Listen, there is a reason that the United States, with less government internvention, is a computing powerhouse while countries with stricter government rules (I'm talking Sweden and France and probably other European countries) are lagging in productivity parametrics with respect to the IT industry. United States IT companies are used to working with fewer government constraints, they can respond quicker to industry pressures and are more nimble, thus more successful and productive.
I don't have too much of an issue with OSHA offering guidelines, so that the smarter IT people can by ergonomic equipmenton thier own (I know I will, since my typing skills are my livelihood), but we shouldn't handicap busineeses that can't afford this.
If we do, we may slide down that same slippery slope to Socialism that Europe has descended, and some other country will eat out cheese. Believe me,the coders in India are very smart and very hungry,and would love to be the top IT hot dog on the bock.
These Linux PDA folk should take a lesson from the Palm marketers, and supply soft-pornographic pictures of nearly naked women holding the Linux PDA in a strategic spot.
Come on, everyone remembers the naked ballerina holding her Palm, right, the Simply Palm ad?
So why couldn't they round up a few booth babes or Lara Croft wannabees to model these? Who cares how well it works, as long as a sexy babe holds it up, I'll buy.
There are millions of impoverished individuals in this nation who would like to be able to have computer equipment, even old stuff, but the current economic system restricts that. That is why we need to continue to give technology to the poor and needy. I hope the average slashdot denizen will keep this in mind before junking that old computer.
I have a severe problem with people pawning off their old computers on the poor and needy and feeling that they have done something good.
You aren't, you're keeping the poor down.
Now, if you're computer is too old for you, is it benefiting the poor and needy to have it? Only if you want to keep them poor and needy.
A good computer can be a big help in getting someone out of the ghetto, it can help them leapfrog themselves into a good, IT position. But will giving a ghetto kid a 386 with Windows 3.11 on it really help them? Is there a burning need for Windows 3.11 users?
We need a government program to get Windows 2000 compatible computers into the ghettos, and help the poor and needy leapfrog their dire straits into good IT jobs. Giving them old computers won't do, and is the act of a closet racist. What next, giving the poor your old moldy food, your old dangerous lead paint, your old, unsafe car?
Thank you for bringing this danger to the attention of the loyal Slashdot readers. I don't think I'm alone when I say that trolls are a danger to the Slashdot way of life.
I've been with Slashdot a long time (as the smarter readers have already figured out from my low, high status UID),and I've just seen it go downhill in quality, sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss, wallowing in the disgusting filth of the gutter. Today, for example, they talked about condoms in the Quickies section! I remember Chips'n'Di[ps halcyon days of yore, where Taco and Hemos were focused on Linux, and had no time for wanton pleasures of the flesh. Back then, they wouldn't have know what to do with a condom, let alone had the slightest opportunity to use one.
When I think back about the wonderful things I've learned here at Slashdot, all the kernel writing tricks picked up by lurking when Alan Cox guest hosted Ask a Kernel Developer, the insidious dangers posed by Microsoft to a Open Source coders purity of essence clearly explained by Richard Stallman, and I contrast them with the vapid inflammatory fluff by the Jonny come latelies, I want to cry.
Please, Rob, Jeff, stop posting election stuff, get back to the hardcore Slashdot of yore, where each week you posted a different section of the Linux kernel for peer code review.
And do something about those trolls. That they are allowed to mnake their own sids, and plot mischief there without any oversight, is an egregious hole in the Slashcode. Give a core group of moderators bitchslap access, letting them immediately bitchslap such known trolls as sips without having to bother you.
Perhaps, someday, my children will have a rich, technically dense and troll free Slashdot as I once enjoyed.
This has been around for european ppl with wap-access for quite some time now. It's called WeeZap, or something (created by FramFab), and does pretty much the same, only better.
I guess Europe is indeed better than America.
Sorry about all the socialism hig price of gas trolls.
'm still waiting for Lego to make non-Windows (oh, wait, I think around here that's Windoze - though that really is more accurate....) Mindstorm. Really, how hard can it be to make a *nix version...
Umm, have you looked at lugnet? There are a lot of people using Linux and Mindstorms, mind you the RCX works best, as you can download the firmware and software.
You don't use the Lego software though, you use pbForth or NQC, I believe.
How about a courtesy email to each site once you post a story? "Hello, this is Slashdot. We are going to post a story in five minutes about your site. In ten minutes you are going to experience The Slashdot Effect. Prepare accordingly. Thank you."
The story has been posted for several minutes on Slashdot.org. If the administrator's of these sites can hardly be bothered to type 14 characters to check out Slashdot, is that our problem?
You know, that makes me seriously wonder. How many women are there on slashdot? I'm fairly certain men are the majority, but how high is that majority? Any females out there, do please raise your hand.:)
There aren't many Slashdot geek girls, but I've had my share, and I'm always looking for more.
Slashdot Mirror
And years from now, when there will be dire shortages of Beanie Baby's, Pokemon and Holy Hobbie collectibles in France, they will be rioting!
They only start at about $11,995 for your basic one.
That's not much, but then I've gotten used to the snazzy Enterprise rack mounted ones with the flat panel ones here.
Oh yeah, and the crappy Ultra 10's and 30's.
You're welcome, I've been a fan of your site for a long time!
It's just a Solaris box.
And carnivore is just snoop.
That would have been a plum contract, oh yeah, after $500,000, we read the man pages to snoop.
And am I the only one who thinks you'd be a great Slashdot interview?
Thanks
Once Vicki's start's doing this (Victoria's Secret, for those unaware), crack into their esize database and grep on 36-24-36 and mall franchise.
You could find all the perfectly proportioned women that are in your area! Woo-hoo!
Of course, if you're a breast man, you could jsut grep on 38, or 40, etc.
I suggest you talk to a member of the Church of the Latter Day Saints about Jesus's other appearances on Earth.
They seem to believe that he appeared in the New World, this is documented by the gold plates the Joseph Smith found as directed by the angel Moroni.
And I'm not sure if Jesus would be constrained by the speed of light, either. But the rest of your reasoning is flawless.
How wonderful, more government intervention.
Listen, there is a reason that the United States, with less government internvention, is a computing powerhouse while countries with stricter government rules (I'm talking Sweden and France and probably other European countries) are lagging in productivity parametrics with respect to the IT industry. United States IT companies are used to working with fewer government constraints, they can respond quicker to industry pressures and are more nimble, thus more successful and productive.
I don't have too much of an issue with OSHA offering guidelines, so that the smarter IT people can by ergonomic equipmenton thier own (I know I will, since my typing skills are my livelihood), but we shouldn't handicap busineeses that can't afford this.
If we do, we may slide down that same slippery slope to Socialism that Europe has descended, and some other country will eat out cheese. Believe me,the coders in India are very smart and very hungry,and would love to be the top IT hot dog on the bock.
These Linux PDA folk should take a lesson from the Palm marketers, and supply soft-pornographic pictures of nearly naked women holding the Linux PDA in a strategic spot.
Come on, everyone remembers the naked ballerina holding her Palm, right, the Simply Palm ad?
So why couldn't they round up a few booth babes or Lara Croft wannabees to model these? Who cares how well it works, as long as a sexy babe holds it up, I'll buy.
Better learn all you can about accupuncture, yoga, homeopathy and ROlfing now, before they get banised from the web.
Indeed a dark day for freedom on the web.
Wasnt that Jesus?
Yes, Jesus == God == Holy Spirit, the holry Trinity and one of the central mysteries of our faith.
Didn't you learn anything in CCD?
Surely his patents have expired by now, as he died 1967 years ago, for your sins.
Does anyone know if the patent office renews patents when you are born again?
There are millions of impoverished individuals in this nation who would like to be able to have computer equipment, even old stuff, but the current economic system restricts that. That is why we need to continue to give technology to the poor and needy. I hope the average slashdot denizen will keep this in mind before junking that old computer.
I have a severe problem with people pawning off their old computers on the poor and needy and feeling that they have done something good.
You aren't, you're keeping the poor down.
Now, if you're computer is too old for you, is it benefiting the poor and needy to have it? Only if you want to keep them poor and needy.
A good computer can be a big help in getting someone out of the ghetto, it can help them leapfrog themselves into a good, IT position. But will giving a ghetto kid a 386 with Windows 3.11 on it really help them? Is there a burning need for Windows 3.11 users?
We need a government program to get Windows 2000 compatible computers into the ghettos, and help the poor and needy leapfrog their dire straits into good IT jobs. Giving them old computers won't do, and is the act of a closet racist. What next, giving the poor your old moldy food, your old dangerous lead paint, your old, unsafe car?
1) India is already on the internet, I even had aguy from India proposition me for his wife in a chatroom. Too bad I didn't have $2,000 in airfare.
2) India has bas relief on temple walls that Republicans would consider pornographic. No need to log onto the internet, just check out a temple.
Thank you for bringing this danger to the attention of the loyal Slashdot readers. I don't think I'm alone when I say that trolls are a danger to the Slashdot way of life.
I've been with Slashdot a long time (as the smarter readers have already figured out from my low, high status UID),and I've just seen it go downhill in quality, sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss, wallowing in the disgusting filth of the gutter. Today, for example, they talked about condoms in the Quickies section! I remember Chips'n'Di[ps halcyon days of yore, where Taco and Hemos were focused on Linux, and had no time for wanton pleasures of the flesh. Back then, they wouldn't have know what to do with a condom, let alone had the slightest opportunity to use one.
When I think back about the wonderful things I've learned here at Slashdot, all the kernel writing tricks picked up by lurking when Alan Cox guest hosted Ask a Kernel Developer, the insidious dangers posed by Microsoft to a Open Source coders purity of essence clearly explained by Richard Stallman, and I contrast them with the vapid inflammatory fluff by the Jonny come latelies, I want to cry.
Please, Rob, Jeff, stop posting election stuff, get back to the hardcore Slashdot of yore, where each week you posted a different section of the Linux kernel for peer code review.
And do something about those trolls. That they are allowed to mnake their own sids, and plot mischief there without any oversight, is an egregious hole in the Slashcode. Give a core group of moderators bitchslap access, letting them immediately bitchslap such known trolls as sips without having to bother you.
Perhaps, someday, my children will have a rich, technically dense and troll free Slashdot as I once enjoyed.
thank you very much.
I'm glad it's not just me, I though I was having a flashback.
So we can dispense with Win 98 altogether?
Any chance of hacking it out of the set top box, or is the kernel microcode different for Transmeta?
This has been around for european ppl with wap-access for quite some time now. It's called WeeZap, or something (created by FramFab), and does pretty much the same, only better.
I guess Europe is indeed better than America.
Sorry about all the socialism hig price of gas trolls.
Hot Asian teens? I didn't know there were any. Well, maybe if you're a latent homosexual who likes flat chested, smush faced girls.
Asia Carrera,
and she runs Linux.
If I can't type in the new domain names.
Maybe I'd better upgrade to a Unicode compatible keyboard and OS.
You obviously missed the Hitchhiker's allusion.
'm still waiting for Lego to make non-Windows (oh, wait, I think around here that's Windoze - though that really is more accurate....) Mindstorm. Really, how hard can it be to make a *nix version...
Umm, have you looked at lugnet? There are a lot of people using Linux and Mindstorms, mind you the RCX works best, as you can download the firmware and software.
You don't use the Lego software though, you use pbForth or NQC, I believe.
How about a courtesy email to each site once you post a story? "Hello, this is Slashdot. We are going to post a story in five minutes about your site. In ten minutes you are going to experience The Slashdot Effect. Prepare accordingly. Thank you."
The story has been posted for several minutes on Slashdot.org. If the administrator's of these sites can hardly be bothered to type 14 characters to check out Slashdot, is that our problem?
No, Ebay will pull a sale if the copyright holder asks them to.
If you sell MS software in violation of their copyright, MS will ask Ebay to pull it.
Had Grateful Dead Productions asked Ebay to pull the sale, they probably would have.
Read the article.
Heck, Nader will probably have a fine soiree in his Washington DC mansion for the incoming Bushes.
You know, that makes me seriously wonder. How many women are there on slashdot? I'm fairly certain men are the majority, but how high is that majority? Any females out there, do please raise your hand. :)
There aren't many Slashdot geek girls, but I've had my share, and I'm always looking for more.
Ladies, you know where to find me.