There's a pretty diverse list of people there. Something for everyone to love (Mos Def, Q-Tip, The Roots, Aimee Mann & Michael Penn, Taj Mahal) and hate (Lords of Acid, Offspring, Sisqo, Dixie Chicks). Adjust lists for your taste.
I'm kinda surprised to see Fred Durst as a member, considering he's on the board of directors at Interscope. Who knows.
Yeah, but your user number has nothing do with when the site started. I am user #277, but that's just because I was the 277th person to sign up for an account once they started offering them.
Slashdot existed long before that in a version without user accounts.
But, of course, you're probably right that they didn't win that award in '94, anyway, so who cares?
Are you sure? I don't know about that particular board, but I have an Abit KA7-100, featuring the HighpointHPT 370 which does indeed do hardware RAID. So there definitely are a few chipsets out there that support it...
then you have to worry about the pronounciation. slash dot dot (sounds like colon slash slash, yes?)
That's the whole point. When slashdot was first around you couldn't go to www.slashdot.org (well... it redirected you to remove the www). The whole point of the name "slashdot" is the annoying pronounciation. Say the whole URL out loud:
H T T P SLASH SLASH SLASH DOT DOT ORG
If he had.dot, it would be http://slashdot.dot as in:
H T T P COLON SLASH SLASH SLASH DOT DOT DOT
AFAIK, there are two AIM protocols... There is TOC which was the original protocol and was later open-sourced so that other people could write clients (like AOL's old Tk client). Then there is OSCAR, which is the better protocol that has more features, but has no docs behind it.
Reportedly, AOL has been talking about closing their TOC servers for a while now, and my guess is that they finally did that. Clients which use OSCAR (this includes everybuddy) are unaffected.
She muddled the definition of censorship somewhat, saying that "[s]ome critics confuse censorship, which is imposed by the government, with technology that a family or school can choose to use and then set to implement an individual policy." Our school system isn't a part of the government?
To censor, according to my dictionary, is "to examine an expurgate". Expurgate, in turn, means "to remove obscene, objectionable, or erroneous material from prior to publication."
Generally only a government has the power to do this (by passing laws making a things illegal). One store refusing to carry a certain magazine does NOT count as censorship, even if some liberal media wants to call it that. Neither, I would argue, does a library refusing to allow certain websites.
It's still not a good idea, but I, personally, don't think it's the same as censorship. The information is still allowed to exist; you just have to go through alternate means to see it.
Remember the days when you would go to a web page and every sentence had at least one link? Even corporate sites weren't shy about doing off-site linking.
Of course the web was atrocious, but if you found a dumb page (take my old one for example) there was always something linked to that WAS moderately interesting.
Wiki pages are awfully remniscient of the "old web". (Of course that one is centered around eXtreme Programming and kinda boring, IMO, but it's the principle!)
Oh well. The corpratization of the web has brought lots of cool things, too; they're just harder to find now.
My review: trite, hackneyed, boring
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Admittedly, I only read the first third of this book, but it was the most boring thing I've read in a long time. It's the same crap you've heard from whiney editorial columnists in newspapers for ages now. "Life is too short now. No one has time to do anything they want to do." Blah, blah, blah ad nauseum.
I really liked James Gleick's "Chaos" and "Genius", but this book (the first third of it, anyway) seemed to add absolutely nothing new to an already boring one-sided conversation.
I hate it when people misuse that "censorship" word. People just love to toss it around, cuz it conjures up images of "nazi".
Your school can't very well censor you. They can stop you from using resources THEY OWN to do things they don't want you to for reasons they decide. But you can always get a modem and use napster that way, and I'm sure they'd have no problem with it. They aren't trying to run your life, just their networks.
censor: To examine and expurgate.
expurgate: To remove obscene, objectionable, or erroneous material from prior to publication.
At Nominalia!! They're decent I guess. Main lame point is a $60 fee to transfer ownership of the domain... they're set up for cybersquatters, clearly... (cheap initial registration, if you sell it, then you have to pay them, but who cares, cuz by that point you've made $$$ anyway...)
I've read that argument on the mod_perl list before (that session IDs are better because they aren't stored on your drive), but it just isn't true. Netscape, at least, stores every URL you visit in it's history file. I don't know about IE.
So I think they're worse, personally. You can make decently secure cookies (i.e. encode the time and the IP address in the cookie with an MD5 hash, so they only last an hour and only work from YOUR computer, otherwise you have to log in again)
Geeks: "Oh we're just an outcast minority that the media likes to pick on!!!"
Goths: "Oh we're just an outcast minority that the media likes to pick on!!!"
Gun Owners: "Oh we're just an outcast minority that the media likes to pick on!!!"
whatever. who fucking cares how you are portrayed in the media anyway? The great part is, none of those groups are outcasts or minorities, but they all think they are. Everyone wants to join an outcast minority clique.
Makes me long for the 80's when everyone wanted to be "cool" and there was a set standard for what cool was.
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only applies to *real* artists, not fake teen bands that are direct products of the RIAA
Christina Aguilera is a member.
I'm as shocked as you, man!
There's a pretty diverse list of people there. Something for everyone to love (Mos Def, Q-Tip, The Roots, Aimee Mann & Michael Penn, Taj Mahal) and hate (Lords of Acid, Offspring, Sisqo, Dixie Chicks). Adjust lists for your taste.
I'm kinda surprised to see Fred Durst as a member, considering he's on the board of directors at Interscope. Who knows.
I realize it's only an Atari 2600 game, but it really sucks. What the fuck are you supposed to do?
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Here are the files, since people are complaining that the site is
http://skylab.org/~plumpy/lotr/
We just have to wait for Bill Gates to open this letter:
http://timestudies.skylab.org/anthraxletter.png
LINUX!
Yeah, but your user number has nothing do with when the site started. I am user #277, but that's just because I was the 277th person to sign up for an account once they started offering them.
Slashdot existed long before that in a version without user accounts.
But, of course, you're probably right that they didn't win that award in '94, anyway, so who cares?
Are you sure? I don't know about that particular board, but I have an Abit KA7-100, featuring the Highpoint HPT 370 which does indeed do hardware RAID. So there definitely are a few chipsets out there that support it...
then you have to worry about the pronounciation. slash dot dot (sounds like colon slash slash, yes?)
.dot, it would be http://slashdot.dot as in:
That's the whole point. When slashdot was first around you couldn't go to www.slashdot.org (well... it redirected you to remove the www). The whole point of the name "slashdot" is the annoying pronounciation. Say the whole URL out loud:
H T T P SLASH SLASH SLASH DOT DOT ORG
If he had
H T T P COLON SLASH SLASH SLASH DOT DOT DOT
AFAIK, there are two AIM protocols... There is TOC which was the original protocol and was later open-sourced so that other people could write clients (like AOL's old Tk client). Then there is OSCAR, which is the better protocol that has more features, but has no docs behind it.
Reportedly, AOL has been talking about closing their TOC servers for a while now, and my guess is that they finally did that. Clients which use OSCAR (this includes everybuddy) are unaffected.
There's more info in the Everybuddy FAQ.
Please note that the above "facts" are all based on heresay and conjecture.
Won't Ncube be pissed?
They make servers for streaming live media (at broadcast quality).
The Reform Party's primaries have already happened... Just like the recent Arizona election, they used Election.com to handle the ballots.
Here's a Wired News story about the election.
She muddled the definition of censorship somewhat, saying that "[s]ome critics confuse censorship, which is imposed by the government, with technology that a family or school can choose to use and then set to implement an individual policy." Our school system isn't a part of the government?
To censor, according to my dictionary, is "to examine an expurgate". Expurgate, in turn, means "to remove obscene, objectionable, or erroneous material from prior to publication."
Generally only a government has the power to do this (by passing laws making a things illegal). One store refusing to carry a certain magazine does NOT count as censorship, even if some liberal media wants to call it that. Neither, I would argue, does a library refusing to allow certain websites.
It's still not a good idea, but I, personally, don't think it's the same as censorship. The information is still allowed to exist; you just have to go through alternate means to see it.
Remember the days when you would go to a web page and every sentence had at least one link? Even corporate sites weren't shy about doing off-site linking.
Of course the web was atrocious, but if you found a dumb page (take my old one for example) there was always something linked to that WAS moderately interesting.
Wiki pages are awfully remniscient of the "old web". (Of course that one is centered around eXtreme Programming and kinda boring, IMO, but it's the principle!)
Oh well. The corpratization of the web has brought lots of cool things, too; they're just harder to find now.
Admittedly, I only read the first third of this book, but it was the most boring thing I've read in a long time. It's the same crap you've heard from whiney editorial columnists in newspapers for ages now. "Life is too short now. No one has time to do anything they want to do." Blah, blah, blah ad nauseum.
I really liked James Gleick's "Chaos" and "Genius", but this book (the first third of it, anyway) seemed to add absolutely nothing new to an already boring one-sided conversation.
I hate it when people misuse that "censorship" word. People just love to toss it around, cuz it conjures up images of "nazi".
Your school can't very well censor you. They can stop you from using resources THEY OWN to do things they don't want you to for reasons they decide. But you can always get a modem and use napster that way, and I'm sure they'd have no problem with it. They aren't trying to run your life, just their networks.
censor: To examine and expurgate.
expurgate: To remove obscene, objectionable, or erroneous material from prior to publication.
At Nominalia!! They're decent I guess. Main lame point is a $60 fee to transfer ownership of the domain... they're set up for cybersquatters, clearly... (cheap initial registration, if you sell it, then you have to pay them, but who cares, cuz by that point you've made $$$ anyway...)
JWZ's thoughts on garbage collections.
I've read that argument on the mod_perl list before (that session IDs are better because they aren't stored on your drive), but it just isn't true. Netscape, at least, stores every URL you visit in it's history file. I don't know about IE.
So I think they're worse, personally. You can make decently secure cookies (i.e. encode the time and the IP address in the cookie with an MD5 hash, so they only last an hour and only work from YOUR computer, otherwise you have to log in again)
There is already a free "enhance stereo" (or something) effect plugin that comes with xmms. It works really well, and I like it a lot.
Has anyone used the two for comparison purposes? I don't see why the iQ plugin could be so much better that it's worth $10?
(I'm at work now on an SGI, and I can't get xmms to compile, or else I'd try...)
http://www.skylab.org/~plumpy/findfact. html
Here is what I am probably going to reply with.
Any comments on that?
Here's another interview. This one in newsweek. Haven't read it; I just got my copy in the mail today.
Geeks: "Oh we're just an outcast minority that the media likes to pick on!!!"
Goths: "Oh we're just an outcast minority that the media likes to pick on!!!"
Gun Owners: "Oh we're just an outcast minority that the media likes to pick on!!!"
whatever. who fucking cares how you are portrayed in the media anyway? The great part is, none of those groups are outcasts or minorities, but they all think they are. Everyone wants to join an outcast minority clique.
Makes me long for the 80's when everyone wanted to be "cool" and there was a set standard for what cool was.
heh, just kidding that last part was dumb.
What does a guy like jwz do for a followup, anyway? I mean, what could he possibly do that would be as rewarding as those first few years at netscape?
Perhaps he has a large enough amassed fortune to live the work-free, hack-for-fun life for a while?
hmm...?
2324 is the absolute BEST rfc ever written IMO.... Here is a link.