this is a legitimate question, so please don't flame the bajesus out of me (i'm even posting non-anon to show goodwill. =)
what uses would the dreamcast have once this project is reasonably advanced and what might this resulting machine compare to in standard pc-ish language in regards to speed (or anything else you care to compare it to).
basically, as a linux neophyte, i'm wondering if i should get on the mailing list and trying it out once it gets to a semi-useful phase.
i see a lot of well thought out responses that suggest that yahoo has every right - like toys r us for example - to refuse to allow certain things on it's network.
the fact is there is a world of difference between toys r us and ebay. you restrict porn from toys r us because it's a childrens store. you restrict porn because a rational argument can be built that children aren't ready for such things. but what of nazi paraphernalia, what are they hiding from us? an idea? an odious memory? the difference between toys r us and ebay is the difference between realizing a certain maturity is required, and saying a certain maturity isn't possible. which i'm afraid to say is bunk.
i cringe to bring up the spectre of orwell, but what else is this??
that having been said, the onus lands squarely upon the french government. if i was ebay i'd do the same damned thing. but it's the french (and the germans) who are just as ignorant as khadafy, milosevic and china when they think that state-sponsored censorship of ideas works. thank you falun gong. what's ironic is that if hitler won, isn't this precisely what he'd do? those goddamned capitalists.
sid [landside]: c'mon, kids. tick tock. maybe you could hold your breath every so often? pitr [alpha]: i am thinkink you might try turnink the wrench clockwise, da? stef [alpha]: wrench! clockwise! can't you geeks speak in plain !@#$ing english?!
I'm semi-surprised to not see anyone...at least not anyone who hasn't already been modded up to 3 or better...question the veracity of the idea that our government spent 72 mil. to protect against fears resulting from reentry. I'm not very big on conspiracy theories, but if the discussion went something like this:
gov't: yeah...um...people are terrified, senator. give us seventy-two mil. senator: sure. [plop]
...then let me humbly suggest they have other plans. In addition, I want to see who approved this and on what evidence.
I worked for RCN in the Springfield, Massachusetts callcenter less than a year ago and...the article is *stunningly* accurate.
When it was still Javanet, we would provision accounts with a wonderfully stripped down program (whose name escapes me), invested something like 100 mil in a new system which didn't work. This had us resorting to paper applications for both account creation and cancelation. They'd frequently get shuffled or lost, resulting in people cancelling but still getting billed. The customer would call back and ask why they were still getting charged, the tech would tell them a credit would be issued and send them on their way. The customer would call back three months later and ask why they're still getting billed. The reply we were instructed to give? "Sorry, we have no record of you calling, you're stuck with the $19.99 x n weeks bill, have a nice day."
The founder of Javanet quit not too long after RCN made a screaming wreck out of his company's name.
Yes, there were a few individuals who took some perverse pleasure in sticking it to the customers (think "Clerks"), but the vast majority didn't. one quit, simply telling a boss that he was sick of lying to people. We received an email saying "you shouldn't lie to customers." It was darkly comical.
Then you have your assorted thugs, the only type of people who can truly rise to management in close proximity of this bullshit. We had one guy - John Boynton - who everyone alternately feared (because he truly loved screaming at people like a 4-year-old) and felt sorry for (because he so desparately needed to be sodomized). Still does from what I hear. Scream, not get sodomized, that is. What can you say about a guy who irons his underwear?
Finally, we once recieved gift boxes - all of us - with some sort of appreciation gift inside. Turned out to be a styofoam oversized puzzle piece with the words "you're part of the solution" (or something) on a laminated side. One intrepid individual boxed them all up, sent them back to corporate with a letter asking for a working mailserver instead. Oh, and the pieces didn't fit. We thought that was foreboding.
But I doubt there is a large contingent of Slashdot readers that often calls tech support. If you're one of them, realize that those in power are quite well insulated from you. The best thing you can do if you're getting fucked by one of these mindless corporations (don't you just love RCN's WWII advertising chic?) is to buy a single stock and then you have the right as a stockholder to include your experience in their offical meeting notes. Of course it's not entirely nessesary to go through that hassle, but finding out the name of the third or fifth person from the top (as opposed to the bottom) and letting them know your intent doe makes a big difference.
"I had a whole plan of this myself, but of course that's WAY against their terms of use."
hrm. the act of obtaining them or posession of them? might be illegal to run a bot in such a manner, but owning a list of valid im names? someone would just have to harvest them and sell the list. i'm stunned that nobody has done this yet.
but talk about intrusive! forget a phonecall during dinner, imagine the phone throwing the handset at your head!
"However, I clearly think that if Gore continues to go ahead with his lawyers in front of Democrat judges (who already have rewritten the law, in effect
changing the rules of the game after the ball has been put in play), he's going to destroy his party."
i've heard this assertion before. what laws did they rewrite? did they overstep their legal boundaries and if so, which?
my biggest concern - whoever the winner might turn out to be - is if the will of the people was represented. it's worth noting that gore *did* take the popular vote by an uncontested margin.
but i'm interested to see if your reply covers ground that the media soundbytes have failed to; where have they rewritten law, specifically?
with no public representation, how can we even pretend to be surprised? as a few other/.ers have pointed out, there are plenty of companies who don't view $150 x 15 as even remotely cumbersome. on the other hand, it's some serious loot for the people who do this - registrars who (gasp) were represented.
there is not one iota of usefulness in this aside from making money. none. zero. nada. all the more reason to look at the current alternatives and maybe...oh, i dunno, doing something about them. we are, after all, the ones who have the system by the short-n-curlies. if it wasn't for our sneaking linux in to the point where people realized it's viability and dare i say "superiority" (call me a zealot, i am), then where would it be? in the hands of hobbyists and dreamers, where alternate dns is now.
sorry, i'm just ranting. again, slashdot does a lot of whining and yet creates no mechanism to fight.
i'm reading this site and...isn't there a foobin' FAQ? i'm not a ham, prolly won't be a ham anytime this year, i just want to know (in a nutshell) what this thing does. not the ku band specs, not who worked on it, *what it does* in laymans terms.
"Our University got caught redhanded by BSA for running unlicensed Microsoft software on some staff computers.
As a part of the settlement, they had to sign to an exclusive Microsoft campus license. This means that the University is in breach of the contract if
non-Microsoft Operating Systems are run on any computer in the campus network."
That's sorta like WalMart catching me stealing a pair of boxers, then forcing me to sign an agreement to never buy my skivvies anywhere but from them! You really have to marvel at the logic on that one...
"Once that drag
exceeds the force of gravity, she'll start to slow down, producing less drag. So her drag will never significantly exceed enough to counteract gravity."
I just want to see the RIAA done with. Gone. Kaput. Why? Because I'm not so much interested in getting my De La Soul tracks for free (of course you can always kick a few to them via FairTunes.com), but to see artists promoted based on merit. Yeah, I know the whole rant about how much the labels pay to promote a band but maybe that's the problem. Call me a dreamer, but maybe...just maybe...people might listen to an artist because s/he doesn't suck. I know, fantasy. I stopped listening to radio a year and a half ago thanks to Napster. Squarepusher. Blumchen. BT. Hooverphonic. Bran Van 3000. Olive. Amazing stuff that I'd never have heard otherwise. It's just not what they want you to hear.
Oh well, sorry for my rant. I just don't see what the end of the RIAA has to do with music. No more boy bands, no more sixteen year olds...in...catsuits...um, wait...
"I'm not about to boycott Guinness over some petty squabble they have with someone, particularly when I haven't heard their side of the story."
Sure you have, their argument is posted right in the link in the original blurb. Here, you can have it again.
"IMHO WIPO should work to discourage the creation of stupid names like those."
You believe that there should be an international body that determines when my 1st Amendment right to ridicule a corproation goes too far? I'm all ears, tell me what guidelines you'd like to see set, what you'd consider acceptable and not. I'm dying to see your reply.
"I'm not saying pot unquestionably leads to harder drugs, but I don't think you want to give the youth the impression that
some drugs (which might be used as stepping-stones to harder drugs) are ok."
cust: um, yeah, i can't seem to dial in anymore.
tech: okay, let's take a look at your settings. go into dial up networking...
cust: isn't anything there that says "dial up networking". i deleted it.
tech: hm. no problem, just get out your handy win98 disk and we'll get that fixed for you.
cust: disk?
tech: [giving self joe-forehead]
cust: jesus, can't you people get me connected? your service is lousy and your tech people are incompetent.
look... this whole nefarious @home bull**** is bogus, i won't argue that point, but assuming the problem lies with the customer clearly falls under occam's razor, kids. if you hear a clunking noise coming from your toilet, do you check the chimney? me neither.
1.Hop!
2.Hit side of crater.
3.Roll to bottom of crater.
4.Repeat.
Sure, but the sheer simplicity of these mean you can make many more and just fling them to the heavens in kubrician glee. This isn't flawless, just simplifying the device by so many magnitudes that the loss is more than made up for in numbers. Think ants. Less bright than your golden retriever, but it can do one hell of a macarena. Or whatever...
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what uses would the dreamcast have once this project is reasonably advanced and what might this resulting machine compare to in standard pc-ish language in regards to speed (or anything else you care to compare it to).
basically, as a linux neophyte, i'm wondering if i should get on the mailing list and trying it out once it gets to a semi-useful phase.
My .02,
the fact is there is a world of difference between toys r us and ebay. you restrict porn from toys r us because it's a childrens store. you restrict porn because a rational argument can be built that children aren't ready for such things. but what of nazi paraphernalia, what are they hiding from us? an idea? an odious memory? the difference between toys r us and ebay is the difference between realizing a certain maturity is required, and saying a certain maturity isn't possible. which i'm afraid to say is bunk.
i cringe to bring up the spectre of orwell, but what else is this??
that having been said, the onus lands squarely upon the french government. if i was ebay i'd do the same damned thing. but it's the french (and the germans) who are just as ignorant as khadafy, milosevic and china when they think that state-sponsored censorship of ideas works. thank you falun gong. what's ironic is that if hitler won, isn't this precisely what he'd do? those goddamned capitalists.
My .02,
My .02,
My .02,
the ultimate prior art attack. =)
My .02,
pitr [alpha]: i am thinkink you might try turnink the wrench clockwise, da?
stef [alpha]: wrench! clockwise! can't you geeks speak in plain !@#$ing english?!
My .02,
gov't: yeah ...um ...people are terrified, senator. give us seventy-two mil.
senator: sure. [plop]
My .02,
When it was still Javanet, we would provision accounts with a wonderfully stripped down program (whose name escapes me), invested something like 100 mil in a new system which didn't work. This had us resorting to paper applications for both account creation and cancelation. They'd frequently get shuffled or lost, resulting in people cancelling but still getting billed. The customer would call back and ask why they were still getting charged, the tech would tell them a credit would be issued and send them on their way. The customer would call back three months later and ask why they're still getting billed. The reply we were instructed to give? "Sorry, we have no record of you calling, you're stuck with the $19.99 x n weeks bill, have a nice day."
The founder of Javanet quit not too long after RCN made a screaming wreck out of his company's name.
Yes, there were a few individuals who took some perverse pleasure in sticking it to the customers (think "Clerks"), but the vast majority didn't. one quit, simply telling a boss that he was sick of lying to people. We received an email saying "you shouldn't lie to customers." It was darkly comical.
Then you have your assorted thugs, the only type of people who can truly rise to management in close proximity of this bullshit. We had one guy - John Boynton - who everyone alternately feared (because he truly loved screaming at people like a 4-year-old) and felt sorry for (because he so desparately needed to be sodomized). Still does from what I hear. Scream, not get sodomized, that is. What can you say about a guy who irons his underwear?
Finally, we once recieved gift boxes - all of us - with some sort of appreciation gift inside. Turned out to be a styofoam oversized puzzle piece with the words "you're part of the solution" (or something) on a laminated side. One intrepid individual boxed them all up, sent them back to corporate with a letter asking for a working mailserver instead. Oh, and the pieces didn't fit. We thought that was foreboding.
But I doubt there is a large contingent of Slashdot readers that often calls tech support. If you're one of them, realize that those in power are quite well insulated from you. The best thing you can do if you're getting fucked by one of these mindless corporations (don't you just love RCN's WWII advertising chic?) is to buy a single stock and then you have the right as a stockholder to include your experience in their offical meeting notes. Of course it's not entirely nessesary to go through that hassle, but finding out the name of the third or fifth person from the top (as opposed to the bottom) and letting them know your intent doe makes a big difference.
My .02,
hrm. the act of obtaining them or posession of them? might be illegal to run a bot in such a manner, but owning a list of valid im names? someone would just have to harvest them and sell the list. i'm stunned that nobody has done this yet.
but talk about intrusive! forget a phonecall during dinner, imagine the phone throwing the handset at your head!
My .02,
i've heard this assertion before. what laws did they rewrite? did they overstep their legal boundaries and if so, which?
my biggest concern - whoever the winner might turn out to be - is if the will of the people was represented. it's worth noting that gore *did* take the popular vote by an uncontested margin.
but i'm interested to see if your reply covers ground that the media soundbytes have failed to; where have they rewritten law, specifically?
My .02,
there is not one iota of usefulness in this aside from making money. none. zero. nada. all the more reason to look at the current alternatives and maybe ...oh, i dunno, doing something about them. we are, after all, the ones who have the system by the short-n-curlies. if it wasn't for our sneaking linux in to the point where people realized it's viability and dare i say "superiority" (call me a zealot, i am), then where would it be? in the hands of hobbyists and dreamers, where alternate dns is now.
sorry, i'm just ranting. again, slashdot does a lot of whining and yet creates no mechanism to fight.
My .02,
i'm reading this site and ...isn't there a foobin' FAQ? i'm not a ham, prolly won't be a ham anytime this year, i just want to know (in a nutshell) what this thing does. not the ku band specs, not who worked on it, *what it does* in laymans terms.
[that is a hint and a half, kids]
My .02,
My .02,
As a part of the settlement, they had to sign to an exclusive Microsoft campus license. This means that the University is in breach of the contract if non-Microsoft Operating Systems are run on any computer in the campus network."
That's sorta like WalMart catching me stealing a pair of boxers, then forcing me to sign an agreement to never buy my skivvies anywhere but from them! You really have to marvel at the logic on that one...
My .02,
translation: she won't float. no kidding.
My .02,
My .02,
Oh well, sorry for my rant. I just don't see what the end of the RIAA has to do with music. No more boy bands, no more sixteen year olds ...in ...catsuits ...um, wait...
My .02,
Sure you have, their argument is posted right in the link in the original blurb. Here, you can have it again.
"IMHO WIPO should work to discourage the creation of stupid names like those."
You believe that there should be an international body that determines when my 1st Amendment right to ridicule a corproation goes too far? I'm all ears, tell me what guidelines you'd like to see set, what you'd consider acceptable and not. I'm dying to see your reply.
My .02,
[thinking]
wait, that's sorta what i do now...
My .02,
My .02,
caffiene. nicotine. prozac. alcohol. prescription diet pills. viagra. ritalin.
i'm with you, dude, i think commercials, billboards and magazine ads promoting some drugs as acceptable is just plain hypocritical.
My .02,
tech: okay, let's take a look at your settings. go into dial up networking...
cust: isn't anything there that says "dial up networking". i deleted it.
tech: hm. no problem, just get out your handy win98 disk and we'll get that fixed for you.
cust: disk?
tech: [giving self joe-forehead]
cust: jesus, can't you people get me connected? your service is lousy and your tech people are incompetent.
look... this whole nefarious @home bull**** is bogus, i won't argue that point, but assuming the problem lies with the customer clearly falls under occam's razor, kids. if you hear a clunking noise coming from your toilet, do you check the chimney? me neither.
My .02,
My .02,
2.Hit side of crater.
3.Roll to bottom of crater.
4.Repeat.
Sure, but the sheer simplicity of these mean you can make many more and just fling them to the heavens in kubrician glee. This isn't flawless, just simplifying the device by so many magnitudes that the loss is more than made up for in numbers. Think ants. Less bright than your golden retriever, but it can do one hell of a macarena. Or whatever...
My .02,
My .02,