Couple of comments about the VW beetle hanging from the GG bridge:
the Bug was never in sight of any commmuter after the initial 1-minute deployment (*under* the bridge!)
This isn't quite true. On the northbound approach to the bridge, coming from SF, there is a stretch of road (Marina Blvd I believe) that has a full sideview of the bridge, from maybe a mile away. By the peak of commute time, news of the event was all over the radio, so people were slowing down along this stretch of road to have a look. So yes, you couldn't see the car from the bridge itself, but to imply there was no impact on the commute is very wrong.
the Bug was stripped of nasties, and as the Ironworkers said, it's a new habitat (just like when they sink a ship to create an artificial reef, only smaller, MUCH smaller)
Like Neal Stephenson says in Zodiac, ANYTHING you drop in the ocean will become a habitat, because that's where the fish live! Just because you dropped garbage down there and the fish start swimming around it, that doesn't make it a good, environmental thing to do. That iron and steel will be down there, rusting, for decades. For no good reason. In fact, I'm surprised they chose to snip the cables instead of pull it up, or instead of lowering it onto a barge.
-- Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.-- Cool Hand Luke
So why do they bother bringing out new TLDs anyway? Seems like nothing will change from before, whatsoever, except that all the britneyspearsrules e/n sites can be spread out over more TLDs. Whoopdee.
-- Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.-- Cool Hand Luke
From the article: "Our embedded group...want to be able to put the Python VM on anything that has metal and electricity."
How about a Van de Graaff generator?
The programmers combined the initials in the phrase "Python in Palm" (PIP) with the suffix that ends Python file names (.py) and dubbed the port "Pippy." Gag me.
-- Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.-- Cool Hand Luke
Man, 12 hours later and still nobody gets my stupid joke. What if I'd said Inventor Makes "Very Little" Progress -- would that help? Get it? Nanotech? HAHAHA
sigh
-- Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.-- Cool Hand Luke
Dunno why, but I see coders working for free much more often than artists and designers. I agree with the previous guy -- the really professional artwork (models, animations, textures, GUIs) will only be in the pay-to-play server.
Every day installers lay enough new cable to circle the earth three times. If improvements in fiber optics continue, the carrying capacity of a single fiber may reach hundreds of trillions of bits a second just a decade or so from now--and some technoidal utopians foresee the eventual arrival of the vaunted petabit mark.
Good gravy! Too bad the ISPs will divvy that up into a billion megabit lines for you and me.
This practice should die down as soon as a few dozen top-level domains are approved. Legit companies will buy up all the www.company.* domains. The typo-squatters would have to cough up lots of money to cover a a worthwhile percentage of the mistyped namespace.
Although I suppose that for a while, just grabbing the mistyped versions of the old-school TLDs will suffice.
English is the language of RFCs (see this overview), and therefore is the language of technology protocols and standards. All else flows from that;)
From the RFC overview: Like the Internet itself, the IETF and the ISOC are international organizations with representation from all areas of the world. However, English is the primary language in which IETF business is conducted, and English is the official publication language for RFCs.
On July 20, 1999 slashdot mentioned the 8 ball and the resulting traffic overwhelmed the server. The 8 ball can only serve about 400 visitors per hour, (about an 8 second cycle time) we were receiving 1200 visitors per hour. The waiting queue went over 70, the resulting system load caused the server to assume something was wrong and reboot.
I feel like this story has been posted 20 or 30 times, each with slightly different details. When are these fantastic new machines going to stop being invented?
Imagine Kleiner-Perkins or (insert random venture capitalist here) investigating this potential purchase. They come across the talk.bizarre archive. Chaos ensues. Wallets close. Dogs and cats begin living together.
The software piracy laws are probably the ones that affect the most people, and the ones that more people break than any other. Just try to estimate how many illegal copies of Word are in your company. The IT guys are usually too overworked to keep proper track of the CDs.
The SPA has large fines but can only audit so many companies a year.
3prong
A long time ago, my friend hacked together a high-speed film camera using school equipment and tried to film a firecracker (small explosive) blowing up a plastic army man. I seem to recall the film went something like this in playback:
frames 0 to 5000: Static shot of army man with firecracker strapped to it
frame 5001 to end: nothing in picture
Well, Dr. Matloff was a professor of mine back at UC Davis in the early 90's. I seem to recall he was married to a woman who emigrated from China, and he was very into Chinese culture and language. Not something a "Pat Buchanan" would do.
What do you have to prove that is "credibility is NOT good among minorities"?
Slashdot Mirror
Couple of comments about the VW beetle hanging from the GG bridge:
the Bug was never in sight of any commmuter after the initial 1-minute deployment (*under* the bridge!)
This isn't quite true. On the northbound approach to the bridge, coming from SF, there is a stretch of road (Marina Blvd I believe) that has a full sideview of the bridge, from maybe a mile away. By the peak of commute time, news of the event was all over the radio, so people were slowing down along this stretch of road to have a look.
So yes, you couldn't see the car from the bridge itself, but to imply there was no impact on the commute is very wrong.
the Bug was stripped of nasties, and as the Ironworkers said, it's a new habitat (just like when they sink a ship to create an artificial reef, only smaller, MUCH smaller)
Like Neal Stephenson says in Zodiac, ANYTHING you drop in the ocean will become a habitat, because that's where the fish live! Just because you dropped garbage down there and the fish start swimming around it, that doesn't make it a good, environmental thing to do. That iron and steel will be down there, rusting, for decades. For no good reason. In fact, I'm surprised they chose to snip the cables instead of pull it up, or instead of lowering it onto a barge.
--
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.-- Cool Hand Luke
So why do they bother bringing out new TLDs anyway? Seems like nothing will change from before, whatsoever, except that all the britneyspearsrules e/n sites can be spread out over more TLDs. Whoopdee.
--
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.-- Cool Hand Luke
It's funny because it's true.
--
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.-- Cool Hand Luke
From the article:
"Our embedded group...want to be able to put the Python VM on anything that has metal and electricity."
How about a Van de Graaff generator?
The programmers combined the initials in the phrase "Python in Palm" (PIP) with the suffix that ends Python file names (.py) and dubbed the port "Pippy."
Gag me.
--
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.-- Cool Hand Luke
A noble spirit enslickens the lamest GUI.
--
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.-- Cool Hand Luke
Man, 12 hours later and still nobody gets my stupid joke. What if I'd said Inventor Makes "Very Little" Progress -- would that help? Get it? Nanotech? HAHAHA
sigh
--
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.-- Cool Hand Luke
Well, comment #12 on this thread is the troll, but where is the dragon?
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.
Dunno why, but I see coders working for free much more often than artists and designers. I agree with the previous guy -- the really professional artwork (models, animations, textures, GUIs) will only be in the pay-to-play server.
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.
Move over, Brittany Spheres.
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.
She promises a $20 laptop, too.
OK I need sleep... I first read that as "a $20 lapdance."
I blame society.
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.
From the article:
Every day installers lay enough new cable to circle the earth three times. If improvements in fiber optics continue, the carrying capacity of a single fiber may reach hundreds of trillions of bits a second just a decade or so from now--and some technoidal utopians foresee the eventual arrival of the vaunted petabit mark.
Good gravy! Too bad the ISPs will divvy that up into a billion megabit lines for you and me.
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.
poor man's moderation points
Thanks for that link. By coincidence I just finished re-reading Dragon's Egg last night -- kind of odd to see a /. story on it today.
3prong
If only he knew the power of the dark side.
3prong
This practice should die down as soon as a few dozen top-level domains are approved. Legit companies will buy up all the www.company.* domains. The typo-squatters would have to cough up lots of money to cover a a worthwhile percentage of the mistyped namespace.
Although I suppose that for a while, just grabbing the mistyped versions of the old-school TLDs will suffice.
-- 3prong
English is the language of RFCs (see this overview), and therefore is the language of technology protocols and standards. All else flows from that ;)
From the RFC overview:
Like the Internet itself, the IETF and the ISOC are international organizations with representation from all areas of the world. However, English is the primary language in which IETF business is conducted, and English is the official publication language for RFCs.
Yep, was a /. link last year. From his page:
On July 20, 1999 slashdot mentioned the 8 ball and the resulting traffic overwhelmed the server. The 8 ball can only serve about 400 visitors per hour, (about an 8 second cycle time) we were receiving 1200 visitors per hour. The waiting queue went over 70, the resulting system load caused the server to assume something was wrong and reboot.
3prong
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From the article: "Stan Smith, an Alabama resident, is suing NSI, contending that it's abused its power."
This guy wouldn't be bitter that he can't register his own name, thanks to Adidas, would he?
3prong
I feel like this story has been posted 20 or 30 times, each with slightly different details. When are these fantastic new machines going to stop being invented?
3prong
Imagine Kleiner-Perkins or (insert random venture capitalist here) investigating this potential purchase. They come across the talk.bizarre archive. Chaos ensues. Wallets close. Dogs and cats begin living together.
3prong
The software piracy laws are probably the ones that affect the most people, and the ones that more people break than any other. Just try to estimate how many illegal copies of Word are in your company. The IT guys are usually too overworked to keep proper track of the CDs.
The SPA has large fines but can only audit so many companies a year. 3prong
A long time ago, my friend hacked together a high-speed film camera using school equipment and tried to film a firecracker (small explosive) blowing up a plastic army man. I seem to recall the film went something like this in playback:
frames 0 to 5000: Static shot of army man with firecracker strapped to it
frame 5001 to end: nothing in picture
Speed was nowhere near high enough.
Well, Dr. Matloff was a professor of mine back at UC Davis in the early 90's. I seem to recall he was married to a woman who emigrated from China, and he was very into Chinese culture and language. Not something a "Pat Buchanan" would do.
What do you have to prove that is "credibility is NOT good among minorities"?
Cheers.