Amen. What utter stupidity to want to see the boards in a PC while it operates. "Look, Cletus! Cheap, consumer-grade PC components! Oooh! A $10 Ethernet card! Looky, looky!
There is something pretty twisted when an entire thread is moderated down because it's not part of the "giant linux circle-jerk." Browse this thread at -1 and you will see some interesting comments...
No, because it doesn't have a brain. You'll note that at brain-death we normally take a body off life support.
A fetus does not even start to develop a brain until 3-4 weeks. So, is it morally acceptable to you for a woman to use RU486 after, say, 2 weeks? At five months, the "brain" in a fetus is incapable of even the involuntary reflex action of breathing. If someone's brain became incapable of even supporting breathing, wouldn't you consider that brain-dead?
Tell us what have you done to improve the lives of unwanted children born to crack and heroin addicts. How have you helped children born into poverty with not enough food to eat? Have you adopted any children born with AIDS? Admit it: You don't give a shit about children once they are born. You just want to play your holier-than-thou card and try to prevent women from making their own moral choices -- because you are so arrogant that you assume anyone who disagrees with you must be wrong.
I have the reality of science and biology to back up my claims.
When did science come up with a dipstick to determine when a fetus becomes a baby? You make up your own rules and then demand that all adhere to them. You are just a self-righteous idiot who tries to pass off his own fanatical beliefs as science.
While many people rejoice in the firesale prices on RAM, CPUs, disk drives, and so forth, this bodes not well for the PC industry. These prices are in response to a slowing market for personal computers. Most families that want computers have them, so there are fewer initial-purchase customers. Something like a 400mhz Celeron is just fine for web surfing, word processing, and e-mail and that's what 95% of the PC users out there are doing, so that is really reducing upgrade sales. The average user is not playing a state of the art first-person shooter, rendering frames for 3D animation, or compiling Linux kernels, so why upgrade?
In response to this, Intel and AMD (and vendors of other computer components) have slashed their prices. In the short term, this will result in a boost to sales. In the long term, it's a disaster waiting to happen. Many users and businesses that would have waited to upgrade at higher prices will upgrade now due to the rock-bottom prices. As a result, the industry will see a lot of low profit sales in the near future. But what happens in a year or two? Will there be some compelling application that is going to compel the average user or business to splurge on a 4ghz system? I doubt it.
In the worst-case scenario, this might lead to the failure of either AMD or Intel. Look at what the price wars did to the hard drive industry already. Where is Micropolis, Quantum, or Conner? Western Digital, once the preeminent IDE drive manufacturer, had losses of $7 to $10 million for its most recent quater. In almost any case, it will be likely to result in higher prices and less competition. And that's probably not good for any of us.
Why was this moderated up? It's just a stupid response to the troll.
At the risk of being immodest, I thought my response was a clever and funny parody of the original post. As to the moderation of "informative", the moderator was replying in kind -- with humor. If you can't chuckle, turn off your computer, go outside, get some fresh air, and don't come back in until your sphinctor contractions stop.
Only a trained monkey would work in a job where he was 'on call.'
Must suck to be you.
No, professionals work in jobs where they are on call. For instance, doctors almost always are "on call." If what you do is so unimportant, or your skills are so common that any number of other people could do your job, then I guess you don't need to be on call. I program firmware for satellites. If one of the satellites has an anomaly on orbit, then hell yes, I will be called.
You don't need to be Kreskin to predict your future. The hand writing is on the wall: You face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for you because you are brain dead. Things are looking very bad for you. As many of us are already aware, you continue to lose readers. Your anti-BSD spam flows like a sewer of human waste.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot readers stated that there are 7000 nearly identical posts of your anti-BSD spam. How many people actually believe it? Let's see. The number of intelligent Slashdot posts versus your anti-BSD spam is roughly in ratio of 500 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000*500 = 3,500,000 Slashdot users who are annoyed by your idiotic spam. A recent article put your spam at about 80 percent on the nonsense scale. Therefore there are many thousands of Slashdot readers who know that you are full of crap. This is consistent with the number of Slashdot posts stating so.
Due to the trouble you have thinking, abysmal IQ test scores and so on, you will be lucky to go out into the business world and land a job at McDonalds.
All major surveys show that your anti-BSD spam has steadily gotten more annoying. You are very sick and your long term survival prospects are very dim -- especially if your identity becomes known. If you are to survive at all it will be among other idiots, trolls, and the mentally ill. Interest in your anti-BSD spam continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could revive it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, you are completely brain dead.
You don't need to be Kreskin to predict your future. The hand writing is on the wall: You face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for you because you are brain dead. Things are looking very bad for you. As many of us are already aware, you continue to lose readers. Your anti-BSD spam flows like a sewer of human waste.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot readers stated that there are 7000 nearly identical posts of your anti-BSD spam. How many people actually believe it? Let's see. The number of intelligent Slashdot posts versus your anti-BSD spam is roughly in ratio of 500 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000*500 = 3,500,000 Slashdot users who are annoyed by your idiotic spam. A recent article put your spam at about 80 percent on the nonsense scale. Therefore there are many thousands of Slashdot readers who know that you are full of crap. This is consistent with the number of Slashdot posts stating so.
Due to the trouble you have thinking, abysmal IQ test scores and so on, you will be lucky to go out into the business world and land a job at McDonalds.
All major surveys show that your anti-BSD spam has steadily gotten more annoying. You are very sick and your long term survival prospects are very dim -- especially if your identity becomes known. If you are to survive at all it will be among other idiots, trolls, and the mentally ill. Interest in your anti-BSD spam continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could revive it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, you are completely brain dead.
You fscking idiot! Spammers don't "have every right to exist". No more than the now-illegal junk faxers did. They cost recipients money, waste time and bandwidth that they don't pay for, and bother people at work and at home. Small company e-mail servers are shut down by spammers who forge a return address from there.
Think you can protect your e-mail address? Think again. Spammers have even taking to address guessing: Every set of one, two, and three letters @ a domain to get people who use their initials. Some even go through dictionary guesses.
Yes, but how much time do you waste waiting for your project to compile?
Very little.
I for one, would like to take iterative development to the next level, compiling and running regression tests more often. I think an average of once per line of code would be best.
"Iterative development"? That sounds like writing code without designing it first. If you don't know what effect a line of code will have, you need to consider whether another career would better suit you. That's like a writer that says he needs to print out and reread his entire book after each sentence he types in or changes.
The more important point is that the team on 486's will ship way late. This has something to do with compilers being slower, the network being a dog etc.
While I do not dispute the argument that faster systems make for happier programmers, my computer spends way more time twiddling its digits waiting for my next keystroke than it does compiling.
So, does the "Delete key" also reduce your ISP bills -- which are higher as a result of spam? Does it prevent small businesses from being inundated with complaints when some spammer uses their domain as his fake from: address?
I have a friend who had a support address for his clients. If they put "URGENT" into the subject, his pager went off. It went off at about 3:00AM because of some spammer's "URGENT" message. Would your delete key have prevented that?
Get a clue. Spam is a problem that needs to be eliminated, not just ignored.
FP FOOLS
How could you get all excited by doing that? It didn't take skill or intelligence. You even posted anonymously in your attempt to show off! What a moronic loser!
The software "licensing" system is broken. Companies sell licenses and rent software because they are desparately trying to keep software from being considered a "product" that has been purchased. If it was a product (in the eyes of the law), then they could not get away with providing buggy crap that fails to perform and crashes constantly. It would be no different than a toaster that failed to work one out of 20 times -- it would be considered defective and the manufacturer would be required to fix it.
The black-helicopters-are-spying-on-me/lower-my-taxes/ there's-a-Waco-coverup/they-want-to-take-my-guns-a way crowd will disagree, but we need government legislation that makes software a product just like anything else that we buy in a store. Then Microsoft would quit trying to find ways to embed javascript into e-mail and, instead, make Outlook reliable and secure.
It's already been done. What you need is The Proxomitron. It's the finest http filtering software that I've seen. You can kill anything from pop-ups to blinking text to malicious javascript. It's totally configurable and extensable.
It's great unless you are running on a non-Windows machine. There is no equivalent software for Linux, *BSD, BeOS, Mac, Solaris, etc.
Why, for the sake of having Linux on a handheld, would I or anyone else want to accept a product that is admittedly inferior?
I agree with you, but it's like trying to use logic to disprove someone's religious beliefs.
The big reason that they want it is so that they can port applications to it that they don't need on a handheld (e.g., Apache, X, emacs, etc.). They don't really understand what a handheld is for and will want add-on peripherals like keyboards, mice, external video, hard drives, and so on. Then, they will load all of that s*** into the trunk of their car and drive to their friend's house to show off their cool Linux "handheld."
The other reason is that they don't have any idea of how much stuff is out there for the Palm. Many don't know that you can develop for it with GCC, that there is a full-blown emulator (POSE), etc.
They also don't recognize the inherent beauty in a tight, small, clean OS that does only what is needed and nothing more. They think that the one-size-fits-all approach is the way to go -- which is why most of them are damned poor at embedded systems development. They are the guys that try to talk the boss into using Linux for things like microwave oven controllers and programmable thermostats.
How dare you create a first post that is insightful, well reasoned, contains no "L33T haXor dudez wurdz", and doesn't even have porn links? What is/. coming to?
If the robots are deliberately programmed to kill people, there's no more loophole than there is in "I didn't kill him, I just pulled the trigger, it was the bullet that killed him".
Use an analogy that makes sense. You operate a gun. Of course you are responsible if you shoot someone. A better analogy would be to ask whether the gun manufacturer is guilty of manslaughter if some guy blows his own brains out with the gun. A robot is not under your control (which is why those remote control vehicles on BattleBots are not robots). If you create one and clearly proclaim that it is programmed to kill people, you're not responsible if some numb-nuts gets into a cage with it. Want to really make sure? Have the guy fighting it be the one that turns it on.
Because it's not legal to film PEOPLE killing each other!
Hey, you gave me an idea! Killer Robots vs. people. The robots, as long as they were real robots rather than tele-operated mechanisms, would provide a perfect legal loophole against murder charges. If no one controlled them, who could be charged with murder? Now this would attract some real sickos that wanted to watch robots "CRUSH, KILL, DESTROY" and otherwise mangle people. I know if it ever gets on TV, I will be glad to have my TiVo!
You are an idiot and you just keep re-pasting the same lame troll post every time the three letters B,S, and D show up in a row. The BSD variants are developed by volunteers. How will BSD "die"? It's not like there is a payroll to support. BSD outperforms Linux while being more secure. That appeals to many people and companies. Your harp on about BSDI taking over distribution of FreeBSD. So what? How many Linux vendors have gone belly-up? Corel dropped Linux. Does that mean Linux sux and is doomed? Lots of Linux vendors are operating in the red. Is that a sign that Linux is on its way out? We've all seen your post here and in the 150 other places that it's appeared on Slashdot. Now go away until you have something new to say.
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Amen. What utter stupidity to want to see the boards in a PC while it operates. "Look, Cletus! Cheap, consumer-grade PC components! Oooh! A $10 Ethernet card! Looky, looky!
There is something pretty twisted when an entire thread is moderated down because it's not part of the "giant linux circle-jerk." Browse this thread at -1 and you will see some interesting comments...
No, because it doesn't have a brain. You'll note that at brain-death we normally take a body off life support.
A fetus does not even start to develop a brain until 3-4 weeks. So, is it morally acceptable to you for a woman to use RU486 after, say, 2 weeks? At five months, the "brain" in a fetus is incapable of even the involuntary reflex action of breathing. If someone's brain became incapable of even supporting breathing, wouldn't you consider that brain-dead?
Tell us what have you done to improve the lives of unwanted children born to crack and heroin addicts. How have you helped children born into poverty with not enough food to eat? Have you adopted any children born with AIDS? Admit it: You don't give a shit about children once they are born. You just want to play your holier-than-thou card and try to prevent women from making their own moral choices -- because you are so arrogant that you assume anyone who disagrees with you must be wrong.
When did science come up with a dipstick to determine when a fetus becomes a baby? You make up your own rules and then demand that all adhere to them. You are just a self-righteous idiot who tries to pass off his own fanatical beliefs as science.
In response to this, Intel and AMD (and vendors of other computer components) have slashed their prices. In the short term, this will result in a boost to sales. In the long term, it's a disaster waiting to happen. Many users and businesses that would have waited to upgrade at higher prices will upgrade now due to the rock-bottom prices. As a result, the industry will see a lot of low profit sales in the near future. But what happens in a year or two? Will there be some compelling application that is going to compel the average user or business to splurge on a 4ghz system? I doubt it.
In the worst-case scenario, this might lead to the failure of either AMD or Intel. Look at what the price wars did to the hard drive industry already. Where is Micropolis, Quantum, or Conner? Western Digital, once the preeminent IDE drive manufacturer, had losses of $7 to $10 million for its most recent quater. In almost any case, it will be likely to result in higher prices and less competition. And that's probably not good for any of us.
You just did...
At the risk of being immodest, I thought my response was a clever and funny parody of the original post. As to the moderation of "informative", the moderator was replying in kind -- with humor. If you can't chuckle, turn off your computer, go outside, get some fresh air, and don't come back in until your sphinctor contractions stop.
First released over 20 years ago.
or NT.
Development began in October of 1988.
You have a strange idea of "modern."
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot readers stated that there are 7000 nearly identical posts of your anti-BSD spam. How many people actually believe it? Let's see. The number of intelligent Slashdot posts versus your anti-BSD spam is roughly in ratio of 500 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000*500 = 3,500,000 Slashdot users who are annoyed by your idiotic spam. A recent article put your spam at about 80 percent on the nonsense scale. Therefore there are many thousands of Slashdot readers who know that you are full of crap. This is consistent with the number of Slashdot posts stating so.
Due to the trouble you have thinking, abysmal IQ test scores and so on, you will be lucky to go out into the business world and land a job at McDonalds.
All major surveys show that your anti-BSD spam has steadily gotten more annoying. You are very sick and your long term survival prospects are very dim -- especially if your identity becomes known. If you are to survive at all it will be among other idiots, trolls, and the mentally ill. Interest in your anti-BSD spam continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could revive it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, you are completely brain dead.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot readers stated that there are 7000 nearly identical posts of your anti-BSD spam. How many people actually believe it? Let's see. The number of intelligent Slashdot posts versus your anti-BSD spam is roughly in ratio of 500 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000*500 = 3,500,000 Slashdot users who are annoyed by your idiotic spam. A recent article put your spam at about 80 percent on the nonsense scale. Therefore there are many thousands of Slashdot readers who know that you are full of crap. This is consistent with the number of Slashdot posts stating so.
Due to the trouble you have thinking, abysmal IQ test scores and so on, you will be lucky to go out into the business world and land a job at McDonalds.
All major surveys show that your anti-BSD spam has steadily gotten more annoying. You are very sick and your long term survival prospects are very dim -- especially if your identity becomes known. If you are to survive at all it will be among other idiots, trolls, and the mentally ill. Interest in your anti-BSD spam continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could revive it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, you are completely brain dead.
I just figured out what that stands for: "fucking pathetic"!
Think you can protect your e-mail address? Think again. Spammers have even taking to address guessing: Every set of one, two, and three letters @ a domain to get people who use their initials. Some even go through dictionary guesses.
Very little.
I for one, would like to take iterative development to the next level, compiling and running regression tests more often. I think an average of once per line of code would be best.
"Iterative development"? That sounds like writing code without designing it first. If you don't know what effect a line of code will have, you need to consider whether another career would better suit you. That's like a writer that says he needs to print out and reread his entire book after each sentence he types in or changes.
I have a friend who had a support address for his clients. If they put "URGENT" into the subject, his pager went off. It went off at about 3:00AM because of some spammer's "URGENT" message. Would your delete key have prevented that?
Get a clue. Spam is a problem that needs to be eliminated, not just ignored.
FP FOOLS How could you get all excited by doing that? It didn't take skill or intelligence. You even posted anonymously in your attempt to show off! What a moronic loser!
The black-helicopters-are-spying-on-me/lower-my-taxes/ there's-a-Waco-coverup/they-want-to-take-my-guns-a way crowd will disagree, but we need government legislation that makes software a product just like anything else that we buy in a store. Then Microsoft would quit trying to find ways to embed javascript into e-mail and, instead, make Outlook reliable and secure.
Q: What's the difference between a Harley motorcycle and a Hoover vacuum cleaner? A: The Hoover has the dirtbag on the inside.
It's great unless you are running on a non-Windows machine. There is no equivalent software for Linux, *BSD, BeOS, Mac, Solaris, etc.
I agree with you, but it's like trying to use logic to disprove someone's religious beliefs.
The big reason that they want it is so that they can port applications to it that they don't need on a handheld (e.g., Apache, X, emacs, etc.). They don't really understand what a handheld is for and will want add-on peripherals like keyboards, mice, external video, hard drives, and so on. Then, they will load all of that s*** into the trunk of their car and drive to their friend's house to show off their cool Linux "handheld."
The other reason is that they don't have any idea of how much stuff is out there for the Palm. Many don't know that you can develop for it with GCC, that there is a full-blown emulator (POSE), etc.
They also don't recognize the inherent beauty in a tight, small, clean OS that does only what is needed and nothing more. They think that the one-size-fits-all approach is the way to go -- which is why most of them are damned poor at embedded systems development. They are the guys that try to talk the boss into using Linux for things like microwave oven controllers and programmable thermostats.
How dare you create a first post that is insightful, well reasoned, contains no "L33T haXor dudez wurdz", and doesn't even have porn links? What is /. coming to?
Use an analogy that makes sense. You operate a gun. Of course you are responsible if you shoot someone. A better analogy would be to ask whether the gun manufacturer is guilty of manslaughter if some guy blows his own brains out with the gun. A robot is not under your control (which is why those remote control vehicles on BattleBots are not robots). If you create one and clearly proclaim that it is programmed to kill people, you're not responsible if some numb-nuts gets into a cage with it. Want to really make sure? Have the guy fighting it be the one that turns it on.
You are an idiot and you just keep re-pasting the same lame troll post every time the three letters B,S, and D show up in a row. The BSD variants are developed by volunteers. How will BSD "die"? It's not like there is a payroll to support. BSD outperforms Linux while being more secure. That appeals to many people and companies. Your harp on about BSDI taking over distribution of FreeBSD. So what? How many Linux vendors have gone belly-up? Corel dropped Linux. Does that mean Linux sux and is doomed? Lots of Linux vendors are operating in the red. Is that a sign that Linux is on its way out? We've all seen your post here and in the 150 other places that it's appeared on Slashdot. Now go away until you have something new to say.