Don't forget about the fact that most schools pump obscene amounts of money into their athletics departments... As an example, I remember a friend of mine who works for a school somewhere in Massachusetts saying he came across the principal's budget spreadsheets and the athletics department had some obscene amount of money like $400,000 for the next year, whereas the English department only had $8,000 for the next four years. (Those values may not be entirely correct due to bit rot, but I'm quite sure that the athletics department got some obscene amount of money for a shorter period of time compared to the English department.)
I saw that post as well. You know, one would tend to think that professors of history would be a bit more mature than that. But I suppose not. At least, not in this particular case.
"Linking to that virtualcrack page was incredibly stupid and irresponsible. Do you really think it's funny? [...] Making jokes about it only helps to make it seem more acceptable to those who haven't wised up about hard drugs yet."
I think slashdot's readership is just a little more mature than that. Of course, after seeing this post... maybe I spoke too soon.
"Clearly it can't check for the black coat since Mac CDROM drives don't have the extra piece of hardware that the PSX does. .."
Couple of things:
First, a minor nitpick: the "black coat" is actually a very dark blue. Second, I don't believe it's possible to check the colour of the bottom of a CD in any CDROM drive, though since I know nothing of the mechanics of CDROM drives and the lasers used therein, I could be wrong. The way that PSX games are copy-protected is that some blocks on the CDs are intentionally munged in such a way that normal CDROM drives 'correct' them (which, of course, actually munges it further so that if you try to copy it the copy is useless in a PSX) when they read them, but the PSX CDROM drive doesn't.
I think this would be a whole lot cooler if he actually wired a GPS locator to his cat so his cat tracker page actually DID track his cat, rather than its feeding schedule.
...but I don't see why anyone would register a domain for their two-year-old daughter. It's stupid. I mean, if you want to put up a page about how great and how cute your little toddler is, why not use the webspace that your ISP provides? And yes, one could say that my registering a domain name is stupid, but at least I can read and write. Also, I am aware that the issue here is that a big nasty faceless corporation is trying to squash the little guy for using a name that just happens to be one of their trademarks but the little guy isn't using it in any way that relates to the corporation's trademark, so don't flame me about me ignoring the real issue here, because I'm not.
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I think he wants something a bit more, ah, interactive.
Future Crew split up when their members had to serve in the Finnish military.
Perhaps he was suggesting the possibility of slashdot contacting tigert about doing icons for them.
Looks to me like the information is still there. Maybe I'm just hallucinating.
Perhaps now it should be possible for readers to filter based on post scores *and* moderator comments.
Just a thought...
Don't forget about the fact that most schools pump obscene amounts of money into their athletics departments... As an example, I remember a friend of mine who works for a school somewhere in Massachusetts saying he came across the principal's budget spreadsheets and the athletics department had some obscene amount of money like $400,000 for the next year, whereas the English department only had $8,000 for the next four years. (Those values may not be entirely correct due to bit rot, but I'm quite sure that the athletics department got some obscene amount of money for a shorter period of time compared to the English department.)
...is the day I eat my socks. (I will, of course capture a video of it and stick it on a publicly accessible site somewhere.)
maybe it's just me, but it seems like a lot of you are taking this waaay too seriously..
No, "Ich bin ein Berliner" does in fact mean "I am a citizen of Berlin". Whoever told you it means "I am a jelly donut" ist ein Dummkopf.
Note to self: If I'm ever around rms, go out of my way to refer to systems running Linux as "Linux systems". Wait, I'd do that anyway. Oh well.
No no no, three or four hundred years ago they would've thought it was a technology of the devil.
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I saw that post as well. You know, one would tend to think that professors of history would be a bit more mature than that. But I suppose not. At least, not in this particular case.
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Pay-per-view?! rms would never allow that! Because, uhh... he's rms! He's a zealot! Yeah! ...ah, nevermind.
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Read the source. There is a comment at the end. Something along the lines of "Happy April Fools' Day from HNN", I believe.
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Actually, it was "Doomsayers Cautiously Upbeat"...
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I'm psychic! Even before I was halfway through reading this thing, I knew people were going to say it was worse than Katz.
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This would actually be the third time... remember the announcement that segfault was opening? They went down like a $2 whore.
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(FWIW, the whole reason I posted this was so I could say "went down like a $2 whore")
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"You are supposed to whois the toplevel domain. . ."
.com, .net, .nu, .cx, .cc, etc...
Toplevel domain ==
Second-level domain == sun.com, linux.org, linux.com, microsoft.com, etc.
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... or is the phrase 'Barney Protocol Stack' amusing?
"Linking to that virtualcrack page was incredibly stupid and irresponsible. Do you really think it's funny? [...] Making jokes about it only helps to make it seem more acceptable to those who haven't wised up about hard drugs yet."
... maybe I spoke too soon.
I think slashdot's readership is just a little more mature than that. Of course, after seeing this post
Looks like the Europeans are playing catch-up in
the stupidity race.
AbiWord is high-quality? Funny, it segfaulted on me immediately the first time I ran it...
"Clearly it can't check for the black coat since Mac CDROM drives don't have the extra piece of hardware that the PSX does. . ."
Couple of things:
First, a minor nitpick: the "black coat" is actually a very dark blue. Second, I don't believe it's possible to check the colour of the bottom of a CD in any CDROM drive, though since I know nothing of the mechanics of CDROM drives and the lasers used therein, I could be wrong. The way that PSX games are copy-protected is that some blocks on the CDs are intentionally munged in such a way that normal CDROM drives 'correct' them (which, of course, actually munges it further so that if you try to copy it the copy is useless in a PSX) when they read them, but the PSX CDROM drive doesn't.
I think this would be a whole lot cooler if he actually wired a GPS locator to his cat so his cat tracker page actually DID track his cat, rather than its feeding schedule.
...but I don't see why anyone would register a domain for their two-year-old daughter. It's stupid. I mean, if you want to put up a page about how great and how cute your little toddler is, why not use the webspace that your ISP provides? And yes, one could say that my registering a domain name is stupid, but at least I can read and write. Also, I am aware that the issue here is that a big nasty faceless corporation is trying to squash the little guy for using a name that just happens to be one of their trademarks but the little guy isn't using it in any way that relates to the corporation's trademark, so don't flame me about me ignoring the real issue here, because I'm not.