Reading through all of your comments, all I see is that they are all super-biased and don't actually involve any rational thought. You are a selfish, elitist prick.
No offense, but having a strong opinion is not a crime. You're certainly not going to change that opinion by throwing around insults, either. The guy may have his problems (or he may not, I don't know), but intelligent discourse is a much better way of getting him to change his mind. For all you know he may be a very intelligent person who you would often agree with, or at least enjoy debating with.
I can't stand [Walmart]. I absolutely DREAD entering one. They aren't clean, they aren't friendly after you pass the greeter, and they aren't someplace that I want to shop for music as it's just usually a mess and full of people.
I think it depends on where you're at. Most of the Walmarts I use are Super-Walmarts in Wisconsin. They are always clean, pretty friendly, and very spacious. Yet when I was on vacation in St. Louis, I was in a normal sized Walmart that was at least 10 times over capacity. They were in serious need of a store upgrade and a few extra stores in the area.
So you may find that different people have different experiences with going into Walmarts. Big city people will probably hate them (lots of negativity toward them here in Chicago) while the less populated areas will love them.
You know, it would be pretty funny if someone hacked their DNS records. If the perpetrator took note of the original prosco.net IP address, they could "modify" the site slightly. i.e. The "news" would look the same and be kept up to date, but every story would have a "Add your comments here!" link at the bottom. 404s would simply pass back to SCO's site. Might take SCO a while before they figure out the problem.;-)
I skimmed the article but I hadn't noticed where he said that. Oh well, it just makes things that much more difficult for them. They're not going to develop a following of defenders (*snicker*) without a community to support them.
The truly amazing part is that Darl actually believes that there are individuals out there who buy his story. I don't think ANYONE believes his story at this point. At the very least, he can stop waiting for that groundswell of vocal support from the pro-SCO grassroots campaign.
By my calculations, the Linux kernel is worth: nothing.
Before you get your tights in a twist, just listen to me for a moment. The value of a product in a capitalistic system is determined by what the market is willing to bear. Yet it is not worth anything if the developers are not willing to sell it at what the market demands. Thus we have a gap. The market would probably be willing to bear a few million (perhaps as high as 50 million) dollars for the Linux IP. Yet it seems that the developers would demand a price in the range of 612 million.
The end result is that the Linux kernel has no market value what so ever. The developers won't sell it at the market's price, and the market won't buy it at the developers price.
Agreed. I do a lot of writing (mostly articles) on my Macintosh, and I've found it more pleasant by far to use NeoOfficeJ instead of Microsoft Word v.X. Microsoft's software *looks* better on the outset, but NeoOfficeJ is actually more readable, faster responding, more usable, etc. The anti-aliased fonts are wonderful, and I've *never* had a NeoOfficeJ crash that caused me to lose work. (The Java layer they added to OOo traps the error and forces a save before close.)
The only compatibility problem I've ever had was with a mismatched font. Apparently I had accidentally used a Mac Font that my editor didn't have. It was no big deal for him to fix, and he only mentioned it in passing.
Even the OOo spreadsheet program is better. I recently did some rough calculations on the cost of doing a Moon Shot today and found NeoOfficeJ SpreadSheet to be WAY more usable than Microsoft's. I've got to hand it to the OOo & NeoOfficeJ guys. They're doing amazing work.:-)
FWIW, StarOffice has been in development since 1986. That makes OpenOffice more like 18 years old. Only the name and the Open Source project "OpenOffice" have been around for four years.
The shoreline will disappear at the rate of about an inch every five years. Run for the hills.
OR, maybe the problem will be so slow and obvious that allows us time to fix it. We could put up retainer walls like the Dutch, or we might rebuild the shotelines in that time and not notice. We are talking about a few hundred years here.
As for hurricanes and such, it's again an issue that we don't truly know if the CO2 surplus is actually causing the problem. Especially when you consider that a single volcano erruption has more environmental impact than the entire modernized world combined. As a result, there's some question over whether we could stop things from heating up or not.
Even if we are causing the hurricane problems, it just comes back to my original statement. We're very good at killing ourselves, and that's why it makes sense to reduce pollution. Nature will do fine with or without us. No need to get all offended by such a statement.
The site is faster now, but the new page is still up. My suggestion is to refresh your browser. If it's still showing the old home page, then PayPal may just be rolling out the new site selectively to certain areas. It all seems to fit my theory, anyway.
Also, from the new front page:
Site Update A technical problem has caused intermittent availability for members attempting to use the site. Activities such as accessing account information, paying for ended eBay listings, and using PayPal shipping functionality have been intermittently available. PayPal is continuing to work to resolve these issues. We understand the inconvenience this issue has caused for some members, and we appreciate your patience.
There is a Sun logo at the bottom of the screen alongside those of other IT behemomoths such as Burger King and Toyota though.
??? Burger King and Toyota? Are you jokingly referring to the TrustE and BBB logos?
Well, I got in. It looks like PayPal is responding, but REALLY slowly. A couple of points of interest:
1. The front page is LOADED with new graphics and text.
2. There's now a "Powered by Sun" icon on the site.
What I'm wondering is if PayPal didn't overrun their bandwidth with new graphics and pages while simultaneously trying to upgrade the backend systems. The "intermittent problems" might have been caused by such an upgrade. Then Monday hits and they haven't completed upgrading/stress testing the system. What happens? Nose dive!
If my theory is correct, we can expect the performance to slowly improve as PayPal gets more systems online. Also keep an eye on that front page to see if any sudden changes show up.
If you accept that human emissions of greenhouse gasses contribute to global warming (which it sounds like you do) then you'd also agree that we have to do something about stopping it.
Actually, my approach is more practical. Humans are good at killing humans. Nature will survive just fine with or without us. So from my perspective I'm not really worried about massive climate changes, and more with the quality of life.
To be perfectly honest, I think a lot of the climate changes have to do with natural cycles in the Earth's history. Since we've actually been in one of the colder periods of Earth's history, it's only natural that things should warm up a little. While many of us are attached to geography as we know it today, who's to say that the geography that's evolving will be a problem? As my wife says, "we'll finally find out what's underneath the South Cap!":-)
The #1 offender being exempted doesn't magically erase the good of all the other countries signing the treaty. It's like saying "what's the good of arresting lesser terrorists if we haven't arrested Bin Laden?"
Look at the map. The NO2 levels in all other areas of the world don't even begin to compare to those of China.
For future reference, characterising other people as whiners is not a good idea if you want replies to be civil.
Are nuclear options not alternatives to fossil fuels?
Yes. And No.
There are two sides to the equation of power generation. One is large stationary power plants. Switching these to ever more modern nuclear designs would make a lot of sense, and would improve things dramatically.
Unfortunately, the other side of the equation is portable power generators like petroleum engines. (i.e. your car) These use power independent of the stationary plants and are much harder to find alternatives for. The best suggestion so far seems to be to switch to hydrogen for fuels, then create the hydrogen from the stationary power plants. That way we put all of our eggs back in one, easily controllable, basket.
FWIW, I should probably point out that there *are* actually two internets. It's just that your average joe never gets to see the second one. It's reserved for Universities, Researcher, Doctors, and other people who do more on the internet than watch videos of Britney Spears.
Take note everyone, the biggest red blob is over China (insert communist jokes here). For all the whining and complaining about how the US should have joined the Kyoto accord, it's very easy to see that China is the #1 offender, and that Europe is not doing so hot itself. What good would Kyoto have done if it exempted the country who needs it most?
That being said, China is still developing. Pollution should be a big concern for them, but it's an unfortunate fact of life for now. As their technology improves, the pollution levels should drop. With one caveat, that is:
Many modernized countries have sent their manufacturing to China. Thus placing restrictions on countries to reduce their emissions will do little good when we've already sent the real pollution over there. I'm not sure how we can respond to the situation, but it's important to pay attention to it.
The blob over Canada is actually a bit surprising, but I'm guessing that's related to the earlier article on the odd increases in pollution levels. I do have a thought on why North America sees less pollution than Europe, however. Since the North America has a massive amount of farmland and forest land, a good deal of the pollution is sapped up by these massive carbon sinks. This doesn't actually impact NO2 levels, but it does explain some of the pollution reduction.
FWIW, it seems that NO2 is primary produced by cars. Moving to the hydrogen vehicles of the future may help stop almost all NO2 production.
(P.S. I know slashdotters have a penchant for insulting people, but please try to keep your replies civil. I don't know everything, so correct me in a polite manner. Thank you.)
No, he probably means like C#'s XML serialization / de-serialization
You mean, something like Java's XMLEncoder? Nope, Java was still there first. Perhaps you're referring to the way DOM nodes can be queried directly via XPath?
That's certainly a nice feature that's not part of the core. No matter, we've been using libraries like JDom to XPath for quite a long time.:-)
Not quite. The term "internet" refers to the practice of merging disparate networks. If his neighbor had a LAN in his house and he had a LAN in his house, then linking them (not merging them!) could create an internet.
Most people still wouldn't refer to it as such, however, because the term 'internet' has pretty much become the exclusive property of "The Internet". Thus the network described above would tend to be called a WAN (Wide Area Network or Worldwide Area Network depending on your preference).
Personally, I don't care if Bush says "internet" or "internets". My impression is that he says it that way because he doesn't care about maintaining an intellectual facade. (Pronounced 'fa-kad' by fictional Vice Presidents.;-)) Bush feels that he's very much a "down-home" boy, and he makes every effort in his speech to reflect that.
That's why I get a kick out of his head bob maneuver. He's acting like a guy half his age, using exaggerated body language to show that he's [made his point | ready to go]. He's certainly more entertaining than Kerry (although Kerry does have his *cough*global test*cough* moments).:-)
The XML APIs were part of a standard extension in 1.3. They were added to the core in 1.4. Also, I found the JavaDocs for 1.1, so here's a link to back up my statement that MD5 support has been around that long.
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Reading through all of your comments, all I see is that they are all super-biased and don't actually involve any rational thought. You are a selfish, elitist prick.
No offense, but having a strong opinion is not a crime. You're certainly not going to change that opinion by throwing around insults, either. The guy may have his problems (or he may not, I don't know), but intelligent discourse is a much better way of getting him to change his mind. For all you know he may be a very intelligent person who you would often agree with, or at least enjoy debating with.
Sorry to interrupt, carry on.
I can't stand [Walmart]. I absolutely DREAD entering one. They aren't clean, they aren't friendly after you pass the greeter, and they aren't someplace that I want to shop for music as it's just usually a mess and full of people.
I think it depends on where you're at. Most of the Walmarts I use are Super-Walmarts in Wisconsin. They are always clean, pretty friendly, and very spacious. Yet when I was on vacation in St. Louis, I was in a normal sized Walmart that was at least 10 times over capacity. They were in serious need of a store upgrade and a few extra stores in the area.
So you may find that different people have different experiences with going into Walmarts. Big city people will probably hate them (lots of negativity toward them here in Chicago) while the less populated areas will love them.
...treat others as you would like to be treated. Enjoy the seed you sowed RIAA (and members)!
Ohh Nooo! What IF all (3 of them) try to swarm /.'s servers at THE SAME TIME....the PRESSURE!! the AGONY!! the FEAR!! the...
503 Error
You know, it would be pretty funny if someone hacked their DNS records. If the perpetrator took note of the original prosco.net IP address, they could "modify" the site slightly. i.e. The "news" would look the same and be kept up to date, but every story would have a "Add your comments here!" link at the bottom. 404s would simply pass back to SCO's site. Might take SCO a while before they figure out the problem. ;-)
You mean to say that Larry, his brother Daryl, and his other brother Daryl are all pro-SCO?! The horror!
I skimmed the article but I hadn't noticed where he said that. Oh well, it just makes things that much more difficult for them. They're not going to develop a following of defenders (*snicker*) without a community to support them.
The truly amazing part is that Darl actually believes that there are individuals out there who buy his story. I don't think ANYONE believes his story at this point. At the very least, he can stop waiting for that groundswell of vocal support from the pro-SCO grassroots campaign.
that they'll have a public forum open long enough to get their comments debunked on their own site! :-D
By my calculations, the Linux kernel is worth: nothing.
Before you get your tights in a twist, just listen to me for a moment. The value of a product in a capitalistic system is determined by what the market is willing to bear. Yet it is not worth anything if the developers are not willing to sell it at what the market demands. Thus we have a gap. The market would probably be willing to bear a few million (perhaps as high as 50 million) dollars for the Linux IP. Yet it seems that the developers would demand a price in the range of 612 million.
The end result is that the Linux kernel has no market value what so ever. The developers won't sell it at the market's price, and the market won't buy it at the developers price.
Odd as it may sound, I hadn't even noticed the issue. Have you tried the new NeoOfficeJ 1.1 Alpha 2? They may have fixed the problem there.
Hmm... Slashdot removed the spaces from my URL. Here's the correct URL
Agreed. I do a lot of writing (mostly articles) on my Macintosh, and I've found it more pleasant by far to use NeoOfficeJ instead of Microsoft Word v.X. Microsoft's software *looks* better on the outset, but NeoOfficeJ is actually more readable, faster responding, more usable, etc. The anti-aliased fonts are wonderful, and I've *never* had a NeoOfficeJ crash that caused me to lose work. (The Java layer they added to OOo traps the error and forces a save before close.)
:-)
The only compatibility problem I've ever had was with a mismatched font. Apparently I had accidentally used a Mac Font that my editor didn't have. It was no big deal for him to fix, and he only mentioned it in passing.
Even the OOo spreadsheet program is better. I recently did some rough calculations on the cost of doing a Moon Shot today and found NeoOfficeJ SpreadSheet to be WAY more usable than Microsoft's. I've got to hand it to the OOo & NeoOfficeJ guys. They're doing amazing work.
FWIW, StarOffice has been in development since 1986. That makes OpenOffice more like 18 years old. Only the name and the Open Source project "OpenOffice" have been around for four years.
The shoreline will disappear at the rate of about an inch every five years. Run for the hills.
OR, maybe the problem will be so slow and obvious that allows us time to fix it. We could put up retainer walls like the Dutch, or we might rebuild the shotelines in that time and not notice. We are talking about a few hundred years here.
As for hurricanes and such, it's again an issue that we don't truly know if the CO2 surplus is actually causing the problem. Especially when you consider that a single volcano erruption has more environmental impact than the entire modernized world combined. As a result, there's some question over whether we could stop things from heating up or not.
Even if we are causing the hurricane problems, it just comes back to my original statement. We're very good at killing ourselves, and that's why it makes sense to reduce pollution. Nature will do fine with or without us. No need to get all offended by such a statement.
The site is faster now, but the new page is still up. My suggestion is to refresh your browser. If it's still showing the old home page, then PayPal may just be rolling out the new site selectively to certain areas. It all seems to fit my theory, anyway.
Also, from the new front page:
Site Update
A technical problem has caused intermittent availability for members attempting to use the site. Activities such as accessing account information, paying for ended eBay listings, and using PayPal shipping functionality have been intermittently available. PayPal is continuing to work to resolve these issues. We understand the inconvenience this issue has caused for some members, and we appreciate your patience.
There is a Sun logo at the bottom of the screen alongside those of other IT behemomoths such as Burger King and Toyota though.
??? Burger King and Toyota? Are you jokingly referring to the TrustE and BBB logos?
Well, I got in. It looks like PayPal is responding, but REALLY slowly. A couple of points of interest:
1. The front page is LOADED with new graphics and text.
2. There's now a "Powered by Sun" icon on the site.
What I'm wondering is if PayPal didn't overrun their bandwidth with new graphics and pages while simultaneously trying to upgrade the backend systems. The "intermittent problems" might have been caused by such an upgrade. Then Monday hits and they haven't completed upgrading/stress testing the system. What happens? Nose dive!
If my theory is correct, we can expect the performance to slowly improve as PayPal gets more systems online. Also keep an eye on that front page to see if any sudden changes show up.
If you accept that human emissions of greenhouse gasses contribute to global warming (which it sounds like you do) then you'd also agree that we have to do something about stopping it.
:-)
Actually, my approach is more practical. Humans are good at killing humans. Nature will survive just fine with or without us. So from my perspective I'm not really worried about massive climate changes, and more with the quality of life.
To be perfectly honest, I think a lot of the climate changes have to do with natural cycles in the Earth's history. Since we've actually been in one of the colder periods of Earth's history, it's only natural that things should warm up a little. While many of us are attached to geography as we know it today, who's to say that the geography that's evolving will be a problem? As my wife says, "we'll finally find out what's underneath the South Cap!"
The single biggest blot, other than the one over everybody's favorite red menace,
:-D
Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of this statement?
The #1 offender being exempted doesn't magically erase the good of all the other countries signing the treaty. It's like saying "what's the good of arresting lesser terrorists if we haven't arrested Bin Laden?"
Look at the map. The NO2 levels in all other areas of the world don't even begin to compare to those of China.
For future reference, characterising other people as whiners is not a good idea if you want replies to be civil.
My apologies:
s/whining and complaining/loud vocal complaints/g
Are nuclear options not alternatives to fossil fuels?
Yes. And No.
There are two sides to the equation of power generation. One is large stationary power plants. Switching these to ever more modern nuclear designs would make a lot of sense, and would improve things dramatically.
Unfortunately, the other side of the equation is portable power generators like petroleum engines. (i.e. your car) These use power independent of the stationary plants and are much harder to find alternatives for. The best suggestion so far seems to be to switch to hydrogen for fuels, then create the hydrogen from the stationary power plants. That way we put all of our eggs back in one, easily controllable, basket.
FWIW, I should probably point out that there *are* actually two internets. It's just that your average joe never gets to see the second one. It's reserved for Universities, Researcher, Doctors, and other people who do more on the internet than watch videos of Britney Spears.
Take note everyone, the biggest red blob is over China (insert communist jokes here). For all the whining and complaining about how the US should have joined the Kyoto accord, it's very easy to see that China is the #1 offender, and that Europe is not doing so hot itself. What good would Kyoto have done if it exempted the country who needs it most?
That being said, China is still developing. Pollution should be a big concern for them, but it's an unfortunate fact of life for now. As their technology improves, the pollution levels should drop. With one caveat, that is:
Many modernized countries have sent their manufacturing to China. Thus placing restrictions on countries to reduce their emissions will do little good when we've already sent the real pollution over there. I'm not sure how we can respond to the situation, but it's important to pay attention to it.
The blob over Canada is actually a bit surprising, but I'm guessing that's related to the earlier article on the odd increases in pollution levels. I do have a thought on why North America sees less pollution than Europe, however. Since the North America has a massive amount of farmland and forest land, a good deal of the pollution is sapped up by these massive carbon sinks. This doesn't actually impact NO2 levels, but it does explain some of the pollution reduction.
FWIW, it seems that NO2 is primary produced by cars. Moving to the hydrogen vehicles of the future may help stop almost all NO2 production.
(P.S. I know slashdotters have a penchant for insulting people, but please try to keep your replies civil. I don't know everything, so correct me in a polite manner. Thank you.)
No, he probably means like C#'s XML serialization / de-serialization
:-)
You mean, something like Java's XMLEncoder? Nope, Java was still there first. Perhaps you're referring to the way DOM nodes can be queried directly via XPath?
That's certainly a nice feature that's not part of the core. No matter, we've been using libraries like JDom to XPath for quite a long time.
This is a LAN.
;-)) Bush feels that he's very much a "down-home" boy, and he makes every effort in his speech to reflect that.
:-)
Not quite. The term "internet" refers to the practice of merging disparate networks. If his neighbor had a LAN in his house and he had a LAN in his house, then linking them (not merging them!) could create an internet.
Most people still wouldn't refer to it as such, however, because the term 'internet' has pretty much become the exclusive property of "The Internet". Thus the network described above would tend to be called a WAN (Wide Area Network or Worldwide Area Network depending on your preference).
Personally, I don't care if Bush says "internet" or "internets". My impression is that he says it that way because he doesn't care about maintaining an intellectual facade. (Pronounced 'fa-kad' by fictional Vice Presidents.
That's why I get a kick out of his head bob maneuver. He's acting like a guy half his age, using exaggerated body language to show that he's [made his point | ready to go]. He's certainly more entertaining than Kerry (although Kerry does have his *cough*global test*cough* moments).
Quick correction:
The XML APIs were part of a standard extension in 1.3. They were added to the core in 1.4. Also, I found the JavaDocs for 1.1, so here's a link to back up my statement that MD5 support has been around that long.