It no big deal to me if Slashdot posts an article I'm not interested in. I simply don't read it--it's not like I'm being forced to read it or anything.
No nobody is forced to, but I've found that the stories are getting moved off of the front page (meaning gone for the most part). I've found myself doing things lately like ignoring M$ articles (too much ignorant flaming), browsing at +3, increasing the number of articles shown on the front page, and looking through the "older stuff", and I read slashdot alot and I still find myself missing good discussions from time to time.
To me, it seems like fewer, higher quality articles that are peer reviewed in a sense, would make for a better slashdot.
Plus, I would actually subscribe then. Getting the scoop early is not a motivator for me, but participating in a better slashot would be motivating.
I've noticed that the shere volume of stories in the past few months has increased, yet the quality of them is kinda variable. ask slashdot hovers around unbearable, but is sometimes good.
Why can't subscribers get a chance to mod stories during this "preview" time, and possibly even keep silly stories and dups from getting posted to the "real" slashdot.
To be honest, I would prefer more advertising like this vs the flashy blinky noisy things all over the fscking place.
This is akin to product placement, and I would rather my favorite actor, Bob Dole, or whoever to casually use a product in my view while not disturbing the plot or whatever else I'm doing.
However, the problem is that everywhere I go, and everything I do is now inundated with advertisements. This is complete bullshit. I for the most part ignore advertisements. Besides the psychological, subconscious affects of advertising. (eg, Product X is a good company because we give back to the community, or simply product recognition), I don't see where advertising has any influence on my spending habits. And the few times that it has, I have felt burnt most of those times.
Here's a list of advertising bullshit that bothers me to no end:
There's too much of it in magazines, I can't find the table of contents so I can read what I bought the magazine for.
Ticketmaster advertises. These assholes are already charging me for the priveledge of buying a ticket, and they have the nerve to charge for advertising space too!
Endlessly repeating.gif's or flash ads. I've got galeon set up to only repeat animation once, and I don't have a flast plugin, thank you.
TV music programs where they play an ad between each song
The amount of ads on cable television in general. What do I pay $40 a month for?
A local university got $10 million from a car dealership to rent their name out on their new football stadium. I will not buy a car from them ever. If it had something to do with education, fine, but all I read from the car dealers actions is that they already make way too much money.
There must be more, I just can't think of them right now.
I guess that advertising is like spam, it exists because there must be some kind of reward for doing it. I ignore it. Word of mouth works fine. Believe me I trust someone I know much more than some washed up actor/athlete/Bob Dole pushing a product on me because they say they like the product. I feel as though ads are insulting, because I can go to a store and evaluate products or ask a sales person, or read up on a product beforehand. Bah, I've gone on too long already.
I use the utils that com with the mtx package. They allow me to load and unload tapes from a jukebox and eject the whole cartridge when I'm done with a backup.
I'm all for commercial UNIX vendors going to Linux. But for that to happen, they have to get Linux up to speed. Can anyone say Trusted Solaris? Does Linux have the auditing capabilities of systems like Solaris or NT? Although I havn't seen the later, post 2.4.9 kernels with the newer VM, under heavy load while paging, but in my experience Linux plain sucks under these condition.
IBM is starting to come around by embracing and supporting Linux. HP is doing the same, especially with the Itaniums. That leaves us with Sun and Solaris. Sun is behaving kindof erratically here lately. With their Cobalt cubes, their own flavor of linux, and their blade systems that run Intel or AMD chips. Sun has a lot to offer, but I think its time for them to either get their Sparc archetecture up to speed, or ditch it and just become and integrator with comodity parts. Solaris is rock solid, and has been for years. I would love to see some of the maturity of Solaris folded into Linux, but I would imagine that this would be a very difficult thing to do.
I hate to say it, but I kinda agree with this guy. But as it stands right now, unless commercial UNIXes do something drastically different, this will not be a big win for Linux, but rather a win for that other little company from Redmond. Because as it stands, Linux is not ready to assume all of the functionality of mature UNIXes.
I admined an AlphaStation (I think thats the name of it), some blue box with a 300MHz cpu in it. Anyway, something went wrong on the motherboard and the machine quit working. We took it apart, and looked at it, and let it sit for a while. Later, we tried it again and it worked! We then took it apart again, and we could see one of the ICs had melted and aparently fused itself back together.
I don't care how much people love samba, it cannot be a real domain controler, and even if it could, I really don't think it would be worth the effort. Why would you settle for 99% compatability? I work for a university and that is pretty much what windows servers do. (I've always called them password checkers:)
I prefer UNIX/Linux, its what I do. And I just think that its better for big "enterprise" kinds of apps like busy web servers, databases, number crunching, etc. Windows doesn't really run on a 64bit platform, which can be a showstopper.
As far as my personal computing, I use linux on an HP laptop. However, the TCO is the same because the laptop came with XP already on it, but I don't have office or any other $$ apps. And if I were to use office products daily, I surely would not use OpenOffice on Linux. Again, why settle for 99% compatability.
I'm not sure what an "artificial monopoly" is. Something is a monopoly or not. If it is a monopoly, then its real, not artificial.
Also, I cannot think of one example where a patent created a monopoly. Symbol has a patent on those barcode scanners at checkout lines that have a trigger. (another silly patent). But that is only one part of a checkout system, and they might have a monopoly (using the term loosely) on trigger thingies, but there are plenty of other companies that make POS devices.
Monopolies happen when a product has almost all of the marketshare. They are not necessarily a bad thing. I personally think the phone system was better with the AT&T/Bell monopoly, and since the prices were low with the Carnegie steel monopoly, who really cared where a raw product like steel comes from? The reason that monopolies are broken up is when they use their marketshare to stifle competetition, and the free market suffers from that monopoly.
Being a person that has been suicidal many times, this does not seem suprising to me that a caller can end their suicide call in 1/2 an hour. You have to take into account that some kind of "getting better" has already happened by not comitting suicide and calling someone. Most of the time I'm suicidal, I'm not really wanting to kill myself, I just don't want to be alive. So the people not calling back, does not mean that they are dead. Hell, I have bipolar disorder (aka manic depression), which means that I'm 3x more likely to be sucessful in comiting suicide, and here I am.
One sad thought about suicide in the USA. Its in the top 10 reasons for death in all age groups. The only common cause of death that spans all age groups.
If someone is poor because they are fiscally irresponsable, do you think the Internet is going to leave them worse off than they were before?
I guess a lot of it is frame of mind. There's been a couple of years in my life where my SSI statement says that I've made less than 10k or so, but I've never really considered myself poor. I guess because I always knew somehow that I would get out of it.
Also, I have never known someone to be poor because they were fiscally irresponsible. Broke maybe, but not poor.
because other things are popular. Look at what is popular. Things like actors, athletes, politicians (maybe). What is common with all of these things? They have an audience.
What is popular about being a Nerd? Are people going to applaud and jump when the nerd quickly traces down the erroneos off by 1 pointer atrithmatic error? I don't think so.
Now, why nerds are squashed by others?
Because nerds are a threat, because they are smart and because they tend to be intrinsically motivated (ie, doesn't follow the crowd). Nerds are not good followers, so leaders have to put them down so they are still "leading". A leader is any bozo that can get people to follow them. Look at politicians, they don't have an original idea about anything. Nerds are threats to these people, because they are in the know.
Example: JFK says lets go to the moon! Popularity goes up, for pres. Then its the nerds at NASA that come up with all of the reasons that we can't go to the moon. A list of priorities is made by said nerds. JFK states our priorities for getting people to the moon. JFK popularity goes up. Nerds fix problem & go to moon. One of the "greatest achievements" of mankind, and can you name a single nerd that helped?
I've got 62 Alpha machines, 2 Intel 32bit, and 3 Itaniums on the way plus my laptop and this is only a 3 day a week job.
You want me to compile what?
I have a hacked version of PBS, a stock version of Maui, and a number of scientific libraries/applications that are compiled from source. I think thats enough:)
And impressive considering the other certified OSes (Solaris, AIX, HPUX, and NT). I first used the Advanced Server a couple of months ago while evaluating some Itanium2s, and I was plesantly suprised. I really like RH's decision to make the Advanced Server their "Enterprise" class distro with about an 18 month release cycle. Makes my job easier (TM).
I never thought I would say this, but I've gotten accustomed to using RH. I was a die hard Debian fan, and in philosophy still am. But when it comes to 3rd party support, and announcements like this, I have to say that RH is the distro right now, and probably will be for some time to come (at least in the US).
For all of the advancements that RH has done for Linux, and in spite of itself, including RPM. I would like for them to get a better package system. Yes, I know theres the apt-rpm or whatever its called, but I'm talking something that already comes with the distro and works on all architectures supported by RH. Someday...
The music isn't for everyone but Furthurnet already has such a service. Also, for the shorten compressed files, they can be verified by a central database found here.
Just last week I had a conference to go to and wanted directions. The sad thing was that when I put in my search, something like "williamsburg woodland center directions", my own website was the 1st link which was announcing the conference. BTW, it didn't have the directions on the page:).
If the EULA is that important to the software maker, then the EULA should be on the box. I mean the hardware and software requirements are on the box, why not end user requirements?
I disagree. I personally feel as though Sun's low end Netra's and the v120's (and company) are excellent. They are not that expensive (I get an edu discount, but I don't think they list that high otherwise), and as far as server's go "They just work" (Tm) And keep in mind that I've seen very few (read almost none) servers that are CPU bound. Servers serve. Workstations (CAD, etc) process.
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It no big deal to me if Slashdot posts an article I'm not interested in. I simply don't read it--it's not like I'm being forced to read it or anything.
No nobody is forced to, but I've found that the stories are getting moved off of the front page (meaning gone for the most part). I've found myself doing things lately like ignoring M$ articles (too much ignorant flaming), browsing at +3, increasing the number of articles shown on the front page, and looking through the "older stuff", and I read slashdot alot and I still find myself missing good discussions from time to time.
To me, it seems like fewer, higher quality articles that are peer reviewed in a sense, would make for a better slashdot.
Plus, I would actually subscribe then. Getting the scoop early is not a motivator for me, but participating in a better slashot would be motivating.
Also, could this text box be a little larger?
I've noticed that the shere volume of stories in the past few months has increased, yet the quality of them is kinda variable. ask slashdot hovers around unbearable, but is sometimes good.
Why can't subscribers get a chance to mod stories during this "preview" time, and possibly even keep silly stories and dups from getting posted to the "real" slashdot.
This is akin to product placement, and I would rather my favorite actor, Bob Dole, or whoever to casually use a product in my view while not disturbing the plot or whatever else I'm doing.
However, the problem is that everywhere I go, and everything I do is now inundated with advertisements. This is complete bullshit. I for the most part ignore advertisements. Besides the psychological, subconscious affects of advertising. (eg, Product X is a good company because we give back to the community, or simply product recognition), I don't see where advertising has any influence on my spending habits. And the few times that it has, I have felt burnt most of those times.
Here's a list of advertising bullshit that bothers me to no end:
There must be more, I just can't think of them right now.
I guess that advertising is like spam, it exists because there must be some kind of reward for doing it. I ignore it. Word of mouth works fine. Believe me I trust someone I know much more than some washed up actor/athlete/Bob Dole pushing a product on me because they say they like the product. I feel as though ads are insulting, because I can go to a store and evaluate products or ask a sales person, or read up on a product beforehand. Bah, I've gone on too long already.
I use the utils that com with the mtx package. They allow me to load and unload tapes from a jukebox and eject the whole cartridge when I'm done with a backup.
I'm all for commercial UNIX vendors going to Linux. But for that to happen, they have to get Linux up to speed. Can anyone say Trusted Solaris? Does Linux have the auditing capabilities of systems like Solaris or NT? Although I havn't seen the later, post 2.4.9 kernels with the newer VM, under heavy load while paging, but in my experience Linux plain sucks under these condition.
IBM is starting to come around by embracing and supporting Linux. HP is doing the same, especially with the Itaniums. That leaves us with Sun and Solaris. Sun is behaving kindof erratically here lately. With their Cobalt cubes, their own flavor of linux, and their blade systems that run Intel or AMD chips. Sun has a lot to offer, but I think its time for them to either get their Sparc archetecture up to speed, or ditch it and just become and integrator with comodity parts. Solaris is rock solid, and has been for years. I would love to see some of the maturity of Solaris folded into Linux, but I would imagine that this would be a very difficult thing to do.
I hate to say it, but I kinda agree with this guy. But as it stands right now, unless commercial UNIXes do something drastically different, this will not be a big win for Linux, but rather a win for that other little company from Redmond. Because as it stands, Linux is not ready to assume all of the functionality of mature UNIXes.
Ozone can also be used to eliminate oders. Commonly used to eliminate oders from growing marijuana indoors.
I admined an AlphaStation (I think thats the name of it), some blue box with a 300MHz cpu in it. Anyway, something went wrong on the motherboard and the machine quit working. We took it apart, and looked at it, and let it sit for a while. Later, we tried it again and it worked! We then took it apart again, and we could see one of the ICs had melted and aparently fused itself back together.
I still hate alphas though.
I'll agree, right tool for the job.
:)
I don't care how much people love samba, it cannot be a real domain controler, and even if it could, I really don't think it would be worth the effort. Why would you settle for 99% compatability? I work for a university and that is pretty much what windows servers do. (I've always called them password checkers
I prefer UNIX/Linux, its what I do. And I just think that its better for big "enterprise" kinds of apps like busy web servers, databases, number crunching, etc. Windows doesn't really run on a 64bit platform, which can be a showstopper.
As far as my personal computing, I use linux on an HP laptop. However, the TCO is the same because the laptop came with XP already on it, but I don't have office or any other $$ apps. And if I were to use office products daily, I surely would not use OpenOffice on Linux. Again, why settle for 99% compatability.
3) repeat
I'm not sure what an "artificial monopoly" is. Something is a monopoly or not. If it is a monopoly, then its real, not artificial.
Also, I cannot think of one example where a patent created a monopoly. Symbol has a patent on those barcode scanners at checkout lines that have a trigger. (another silly patent). But that is only one part of a checkout system, and they might have a monopoly (using the term loosely) on trigger thingies, but there are plenty of other companies that make POS devices.
Monopolies happen when a product has almost all of the marketshare. They are not necessarily a bad thing. I personally think the phone system was better with the AT&T/Bell monopoly, and since the prices were low with the Carnegie steel monopoly, who really cared where a raw product like steel comes from? The reason that monopolies are broken up is when they use their marketshare to stifle competetition, and the free market suffers from that monopoly.
Being a person that has been suicidal many times, this does not seem suprising to me that a caller can end their suicide call in 1/2 an hour. You have to take into account that some kind of "getting better" has already happened by not comitting suicide and calling someone. Most of the time I'm suicidal, I'm not really wanting to kill myself, I just don't want to be alive. So the people not calling back, does not mean that they are dead. Hell, I have bipolar disorder (aka manic depression), which means that I'm 3x more likely to be sucessful in comiting suicide, and here I am.
One sad thought about suicide in the USA. Its in the top 10 reasons for death in all age groups. The only common cause of death that spans all age groups.
If someone is poor because they are fiscally irresponsable, do you think the Internet is going to leave them worse off than they were before?
I guess a lot of it is frame of mind. There's been a couple of years in my life where my SSI statement says that I've made less than 10k or so, but I've never really considered myself poor. I guess because I always knew somehow that I would get out of it.
Also, I have never known someone to be poor because they were fiscally irresponsible. Broke maybe, but not poor.
From the article...
a resident poll found that virtually all participants used the computers to read news, learn about health and housing, or to shop online.
I love welfare type systems, keep 'em poor and keep 'em consuming, that way they won't bother me!
I carried my ass to a library for internet access.
Ethernet does not imply IP
Nor does CAT5 imply ethernet.
because other things are popular. Look at what is popular. Things like actors, athletes, politicians (maybe). What is common with all of these things? They have an audience.
What is popular about being a Nerd? Are people going to applaud and jump when the nerd quickly traces down the erroneos off by 1 pointer atrithmatic error? I don't think so.
Now, why nerds are squashed by others?
Because nerds are a threat, because they are smart and because they tend to be intrinsically motivated (ie, doesn't follow the crowd). Nerds are not good followers, so leaders have to put them down so they are still "leading". A leader is any bozo that can get people to follow them. Look at politicians, they don't have an original idea about anything. Nerds are threats to these people, because they are in the know.
Example: JFK says lets go to the moon! Popularity goes up, for pres. Then its the nerds at NASA that come up with all of the reasons that we can't go to the moon. A list of priorities is made by said nerds. JFK states our priorities for getting people to the moon. JFK popularity goes up. Nerds fix problem & go to moon. One of the "greatest achievements" of mankind, and can you name a single nerd that helped?
He seems to be saying that there is no windows database server market.
If that were true, then MSSQL Server would not exist, and I bet that is what you would run on a Windows box.
Plus, unless things have changed recently, Oracle's primary OS target is Solaris, and all of the other builds are ports from the Solaris build.
I've got 62 Alpha machines, 2 Intel 32bit, and 3 Itaniums on the way plus my laptop and this is only a 3 day a week job.
:)
You want me to compile what?
I have a hacked version of PBS, a stock version of Maui, and a number of scientific libraries/applications that are compiled from source. I think thats enough
And impressive considering the other certified OSes (Solaris, AIX, HPUX, and NT). I first used the Advanced Server a couple of months ago while evaluating some Itanium2s, and I was plesantly suprised. I really like RH's decision to make the Advanced Server their "Enterprise" class distro with about an 18 month release cycle. Makes my job easier (TM).
I never thought I would say this, but I've gotten accustomed to using RH. I was a die hard Debian fan, and in philosophy still am. But when it comes to 3rd party support, and announcements like this, I have to say that RH is the distro right now, and probably will be for some time to come (at least in the US).
For all of the advancements that RH has done for Linux, and in spite of itself, including RPM. I would like for them to get a better package system. Yes, I know theres the apt-rpm or whatever its called, but I'm talking something that already comes with the distro and works on all architectures supported by RH. Someday...
The music isn't for everyone but Furthurnet already has such a service. Also, for the shorten compressed files, they can be verified by a central database found here.
AFAIK, the RIIA isn't opposed to you having information about the music that you own. They are just against you listening to the music that you own.
I guess since its google, its on topic right?
:).
Just last week I had a conference to go to and wanted directions. The sad thing was that when I put in my search, something like "williamsburg woodland center directions", my own website was the 1st link which was announcing the conference. BTW, it didn't have the directions on the page
Of course, it's extremely likely that this suit will be promptly settled
Ok, now how many of us read Slashdot? I think many of us would be willing to try our luck as well...
Two "wrongs" don't make a right.
If the EULA is that important to the software maker, then the EULA should be on the box. I mean the hardware and software requirements are on the box, why not end user requirements?
I disagree. I personally feel as though Sun's low end Netra's and the v120's (and company) are excellent. They are not that expensive (I get an edu discount, but I don't think they list that high otherwise), and as far as server's go "They just work" (Tm) And keep in mind that I've seen very few (read almost none) servers that are CPU bound. Servers serve. Workstations (CAD, etc) process.