The slash system is screwy then, the last few weeks of upgrades have just given it a different "feel" to me. Almost less responsive.
My apologies for the redundancy, but I swear I ctrl-f'd the page and searched for ntpasswd before posting, so I have no idea what happened, other than *possibly* the slash system is experiencing *deja vu*, a hiccup in the system.
It is during these glitches in the system that we pass through to the real world. Will you join us neo? Red pill or blue?
We have become a society that no longer has the time to "think" about the issues anymore. Paperboys are not out selling papers on the corner, nor are we having them delivered to our houses. Instead we are a society that has begun to transition from real to "virtual" content. Instead of waiting till the next day on the farm to get our news, we simply point a browser at cnn.com, or google news and recieve it at a moments notice. Even television is close to being replaced by the net as a source of news because it is an instantanious update that's up to the minute.
The format of television will not disapear. It's function is to stream out so that your attention does not have to be directed directly towards it, as you would have to with a browser. Yet it's format is adaptable to the net, therefore it's only reasonable to note that this conversion will slowly take place over the next 15 years.
Instantatious direct response to issues now facing canidates is giving them even greater power in directing their political policies. As soon as an issue is found out, a solution can be dispatched by the politician faster than has ever been possible.
Unfortunately for %90 of the voting public, technology is not an issue because they do not understand what power it gives their representatives in this day and age. When they vote they go on the good faith that this canidate will fullfill their duties to their voters for the duration of the term. Unfortunatly we get bozo's in office, leeching off you, the taxpayer while completely trolling other counties/states.
I think the best way to get electronic voting mainstream is to wait for the current generation of goverment to leave office. This may happen in another 8 years or so. So just be patient and wait. Since all the current canidates seem leery of electronic voting technology, our best bet is to put our votes on a canidate that wont look at it as a "black magic voodoo" ballot box.
From the game:Human Body: The test of the Bedouin. You must travel the land in search of the most remote, the most strange and unheard-of locales. In these places you will find altars, and you must anoint these altars with exotic spices and essences.
So just like all the other MMORPG's out there, I must sit in front of my computer for hours while my character walks and walks and walks and walks.
Actually though, the game does seem kinda cool. There's some sort of fireworks system where you can create your own particle effects. You have to make wine to increase your "Perception"
Instead of PVP, you manage your resources until you can build landmarks (Pyramids of Giza anyone?)
Sort of like Freeciv with a FPS view and massively multiplayer.
I see this game stealing many hours of my essense:D
I've had to patch the cable 5 times because the dog got it. The last time she got it there were so many patches on the cable it would no longer work.
His son loves downloading stuff on kazaa, since we're on the same subnet, all his little kazza worms have no problems finding machines on my network to harass.
The worst part is, if anything goes wrong with any of their computers, it's MY FAULT. They forgot where they saved something? Ask toqer. The machine slows to a crawl because they used a newscraper to d/l pr0n until it ate up all their availiable space, ask toqer. Dog is scraping it's butt on the ground, ask toqer.
I urge anyone out there even considering sharing their broadband to reconsider unless it's with another geek.
I once had a NES that was thrown 40' over the edge of a deck of a house that sat on a steep hillside.
Crushed by this abuse of my baby, I picked her up and carried her inside, I had spent so many a hours with her and metroid, amungst other games.
Upon openening the case, I noticed that the PCB had cracked near the AV out panel, across only 3 traces. I found some blue wire wrap wire and began carefully soldering the 3 traces.
After slapping what was left of the case back together, I put in a cartridge and pressed the power button. Sucess as I turned up the volume to annoy my father with my victory over his rage on my defensless nintendo. **Shudders**
On any given day we hear "Fscking M$ dirty wh0r35 m0n0p0l15t p1gz" repeated over and over again on slash...
Yet we see MS visual studio products being advertised on slash, we see ads for powerpoint, ect on slash, we see stories about M$ on slash..
Don't you think it's time we stopped giving m$ "bad press"?
There's an old saying, even bad publicity is GOOD. Everytime there is a microsoft story here, the webmasters at M$ are laughing their collective asses off as all of us make their webstats jump from a good slash dot effect.
MS webmaster 1: Hey Taco! How much do you want today to post another anti ms story?
Taco: Well, I think I have enough money, The wife is already using it to line the cat litter box and I can't seem to find my keyboard underneath the piles of cash. It's overflowing into the backyard and the rain is turning it all into paper mache'.
MS webmaster 2: No problem! We'll just give you gold Dabloons! Those can last for years, even in saltwater!
Taco: Great, I'll take a million Dabloons then!
*note to taco: I know M$ can't be paying you that much, it's just a joke.
Instead of all the MS bashing, if you want to advocate linux in your company, you should think out what you are going to say before approaching management. Think about how you can use linux and open source software to replace existing infrastructure such as groupware, development tools, network file/print services and network management.
The best way for any admin to do this is to begin with 1 box. A buddy of mine loaded nagios onto the network he's in charge of and the executive level staff fell in love! He's slowly begining a march of replacement within the company, exchange being dropped in favor of postfix, now a web based groupware instead of exchange.
But the fanaticism has to end, this is not how civilized responsible people act. You have to look at the problem from all sides and rationally explain the situation instead of "GOD DAMN MONOPLILIST! WE SHOULDN'T USE THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE EVIL"
Has anyone ever tried to patent the patent process itself? Heck, since such stupid things as using laser pointers as a cat toy are patentable, why not do something completely insane and patent the actual process of getting a patent.
I can just see the waves of patent lawers out in the street screaming about how they have to now pay ME the holder of the patent on patenting royaltee's everytime they file a patent.
As stupid as an idea this may sound, look at how stupid the patent office is already. I think someone with the balls and cash should do it, just as a wake up call to the USPO.
A friend of mine wanted to open up a punk CD store on the web. Being the nice friend I am I helped him import a large amount of data from the CDDB into his OScommerce store (Os commerces is an open source store package, pretty cool)
After much alignment of tables, farting around with the data eventually we got it right but with one small detail left out....
We didn't have cover art images...
So frantically he tried copying the images from other sites, then he kept insisting there was a way I could easily parse the obsfucicated data from other stores (album art gif's are never the same name as the album)
So eventually he gave up on it, but it got me to thinking, would the cover art be something unlawful for a CDDB type of entity to host?
Well after 2 years of unemployment, toqer is getting into the game house business. That's right, 40 computers T1, the works. I know that my users will be 10 times smarter than the average corporate user and 1/2 the age! (dum bum bum)
Joking aside, from personal experience I say we're all doomed to open mouth insert foot once in a while, and Marc Rein is no exception. Before you disagree with me or mod me down, let me remind you all of what a *ASSET* epic has been to the gaming community.
Unreal is cross platform, no waiting, it was there pretty much day 1. You can play UT2003 on win or lin.
In regards to my future business, epic has THE BEST licensing compared to EA, Valve, Activision and blizzard, their license is basically "You buy it retail, go ahead and load it on your rental computer" The afformentioned companies want indefinite license fee's and Epic doesn't.
Despite home PC gaming being the best, I know the gamehouse community will grow because not everyone can afford 50 P4 3ghz with hyperthreading. As long as the gamehouses keep their technology ahead the the "home curve" they will become a dominating force for showcasing games, a marketing tool if you will. Epic understands this and wants to see this happen.
Epic has been good to the gaming community, and since Marc was grown up enough to apoligize, we should be grown up enough to forgive him.
Sorry I can't stop talking about the gamehouse thing....Since I know some dev's (Even Carmack at ID) read slash, hopefully if I get modded up enough they'll read this.
To: EA, Valve, Activision and blizzard Your indefinite contracts suck. Gamehouses are Synonymous with arcades with one vital difference... You do not provide the actual hardware. The owner of the facility provides hardware at a HUGE cost. Try pricing a gamehouse built on Dells sometime and see, the monthly cost of lease / and or buy is crazy. Don't be cheap about it either, price all top of the line and see what you come up with.
The thing you guys don't see is that gamehouse could be the new retail outlet for your games. Licensing shmicening, send me a box of your product to sell on consignment, and I GUARANTEE I would sell out those boxes faster than any single fry's or compusa store. Just find 1 gamehouse to TRY it with as an experiment, see if you sell more.
at infinite typewriters eventually produce the great works of shakespear?
In regards to breaking encryption on the article, if the above statement was true wouldn't that mean eventually it could be broken?
This still isn't quantum encryption, which does deal with infinites. It said 1 trillion keys on the site which makes me think eventually if you throw enough (**cough* beowulf) Ghz per hour at it you could break it down.
Internet ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ntr-nt) n. An interconnected system of networks that connects computers around the world via the TCP/IP protocol.
By definition it connects to computers "around the world"
If you are selling "internet" then you should be able to access whatever is pubically availiable over the "internet". Even if this means my work has publically made a VPN endpoint for me, I should be able to access it.
By restricting my access, you are no longer selling "internet" What you are selling is, well, not "Internet" I'm sorry, I just cannot come up with a term for what they are trying to sell, what word could one use to describe a network restricted to only certain type of activity to certain portions of the "internet". Maybe the word i'm looking for is "Shitter-net?"
So when they claim they are selling "internet" when in fact they are selling "shitter-net" wouldn't they be guilty of misrepresentaion of product or services?
I know you are looking for an alternative source of revenue for the state. However I feel that an internet tax will only stifle a already hurt sector of the economy.
Driving up the 101 by where I live, I see thousands, if not millions of square feet of office space empty. If you had not worked here during the boom you would not know that at one time these offices were filled with people paying income tax to the state.
Which brings to mind a question for me, what happened to the 100k in taxes you took from me over a 3 year period between 1997-2000? I know I was not the only person who contributed that much in taxes, yet I only got 6 months unemployment and still can't find a job in IT. Why should I try and go into another career? I'm 30 years old, this is what I trained for, and right now my skills are being severly underused.
So again, please don't add more gas to this fire by taxing an already hurting economic sector. We're suffering out here in Silicon valley living month to month on the small consulting jobs which are nothing more than a handout compared to a real paycheck.
Any measure other than completely banning the practice will just invite loopholes.
1 such loophole with this would be foriegn spam outfits, big deal if the US has a "don't spam me" list, doesn't stop them from setting up shop in china, new zealand, or.ru.
That insisted that I do company purchases on my credit card. Not small paper clip and pen items mind you, he wanted powerbooks from fry's.
Him: "As an employee/sysadmin it is part of your job to purchase company equipment" Me: "Well at my last job we set up accounts with local distributors and after a few order we get net 30 terms" Him: "We have a relationship with a salesman at fry's, he gives us good discounts" (Side note, turned out this salesguy was also a member of the same mormon church my boss was a member of) Me: "Well CDW has the same stuff for cheaper" Him: "Fry's will beat that price, now go take your credit card down there and buy my powerbook" Me: "I'm not using MY credit card to buy a company powerbook, you're crazy" Him: "If you don't do it i'm bringing it up on your next performance review" Me: "Yah you do that"
Well the performance review rolled around. Our company was small (maybe 40 employees) and the word got around that my boss had it in for me. The CEO himself had problems with this guy, so he decided to mediate the "performance review"
The three of us sat down in an empty meeting room. He started telling the CEO I was this that and the other thing, he had a manilla folder about an inch thick with every e-mail, note, reciept he had taken on me. He started his attack on me in a slow, steady monotonous voice"
"On 12/4/97 toqer was SUPPOSED to buy my powerbook, I had to miss 3 hours of programming time because he didn't do it" He sat there with a smirk on his face like a little kid that just tattled to teacher.
"WTF MAN! HOW many times do I have to tell you? It's not my place to use MY credit card to purchase company equipment! Thats why you set up corporate accounts and net terms! Or you lease!" I snapped back.
"We aren't talking about you using your credit card, we're talking about your performace, I gave you a task to complete and you didn't complete it, therefore I lost time, which is money" I could tell I had backed him into a corner, now was my chance to get on the attack.
"YOU FSCKING %#@% JERK! I WanT to HELP YOU but you WONT LET ME!, I TOLD YOU I WOULD SET UP TERMS with other vendors, but the only reason you want us to use fry's is because your mormon buddy is our sales rep, real fucking nice putting your church before the company you asshole!" I then gave the CEO a list of alternative vendors and contacts that were willing to give us net30 terms and told the CEO to ask the COO why he flat out refused to let me order from them.
Well, the COO was sort of dumbfounded at that point. He hadn't expected me to mix fact/common sense into my defense. I think he thought he was going to sit there and lecture me, and I was going to curl up into a little ball while he belittled me in front of the CEO, wasn't gonna happen.
After the review I went outside for a smoke, the CEO came up, sat down, lit one up and said "I think you both grew a little in there today" I responded, "Maybe I did, but he's going to be the same.."
He never did change that fuck, eventually we had to fire him because he was just so disruptive and abusive to the rest of the employee's.
Me: Scientist bob, we need 40 barrels of the stuff by June so Carmack can launch! Scientist bob: Uhh sir our plants total capacity is only 1 barrell a month! Me: You fscking Idiot I didn't ask you what our capacity was! I gave you an order!
See you can tell, i'm leaps and bounds better than any other slashdotter here! Pick me Pick me John! Look i'll even put caps on your name!
Have you ever worked with PXE boot systems? I initially dipped my toes in when RIS was released with win2k server, later on learning how to do it with linux and boot images.
No matter what condition any hard drive is in on my network, I can PXE boot from a nice little menu into.
a. An open Mosix Cluster b. Linux rescue CD c. Windows rescue boot disk d. to the hard drive
All together these seperate images take up about 1/2 a gig of space on the server, I no longer have to format crappies hoping that they aren't laden with enough bad sectors to render them useless.
Sure the initial setup of a PXE boot system takes a day or two, but you quickly make that up in a years time not having to wait for those legacy POS's to format.
A paticular admin I was once impressed with told me, "A lazy sysadmin is a good sysadmin!" I hold that true today.
Floppies retail cost anywhere from 15-20 bucks. So you're looking at about an extra $800 bucks in parts for all your PC's.
For $800 these days you can add a nice bit of hard disk space to your 40 clients. Prices have dropped around a dollar a gigabyte. You can also buy a decent backup system for around that price too to back them all up. Hell you can even get a pretty decent networked laserjet for that price.
Personally, I would much rather have more hard disk space or backup for the network than a floppy. I agree with Dell %100 on this issue.
While this is cool a bunch of guys with time on their hands figured out how to get binary compatility with NT, the one thing that holds people to NT now(XP/2k) is the direct X layer between hardware and OS.
It's still a pretty good feat though and is noteworthy of frontpage news. If the authors are reading would you mind answering a few questions? 1. What timeline do the authors see for adding a directX layer? 2. Do you forsee using the wineX code for reference or will you rewrite it from scratch?
This is really bad timing for another national disaster to happen. I'm just curious to know what sort of budget cuts NASA has had within the last 2 years and if it could have had a direct effect on why this has happened.
It's an old saying, but we're going to be seeing a lot of passing of the "buck" around this issue.
Damn! It's embarrassing moments like this I wish slash had a "delete comment" option. Please mod my comment down so I don't have to be embarassed when I read at a +1 threshhold.
Ya but what does that do for all the C64 music applications that were out there?
I know musicians that STILL use an atari ST for their midi work, simply because they've never been able to find anything better. (don't even mention cakewalk)
Since the editors haven't posted this yet (happened yesterday) I figured i'd do it.
(nabbed from space.com)
Columbia destroyed during reentry, seven astronauts lost Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003 at 2:10 p.m. EST In an address to the nation, President George W. Bush has just confirmed that the space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven astronauts were lost today after the Orbiter broke up during reentry on its landing approach to the Kennedy Space Center.
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe notified President Bush moments after Columbia's scheduled landing time had passed without any sighting of the Orbiter. O'Keefe has met with the astronauts' families gathered at the Florida landing site for Columbia's landing.
A visibly shaken astronaut Bill Readdy, speaking at a press conference, announced somberly that "sadly, it does not appear that there are any survivors."
President Bush has called the astronauts' families to express the nation's condolences. The President also called Israeli Prime Minister Sharon to discuss the tragedy - the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon was one of Columbia's seven crewmembers.
Both NASA and White House officials have stated that there is no reason to believe that the accident is terrorism-related.
Mission Control in Houston last made contact with the Orbiter at about 9 a.m. EST as it reentered Earth's atmosphere over north-central Texas. Columbia was at about 207,000 feet altitude, traveling at about Mach 18 or 12,500 mph, when contact was lost, about 16 minutes prior to its scheduled landing at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
Tracking systems at the Kennedy Space Center did not acquire Columbia when it was scheduled to approach the Florida coast.
The last communication from the crew made a reference to a "tire pressure" indicator.
Video of Columbia's descent over Texas shows the vehicle breaking up upon reentry. Weather radar from Shreveport, Louisiana shows a wide swath of heated particles extending over several hundred miles as the vehicle disintegrated.
Law enforcement authorities report numerous pieces of debris landing in Nacogdoches and Palestine, Texas. Aerial video shows smoldering debris landing over several hundred square miles of eastern Texas.
NASA has scheduled a press conference at 3 p.m. EST to provide further details. We will next update this box at that time.
-- Roger Guillemette, SPACE.com correspondent for the Cape Canaveral Bureau
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The slash system is screwy then, the last few weeks of upgrades have just given it a different "feel" to me. Almost less responsive.
My apologies for the redundancy, but I swear I ctrl-f'd the page and searched for ntpasswd before posting, so I have no idea what happened, other than *possibly* the slash system is experiencing *deja vu*, a hiccup in the system.
It is during these glitches in the system that we pass through to the real world. Will you join us neo? Red pill or blue?
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/u t that karma right here.
(o)---P
(Picks up unibomber manfististo pen)
We have become a society that no longer has the time to "think" about the issues anymore. Paperboys are not out selling papers on the corner, nor are we having them delivered to our houses. Instead we are a society that has begun to transition from real to "virtual" content. Instead of waiting till the next day on the farm to get our news, we simply point a browser at cnn.com, or google news and recieve it at a moments notice. Even television is close to being replaced by the net as a source of news because it is an instantanious update that's up to the minute.
The format of television will not disapear. It's function is to stream out so that your attention does not have to be directed directly towards it, as you would have to with a browser. Yet it's format is adaptable to the net, therefore it's only reasonable to note that this conversion will slowly take place over the next 15 years.
Instantatious direct response to issues now facing canidates is giving them even greater power in directing their political policies. As soon as an issue is found out, a solution can be dispatched by the politician faster than has ever been possible.
Unfortunately for %90 of the voting public, technology is not an issue because they do not understand what power it gives their representatives in this day and age. When they vote they go on the good faith that this canidate will fullfill their duties to their voters for the duration of the term. Unfortunatly we get bozo's in office, leeching off you, the taxpayer while completely trolling other counties/states.
I think the best way to get electronic voting mainstream is to wait for the current generation of goverment to leave office. This may happen in another 8 years or so. So just be patient and wait. Since all the current canidates seem leery of electronic voting technology, our best bet is to put our votes on a canidate that wont look at it as a "black magic voodoo" ballot box.
From the game:Human Body: The test of the Bedouin. You must travel the land in search of the most remote, the most strange and unheard-of locales. In these places you will find altars, and you must anoint these altars with exotic spices and essences.
:D
So just like all the other MMORPG's out there, I must sit in front of my computer for hours while my character walks and walks and walks and walks.
Actually though, the game does seem kinda cool. There's some sort of fireworks system where you can create your own particle effects. You have to make wine to increase your "Perception"
Instead of PVP, you manage your resources until you can build landmarks (Pyramids of Giza anyone?)
Sort of like Freeciv with a FPS view and massively multiplayer.
I see this game stealing many hours of my essense
But I use cat5, and after 2 years of doing it...
I've had to patch the cable 5 times because the dog got it. The last time she got it there were so many patches on the cable it would no longer work.
His son loves downloading stuff on kazaa, since we're on the same subnet, all his little kazza worms have no problems finding machines on my network to harass.
The worst part is, if anything goes wrong with any of their computers, it's MY FAULT. They forgot where they saved something? Ask toqer. The machine slows to a crawl because they used a newscraper to d/l pr0n until it ate up all their availiable space, ask toqer. Dog is scraping it's butt on the ground, ask toqer.
I urge anyone out there even considering sharing their broadband to reconsider unless it's with another geek.
I once had a NES that was thrown 40' over the edge of a deck of a house that sat on a steep hillside.
Crushed by this abuse of my baby, I picked her up and carried her inside, I had spent so many a hours with her and metroid, amungst other games.
Upon openening the case, I noticed that the PCB had cracked near the AV out panel, across only 3 traces. I found some blue wire wrap wire and began carefully soldering the 3 traces.
After slapping what was left of the case back together, I put in a cartridge and pressed the power button. Sucess as I turned up the volume to annoy my father with my victory over his rage on my defensless nintendo.
**Shudders**
I was quoting the millions of people on slash that say "M$" on a daily basis, so sue me.
Seriously folks,
On any given day we hear "Fscking M$ dirty wh0r35 m0n0p0l15t p1gz" repeated over and over again on slash...
Yet we see MS visual studio products being advertised on slash, we see ads for powerpoint, ect on slash, we see stories about M$ on slash..
Don't you think it's time we stopped giving m$ "bad press"?
There's an old saying, even bad publicity is GOOD. Everytime there is a microsoft story here, the webmasters at M$ are laughing their collective asses off as all of us make their webstats jump from a good slash dot effect.
MS webmaster 1: Hey Taco! How much do you want today to post another anti ms story?
Taco: Well, I think I have enough money, The wife is already using it to line the cat litter box and I can't seem to find my keyboard underneath the piles of cash. It's overflowing into the backyard and the rain is turning it all into paper mache'.
MS webmaster 2: No problem! We'll just give you gold Dabloons! Those can last for years, even in saltwater!
Taco: Great, I'll take a million Dabloons then!
*note to taco: I know M$ can't be paying you that much, it's just a joke.
Instead of all the MS bashing, if you want to advocate linux in your company, you should think out what you are going to say before approaching management. Think about how you can use linux and open source software to replace existing infrastructure such as groupware, development tools, network file/print services and network management.
The best way for any admin to do this is to begin with 1 box. A buddy of mine loaded nagios onto the network he's in charge of and the executive level staff fell in love! He's slowly begining a march of replacement within the company, exchange being dropped in favor of postfix, now a web based groupware instead of exchange.
But the fanaticism has to end, this is not how civilized responsible people act. You have to look at the problem from all sides and rationally explain the situation instead of "GOD DAMN MONOPLILIST! WE SHOULDN'T USE THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE EVIL"
Thanks for reading my thoughts.
Since the topic is on crazy patents...
Has anyone ever tried to patent the patent process itself? Heck, since such stupid things as using laser pointers as a cat toy are patentable, why not do something completely insane and patent the actual process of getting a patent.
I can just see the waves of patent lawers out in the street screaming about how they have to now pay ME the holder of the patent on patenting royaltee's everytime they file a patent.
As stupid as an idea this may sound, look at how stupid the patent office is already. I think someone with the balls and cash should do it, just as a wake up call to the USPO.
A friend of mine wanted to open up a punk CD store on the web. Being the nice friend I am I helped him import a large amount of data from the CDDB into his OScommerce store (Os commerces is an open source store package, pretty cool)
After much alignment of tables, farting around with the data eventually we got it right but with one small detail left out....
We didn't have cover art images...
So frantically he tried copying the images from other sites, then he kept insisting there was a way I could easily parse the obsfucicated data from other stores (album art gif's are never the same name as the album)
So eventually he gave up on it, but it got me to thinking, would the cover art be something unlawful for a CDDB type of entity to host?
Well after 2 years of unemployment, toqer is getting into the game house business. That's right, 40 computers T1, the works. I know that my users will be 10 times smarter than the average corporate user and 1/2 the age!
(dum bum bum)
Joking aside, from personal experience I say we're all doomed to open mouth insert foot once in a while, and Marc Rein is no exception. Before you disagree with me or mod me down, let me remind you all of what a *ASSET* epic has been to the gaming community.
Unreal is cross platform, no waiting, it was there pretty much day 1. You can play UT2003 on win or lin.
In regards to my future business, epic has THE BEST licensing compared to EA, Valve, Activision and blizzard, their license is basically "You buy it retail, go ahead and load it on your rental computer" The afformentioned companies want indefinite license fee's and Epic doesn't.
Despite home PC gaming being the best, I know the gamehouse community will grow because not everyone can afford 50 P4 3ghz with hyperthreading. As long as the gamehouses keep their technology ahead the the "home curve" they will become a dominating force for showcasing games, a marketing tool if you will. Epic understands this and wants to see this happen.
Epic has been good to the gaming community, and since Marc was grown up enough to apoligize, we should be grown up enough to forgive him.
Sorry I can't stop talking about the gamehouse thing....Since I know some dev's (Even Carmack at ID) read slash, hopefully if I get modded up enough they'll read this.
To: EA, Valve, Activision and blizzard
Your indefinite contracts suck. Gamehouses are Synonymous with arcades with one vital difference... You do not provide the actual hardware. The owner of the facility provides hardware at a HUGE cost. Try pricing a gamehouse built on Dells sometime and see, the monthly cost of lease / and or buy is crazy. Don't be cheap about it either, price all top of the line and see what you come up with.
The thing you guys don't see is that gamehouse could be the new retail outlet for your games. Licensing shmicening, send me a box of your product to sell on consignment, and I GUARANTEE I would sell out those boxes faster than any single fry's or compusa store. Just find 1 gamehouse to TRY it with as an experiment, see if you sell more.
at infinite typewriters eventually produce the great works of shakespear?
In regards to breaking encryption on the article, if the above statement was true wouldn't that mean eventually it could be broken?
This still isn't quantum encryption, which does deal with infinites. It said 1 trillion keys on the site which makes me think eventually if you throw enough (**cough* beowulf) Ghz per hour at it you could break it down.
Ya it's breakable, anyone disagree?
Internet ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ntr-nt)
n.
An interconnected system of networks that connects computers around the world via the TCP/IP protocol.
By definition it connects to computers "around the world"
If you are selling "internet" then you should be able to access whatever is pubically availiable over the "internet". Even if this means my work has publically made a VPN endpoint for me, I should be able to access it.
By restricting my access, you are no longer selling "internet" What you are selling is, well, not "Internet" I'm sorry, I just cannot come up with a term for what they are trying to sell, what word could one use to describe a network restricted to only certain type of activity to certain portions of the "internet". Maybe the word i'm looking for is "Shitter-net?"
So when they claim they are selling "internet" when in fact they are selling "shitter-net" wouldn't they be guilty of misrepresentaion of product or services?
-An american POV.
Dear sirs,
I know you are looking for an alternative source of revenue for the state. However I feel that an internet tax will only stifle a already hurt sector of the economy.
Driving up the 101 by where I live, I see thousands, if not millions of square feet of office space empty. If you had not worked here during the boom you would not know that at one time these offices were filled with people paying income tax to the state.
Which brings to mind a question for me, what happened to the 100k in taxes you took from me over a 3 year period between 1997-2000? I know I was not the only person who contributed that much in taxes, yet I only got 6 months unemployment and still can't find a job in IT. Why should I try and go into another career? I'm 30 years old, this is what I trained for, and right now my skills are being severly underused.
So again, please don't add more gas to this fire by taxing an already hurting economic sector. We're suffering out here in Silicon valley living month to month on the small consulting jobs which are nothing more than a handout compared to a real paycheck.
And yes John Katz, i'm still eating ramen.
Not to knock making mobiles, but the best hard disk art I ever saw was afromans hard drive speakers.
p ea kers.htm
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~hsakr/hdspeakers/hds
I think the story was featured on slashdot too. I actually made my own outta some old 5 1/4 full height maxtor drives I had laying around.
Any measure other than completely banning the practice will just invite loopholes.
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1 such loophole with this would be foriegn spam outfits, big deal if the US has a "don't spam me" list, doesn't stop them from setting up shop in china, new zealand, or
That insisted that I do company purchases on my credit card. Not small paper clip and pen items mind you, he wanted powerbooks from fry's.
.com i'm happy to say is dead now.
Him: "As an employee/sysadmin it is part of your job to purchase company equipment"
Me: "Well at my last job we set up accounts with local distributors and after a few order we get net 30 terms"
Him: "We have a relationship with a salesman at fry's, he gives us good discounts" (Side note, turned out this salesguy was also a member of the same mormon church my boss was a member of)
Me: "Well CDW has the same stuff for cheaper"
Him: "Fry's will beat that price, now go take your credit card down there and buy my powerbook"
Me: "I'm not using MY credit card to buy a company powerbook, you're crazy"
Him: "If you don't do it i'm bringing it up on your next performance review"
Me: "Yah you do that"
Well the performance review rolled around. Our company was small (maybe 40 employees) and the word got around that my boss had it in for me. The CEO himself had problems with this guy, so he decided to mediate the "performance review"
The three of us sat down in an empty meeting room. He started telling the CEO I was this that and the other thing, he had a manilla folder about an inch thick with every e-mail, note, reciept he had taken on me. He started his attack on me in a slow, steady monotonous voice"
"On 12/4/97 toqer was SUPPOSED to buy my powerbook, I had to miss 3 hours of programming time because he didn't do it" He sat there with a smirk on his face like a little kid that just tattled to teacher.
"WTF MAN! HOW many times do I have to tell you? It's not my place to use MY credit card to purchase company equipment! Thats why you set up corporate accounts and net terms! Or you lease!" I snapped back.
"We aren't talking about you using your credit card, we're talking about your performace, I gave you a task to complete and you didn't complete it, therefore I lost time, which is money" I could tell I had backed him into a corner, now was my chance to get on the attack.
"YOU FSCKING %#@% JERK! I WanT to HELP YOU but you WONT LET ME!, I TOLD YOU I WOULD SET UP TERMS with other vendors, but the only reason you want us to use fry's is because your mormon buddy is our sales rep, real fucking nice putting your church before the company you asshole!" I then gave the CEO a list of alternative vendors and contacts that were willing to give us net30 terms and told the CEO to ask the COO why he flat out refused to let me order from them.
Well, the COO was sort of dumbfounded at that point. He hadn't expected me to mix fact/common sense into my defense. I think he thought he was going to sit there and lecture me, and I was going to curl up into a little ball while he belittled me in front of the CEO, wasn't gonna happen.
After the review I went outside for a smoke, the CEO came up, sat down, lit one up and said "I think you both grew a little in there today" I responded, "Maybe I did, but he's going to be the same.."
He never did change that fuck, eventually we had to fire him because he was just so disruptive and abusive to the rest of the employee's.
One
I can do the job! Just watch!
Me: Scientist bob, we need 40 barrels of the stuff by June so Carmack can launch!
Scientist bob: Uhh sir our plants total capacity is only 1 barrell a month!
Me: You fscking Idiot I didn't ask you what our capacity was! I gave you an order!
See you can tell, i'm leaps and bounds better than any other slashdotter here! Pick me Pick me John! Look i'll even put caps on your name!
Have you ever worked with PXE boot systems? I initially dipped my toes in when RIS was released with win2k server, later on learning how to do it with linux and boot images.
No matter what condition any hard drive is in on my network, I can PXE boot from a nice little menu into.
a. An open Mosix Cluster
b. Linux rescue CD
c. Windows rescue boot disk
d. to the hard drive
All together these seperate images take up about 1/2 a gig of space on the server, I no longer have to format crappies hoping that they aren't laden with enough bad sectors to render them useless.
Sure the initial setup of a PXE boot system takes a day or two, but you quickly make that up in a years time not having to wait for those legacy POS's to format.
A paticular admin I was once impressed with told me, "A lazy sysadmin is a good sysadmin!" I hold that true today.
Think about it..
Floppies retail cost anywhere from 15-20 bucks. So you're looking at about an extra $800 bucks in parts for all your PC's.
For $800 these days you can add a nice bit of hard disk space to your 40 clients. Prices have dropped around a dollar a gigabyte. You can also buy a decent backup system for around that price too to back them all up. Hell you can even get a pretty decent networked laserjet for that price.
Personally, I would much rather have more hard disk space or backup for the network than a floppy. I agree with Dell %100 on this issue.
While this is cool a bunch of guys with time on their hands figured out how to get binary compatility with NT, the one thing that holds people to NT now(XP/2k) is the direct X layer between hardware and OS.
It's still a pretty good feat though and is noteworthy of frontpage news. If the authors are reading would you mind answering a few questions?
1. What timeline do the authors see for adding a directX layer?
2. Do you forsee using the wineX code for reference or will you rewrite it from scratch?
This is really bad timing for another national disaster to happen. I'm just curious to know what sort of budget cuts NASA has had within the last 2 years and if it could have had a direct effect on why this has happened.
It's an old saying, but we're going to be seeing a lot of passing of the "buck" around this issue.
Damn! It's embarrassing moments like this I wish slash had a "delete comment" option. Please mod my comment down so I don't have to be embarassed when I read at a +1 threshhold.
Ya but what does that do for all the C64 music applications that were out there?
I know musicians that STILL use an atari ST for their midi work, simply because they've never been able to find anything better. (don't even mention cakewalk)
Since the editors haven't posted this yet (happened yesterday) I figured i'd do it.
(nabbed from space.com)
Columbia destroyed during reentry, seven astronauts lost
Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003 at 2:10 p.m. EST
In an address to the nation, President George W. Bush has just confirmed that the space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven astronauts were lost today after the Orbiter broke up during reentry on its landing approach to the Kennedy Space Center.
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe notified President Bush moments after Columbia's scheduled landing time had passed without any sighting of the Orbiter. O'Keefe has met with the astronauts' families gathered at the Florida landing site for Columbia's landing.
A visibly shaken astronaut Bill Readdy, speaking at a press conference, announced somberly that "sadly, it does not appear that there are any survivors."
President Bush has called the astronauts' families to express the nation's condolences. The President also called Israeli Prime Minister Sharon to discuss the tragedy - the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon was one of Columbia's seven crewmembers.
Both NASA and White House officials have stated that there is no reason to believe that the accident is terrorism-related.
Mission Control in Houston last made contact with the Orbiter at about 9 a.m. EST as it reentered Earth's atmosphere over north-central Texas. Columbia was at about 207,000 feet altitude, traveling at about Mach 18 or 12,500 mph, when contact was lost, about 16 minutes prior to its scheduled landing at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
Tracking systems at the Kennedy Space Center did not acquire Columbia when it was scheduled to approach the Florida coast.
The last communication from the crew made a reference to a "tire pressure" indicator.
Video of Columbia's descent over Texas shows the vehicle breaking up upon reentry. Weather radar from Shreveport, Louisiana shows a wide swath of heated particles extending over several hundred miles as the vehicle disintegrated.
Law enforcement authorities report numerous pieces of debris landing in Nacogdoches and Palestine, Texas. Aerial video shows smoldering debris landing over several hundred square miles of eastern Texas.
NASA has scheduled a press conference at 3 p.m. EST to provide further details. We will next update this box at that time.
-- Roger Guillemette, SPACE.com correspondent for the Cape Canaveral Bureau