Man, if you want a head rush, try this sometime. Adjust your slashdot settings to -1, and read _everything_ for about a week. Then set it back to whatever you're used to.
Whatever you're used to will seem stale and boring. "Where's all the crackheads?" You'll think.
I like -1, but man it's a lot to read... Nice
little off-topic tips, nestled in there with jokes about people's buttox. For the brave.
Of course it will have a 20 second "Slow Down, Cowboy!" timer. That's how long it will take to boot XP 2002. Linux will, of course, boot in.3 seconds on that motherboard.
From the article: "But it may not take divine intervention to get more mileage out of copper interconnect. Intel claims it can reach speeds of 10 GHz and beyond in five to eight years using copper. "We're confident we can get to 10 GHz. And there's reason to believe we can double that," Pinfold said."
I'd put my money on copper; we're still using
gasoline, when hydrogen-powered cars have
been viable for years.
http://www.auto.com/industry/iwirn22_20010822.ht m
As I recall, I was able to create the Bose-Einstein condensate in my kitchen sink once. Man, all that hard work, and THESE guys get the Nobel for it... Well, better them than me, leaves me more time for programming...
So is it safe to assume that if you can delete things you don't, like, LIKE like autocomplete, then, like, can you also get, like, rid of prompts for, like, if you like to double your words like like?
Breaking out of your own culture
on
Apocalypse 3
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
"Breaking out of your culture is also important, because that is how we understand other cultures. As an explicitly multicultural language, Perl has generally done OK in this area, though we can always do better. Examples of cross-cultural exchange among computer cultures include XML and Unicode. (Not surprisingly, these features also enable better cross-cultural exchange among human cultures -- we sincerely hope.)"
It is for statements like this, that I am drawn into studying and using Perl. Many designers try to design a langauge which develops its own internal culture; it becomes static and internally consistent, but not very adventurous. Larry Wall seeks to develop a language which has built-in the fact that we like to explore, making his task more difficult, but a language which moves and flows with the evolution of our culture readily.
It was secure by default because you had to learn what the heck you were doing, and a fair bit about the structure of your hard drive before you could get it running.
Now IIS is catching up, having learned what happens when you appeal to the lowest common denominator. This is very good news, because it means IIS will no longer be administrated by people who haven't a clue. It's not that IIS is inherently insecure, but that it's inherently run by people who don't know how to secure it.
Apache appeals to a different crowd, and is more secure by nature for that reason...
Started using e-mail in 1988, when it was 'bout half as old. I remember trying to explain to people what e-mail was. It was one of the great lessons of my life, because people looked at you dumbly, no matter how eloquently or simply you described the process.
Then one day, it "caught on." It had reached the media, and enough people knew how it worked that suddenly everyone seemed to know how it worked. As a geek, I didn't spend half an hour explaining e-mail anymore. I got right down to the nuts and bolts of showing people how to use it.
I am really sad to see laws against spam because it gives The Man control over something which puts their toes in the door.
I would prefer to fight spam privately. I do not like it, for I've been on the net since 1988, when spam was rare and the net was beautiful. But I do not think the solution is to make it illegal.
I think the blacklist sites are a reasonable, unmoderated, sensible approach that doesn't carry the curse of giving The Man more power over my non-spam actions.
No, I mean "you went for money, instead of having a soul"
Money for feeding a family is one thing. Money for living in a $500,000 house with three cars and a television in every room... Gadzooks, do you realize what you're arguing for?
When you have to pay to get the good stuff, then only rich people get the good stuff.
And rich people have no clue on what to do with the good stuff, because they have money to spend on the stupid things in life. People always opt for buying stupid things when they have money to spend. That's why advertising works.
Get money out of the loop, and then you're starting somewhere solid.
It's people like you who call me a freaking baby, when I'm agreeing with them. Why don't you target your post to the freaking babies, not to everyone in the conversation?
That's what sucks about advertising. Nobody knows who I am, and therefore I have to sit through advertisements which offend me.
I'm trying to get to CONTENT, and you're sitting there in front of me CURSING at me. Am I going to be nice to you? Am I going to pay attention to you? No. I wanna you ta shut up, and give me content. And make it NEWS, not something I already know.
cool the first time you see it. Then someone says "Hey, I could make money doing that."
And that's where it becomes subject to the rules which define the root of all evil.
Advertising is cool. Being money-driven is what sucks about it. Because until advertising isn't driven by money, stupid people will buy stupid things with their money, and we'll all have to sit through advertising targeted to them...
Or, rather, when we who hate advertising can teach those who respond to advertising not to respond to it, then advertisers will become defunct, like the folks who used to bring big blocks of ice to your house throughout the summer, having carved them out of the local lake all winter...
was your comment funny or serious. i can't tell whether i should laugh or say woe is me for livig in a world where people explain jokes like this... if you're being funny, you lost me at the part where you said "It was funny." Is this somethig recursive going on?
Slashdot Mirror
It's not much, but you just lost me as a reader of Slashdot.
Thanks for all the fish.
-Jared
sorry you sold out. when you start asking
me for money, for something i enjoy, is
when i hit the pavement. never sell out. bye.
Man, if you want a head rush, try this sometime. Adjust your slashdot settings to -1, and read _everything_ for about a week. Then set it back to whatever you're used to.
Whatever you're used to will seem stale and boring. "Where's all the crackheads?" You'll think.
I like -1, but man it's a lot to read... Nice
little off-topic tips, nestled in there with jokes about people's buttox. For the brave.
-wp
No, quit using HDs altogether.
You can get a motherboard with 4G of ram
these days. What do you need a hard drive
for?
Storage, only. Load it once, and off ya
go, fastern a bleeding spullet.
-wp
Of course it will have a 20 second "Slow Down, Cowboy!" timer. That's how long it will take to boot XP 2002. Linux will, of course, boot in .3 seconds on that motherboard.
t m
From the article: "But it may not take divine intervention to get more mileage out of copper interconnect. Intel claims it can reach speeds of 10 GHz and beyond in five to eight years using copper. "We're confident we can get to 10 GHz. And there's reason to believe we can double that," Pinfold said."
I'd put my money on copper; we're still using
gasoline, when hydrogen-powered cars have
been viable for years.
http://www.auto.com/industry/iwirn22_20010822.h
-wp
The first post here won't be as fast as that motherboard.
that's great news.
-wp
As I recall, I was able to create the Bose-Einstein condensate in my kitchen sink once. Man, all that hard work, and THESE guys get the Nobel for it... Well, better them than me, leaves me more time for programming...
So is it safe to assume that if you can delete things you don't, like, LIKE like autocomplete, then, like, can you also get, like, rid of prompts for, like, if you like to double your words like like?
"Breaking out of your culture is also important, because that is how we understand other cultures. As an explicitly multicultural language, Perl has generally done OK in this area, though we can always do better. Examples of cross-cultural exchange among computer cultures include XML and Unicode. (Not surprisingly, these features also enable better cross-cultural exchange among human cultures -- we sincerely hope.)"
It is for statements like this, that I am drawn into studying and using Perl. Many designers try to design a langauge which develops its own internal culture; it becomes static and internally consistent, but not very adventurous. Larry Wall seeks to develop a language which has built-in the fact that we like to explore, making his task more difficult, but a language which moves and flows with the evolution of our culture readily.
Keep up the great work!
It's a bout time.
Thanks, Larry Wall. Now for some fun reading...
Remember the first time you installed Apache?
It was secure by default because you had to learn what the heck you were doing, and a fair bit about the structure of your hard drive before you could get it running.
Now IIS is catching up, having learned what happens when you appeal to the lowest common denominator. This is very good news, because it means IIS will no longer be administrated by people who haven't a clue. It's not that IIS is inherently insecure, but that it's inherently run by people who don't know how to secure it.
Apache appeals to a different crowd, and is more secure by nature for that reason...
Started using e-mail in 1988, when it was 'bout half as old. I remember trying to explain to people what e-mail was. It was one of the great lessons of my life, because people looked at you dumbly, no matter how eloquently or simply you described the process.
Then one day, it "caught on." It had reached the media, and enough people knew how it worked that suddenly everyone seemed to know how it worked. As a geek, I didn't spend half an hour explaining e-mail anymore. I got right down to the nuts and bolts of showing people how to use it.
We used BITNET, back then...
-Jared
I am really sad to see laws against spam because it gives The Man control over something which puts their toes in the door.
I would prefer to fight spam privately. I do not like it, for I've been on the net since 1988, when spam was rare and the net was beautiful. But I do not think the solution is to make it illegal.
I think the blacklist sites are a reasonable, unmoderated, sensible approach that doesn't carry the curse of giving The Man more power over my non-spam actions.
-wp
No, I mean "you went for money, instead of having a soul"
Money for feeding a family is one thing. Money for living in a $500,000 house with three cars and a television in every room... Gadzooks, do you realize what you're arguing for?
Remember the lilies of the field.
When you have to pay to get the good stuff, then only rich people get the good stuff.
And rich people have no clue on what to do with the good stuff, because they have money to spend on the stupid things in life. People always opt for buying stupid things when they have money to spend. That's why advertising works.
Get money out of the loop, and then you're starting somewhere solid.
I have no problem with a 5 second page view ad.
And I know it's freaking expensive.
It's people like you who call me a freaking baby, when I'm agreeing with them. Why don't you target your post to the freaking babies, not to everyone in the conversation?
That's what sucks about advertising. Nobody knows who I am, and therefore I have to sit through advertisements which offend me.
I'm trying to get to CONTENT, and you're sitting there in front of me CURSING at me. Am I going to be nice to you? Am I going to pay attention to you? No. I wanna you ta shut up, and give me content. And make it NEWS, not something I already know.
By posting my comment in three pieces, I guarantee havoc with the moderators. THREE moderaters just to get me to shut up.
Gee. Is there a way to make money with this idea?
-wp
information wants to be free. otherwise, it would be called something else.
cool the first time you see it. Then someone says "Hey, I could make money doing that."
And that's where it becomes subject to the rules which define the root of all evil.
Advertising is cool. Being money-driven is what sucks about it. Because until advertising isn't driven by money, stupid people will buy stupid things with their money, and we'll all have to sit through advertising targeted to them...
Spoken by one who owns no television, of cours.
is
Advertising
Let it be someone other than me. As for me, I'm looking for an ad-free zone on the Internet.
When I drove through Canada a few years ago, I noticed the eery absence of billboards on the highways.
It was nice.
All those poor companies up there, losing money because they can't advertise on billboards...
It already is.
Here's the information. We love advertising.
When we don't respond to it, it'll go away.
Or, rather, when we who hate advertising can teach those who respond to advertising not to respond to it, then advertisers will become defunct, like the folks who used to bring big blocks of ice to your house throughout the summer, having carved them out of the local lake all winter...
The ad-man goeth...
Vigor does that. Geez. Wake up!
You're not being incomprehensible.
Uh,
was your comment funny or serious. i can't tell whether i should laugh or say woe is me for livig in a world where people explain jokes like this... if you're being funny, you lost me at the part where you said "It was funny." Is this somethig recursive going on?
thanks