best to convince all the girls he plugs in to let him run a distributed.net client on their computer- under his name, of course. Hell, they don't need a gHz to run Word and Winamp anyway...
But yeah, as a previous poster pointed out, it's a good way to meet girls- Last year I got several girls (and the occasional guy) up and running with an Ethernet card, on a friendly basis, and eventually got to know half of them pretty well.
Several friends.
An entire day to waste drunk.
Numerous servings of the alcoholic beverage of your choice, preferably a cheap beer with low alcohol
content, because you'll be drinking alot. And you need several hours of new posting for your liver to
keep up.
Often, we see the same things day in and day out on slashdot. Why not use
it as an excuse to get drunk?
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Come on, they're asking for $750,000 just to enter negotitions for a liscense? That really is just pure, unadultured greed.
True, it's greed, but not in the way you imply. It's called an 'entry barrier.' They plan on having a big, popular system, that everybody knows and uses... And they want to keep it to themselves, and their lowest common denominator offerings. But they want to skirt anti-trust issues, so they don't say "Big fatcat companies only", they say "sure, we can talk about having you on MusicNet, always looking for umm... new talent... As long as your company has an extra $750K to throw in the shitter."
I'd imagine most smaller labels and independant artists don't have that kind of money to throw away.
So they have the DOJ shut down everything but their party, and then only let their friends in.
Keep in mind that these devices, and accompanying software and some of the hardware have a very limited feild- They aren't going to sell millions of these. The computers surely don't cost more than 2 or 3K to make, if that, however, development and FDA approval cost Millions of dollars, and they need to recoup that and make a profit somehow.
Also, another $450 on some medical procedures really isn't that much. You could say in the medical world, $450 isn't worth shit. But then again, thats where you'll eventually find this camera, so.....
They probably figure, correctly I'd imagine, that the linux boxes would require more support than the windows boxes. You can bet that people buying linux boxes from dell- probably a good half of them are doing it for the gee-whiz factor, and would likely screw something up, or be utterly confused at runlevel 3.
If, on the other hand, they told them that absolutely no software support would be provided with the linux boxes, I'd imagine that would cut the price substantially. I'm guessing Linux tech support people would probably cost more than windows guys, and they've probably fired alot for their condescending tone (which they develop instinctivly after getting as far as figuring out set prompt) when dealing with customers.
Incidentally, I love Dell Cases. It's wicked easy to take them completely apart without tools in minutes.
1. Why should you be forced to pay for IE when I buy a copy of windows?
This isn't the US government or anything. Once you give your money to microsoft, it's theirs to do with as they please. Comingling aside, if they want to give away something they developed with their hard earned money, thats their business alone. Unless you're a stockholder, which I doubt.
Why should I be forced to use it at work, despite my perception of it's inferiority?
Because at work, it's not your computer. If you don't like your company's IT policies, attacking microsofts business practices is an awfully roundabout way to effect change.
I'm not defending microsoft, I just thought I'd point a few things out.
Games aside, have you ever noticed how durable nintendo products are? They're certainly breakable, but it takes alot more effort than any of their competitors- I've had Genesis' and various control pads fall apart, but nothing ever made by Nintendo- sometimes they even worked better after you tossed it across the room, especially the original front loading NES.
No slashdot-recommended library collection would be complete without How to Build a Beowulf: A Guide to the Implementation and Application of PC Clusters by Sterling, Salmon, and others. Paperback, MIT Press, 1999
It seems that they've replaced the files with small useless ones to avoid being slaughtered by the/. effect. (I'd imagine it would be powerfull with all of us downloading 8 meg movies)
What I want to know is, if all the apes and humans came from Wahlbergs ship eons ago, wouldn't they all be horribly inbred? I mean, like with notre-dame class hunchbacks, slack jawed yokels and the like? And not to be racist, but where did the black guy come from? I'd imagine that even if there was a few people of African descent on the ship, the skin color would have been diluted away in all the caucasian stock that seemed to be the rest of the crew.
But then again, enjoying most any movie requires a suspension of disbelief. I loved the movie, and for once, generally agree with Katz's review.
Oh yeah, if his ship was still partially functional thousands of years later- well, I'd like to be that kind of engineer!
Because AOL isn't in quite the same position, in terms of leverage. AOL can only offer a positive incentive for accepting it's terms, whereas Microsoft could either not provide a vital operating system (for the general consumer market, anyway) or charge them a hell of a lot more then any other manufacturer pays, giving them a pricing disadvantage on otherwise equal products.
But around here, in New England (well, CT and NH, where I spend most of my driving time) when an ambulance, fire truck, or cop comes through, it's like moses parting the sea. Course, where I spend almost all of my time lately, a quiet little college town, cars will stop for you if it looks like a pedestrian is even thinking about crossing the road. Pretty Nice.
Incidentally, when you drive into NH on a highway from Massachusetts, you see signs that say "Please drive with courtesy, it's the NH way." You don't see those signs when coming from the same highways that stretch into Vermont and Maine.
One of my friends thought "Yeah, right" when she saw that sign. By the time she got to my little college town, she was convinced. 20 minutes later.
And figured it would be a few days before I got it back, so I started playing again, just for the fuck of it. Didn't lose my money, so that got me started. I was annoyed, but my stuff wasn't that good, and I don't take it that seriously- hey, where aren't payin for it like Everquest or anything.
On the bright side, it only took me a few minutes to get a new archer-wench-hireling back up to near my level.
I figured no point in bitching, and if I lose a new set of items if/when blizzard restores everything, oh well. It's just a game.
Since most Katz-Bot articles are mostly the same "Movie Reviews: They all sucked. Oh yeah, I ripped off the theater in the process" or "Technology: this article completely forgets that technological solutions don't apply to social problems," why don't we replace Katz with a full time copy editor?
Find someone technologically inclined with a bachelors in English, so we can avoid brilliant front page errors like "So I bolited, skipped illegally across the hallways of the megaplex" (which is only a step above writing in l33t-sp34k). Make the guy/gal a copy editor, and proof read all the articles posted. Maybe they can even write intelligent articles once in a while, because we certainly can't get much worse.
This guy doesn't like anything, does he?
Jurrasic Park 3 certainley wasn't original, but it definatley was entertaining- there's something to be said for a movie that's just a good time, and nothing more. Do we need to break new ground with every flic, and have each be of the highest art? No. Often, as long as it's fun to watch, thats good enough. As usual, don't listen to Katz, go see Jurrasic Park three, it's fun.
Incidentally, The Fast and the Furious is also a dumb movie, but worth the $8, 'cause it's entertaining.
Final Fantasy was a good movie if you enjoy Sci-fi AND fantasy, and was wonderful eye-candy.
Perhaps we can have Hemos, or CmdTaco do the movie reviews. Katz seems to hate everything, so why bother reading his reviews?
The the opinion piece that the AC above linked to recieved- a beneficial slashdotting- a high rating. At the bottom of every article, MSNBC offers a chance to rate the article, and then view the top ten articles- by this system, the highest rated articles are read EVEN MORE.
I gave it a 7 out of 7, then went to the top ten page- and the piece was at the top, with a 6.64 rating.
This is the highest rating I've ever seen on that list, and it will make even more people, the non- slashdotters, read it- and It's a very good anti-DMCA piece, and we need more.
So keep going there, and keep 'modding' his piece up!
Incidentally, this guy is my new fucking hero, after the copyrights and copy wrongs piece, and this piece is even better.
So they're workin on Dues Ex 2 and Thief three- I'm all for continuing a successful series, but if all the have going is more of the same, maybe they should consider broadening their horizons, and being a little bit innovative- maybe something besides a first person/shooter/quest/3rd rehash.
Well, I'd imagine it's because an author, no matter how formulaic their work, went through the trouble of creating the entire book themselves, and has the intellectual talent to do so, thus earning respect. In addition, the print industry has been around for a great deal longer than the music industry, and from our early days in school we are taught to respect and cherish books for the knowledge we can gleen from them.
Popular music, on the other hand, is usually finding a few people who are cute and can sing a tune, and then providing these dolts with the lowest common denominator of sappy relationship songs, dance steps, and gaudy clothing. See Britney Spears, N'sync, Backstreet Boys, etc... (as a side note, I think that Limp Bizkit is the britney spears of alternative rock- lowest common denominator.) I certainley don't accord them alot of respect, however, i certainly don't listen to their music either. So I think it probably comes down to a matter of respect. Also, you can buy popular literature at convience stores, and they cost maybe $7 for several hours of entertainment.
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Maybe we could leave the Enterprise up there. No, seriously. The Enterprise is a test shuttle that has flight controls, but is missing a few other key parts. They used it to test the glide back to earth, by releasing it off the top of the 747 they use to get them back to cape canaviral. Maybe finish off the shuttle, send it up, and leave it there for escape purposes, cause it sure as hell can hold six people, even seven. and hold a soyuz or two to boot.
"The Canadian built space station arm actually worked!"
What is that supposed to mean? Of course it worked! Admittedly, NASA has had a few difficulties with space station components, but all have worked more or less as intended. When you're spending several thousand per kilogram to send something up into space, you're damn well gonna make sure it works before sending it up.
Incidentally, did anybody ever tell you that all the shuttles manipulator arms all came from Canada? I'm sure whatever company it is up there has the knowledge from making those for our birds.
Also, our A1- Abrahms main battle tank is made in Canada, as are Fords Crown Vics, and a few other cars. They all work very well. Sure, our neighbors to the north may base their national pride on the notion that they aren't the USA (despite the presence of sears, mcdonalds, burger kings, shopping malls, SUV's, and many other things that make it seem like a slightly colder (and occasionally french speaking) New Hampshire, but let's not knock their manufacturing capabilities.
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To be brutally honest, most of the resnet people are monkeys; fortunatly nowadays you don't need much more than that to get a plug and play ethernet card working on a modern computer with DHCP.
One of my friends, who works for resnet, is going to do his best to convince all the girls he plugs in to let him run a distributed.net client on their computer- under his name, of course. Hell, they don't need a gHz to run Word and Winamp anyway...
But yeah, as a previous poster pointed out, it's a good way to meet girls- Last year I got several girls (and the occasional guy) up and running with an Ethernet card, on a friendly basis, and eventually got to know half of them pretty well.
But when their only mainstream competition is that piece of shit realplayer and netscape, what do you expect?
Keep in mind, I did say mainstream. Opera and mozilla may be great, but try getting joe blow to use them.
Requires:
Several friends. An entire day to waste drunk. Numerous servings of the alcoholic beverage of your choice, preferably a cheap beer with low alcohol content, because you'll be drinking alot. And you need several hours of new posting for your liver to keep up.
Often, we see the same things day in and day out on slashdot. Why not use it as an excuse to get drunk?
Rules:
1.Start around 9am, EST, when it's reasonable to assume hordes of slashdotters will have gotten to work and begun wasting the day trying to get first post on their company's fat pipe. (If you can actually drink at work, post where you work. I'll send my resume)
1a. If you can't get all your friends together for an all day binge, start at night with the oldest article.
2. Play ends when everyone has passed out, puked, or surrendered. Last one drinking wins. Play shall be suspended if anyone is rushed to the hospital for alcohol poisoning.
3.For every article with grevious spelling or grammatical errors on the front page, drink a shot.
4.For every front page broken link, drink a shot.
5.For every JonKatzBot article, drink two shots.
5a. Read the article.
5b. Drink a shot for every appearance of the phrase "coporate republic"
6.Drink a shot if the first post on a new article is remotely on topic.
6a. Drink another shot if it gets modded up to +5 funny
6b. Drink Two shots if it gets modded to +5 interesting or insightful. 6c. If someone has moderator points, and blows them all on modding the first poster up, then that player need not drink, no matter how unfair the moderating.
7. Drink a shot for every link to goatse.cx
7a. Drink a shot for every ASCII version of the goatse.cx pic presented in the comments.
8. Drink half a shot for every comment that mentions either:
a. Natalie Portman
b. Beowulf Clusters
9. Drink a shot for every offtopic comment involving the sexual escapades of any slashdot staff.
10.Drink a shot if the slashdot fortune was generated with a script.
11. Drink a shot for every poster who has a porn site link in their sig.
12. Drink a shot for every sig that mentions anonymous cowards.
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14. Drink a shot for any comment that has been moderated to hell (IE, moderated more than 6 points total)
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True, it's greed, but not in the way you imply. It's called an 'entry barrier.' They plan on having a big, popular system, that everybody knows and uses... And they want to keep it to themselves, and their lowest common denominator offerings. But they want to skirt anti-trust issues, so they don't say "Big fatcat companies only", they say "sure, we can talk about having you on MusicNet, always looking for umm... new talent... As long as your company has an extra $750K to throw in the shitter."
I'd imagine most smaller labels and independant artists don't have that kind of money to throw away.
So they have the DOJ shut down everything but their party, and then only let their friends in.
Usual dirty tactics.
Also, another $450 on some medical procedures really isn't that much. You could say in the medical world, $450 isn't worth shit. But then again, thats where you'll eventually find this camera, so.....
If, on the other hand, they told them that absolutely no software support would be provided with the linux boxes, I'd imagine that would cut the price substantially. I'm guessing Linux tech support people would probably cost more than windows guys, and they've probably fired alot for their condescending tone (which they develop instinctivly after getting as far as figuring out set prompt) when dealing with customers.
Incidentally, I love Dell Cases. It's wicked easy to take them completely apart without tools in minutes.
This isn't the US government or anything. Once you give your money to microsoft, it's theirs to do with as they please. Comingling aside, if they want to give away something they developed with their hard earned money, thats their business alone. Unless you're a stockholder, which I doubt.
Why should I be forced to use it at work, despite my perception of it's inferiority?
Because at work, it's not your computer. If you don't like your company's IT policies, attacking microsofts business practices is an awfully roundabout way to effect change.
I'm not defending microsoft, I just thought I'd point a few things out.
Games aside, have you ever noticed how durable nintendo products are? They're certainly breakable, but it takes alot more effort than any of their competitors- I've had Genesis' and various control pads fall apart, but nothing ever made by Nintendo- sometimes they even worked better after you tossed it across the room, especially the original front loading NES.
No slashdot-recommended library collection would be complete without How to Build a Beowulf: A Guide to the Implementation and Application of PC Clusters by Sterling, Salmon, and others. Paperback, MIT Press, 1999
It seems that they've replaced the files with small useless ones to avoid being slaughtered by the /. effect. (I'd imagine it would be powerfull with all of us downloading 8 meg movies)
But then again, enjoying most any movie requires a suspension of disbelief. I loved the movie, and for once, generally agree with Katz's review.
Oh yeah, if his ship was still partially functional thousands of years later- well, I'd like to be that kind of engineer!
Or something like that. Methinks they just need another banner to rally behind to keep themselves in the headlines. After all,
Won't someone please think of the children?
Because AOL isn't in quite the same position, in terms of leverage. AOL can only offer a positive incentive for accepting it's terms, whereas Microsoft could either not provide a vital operating system (for the general consumer market, anyway) or charge them a hell of a lot more then any other manufacturer pays, giving them a pricing disadvantage on otherwise equal products.
http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/ssn/ssn.structure .html
Incidentally, when you drive into NH on a highway from Massachusetts, you see signs that say "Please drive with courtesy, it's the NH way." You don't see those signs when coming from the same highways that stretch into Vermont and Maine.
One of my friends thought "Yeah, right" when she saw that sign. By the time she got to my little college town, she was convinced. 20 minutes later.
On the bright side, it only took me a few minutes to get a new archer-wench-hireling back up to near my level.
I figured no point in bitching, and if I lose a new set of items if/when blizzard restores everything, oh well. It's just a game.
Actually, I thought it would be funnier the lower the number. But I have no exp. first posting.
is the same punishment strong enough for first posters?
Find someone technologically inclined with a bachelors in English, so we can avoid brilliant front page errors like "So I bolited, skipped illegally across the hallways of the megaplex" (which is only a step above writing in l33t-sp34k). Make the guy/gal a copy editor, and proof read all the articles posted. Maybe they can even write intelligent articles once in a while, because we certainly can't get much worse.
This guy doesn't like anything, does he?
Jurrasic Park 3 certainley wasn't original, but it definatley was entertaining- there's something to be said for a movie that's just a good time, and nothing more. Do we need to break new ground with every flic, and have each be of the highest art? No. Often, as long as it's fun to watch, thats good enough. As usual, don't listen to Katz, go see Jurrasic Park three, it's fun.
Incidentally, The Fast and the Furious is also a dumb movie, but worth the $8, 'cause it's entertaining.
Final Fantasy was a good movie if you enjoy Sci-fi AND fantasy, and was wonderful eye-candy.
Perhaps we can have Hemos, or CmdTaco do the movie reviews. Katz seems to hate everything, so why bother reading his reviews?
The the opinion piece that the AC above linked to recieved- a beneficial slashdotting- a high rating. At the bottom of every article, MSNBC offers a chance to rate the article, and then view the top ten articles- by this system, the highest rated articles are read EVEN MORE.
I gave it a 7 out of 7, then went to the top ten page- and the piece was at the top, with a 6.64 rating.
This is the highest rating I've ever seen on that list, and it will make even more people, the non- slashdotters, read it- and It's a very good anti-DMCA piece, and we need more.
So keep going there, and keep 'modding' his piece up!
Incidentally, this guy is my new fucking hero, after the copyrights and copy wrongs piece, and this piece is even better.
So they're workin on Dues Ex 2 and Thief three- I'm all for continuing a successful series, but if all the have going is more of the same, maybe they should consider broadening their horizons, and being a little bit innovative- maybe something besides a first person/shooter/quest/3rd rehash.
Well, I'd imagine it's because an author, no matter how formulaic their work, went through the trouble of creating the entire book themselves, and has the intellectual talent to do so, thus earning respect. In addition, the print industry has been around for a great deal longer than the music industry, and from our early days in school we are taught to respect and cherish books for the knowledge we can gleen from them.
Popular music, on the other hand, is usually finding a few people who are cute and can sing a tune, and then providing these dolts with the lowest common denominator of sappy relationship songs, dance steps, and gaudy clothing. See Britney Spears, N'sync, Backstreet Boys, etc... (as a side note, I think that Limp Bizkit is the britney spears of alternative rock- lowest common denominator.) I certainley don't accord them alot of respect, however, i certainly don't listen to their music either. So I think it probably comes down to a matter of respect. Also, you can buy popular literature at convience stores, and they cost maybe $7 for several hours of entertainment.
Maybe we could leave the Enterprise up there. No, seriously. The Enterprise is a test shuttle that has flight controls, but is missing a few other key parts. They used it to test the glide back to earth, by releasing it off the top of the 747 they use to get them back to cape canaviral. Maybe finish off the shuttle, send it up, and leave it there for escape purposes, cause it sure as hell can hold six people, even seven. and hold a soyuz or two to boot.
"The Canadian built space station arm actually worked!"
What is that supposed to mean? Of course it worked! Admittedly, NASA has had a few difficulties with space station components, but all have worked more or less as intended. When you're spending several thousand per kilogram to send something up into space, you're damn well gonna make sure it works before sending it up.
Incidentally, did anybody ever tell you that all the shuttles manipulator arms all came from Canada? I'm sure whatever company it is up there has the knowledge from making those for our birds.
Also, our A1- Abrahms main battle tank is made in Canada, as are Fords Crown Vics, and a few other cars. They all work very well.
Sure, our neighbors to the north may base their national pride on the notion that they aren't the USA (despite the presence of sears, mcdonalds, burger kings, shopping malls, SUV's, and many other things that make it seem like a slightly colder (and occasionally french speaking) New Hampshire, but let's not knock their manufacturing capabilities.