I find this especially ironic. People care about Paris Hilton's car crash not because car crashes are particularly rare, but because Paris Hilton is really popular.
Its not ironic. All popular people are popular simply because they are popular.
But COME ON, is this really worth an article on Slashdot?
We are geeks. We have seen Google come from nothing to the best piece of real estate on the web. Google has changed our vocabulary. A new verb is now in it, called "google". Kinda like the "slashdot effect" and others.
Hey, don't bash nerdy university students. I'm an undergraduate currently studying for a research masters level course on neural networks with a beer in my hand (11:25 am) and no iPod or whatever the hell a facebook is in sight.
Take a class in stats next, and then tell me how significant stats with n=1 are.
People are used to easily availiable beer starting in high school!
Well, I guess the times have changed since I was in high school. Alcohol was more difficult to get than marijuana, LSD, and cocaine. It was also difficult to do before school, after school, without being busted by your folks because the smell lingers. Also, with stuff like beer and whatnot, you require cooling and storage.
I guess times have changed, but for us it was much easier to carry 3 to micrograms of a substance vs even one beer or a small bottle of liqueur.
Fanatics, tunnel vision, extremists, or whatever you want to call them have a slight ounce of truth to their cause, but pounds, if not tons, of dead weight associated with them as well.
We slashdotters are no different. We're fanatical about being anti-fanatical:)
I guess the happy medium is just to eat, sleep, and shit, just like every other animal. The problem, is that we humans need to find purpose for our eating, sleeping, and shitting while we are on the planet. The problem is self-centeredness, vanity, narcissism, etc.
No, we humans are not that special. No, God did not create us in his own image. We are merely highly social apes with language, opposable thumbs, tools, and no predators, and its easy for us to get food, so we are misdirected and prey on each other out of boredom.
But you see, this is better for America because we will all now get lower interest on our credit cards, loans, and mortgages now that they are saving so much money. </sarcasm>
I don't give a flying fuck what a EULA says. I won't read them, but I will "Agree" to them because that is a required step in installing and/or updating software.
Didn't Sony's rootkit get installed even if the user did not agree to the EULA? Doesn't Microsoft change the EULA on the fly when doing an update?
Let me guess, you actually went out of your way to go and pay SCO the, what? $695/CPU to use Linux too?
EULAs are complete BS. I've never paid attention to them, nor have they affected my life.
Oh, and I use DeCSS too. Despite the undocumented licensing that comes with the DVDs that I buy.
It would be interesting to see what Microsoft would do if EULAs were ruled unenforceable
EULAs are 2 extra characters wasted for BS.
They are not a contract. In most legal systems, people under the age of 18 cannot enter a contract, but many people under the age of 18 use computers. EULAs have been shot down in court a number of times because they are not given to the customer before the contract of sale. MS even convolutes the issue because they like to change the EULA behind your back when a service pack comes out or whenever they feel like it. In fact, Microsoft's EULA has backfired on them when people were doing the mass Windows refund thing with computers that they upgraded the system with Linux or some other OS.
Give me a fucking break. Its 2006. If your OS is down or crashes, you have bullshit admins, using a bullshit OS, or have crummy hardware or power.
I have had Linux crash in production once. In 1997, and the bug was fixed in a day or so. Also, it was my fault as a beginner admin who thought it was cool to download and install the "latest and greatest" untested kernel from kernel.org or where ever you got Linux kernels at the time.
The fact is that if you don't stand by your principles, you don't have them.
I agree with that in principle, but not in reality.
I have principles against being dishonest, mass murder, invasion of privacy, greed and whatnot, but I pay people to do these things out of my paycheck before I even get paid.
Obviously there is a huge difference between filtering search results and gassing people and putting them in mass graves, but the logic doesn't improve any as the severity decreases.
Personally, I believe that Google providing filtered results in China is less evil than providing no results. China's policy will eventually change, and then life will go on.
The way I see it, this is yet another reason to pirate media instead of buying it.
Things have gotten so bad, that me and others like me feel less like a criminal by "stealing" software and music vs buying it.
I had to call tech support one time because some software was not working via the license manager, and do you know why? We paid too much for it. My user had a single user license, and then my company bought a site license, which made the individual license not work.
The now infamous Ernie Ball being raided by the BSA incident and the removal of all Microsoft products in 6 months is another example. The guy was completely legit, and he had to pay something like $20-30k in extortion to make sure that he was really paying enough for software.
Its safer to pirate and download music now vs being rootkitted by buying it.
I have over $1k in software at home that I am _terrified_ to touch because of all of the dongles and online registration and whatnot. Aside from the quality of the software not being that good, the crap that I have to go through just to make it work has really made me decide that I'm not going to buy software any more. I felt the same way when I bought my first C/C++ compiler. I paid something like $140 for it, and on the same computer gcc generated code that was 2-4x faster!
So, the media companies have really convinced me and others that free media is better. Their loss, not mine.
If every change even a correction needs to be audited save-to-save of a file, then why don't we implement a Wiki style log of changes to the file?
It appears that document formats are 10-20 years away from what we want. Maybe never.
Things that would be cool are versioning like the parent mentioned. Also things like comments and the ability to do stickies or post-it style notes embedded in the document would be killer. You know like those stick on arrows that say, "Sign here".
It kills me that we are still stuck in the "WYSIWY_M_G" domain. The _M_ is for "May".
I like this new layout - but it seems that people like to post about what they don't like about something more than what they do. This new layout is clean and modern.
if you don't like it then tell us some specifics on why you don't like it!
All in all I like it too, but it needs some tweaking.
1) How do you make the quoted comments look light grey with the bar on the side? It looks nice, but I'm not sure how to do it (yet, first reply)
2) The comment and story font needs to go back to a serifed font.
3) Ordered lists (at least in Safari) have the numbers sticking left of the rest of the comment, while the text is aligned with the rest of the comment.
4) Its too vertically intensive. The spaces between paragraphs and whatnot need to be a little smaller.
5) The score for the comment needs to be on the left somewhere. It does no good having it on the right hand side.
All in all I like the new layout. It was long overdue. But I believe that at least these 5 tweaks are a common consensus from what I've read others say about it.
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I find this especially ironic. People care about Paris Hilton's car crash not because car crashes are particularly rare, but because Paris Hilton is really popular.
Its not ironic. All popular people are popular simply because they are popular.
But COME ON, is this really worth an article on Slashdot?
h ilton&btnG=Search+News
We are geeks. We have seen Google come from nothing to the best piece of real estate on the web. Google has changed our vocabulary. A new verb is now in it, called "google". Kinda like the "slashdot effect" and others.
I mean, check out what is "news" to the rest of the world -- http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=paris+
A dumb blond wrecking her car...
Hey, don't bash nerdy university students. I'm an undergraduate currently studying for a research masters level course on neural networks with a beer in my hand (11:25 am) and no iPod or whatever the hell a facebook is in sight.
Take a class in stats next, and then tell me how significant stats with n=1 are.
People are used to easily availiable beer starting in high school!
Well, I guess the times have changed since I was in high school. Alcohol was more difficult to get than marijuana, LSD, and cocaine. It was also difficult to do before school, after school, without being busted by your folks because the smell lingers. Also, with stuff like beer and whatnot, you require cooling and storage.
I guess times have changed, but for us it was much easier to carry 3 to micrograms of a substance vs even one beer or a small bottle of liqueur.
I am a PhD student, so I'm perhaps not representative, but I find this 'research' slightly hard to believe.
This is not "research", its a product placement advertisement.
A quick glance at my local university clearly demonstrates that cell phones are the gadget of choice.
About 10:1 to 20:1 to iPods or some other music looking device. About 70-80% of the students are on cell phones when walking from point A to B.
However, I do see more headphones and fewer cell phones when students are jogging vs walking.
they are not a fan of any one small band enough to go out and buy any CDs
Yeah, musicians need charity too.
Fanatics, tunnel vision, extremists, or whatever you want to call them have a slight ounce of truth to their cause, but pounds, if not tons, of dead weight associated with them as well.
We slashdotters are no different. We're fanatical about being anti-fanatical
I guess the happy medium is just to eat, sleep, and shit, just like every other animal. The problem, is that we humans need to find purpose for our eating, sleeping, and shitting while we are on the planet. The problem is self-centeredness, vanity, narcissism, etc.
No, we humans are not that special. No, God did not create us in his own image. We are merely highly social apes with language, opposable thumbs, tools, and no predators, and its easy for us to get food, so we are misdirected and prey on each other out of boredom.
See also -- exploitation.
The US is heading towards being a 3rd world nation. Good for a few, bad for the majority.
Sounds like fun!
But you see, this is better for America because we will all now get lower interest on our credit cards, loans, and mortgages now that they are saving so much money.
</sarcasm>
No, he's actually saying "I don't need to see it. I know it can't be true."
Reminds me of that South Park episode where the MPAA goon slicks back his hair and says, "I am above the law!"
These people are nameless sociopaths that simply don't have a real job, but they demand that they get paid well for it.
Like the mob, extortion, racketeering, and loan sharking are pretty much their job.
"I am above the law!"
Fucking assholes.
Yes, Netcraft has confirmed that Apache is now dead. Thank you.
/ /www.netcraft.com
As well as BSD: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:
Why does a mouse driver need to call in daily?
:)
Mice get lonely and need love too
That's why it pays to read the EULA.
Huh?
I don't give a flying fuck what a EULA says. I won't read them, but I will "Agree" to them because that is a required step in installing and/or updating software.
Didn't Sony's rootkit get installed even if the user did not agree to the EULA? Doesn't Microsoft change the EULA on the fly when doing an update?
Let me guess, you actually went out of your way to go and pay SCO the, what? $695/CPU to use Linux too?
EULAs are complete BS. I've never paid attention to them, nor have they affected my life.
Oh, and I use DeCSS too. Despite the undocumented licensing that comes with the DVDs that I buy.
It would be interesting to see what Microsoft would do if EULAs were ruled unenforceable
EULAs are 2 extra characters wasted for BS.
They are not a contract. In most legal systems, people under the age of 18 cannot enter a contract, but many people under the age of 18 use computers. EULAs have been shot down in court a number of times because they are not given to the customer before the contract of sale. MS even convolutes the issue because they like to change the EULA behind your back when a service pack comes out or whenever they feel like it. In fact, Microsoft's EULA has backfired on them when people were doing the mass Windows refund thing with computers that they upgraded the system with Linux or some other OS.
THIS POST COMES WITH NO WARRANTEE IMPLIED OR...
Fscking legalese.
in the most awesome basement ever built!
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Yeah, since they don't flood the world with quality LSD anymore, they might as well use them for data centers.
http://www.dea.gov/pubs/states/newsrel/sanfran112
The stock pile at the Branch Davidians didn't do them much good in the end, did it?
Actually, it took exactly one year and a bunch of diesel fuel and fertilizer.
The government learned after that.
Give me a fucking break. Its 2006. If your OS is down or crashes, you have bullshit admins, using a bullshit OS, or have crummy hardware or power.
I have had Linux crash in production once. In 1997, and the bug was fixed in a day or so. Also, it was my fault as a beginner admin who thought it was cool to download and install the "latest and greatest" untested kernel from kernel.org or where ever you got Linux kernels at the time.
Now, will slashdot give me serifed fonts back?
The fact is that if you don't stand by your principles, you don't have them.
I agree with that in principle, but not in reality.
I have principles against being dishonest, mass murder, invasion of privacy, greed and whatnot, but I pay people to do these things out of my paycheck before I even get paid.
Obviously there is a huge difference between filtering search results and gassing people and putting them in mass graves, but the logic doesn't improve any as the severity decreases.
Personally, I believe that Google providing filtered results in China is less evil than providing no results. China's policy will eventually change, and then life will go on.
Shouldn't that be "High Fidelity Radio?"
Marketers market, they know little to nothing about what they are marketing.
They came up with "High Definition Radio" because it sounded cool like "High Definition TV".
Kinda like how many of the analog speakers in the 80s and 90s were marketed as "digital" when they were not.
Things have gotten so bad, that me and others like me feel less like a criminal by "stealing" software and music vs buying it.
I had to call tech support one time because some software was not working via the license manager, and do you know why? We paid too much for it. My user had a single user license, and then my company bought a site license, which made the individual license not work.
The now infamous Ernie Ball being raided by the BSA incident and the removal of all Microsoft products in 6 months is another example. The guy was completely legit, and he had to pay something like $20-30k in extortion to make sure that he was really paying enough for software.
Its safer to pirate and download music now vs being rootkitted by buying it.
I have over $1k in software at home that I am _terrified_ to touch because of all of the dongles and online registration and whatnot. Aside from the quality of the software not being that good, the crap that I have to go through just to make it work has really made me decide that I'm not going to buy software any more. I felt the same way when I bought my first C/C++ compiler. I paid something like $140 for it, and on the same computer gcc generated code that was 2-4x faster!
So, the media companies have really convinced me and others that free media is better. Their loss, not mine.
Yep. On a 1600 pixel wide monitor, it's a long way to look over to see the rating of a comment.
Stop maximizing under windows, eh? What year is this?
If every change even a correction needs to be audited save-to-save of a file, then why don't we implement a Wiki style log of changes to the file?
It appears that document formats are 10-20 years away from what we want. Maybe never.
Things that would be cool are versioning like the parent mentioned. Also things like comments and the ability to do stickies or post-it style notes embedded in the document would be killer. You know like those stick on arrows that say, "Sign here".
It kills me that we are still stuck in the "WYSIWY_M_G" domain. The _M_ is for "May".
Its entirely ontopic. The slashdot editors were cleverly illustrating how easy it is to make a simple mistake, like in spreadsheets.
Now, offtopic!
I demand to have serif fonts again here on slashdot. I also demand to put the scores near the comment title.
I like this new layout - but it seems that people like to post about what they don't like about something more than what they do. This new layout is clean and modern.
if you don't like it then tell us some specifics on why you don't like it!
All in all I like it too, but it needs some tweaking.
1) How do you make the quoted comments look light grey with the bar on the side? It looks nice, but I'm not sure how to do it (yet, first reply)
2) The comment and story font needs to go back to a serifed font.
3) Ordered lists (at least in Safari) have the numbers sticking left of the rest of the comment, while the text is aligned with the rest of the comment.
4) Its too vertically intensive. The spaces between paragraphs and whatnot need to be a little smaller.
5) The score for the comment needs to be on the left somewhere. It does no good having it on the right hand side.
All in all I like the new layout. It was long overdue. But I believe that at least these 5 tweaks are a common consensus from what I've read others say about it.