I figured there'd be a few non-INTJs on Slashdot, which is why I said, "Or at least IxTx types", because I know we're probably ALL introverted thinker types.
I didn't think people with enough intelligence to read Slashdot used "gayest" as an adjectival insult.
Oh well... I guess Trolls live under every bridge, even university bridges. Says nothing of the troll's intelligence... except that comp sci profs probably can't run very fast; they're easy pickings, so the smarter trolls might hide out there.
"...that which is succesful in its purpose of being aesthetically pleasing..."
Oh, so now you ascribe purpose to the random ramblings of non-intelligent machines? Only humans can have the all-important ingredient of real art, purpose or intent.
The random textual crap he is trying to "evolve" is no more poetry (or art) than those little squiggles in that old simulator program called "Life" were actually alive.
Telus certainly has had tech problems, especially when Telus and BC Tel were combining... There were lots of outages and tech support got a bit hellish there. And they have this stupid one-number tech support policy that is supposed to be helpful (you can get tech support in BC or Alberta on the same number) but is a serious pain for those of us trying to manage businesses with branches in both provinces.
But Telus is, compared to most tech suppliers that I've worked with, not bad at all. They rarely hassle me if I have some serious tech problems. They NEVER EVER have multi-hour holds. Usually 3-5 minutes. You must have been calling an airline's air miles line. They boost me to "level 2" with one call, and when you've got the magic level 2 key, you don't wait on the phone and they queue you to get to-your-door service on a pretty tight timeline. The most annoying thing is that they often have to send someone out to discover what I've been telling them all along -- it's not MY problem, it's YOURS.
Their pricing is good, too. Most of the (western) branches of the company that I put on DSL are paying residential rates, even though Telus knows they're businesses. Other provinces have to pay Mafia-extortion rates for business DSL, which usually is the same service as Telus' residential, just with a different label.
And as for the whole DHCP thing -- My static machines have their IPs hard-coded into them. They don't even ask Telus anymore. Seems to work fine. My "dynamic" machines almost never change their addresses, by the way. That could be considered a bug in Telus' system, but it's very nice for me as a "power user"... When used with a service like no-ip.com, I can get a low-maintenance solution without paying for "static" IPs.
Now, Bell out in Ontario -- there's a nightmare. What's up with the virtual network card and the dialler you have to run every time you restart the computer!? And they charge the same price for ONE business DYNAMIC IP that Telus charges for TWO STATIC ones.
When I said, "I don't think this announcement will have nearly the impact in the west that it will have in the central and eastern parts of Canada" I was, by the word "central," referring to anything east of Alberta, since Telus only lives in the two Westernmost provinces.
I've had some experience with Sasktel's dismal service. I'm glad I'm in "Canada's dreamland".
Telus, the big telco out here in the west, offers a good DSL service. They have not begun to enforce any capping, unlike the cable companies, and the speed is much better than many (if not most) of the US residential DSL providers...
I don't think this announcement will have nearly the impact in the west that it will have in the central and eastern parts of Canada. Out here, there really aren't any viable competing telcos, and Telus allows other companies to resell DSL under other brand names (for the same price, as far as I can tell) so who you get DSL from seems pretty irrelevant at this point.
Being able to get DSL-only service would be cool, however. I know people who really don't need a land line, but they have it just to get the DSL service.
I have a Radeon with VIVO (video-in-video-out), and I always have to boot to Windows in order to watch video on my TV.
Although RedHat9 came with the ATI driver for my card, and there seems to be lots of places to download the drivers, ATI, Xfree86, and everybody I could find basically shrug their shoulders when it comes to TV-out support for my Radeon.
I thought GATOS could be what I'm looking for, since it seems to support the VIVO card that I have.
Sigh. Same as everyone else. Under the option that allows TV-out support:
"This code has not been updated in a while. Do not be surprised if this does not work or causes your computer to freeze. If you do not know how to use cvs, learn it. If you do not want to learn it - this code is not for you."
I wish I could agree that Moore's Law applied to most software. Except for games and video, I don't see software running 2x faster on a chip that claims a clock speed that is 2x greater. For instance, Office programs (and Windows itself) seems to start up only fractionally faster on an 800 mHz machine than they do on a 400 mHz machine.
Perhaps benchmarks show that a chip with a clock speed 2x faster actually runs non-number-crunching software 2x faster, but the feeling is that the speed increase is a lot smaller than the chips claim. Why? I don't know. Software? HD? bus speed? Maybe the HD needs to be 2x faster too.
And who knows? Maybe I'm alone in my observations here. But a 486-100 running Win98 and Office should be a snail compared to a P4 1.8 gHz. But the difference in speed is NOT 18x. Maybe more like 5x, by my observations.
Aw, c'mon, you're just saying that. If you're a true slashdotter, you'd be up there in a minute if someone else offered to pay for your seat. I know I would! Man, for a chance to get into orbit, to be weightless, to be outside of the atmosphere... Probably the farthest anyone's going to get this side of 2050, if ever...
Just got a better idea. Instead of banning SOVs, how about a special SOV licence sticker that you must buy in urban centres to be allowed to drive a vehicle alone?
That sticker will cost the same as a monthly bus pass, and the money will be put directly into improving public transit services.
Big signs will ring major city centres, warning solo drivers that if they don't have SOV stickers, they must buy day permits from the automated booths in the far left lane and place them in their back window. If you're alone in the car, the cops can just look to see if you have the sticker or the day permit, and if you don't, they pull you over and fine you -- the price of a year's bus pass.
That would be sooo cool. It would mean some increase in infrastructure, but that could be paid off by the revenues generated by the sticker sales.
Hydrogen *may* destroy the Ozone layer, like oil, but at least, at ground level, it will not create it!
Hydrogen (or hybrid cars) will stop the regular "Pollution Alerts" that big cities have to issue on a regular basis on hot, still days. It will be nice to be able to see across town again, instead of only seeing that ever-present haze.
You just have to look at the black faces of old buildings and the ravages of acid rain to realize that internal combustion must be (at least partly) replaced as our main form of transportation power.
Here's a shocking idea... let's ban single-occupant vehicles! Make every lane an HOV lane! The petrol usage would drop precipitously, with a lot less infrastructure changes... except a good one -- better public transportation, and maybe some more lanes for those Segway scooters.
"...these people can get attention without repetitive and redundant radio saturation or MTV airplay..."
I think the "getting attention" is the part that costs all the money, not the recording or the stamping of discs. The highest bar any band must leap is that of publicity.
I yearn for a solution to the "radio gateway" that keeps talented musicians from becoming well known because they haven't made it to MTV or your local Clearnet station, but I don't think there is one yet. MP3.com, internet radio, word-of-mouth, all are somewhat effective, but nothing like the giant publicity machines that are the heart and soul of the giant recording companies. They aren't recording companies, they're marketing companies that also produce music.
Those reviews were probably written by fans of a particular website or blog that pointed to the album and told all readers to go and review it in a humourous way... But on the other hand, there are definitely multiple reviews by the same person... the phrase "The song Hot Shot City is still particularly good" by "Pinche Thesticles" from Tatooine suggests that he is probably "Shizzle My Nizzle" from Alderaan.
And that other guy on eBay went through and sent messages to what seems like all the beckys on the system...
I would like to think that you're right, you know, "believe the best" and all that, but "seams" instead of "seems" is not a proofreading error. It is an ESL or slept-through-English-101 kind of error.
Missing a word or repeating a word or even the "your" instead of "you're" error could be proofreading errors.
The website mentions that the OS is "REXX enabled", which is an OS/2 / IBM scripting language, right? Any other operating systems or applications use REXX these days?
I remember the Amiga had a version of this too... ARexx! Very useful back in the day.
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I figured there'd be a few non-INTJs on Slashdot, which is why I said, "Or at least IxTx types", because I know we're probably ALL introverted thinker types.
I wonder what I'd get if I did the test drunk?
I bet 80% of Slashdotters are INTJs, even though it's only about 1% of the total population. Or at least IxTx types.
I'd love to do a poll... Add it to the user info section, so everyone fills in their M-B personality type...
Wow.
I didn't think people with enough intelligence to read Slashdot used "gayest" as an adjectival insult.
Oh well... I guess Trolls live under every bridge, even university bridges. Says nothing of the troll's intelligence... except that comp sci profs probably can't run very fast; they're easy pickings, so the smarter trolls might hide out there.
You don't want petri dish. Beyond the pun, that suggests unpleasant things growing on you.
"She's cultured... like a Petri dish!"
Poor woman,
The 25-year-old lady who was the first test-tube baby doesn't look very attractive.
I guess I was getting real life and Gattica mixed up again.
Mmmm... Uma Thurman.
Poor cows, having Windows installed. They must have crashed a lot, while just doing normal daily tasks, like walking across the field or something...
"...that which is succesful in its purpose of being aesthetically pleasing..."
Oh, so now you ascribe purpose to the random ramblings of non-intelligent machines? Only humans can have the all-important ingredient of real art, purpose or intent.
The random textual crap he is trying to "evolve" is no more poetry (or art) than those little squiggles in that old simulator program called "Life" were actually alive.
Um.
Interbaun charges exactly the same rates as Telus.
I shouldn't reply to an AC flamebait post, but...
Telus certainly has had tech problems, especially when Telus and BC Tel were combining... There were lots of outages and tech support got a bit hellish there. And they have this stupid one-number tech support policy that is supposed to be helpful (you can get tech support in BC or Alberta on the same number) but is a serious pain for those of us trying to manage businesses with branches in both provinces.
But Telus is, compared to most tech suppliers that I've worked with, not bad at all. They rarely hassle me if I have some serious tech problems. They NEVER EVER have multi-hour holds. Usually 3-5 minutes. You must have been calling an airline's air miles line. They boost me to "level 2" with one call, and when you've got the magic level 2 key, you don't wait on the phone and they queue you to get to-your-door service on a pretty tight timeline. The most annoying thing is that they often have to send someone out to discover what I've been telling them all along -- it's not MY problem, it's YOURS.
Their pricing is good, too. Most of the (western) branches of the company that I put on DSL are paying residential rates, even though Telus knows they're businesses. Other provinces have to pay Mafia-extortion rates for business DSL, which usually is the same service as Telus' residential, just with a different label.
And as for the whole DHCP thing -- My static machines have their IPs hard-coded into them. They don't even ask Telus anymore. Seems to work fine. My "dynamic" machines almost never change their addresses, by the way. That could be considered a bug in Telus' system, but it's very nice for me as a "power user"... When used with a service like no-ip.com, I can get a low-maintenance solution without paying for "static" IPs.
Now, Bell out in Ontario -- there's a nightmare. What's up with the virtual network card and the dialler you have to run every time you restart the computer!? And they charge the same price for ONE business DYNAMIC IP that Telus charges for TWO STATIC ones.
Not smoking anything... unfortunately...
When I said, "I don't think this announcement will have nearly the impact in the west that it will have in the central and eastern parts of Canada" I was, by the word "central," referring to anything east of Alberta, since Telus only lives in the two Westernmost provinces.
I've had some experience with Sasktel's dismal service. I'm glad I'm in "Canada's dreamland".
Telus, the big telco out here in the west, offers a good DSL service. They have not begun to enforce any capping, unlike the cable companies, and the speed is much better than many (if not most) of the US residential DSL providers...
I don't think this announcement will have nearly the impact in the west that it will have in the central and eastern parts of Canada. Out here, there really aren't any viable competing telcos, and Telus allows other companies to resell DSL under other brand names (for the same price, as far as I can tell) so who you get DSL from seems pretty irrelevant at this point.
Being able to get DSL-only service would be cool, however. I know people who really don't need a land line, but they have it just to get the DSL service.
Although RedHat9 came with the ATI driver for my card, and there seems to be lots of places to download the drivers, ATI, Xfree86, and everybody I could find basically shrug their shoulders when it comes to TV-out support for my Radeon.
I thought GATOS could be what I'm looking for, since it seems to support the VIVO card that I have.
Sigh. Same as everyone else. Under the option that allows TV-out support:
I wish I could agree that Moore's Law applied to most software. Except for games and video, I don't see software running 2x faster on a chip that claims a clock speed that is 2x greater. For instance, Office programs (and Windows itself) seems to start up only fractionally faster on an 800 mHz machine than they do on a 400 mHz machine.
Perhaps benchmarks show that a chip with a clock speed 2x faster actually runs non-number-crunching software 2x faster, but the feeling is that the speed increase is a lot smaller than the chips claim. Why? I don't know. Software? HD? bus speed? Maybe the HD needs to be 2x faster too.
And who knows? Maybe I'm alone in my observations here. But a 486-100 running Win98 and Office should be a snail compared to a P4 1.8 gHz. But the difference in speed is NOT 18x. Maybe more like 5x, by my observations.
Am I hallucinating here?
Aw, c'mon, you're just saying that. If you're a true slashdotter, you'd be up there in a minute if someone else offered to pay for your seat. I know I would! Man, for a chance to get into orbit, to be weightless, to be outside of the atmosphere... Probably the farthest anyone's going to get this side of 2050, if ever...
You know you want it. C'mon. You KNOW you do.
Oops. If only Slashdot had a comment-retraction system... Hydroxilic acid ... H20... d'oh...
BDIFD: Boy Do I Feel Dumb.
yes, but there's just so much MORE DHMO around, it wins through sheer quantity!
Just got a better idea. Instead of banning SOVs, how about a special SOV licence sticker that you must buy in urban centres to be allowed to drive a vehicle alone?
That sticker will cost the same as a monthly bus pass, and the money will be put directly into improving public transit services.
Big signs will ring major city centres, warning solo drivers that if they don't have SOV stickers, they must buy day permits from the automated booths in the far left lane and place them in their back window. If you're alone in the car, the cops can just look to see if you have the sticker or the day permit, and if you don't, they pull you over and fine you -- the price of a year's bus pass.
That would be sooo cool. It would mean some increase in infrastructure, but that could be paid off by the revenues generated by the sticker sales.
Hydrogen *may* destroy the Ozone layer, like oil, but at least, at ground level, it will not create it!
Hydrogen (or hybrid cars) will stop the regular "Pollution Alerts" that big cities have to issue on a regular basis on hot, still days. It will be nice to be able to see across town again, instead of only seeing that ever-present haze.
You just have to look at the black faces of old buildings and the ravages of acid rain to realize that internal combustion must be (at least partly) replaced as our main form of transportation power.
Here's a shocking idea... let's ban single-occupant vehicles! Make every lane an HOV lane! The petrol usage would drop precipitously, with a lot less infrastructure changes... except a good one -- better public transportation, and maybe some more lanes for those Segway scooters.
DHMO is actually the most powerful solvent on earth.
USE WITH CAUTION!!
Erm, Soylent Beer?
"...these people can get attention without repetitive and redundant radio saturation or MTV airplay..."
I think the "getting attention" is the part that costs all the money, not the recording or the stamping of discs. The highest bar any band must leap is that of publicity.
I yearn for a solution to the "radio gateway" that keeps talented musicians from becoming well known because they haven't made it to MTV or your local Clearnet station, but I don't think there is one yet. MP3.com, internet radio, word-of-mouth, all are somewhat effective, but nothing like the giant publicity machines that are the heart and soul of the giant recording companies. They aren't recording companies, they're marketing companies that also produce music.
Those reviews were probably written by fans of a particular website or blog that pointed to the album and told all readers to go and review it in a humourous way... But on the other hand, there are definitely multiple reviews by the same person... the phrase "The song Hot Shot City is still particularly good" by "Pinche Thesticles" from Tatooine suggests that he is probably "Shizzle My Nizzle" from Alderaan.
And that other guy on eBay went through and sent messages to what seems like all the beckys on the system...
I want this much free time!!!
I would like to think that you're right, you know, "believe the best" and all that, but "seams" instead of "seems" is not a proofreading error. It is an ESL or slept-through-English-101 kind of error.
Missing a word or repeating a word or even the "your" instead of "you're" error could be proofreading errors.
It seams your rite.
The website mentions that the OS is "REXX enabled", which is an OS/2 / IBM scripting language, right? Any other operating systems or applications use REXX these days?
I remember the Amiga had a version of this too... ARexx! Very useful back in the day.