yeah, i keep all my windows in my apartment cracked as it is....i have my heat turned all the way down too, problem is, all the way turned down == still too hot due to the settings in the apartment building. ah well, at least i don't have to use a fan this year. Last year i was on the 3rd floor of an overheated apartment building, and we had to have a fan in one of the windows up by the ceiling in order to keep the apartment a reasonable temperature.
Seriously, 6 computers, 4 of which are in the same room, running at full CPU stuff heats my apartment up to about 80 degrees, not to mention what the one room heats up to...
We do something similar where I work, CS department at University of Wisconsin. We use gaim for IRC and have a chatroom. Since some offices are on other floors, this is more convenient than walking up to see people, and it facilitates group discussions without sending out emails with a lot of cc's
the thing about the mcdonalds coffee was that it was served at a temperature that caused the lady 3rd degree burns....that's just crazy. That's the thing about that case that hardly gets mentioned, yeah, the lady was stupid for putting it on her lap, but to serve a liquid that can cause 3rd degree burns?? yeah, she deserved something from mcdonalds, although not whatever crazy amount she got.
slashdot knows that they will slow a site down, and possibly cause the server to crash. They don't expect the company they link to to go out of business.
And you might be right about the jury trials, I don't know all that much about them, except that most lawyers try to avoid them, heh.
Anyways, we should just agree to disagree, heh, since it's a completely hypothetical situation.
See, can you tell me what percentage of websites are hosted on cable? on OC3? on T1? etc...I'm not sure if it's listed anywhere. If it isn't, then it's hard to say what a reasonable knowledge would be, cause for all they know 99% of sites are on OC3...burden of proof goes to plaintif.
I don't know, I just don't think it would be easy to prove that slashdot knows that linking to a particular site would cause it to lose money, etc, as they don't KNOW what kind of line the site is on. I really don't know enough about the law to know for sure, but I'm pretty sure that slashdot would have decent enough lawyers to get them out of that charge.
I could be completely wrong though, and I doubt that's the sort of trial that would go to a jury...it wouldnt be a criminal charge, it would be a civil suit of sorts. It would have to be malicious intent for it to be a criminal charge, i'm pretty sure. Again, I'm not a laywer though...
HERE is a picture of mozilla doing the correct stylesheet, notice the fonts and such..
HERE is a shot of konqueror doing the correct layout, as it didn't accept the stylesheet. Ideally, it would do both...open the page up with IE to see what I mean...Opera should be able to do it too last I checked, except it might not have done the fonts. I don't remember, opera segfaults for me right now and I haven't bothered fixing it.
If you could figure out how to fix this for me, I'd be quite grateful.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/clubhouse?team=col doesn't load correctly with either mozilla or konqueror, at least. Opera did it right, but opera is b0rked on my gentoo install.
It is a slight bug in the page, yes, where it checks the browser ID to set the stylesheet. Konqueror does the layout correctly if you have it identify as konqueror. If you have konq identify as IE it will do the link colors right and the font sizes correctly, but it won't do the layout right.
Ditto for mozilla...if you have it identify as konqueror or something it will do the layout right, but if you have it identify as mozilla or IE it does font sizes/colors correctly but b0rks the layout.
a browser is hardly going to convince anyone to switch, and honestly, i don't care if linux wins the desktop market. I use linux because I love it, and will always continue to use it. linux isn't going to die if it doesn't become the desktop standard. It'd be nice to see more people use it, because funding would increase, and therfore better software, but seriously, what feature IS going to convince the masses to use linux, and does it really matter?
most likely, no, but the point i was trying to make is should it be slashdot's responsibility to investigate the webserver's capabilities and whatnot...yeah, common sense says that most sites can't survive a slashdotting. But the law requires at LEAST a reasonable knowledge, which legally is far different from common sense.
unfortunately, there would have to be proof of malicious intent, or at LEAST a reasonable knowledge taht linking to the page would cause the business to lose money.
Actually, how do they know that the small little website isn't being hosted by netscape.com or something?
Should slashdot be required to lookup who is hosting the site before they link to it?
See, we're getting into the other thing i said about a reasonable belief that what they're doing could cause the result. And, they would get a reckless homicide, not a murder charge, even murder 2.
Slashdot doesn't have a reasonable belief that linking to a site will cause the site to lose money or go out of business, as that would require them to have a reasonable knowledge of the site's bandwith payment plan.
unfortunately, there would have to be proof of malicious intent, or at LEAST a reasonable knowledge taht linking to the page would cause the business to lose money. While/. would have a reasonable knowledge taht linking to the page will cause the page to load slowly, they don't know what sort of connection the page is on, nor is it their responsibility to find out.
The day anybody becomes liable for linking to a page on the internet will be the end of the world wide web...that's the whole premise of the thing...
The only thing I can think of is something similar to the robots.txt file...have your webserver have a slashdot.txt file that says something like NoSlashdotLinkage = true in it or something, anything similar to the thing for preventing search engines.
It's unlikely that non subscribers would all be modded as redundant.
I end up with moderator points quite often, and I think i've only used a negative moderation once. I would bet most moderators would rather moderate positively than negatively as well.
It's also unlikely that there will be that many comments in the 1st 20 minutes that the other comments aren't noticeable, especially cause you'll have a lot less "haah the webserver must be running on a 286 cause it's slashdotted already hahaha" posts from subscribers...and that's what the majority of the posts in the first 20 minutes usually are, along with the FP! posts....
explain further, do you mean on the client or the server?
I had a file server that the motherboard went bad on, and therfore had to reboot often. If i would forget to umount or get out of the directory on the client machines, they would complain and refuse to unmount after the server came back up. I didn't delete anything on the server, just reboot it cause it would be hosed.
What could have I done so as to not have messed up clients that ended up needing a reboot? I'm not quite getting what you're saying, it'd be nice to know, heh.
Be sure to go out and vote for him when he comes up for reelection....The only senator with the balls to stand up for what's right.
My good professors made the boring interesting
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Besides openly not paying attention in class is just plain Rude to the professor. She/He has spent a fair amount of time preparing for you class and having people just sit there and surf the net is just rude. A lot of time inorder for a professor to get the main topic clear will have to go over a lot of borring stuff to give a foundation to the point of the topic and with all this distraction the booring stuff (which may not be on the test) will be ignored and the students (the one using the laptop and the ones distracted by them) who are distracted will loose out on the material.
Umm, not all teachers spend time preparing for lectures. And the ones that do will usually keep your attention pretty well, even with the boring stuff. I've had countless lectures where the teacher counted attendance and then basically read out of the book, and got confused and had to correct themselves all the time. I shouldn't be forced to pay attention to somebody reading out of the book.
A good teacher will make the boring stuff interesting. I had a Weather and Climate class that was the most boring stuff ever much of the time, but i loved the class, paid a lot of attention, and learned a lot of stuff, because the teacher was awesome (Jonathan Martin at UW) If the teacher really loves the subject, you can tell, and you start to enjoy the subject and I can tell you that practically everyone in that class was paying full attention. A good teacher will make jokes, do drawings and stuff on the chalkboard, and do pointless little experiments with things just to illustrate a point. Granted, some subjects don't really have that many options for "experiments" (english, etc) but it isn't that hard to do something interesting or funny so the students want to pay attention to get the jokes, if nothing else, heh. For what most college professors (not the TAs) get paid each year, they damn well better be good at teaching, not just smart. If they are bad at teaching, just stick them with research. Most TAs are pretty good at teaching (comp sci department excluded, because honestly most of them don't really speak english all that well) so just have one of them teach the class. They remember what it's like to be a student, and they're usually pretty good at keeping students attention.
i have been a moderator a ton of times and only once have i used a negative mod....why would you use it for that post? That's pretty ontopic to me, especially since the next one down on the page is +5 funny for saying snow instead of rain.
If anybody metamods this one be sure to disagree sheesh
Slashdot Mirror
yeah, i keep all my windows in my apartment cracked as it is....i have my heat turned all the way down too, problem is, all the way turned down == still too hot due to the settings in the apartment building. ah well, at least i don't have to use a fan this year. Last year i was on the 3rd floor of an overheated apartment building, and we had to have a fan in one of the windows up by the ceiling in order to keep the apartment a reasonable temperature.
I would, but then my apartment gets too damn hot.
Seriously, 6 computers, 4 of which are in the same room, running at full CPU stuff heats my apartment up to about 80 degrees, not to mention what the one room heats up to...
We do something similar where I work, CS department at University of Wisconsin. We use gaim for IRC and have a chatroom. Since some offices are on other floors, this is more convenient than walking up to see people, and it facilitates group discussions without sending out emails with a lot of cc's
It works out well.
yeah, hard to say, heh
the thing about the mcdonalds coffee was that it was served at a temperature that caused the lady 3rd degree burns....that's just crazy. That's the thing about that case that hardly gets mentioned, yeah, the lady was stupid for putting it on her lap, but to serve a liquid that can cause 3rd degree burns?? yeah, she deserved something from mcdonalds, although not whatever crazy amount she got.
slashdot knows that they will slow a site down, and possibly cause the server to crash. They don't expect the company they link to to go out of business.
And you might be right about the jury trials, I don't know all that much about them, except that most lawyers try to avoid them, heh.
Anyways, we should just agree to disagree, heh, since it's a completely hypothetical situation.
See, can you tell me what percentage of websites are hosted on cable? on OC3? on T1? etc...I'm not sure if it's listed anywhere. If it isn't, then it's hard to say what a reasonable knowledge would be, cause for all they know 99% of sites are on OC3...burden of proof goes to plaintif.
I don't know, I just don't think it would be easy to prove that slashdot knows that linking to a particular site would cause it to lose money, etc, as they don't KNOW what kind of line the site is on. I really don't know enough about the law to know for sure, but I'm pretty sure that slashdot would have decent enough lawyers to get them out of that charge.
I could be completely wrong though, and I doubt that's the sort of trial that would go to a jury...it wouldnt be a criminal charge, it would be a civil suit of sorts. It would have to be malicious intent for it to be a criminal charge, i'm pretty sure. Again, I'm not a laywer though...
HERE is a picture of mozilla doing the correct stylesheet, notice the fonts and such.. HERE is a shot of konqueror doing the correct layout, as it didn't accept the stylesheet. Ideally, it would do both...open the page up with IE to see what I mean...Opera should be able to do it too last I checked, except it might not have done the fonts. I don't remember, opera segfaults for me right now and I haven't bothered fixing it. If you could figure out how to fix this for me, I'd be quite grateful.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/clubhouse?team=col
doesn't load correctly with either mozilla or konqueror, at least. Opera did it right, but opera is b0rked on my gentoo install.
It is a slight bug in the page, yes, where it checks the browser ID to set the stylesheet.
Konqueror does the layout correctly if you have it identify as konqueror. If you have konq identify as IE it will do the link colors right and the font sizes correctly, but it won't do the layout right.
Ditto for mozilla...if you have it identify as konqueror or something it will do the layout right, but if you have it identify as mozilla or IE it does font sizes/colors correctly but b0rks the layout.
a browser is hardly going to convince anyone to switch, and honestly, i don't care if linux wins the desktop market.
I use linux because I love it, and will always continue to use it. linux isn't going to die if it doesn't become the desktop standard. It'd be nice to see more people use it, because funding would increase, and therfore better software, but seriously, what feature IS going to convince the masses to use linux, and does it really matter?
yeah, that mouse rocks
:0.1 -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" &
:0.1 &
.imwheelrc with the only the following in it
and you can use the 4th/5th buttons in linux, too
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" &
xmodmap -display
imwheel -p -k -b "67" &
imwheel -p -k -b "67" -X
just remove the second instance of each if you don't use dualhead on an nvidia card
and have a
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None, Up, Alt_L|Left
None, Down, Alt_L|Right
works great.
most likely, no, but the point i was trying to make is should it be slashdot's responsibility to investigate the webserver's capabilities and whatnot...yeah, common sense says that most sites can't survive a slashdotting. But the law requires at LEAST a reasonable knowledge, which legally is far different from common sense.
do a GOOGLE SEARCH for what you seek and maybe you'll find out...
that doesn't mean anything....common sense doesn't tell me what sort of line any given website is on...
for example, off the top of your head, who hosts www.digitalblasphemy.com and what connection is it on?
Actually, how do they know that the small little website isn't being hosted by netscape.com or something? Should slashdot be required to lookup who is hosting the site before they link to it?
i would say that any hydrogen atom that can sustain a (more or less) unchanging, steady, stable orbit around a plant would be considered a satellite.
I think pretty much any object that can sustain an orbit around a planet could be considered a satellite.
i'm not an astronomer, though, so i could be way off.
See, we're getting into the other thing i said about a reasonable belief that what they're doing could cause the result.
And, they would get a reckless homicide, not a murder charge, even murder 2.
Slashdot doesn't have a reasonable belief that linking to a site will cause the site to lose money or go out of business, as that would require them to have a reasonable knowledge of the site's bandwith payment plan.
unfortunately, there would have to be proof of malicious intent, or at LEAST a reasonable knowledge taht linking to the page would cause the business to lose money. /. would have a reasonable knowledge taht linking to the page will cause the page to load slowly, they don't know what sort of connection the page is on, nor is it their responsibility to find out.
While
The day anybody becomes liable for linking to a page on the internet will be the end of the world wide web...that's the whole premise of the thing...
The only thing I can think of is something similar to the robots.txt file...have your webserver have a slashdot.txt file that says something like NoSlashdotLinkage = true in it or something, anything similar to the thing for preventing search engines.
It's unlikely that non subscribers would all be modded as redundant.
I end up with moderator points quite often, and I think i've only used a negative moderation once. I would bet most moderators would rather moderate positively than negatively as well.
It's also unlikely that there will be that many comments in the 1st 20 minutes that the other comments aren't noticeable, especially cause you'll have a lot less "haah the webserver must be running on a 286 cause it's slashdotted already hahaha" posts from subscribers...and that's what the majority of the posts in the first 20 minutes usually are, along with the FP! posts....
explain further, do you mean on the client or the server?
I had a file server that the motherboard went bad on, and therfore had to reboot often.
If i would forget to umount or get out of the directory on the client machines, they would complain and refuse to unmount after the server came back up. I didn't delete anything on the server, just reboot it cause it would be hosed.
What could have I done so as to not have messed up clients that ended up needing a reboot? I'm not quite getting what you're saying, it'd be nice to know, heh.
It says, "Take more math classes"
Mine too, so I'm gonna upgrade to the 9500 ASC
Preview of 9500 ASC
Didn't you know that fuses went out of style sometime in the late 22nd century??
Lame-o
Ditto.
Be sure to go out and vote for him when he comes up for reelection....The only senator with the balls to stand up for what's right.
Umm, not all teachers spend time preparing for lectures. And the ones that do will usually keep your attention pretty well, even with the boring stuff. I've had countless lectures where the teacher counted attendance and then basically read out of the book, and got confused and had to correct themselves all the time. I shouldn't be forced to pay attention to somebody reading out of the book.
A good teacher will make the boring stuff interesting. I had a Weather and Climate class that was the most boring stuff ever much of the time, but i loved the class, paid a lot of attention, and learned a lot of stuff, because the teacher was awesome (Jonathan Martin at UW) If the teacher really loves the subject, you can tell, and you start to enjoy the subject and I can tell you that practically everyone in that class was paying full attention. A good teacher will make jokes, do drawings and stuff on the chalkboard, and do pointless little experiments with things just to illustrate a point. Granted, some subjects don't really have that many options for "experiments" (english, etc) but it isn't that hard to do something interesting or funny so the students want to pay attention to get the jokes, if nothing else, heh.
For what most college professors (not the TAs) get paid each year, they damn well better be good at teaching, not just smart. If they are bad at teaching, just stick them with research. Most TAs are pretty good at teaching (comp sci department excluded, because honestly most of them don't really speak english all that well) so just have one of them teach the class. They remember what it's like to be a student, and they're usually pretty good at keeping students attention.
why the heck would you mod that down as offtopic?
i have been a moderator a ton of times and only once have i used a negative mod....why would you use it for that post? That's pretty ontopic to me, especially since the next one down on the page is +5 funny for saying snow instead of rain.
If anybody metamods this one be sure to disagree
sheesh
are you one of the geeks from that comedy central show beat the geeks?
i hope so, cause there is no other excuse to know that, heh