ok how about this. one site sends out a bot. this bot hangs out on the remote machine, collecting info, or filling up its bag with data, then returns to report its findings. this way, the local remote site can then have rules on what is public info, info for a particular client, or not searchable at all, private. I've been thinking about this lately as a kind of shopping bot. there are lots of potentials, and lots of security issues...anyone for an apache mod?
come on man...did you read th article? Each person is assigned an id. The only reason I can think that they would do that would be to insert the info into a db somewhere. And for those who dont think they are doing this for profittable reasons, then why in the f**k would they do it? for shits and grins? I'll never use their stuff ever again. I think this is a giant score for open source.
Then: cat source and watch the pretty patterns scroll by...
OK...im not the design captain of the universe, but Im going to get nuts and say, that you can probably skim over lots and lots of code and get the general "gig" of whats going on. I don't think you need to pick aprat every line and to figure this out. It's not like they said, "There's a bug somewhere, FIND IT!. ready go.
As others have pointed out, there are a few things wrong with that contest; first, the fact it sounds as if you're doing someone else's work for cheap, considering the cost of the book they're giving as a first prize. Second, the fact that if you can win this contest, well, you don't need the damn book anyway. ...and what about if you're not familiar with the design patterns in that book? Then you have to buy it. I got another one for you. Who has taken a college course only to have the professor tell you to buy a book he/she wrote.
I've seen this guys name before, and I keep thinking... Is this the guy with the MS-Windows tattoo on his arm? I remember seeing a picture in a pc magazine of this insane zero with the windows tattoo on his arm, and I almost shit myself laughing, and thought, man bill must be proud. I mean. Does anyone remeber who that guy was, I wanna post his picture on the web, right next to a donkey's ass.
no...What they are actually doing, is setting up some baite, so you keep checking back to see what this big suprise is. Does anyone really think that if transmeta starts to make major dough that paul allen is gonna block his buddy bill from the action? Linus may as well rewrite the linux kernel with win32 and get to the point.
1.) here's the quote: "Computing and its many subsets - such as programming and software engineering - haven't yetemerged as a full-fledged profession. "
here's my response:
"For the gang of mutton heads who learn vb with the dream of being billioaires, this is true, for the rest of us who code because we love it and everyday try to raise our skills to the next level this is complete horse-shit!"
2.) After reading the a few of the previous posts, it has been confirmed to me that slashdot.org is rapidly becoming a haven for punks. Does anyone have another URL to hang out at?
i'm going to have to second you on that one that cmu did the initial work on afs, and now are doing coda. and as far as i'm concerned, if you're schools name appears on the bootup screen of hp's someone in the cs department somewhere has got some sauce...and don't forget the robotic van.
> So, don't start going on about how NT sucks like > a bunch of sharks smelling blood. It's > unbecoming.
for a marine maybe, for a slashdotter...absolutely not.
> - e.g. high-profile incidents like these can > have an effect on developments in web-related > > industries.
excellent point. another blow to all the poeple who think e-cash/online everything is going to take over all business, BULLSHIT, we can't even keep our mail away from prying eyes, how is anyone supposed to trust a website with their account information? If I need a book, I'll take a ride to barnes-and-noble, and hang out for a bit...if some punk kid tries to steal my credit card, he's going to have to take it from me physically.
people say it time and time again, don't send anything in a text message that you don't want the world reading. I'll tell you what, if I had a hotmail account, I'd give everyone that password, better yet anyone who wants to read my mail, reply to this message, and I'll forward you everything. I promise.
Microsoft never released the protocol for their shared filesystems, but we have samba, and now that I think of it, diamond was uptight about giving out info on the rio, but we got that and a doc on how it was done. bottom line, no one is going to write any software that helps microsoft, and even if they released the source for nt, no one in the community would do anything with it besides talk about how win32 sucks...and don't even try to deny it. If i'm wrong, say it.
I think you made a good point. It seems as though most companies want some dude to come in and go 24-7, and spit out code, regradless of quality, as long as it works. And this definitely reflects the s.e. practices across the entire industry..including where im at. Tons and Tons and Tons of SHIT!
I completely agree...50 bucks neither nt2000 or this, nt whatever they're calling it make it on time. and another thing...for all of you giving code names to you software, like it's some kind of top secrete miliraty aircraft, please cut the kiddie shit out.
I think what you mean is that there is more to a microporessrors performance than it's clock speed...and yes clock speed is a significant detail to be considered.
I don't understand these people either. I'd like to ask them, "Why they think they can control anything". They sure aren't the nra and like everyone else, If I want to play mp3's, I'll play mp3s. And here's a question for someone who has more knowledge of this..
"If these jokers start selling some uncopyable audio format, what's to stop anyone from copying it. It would after all be just bits."
Rob, I think you should have an area on slashdot for topics that are beat to death and/or just plain dumb, so we can all stop flaming. RIAA and the MS/Linux issues can be the first contestants.
> I'm getting sick of the US and their > ass-backward tech laws. Is there a country out > there which has good network access, reasonable > IP laws (ie. no patents and reasonable fair use > laws), good encryption laws, etc. Low/No taxes > and a healthy respect for personal liberties > would be a blessing to.
So basically what you are saying is, that you are willing to leave the u.s. for another country as long as they have good net access, and they let you encrypt what??? your e-mail?...in exchange for mediocre civil rights? read your post a few times over and think about re-wording some of those sentences.
The fonze doesn't do conga lines. But i'll tell you one thing, if sgi had any sauce, they'd start releaseing xservers with insane 3d support and not pull a mozilla and say, "here's the code guys, make it work on linux and we'll make more money from it."
This makes me think of when me and a friend of mine where sitting around talking about a portable music player with no moving parts...and now today there it is....my diamond rio...on my desk, plugged into my alpha. I'm just pissed that it has a plastic case. I know those guys at diamond are tight wads, but for 200 bones, you'd think they'd house this baby in someting a little more "metal".
1. C better than C++ --FALSE 2. gtk+ freer than Qt 3. Gnome cooler than KDE Regarding numero dos, what do you mean by freer? A less restrictive license? That's going to change. But as far as I'm concerned, if you give me somethin for no nothin. it don't get no freer than that. You can find that in "The Fonze's Guide to Free Shit"
O.K...Check this out. 1.99 for the plain jane cd. Perfect for most of us. The corporate chums are no doubt (if they buy linux) going to buy the $50.00 cd with all the (whatever else is on it). RedHat knows this. Compare to win95 or some other version of windows. It costs a phone call or walk to your buds house, because I know most of you who are using it, stole it, and don't try bullshitting me. All the corporate chums are going to pay whatever it costs, I have no idea;), for the cd and get the license. Microsoft knows this. I gotta go party.
When you say microsoft is selling software because they want to make money, I say, "Don't waste your time typing that into a keyboard." Now when you say RedHat is selling Linux becuase it works, I say, "Are you out of you mind?" RedHat isn't some non-profit organization selling Linux CDs so they can buy rice to send over to somalia.
I say we call up Don King and see if he can setup a bout between Bill and Larry. That will settle everyones dispute on whos boss. Of course you can expect the fight to be fixed.
Slashdot Mirror
ok how about this. one site sends out a bot. this bot hangs out on the remote machine, collecting info, or filling up its bag with data, then returns to report its findings. this way, the local remote site can then have rules on what is public info, info for a particular client, or not searchable at all, private. I've been thinking about this lately as a kind of shopping bot. there are lots of potentials, and lots of security issues...anyone for an apache mod?
ya, this goes for malda too.
come on man...did you read th article? Each person is assigned an id. The only reason I can think that they would do that would be to insert the info into a db somewhere. And for those who dont think they are doing this for profittable reasons, then why in the f**k would they do it? for shits and grins? I'll never use their stuff ever again. I think this is a giant score for open source.
Then: cat source and watch the pretty patterns scroll by...
OK...im not the design captain of the universe, but Im going to get nuts and say, that you can probably skim over lots and lots of code and get the general "gig" of whats going on. I don't think you need to pick aprat every line and to figure this out. It's not like they said, "There's a bug somewhere, FIND IT!. ready go.
As others have pointed out, there are a few things wrong with that contest; first, the fact it sounds as if you're doing someone else's work for cheap, considering the cost of the book they're giving as a first prize. Second, the fact that if you can win this contest, well, you don't need the damn book anyway.
...and what about if you're not familiar with the design patterns in that book? Then you have to buy it. I got another one for you. Who has taken a college course only to have the professor tell you to buy a book he/she wrote.
I've seen this guys name before, and I keep thinking... Is this the guy with the MS-Windows tattoo on his arm? I remember seeing a picture in a pc magazine of this insane zero with the windows tattoo on his arm, and I almost shit myself laughing, and thought, man bill must be proud. I mean. Does anyone remeber who that guy was, I wanna post his picture on the web, right next to a donkey's ass.
no...What they are actually doing, is setting up some baite, so you keep checking back to see what this big suprise is. Does anyone really think that if transmeta starts to make major dough that paul allen is gonna block his buddy bill from the action? Linus may as well rewrite the linux kernel with win32 and get to the point.
Two comments.
1.) here's the quote:
"Computing and its many subsets - such as programming and software engineering - haven't yetemerged as a full-fledged profession. "
here's my response:
"For the gang of mutton heads who learn vb with the dream of being billioaires, this is true, for the rest of us who code because we love it and everyday try to raise our skills to the next level this is complete horse-shit!"
2.) After reading the a few of the previous posts,
it has been confirmed to me that slashdot.org is rapidly becoming a haven for punks. Does anyone have another URL to hang out at?
i'm going to have to second you on that one that cmu did the initial work on afs, and now are doing coda. and as far as i'm concerned, if you're schools name appears on the bootup screen of hp's someone in the cs department somewhere has got some sauce...and don't forget the robotic van.
> So, don't start going on about how NT sucks like > a bunch of sharks smelling blood. It's
> unbecoming.
for a marine maybe, for a slashdotter...absolutely not.
> - e.g. high-profile incidents like these can
> have an effect on developments in web-related > > industries.
excellent point. another blow to all the poeple who think e-cash/online everything is going to take over all business, BULLSHIT, we can't even keep our mail away from prying eyes, how is anyone supposed to trust a website with their account information? If I need a book, I'll take a ride to barnes-and-noble, and hang out for a bit...if some punk kid tries to steal my credit card, he's going to have to take it from me physically.
people say it time and time again, don't send anything in a text message that you don't want the world reading. I'll tell you what, if I had a hotmail account, I'd give everyone that password, better yet anyone who wants to read my mail, reply to this message, and I'll forward you everything. I promise.
Microsoft never released the protocol for their shared filesystems, but we have samba, and now that I think of it, diamond was uptight about giving out info on the rio, but we got that and a doc on how it was done. bottom line, no one is going to write any software that helps microsoft, and even if they released the source for nt, no one in the community would do anything with it besides talk about how win32 sucks...and don't even try to deny it. If i'm wrong, say it.
"Open Source is the hype!"
ps. "my dick is open source to all"
The Fonze.
get a grip. I highly doubt anyone but heins is opening anything but a car dealer in pittsburgh.
I think you made a good point. It seems as though most companies want some dude to come in and go 24-7, and spit out code, regradless of quality, as long as it works. And this definitely reflects the s.e. practices across the entire industry..including where im at. Tons and Tons and Tons of SHIT!
I completely agree...50 bucks neither nt2000 or this, nt whatever they're calling it make it on time. and another thing...for all of you giving code names to you software, like it's some kind of top secrete miliraty aircraft, please cut the kiddie shit out.
I think what you mean is that there is more to a microporessrors performance than it's clock speed...and yes clock speed is a significant detail to be considered.
How about cray's use alpha chips, homey.
I don't understand these people either. I'd like to ask them, "Why they think they can control anything". They sure aren't the nra and like everyone else, If I want to play mp3's, I'll play mp3s. And here's a question for someone who has more knowledge of this..
"If these jokers start selling some uncopyable audio format, what's to stop anyone from copying it. It would after all be just bits."
Rob, I think you should have an area on slashdot for topics that are beat to death and/or just plain dumb, so we can all stop flaming. RIAA and the MS/Linux issues can be the first contestants.
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> I'm getting sick of the US and their > ass-backward tech laws. Is there a country out > there which has good network access, reasonable > IP laws (ie. no patents and reasonable fair use > laws), good encryption laws, etc. Low/No taxes > and a healthy respect for personal liberties > would be a blessing to.
...in exchange for mediocre civil rights? read your post a few times over and think about re-wording some of those sentences.
So basically what you are saying is, that you are willing to leave the u.s. for another country as long as they have good net access, and they let you encrypt what??? your e-mail?
The fonze doesn't do conga lines. But i'll tell you one thing, if sgi had any sauce, they'd start releaseing xservers with insane 3d support and not pull a mozilla and say, "here's the code guys, make it work on linux and we'll make more money from it."
This makes me think of when me and a friend of mine where sitting around talking about a portable music player with no moving parts...and now today there it is....my diamond rio...on my desk, plugged into my alpha. I'm just pissed that it has a plastic case. I know those guys at diamond are tight wads, but for 200 bones, you'd think they'd house this baby in someting a little more "metal".
1. C better than C++ --FALSE
2. gtk+ freer than Qt 3. Gnome cooler than KDE
Regarding numero dos, what do you mean by freer? A less restrictive license? That's going to change. But as far as I'm concerned, if you give me somethin for no nothin. it don't get no freer than that. You can find that in "The Fonze's Guide to Free Shit"
O.K...Check this out. 1.99 for the plain jane cd. Perfect for most of us. The corporate chums are no doubt (if they buy linux) going to buy the $50.00 cd with all the (whatever else is on it). RedHat knows this. Compare to win95 or some other version of windows. It costs a phone call or walk to your buds house, because I know most of you who are using it, stole it, and don't try bullshitting me. All the corporate chums are going to pay whatever it costs, I have no idea ;), for the cd and get the license. Microsoft knows this. I gotta go party.
When you say microsoft is selling software because they want to make money, I say, "Don't waste your time typing that into a keyboard." Now when you say RedHat is selling Linux becuase it works, I say, "Are you out of you mind?" RedHat isn't some non-profit organization selling Linux CDs so they can buy rice to send over to somalia.
I say we call up Don King and see if he can setup a bout between Bill and Larry. That will settle everyones dispute on whos boss. Of course you can expect the fight to be fixed.