I have this story still pending from when I typed it in on Saturday morning.
Why do you care? The story got posted, stop whining that it wasn't yours. And why should *we* care?
I care because I now see why so much news on Slashdot is so fsking old. They ask us, prompt us even, to send them news articles, then the stuff sits around for 2 days before making it's appearance.
If you don't care about how old news is, I can't make you.
Privacy issues won't arise for the general public untill it's them directly affected. They see no reason to care untill they see what happens when they don't care.
And as people in Germany found, sometimes when it's a matter of pain, you can't do anything anyway, because the gestapo will haul your ass off somewhere for the SS Totenkopfverband to kick the shit out of you and then hang you up in public as an example of what happens to traitors. Then your country will be bombed or whatever until there's only half the population left. Well, is that all it takes to get rid of a despot? Let me know when the revolution starts, I'll be busy with figuring out how to play mp3's in my car.
I'm just getting into the habit of lying whenever someone asks me a question. Then when they can't figure out who I am or where I live, they'll probably think I'm some sort of terrorist. This is really what they want anyway, all the people locked up. Reminds me of those last lyrics of Lawyers In Love.
The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them,
As Russians do
Now we've got all this room
We've even got the Moon
And the USSR will be open soon
As vacation-land for
Lawyers In Love
you're a numerologist, a mystic, a fortune teller or a similar quack. For most other people who happen to be superstitious, it's just another Friday the 13th. And for the rest of us, the overwhelming majority of rational folks, it's just another day...
I kept getting cut off by slower vehicles pulling into my lane on the way to work. (They weren't passing anyone, they just moved into it for no apparent reason.) Then I found a dead fly in my salad at lunch (OK, some people might consider it luck, finding it rather than half of one on the next fork.)
Still, haven't been hit by a falling meteor, so far so good.
What a relief! I always suspected that the commutativity of addition applied on both sides of the Atlantic.
Or did they mean to imply that the dæmons who govern paraskevidekatria are too preoccupied to uphold mathematical principles today?
If you're in Europe, then you're in luck. It's the 14th already.
While the sum of 2+6+1+1+3=13 is mildly interesting, I never thought much about Friday
the Thirteenth outside of Pogo strips.
Walt kelly's character in the strip, Churchy LaFemme
perhaps more than any other source kept the
Friday the Thirteenth fear alive as the turtle fled in horror for decades, long before the
series of films arrived. For those
of us who remember (and in some cases still read) the strip, it's still a source of amusement.
"Don't shoot! Don't shoot!
It's Friday the thirteenth!
Very unlucky to get shot on Friday the thirteenth!"
Those 448 GPUs outperform the combined 282,111 CPUs registered by the Linux and Mac OS clients. Ouch! Are ASICs really that much better than general-purpose circuits? If so, does that mean that IBM was right all along with their AS/400, iSeries product which makes heavy use of ASICs?"
That's pretty lopsided, but I suppose some of it could be explained away by GPU's not chewing through OS code
and having to play nice for memory, so they'd be a bit more efficient. Could be most of those Linux and MacOS
systems are long of tooth, but suspect someone's missed a few decimal places somewhere. I do love how quick a theory is posed
and the OP starts to run with it. e.g. I look at the balance of my checking account and see there's $1,000 more in there than I expect there to be and immediately form
the hypothesis that it's money to spend, without considering whether my rent check has gone through yet. Could be a rough time ahead if I went shopping with it. Either that or the GPU computers are on more than the others.
Whoops, used an old pentium for the math, never mind.
Iran has also exploded a nuclear bomb. Or something. We're not really sure. Coulda been anything really.
Seriously though - is this really news ? Shouldn't we wait until it's confirmed one way or the other before it makes sense to comment on it ?
Could it just be bluffing? If so, does this mean the sanctions and all are going to blow back into the face of Mr. Kim (Dear Leader) Jong Il? Can't see that going down too well. Losing something for nothing and making Japan more militaristic, after all these years. Nope, can't see anyone as a winner if that's their game.
To that end you should probably stop referring to yourself as a consumer.
I still consume, I just don't go in for every toy which everyone else has to have to part of some clique.
Also, Apple is just trying to sell more stuff by taking advantage of people who use iPods as statements. Some idiot waving their red music player around like it is a fashion statement doesn't make me feel like an idiot for having the same player (in white) discreetly stashed in my pocket.
And they're smart, because it keeps their product in front of everyone's nose as the fashionable trend. Microsoft shouldn't even be associating themselves with Zune, they should have set up a separate company and kept the association quiet. There's nothing trendy about them or their name and all the advertising dollars in the world won't change it.
Seriously, I love my old-school, IBM Model M, battle-ship tough, obnoxiously loud, buckling spring clicky keyboard. No Windows key, a proper layout, and very nice tactile feedback.
I see these things go at a premium. Solidly built and with a little adapter they should go on working for a hundred years.
I miss having that space between keys as a finger rest. I worked on terminals for decades and then had to work with these infernal things. There was a Penguin keyboard where you could get Tux on the key-caps, but I haven't seen them around for a while.
The fact that the market is saturated alredy with people who can use iTunes and who own iPods? What is the insentive to switch?
Apple's footprint is extended by the aftermarket, where Zune won't even have one for months or years. I was in CostCo a week ago and was stunned how many portable stereos there are with an iPod cradle. Must have been a dozen, all different manufacturers. While shopping for a new car radio I find lots of them offer an option to hook up your iPod.
Well. Looks like Apple doesn't just have a market, but a solid market. Apple's worst enemy at this point could only be themselves by changing something and screwing these aftermarket partners who provide them with greater value.
Microsoft could only achieve this quickly with some very large incentives ($$$$$$$$) given to manufacturers to adopt their platform and I don't see that happening soon enough for the holiday shopping season (which has already begun, dontcherknow.)
Until an American company learns that I want to play my music in formats I define, I will not buy DRM-infested music from either store. Instead I will continue to use free music services I find by searching for "free music" on my favorite search engine.
Then, of the MP3 playing/listening market, you are on the fringe. More power to you, but you don't see a lot of grassroots products selling 100 million units.
I'm still on the fence about an mp3 player. I'll probably just get some poopy little job that works with USB flash RAM, that way I can plug it into my new car radio or take it with me. I'm not trying to make a fashion statement or raise consciousnesss. I'm just a consumer who wants to enjoy life a little bit more by having less conspicuous consumerism shoved in my face.
* applying Windows stickers to all PCs sold, and using a keyboard with a prominent Windows key.
Hah. One of the first things I did, after building my first PC 4 years ago, was lever off the Windows keys, which flew behind my desk and haven't been seen since.
Annoying pieces of shit. Everytime I accidently hit one for Ctrl or Alt fed the need to remove these unwelcome interlopers
of QWERTY keyboards.
More than 80% of Microsoft's revenues for Windows come from corporate volume licensing and OEM copies of Windows bundled with new PCs. That means the company doesn't have to compete to sell a product at retail.
Which I've always said, Microsoft are lucky and they have never learned anything.
How was it that the scrappy Apple beat Microsoft in online music and movies? How was Microsoft's omnipotent empire defeated, and is there some chance that Microsoft will still have the opportunity to beat Apple at its own game with Zune, the company's solo effort at developing an iPod killer?
Simply put, without knowledge of how to build a business, Microsoft has been playing Follow-The-Leader for years. Throwing their massive
profits from Windows and Office sales into subsidising these disasterous forays. It's kind of like watching
the Soviets try to compete with the rest of the world with their Lada cars.
I missed Neil's Fragile Things tour and he only gets out here every couple of years. I last caught him at Keppler's when American Gods came out. I could only manage about half the book and put it down somewhere, but Anansi Boys was sterling and I've since become a bit of a fan of his works, reading Stardust and Neverwhere and enjoying them both considerably.
When last I met Mr. Gaiman, I was into the 10th year or so of borrowing a ragged copy of Good Omens from a friend. I'd finally read it and took it with me for him to sign, which he did "To Chris- Burn this! Neil Gaiman" classic.
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Virtual cardboard crack.
I was going to suggest paper crack but it's not really a game. For a game there's THUD!
It's not YouTube per say, it's people flagging the video as inappropriate. That causes the restriction to be put on. Once YouTube became aware of that, they immediately removed the warning. I just watched the video on YouTube.
Gasp! An informative post on/. !! Must.. mod.. down.. must.. keep.. people.. ignorant.. not.. much.. time!
Sure is odd what passes for appropriate on youtube.
I hope it isn't as stupid as XP is. My PC crashed and it came back up telling me my hardware had changed significantly and I only had 3 days to register/activate. When I went through the procedure it had lost all the registration information I already had from the first install 4 years ago. Lovely.
I've often wondered about this group. They remind me of something my college accounting prof. warned us about. (He's a CMA-Certified Management Accountant, outside the classroom.) Bean counters should never be put in charge of a business, long-term. They tend to focus too much on the money aspect rather than if the long-term is better served by a few extra expenses, e.g. getting a tetanus shot for $ rather than fighting the disease later for $$$$$.
CAGW has struck me as being too pennywise in the past. Not that they haven't had some good points, but their focus is often too narrow.
Looks like this kind of irony is something they could use, if they chose to, as a learning experience.
Levees are bursting on Jupiter, and the increase in the number of hurricanes has been directly linked to the SUV-related climate changes brought to you by the evil corporationy Corporations.
If there's a Jovian scale SUV, Arnold will want one, bugger the new California green-house gas laws.
That the next colour is blue. It's the only way they could get Bush to fund the the space programme you see... the Pointless American TRIO (of colours) Trip Act.
Well, it is campaign season in the US and wind velocity has certainly increased and swirled between Capitol Hill and Florida, spinning, ever spining. But you know Bush doesn't want to see a Blue State on Jupiter. Or was astrology more the forte of the Reagans?
Read all about it before the Lidle crash took the top spots on Google News. It's interesting, but really, Jupiter is always up
to something with that turbulent atmosphere. Streams of spots have appeared in the past and vanished again. This will probably hang around for a bit and then
go the way of other spots.
Meanwhile, there's Comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN), which is near it's peak magnitude, visible just after sunset which is my
primary viewing target this weekend. It's going to be around until early December, but at declining magnitudes.
Ob ISR Post:
In Soviet Russia little reds spot YOU!
you hear the ghost of Bill Goodwin ellaborating on swan, the new white floating comet
Slashdot Mirror
I care because I now see why so much news on Slashdot is so fsking old. They ask us, prompt us even, to send them news articles, then the stuff sits around for 2 days before making it's appearance.
If you don't care about how old news is, I can't make you.
Privacy issues won't arise for the general public untill it's them directly affected. They see no reason to care untill they see what happens when they don't care.
And as people in Germany found, sometimes when it's a matter of pain, you can't do anything anyway, because the gestapo will haul your ass off somewhere for the SS Totenkopfverband to kick the shit out of you and then hang you up in public as an example of what happens to traitors. Then your country will be bombed or whatever until there's only half the population left. Well, is that all it takes to get rid of a despot? Let me know when the revolution starts, I'll be busy with figuring out how to play mp3's in my car.
I'm just getting into the habit of lying whenever someone asks me a question. Then when they can't figure out who I am or where I live, they'll probably think I'm some sort of terrorist. This is really what they want anyway, all the people locked up. Reminds me of those last lyrics of Lawyers In Love.
The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them,
As Russians do
Now we've got all this room
We've even got the Moon
And the USSR will be open soon
As vacation-land for
Lawyers In Love
I have this story still pending from when I typed it in on Saturday morning.
It's bad luck to be superstitious.
T'is better to be a Roman. X + X + I + I + I + M + M + V + I = MMXXIX
you're a numerologist, a mystic, a fortune teller or a similar quack. For most other people who happen to be superstitious, it's just another Friday the 13th. And for the rest of us, the overwhelming majority of rational folks, it's just another day...
I kept getting cut off by slower vehicles pulling into my lane on the way to work. (They weren't passing anyone, they just moved into it for no apparent reason.) Then I found a dead fly in my salad at lunch (OK, some people might consider it luck, finding it rather than half of one on the next fork.)
Still, haven't been hit by a falling meteor, so far so good.
What a relief! I always suspected that the commutativity of addition applied on both sides of the Atlantic. Or did they mean to imply that the dæmons who govern paraskevidekatria are too preoccupied to uphold mathematical principles today?
If you're in Europe, then you're in luck. It's the 14th already.
While the sum of 2+6+1+1+3=13 is mildly interesting, I never thought much about Friday the Thirteenth outside of Pogo strips. Walt kelly's character in the strip, Churchy LaFemme perhaps more than any other source kept the Friday the Thirteenth fear alive as the turtle fled in horror for decades, long before the series of films arrived. For those of us who remember (and in some cases still read) the strip, it's still a source of amusement.
"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! It's Friday the thirteenth! Very unlucky to get shot on Friday the thirteenth!"
2+6+1+1+4=14, so there goes Saturday the 14th too.
I'm waiting for the clients that use all the other ASICS in modern computers. e.g. sound card.
IDE controllers, HDD controllers, modem...
last night I saw it make a move for my ipod and nikon d70s! i'm drawin' the line there!
Those 448 GPUs outperform the combined 282,111 CPUs registered by the Linux and Mac OS clients. Ouch! Are ASICs really that much better than general-purpose circuits? If so, does that mean that IBM was right all along with their AS/400, iSeries product which makes heavy use of ASICs?"
That's pretty lopsided, but I suppose some of it could be explained away by GPU's not chewing through OS code and having to play nice for memory, so they'd be a bit more efficient. Could be most of those Linux and MacOS systems are long of tooth, but suspect someone's missed a few decimal places somewhere. I do love how quick a theory is posed and the OP starts to run with it. e.g. I look at the balance of my checking account and see there's $1,000 more in there than I expect there to be and immediately form the hypothesis that it's money to spend, without considering whether my rent check has gone through yet. Could be a rough time ahead if I went shopping with it. Either that or the GPU computers are on more than the others.
Whoops, used an old pentium for the math, never mind.
In Other News
Could it just be bluffing? If so, does this mean the sanctions and all are going to blow back into the face of Mr. Kim (Dear Leader) Jong Il? Can't see that going down too well. Losing something for nothing and making Japan more militaristic, after all these years. Nope, can't see anyone as a winner if that's their game.
Maybe all the North Koreans jumped up and down at the same time.
Oddly enough, external microphones on the jet picked up something that sounded like singing... "I'm so wronery..."To that end you should probably stop referring to yourself as a consumer.
I still consume, I just don't go in for every toy which everyone else has to have to part of some clique.
Also, Apple is just trying to sell more stuff by taking advantage of people who use iPods as statements. Some idiot waving their red music player around like it is a fashion statement doesn't make me feel like an idiot for having the same player (in white) discreetly stashed in my pocket.
And they're smart, because it keeps their product in front of everyone's nose as the fashionable trend. Microsoft shouldn't even be associating themselves with Zune, they should have set up a separate company and kept the association quiet. There's nothing trendy about them or their name and all the advertising dollars in the world won't change it.
Seriously, I love my old-school, IBM Model M, battle-ship tough, obnoxiously loud, buckling spring clicky keyboard. No Windows key, a proper layout, and very nice tactile feedback.
I see these things go at a premium. Solidly built and with a little adapter they should go on working for a hundred years.
I miss having that space between keys as a finger rest. I worked on terminals for decades and then had to work with these infernal things. There was a Penguin keyboard where you could get Tux on the key-caps, but I haven't seen them around for a while.
The fact that the market is saturated alredy with people who can use iTunes and who own iPods? What is the insentive to switch?
Apple's footprint is extended by the aftermarket, where Zune won't even have one for months or years. I was in CostCo a week ago and was stunned how many portable stereos there are with an iPod cradle. Must have been a dozen, all different manufacturers. While shopping for a new car radio I find lots of them offer an option to hook up your iPod.
Well. Looks like Apple doesn't just have a market, but a solid market. Apple's worst enemy at this point could only be themselves by changing something and screwing these aftermarket partners who provide them with greater value.
Microsoft could only achieve this quickly with some very large incentives ($$$$$$$$) given to manufacturers to adopt their platform and I don't see that happening soon enough for the holiday shopping season (which has already begun, dontcherknow.)
Until an American company learns that I want to play my music in formats I define, I will not buy DRM-infested music from either store. Instead I will continue to use free music services I find by searching for "free music" on my favorite search engine.
Then, of the MP3 playing/listening market, you are on the fringe. More power to you, but you don't see a lot of grassroots products selling 100 million units.
I'm still on the fence about an mp3 player. I'll probably just get some poopy little job that works with USB flash RAM, that way I can plug it into my new car radio or take it with me. I'm not trying to make a fashion statement or raise consciousnesss. I'm just a consumer who wants to enjoy life a little bit more by having less conspicuous consumerism shoved in my face.
* applying Windows stickers to all PCs sold, and using a keyboard with a prominent Windows key.
Hah. One of the first things I did, after building my first PC 4 years ago, was lever off the Windows keys, which flew behind my desk and haven't been seen since. Annoying pieces of shit. Everytime I accidently hit one for Ctrl or Alt fed the need to remove these unwelcome interlopers of QWERTY keyboards.
More than 80% of Microsoft's revenues for Windows come from corporate volume licensing and OEM copies of Windows bundled with new PCs. That means the company doesn't have to compete to sell a product at retail.
Which I've always said, Microsoft are lucky and they have never learned anything.
How was it that the scrappy Apple beat Microsoft in online music and movies? How was Microsoft's omnipotent empire defeated, and is there some chance that Microsoft will still have the opportunity to beat Apple at its own game with Zune, the company's solo effort at developing an iPod killer?
Simply put, without knowledge of how to build a business, Microsoft has been playing Follow-The-Leader for years. Throwing their massive profits from Windows and Office sales into subsidising these disasterous forays. It's kind of like watching the Soviets try to compete with the rest of the world with their Lada cars.
I missed Neil's Fragile Things tour and he only gets out here every couple of years. I last caught him at Keppler's when American Gods came out. I could only manage about half the book and put it down somewhere, but Anansi Boys was sterling and I've since become a bit of a fan of his works, reading Stardust and Neverwhere and enjoying them both considerably.
When last I met Mr. Gaiman, I was into the 10th year or so of borrowing a ragged copy of Good Omens from a friend. I'd finally read it and took it with me for him to sign, which he did "To Chris- Burn this! Neil Gaiman" classic.
Virtual cardboard crack.
I was going to suggest paper crack but it's not really a game. For a game there's THUD!
It's not YouTube per say, it's people flagging the video as inappropriate. That causes the restriction to be put on. Once YouTube became aware of that, they immediately removed the warning. I just watched the video on YouTube.
Gasp! An informative post on /. !! Must .. mod .. down .. must .. keep .. people .. ignorant .. not .. much .. time!
Sure is odd what passes for appropriate on youtube.
I hope it isn't as stupid as XP is. My PC crashed and it came back up telling me my hardware had changed significantly and I only had 3 days to register/activate. When I went through the procedure it had lost all the registration information I already had from the first install 4 years ago. Lovely.
I've often wondered about this group. They remind me of something my college accounting prof. warned us about. (He's a CMA-Certified Management Accountant, outside the classroom.) Bean counters should never be put in charge of a business, long-term. They tend to focus too much on the money aspect rather than if the long-term is better served by a few extra expenses, e.g. getting a tetanus shot for $ rather than fighting the disease later for $$$$$.
CAGW has struck me as being too pennywise in the past. Not that they haven't had some good points, but their focus is often too narrow.
Looks like this kind of irony is something they could use, if they chose to, as a learning experience.
Levees are bursting on Jupiter, and the increase in the number of hurricanes has been directly linked to the SUV-related climate changes brought to you by the evil corporationy Corporations.
If there's a Jovian scale SUV, Arnold will want one, bugger the new California green-house gas laws.
That the next colour is blue. It's the only way they could get Bush to fund the the space programme you see... the Pointless American TRIO (of colours) Trip Act.
Well, it is campaign season in the US and wind velocity has certainly increased and swirled between Capitol Hill and Florida, spinning, ever spining. But you know Bush doesn't want to see a Blue State on Jupiter. Or was astrology more the forte of the Reagans?
Read all about it before the Lidle crash took the top spots on Google News. It's interesting, but really, Jupiter is always up to something with that turbulent atmosphere. Streams of spots have appeared in the past and vanished again. This will probably hang around for a bit and then go the way of other spots.
Meanwhile, there's Comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN), which is near it's peak magnitude, visible just after sunset which is my primary viewing target this weekend. It's going to be around until early December, but at declining magnitudes.
Ob ISR Post:
In Soviet Russia little reds spot YOU!
you hear the ghost of Bill Goodwin ellaborating on swan, the new white floating comet