So why then is Slashdot always down ?
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So Slashdot held up well on Tuesday. I'm not really sure what that means since the hits you cited are small potatos compared to a news outlet like CNN or MSNBC. My question is, if the Slashcode is so good and your team rocks as you say, why then is your site so often down ? Today, especially ? Why are there so many problems where you click on a follow up article and get bounced to the front page ? Why are there so many follow-up articles that clearly appear underneath the *wrong* articles ? If the Slashteam and Slashcode are so great under fire, why are they so mediocre from day-to-day ?
you have no idea how often Canada has had to come down to the US to bail your asses out of wildfires, floods, ice storms, and earthquakes.
As a Canadian I take offence at this statement. The notion that Canada can do *anything* to 'bail' American 'asses' out of *anything* is, well, ludicrous and points only to the ignorance of the previous poster. We Canadians crow about the technological achievement that is the Canadarm while neglecting to mention it is but a mere appendage on an American-built spaceship. America doesn't *need* help from any of us, which is not to say that we should not offer it.
As an Emacs user, I have to ask : Do you *really* mean to perpetrate the "C-x, C-c to quit" hell that is Emacs ? For the average user, Emacs is so far from being "ideal" for *anything* that I had to laugh out loud at this post.
Who the hell are you to decide what is and is not a reasonable amount to give ? It pisses me off that you did not donate $3000 - after all, this is still a small fraction of your presumed $60000 income. While I hate Microsoft, I bet you would be hard pressed to name more than a handful of companies that have donated simiilar amounts. And I also wager most of your friends and family have NOT donated money at all.
I had the LInksys (BEFR414 if I recall or some such). It seemed to work great. However, when playing Age of Empires 2 through it, I found that 85-90% of my games ended with out of sync errors, sometimes 45 minutes into the game, with the errors usually attributed to other players. I assumed that the fault lay with the game or the Zone itself, until on a hunch I disabled the Linksys and found that all my games now played through to completion. I guessed that there was some sort of problem with its port-forwarding.
I ended up buy a Netgear RT 314 after they finally implemented port-forwarding and have had nary a problem. Plus, the top of the Netgear is flat which means you can stack your switch-box, hubs, etc. on it (the Linksys has a curved top). Netgear has substantially upgraded their firmware and there are plenty of options now, including filtering rules. It does support DDNS, but I have just been using a box running Perl scripts behind it instead.
As someone else called it, this is a racket: most every Slashdot review does this. Why do you think so few of the books reviewed here get generally positive reviews ? If I really feel like buying a book recommended by Slashdot, or even finding out a bit more, I type in the URL to the main site myself.
I personally think all hackers should only be on probation (WITH computer access), or in country club prisons, or forced to work for the government or something of that nature. To incarcirate a hacker is stupid, and puts them in the same ranks as murderers and drug dealers. I suppose you also think that white-collar criminals who, say, embezzle money or commit mail fraud should get sent only to country club prisons or get similarly cushy sentences. What exactly makes incarcerating hackers stupid ? Are they subject to some higher form of justice than everyone else ? As the theme song from Baretta says, "don't do the crime if you can't do the time", and I for one will have precious little sympathy for any future script-kiddies who try the same sort of thing. They have been warned, and good for the Canadian justice system for warning them.
Frankly, this event makes me think organizations like the CIA and NSA are even *more* necessary then ever before. I certainly think dollars are well spent if there is even a chance that they may be helping preventing tragedies like this one. Who knows how many other acts of terrorism have been stopped by the activities of these organizations ? I wouldn't expect most of these to be publicized.
Here's an analogy: If you had an alarm and locks on your house, and some well organized thieves broke into your house and looted your stuff, would you then dismantle your alarm and locks, throwing up your hands at the ultimately impossible task of securing your house against everything ? Or would you install better alarms, better locks, and more surveillance ?
15 years ago, when the Atari 2600 ruled the roost and Ms. Pacman came out for it (what a great game given the console's limitations), my mother (who was very good at it) claimed that the game would sometimes physically drag her down tunnels to her demise. She *swore* she could feel the joystick tugging in the wrong direction, despite her best efforts to go elsewhere. Having opened the joysticks several times, I tried my best to convince her that this was *not* possible, but she refused to believe me. So my mother would really rather not have anything to do with any *more* haptic input, thank you very much.
Bushnell argues at least twice that the downfall of the arcade has to do with newer, more violent games excluding women. I think he's wrong. At the zenith of the arcade, women were an overwhelming minority at arcades, and most of them who were there did not actually play much but were just there to watch their boyfriend play Missile Command or Asteroids for hours. I see far more women in arcades now then I ever did 15-20 years ago. Sure, men still outnumber women greatly, but you certainly can't blame the decline of the arcade on this constant.
$2500 for a robot dog + $100 in electricity oven ten years. A real dog costs, say $1/day to feed, lives ten years for $3650 on food, plus $1000 in vet bills. The robot wins hands down."
Firstly, a dog does not cost $1/day to feed. A medium sized dog would probably cost 25-50 cents at most to feed if you were feeding it dry food.
More importantly, however, since the majority of the costs you attribute to the real dog occur in the future (some of it in the far future) you have to discount those dollars spent in the future to today. For those of you who flunked economics, this means that the value of $100 in 1 year is less than the value of $100 today, the value of $100 2 years from now is less than the value of $100 in 1 year, etc and the decline of value of moneys to be paid/received in the future is exponential. I don't have a calculator handy but you will find that the cost of ownership of a real dog (assuming the already unrealistic cost structure as explained above) is far less than the $4650 you came up with.
Whereas with the Sony dog, almost all the costs of the dog are up front so the present value/cost of the Sony dog is very close to its $2500 sticker price.
Origin Systems was way ahead of their time. I think the game was called OMEGA
Before that I believe there was a game for the Apple II called (I believe) Robot Wars. It had its own programming language and you programmed your robots to fight and move in a little arena. This was in the early 80's at latest, so I believe this would well predate the game you're thinking of.
He may, but I would hardly take this as much of an endorsement of Crusoe. After all, he is a prominent employee (shareholder ?) so he HAS to use SOME crusoe machine.
I must admit that I have grown very tired of all the fanatic GPL advocates screaming loud whenever they see something non-GPL though and if I ever go away from GPL altogether (to for example the BSD license) it would most likely be in protest against the attitude of the GPL advocates.
This (along with his comments about not wanting the GPL to leak out to other code) makes me interested enough to want to check it out. It's nice to see that not everyone (especially, everyone featured *here*) is blinded by GPL zealotry and chauvinism to see that not everything implied by the GPL is good.
I don't see why AtheOS is at any critical point or why it needs to gain momentum now. The only change so far was when the TCP/IP stack was finished enough to make it possible to run a web-server on AtheOS.
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When you purchase a CD, you are buying it. Period.
The 'Period' implies there are no conditions to alleged 'ownership', seems false. You can't burn copies of the CD and resell it, for instance. So it seems to me that you do not 'own' the music on the CD.
As for your intimation that licensing agreements removes rights and leave one as a 'corporate puppet', I should point out that this would imply that the GPL removes rights as well, leaving one also as a puppet of some sort.
Come on...she is not being FORCED to register nor is information being collected without her information. This is not like, e.g. companies violating their stated privacy policies. Moreover there is likely no representation that the CD will play on a computer 'anonymously'. At BEST she should be entitled to a refund. I'll this woman doesn't even listen to Charlie Pride. If ever I could imagine a frivolous lawsuit, this is it. Wonder why I don't here the slashbots squawking their usual song about frivolous lawsuits ?
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I always liked disassembling the blocks and putting them back in such a way that the cube could not be solved at all, then leaving it for someone to try and solve.
Let's see, besides the already-mentioned GE, we have Mitsubishi, which builds everything from cars to super tankers to fighter jets to automobiles stereo systems to microwave ovens to consumer batteries and cell phones. (There are numerous other companies that have similar 'product lines', like Daewoo and Samsung). We have companies like Honeywell which has made things as diverse as computers, assorted IT equipment, telephones, and machine guns. Compared to companies like these, MS hardly looks diversified, let alone "tied into just about everything".
The purchase of Compaq could mean big things for Linux as the resulting monolith is forced to rationalize their multitude of operating systems. The most sensible solution may well be for them to abandon HPUX, Tru64 et al and embrace Linux as the one-and-only *nix OS.
*Maybe* the sale is good for Linux, but I have to believe this is a bad thing for all other OS'es NOT Linux or MS. For many reasons Linux is NOT up to the corporate snuff that HP/UX or Tru64 is, and if they did get dropped many corporate users are either going to be screwed or will move to Solaris. Yesterday there were posts about how the appearance of a (largely irrelevant) MenuetOs was a Good Thing; now we see posts about how the possible disappearances of highly important OSes is (implicitly) also a Good Thing. Come on, let's see some consistency and rationality here: does "news for nerds" always have to mean "news mostly about Linux" ?
If they do, do they get the 'perks' that Washington politicians evidently get from their interns ? If so, could you provide details about 'working' with such interns ? Or provide us with JPEGs/MPEGs ? Do you have any plans to stream videos of your Christmas parties on the Net ?
However, being able to list a few politicians (I can only think of about 5 to 10 politicians) out of literally hundreds is still a pretty dismal percentage
Indeed. But maybe this speaks more to your own ignorance then to any (perceived) reality. To say that you were just making an exaggeration is to suggest that your overall point about the 'vast majority' still holds - but I sure bet you couldn't even begin to provide the slightest sliver of evidence to document this purported "vast majority".
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So Slashdot held up well on Tuesday. I'm not really sure what that means since the hits you cited are small potatos compared to a news outlet like CNN or MSNBC. My question is, if the Slashcode is so good and your team rocks as you say, why then is your site so often down ? Today, especially ? Why are there so many problems where you click on a follow up article and get bounced to the front page ? Why are there so many follow-up articles that clearly appear underneath the *wrong* articles ? If the Slashteam and Slashcode are so great under fire, why are they so mediocre from day-to-day ?
you have no idea how often Canada has had to come down to the US to bail your asses out of wildfires, floods, ice storms, and earthquakes.
As a Canadian I take offence at this statement. The notion that Canada can do *anything* to 'bail' American 'asses' out of *anything* is, well, ludicrous and points only to the ignorance of the previous poster. We Canadians crow about the technological achievement that is the Canadarm while neglecting to mention it is but a mere appendage on an American-built spaceship. America doesn't *need* help from any of us, which is not to say that we should not offer it.
As an Emacs user, I have to ask : Do you *really* mean to perpetrate the "C-x, C-c to quit" hell that is Emacs ? For the average user, Emacs is so far from being "ideal" for *anything* that I had to laugh out loud at this post.
Bullshit, if Gates did just this and donated $1M you would still be writing how he was such a cheap bastard.
Who the hell are you to decide what is and is not a reasonable amount to give ? It pisses me off that you did not donate $3000 - after all, this is still a small fraction of your presumed $60000 income. While I hate Microsoft, I bet you would be hard pressed to name more than a handful of companies that have donated simiilar amounts. And I also wager most of your friends and family have NOT donated money at all.
I ended up buy a Netgear RT 314 after they finally implemented port-forwarding and have had nary a problem. Plus, the top of the Netgear is flat which means you can stack your switch-box, hubs, etc. on it (the Linksys has a curved top). Netgear has substantially upgraded their firmware and there are plenty of options now, including filtering rules. It does support DDNS, but I have just been using a box running Perl scripts behind it instead.
As someone else called it, this is a racket: most every Slashdot review does this. Why do you think so few of the books reviewed here get generally positive reviews ? If I really feel like buying a book recommended by Slashdot, or even finding out a bit more, I type in the URL to the main site myself.
I personally think all hackers should only be on probation (WITH computer access), or in country club prisons, or forced to work for the government or something of that nature. To incarcirate a hacker is stupid, and puts them in the same ranks as murderers and drug dealers.
I suppose you also think that white-collar criminals who, say, embezzle money or commit mail fraud should get sent only to country club prisons or get similarly cushy sentences. What exactly makes incarcerating hackers stupid ? Are they subject to some higher form of justice than everyone else ? As the theme song from Baretta says, "don't do the crime if you can't do the time", and I for one will have precious little sympathy for any future script-kiddies who try the same sort of thing. They have been warned, and good for the Canadian justice system for warning them.
Here's an analogy: If you had an alarm and locks on your house, and some well organized thieves broke into your house and looted your stuff, would you then dismantle your alarm and locks, throwing up your hands at the ultimately impossible task of securing your house against everything ? Or would you install better alarms, better locks, and more surveillance ?
How about "Rebel.com Without a Business Plan" ?
15 years ago, when the Atari 2600 ruled the roost and Ms. Pacman came out for it (what a great game given the console's limitations), my mother (who was very good at it) claimed that the game would sometimes physically drag her down tunnels to her demise. She *swore* she could feel the joystick tugging in the wrong direction, despite her best efforts to go elsewhere. Having opened the joysticks several times, I tried my best to convince her that this was *not* possible, but she refused to believe me. So my mother would really rather not have anything to do with any *more* haptic input, thank you very much.
Bushnell argues at least twice that the downfall of the arcade has to do with newer, more violent games excluding women. I think he's wrong. At the zenith of the arcade, women were an overwhelming minority at arcades, and most of them who were there did not actually play much but were just there to watch their boyfriend play Missile Command or Asteroids for hours. I see far more women in arcades now then I ever did 15-20 years ago. Sure, men still outnumber women greatly, but you certainly can't blame the decline of the arcade on this constant.
$2500 for a robot dog + $100 in electricity oven ten years. A real dog costs, say $1/day to feed, lives ten years for $3650 on food, plus $1000 in vet bills. The robot wins hands down."
Firstly, a dog does not cost $1/day to feed. A medium sized dog would probably cost 25-50 cents at most to feed if you were feeding it dry food.
More importantly, however, since the majority of the costs you attribute to the real dog occur in the future (some of it in the far future) you have to discount those dollars spent in the future to today. For those of you who flunked economics, this means that the value of $100 in 1 year is less than the value of $100 today, the value of $100 2 years from now is less than the value of $100 in 1 year, etc and the decline of value of moneys to be paid/received in the future is exponential. I don't have a calculator handy but you will find that the cost of ownership of a real dog (assuming the already unrealistic cost structure as explained above) is far less than the $4650 you came up with.
Whereas with the Sony dog, almost all the costs of the dog are up front so the present value/cost of the Sony dog is very close to its $2500 sticker price.
Before that I believe there was a game for the Apple II called (I believe) Robot Wars. It had its own programming language and you programmed your robots to fight and move in a little arena. This was in the early 80's at latest, so I believe this would well predate the game you're thinking of.
He may, but I would hardly take this as much of an endorsement of Crusoe. After all, he is a prominent employee (shareholder ?) so he HAS to use SOME crusoe machine.
This (along with his comments about not wanting the GPL to leak out to other code) makes me interested enough to want to check it out. It's nice to see that not everyone (especially, everyone featured *here*) is blinded by GPL zealotry and chauvinism to see that not everything implied by the GPL is good.
I don't see why AtheOS is at any critical point or why it needs to gain momentum now. The only change so far was when the TCP/IP stack was finished enough to make it possible to run a web-server on AtheOS.
When you purchase a CD, you are buying it. Period.
The 'Period' implies there are no conditions to alleged 'ownership', seems false. You can't burn copies of the CD and resell it, for instance. So it seems to me that you do not 'own' the music on the CD.
As for your intimation that licensing agreements removes rights and leave one as a 'corporate puppet', I should point out that this would imply that the GPL removes rights as well, leaving one also as a puppet of some sort.
Come on...she is not being FORCED to register nor is information being collected without her information. This is not like, e.g. companies violating their stated privacy policies. Moreover there is likely no representation that the CD will play on a computer 'anonymously'. At BEST she should be entitled to a refund. I'll this woman doesn't even listen to Charlie Pride. If ever I could imagine a frivolous lawsuit, this is it. Wonder why I don't here the slashbots squawking their usual song about frivolous lawsuits ?
I always liked disassembling the blocks and putting them back in such a way that the cube could not be solved at all, then leaving it for someone to try and solve.
Let's see, besides the already-mentioned GE, we have Mitsubishi, which builds everything from cars to super tankers to fighter jets to automobiles stereo systems to microwave ovens to consumer batteries and cell phones. (There are numerous other companies that have similar 'product lines', like Daewoo and Samsung). We have companies like Honeywell which has made things as diverse as computers, assorted IT equipment, telephones, and machine guns. Compared to companies like these, MS hardly looks diversified, let alone "tied into just about everything".
*Maybe* the sale is good for Linux, but I have to believe this is a bad thing for all other OS'es NOT Linux or MS. For many reasons Linux is NOT up to the corporate snuff that HP/UX or Tru64 is, and if they did get dropped many corporate users are either going to be screwed or will move to Solaris. Yesterday there were posts about how the appearance of a (largely irrelevant) MenuetOs was a Good Thing; now we see posts about how the possible disappearances of highly important OSes is (implicitly) also a Good Thing. Come on, let's see some consistency and rationality here: does "news for nerds" always have to mean "news mostly about Linux" ?
It sure did. Sure have to wonder why, say, prior DOJ or FCC decisions did not begin with "Clinton
If they do, do they get the 'perks' that Washington politicians evidently get from their interns ? If so, could you provide details about 'working' with such interns ? Or provide us with JPEGs/MPEGs ? Do you have any plans to stream videos of your Christmas parties on the Net ?
Indeed. But maybe this speaks more to your own ignorance then to any (perceived) reality. To say that you were just making an exaggeration is to suggest that your overall point about the 'vast majority' still holds - but I sure bet you couldn't even begin to provide the slightest sliver of evidence to document this purported "vast majority".