I love spam protection programs. I've been using them for years, but have to switch every couple of months because of the friggen spammers. The people that make the spamming software don't just sit around cackling about how evil they are. They reverse engineer every anti-spam protection out there in an attempt to get around it.
Do they really believe that people who install anti-spam software on their PC's are going to buy penis-enlargement pills from spammers that defeat the software? How fscking stupid are can they get? People who install anti-spam software are not potential customers.
There are so many good CDs out there that you could buy one a week for the rest of your life and still not hear them all, and that's assuming no more CDs were ever released between now and then.
But how do you find out what they are? I've found several really good artists through filesharing and, as a result, have started buying CDs again.
Yoga, meditiation and feng-shui were around for hundreds of years before the current new-age crystal-dolphin-huggers hijacked them.
I used to work for a company that had (optional) yoga sessions once a week at lunchtime. I loved them, they were the highlight of my working week. The only problem was that I was so relaxed at the end of a session that I'd fall asleep. That doesn't help productivity too much!
Also, some of you geeks really ought to try yoga, as yoga classes are usually full of attractive women. It might do some of you good to get away from your monitors and meet some semi-clad members of the opposite sex.
Laura Didio says, "There are "bits and pieces" of copied material in Linux version 2.2, according to SCO. However, the vast majority of their claims centre around the later Linux 2.4 and 2.5 versions."
and then says that she was shown similar code in "Unix System V, version 4.1. Incidentally, this particular code is from the early 1980s, and hence predates Linus Torvalds' first Linux code."
But hang on a minute. Wouldn't early 80's Unix code be extremely primitive compared to Linux 2.2 and above? Would the kernel hackers really need to steal such ancient code for versions 2.4 and 2.5? Surely the Linux kernel must have been functionally equivalent (or superior) to early 80's Unix a long time ago? HH --
No, they provide vastly overpriced and completely crap development tools (SDK) to interactive TV developers. Their compiler gcco is based on gcc, but I've never been able to obtain the source to it.
I'm an OpenTV developer. They release binaries and include the GPL with them, but have always refused to release the source. I first asked them for the source several years ago. All such requests (both by me and other developers) have been totally ignored. OpenTV are complete shits (IMHO).
All this new GNOME and KDE stuff is great, but what I really want to know is, when will Ximian's release of GNOME 2.x be ready? Their GNOME 1.x release far surpassed what everyone else was doing with it at the time. If their 2.x is similarly superior, it's really going to be super slick.
I'd agree that Ximian Gnome 1.x was a great product. I compared it to (the then current) KDE 2.x, and Ximian just blew KDE away. I've been a devoted Gnome user since. However, I recently migrated from Red Hat+Ximian to Gentoo/Gnome 2.2. At least that was the intention, until I took a look at KDE 3.1. Wow - instantly konverted! It's uch slicker & more usable than Gnome. Maybe Ximian will redress the balance. Gnome/GTK still has the best apps though. Nothing can touch Evolution or Galeon (so far), though Konqueror is catching up with Galeon.
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Apparently, the Dr Rudolf Diesel ran his original engines on peanut oil
It's not illegal in the UK if you pay tax on the biodiesel. The problem (as far as the government was concerned) is that people were running their cars on fish'n'chip oil without paying any fuel tax.
Asda (Walmart) in the UK now run their fleet of delivery lorries on recycled donut frying oil.
Asda, the UK subsidiary of Walmart, is running it's fleet of lorries on biodiesel produced from waste oil from frying donuts. They produce between 60 to 90 million litres of waste frying oil every year, which is now providing them with cheap fuel.
Slashdot seems to be inserting a space in the URL, between file= and article, and in the middle of 'article' in the second URL. Remove the spaces and they should work.
Slashdot Mirror
RDF first hit my radar screen a couple of years ago
Was this meant to be a joke, since RDF also stands for Radio Direction Finding?
HH
The article claims that this is a radically new design that allows them to fold the laptop into a notebook replacement.
Wow! A laptop PC that turns into a notebook PC. This must surely win Big Blue the 'Microsoft Award for Great Innovation'.
HH
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Why sue the companies who produce games, but not the company who manufactured the gun that these kids used?
HH
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C'mon mods. AC notwithstanding, this deserves +5 funny.
HH
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Anyone who isn't capable of compiling an alpha release certainy shouldn't be considering using one.
HH
Just sometimes, very rarely, Slashdot needs a (Score: 10, Funny)
This line needs to get out into the wider world. Hope that some journalists are reading and pick up on it.
HH
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but the monitor is actually an LCD screen placed on top of a conventional monitor.
A laptop with an LCD screen and a conventional monitor! How big and heavy is this thing going to be?
HH
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I've often heard of companies having a crack legal team, but this is the first time that I've heard of one being on crack.
HH
I love spam protection programs. I've been using them for years, but have to switch every couple of months because of the friggen spammers. The people that make the spamming software don't just sit around cackling about how evil they are. They reverse engineer every anti-spam protection out there in an attempt to get around it.
Do they really believe that people who install anti-spam software on their PC's are going to buy penis-enlargement pills from spammers that defeat the software? How fscking stupid are can they get? People who install anti-spam software are not potential customers.
HH
Will their inspectors actually be able to find WMP?
HH
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There are so many good CDs out there that you could buy one a week for the rest of your life and still not hear them all, and that's assuming no more CDs were ever released between now and then.
But how do you find out what they are? I've found several really good artists through filesharing and, as a result, have started buying CDs again.
HH
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Yoga, meditiation and feng-shui were around for hundreds of years before the current new-age crystal-dolphin-huggers hijacked them.
:-)
I used to work for a company that had (optional) yoga sessions once a week at lunchtime. I loved them, they were the highlight of my working week. The only problem was that I was so relaxed at the end of a session that I'd fall asleep. That doesn't help productivity too much!
Also, some of you geeks really ought to try yoga, as yoga classes are usually full of attractive women. It might do some of you good to get away from your monitors and meet some semi-clad members of the opposite sex.
So don't knock it until you've tried it
HH
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Laura Didio says, "There are "bits and pieces" of copied material in Linux version 2.2, according to SCO. However, the vast majority of their claims centre around the later Linux 2.4 and 2.5 versions."
and then says that she was shown similar code in "Unix System V, version 4.1. Incidentally, this particular code is from the early 1980s, and hence predates Linus Torvalds' first Linux code."
But hang on a minute. Wouldn't early 80's Unix code be extremely primitive compared to Linux 2.2 and above? Would the kernel hackers really need to steal such ancient code for versions 2.4 and 2.5? Surely the Linux kernel must have been functionally equivalent (or superior) to early 80's Unix a long time ago?
HH
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No, they provide vastly overpriced and completely crap development tools (SDK) to interactive TV developers. Their compiler gcco is based on gcc, but I've never been able to obtain the source to it.
HH
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I'm an OpenTV developer. They release binaries and include the GPL with them, but have always refused to release the source. I first asked them for the source several years ago. All such requests (both by me and other developers) have been totally ignored. OpenTV are complete shits (IMHO).
HH
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All this new GNOME and KDE stuff is great, but what I really want to know is, when will Ximian's release of GNOME 2.x be ready? Their GNOME 1.x release far surpassed what everyone else was doing with it at the time. If their 2.x is similarly superior, it's really going to be super slick.
I'd agree that Ximian Gnome 1.x was a great product. I compared it to (the then current) KDE 2.x, and Ximian just blew KDE away. I've been a devoted Gnome user since. However, I recently migrated from Red Hat+Ximian to Gentoo/Gnome 2.2. At least that was the intention, until I took a look at KDE 3.1. Wow - instantly konverted! It's uch slicker & more usable than Gnome. Maybe Ximian will redress the balance. Gnome/GTK still has the best apps though. Nothing can touch Evolution or Galeon (so far), though Konqueror is catching up with Galeon.
HH (waiting to emerge -u kde)
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Apparently, the Dr Rudolf Diesel ran his original engines on peanut oil
HH
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It's not illegal in the UK if you pay tax on the biodiesel. The problem (as far as the government was concerned) is that people were running their cars on fish'n'chip oil without paying any fuel tax.
Asda (Walmart) in the UK now run their fleet of delivery lorries on recycled donut frying oil.
HH
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Asda, the UK subsidiary of Walmart, is running it's fleet of lorries on biodiesel produced from waste oil from frying donuts. They produce between 60 to 90 million litres of waste frying oil every year, which is now providing them with cheap fuel.
See this web page for more information.
HH
Sorry..I program in Java, and I'm unsettled by the fact that I will be collected as garbage in the afterlife.
You're posting as Anonymous Coward, yet you're worried about being thought of as garbage?
HH
If you think that a scheduler patch is arousing and exciting, you need to get out more, meet some girls...
I don't know what's funnier... that they're claiming copyright infringement of OpenOffice, or that they thought Microsoft Office came as RPMs!!
Not just that but SOURCE RPMS too.
HH
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Slashdot seems to be inserting a space in the URL, between file= and article, and in the middle of 'article' in the second URL. Remove the spaces and they should work.
I guess that most /.ers would care more about the video card. The URL you posted didn't work. Try this:
l e= article&sid=1270
/ ar ticle_4.asp
http://www.megarad.com/modules.php?name=News&fi
Or this:
http://www.globalcomment.com/science&technology
It's a spoof article unfortunately, but a pretty good one.
HH