All this thing needs is a built-in 10/100 NIC and ftpd running, and it would be the perfect MP3 server.
Now don't flame me with "Didn't you read the article?" I couldn't open the page either because it's slashdotted or my college's ISP is getting laggy again (I definetly will get a chance to view it at home).
Remotely administrated mp3 server box, here we come!
Now that I know there's a separate party responsible for the fruity-as-hell Macintrash ads, I am more angry at Apple than ever. Instead of taking the hard way out of the rumors (building better products), Apple decided to take the easy, stereotypical, "corporate ultimatum" way out.
Also, regarding the new product leaks, Apple should really try to provide MORE new product announcements. The G4 cube, SMP-G4, and new iBook being announced earlier by Apple themselves could've sent their stock up a little. However, Apple chose to keep mum, and eventually about 26 or so "John Doe's" (more like angered designers and engineers sick of Apple's current lackluster PR strategy) leaked the news to Mac sites. As a result, we learned about the new products three weeks before the almighty Steve Jobs wanted us to know, and Apple was criticized for keeping such popular products under wraps. As a result, Apple is leading a witch hunt against review sites, while observers are laughing at the bumbling Apple PR staff, trying to pin laughable accusations on people they can't even name.
Personally, I think that Steve Jobs is the epitome of Metallica's "King Nothing." Doesn't he comply with almost all of the lyrics of that song?
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So when we overthrow opressive tyrannies like Sony, Adobe, 3dfx, and Creative, we'll basically be repeating history.
"Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." I remember history pretty well, but I see some situations where we will want to re-create a few wars against tyranny. Bible thumpers and quakers alike unite against the vile existence of corporate arrogance and tyranny!
Go to the Department of Defense's website (no, I don't know the URL, notice the lack of a hyperlink). Their entire website runs without Java. About a couple of years back, it was deemed that the Javascript and applets were causing security holes in the website.
That's kinda funny, Sun and Netscape could have been sued by the DOD for creating a breach in national security! Okay, maybe I'm stretching that one, but still, the DOD is a tangible symbol in the argument against Java.
You have proven educational (I looked at a.class file in my old skeleton win98 directory, and lo and behold, partially garbled content (except for the tree structure). But you still have not responded to one of my base arguments against Java: RUNTIME PERFORMANCE.
Here's a great example: Unreal and Unreal Tournament are written entirely in Java. The mouse has an incessant 30ms lag (and this is a USB mouse), and sound has about the same lag. On the same system, the entire Quake series runs perfectly (no mouse lag at all; with the USB mouse, m_filter isn't even necessary!). How do you explain this, and the 15% performance gain when Q3 is running entirely on C?
I must admit, my definition of Java was too broad, but my main argument of incessant latency still stands.
I thought Sun Solaris 2.7 was already a full fledged unix. Oh well, I guess it's about the same type of thing as LinuxPPC: freedom of OS choice. I chose Windows 2000 for my system; since I'm running a regular home machine and not a server and it's nice and stable, it's perfect for me. Now, don't get started on the bugs; I haven't been hit hard by any of them (unless you count the Aureal soundcard drivers; damn lazy underfunded (well, actually bankrupt) software engineers!)
"Ah, yes -- beat them in the courtroom, not the marketplace."
Of course! If your product performs inferior to other types in its class, just pressure them legally to only manufacture your product! This is really pathetic; now Rambus is the true weasel of the RAM market. And the only things stopping them are Intel's bending loyalty to Rambus (soon to break, I hope), the Athlon's performance with DDR, third party chipset makers planning DDR chipsets for the P3 and P4 (once again, I hope), and the opposition of us gamers and hackers.
I say resist the ill wind of Rambus! But please, don't flame, use evidence!
I didn't mean to imply that Java doesn't comply at all. What I really wanted to emphasize is how Java always compiles on the USER side. Ever viewed the source of a webpage that uses Java? it's flat-out source code you're looking at, not binaries. Sure, it's nice since it's platform independent, but because of the user-side compile, runtime performance suffers (I'm refraining from saying "Client-side compile," because, like you said, some servers do use Java daemons and whatnot).
Want to see some proof of this slower performance claim? Go to a Windows machine with Quake3, and go to The ShugaShack. Download the 1.17 DLL files for Quake3 and place the DLL files in the \quake3\baseq3 directory (you'll see uix86.dll and qagamex86.dll, quake3.exe will use these instead of ui.qvm and qagame.qvm). Voila! A 15% performance gain! And all because the DLL files are already compiled, unlike the QVM files which are compiled at runtime (evidence: the console message saying "VM file qagame.qvm compiled to X bytes of code").
Before you arrogantly defend the putrid mug of steaming, flaming code, be sure to study its nature. Ever wonder why the DeCSS code was never written in Java? Want to know why XMMS uses.so files? That's right! RUNTIME PERFORMANCE! I believe that this should be the be-all end-all factor of programming.
At my college, my Engineering Graphics class is right after a Java class. The workstations (each one a Pentium 90, 64MB RAM, NT4SP6, ughhh...) are always bogged down with the Java libraries; I always have to run taskmgr.exe and clear out the stupid compiler to free up 14MB of RAM so I can use AutoCAD to its fullest.
Right now I'm in the computer lab, on a Dell OptiPlex GX110 with 256MB of RAM (funny, Windows 2000 regcode stickers on each computer's right side, and they have NT4 installed. One step forward, two steps back). And, for some lame reason, the Real Player "Start Center" is in the taskbar. I closed that damn icon on about 3 stations; it's just 3MB of memory being taken up. I kinda hate this; I'm in a college where people are learning the very programming language I've come to hate: Java. I sincerely think that Java is a lazy excuse for the programmers to clip off minutes from their coding schedule just so they don't have to wait through compiling code. I say, program in C++, the compile process is my most favorite! It is the defining moment which determines whether you have made progress or not.
As for the rest of my opinion on software engineers, see my quote, and think of this quote from TRON: "Oh that'll be great. Programs will start to think and the people will stop!"
I prefer having the 6 right next to the 7 for some specific reasons:
In Q1 and Q2, having the grenade launcher and rocket launcher right next to each other. That way, I don't mistakenly switch to the grenade launcher when I want the perforator/chaingun for doing close-up pepperings.
In Q3, I mirror back 7, 8, and 9 to R, E, and W, respectively. That way, I don't have to move my left hand away from the CTRL key (I'm surprised that this key isn't broken right now!). In Unreal Tournament, pretty much the same as Q3: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 normal, then 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0 remapped to S, R, F, E, and Z, respectively (Z mapped to the sniper rifle).
There's my "Adapted DOOM" key configuration. How 'bout yours?
I thought it would actually be a good single player experience. At first, I couldn't get past the first level due to the many bugs that DK had with Win2k. Once I downloaded the 44.5 MB patch (!) and played, it was actually ok, in godmode. Once I met up with Stuporfly, it went downhill. He just gets in the way, and I didn't want to find out what'd it be like hauling around two stooges. So I made my decision. I'm gonna cut up the disc, maybe cover it with cheese or other gunk, then mail it via registered mail directly to John Romero.
Before I do that, though, I'm gonna start a multiplayer game, rename myself to John Romero, then kill myself. The screenshot will say at the top: "John Romero failed at life." Boy, he sure has!
... but I still didn't pay for it. I won it at the Microsoft RoadShow, just for attending. Catch is, you have to work for a Microsoft Retailer, and I just so happen to work at the parts counter at CompUSA.
Now I get to spend the day saying to the morons, "No, you don't want Windows 2000, you want Windows ME which is coming out very shortly." Gotta guide those morons in the right direction.
Here is a list of the coolest old keyboards you can find (not necessarily the best)
Hewlett Packard keyboards (make sure it's PS/2 or AT!!!); they have a distinct key shape and have that "server terminal" look!
Old IBM Keyboards from the original PS/2 systems: These have removable key caps, so you can mess around with the letters to confuse hunt-and-peckers!! Also, these keyboards make an annoying click, about 75% as loud as flipping a circuit breaker (believe me, that's loud); imagine the incessant clattering of an entire keyboarding class using these (I had to experience this firsthand!)
Commodore Amiga keyboards: Though useless without the Amiga itself, this rare find is still fun to look at.
Apple Macintosh II: The keys on this have flanges around them which can help keep dust out. Too bad it's ADB.
Acer Keyboards from 1991: from my dad's Acer 386SX with DOS 3.3 (he used it until 1999, when I finally built him a Pentium 166!); this one clicks as well, but about half as loud as the IBM geezers.
My favorite keyboard is the Mouse Systems 107+ (now the CompUSA ergonomic keyboard); it's split á la the Microsoft Natural, but with the 6 on the right hand side (where it should be; ask any typing class instructor). It performs excellently in DOOM and Quake1; you can transfer from strafing to turning with ease, since you can hold more keys down at once. It also has a built-in handrest; it's perfect when you lie the keyboard on your lap. This is one durable keyboard; I'm a VERY heavy typist (sometimes my friends say to me "Hey! Stop beating on that keyboard!), so durability matters.
What a pathetic excuse for a distribution. Version 6.2 (what I have and am soon replacing with Windows 2000) has nagging bugs, like segmentation faults while running, of all things, GNOME. Also, X refuses to go above 8-bit on hardware known to go higher (ATI Rage IIC).
What's even worse for OldHat, Linksys is bundling TurboLinux with some of its EEM-OS (Everything Except Mac OS) network cards
Time to dump those OldHat shares and go with a real distributor, not this profit driven geezer. (As I'm typing this, I'm cutting my OldHat 6.2 CD in half with a pair of wire cutters, the same thing that I'll soon do to Daikatana.
Get ASFRecorder and point it to this: "mms://63.209.81.19/smirror/ubl/musicvideos/sony/r atm/wm/testify_300.asf"
(or, just open Notepad and paste in what's inside the quotes: "ASF mms://63.209.81.19/smirror/ubl/musicvideos/sony/ra tm/wm/testify_300.asf". Save it as an *.asx file)
Screw Sony, if we can watch it, we can store it!
The ASF video is the Rage Against the Machine song: Testify. It shows aliens plotting to take over the Earth with their special mutant, the BushGore. "He appears as two but speaks as one!" (If you noticed, yes, there's clips from two Japanese sci-fi movies that were featured on MST3K: "The Prince of Space" and "Invasion of the Neptune Men").
I like Nader's quote at the end:
"If you're not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you."
Instead of going to "http://www.cbs.com/netshow", you are led to "http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=Wind ows&sbp=MediaPlayer&ar=Favorite&sba=CBS& pver=6.2". Instead of directly downloading the Soldier of Fortune patch from the PlanetSoldier Files page, it gives you a link to FilePlanet like this: "http://dl.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?planetsoldiero ffortune/official/sof105patch.exe".
There's two reasons, each similar to the other: Downloader/Visitor Tracking. FilePlanet runs a tally of how many people are downloading what files, as well as isolating which section of the world is downloading what (for bandwidth distribution and avoiding long distance downloads); both of these reasons are honorable. However, we all know what Microsoft is interested in with these "isapi" links: pure demographics for the purpose of enhancing revenue. By tracking which browser version connects, along with which version of Windows (if it is windows, hehe) and the IP (to home in on a region), Microsoft can distribute more or less copies of its software to specific regions. Personally, I started to question Slashdots exclusive use of perl scripts, but then, how else could the/. pages update so quickly? Too bad CmdrTaco never deletes stories altogether. Though this seems Orwellian, that Compaq GPL flub is one blaring example.
OS-X will have a command line? But certainly not text-mode, in its current sense. Maybe more like GNOME's terminal, just a window. If it does have a full-screen non-windowed non-GUI mode (about the closest to text mode as a Mac can get), still, it would be using at least 16 MB of memory for the stinking fonts.
If you're so sure of yourself, why don't you link to screenshots of OSX? Without proof, you're just a troll.
Seriously, I'm sick of Steve Jobs desperately trying to throw a curveball into the English language. Someone should castigate him for trying to do that.
Ever since Steve Jobs rejoined the Apple team, doom was spelled out for the Mac power user base. First came the iMac, which emphasized the "whore" in "affwhoredable" computing. Next, the PowerBook G3 (post Wall Street) and the iBook, which emphasized the "whore" in "pwhoretable" computing. Now an even more stable release of HO-S X. Excuse the anti-mac bigotry, but could Jobs have possibly designed a more smarmy interface for this thing? You'd have to run in 2048x1536 32-bit just to view a webpage or run a GUI performance monitor without having the entire screen taken up by one stinking program(Last I checked, Linux won't let me above 800x600 8-bit on hardware that can go 32-bit, and it was not a big problem). What's worse, this melding of a universally accepted core (BSD) with a notoriously proprietary hardware base is almost guaranteed to cause difficulties down the road. Yes, that's why it's still beta, but does this look like any progress at all? I've seen the last beta of OS X Server (my old high school runs it to serve the network of iMacs; blech), and basically the only thing that's been changed is the GUI. Of course, Steve Jobs in Gay Paris will just denounce this as FUD and hearsay, however proven the reports may be.
To sum it all up in a few sentences, I wouldn't be surprised if OSX is discovered to run about a third slower than it's x86 BSD counterpart. With the GUI running all the time (remember, the mac has absolutely NO form of text-mode), the stupid video driver modules running anti-aliasing operations on all the smarmy window contents will surely be a waste.
Personally, I think that if the DOD used Java in its websites, it would've received an F. As it has probably been reported on Slashdot years ago, the DOD removed all Java applets to decrease the security breaches and downtime that are all too common with Java. I'd love to see the Department of Energy's grade (probably a big honking F, due to the Los Alamos incident with Jin Ho Lee (sic) and the hard drive lost behind the copier.
If corporations operated as insecurely over the internet as our government has, they would be hacked out of business. Why not employ those screwball G-men into companies like Sony, Compaq and Microsoft? We'd have a field day with the source code leaked!
...Driving while talking on the phone. A campaign to make the cell phone illegal to use while driving has been started by none other than NPR's Click and Clack from Car Talk. They have started a campaign called Drive Now, Talk Later. They even have free bumper stickers that say this (for multiple stickers, $0.10 each). There's even a sound clip of the Republican senatorial candidate from Massachusetts, Jack E. Robinson, getting into an accident while talking to Christopher Lydon of "The Connection" (Lydon was highlighted earlier on Slashdot for interviewing the inventor of Ethernet).
I say, definetly go to this site! Even if the cause doesn't strike a chord with you, Tom and Ray Magliozzi (a.k.a. Click and Clack) will get you laughing anyway!
P.S.: I was typing this at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, and I'm still debating as to which server is slower, Wentworth's, or Slashdot's.
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Now don't flame me with "Didn't you read the article?" I couldn't open the page either because it's slashdotted or my college's ISP is getting laggy again (I definetly will get a chance to view it at home).
Remotely administrated mp3 server box, here we come!
Also, regarding the new product leaks, Apple should really try to provide MORE new product announcements. The G4 cube, SMP-G4, and new iBook being announced earlier by Apple themselves could've sent their stock up a little. However, Apple chose to keep mum, and eventually about 26 or so "John Doe's" (more like angered designers and engineers sick of Apple's current lackluster PR strategy) leaked the news to Mac sites. As a result, we learned about the new products three weeks before the almighty Steve Jobs wanted us to know, and Apple was criticized for keeping such popular products under wraps. As a result, Apple is leading a witch hunt against review sites, while observers are laughing at the bumbling Apple PR staff, trying to pin laughable accusations on people they can't even name.
Personally, I think that Steve Jobs is the epitome of Metallica's "King Nothing." Doesn't he comply with almost all of the lyrics of that song?
"Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." I remember history pretty well, but I see some situations where we will want to re-create a few wars against tyranny. Bible thumpers and quakers alike unite against the vile existence of corporate arrogance and tyranny!
A D+ without Java is better than a big honking F with Java
The first mouse was constructed out of wood (yes, WOOD; how archaic). The ball, sensors, and buttons were basically the same.
That's kinda funny, Sun and Netscape could have been sued by the DOD for creating a breach in national security! Okay, maybe I'm stretching that one, but still, the DOD is a tangible symbol in the argument against Java.
Here's a great example: Unreal and Unreal Tournament are written entirely in Java. The mouse has an incessant 30ms lag (and this is a USB mouse), and sound has about the same lag. On the same system, the entire Quake series runs perfectly (no mouse lag at all; with the USB mouse, m_filter isn't even necessary!). How do you explain this, and the 15% performance gain when Q3 is running entirely on C?
I must admit, my definition of Java was too broad, but my main argument of incessant latency still stands.
I thought Sun Solaris 2.7 was already a full fledged unix. Oh well, I guess it's about the same type of thing as LinuxPPC: freedom of OS choice. I chose Windows 2000 for my system; since I'm running a regular home machine and not a server and it's nice and stable, it's perfect for me. Now, don't get started on the bugs; I haven't been hit hard by any of them (unless you count the Aureal soundcard drivers; damn lazy underfunded (well, actually bankrupt) software engineers!)
Of course! If your product performs inferior to other types in its class, just pressure them legally to only manufacture your product! This is really pathetic; now Rambus is the true weasel of the RAM market. And the only things stopping them are Intel's bending loyalty to Rambus (soon to break, I hope), the Athlon's performance with DDR, third party chipset makers planning DDR chipsets for the P3 and P4 (once again, I hope), and the opposition of us gamers and hackers.
I say resist the ill wind of Rambus! But please, don't flame, use evidence!
Want to see some proof of this slower performance claim? Go to a Windows machine with Quake3, and go to The ShugaShack. Download the 1.17 DLL files for Quake3 and place the DLL files in the \quake3\baseq3 directory (you'll see uix86.dll and qagamex86.dll, quake3.exe will use these instead of ui.qvm and qagame.qvm). Voila! A 15% performance gain! And all because the DLL files are already compiled, unlike the QVM files which are compiled at runtime (evidence: the console message saying "VM file qagame.qvm compiled to X bytes of code").
Before you arrogantly defend the putrid mug of steaming, flaming code, be sure to study its nature. Ever wonder why the DeCSS code was never written in Java? Want to know why XMMS uses .so files? That's right! RUNTIME PERFORMANCE! I believe that this should be the be-all end-all factor of programming.
Right now I'm in the computer lab, on a Dell OptiPlex GX110 with 256MB of RAM (funny, Windows 2000 regcode stickers on each computer's right side, and they have NT4 installed. One step forward, two steps back). And, for some lame reason, the Real Player "Start Center" is in the taskbar. I closed that damn icon on about 3 stations; it's just 3MB of memory being taken up. I kinda hate this; I'm in a college where people are learning the very programming language I've come to hate: Java. I sincerely think that Java is a lazy excuse for the programmers to clip off minutes from their coding schedule just so they don't have to wait through compiling code. I say, program in C++, the compile process is my most favorite! It is the defining moment which determines whether you have made progress or not.
As for the rest of my opinion on software engineers, see my quote, and think of this quote from TRON: "Oh that'll be great. Programs will start to think and the people will stop!"
In Q1 and Q2, having the grenade launcher and rocket launcher right next to each other. That way, I don't mistakenly switch to the grenade launcher when I want the perforator/chaingun for doing close-up pepperings.
In Q3, I mirror back 7, 8, and 9 to R, E, and W, respectively. That way, I don't have to move my left hand away from the CTRL key (I'm surprised that this key isn't broken right now!). In Unreal Tournament, pretty much the same as Q3: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 normal, then 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0 remapped to S, R, F, E, and Z, respectively (Z mapped to the sniper rifle).
There's my "Adapted DOOM" key configuration. How 'bout yours?
I'd ask for your /etc/XF86Config settings, but like I said, Linux is getting the hell off of that hard drive.
Before I do that, though, I'm gonna start a multiplayer game, rename myself to John Romero, then kill myself. The screenshot will say at the top: "John Romero failed at life." Boy, he sure has!
Now I get to spend the day saying to the morons, "No, you don't want Windows 2000, you want Windows ME which is coming out very shortly." Gotta guide those morons in the right direction.
Hewlett Packard keyboards (make sure it's PS/2 or AT!!!); they have a distinct key shape and have that "server terminal" look!
Old IBM Keyboards from the original PS/2 systems: These have removable key caps, so you can mess around with the letters to confuse hunt-and-peckers!! Also, these keyboards make an annoying click, about 75% as loud as flipping a circuit breaker (believe me, that's loud); imagine the incessant clattering of an entire keyboarding class using these (I had to experience this firsthand!)
Commodore Amiga keyboards: Though useless without the Amiga itself, this rare find is still fun to look at.
Apple Macintosh II: The keys on this have flanges around them which can help keep dust out. Too bad it's ADB.
Acer Keyboards from 1991: from my dad's Acer 386SX with DOS 3.3 (he used it until 1999, when I finally built him a Pentium 166!); this one clicks as well, but about half as loud as the IBM geezers.
My favorite keyboard is the Mouse Systems 107+ (now the CompUSA ergonomic keyboard); it's split á la the Microsoft Natural, but with the 6 on the right hand side (where it should be; ask any typing class instructor). It performs excellently in DOOM and Quake1; you can transfer from strafing to turning with ease, since you can hold more keys down at once. It also has a built-in handrest; it's perfect when you lie the keyboard on your lap. This is one durable keyboard; I'm a VERY heavy typist (sometimes my friends say to me "Hey! Stop beating on that keyboard!), so durability matters.
There you have it: great moments in keyboards.
What's even worse for OldHat, Linksys is bundling TurboLinux with some of its EEM-OS (Everything Except Mac OS) network cards
Time to dump those OldHat shares and go with a real distributor, not this profit driven geezer. (As I'm typing this, I'm cutting my OldHat 6.2 CD in half with a pair of wire cutters, the same thing that I'll soon do to Daikatana.
Screw Sony, if we can watch it, we can store it!
The ASF video is the Rage Against the Machine song: Testify. It shows aliens plotting to take over the Earth with their special mutant, the BushGore. "He appears as two but speaks as one!" (If you noticed, yes, there's clips from two Japanese sci-fi movies that were featured on MST3K: "The Prince of Space" and "Invasion of the Neptune Men").
I like Nader's quote at the end:
"If you're not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you."There's two reasons, each similar to the other: Downloader/Visitor Tracking. FilePlanet runs a tally of how many people are downloading what files, as well as isolating which section of the world is downloading what (for bandwidth distribution and avoiding long distance downloads); both of these reasons are honorable. However, we all know what Microsoft is interested in with these "isapi" links: pure demographics for the purpose of enhancing revenue. By tracking which browser version connects, along with which version of Windows (if it is windows, hehe) and the IP (to home in on a region), Microsoft can distribute more or less copies of its software to specific regions. Personally, I started to question Slashdots exclusive use of perl scripts, but then, how else could the /. pages update so quickly? Too bad CmdrTaco never deletes stories altogether. Though this seems Orwellian, that Compaq GPL flub is one blaring example.
So is the Mackie fixed yet? (for those of you who don't know what a Mackie is by now, go find a tack hammer and hit yourself on the forehead!)
If you're so sure of yourself, why don't you link to screenshots of OSX? Without proof, you're just a troll.
Seriously, I'm sick of Steve Jobs desperately trying to throw a curveball into the English language. Someone should castigate him for trying to do that.
Ever since Steve Jobs rejoined the Apple team, doom was spelled out for the Mac power user base. First came the iMac, which emphasized the "whore" in "affwhoredable" computing. Next, the PowerBook G3 (post Wall Street) and the iBook, which emphasized the "whore" in "pwhoretable" computing. Now an even more stable release of HO-S X. Excuse the anti-mac bigotry, but could Jobs have possibly designed a more smarmy interface for this thing? You'd have to run in 2048x1536 32-bit just to view a webpage or run a GUI performance monitor without having the entire screen taken up by one stinking program(Last I checked, Linux won't let me above 800x600 8-bit on hardware that can go 32-bit, and it was not a big problem). What's worse, this melding of a universally accepted core (BSD) with a notoriously proprietary hardware base is almost guaranteed to cause difficulties down the road. Yes, that's why it's still beta, but does this look like any progress at all? I've seen the last beta of OS X Server (my old high school runs it to serve the network of iMacs; blech), and basically the only thing that's been changed is the GUI. Of course, Steve Jobs in Gay Paris will just denounce this as FUD and hearsay, however proven the reports may be.
To sum it all up in a few sentences, I wouldn't be surprised if OSX is discovered to run about a third slower than it's x86 BSD counterpart. With the GUI running all the time (remember, the mac has absolutely NO form of text-mode), the stupid video driver modules running anti-aliasing operations on all the smarmy window contents will surely be a waste.
If corporations operated as insecurely over the internet as our government has, they would be hacked out of business. Why not employ those screwball G-men into companies like Sony, Compaq and Microsoft? We'd have a field day with the source code leaked!
I say, definetly go to this site! Even if the cause doesn't strike a chord with you, Tom and Ray Magliozzi (a.k.a. Click and Clack) will get you laughing anyway!
P.S.: I was typing this at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, and I'm still debating as to which server is slower, Wentworth's, or Slashdot's.