Why would they use 3+5 for next version?? The whole reason they did the 2+5 thing is because they decided to correct all the wrongs done by 3.0 by creating a player with all the features and benefits of both.
I have been using 5.0 for quite some time now and I have to say that Nullsoft has succeeded marvelously. Personally, I think the next versions will be 5.x.x for quite some time because, IMHO, 5.0 is going to be hard to improve on.:)
SDI was actually a bluff, but it's not like we didn't do any research on it. He is correct that we knew we couldn't do it with existing technology, and it is also accurate that that the Soviets believed we could.
Was SDI a flop though, nope, it helped end the Cold War and it resulted in many technological advances. In other words, it's was money well spent.;)
You're right. Let's stop everything, stop all scientific discovery and help a group that makes up 0.7% of the population of the United States.
If you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic. I can certainly feel for those people who are homeless, but at the same time I know the reality that many of the homeless are that way because of the choices they make. No amount of money can make someone choose to make the changes to no longer be homeless, they have to choose it on their own.
So please, don't throw in stupid, cynical remarks about an event that has nothing to do with homelessness.
Holy crap and who cares!! Is it just me or is Slashdot becoming all political? Most of the people who comment can barely stay on topic about actual "nerdy" topics, so now we are going to expand that into political issues not related to technology?
Seems to me, and has been my experience with every company I have ever worked for, that anything that isn't released in a "Official Press Release" or released by a spokesman (someone who won't get fired for releasing that info) is considered CONFIDENTIAL!!
Information about Microsoft's purchases is something that they will want to control. I have contracted in places where they will destroy devices that can record classified information (digital cameras, picture-phones, scanner pens, transmitters, etc).
The company would rather have you take them to court to have the offending item replaced than to have a potential leak of classified info. It costs a lot less to replace some guys picture-phone (if you are actually successfully in court) than it is to do damage control if a competitor gains an advantage based on that leaked info.
My whole experience in this industry is DO NOT SCREW AROUND WITH SECURITY!!!! Although the guy in this story is pretty small stuff, the reaction on Microsoft is not surprising at all.
As boring as Windows already is, I certainly don't want to add Mozilla to list of yet another boring app.
I think one of the reasons why Mozilla is so great is absence of marketers. All the stupid buzzwords, and spin tactics they use to try to sell a product are what turn me off on a product, and I think there are many like me.
I have convinced many people to switch to Mozilla simply by showing them the features (tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, form management, etc). After that I leave it up to them. So far I have seen bout 95% of those people move to Mozilla because they like the features and not the branding.
How would a hardware encrypter/decrypter know if the RIAA is scanning your Kazaa share folder over the Internet?
I mean this could be great if you are worried about people grabbing your harddrive, but the RIAA and FBI probably are not going to break down your door until they have other evidence traced back to you. I'm sure there have been many lawyers who have successfully convicted hackers/crackers/script kiddies without being able to access the contents of the accused's hard drive.
So really, the only thing this protects you from is some hoodlum stealing your hard drive to try to extract info from it. If you are just an average Joe Blow like me, I don't think that that is very likely.
On top of that, does anyone know what algorithm or process it uses? Ussually companies or people who sell this stuff without allowing scrutiny are selling snake oil. As much as I like ABIT's products, I don't think I'm too compelled to trust this "solution".
I talked to a Taekwondo instructor about that and he said a great exercise is to simply replace your desk chair with a large ball that will support your weight.
He said it forces you to use the muscles in your back and stomach area (as well as leg and shoulders) because you will be forced to adjust constantly to keep your balance. He claimed to have several students who had used that method to trim down. Maybe it could work for you if you can get your job to let you do it.
Thank God someone posted something useful for this story.
I was part of a computer club in college, my HS didn't have one at the time, and I wasn't going to start it because I didn't care about HS.;)
But I defintely agree with Eric on this, all his suggestions will make the club a success if you have motivated members. The best idea is to definately volunteer yourselves as laborers to your school's IT Dept (if it has one, or the techer who runs the computers for the school).
There is always CAT5 to be run, updates to be run, software to install, systems to reload/fix/throw out a window in a fit of rage, etc etc.
That real-world experience will help you and your members learn more and more. Once you get into the groove of things you will probably start giving the IT people there ideas on how to do things that will work well.
Good luck with the club! They really can be great fun and a great learning experience.
First, the idea of porting the Windows into Linux has been around for a long long long long time. It's always had it's supporters and dissenters, so far nothing in this string of posts have contributed anything new to the argument.
It comes down to getting decent apps on the Linux platform, and I know I'm probably gonna get flamed for this, but 95% of the software honestly sucks. At least Windows apps generally conform to a standard and typically very polished. Yes, I know that Linux apps are getting better, but they aren't there yet and why we all argue about every little thing, Microsoft moves on to the their next version, happy to throw something at the Linux community to get it all rialled up.
So far, the only version of Linux that I see as promising is Xandros and that's because they are in control rather than 5 million whiney geeks, hackers, cracker, dweebs, or whatever we call ourselves today.
Second, every OS out there sucks. They all do. Windows X.X, MacOS X.X, Linux and every other OS that is out there sucks.
I would love nothing better than to see a free, open source OS dominate the market because it is fast, stable, and actually easy to use. Linux is 2 out of 3. Windows XP is generally fast, stable, and a lot easier to use than Linux. MacOS X is fast, stable, and easy to use to a certain group of people while the rest think it is either moronic or insulting to use. In my book that puts Linux at 2 out of 3 while XP and MacOS are at 2.5. Perhaps Linux, in it current form, isn't the answer for the desktop. Maybe the GNU community needs to develope an OS from the ground up that is geared towards the Desktop, and let Linux handle the server and workstation market (where it is competeing extremely well). That way we aren't wasting are time trying to make the Swiss Army Knife of the OS world.
Oh, BTW, DOS under NT, 2000, and XP is an emulator, just like DOSEMU in Linux. It provides enough of DOS so that many, but not all, old DOS programs will run. The great part is that since those DOS apps run inside a Windows app, if the DOS program pukes, it doesn't take the OS with it like what used to happen under Win 3.x and Win 9.x.
Finally, here is a link to a funny song that helps make my point on OSes sucking.:) It should make at least some of giggle.:)
It is hard to say what will happen, fuel cells have been the promise for years and years. This GM venture appears promising but who knows what will happen even 5 or 10 years down the road.
I love my gasoline powered car, it's reliable and fairly inexpensive to operate and maintain. However, I do definately see the advantages of hydrogen over gasoline if the technology is made as affordable as gasoline. The good effects of a cleaner environment will the clincher in the deal for most people once prices of both types of vehicles are roughly the same. Hydrogen is definately the future and GM and many other auto manufacturers see that.
Now I don't necessarily think the gasoline engine is going to completely go away, but I think over time it will be relegated to very specific jobs and for car enthusiast. There's nothing wrong with that, but I think that days of the internal combustion engine have more days behind it than it does ahead of it.
AMEN!!! But I wouldn't shoot them out of the trees, that'll just inflame the Gun Control lobby.
I love how enviromentalists are willing ignore the rights of the logging companies to have and use their PRIVATE property just so that they protest. Seems to me the right to private property is one of the biggest tenants of liberty, which gives them the opportunity to protest. Protesting is fine until it starts infringing on other people's rights.
If tree farms can provide all the wood we need, then why don't these environmental groups create them and put the lumber industry out of business. Certainly sounds more pro-active than sitting in a tree and more humain than driving metal spikes in the trees.
Sitting in a tree in protest doesn't really help their cause, and doesn't really impress anyone who lives in the real world. I would be more impressed, and probably more simpathetic to these groups if they actually provided a real alternative to what they are protesting.
All my email addresses are posted in the open for anyone to see on my website, and other sites as well. If I get SPAM, I opt out or I create filters.
You can sit there and call me a "dumbass" all you wish, but fact is that I enjoy having my email addresses exposed to the wild, yet I don't experience the flood of spam that comes in which you all complain about.
Is that all you can really offer to the conversation is name calling, whining, and bitching? If so, why even bother to post? Do you have a reason to disagree with me or do you just like being on the popular side because then you don't have to come up with any creative arguments because other people have done so for you already?
The blocking of SPAM isn't that hard, and anyone with half a brain can do it. Bobby Shaftoe, in Neal Stephenson's book, Cryptonomicon, says it best, "Display some f***ing adaptability".
I say more power to him. As much as I hate getting spam, it still is only a minor thing to me to delete them, and sometimes I do find a useful product, the literal gem in the ruff.
We have to remember that it isn't just geeks using the web anymore, and people from all walks are going to us the net for what they know. It is silly to say to that group that they can't do it because we, as geeks or whatever, just don't like it.
I agree that articles like this are silly and most likely unprovable. But I think George Carlin has it right about most hardcore enviromentalists.
"We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the fucking planet? I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I'm tired of fucking Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world save for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a shit about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me. " -- George Carlin
The Hindenerg didn't crash because of the hydrogen ignited, but because he outer covering was extremely flamible which was ignited by an electostatic discharge. PBS had an excellent documentary on it and here is a link to Q&A with the researcher who determined this.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm ... Maybe if there was sort of logic or actual thought put into the joke it would have been funny.
Why would they use 3+5 for next version?? The whole reason they did the 2+5 thing is because they decided to correct all the wrongs done by 3.0 by creating a player with all the features and benefits of both.
:)
I have been using 5.0 for quite some time now and I have to say that Nullsoft has succeeded marvelously. Personally, I think the next versions will be 5.x.x for quite some time because, IMHO, 5.0 is going to be hard to improve on.
SDI was actually a bluff, but it's not like we didn't do any research on it. He is correct that we knew we couldn't do it with existing technology, and it is also accurate that that the Soviets believed we could.
;)
Was SDI a flop though, nope, it helped end the Cold War and it resulted in many technological advances. In other words, it's was money well spent.
You're right. Let's stop everything, stop all scientific discovery and help a group that makes up 0.7% of the population of the United States.
If you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic. I can certainly feel for those people who are homeless, but at the same time I know the reality that many of the homeless are that way because of the choices they make. No amount of money can make someone choose to make the changes to no longer be homeless, they have to choose it on their own.
So please, don't throw in stupid, cynical remarks about an event that has nothing to do with homelessness.
Holy crap and who cares!! Is it just me or is Slashdot becoming all political? Most of the people who comment can barely stay on topic about actual "nerdy" topics, so now we are going to expand that into political issues not related to technology?
Seems to me, and has been my experience with every company I have ever worked for, that anything that isn't released in a "Official Press Release" or released by a spokesman (someone who won't get fired for releasing that info) is considered CONFIDENTIAL!!
Information about Microsoft's purchases is something that they will want to control. I have contracted in places where they will destroy devices that can record classified information (digital cameras, picture-phones, scanner pens, transmitters, etc).
The company would rather have you take them to court to have the offending item replaced than to have a potential leak of classified info. It costs a lot less to replace some guys picture-phone (if you are actually successfully in court) than it is to do damage control if a competitor gains an advantage based on that leaked info.
My whole experience in this industry is DO NOT SCREW AROUND WITH SECURITY!!!! Although the guy in this story is pretty small stuff, the reaction on Microsoft is not surprising at all.
As boring as Windows already is, I certainly don't want to add Mozilla to list of yet another boring app.
I think one of the reasons why Mozilla is so great is absence of marketers. All the stupid buzzwords, and spin tactics they use to try to sell a product are what turn me off on a product, and I think there are many like me.
I have convinced many people to switch to Mozilla simply by showing them the features (tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, form management, etc). After that I leave it up to them. So far I have seen bout 95% of those people move to Mozilla because they like the features and not the branding.
Netscape was branded and look where it ended up.
Why doesn't Gate's just buy Eolas. That would work for me. ;)
Of coarse it would ... this is Slashdot after all. ;)
You know, if we banned all the guns, then only the criminals would have guns. Then we would know who to shoot.
;)
:)
Unfortunately, to shoot them we would have to become criminals as well, shoot them, and then shoot ourselves.
Hope nobody picks up my gun and becomes a criminal after I have to kill myself.
Ridiculous? So are banning guns IMHO.
How would a hardware encrypter/decrypter know if the RIAA is scanning your Kazaa share folder over the Internet?
I mean this could be great if you are worried about people grabbing your harddrive, but the RIAA and FBI probably are not going to break down your door until they have other evidence traced back to you. I'm sure there have been many lawyers who have successfully convicted hackers/crackers/script kiddies without being able to access the contents of the accused's hard drive.
So really, the only thing this protects you from is some hoodlum stealing your hard drive to try to extract info from it. If you are just an average Joe Blow like me, I don't think that that is very likely.
On top of that, does anyone know what algorithm or process it uses? Ussually companies or people who sell this stuff without allowing scrutiny are selling snake oil. As much as I like ABIT's products, I don't think I'm too compelled to trust this "solution".
This may have been posted already, but Slashdot once had a story about the Hacker Diet.
Here is the link to the Hacker Diet.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
I talked to a Taekwondo instructor about that and he said a great exercise is to simply replace your desk chair with a large ball that will support your weight.
He said it forces you to use the muscles in your back and stomach area (as well as leg and shoulders) because you will be forced to adjust constantly to keep your balance. He claimed to have several students who had used that method to trim down. Maybe it could work for you if you can get your job to let you do it.
Hopefully this might be useful.
I think the RIAA would attack it because it could be used to transfer copyrighted material easily and freely.
Thank God someone posted something useful for this story.
;)
I was part of a computer club in college, my HS didn't have one at the time, and I wasn't going to start it because I didn't care about HS.
But I defintely agree with Eric on this, all his suggestions will make the club a success if you have motivated members. The best idea is to definately volunteer yourselves as laborers to your school's IT Dept (if it has one, or the techer who runs the computers for the school).
There is always CAT5 to be run, updates to be run, software to install, systems to reload/fix/throw out a window in a fit of rage, etc etc.
That real-world experience will help you and your members learn more and more. Once you get into the groove of things you will probably start giving the IT people there ideas on how to do things that will work well.
Good luck with the club! They really can be great fun and a great learning experience.
First, the idea of porting the Windows into Linux has been around for a long long long long time. It's always had it's supporters and dissenters, so far nothing in this string of posts have contributed anything new to the argument.
:) It should make at least some of giggle. :)
It comes down to getting decent apps on the Linux platform, and I know I'm probably gonna get flamed for this, but 95% of the software honestly sucks. At least Windows apps generally conform to a standard and typically very polished. Yes, I know that Linux apps are getting better, but they aren't there yet and why we all argue about every little thing, Microsoft moves on to the their next version, happy to throw something at the Linux community to get it all rialled up.
So far, the only version of Linux that I see as promising is Xandros and that's because they are in control rather than 5 million whiney geeks, hackers, cracker, dweebs, or whatever we call ourselves today.
Second, every OS out there sucks. They all do. Windows X.X, MacOS X.X, Linux and every other OS that is out there sucks.
I would love nothing better than to see a free, open source OS dominate the market because it is fast, stable, and actually easy to use. Linux is 2 out of 3. Windows XP is generally fast, stable, and a lot easier to use than Linux. MacOS X is fast, stable, and easy to use to a certain group of people while the rest think it is either moronic or insulting to use. In my book that puts Linux at 2 out of 3 while XP and MacOS are at 2.5. Perhaps Linux, in it current form, isn't the answer for the desktop. Maybe the GNU community needs to develope an OS from the ground up that is geared towards the Desktop, and let Linux handle the server and workstation market (where it is competeing extremely well). That way we aren't wasting are time trying to make the Swiss Army Knife of the OS world.
Oh, BTW, DOS under NT, 2000, and XP is an emulator, just like DOSEMU in Linux. It provides enough of DOS so that many, but not all, old DOS programs will run. The great part is that since those DOS apps run inside a Windows app, if the DOS program pukes, it doesn't take the OS with it like what used to happen under Win 3.x and Win 9.x.
Finally, here is a link to a funny song that helps make my point on OSes sucking.
Cya L8r
Lee
It is hard to say what will happen, fuel cells have been the promise for years and years. This GM venture appears promising but who knows what will happen even 5 or 10 years down the road.
I love my gasoline powered car, it's reliable and fairly inexpensive to operate and maintain. However, I do definately see the advantages of hydrogen over gasoline if the technology is made as affordable as gasoline. The good effects of a cleaner environment will the clincher in the deal for most people once prices of both types of vehicles are roughly the same. Hydrogen is definately the future and GM and many other auto manufacturers see that.
Now I don't necessarily think the gasoline engine is going to completely go away, but I think over time it will be relegated to very specific jobs and for car enthusiast. There's nothing wrong with that, but I think that days of the internal combustion engine have more days behind it than it does ahead of it.
Until I see it available for download or reviews of it in my favorite mags I'll just remain neutral on the whole thing.
Maybe he is the first Raelean to achieve immortality through cloning and he is actually a 50 year old hacker in a brand new body!!!! Phreaky!!!
AMEN!!! But I wouldn't shoot them out of the trees, that'll just inflame the Gun Control lobby.
I love how enviromentalists are willing ignore the rights of the logging companies to have and use their PRIVATE property just so that they protest. Seems to me the right to private property is one of the biggest tenants of liberty, which gives them the opportunity to protest. Protesting is fine until it starts infringing on other people's rights.
If tree farms can provide all the wood we need, then why don't these environmental groups create them and put the lumber industry out of business. Certainly sounds more pro-active than sitting in a tree and more humain than driving metal spikes in the trees.
Sitting in a tree in protest doesn't really help their cause, and doesn't really impress anyone who lives in the real world. I would be more impressed, and probably more simpathetic to these groups if they actually provided a real alternative to what they are protesting.
All my email addresses are posted in the open for anyone to see on my website, and other sites as well. If I get SPAM, I opt out or I create filters.
You can sit there and call me a "dumbass" all you wish, but fact is that I enjoy having my email addresses exposed to the wild, yet I don't experience the flood of spam that comes in which you all complain about.
Is that all you can really offer to the conversation is name calling, whining, and bitching? If so, why even bother to post? Do you have a reason to disagree with me or do you just like being on the popular side because then you don't have to come up with any creative arguments because other people have done so for you already?
The blocking of SPAM isn't that hard, and anyone with half a brain can do it. Bobby Shaftoe, in Neal Stephenson's book, Cryptonomicon, says it best, "Display some f***ing adaptability".
I say more power to him. As much as I hate getting spam, it still is only a minor thing to me to delete them, and sometimes I do find a useful product, the literal gem in the ruff.
We have to remember that it isn't just geeks using the web anymore, and people from all walks are going to us the net for what they know. It is silly to say to that group that they can't do it because we, as geeks or whatever, just don't like it.
So you agree, you are trying to save the humans, not the planet. ;p ZORT!!
I agree that articles like this are silly and most likely unprovable. But I think George Carlin has it right about most hardcore enviromentalists.
"We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the fucking planet? I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I'm tired of fucking Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world save for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a shit about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me. " -- George Carlin
The Hindenerg didn't crash because of the hydrogen ignited, but because he outer covering was extremely flamible which was ignited by an electostatic discharge. PBS had an excellent documentary on it and here is a link to Q&A with the researcher who determined this.
Damn ... now that is pretty good :) Happy April Fools :) LOL