That's really weird, considering. Until now I figured that in India Microsoft had even more dominance than it does in the US. I mean on campus just about everyone uses AIM/ICQ, clients range from the "real" ones to gAIM to Trillian, but the service is the same. But it seems that all the students from India use MSN messenger. And this isn't an exxageration, all of them use it and nobody else does. Just go to the library and walk around the lab and you'll see. So linux in India seems real real weird.
I'm with you there. I've always used Sun for all my java codin' and I've never had a problem. If it aint broke, don't fix it. I mean sure, I don't have the source code for it, but it's object oriented. If there's somethign I don't like I can write my own. Like I would know how to edit, let alone write, code for a compiler!
Here's a hint. Violate the DMCA! Thousands of people do it every day without even realizing it! here's how it works. First buy a cd, then use some software from the net to bypass the copy protection (the illegal part!) and voi la! mp3s! And to make sure the RIAA doesn't get your money, you can return the CD after! Oh the wonders of technology!
What get caught? Go to court? If that ever happens hooray! You can fight unless you get in the ring.
I remember when I was in second grade. They told us we were going to be the class of 2000. They made us do a little project on what we thought the world would be like in 2000. I did my project on flying cars. I made a car that transformed from wheels to wings with construx. And the class was pretty unanimous on moving sidewalks. Guess what, it's not the jetsons, but it is the internet. Predicting the future is fun, but I'd put more stake in science fiction becoming true than what any official predictor says.
because in Japan a ringtone isn't annoying beeps. It's frickin' mp3 quality. I don't know about you, but when I find new cool techno music I throw a party.
Step 1 - Find nearby University Step 2 - Check to see if their internet connection is adequate. (OC3 should be enough) Step 3 - Pay freshman in the dorms to keep a computer in his room and never touch it. Pay him the 20$ a month you usually pay for your ISP. Step 4 - Two nics in the pc, one on the college network. It should work automatically with DHCP. The other nic in a DSL modem. Use something like Mandrake Security and install a PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) server. Step 5 - Connect to your personal DSL service from home using something like Enternet. Yes, they make Enternet for linux.
Not sure how well it would work, but there are lots of sites that tell you how to roll your own DSL. We though of doing this because one day we're going to have to leave college and our internet connection will suck! T1 for us!
I used to not like on-board components. Simply because they limited choice in one way or another. And customizeability was key. So was performance, and an actualy video card or sound card was always 10 times better than an on-board one. However ABIT's new NF7-S and the nforce2 chipset. I don't mind an on-board video card if it's a GeForce 4. Especially since a GeForce 4 card will run you a few hundred. An on-board NIC is just a PCI slots savings and on-board sound means two sound cards for me. 2 sound cards can be more useful than you think.
If you really don't want any onboard stuff ABIT, ASUS, SOYO, and all the other major board manufacturers make boards without built in stuff. But built in no longer means crap.
Oh man. You are what's wrong with this world. I will give you the most basic example of when the smart (i.e: rational) thing to do is the wrong thing to do.
Let's say someone is in mortal danger. They will definitely die unless you act. Your action may or may not save them, and if you act you may or may not kill yourself. Smart thing? let them die. Right thing? save them.
Let's try again, in case you don't think saving lives is the right thing to do. Let's look at a more selfish situation. Someone has a gun to your head. And tells you to push a button. Pushing that button will kill your friend. If you don't push it you die. Smart thing? kill your friend. Right thing? attempt to beat up the guy with a gun to your head.
And according to most of the people here it seems they don't think Microsoft or the RIAA have been doign the right thing, or the government either for that matter. But I doubt you could argue they weren't doing what was smart.
yes, you can get a free copy of Visual Studio.NET. TECHNICALLY only people in SE can get it, but if you ask an SE major they can get you unlimited free licenses with their login and password you can just download isoz of XP, 2k, VS.NET, and just about everythign except office. It's pretty sweet.
I really don't care what kind of agreement my college (RIT) has with MS. I got a legal and free copy of Visual Studio.NET. And I don't care what you say about Microsoft's evil business practices. But I don't see any developement environments that are that amazing for linux. I mean KDevelop is good and all, but it doesn't even come close. I already pay my school thousands of dollars every year, and if some shady agreement with MS puts Win2k in the labs and Visual Studio on my PC I got no problem with it.
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Flash is a tool, it is not in itself evil or good. I mean sure, flash brings us crap like well, the ads on www.weather.com.
It also brings us www.homestarrunner.com.
If you think I'm going to give up strongbad's e-mail in order to "unchoke the flow of free information" or to get rid of a few ads you've got another thing coming. Besides flash works on almost any device so I don't see how it chokes the flow, if it can flow anywhere.
Let me check my list. I promised myself I wouldnt' buy any portable device until it was all the following in one.
Cell-Phone Pager mp3 player digital camera PDA wireless networking enabled touch-lcd screen interface w/color
Does it have wireless networking? If you look back I'm sure you can find the slashdot story where I asked for this and everyone said it would never happen. Sure it's got Windows on it, but who cares?
I'm poor now though, but I'll definitely be buying the second generation of these things no matter what. Holy crap!
If there is a piece of vaporware to rule them all it is Team Fortress 2. Check out the website http://tf2.sierra.com. The last time the news on the site was updated was Jan 23, 2001!!! The game has been in the works since 1998!! According to all the official websites TF2 is still in developement/coming soon. Neither Sierra nor Valve has reported that the game is dead. Some version of the game was even demo'd once or twice, which means it was SOMETHING.
TF2, king of vaporware.
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On the surface that sounds like a really good idea, there is one problem. This wont work for an ISP, and here's why. Let's say I'm an ISP, right now I need a relatively small machine to be my SMTP server. I can filter it and secure it, but that's about it. Now let's say I implement this token system as you suggest. This requires a great deal more bandwith and processor on BOTH ends. The spammer and the ISP. Most likely it will be so cost prohibitive to send spam that people will stop doing it. However, in order to keep the spammers away you have to now spend a whole lot more money on your bigger SMTP server.
Next thing you know a spammer finds a way to crack the token system. He now no longer needs a crapload of processor for all those e-mails. The ISP still does. Or some spammer sets up a distributed spamming client. Instead of having one big machine that sends a million mails he gets a thousand machines to send a hundred e-mails each. A permissions to send system ends up only costing the ISP money and not actually solving the problem.
The problem is that unlike snail mail SPAM, e-mail SPAM costs the recipient money in one form or another. So sending someone SPAM hurts them, spammers are hurting people, that's wrong. They shouldn't be doing it.
Of course, I don't get SPAM, because I'm not an idiot, but that's another story.
dude! why are you all anonymous and shit! what you did to my post is awesome. I actually had originally written a more serious longer post (that would have probably also been +5), but I said "fuck all" and wrote that in like 10 seconds. Says the same thing, less elegant.
People have no balls these days. If someone ever sends me a C&D letter, I'm going to say no. I wont bend over for anyone. I've got nothing to lose. The worst you can do is sue me, and I've got no money! What are they going to do? Jail me for writing something and putting it on a website? I doubt it. If somehow they do, then I'll do my best to become a martyr for the cause.
Knowing slashdot some of you will think I'm an idiot. But the reason that there's so much wrong going on lies mainly in the fact that people no longer stand up and fight. They sit back and take it in the ass. Every great movement in history was started by a few people who said "screw this shit!" and did something about it. So, to everyone who has gotten or will get a C&D letter from anyone. If you feel that what you were requested to cease doing is not wrong (read: wrong as in evil bad, not wrong as in illegal. What is legal and what is just are completely different) join me in saying "SCREW YOU!"
Most of the time they simply expect you to comply, it will be a great shock when you don't. Often so much of a shock that they wont even follow up. Especially when they realize the legal costs are sometimes greater than what they can get out of you.
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My personal whackball theory was that aliens ARE humans. I mean the odds of any species in outer space being able to locate our small ass planet AND get to it are very very small. And the odds of that species being remotely humanoid are even smaller. This leads me to randomly guess that aliens are super-evolved humans from the future travelling into the past. The whole abduction thing is just so nobody knows/believes it, and that way they wont fudge up history, just study it.
no, no it wont. That's why you combine it with PGP or other favorite encryption tool. It seems Bush knows I transferred a 640MB enmcrypted file last night. It must be an.iso, pirate! NSA spends lots of money decrypting it to reveal a looping video of me laughing at them, telling in Soviet Russia jokes, and http://www.dubyadubyadubya.com about 10 times.
I bought my HP deskjet 810C 3 years ago for about $150. To this day cartridges are like 40 bucks each. I've seen printers today go for 40 bucks each, or even less! This printer still has great quality and runs like its brand new. I think we can all agree cartridges being cheaper is a good thing. But I really wouldn't mind printers being more expensive. As long as they aren't prohibitively expensive. If my printer ever needed to be replaced (doubtful in the near future) I would be willing to pay like 250$ to get one that it just as high quality. So if the price of printers goes up, I don't mind. As long as the next one I buy doesn't cost a grand.
Let's say your making a linux game. Head over to the linux gaming community, there will be people there who are linux gamers, and also coders!
If you're making say a media player for windows, find a community of people who are looking for an alternate media player for windows.
No matter what your project is there is someone out there who will work on it.
I'm a perfect example. I know how to code, but I'm not involved in any OSS projects. Not because I don't want to and not because I can't. I'm not involved because I'm not actively seeking a project to work on. But if someone came up to me and asked "hey, I saw you in that forum/irc/newsgroup talking about XYZ. You know how to code? cause I got this cool project!" I would probably contribute something to them. Even if it was like a single file of code.
Yeah, I gotsta agree. If you check my journal you can see a writeup I did on phoenix. I always used IE mostly, and Moz sometimes. I knew phoenix existed, just wasn't sure what it was. I've used Opera and some of my friends use it. (They've cracked it, as they are poor college students and would never pay for software that wasn't a console video game). Everyone's tastes are different, but from someone who has used every major web browser since Netscape 2.0. Phoenix is the SHIT! (in a good way). And its not like I can't get those style sheets to work in another browser or anything.
I give a darwin award to anyone who is stupid enough to even TOUCH the Hudson river. Let alone swim to the bottom of it for extended periods of time! That water is so filthy and disgusting full of poison I would sooner eat my own shit than drink it. I highly doubt that any of the sunken ships have pirate treasure on them anyway.
Actually you assume wrong. Adult swim will be changing its viewing times. Cartoon Network feels that by showing Adult Swim on the weekends it leaves too many kids able to watch it. Since they can stay up late. So they are moving toonami or somethign else to late night weekends and moving adult swim to EVERY WEEK NIGHT when kids wont be awake to watch it. This means 5 new episodes of lupin a week. Every day M-F at midnight. ph33r me watching all of them and buying all the DVDs. Lupin is SO AWESOME.
This seems really bad. And don't get me wrong on this, I don't like the DMCA nor do I think skylarov should be thrown in jail.
However, it is my understanding that it is the job of the judges to interpret the law. Just as the congress makes the law and the president enforces the law.
So if the jurors were allowed to read the law they might make their final judgement using an interpretation of the law contrary to the judges interpretation. This could be GOOD or BAD, depends on the judge and the jurors.
The first is that the US is large and other countries, for the most part, are small. Geographically speaking that is. I understand the DSL has a limited range and that you must be within X miles of certaint equipment in order for it to work. Cable modems don't have this limitation.
The other reason is that in america a great deal of the telephone wire (which DSL runs on) is complete crap. I went to Israel a couple years ago. The pay phones are so cool, they don't take change, only cards, and they have lcd screens. Not only that, but I was in this guys house, and I thought I saw a cat5 plug in the wall, but I was wrong. It was the telephone. Their telephone infrastructure is 1000 times more modern than ours.
That's the big problem with america. Our country is so large that in a time of rapid technological change we can't change our infrastructure fast enough to keep up with the rest of the world. It's feasable for say japan to cover its entire country in an amazing wireless network. Not so for the US. Cable modems require no new infrastructure. They just require people who already have cables coming into their house to get another wire run inside. DSL requires the phone company to update its stuff and put up new equipment.
From my experience though, DSL is cheaper, faster, and more reliable. And if your provider doesn't suck, they don't limit your bandwith.
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That's really weird, considering. Until now I figured that in India Microsoft had even more dominance than it does in the US. I mean on campus just about everyone uses AIM/ICQ, clients range from the "real" ones to gAIM to Trillian, but the service is the same. But it seems that all the students from India use MSN messenger. And this isn't an exxageration, all of them use it and nobody else does. Just go to the library and walk around the lab and you'll see. So linux in India seems real real weird.
I'm with you there. I've always used Sun for all my java codin' and I've never had a problem. If it aint broke, don't fix it.
I mean sure, I don't have the source code for it, but it's object oriented. If there's somethign I don't like I can write my own.
Like I would know how to edit, let alone write, code for a compiler!
Here's a hint. Violate the DMCA! Thousands of people do it every day without even realizing it! here's how it works. First buy a cd, then use some software from the net to bypass the copy protection (the illegal part!) and voi la! mp3s!
And to make sure the RIAA doesn't get your money, you can return the CD after! Oh the wonders of technology!
What get caught? Go to court? If that ever happens hooray! You can fight unless you get in the ring.
I remember when I was in second grade. They told us we were going to be the class of 2000. They made us do a little project on what we thought the world would be like in 2000. I did my project on flying cars. I made a car that transformed from wheels to wings with construx. And the class was pretty unanimous on moving sidewalks. Guess what, it's not the jetsons, but it is the internet.
Predicting the future is fun, but I'd put more stake in science fiction becoming true than what any official predictor says.
because in Japan a ringtone isn't annoying beeps. It's frickin' mp3 quality.
I don't know about you, but when I find new cool techno music I throw a party.
Step 1 - Find nearby University
Step 2 - Check to see if their internet connection is adequate. (OC3 should be enough)
Step 3 - Pay freshman in the dorms to keep a computer in his room and never touch it. Pay him the 20$ a month you usually pay for your ISP.
Step 4 - Two nics in the pc, one on the college network. It should work automatically with DHCP. The other nic in a DSL modem. Use something like Mandrake Security and install a PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) server.
Step 5 - Connect to your personal DSL service from home using something like Enternet. Yes, they make Enternet for linux.
Not sure how well it would work, but there are lots of sites that tell you how to roll your own DSL. We though of doing this because one day we're going to have to leave college and our internet connection will suck! T1 for us!
I used to not like on-board components. Simply because they limited choice in one way or another. And customizeability was key. So was performance, and an actualy video card or sound card was always 10 times better than an on-board one. However ABIT's new NF7-S and the nforce2 chipset. I don't mind an on-board video card if it's a GeForce 4. Especially since a GeForce 4 card will run you a few hundred. An on-board NIC is just a PCI slots savings and on-board sound means two sound cards for me. 2 sound cards can be more useful than you think.
If you really don't want any onboard stuff ABIT, ASUS, SOYO, and all the other major board manufacturers make boards without built in stuff. But built in no longer means crap.
Oh man. You are what's wrong with this world. I will give you the most basic example of when the smart (i.e: rational) thing to do is the wrong thing to do.
Let's say someone is in mortal danger. They will definitely die unless you act. Your action may or may not save them, and if you act you may or may not kill yourself. Smart thing? let them die. Right thing? save them.
Let's try again, in case you don't think saving lives is the right thing to do. Let's look at a more selfish situation. Someone has a gun to your head. And tells you to push a button. Pushing that button will kill your friend. If you don't push it you die. Smart thing? kill your friend. Right thing? attempt to beat up the guy with a gun to your head.
And according to most of the people here it seems they don't think Microsoft or the RIAA have been doign the right thing, or the government either for that matter. But I doubt you could argue they weren't doing what was smart.
yes, you can get a free copy of Visual Studio.NET. TECHNICALLY only people in SE can get it, but if you ask an SE major they can get you unlimited free licenses with their login and password you can just download isoz of XP, 2k, VS.NET, and just about everythign except office. It's pretty sweet.
I really don't care what kind of agreement my college (RIT) has with MS. I got a legal and free copy of Visual Studio.NET. And I don't care what you say about Microsoft's evil business practices. But I don't see any developement environments that are that amazing for linux. I mean KDevelop is good and all, but it doesn't even come close. I already pay my school thousands of dollars every year, and if some shady agreement with MS puts Win2k in the labs and Visual Studio on my PC I got no problem with it.
Flash is a tool, it is not in itself evil or good. I mean sure, flash brings us crap like well, the ads on www.weather.com.
It also brings us www.homestarrunner.com.
If you think I'm going to give up strongbad's e-mail in order to "unchoke the flow of free information" or to get rid of a few ads you've got another thing coming. Besides flash works on almost any device so I don't see how it chokes the flow, if it can flow anywhere.
Let me check my list. I promised myself I wouldnt' buy any portable device until it was all the following in one.
Cell-Phone
Pager
mp3 player
digital camera
PDA
wireless networking enabled
touch-lcd screen interface w/color
Does it have wireless networking? If you look back I'm sure you can find the slashdot story where I asked for this and everyone said it would never happen. Sure it's got Windows on it, but who cares?
I'm poor now though, but I'll definitely be buying the second generation of these things no matter what. Holy crap!
If there is a piece of vaporware to rule them all it is Team Fortress 2. Check out the website http://tf2.sierra.com. The last time the news on the site was updated was Jan 23, 2001!!! The game has been in the works since 1998!! According to all the official websites TF2 is still in developement/coming soon. Neither Sierra nor Valve has reported that the game is dead. Some version of the game was even demo'd once or twice, which means it was SOMETHING.
TF2, king of vaporware.
On the surface that sounds like a really good idea, there is one problem. This wont work for an ISP, and here's why. Let's say I'm an ISP, right now I need a relatively small machine to be my SMTP server. I can filter it and secure it, but that's about it. Now let's say I implement this token system as you suggest. This requires a great deal more bandwith and processor on BOTH ends. The spammer and the ISP. Most likely it will be so cost prohibitive to send spam that people will stop doing it. However, in order to keep the spammers away you have to now spend a whole lot more money on your bigger SMTP server.
Next thing you know a spammer finds a way to crack the token system. He now no longer needs a crapload of processor for all those e-mails. The ISP still does. Or some spammer sets up a distributed spamming client. Instead of having one big machine that sends a million mails he gets a thousand machines to send a hundred e-mails each.
A permissions to send system ends up only costing the ISP money and not actually solving the problem.
The problem is that unlike snail mail SPAM, e-mail SPAM costs the recipient money in one form or another. So sending someone SPAM hurts them, spammers are hurting people, that's wrong. They shouldn't be doing it.
Of course, I don't get SPAM, because I'm not an idiot, but that's another story.
dude! why are you all anonymous and shit! what you did to my post is awesome. I actually had originally written a more serious longer post (that would have probably also been +5), but I said "fuck all" and wrote that in like 10 seconds. Says the same thing, less elegant.
You rule.
People have no balls these days. If someone ever sends me a C&D letter, I'm going to say no. I wont bend over for anyone. I've got nothing to lose. The worst you can do is sue me, and I've got no money! What are they going to do? Jail me for writing something and putting it on a website? I doubt it. If somehow they do, then I'll do my best to become a martyr for the cause.
Knowing slashdot some of you will think I'm an idiot. But the reason that there's so much wrong going on lies mainly in the fact that people no longer stand up and fight. They sit back and take it in the ass. Every great movement in history was started by a few people who said "screw this shit!" and did something about it. So, to everyone who has gotten or will get a C&D letter from anyone. If you feel that what you were requested to cease doing is not wrong (read: wrong as in evil bad, not wrong as in illegal. What is legal and what is just are completely different) join me in saying "SCREW YOU!"
Most of the time they simply expect you to comply, it will be a great shock when you don't. Often so much of a shock that they wont even follow up. Especially when they realize the legal costs are sometimes greater than what they can get out of you.
My personal whackball theory was that aliens ARE humans. I mean the odds of any species in outer space being able to locate our small ass planet AND get to it are very very small. And the odds of that species being remotely humanoid are even smaller. This leads me to randomly guess that aliens are super-evolved humans from the future travelling into the past. The whole abduction thing is just so nobody knows/believes it, and that way they wont fudge up history, just study it.
It's as crazy a theory as any, and I likes it!
no, no it wont. That's why you combine it with PGP or other favorite encryption tool. It seems Bush knows I transferred a 640MB enmcrypted file last night. It must be an .iso, pirate!
NSA spends lots of money decrypting it to reveal a looping video of me laughing at them, telling in Soviet Russia jokes, and http://www.dubyadubyadubya.com about 10 times.
I bought my HP deskjet 810C 3 years ago for about $150. To this day cartridges are like 40 bucks each. I've seen printers today go for 40 bucks each, or even less! This printer still has great quality and runs like its brand new. I think we can all agree cartridges being cheaper is a good thing. But I really wouldn't mind printers being more expensive. As long as they aren't prohibitively expensive. If my printer ever needed to be replaced (doubtful in the near future) I would be willing to pay like 250$ to get one that it just as high quality. So if the price of printers goes up, I don't mind. As long as the next one I buy doesn't cost a grand.
Let's say your making a linux game. Head over to the linux gaming community, there will be people there who are linux gamers, and also coders!
If you're making say a media player for windows, find a community of people who are looking for an alternate media player for windows.
No matter what your project is there is someone out there who will work on it.
I'm a perfect example. I know how to code, but I'm not involved in any OSS projects. Not because I don't want to and not because I can't. I'm not involved because I'm not actively seeking a project to work on. But if someone came up to me and asked "hey, I saw you in that forum/irc/newsgroup talking about XYZ. You know how to code? cause I got this cool project!" I would probably contribute something to them. Even if it was like a single file of code.
Yeah, I gotsta agree. If you check my journal you can see a writeup I did on phoenix.
I always used IE mostly, and Moz sometimes. I knew phoenix existed, just wasn't sure what it was. I've used Opera and some of my friends use it. (They've cracked it, as they are poor college students and would never pay for software that wasn't a console video game). Everyone's tastes are different, but from someone who has used every major web browser since Netscape 2.0. Phoenix is the SHIT! (in a good way).
And its not like I can't get those style sheets to work in another browser or anything.
I give a darwin award to anyone who is stupid enough to even TOUCH the Hudson river. Let alone swim to the bottom of it for extended periods of time! That water is so filthy and disgusting full of poison I would sooner eat my own shit than drink it. I highly doubt that any of the sunken ships have pirate treasure on them anyway.
Actually you assume wrong. Adult swim will be changing its viewing times. Cartoon Network feels that by showing Adult Swim on the weekends it leaves too many kids able to watch it. Since they can stay up late. So they are moving toonami or somethign else to late night weekends and moving adult swim to EVERY WEEK NIGHT when kids wont be awake to watch it.
This means 5 new episodes of lupin a week. Every day M-F at midnight. ph33r me watching all of them and buying all the DVDs. Lupin is SO AWESOME.
This seems really bad. And don't get me wrong on this, I don't like the DMCA nor do I think skylarov should be thrown in jail.
However, it is my understanding that it is the job of the judges to interpret the law. Just as the congress makes the law and the president enforces the law.
So if the jurors were allowed to read the law they might make their final judgement using an interpretation of the law contrary to the judges interpretation. This could be GOOD or BAD, depends on the judge and the jurors.
That there are two main factors in this.
The first is that the US is large and other countries, for the most part, are small. Geographically speaking that is. I understand the DSL has a limited range and that you must be within X miles of certaint equipment in order for it to work. Cable modems don't have this limitation.
The other reason is that in america a great deal of the telephone wire (which DSL runs on) is complete crap. I went to Israel a couple years ago. The pay phones are so cool, they don't take change, only cards, and they have lcd screens. Not only that, but I was in this guys house, and I thought I saw a cat5 plug in the wall, but I was wrong. It was the telephone. Their telephone infrastructure is 1000 times more modern than ours.
That's the big problem with america. Our country is so large that in a time of rapid technological change we can't change our infrastructure fast enough to keep up with the rest of the world. It's feasable for say japan to cover its entire country in an amazing wireless network. Not so for the US. Cable modems require no new infrastructure. They just require people who already have cables coming into their house to get another wire run inside. DSL requires the phone company to update its stuff and put up new equipment.
From my experience though, DSL is cheaper, faster, and more reliable. And if your provider doesn't suck, they don't limit your bandwith.