I submitted this story sometime ago, but got rejected.
Note that your article has the exact same contents as the article linked to in the slashdot article...
The slashdot article also mentions that "It's also worth noting that this is merely one of the Blaster variations." so there doesn't seem to be anything new in your comment...
So why did you get modded +5? Because you were rejected? Maybe you weren't and did somebody submit it just before you.
Modders, please consider this when modding parent.
For all those computing the price of my new robot vacuum cleaner, I already have a handheld vacuum cleaner and a lego mindstorms set, so it doesn't cost me anything extra to build one. Also note that a robot vacuum cleaner is not the only thing one can do with a set of lego mindstorms.
I'm always pretty irritated by people telling what desktops and the such should look like, based on their experience in windows. Especially those who want to throw away all current looks make me pretty angry. I'm using a mix of programs, with the most differing interfaces and I don't care as I'm familiar with the programs, have put energy into the programs and learned them. I use KDE with full screen terminals, mozilla, evolution, gnuplot, xfig, kprinter, acroread, all with their differing looks, and I cannot think of an alternative universal look that would make the applications any better, as they are currently in their best form possible. At least that is what I think. My desktop may look like an ugly mess of different looks, but this lays at the same basis that makes my working environment powerful (read: competition is good). So don't tell me it needs to change. It's just perfect like this.
Maybe you could start working on a universal look and themeing and the such, but don't let it be a reason for killing off all older code and programs, as they are pretty good. Or what did you think all of us millions of UNIX users liked about UNIX? It's definitely not the looks we're interested in. (Is it obvious that I don't care about making everybody use UNIX, and using that a reason for getting UNIX ready for the desktop?)
I'm currently working on a project to mount my handheld vacuum cleaner on top of a robot made with my Lego Mindstorms set. You can program the bot yourself, add some extra intelligence. I'm pretty sure I'll have a robot vacuuming my floors pretty soon, without having to spend the $200 on it. And as an extra, it's great fun building and programming one!
I've seen a demonstration of a robot vacuum cleaner a couple of weeks ago (I can't remember the brand, but it was a yellow robot). This vacuum robot did manage to go back to the recharger. But that was not the only thing it could do, it also dumped the collected dust into a container sitting in the recharger, so you never had to actually do anything with the robot, as it was able to feed itself and get rid of the dust. It was however a tad more expensive than the the roomba (but I can't remember the correct price tag either).
Hehe, there's something in the article I don't really get. Only half of the seedlings' genes were inherited from the great pine, whereas the other half came from another pine. That's like how I was made. Half of my genes are my mother's and the other half come from my dad. And I'm not a clone.
These guys have simply grew plants from the seeds of the great pine, just as the pine would have reproduced in nature, so I don't really see the point of the whole thing, and I can't figure out why anybody feels like putting a label "cloning" on this story.
What about the false positives? I don't think casinos care about a winning visitor who is mistakenly seen as a card counter. They should be worried more about the false negatives, those who can trick the computer system into thinking he's not card counting.
Karma systems, like slashdot's, will end up completely wrong if the site is already being overcrowded with fakesters. Adding such a system to the friendsters site would give the fakesters complete power to increase each other's "karma", thereby putting all of the real friendsters in the dark, because they're (possibly, or something alike) not funny or interesting enough.
I wonder how much that thing weighed. Anyone have a link somewhere to specifications on the Helios?
The specs of Helios are one click away from the article to which slashdot links to. Maybe next time you could check the story before you start posting.
Does anyone keep record of the SCO story? I seem to have started following up on the story way too late, and I don't have the faintest clue what SCO is trying to do, and why it is bad.
So I was wondering if anyone has a record of SCO events that would clear my view of what is happening.
The reobservations have been done halfway March (which is stated on the page that is linked too), so this is not really *news*. For now, there do not seem to be any interesting results from these reobservations.
I loved my//c back in those days. A pity my sisters threw it away because "you only look at it once in a month." They also flushed all of my floppies before I knew the machine had left the building.
Note that the so-called preview only discusses what the new Longhorn looks like, not what internals have changed. So take the article pretty literally, since it really only *looks* t Longhorn.
I know I'm not at all that much of a cat person, but if you're having troubles with cats clogging up your fans, why don't you simply remove the cats?:)
Once you start reading the article it all makes sense, but once they start throwing in chess-playing rats that are more interested in their food it gets obvious.
Slashdot Mirror
The mirror is slower than the original site, and, why bother? The 8MB isn't worth it at all. You can see an aibo picking up its "aiBONE". *wow*
I didn't notice the triangles at first, but the flares on the stars were bugging me. They probably have a similar cause.
I submitted this story sometime ago, but got rejected.
...
Note that your article has the exact same contents as the article linked to in the slashdot article...
The slashdot article also mentions that "It's also worth noting that this is merely one of the Blaster variations." so there doesn't seem to be anything new in your comment
So why did you get modded +5? Because you were rejected? Maybe you weren't and did somebody submit it just before you.
Modders, please consider this when modding parent.
For all those computing the price of my new robot vacuum cleaner, I already have a handheld vacuum cleaner and a lego mindstorms set, so it doesn't cost me anything extra to build one. Also note that a robot vacuum cleaner is not the only thing one can do with a set of lego mindstorms.
That's indeed the one. Karcher. Should've remembered.
I'm always pretty irritated by people telling what desktops and the such should look like, based on their experience in windows. Especially those who want to throw away all current looks make me pretty angry. I'm using a mix of programs, with the most differing interfaces and I don't care as I'm familiar with the programs, have put energy into the programs and learned them. I use KDE with full screen terminals, mozilla, evolution, gnuplot, xfig, kprinter, acroread, all with their differing looks, and I cannot think of an alternative universal look that would make the applications any better, as they are currently in their best form possible. At least that is what I think. My desktop may look like an ugly mess of different looks, but this lays at the same basis that makes my working environment powerful (read: competition is good). So don't tell me it needs to change. It's just perfect like this.
Maybe you could start working on a universal look and themeing and the such, but don't let it be a reason for killing off all older code and programs, as they are pretty good. Or what did you think all of us millions of UNIX users liked about UNIX? It's definitely not the looks we're interested in. (Is it obvious that I don't care about making everybody use UNIX, and using that a reason for getting UNIX ready for the desktop?)
I'm currently working on a project to mount my handheld vacuum cleaner on top of a robot made with my Lego Mindstorms set. You can program the bot yourself, add some extra intelligence. I'm pretty sure I'll have a robot vacuuming my floors pretty soon, without having to spend the $200 on it. And as an extra, it's great fun building and programming one!
I've seen a demonstration of a robot vacuum cleaner a couple of weeks ago (I can't remember the brand, but it was a yellow robot). This vacuum robot did manage to go back to the recharger. But that was not the only thing it could do, it also dumped the collected dust into a container sitting in the recharger, so you never had to actually do anything with the robot, as it was able to feed itself and get rid of the dust. It was however a tad more expensive than the the roomba (but I can't remember the correct price tag either).
Hehe, there's something in the article I don't really get. Only half of the seedlings' genes were inherited from the great pine, whereas the other half came from another pine. That's like how I was made. Half of my genes are my mother's and the other half come from my dad. And I'm not a clone.
These guys have simply grew plants from the seeds of the great pine, just as the pine would have reproduced in nature, so I don't really see the point of the whole thing, and I can't figure out why anybody feels like putting a label "cloning" on this story.
What about the false positives? I don't think casinos care about a winning visitor who is mistakenly seen as a card counter. They should be worried more about the false negatives, those who can trick the computer system into thinking he's not card counting.
Open for business is now officially closed for business.
Karma systems, like slashdot's, will end up completely wrong if the site is already being overcrowded with fakesters. Adding such a system to the friendsters site would give the fakesters complete power to increase each other's "karma", thereby putting all of the real friendsters in the dark, because they're (possibly, or something alike) not funny or interesting enough.
I read "rectal" instead of "retinal." That would've been pretty curious.
... that's like buying the enlargment pills you learned about in a spam mail. They'll quickly figure out that money went into /dev/null.
But it's all maybe part of a bigger scheme. (Conspiracy theorists wanted here!)
Modders please check parent comment for nonsense (the so called dupes are no dupes) and mod down
Excellent, too bad I can't use my moderator points to put you on +6.
I wonder how much that thing weighed. Anyone have a link somewhere to specifications on the Helios?
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The specs of Helios are one click away from the article to which slashdot links to. Maybe next time you could check the story before you start posting.
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/FactSheets/FS-0
There's no need for wardriving as it is for free, even for tourists.
Does anyone keep record of the SCO story? I seem to have started following up on the story way too late, and I don't have the faintest clue what SCO is trying to do, and why it is bad.
So I was wondering if anyone has a record of SCO events that would clear my view of what is happening.
Thanks in advance
The reobservations have been done halfway March (which is stated on the page that is linked too), so this is not really *news*. For now, there do not seem to be any interesting results from these reobservations.
I loved my //c back in those days. A pity my sisters threw it away because "you only look at it once in a month." They also flushed all of my floppies before I knew the machine had left the building.
Note that the so-called preview only discusses what the new Longhorn looks like, not what internals have changed. So take the article pretty literally, since it really only *looks* t Longhorn.
I know I'm not at all that much of a cat person, but if you're having troubles with cats clogging up your fans, why don't you simply remove the cats? :)
Please note that the actual date of the discovery was February, 28, 1953. Not April, 2nd, when it was first published.
... ought to stop once it becomes 2nd of April!
Once you start reading the article it all makes sense, but once they start throwing in chess-playing rats that are more interested in their food it gets obvious.