Nowhere in my post did I mention he had to get hauled out of the ice - I said hauled out of the place, which is roughly the situation this guy is in.
I don't see anything wrong in wanting to reduce traffic in an ecologically protected area like the Antartic. I would honestly not trust a guy who does not even take sufficient contingency measures for his trip, let alone take caution in an ecologically protected area.
Why doesn't he go do something useful with his life for a change rather than tread the beaten path?
Then again, no one owns Antarctica so why shouldn't people do what they want.
Hmmm, sure go ahead. But do not expect your sorry @$$ to be hauled out of the place when you think you can jolly well do anything you please in there.
The more the number of people who come, the more the number of idiots like this guy who think, "Hey! You know what, I'll fly by Antartica today. And if something goes wrong, I always have one of them research bases to help me out. Oh come on, someone or the other would rescue me? Wouldn't they?"
I mean, come on. Its a research base. And it takes a lot of resources to get stuff in there. And people. And I would think they have better things to do than haul the sorry asses of guys like him.
I'd hardly consider US military base an accomodation where Russian researcher can work for monthes in the middle of Cold War.
Maybe there are aliens there, you know? Usually thats when the humans kinda put aside their differences amidst wars and join hands and things like that.
There have been so many times when I've done a search on eBay, and then realize *bummer* - there would be so many folks out there who'd have it but who just wouldn't put it up on eBay.
However, given the nature of Slashdot crowd, a these would exactly be the kind of things would be stuff that would be around.
Hell, its not too late even now. Combine auction + Thinkgeek and you have a killer thing, something like Amazon + eBay. Do you find what you need in the auctions? If not, buy it off Thinkgeek.
I, for one, would most certainly love something like this.
True, but notice that the site says that they would have a repository containing security updates -- I'm not sure if MSFT does this for their older products.
Because if not, just because I do not update to a newer version of your OS does not mean that I should stand the risk of being r00ted. Bad idea.
But like I said in my other post, this is a whole different ballgame since in case of RH most of the customers would be organizations rather than dumbo-end users.
In case you are wondering, CBSE is Central Board of Secondary Education, India's centralized educational panel that decides things like textbook material, testing standards etc which all affiliated institutions follow.
Ofcourse, what they have failed to mention is that the Central Board is largely unsympathetic to local langauges and hence each state has its own State Board and/or State Matriculation system.
Often, a lot of people end up either one or the other. Makes you wonder why they have been approached by CBSE and not their respective state boards.
It probably has more to do with, "BURN!! All ye' evil and saddistic music pirating beer drinking money laundering bird like thingys you students are! We shall burn you like you were made of wax."
Slashdot Mirror
Details are available on their forum.
:)
Link here to the Sudhian Forum.
If the current state of their server is any indication of this thing's performance, its sad
Nowhere in my post did I mention he had to get hauled out of the ice - I said hauled out of the place, which is roughly the situation this guy is in.
I don't see anything wrong in wanting to reduce traffic in an ecologically protected area like the Antartic. I would honestly not trust a guy who does not even take sufficient contingency measures for his trip, let alone take caution in an ecologically protected area.
Why doesn't he go do something useful with his life for a change rather than tread the beaten path?
Am getting some weirdo JSP errors.
But here's the Google cache to the rescue.
Then again, no one owns Antarctica so why shouldn't people do what they want.
Hmmm, sure go ahead. But do not expect your sorry @$$ to be hauled out of the place when you think you can jolly well do anything you please in there.
The more the number of people who come, the more the number of idiots like this guy who think, "Hey! You know what, I'll fly by Antartica today. And if something goes wrong, I always have one of them research bases to help me out. Oh come on, someone or the other would rescue me? Wouldn't they?"
I mean, come on. Its a research base. And it takes a lot of resources to get stuff in there. And people. And I would think they have better things to do than haul the sorry asses of guys like him.
I'd hardly consider US military base an accomodation where Russian researcher can work for monthes in the middle of Cold War.
Maybe there are aliens there, you know? Usually thats when the humans kinda put aside their differences amidst wars and join hands and things like that.
From the article -
"I think it's moving us in the right direction," he said.
What, the light? Or...
Aww forget it!!!
Dunno, read Slashdot and make sure you click all those SCO links? ;-)
I couldn't agree with you more.
There have been so many times when I've done a search on eBay, and then realize *bummer* - there would be so many folks out there who'd have it but who just wouldn't put it up on eBay.
However, given the nature of Slashdot crowd, a these would exactly be the kind of things would be stuff that would be around.
Hell, its not too late even now. Combine auction + Thinkgeek and you have a killer thing, something like Amazon + eBay. Do you find what you need in the auctions? If not, buy it off Thinkgeek.
I, for one, would most certainly love something like this.
True, but notice that the site says that they would have a repository containing security updates -- I'm not sure if MSFT does this for their older products.
Because if not, just because I do not update to a newer version of your OS does not mean that I should stand the risk of being r00ted. Bad idea.
But like I said in my other post, this is a whole different ballgame since in case of RH most of the customers would be organizations rather than dumbo-end users.
Or so I think.
The difference is that most of the old stuff that MS has stopped supporting is for home/end users (like Win98).
While the kind of users who may use RH are largely a whole lot more tech savvy than those MSFT users.
This is a big difference, especially given the nature of people you would need to employ to fill these requirements (at Progeny).
Also, if you notice, the site says this -
Quotes for custom platform services are available.
Thats what interests me. I could be wrong, but I think this is a niche market that could mean more inflow of money for OSS.
In case you are wondering, CBSE is Central Board of Secondary Education, India's centralized educational panel that decides things like textbook material, testing standards etc which all affiliated institutions follow.
Ofcourse, what they have failed to mention is that the Central Board is largely unsympathetic to local langauges and hence each state has its own State Board and/or State Matriculation system.
Often, a lot of people end up either one or the other. Makes you wonder why they have been approached by CBSE and not their respective state boards.
...or maybe they're smoking crack themselves?
Dude, at Tech we don't even get the time to piss, let alone piss on our hands.
(disgruntled Tech student holding his pee)
...Or bring in the Nazis to invoke Godwin's law ;-)
The last time I checked, there was a sultry Italian pornstar by that name.
*sigh*
It probably has more to do with, "BURN!! All ye' evil and saddistic music pirating beer drinking money laundering bird like thingys you students are! We shall burn you like you were made of wax."
Or something like that.
We covered this some months ago but the Associated Press is just catching on.
:-p
To be translated as --
We know you're gonna scream repeat, but we're gonna repeat it anyway.
Oh didn't you know? *BSD is dead dude ;-)
Is this mere co-incidence or is this some kinda conspiracy?
;-)
The Slashdot fortune cookie reads, "One person's error is another person's data."
Wait a while and you'll find it on eBay.
;-)
I hear that these days they sell just about anything, even satellites
Ahh yes.
There it is, my SCO crap fix for the week.
Sure.
;-)
But just that with all the story repeats, they might just forget that they'd been paid not to do that again.
You know, that might actually prevent them from posting repeats though
Well, that statement wasn't meant in a paranoid kinda way.
My school does a *lot* of research into RFID tags, and guess what a lot of the "intended" uses are?
Corporates want to track people and habits, and government establishments want to track people, their habits *and* the corporates.
Lesson 1: RFIDs screw your privacy
Lesson 2: Lesson 1 is always true.
If I'm not mistaken, MS is trying something like this with their Filesystem for LongHorn (the enterprise edition).
Not too sure, though.