Is that bike shops dont have neutron backscatter machines and x-rays to do non-destructive tests on carbon fiber parts.
Seriously, if you did preventative maintenance and checks on those carbon fiber parts you'd know when they had exceeded their service life long before they snapped.
>> It is about people now making cold electronic music in their bedrooms rather than going out, getting together >>with other musicians and feed off each other creativity to make truly great music.
>>And I think he has a point.
I dont *see* his point. Artists still collaborate, online tools let them talk more than ever? Is he just pissed that people get high in their own parents basement instead of all going over to the drummers parent's house instead?
I'm in the "Get off my lawn, you pesky kids!" camp here with respect to his argument. He simply no longer understands the world he lives in.
DoE doesnt use SIPR/NIPR. They've got their own deal, and their own clearance system.
they arent DoD.
The user in question probably had both class. and unclass. systems sitting on his desk, and typed too much information from one screen into the other one.
The backlighting isn't something that was invented for the new Macbooks. It's been on the PPC-based powerbooks (that had no heat problem) for at least 2-3 years. Transferring it to the MacBookPros was pretty much a zero-engineering proposition.
Honestly, shut up until you know what you're talking about.
Maybe people are deciding you're just too much of a douche to put up with.
I'm sure if you run out of money and cant work on openssh anymore that someone with the time and resources will pick up the ball and run with it. Such is the nature of OSS.
>>I wouldn't be so quick to say the russians are not producing good product, one example is the slotback >> radar in the Mig 29 - it is easily as good as anything built in recent times by any other country. >> (I'm an ex ELINT weenie so I can speak with some knowledge on the subject)
The slotback doesnt compete in the same league as the current generation of radar sets like the AESA.
They cost the same because RedHat Enterprise WS is not a free-as-in-beer product.
You get 3 years of RH support with Enterprise WS, and you pay for it. the pricing is about $180 for the OEM copy of RHEL WS, which is about similar to the OEM price for XP Pro.
Just because it's linux doesnt mean it's always cheaper.
I dont understand the giant kerfluffle that has erupted over A Million Little Pieces. It's a memoir, not an autobiography. The accuracy standards for the former have traditionally been FAR, FAR less rigorous than the latter.
An Autobiography is typically held to journalistic fact checking standards, as it is meant to be a historical work.
A memoir is typically just some old guy sitting around telling stories about what a stud he was back in the good old days.
If you'd like to see or read about more memoirs commonly accepted as largely bullshit, please look for Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird, and Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments.
Here's a much more serious issue of fabrication:
Chuck Barris' completely fabricated autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was allowed to stand with only minor grumbles. Hell, they even made a movie out of it. Here's how *that* boiled down, in a nutshell:
"Chuck barris claims to be a government agent"
"Hey, he really wasnt a government agent was he?"
"No, I dont think so. He is crazy though."
"Hey, a crazy guy who thinks he's a government agent? I smell money!"
IMO, this book should never have been published with the word "autobiography" in the title. But hey, there's always money to be made. This is nothing new.
Have you ever watched a MLB game and heard the legalese about "MLB reserves all rights blah blah blah rebroadcasts and retransmissions AND ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF GAME EVENTS" ?
Well, "Barry Bonds hit a 400ft home run into the left-field upper decks in the 8th inning" sounds like a description of the game to me. MLB has actually been claiming ownership on game facts for a few years now.
It sucks, but if you dont like it, stop paying them. They'll take the hint.
While annoying to a small number of people who can't connect to them, the coralcache links are vastly better than the alternative of slashdotting a site that cannot handle the load of a million nerds with refresh buttons.
When that happens, NO ONE can get to the page, not just those with lame firewalls.
[ObNerd] The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
The problem is that a benevolent tyrant is still a tyrant.
"It's just fine with the US running it" is a sentiment that really doesnt extend one millimeter beyond the US border. It's a lousy status quo if you're not in the US.
I dont see the US having any leverage here. If the rest of the world decides to establish an alternate route, then there's fuck all the US can do about it. It's not like ICANN can impose itself on peoples nameservers./is fine with the status quo, personally// would also be fine with multilateral control
You charge $5 a month for membership to your site? I think thats way above my pain threshold. Your site costs exactly 20% of my total monthly internet bill. Do you think your site is worth 20% of the entire internet?
I don't. Hell, I squick in pain every year when I give Salon.com $20, and thats only a buck and change every month. At $60, they could go screw. There's no website in the world I'd pay $60 for.
Whats so complicated about that? You dont OWN anything. You are purchasing the non-exclusive right to use a piece of software.
There is NOTHING new about how this works. It's like you people are suddenly waking up and freaking out because you JUST NOW REALIZED that you dont own the software you 'bought'.
In all this, there's been just one post that asked "does it run Linux" and it seemed to be intended as a joke.
I'm not just a drooling consumer, I expect to be able to write code for any computing device I buy. The question, "Does it run free software?" is not a joke, it's important to me. If it isn't important to Slashdot editors, I respectfully suggest that Slashdot's byline be changed. "News for Consumers. Stuff for yuppies." would seem to be more accurate than what it currently says.
Your post is a hell of a lot better if I read it out loud like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.
There may not be GNU replacements, but tons of really pricy ($10,000+ per seat) engineering software now comes in Linux versions alongside the UNIX ones.
Unigraphics is one big one, the first one that comes to mind.
Slashdot Mirror
Needs food badly.
Yes, anyone can claim anything they want. That's why the defense gets to cross-examine.
It's called Impeaching a Witness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_impeachment
Is that bike shops dont have neutron backscatter machines and x-rays to do non-destructive tests on carbon fiber parts.
Seriously, if you did preventative maintenance and checks on those carbon fiber parts you'd know when they had exceeded their service life long before they snapped.
I hope you get hit by a fucking bus.
That is all.
>> It is about people now making cold electronic music in their bedrooms rather than going out, getting together
>>with other musicians and feed off each other creativity to make truly great music.
>>And I think he has a point.
I dont *see* his point. Artists still collaborate, online tools let them talk more than ever? Is he just pissed that people get high in their own parents basement instead of all going over to the drummers parent's house instead?
I'm in the "Get off my lawn, you pesky kids!" camp here with respect to his argument. He simply no longer understands the world he lives in.
Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
DoE doesnt use SIPR/NIPR. They've got their own deal, and their own clearance system.
they arent DoD.
The user in question probably had both class. and unclass. systems sitting on his desk, and typed too much information from one screen into the other one.
It happens.
Seriously dude, Fuck Your DOS Apps.
Your slavish insistence on backwards compatibilility at all costs has prevented a huge amount of innovation on MS platforms over the years.
>> ..this is the most useless article I have read in a long time.
/. today?
Are you *sure* about that?
Did you read any of the *other* articles on
The backlighting isn't something that was invented for the new Macbooks. It's been on the PPC-based powerbooks (that had no heat problem) for at least 2-3 years. Transferring it to the MacBookPros was pretty much a zero-engineering proposition.
Honestly, shut up until you know what you're talking about.
http://www10.mcadcafe.com/nbc/articles/view_articl e.php?articleid=214725
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-43
HyFly is a hypersonics demonstration program.
The X-43, I might add, is the current record holder.
7,000 mph (11,200 km/h), or Mach 9.8, on November 16, 2004.
Anyone who has ever decided not to go back to a resturaunt that has good food because of shitty service is in the same boat here.
I don't want to pay Theo's salary. Thats the basic problem here.
Dear Theo:
Maybe people are deciding you're just too much of a douche to put up with.
I'm sure if you run out of money and cant work on openssh anymore that someone with the time and resources will pick up the ball and run with it. Such is the nature of OSS.
Love,
the Free Software Community.
Hey if they're swimsuits like this http://www.wickedweasel.com/
then I've got no problems.
Seriously though, where in the hell did you get it in your head that they wear swimsuits in the shower?
Other interesting (and utterly retarded) fallacies about australia:
They're all criminals.
They all walk on their heads.
Toilets all flush backwards.
>>I wouldn't be so quick to say the russians are not producing good product, one example is the slotback
>> radar in the Mig 29 - it is easily as good as anything built in recent times by any other country.
>> (I'm an ex ELINT weenie so I can speak with some knowledge on the subject)
The slotback doesnt compete in the same league as the current generation of radar sets like the AESA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AESA
Sorry, it just doesnt.
They cost the same because RedHat Enterprise WS is not a free-as-in-beer product.
You get 3 years of RH support with Enterprise WS, and you pay for it. the pricing is about $180 for the OEM copy of RHEL WS, which is about similar to the OEM price for XP Pro.
Just because it's linux doesnt mean it's always cheaper.
NO HIPPIES.
I dont understand the giant kerfluffle that has erupted over A Million Little Pieces. It's a memoir, not an autobiography. The accuracy standards for the former have traditionally been FAR, FAR less rigorous than the latter. An Autobiography is typically held to journalistic fact checking standards, as it is meant to be a historical work. A memoir is typically just some old guy sitting around telling stories about what a stud he was back in the good old days. If you'd like to see or read about more memoirs commonly accepted as largely bullshit, please look for Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird, and Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments. Here's a much more serious issue of fabrication: Chuck Barris' completely fabricated autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was allowed to stand with only minor grumbles. Hell, they even made a movie out of it. Here's how *that* boiled down, in a nutshell: "Chuck barris claims to be a government agent" "Hey, he really wasnt a government agent was he?" "No, I dont think so. He is crazy though." "Hey, a crazy guy who thinks he's a government agent? I smell money!" IMO, this book should never have been published with the word "autobiography" in the title. But hey, there's always money to be made. This is nothing new.
Well, "Barry Bonds hit a 400ft home run into the left-field upper decks in the 8th inning" sounds like a description of the game to me. MLB has actually been claiming ownership on game facts for a few years now.
It sucks, but if you dont like it, stop paying them. They'll take the hint.
While annoying to a small number of people who can't connect to them, the coralcache links are vastly better than the alternative of slashdotting a site that cannot handle the load of a million nerds with refresh buttons.
When that happens, NO ONE can get to the page, not just those with lame firewalls.
[ObNerd]
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
The problem is that a benevolent tyrant is still a tyrant.
/is fine with the status quo, personally // would also be fine with multilateral control
"It's just fine with the US running it" is a sentiment that really doesnt extend one millimeter beyond the US border. It's a lousy status quo if you're not in the US.
I dont see the US having any leverage here. If the rest of the world decides to establish an alternate route, then there's fuck all the US can do about it. It's not like ICANN can impose itself on peoples nameservers.
I don't. Hell, I squick in pain every year when I give Salon.com $20, and thats only a buck and change every month. At $60, they could go screw. There's no website in the world I'd pay $60 for.
Whats so complicated about that? You dont OWN anything. You are purchasing the non-exclusive right to use a piece of software.
There is NOTHING new about how this works. It's like you people are suddenly waking up and freaking out because you JUST NOW REALIZED that you dont own the software you 'bought'.
YOU NEVER OWNED THE SOFTWARE YOU BOUGHT. EVER.
Your post is a hell of a lot better if I read it out loud like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.
WORST. NEWS SITE. EVER!!!
There may not be GNU replacements, but tons of really pricy ($10,000+ per seat) engineering software now comes in Linux versions alongside the UNIX ones.
Unigraphics is one big one, the first one that comes to mind.