There's still enough trolls who would forget that it's 4/1 and launch into some tirade about how Slashdot should check facts, etc. (not that trolls are particularly informed, either)
It was kinda fun to see some of them, the Warcraft one was pretty cheesy and had that immediate fake feel to it. NVidia/AMD, well, that wouldn't hugely surprise me, but when I got down to the BeOS bit, well, that'd be wishful thinking at best.
The best April Fools, like the one that caught me this morning, are the ones which are plausible and executed with care. I've been working a new check designs for a couple months and the fellow I work with came in and said, "Well, they changed it again, but they want to go back to the smaller form", which immediately made me cringe after putting days of effort into expanding the design to a larger form. Then he says but they want to make it wider, which was clue my chain was being yanked. Good one, that.
Bill Gates Admits Pay-Off For Easy DoJ Settlement. "We funneled campaign contributions through house-of-cards Enron", admits billionaire. Truth revealed from sole box of shreded documents Enron employee took home for packing material.
Quake 3 Arena masters traced to chimpanzees in animal research lab at University of Michigan. Lab staff stunned at finding, "No wonder they were so wiped out every morning," states unnamed intern, "we thought it was all the Caffeine we were giving them in their food." Primates found way out of cages and used networked research workstations to thrash "higher life forms." Conseling to be made available to several Ann Arbor and two Holland, Michigan residents
Tom Cruise and John Travolta admit they're going to marry each other. "The Church of Scientology brought us together", says Cruise. Penelope Cruz said to be seeking solace with Jenna Elfman.
Open Source Coding Makes You Virile. Closed Source coders make up bulk of on-line Viagara and herbal remedy purchasers, according to Department of Health and Human Services study. This, of course, comes as a complete surprise to no-one.
Spam actually pays big returns. In a totally ironic twist, Ernie Veeblefetzer or Wabash, Indiana, passes Larry Ellison on Forbes richest indivitual list. Veeblefetzer claims made it all by selling penny stocks within a day of receiving unsolicited email recommending 'Buy' "I've always been contrary", says Ernie, "but now I want to do good things, like give everyone in town a T1 connection so we can used AOL without any net lag."
User Friendly comic creator, Illiad, signs contract with Universal Press Syndicate. "We'll replace Cathy with it, since the drawing is a few notches better and it's actually funny", sais UPS spokesman.
Oh, and I guess you can't bash corporations anymore like you did. What's next, eliminating any poster who isn't in keeping with the various advertisers? God, shut slashdot down before subjecting it to this.
Corporations are already good enough at bashing themselves.
Oh, and for me posting this my personal information will be on file with the DoJ as a dangerous radical and enemy of the state. Time to go lie naked in the periwinkle.
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If it weren't 4/1, I'd be deeply afraid that AOL were trying to quash all new political thought that often seeks to encourage radical changes in the current state of politics.
Which makes April 1 the perfect cover for skullduggery. By the time you're wise the coup would be completed.
Taco's "As happens with these things, I am not allowed to comment" could actually be an indicator that Slashdot VA is/was in negotiations...
The subject line led me to believe it was a review of motherboards, not makers, the post qualifies it as mfrs, and it's sorta ho-hum from there.
I've been following a few candidate mobos for the system I'm building and the best place to hang out seems to be here. There are quite a number of people experiencing problems (which is what you're likely to need help with, not how great it is) so it's a good place to gather insite on the boards you are considering.
Of course, keep a critical eye on what you read, as some people's problems aren't related to the hardware, but inexperience or what they're trying to do which may be beyond recommendation by mfrs.
Acquire an existing analog design (nobody said these had to be the latest PCS or anything)
Have chinese company make a pile of knockoffs.
About 10 years ago PBS has a great series called the 'mini dragons' and part of the feature was just how small a company could be to produce something like this. I'm certain they could have a few thousand units produced within that ballpark if they wanted to. My guess is they guy had what seemed like a pretty good idea, but just doesn't have the right ducks in a row. He sounds more snake-oil than genius.
Actually, this one sounded too stupid to be true, which in the normal realm of things, usually makes it true, unfortunately.
Can't say here nor there on it, as $30 a pop for a disposable cellphone with 60 minutes seemed ludicrous to begin with. Even if it could be done, I'd expect the big cellular providers to be there by now.
I had to already head off some gee-whizziness at work. We've got interdev, the vb and vc toolkits and someone was plowing through some books and started thinking, "Gee why don't we just upgrade to.NET and start developing everything from that framework, rather than in VB 6 and then have to convert later."
The answer was too obvious, but too often ignored and the question, if not met with an informed response soon enough would have painted us into a corner. We have to support users on a variety of platfroms, hence Java, or simple HTML forms with asp or servlets on a server will accomplish our goals. Writing client apps in.net means we can only support that portion of our customers who use a current enough OS to support.net Yeah, looks pretty until you start looking at the fact there's a few million legacy computers and macs in the world you won't be able to do squat with. No thanks..net is dead and buried for now and I mean to keep it that way.
Microsoft's damnable marketing buzz is dangerous, because too many people hear it and just leap at it, because it sounds like a great solution. Too few stop to think things through, often those who know too little about their whole market and end users.
Now this isn't necessarily a Java good,.net bad, thing, it's more of a 'don't jump on the latest bandwagon' thing. For my 2, though I'd be happy with J2EE because it's established, which.net is far from and risky because of it.
700, yeah, ok, sure, there's about 200 posts all approximating: "What? I can support 700 mail users on a cruddy old 486" (which we once did, btw, it worked peachy)
But if you read the article you see that they don't want to support more servers, they want to support less, i.e. not buying anymore Intel servers, which are like so many cats. The only downside I see is a single point of failure, the zSeries goes 'poot!' and the staff takes the afternoon off.
But adding that function to an existing piece of hardware does keep support costs down, and as they've noted, pay once to get their mail running on there, as opposed to paying Microsoft for Exchange, year in, year out, well, it looks smarter, doesn't it?
Last, but not least, if they decide to move it off the mainframe later, hey, they should be able to migrate it with little pain, since the OS runs on just about anything.
'Bago 2005: "Tell eWeek we just moved the entire mail server to a hacked TiVo, will you, don't forget to mention it does voice and video email, too."
I'm sure I've shaved off 7 minutes of online time by just having a faster connection...
I'm sure if I had broadband, my surfing would go up, but after a while it would peak and drop off. One thing to keep in mind, national or world events can be a very large draw, when it's first reported and as follow-up articles continue and readers do a little research to satisfy curiousity (i.e. where's Khandahar, have they found bin Laden yet, etc.)
Can this ruling in a foreign court be used as a reference for cases here in the US/UK? More importantly, can Kazaa be brought to court in the US, or does this ruling afford it some type of protection?
In effect, the dutch court displayed uncommon intelligence, rarely seen in in the Spin before, during and after passing legislation which strangles citizens in the US, and forces US courts to side with venal 'entertainment interests'.
The Hollywood Way:
Here's a new offering, enjoy!
How DARE you enjoy in a manner not in keeping with our wishes!
Here's a law we bought which does one or more of the following: Makes you a criminal, Makes you pay more, Makes it impossible to enjoy our offerings
Oh, and by the way, since the US always knows what's best for the world, we'll have the federal government employ economic and diplomatic pressure (extortion) to make other countries accept our way, too.
My immediate supervisor is a bigger slob than me, food all over the floor of his cube, you can see where he's been by the trail. He could care less how much paper I heap. The CIO, however, who seems to be out of his office 90% of the time (but miraculously appears the moment I surf over to Slashdot) is a neatness and efficiency nut, always pointing out how important it is to keep clutter (and thus work) to a minimum. I'm designing forms and doing some socket programming so my desk is entitled to be a mess. So there.
On paperless offices, well, heck I was just discussing how well a client would work to view action forms by the helpdesk when another super said, they prefer them on paper. So be it. Paper it is.
Several years ago I was up to my eyeballs in a project of charting trends every which way to Sunday, 800 different charts and 12 copies of each. Gad. I worked with a buddy and we modified the in-house terminal program to show graphs. It blew them away. No more mountains of paper, right? Well, the first question they had was, "how can we print this?" It still reduced paper, but the irony was... well, ironic!
I was looking at new PDA's and Handhelds yesterday after an embarassing incident of forgetfulness. I saw the new Sony's and I love them and want one, but as money is being budgeted for a new home computer (forbidden Athlon... *drool*) I'll probably settle for the cheapest thing that does the job of keeping track of stuff and beeping when I need it. No color, no MP3, no geek coolness factor *sniff*
That's great... now if only I could convince my bladder to see it your way.
I am a Master of the Art of Pee-Fu -- I don't drink so much before a movie that I'll have my legs like twisted pair by the time they used to have intermission.
Clue: That Mega drink you can get for 25 extra? Don't do it! It's not a deal when your urine backups up into your sinuses.
No, that's a long movie if it's dull, stupid, insipid or beyond comprehension (e.g. Cable Guy)
If you sit through 4 hours of gripping epic tale and mayhem and suddenly notice the sun, which was high in the sky is now gone and the stars are out, it's a great movie.
My only concern is when movies span discs. Unless I have a player that switches between them seemlessly, the illusion will be broken and I'll notice I'm watching a movie on a TV, the sun is a bit lower, my chair is uncomfortable, I've got the munchiest, etc.
And if you're still of the mind that it's long, just wait until all 3 films are out and you're juggling DVD discs (unless there's one BlueRay to bind them.)
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It was kinda fun to see some of them, the Warcraft one was pretty cheesy and had that immediate fake feel to it. NVidia/AMD, well, that wouldn't hugely surprise me, but when I got down to the BeOS bit, well, that'd be wishful thinking at best.
The best April Fools, like the one that caught me this morning, are the ones which are plausible and executed with care. I've been working a new check designs for a couple months and the fellow I work with came in and said, "Well, they changed it again, but they want to go back to the smaller form", which immediately made me cringe after putting days of effort into expanding the design to a larger form. Then he says but they want to make it wider, which was clue my chain was being yanked. Good one, that.
Why not go mad?
Choosing the tools that really work, that's us!
Yours Eclectically, The Self-Appointed Master Librarian (OOK!) of the CJAN Jarkko Hietaniemi
Care to guess what author he reads? :-)
Bill Gates Admits Pay-Off For Easy DoJ Settlement. "We funneled campaign contributions through house-of-cards Enron", admits billionaire. Truth revealed from sole box of shreded documents Enron employee took home for packing material.
Quake 3 Arena masters traced to chimpanzees in animal research lab at University of Michigan. Lab staff stunned at finding, "No wonder they were so wiped out every morning," states unnamed intern, "we thought it was all the Caffeine we were giving them in their food." Primates found way out of cages and used networked research workstations to thrash "higher life forms." Conseling to be made available to several Ann Arbor and two Holland, Michigan residents
Tom Cruise and John Travolta admit they're going to marry each other. "The Church of Scientology brought us together", says Cruise. Penelope Cruz said to be seeking solace with Jenna Elfman.
Open Source Coding Makes You Virile. Closed Source coders make up bulk of on-line Viagara and herbal remedy purchasers, according to Department of Health and Human Services study. This, of course, comes as a complete surprise to no-one.
Spam actually pays big returns. In a totally ironic twist, Ernie Veeblefetzer or Wabash, Indiana, passes Larry Ellison on Forbes richest indivitual list. Veeblefetzer claims made it all by selling penny stocks within a day of receiving unsolicited email recommending 'Buy' "I've always been contrary", says Ernie, "but now I want to do good things, like give everyone in town a T1 connection so we can used AOL without any net lag."
User Friendly comic creator, Illiad, signs contract with Universal Press Syndicate. "We'll replace Cathy with it, since the drawing is a few notches better and it's actually funny", sais UPS spokesman.
Corporations are already good enough at bashing themselves.
Oh, and for me posting this my personal information will be on file with the DoJ as a dangerous radical and enemy of the state. Time to go lie naked in the periwinkle.
Which makes April 1 the perfect cover for skullduggery. By the time you're wise the coup would be completed.
Taco's "As happens with these things, I am not allowed to comment" could actually be an indicator that Slashdot VA is/was in negotiations...
It's a thing that should make you go, "hmm"
It's not the pigeon overpopulation so much as the overpopulaton of litterbugs and other people who feed them. The do keep the bums busy though, eh?
"Tuppence for a window wash, guv?
BTW Go see Monsoon Wedding! Great film, I want the soundtrack to that one on surround :]
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I've been following a few candidate mobos for the system I'm building and the best place to hang out seems to be here. There are quite a number of people experiencing problems (which is what you're likely to need help with, not how great it is) so it's a good place to gather insite on the boards you are considering.
Of course, keep a critical eye on what you read, as some people's problems aren't related to the hardware, but inexperience or what they're trying to do which may be beyond recommendation by mfrs.
Yeah, they're still in the USA and probably won't go away anytime soon.
Acquire an existing analog design (nobody said these had to be the latest PCS or anything)
Have chinese company make a pile of knockoffs.
About 10 years ago PBS has a great series called the 'mini dragons' and part of the feature was just how small a company could be to produce something like this. I'm certain they could have a few thousand units produced within that ballpark if they wanted to. My guess is they guy had what seemed like a pretty good idea, but just doesn't have the right ducks in a row. He sounds more snake-oil than genius.
Can't say here nor there on it, as $30 a pop for a disposable cellphone with 60 minutes seemed ludicrous to begin with. Even if it could be done, I'd expect the big cellular providers to be there by now.
The answer was too obvious, but too often ignored and the question, if not met with an informed response soon enough would have painted us into a corner. We have to support users on a variety of platfroms, hence Java, or simple HTML forms with asp or servlets on a server will accomplish our goals. Writing client apps in .net means we can only support that portion of our customers who use a current enough OS to support .net Yeah, looks pretty until you start looking at the fact there's a few million legacy computers and macs in the world you won't be able to do squat with. No thanks. .net is dead and buried for now and I mean to keep it that way.
Microsoft's damnable marketing buzz is dangerous, because too many people hear it and just leap at it, because it sounds like a great solution. Too few stop to think things through, often those who know too little about their whole market and end users.
Now this isn't necessarily a Java good, .net bad, thing, it's more of a 'don't jump on the latest bandwagon' thing. For my 2, though I'd be happy with J2EE because it's established, which .net is far from and risky because of it.
Suggested new trademark for Intel: Lawyers Inside
But if you read the article you see that they don't want to support more servers, they want to support less, i.e. not buying anymore Intel servers, which are like so many cats. The only downside I see is a single point of failure, the zSeries goes 'poot!' and the staff takes the afternoon off.
But adding that function to an existing piece of hardware does keep support costs down, and as they've noted, pay once to get their mail running on there, as opposed to paying Microsoft for Exchange, year in, year out, well, it looks smarter, doesn't it?
Last, but not least, if they decide to move it off the mainframe later, hey, they should be able to migrate it with little pain, since the OS runs on just about anything.
'Bago 2005: "Tell eWeek we just moved the entire mail server to a hacked TiVo, will you, don't forget to mention it does voice and video email, too."
I'm sure if I had broadband, my surfing would go up, but after a while it would peak and drop off. One thing to keep in mind, national or world events can be a very large draw, when it's first reported and as follow-up articles continue and readers do a little research to satisfy curiousity (i.e. where's Khandahar, have they found bin Laden yet, etc.)
In effect, the dutch court displayed uncommon intelligence, rarely seen in in the Spin before, during and after passing legislation which strangles citizens in the US, and forces US courts to side with venal 'entertainment interests'.
The Hollywood Way:
Here's a new offering, enjoy!
How DARE you enjoy in a manner not in keeping with our wishes!
Here's a law we bought which does one or more of the following: Makes you a criminal, Makes you pay more, Makes it impossible to enjoy our offerings
Oh, and by the way, since the US always knows what's best for the world, we'll have the federal government employ economic and diplomatic pressure (extortion) to make other countries accept our way, too.
Have a nice day!
On paperless offices, well, heck I was just discussing how well a client would work to view action forms by the helpdesk when another super said, they prefer them on paper. So be it. Paper it is.
Several years ago I was up to my eyeballs in a project of charting trends every which way to Sunday, 800 different charts and 12 copies of each. Gad. I worked with a buddy and we modified the in-house terminal program to show graphs. It blew them away. No more mountains of paper, right? Well, the first question they had was, "how can we print this?" It still reduced paper, but the irony was
I was looking at new PDA's and Handhelds yesterday after an embarassing incident of forgetfulness. I saw the new Sony's and I love them and want one, but as money is being budgeted for a new home computer (forbidden Athlon ... *drool*) I'll probably settle for the cheapest thing that does the job of keeping track of stuff and beeping when I need it. No color, no MP3, no geek coolness factor *sniff*
I am a Master of the Art of Pee-Fu -- I don't drink so much before a movie that I'll have my legs like twisted pair by the time they used to have intermission.
Clue: That Mega drink you can get for 25 extra? Don't do it! It's not a deal when your urine backups up into your sinuses.
No, that's a long movie if it's dull, stupid, insipid or beyond comprehension (e.g. Cable Guy)
If you sit through 4 hours of gripping epic tale and mayhem and suddenly notice the sun, which was high in the sky is now gone and the stars are out, it's a great movie.
My only concern is when movies span discs. Unless I have a player that switches between them seemlessly, the illusion will be broken and I'll notice I'm watching a movie on a TV, the sun is a bit lower, my chair is uncomfortable, I've got the munchiest, etc.
And if you're still of the mind that it's long, just wait until all 3 films are out and you're juggling DVD discs (unless there's one BlueRay to bind them.)
I use NiMH cells in my eTrex. They're pretty good, but man, does that thing suck power. Agree on the YAPBP, as that'd be a strong anti-recommendation.
It's.. it's.. Becoming obsolete!
It's.. it's.. Losing that gleam of desirablilty!
It's.. it's.. Acquired a bit of dust and a scratch i never noticed before!
It's.. it's... Hey, is that a vacuum tube sticking out the back?