I read a while back that meta data for sites would eventually move to an XML based standard which would accurately describe the content of the site?
Whatever happened to that? I don't mind all that much being taken to the front page of a site if I know that site has the information somewhere in there, I just hate having to hit seven sites to find that one.
Hey this is great, Microsoft is finally really connecting with today's youth:
"Microsoft also disclosed that it has plans to integrate young Ajay Puri's brain right into the next release of their popular Office suite of products.
'With advances in cybernetics, we can finally integrate a whole human brain into Excel,' said a Microsoft spokesman. 'We just needed one young enough to get used to being trapped inside that helpful paperclip for the rest of his life.'"
I know alot of you were worried that Hotnutz wouldn't make the big switch to Y2K, well this seems as good an opportunity as any to let you know we're looking good:
Geek: Thinks Milli Vanilli were pretty cool, scandal or not. Nerd: Did the spectral analysis on their voices to determine lip-synching well before the press announcement.
Geek: Has 3 friends and trouble meeting new people. Nerd: Has 3 friends, but recyles through the use of role playing games and secret code names, bringing the total to 27.
Geek: Will be at home come the new millenium. Nerd: Did the math to figure out the new millenium starts 2001, will be at home for both.
There's a truth about the first computers that people rarely discuss anymore, and its about time somebody set the record straight.
We all know that most of the first computers didn't work at all, they were little more than great empty cabinets with flashing lights. The real truth on how they computed isn't rooted in the development of the vacuum tube or the transistor, it was due to the hundreds of midgets who lived inside the machine and worked day and night on mathematics problems.
Those first computers had to be built to confuse the ruskies, we all agree on that, but at what cost? What was the human toll in pushing those little guys faster and faster, first 1000 times faster than regular humans, then millions of times. Those first years were lessons in heat dissipation of a different sort, let me tell you 720 midgets in a box need a special kind of cooling.
Let's not let history slip from our memories and cause us to forget the real, tiny heroes of the information age.
Can we really take the "Liberation Army Daily" seriously as a publication when their journalistic integrity has been called into question on so many occasions?
I mean who can forget the time when they ran the story about the red army sargeant deep undercover as a slightly plump Ms. Lewinsky? What about their coverage of the Tonya Harding affair? Can you say biased?
I think its time we realized that "KGB Today" is probably the only unbiased, reliable news source left in the world.
The real problem with Sony here is their penchant for closed or proprietary formats and devices. They were into that 2.88 MB floppy drive for a while, then the mini-disc, and now they're pushing this memory stick when it seems to me that it provides very few advantages over the industry standard flash memory.
Who knows how well they'll operate in an environment where they have to get along with a number of different devices.
This is actually their second product release from what I can see, their first being the somewhat unpopular xclock2000.
From the press release: "Xclock2000 shows our committment to the Linux community by providing the clock necessary to finally bring Linux to the desktop. Features such as 7 independant clock arms, multi-threading and expanded support for the times 2:30 and 7:15 finally bring the concept of clock to the 21st century."
The Linuxone IPO, scheduled for next week, is expected to bring in over $75 to the company. Money the company says will be used to expand their product line in the area of "weed, cocaine or something like that."
Took the above person's advice, and here was my contribution, feel free to steal whatever you like:
I am writing to express my disappointment with your recent suing of Barnes and Noble over the alleged infringements to your 1 click shopping method. Patents like this do not advance business on the interenet, nor does their use as a weapon in harming your nearest competitors during the critical christmas season.
I don't think anyone with any technical aptitude will agree with you that the 1-click shopping technology is either difficult to develop or original, so I'm not really sure what you hope to gain in this pursuit.
As your leader likes to remind us in interviews, success online is as much about mindshare and brand as it is technology, and you are most definately alienating any person with technical knowledge from your brand with this move.
I would perhaps threaten to stop buying things from your site, but I long ago decided to do that when you started ramming beanie babies and hula-hoops down my throat.
You're the market leader by a long shot, why don't you act like it and play fair.
The real problem that causes the age minimum is this year's featured "Novell Fly Girls" dance troupe, which will be performing their controversial routine entitled "10 Base T&A". Check for them in the program under keynote speeches, wednesday morning.
Other highlights should include Steve Ballmer performing an interpretive dance to a collection of his favorite "slow jams." Look for that in the alley near the west entrance.
If its an invention or a device with unique characteristics / purposes, then he should definately talk to a patent lawyer and get advice on whether to file a claim. Actually, he should probably talk to a patent lawyer in any case.
Other than that, get a lawyer to do you up some Non-Disclosures and make sure that anybody he talks to signs them. Most VC firms worth anything should be willing to do that as they regularily deal with proprietary or secret information.
Good luck and most of all, take the advice of a lawyer over any you read here. Especially mine.
Thats interesting that you've had success with the IBM JDK 1.1.8. I had lots of problems even running IBM tools for DB2 under their release, although they ran well under Blackdown 1.1.7v3.
Weird. I hope they get all those revisions sorted out and everyone just gets behind a nice, solid v1.2.
Its an interesting time for journalism and journalists right now. Especially for those publications that deal with technology related issues. With the increasing speed of developements, the proliferation of information sources and the raw speed at which a story can propogate and grow on the Internet, journalistic integrity is having a tough time weeding out the fake stuff.
Slashdot itself is most certainly not immune to this effect and has on more than one occasion contributed to the spread of an incorrect of exagerated story, perhaps causing other more traditional media sources to pick up on the story themselves.
Unfortunately at this point in time, we can't have both lightning fast information reporting with 100% accuracy. The two are inversely related.
I don't understand why the Linux community, and the OSS movement as it relates to Linux, has to think of any company as an enemy.
The very nature of OSS as a non-profit operation means that the normal rules of capitalistic competition do no apply. As open source software's original goal was never "domination of the desktop", but more provide free alternatives that any may choose or not choose, then what possible effect can an enemy of Linux have on those who choose it?
The real enemy of Linux specifically at this point is its success. Questions like how long can donated development co-exist with a deluge of commercial releases will make this a very interesting ride. But please, let's get off the track of us versus the world and who's with us and who's against us.
The only problem with this announcement is that those terminator genes, although designed to be a profit saving device, may have been the only mechanism to save us from widespread ecological damage due to a runaway genetically modified plant.
With the terminator gene in place the harmful spread would have been limited to one generation, now they're free to expand indefinately.
Also announced by SGI today: "New logo, faster systems, a potato peeler that even makes julienne fries and anything else they hope will save their ass."
For those of you just finding out about Python, its an easy to use object oriented programming language that includes built in support for large moles and radioactive cats.
The underlying object framework is a fat lady with garters, and networking is implemented with a system of cartoon tunnels under the countryside.
For any more information, please contact Luigi Fercotti at (011) 6524-245, after 6 pm (011) 2152-487.
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I read a while back that meta data for sites would eventually move to an XML based standard which would accurately describe the content of the site?
Whatever happened to that? I don't mind all that much being taken to the front page of a site if I know that site has the information somewhere in there, I just hate having to hit seven sites to find that one.
Hotnutz.com
This is definately one of the great examples of Science Fiction, in that it remains firmly grounded in strong characters and thoughtful developments.
There is probably several layers of meaning in there, but to preserve my enjoyment of the book I just enjoyed it at the surface.
Hotnutz.com
I know its probably too late for anyone to read this, but I found this actually in the article:
"We've implemented a stop ship, which is a due diligence move to screen for the erratum," Dell spokesman Ken Bissell said Wednesday.
Implemented a stop ship? Give me a break, its called "we've stopped shipping." These PR guys have GOT to start speaking normal english.
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Hey this is great, Microsoft is finally really connecting with today's youth:
"Microsoft also disclosed that it has plans to integrate young Ajay Puri's brain right into the next release of their popular Office suite of products.
'With advances in cybernetics, we can finally integrate a whole human brain into Excel,' said a Microsoft spokesman. 'We just needed one young enough to get used to being trapped inside that helpful paperclip for the rest of his life.'"
Keep up the good work!
Hotnutz.com
If this is the man behind the AIBO, then what is he doing back there?
Hey - leave that thing alone, GET OFF!
Hotnutz.com
I know alot of you were worried that Hotnutz wouldn't make the big switch to Y2K, well this seems as good an opportunity as any to let you know we're looking good:
Y2K Press Release
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The most important differences are as follows:
Geek: Thinks Milli Vanilli were pretty cool, scandal or not.
Nerd: Did the spectral analysis on their voices to determine lip-synching well before the press announcement.
Geek: Has 3 friends and trouble meeting new people.
Nerd: Has 3 friends, but recyles through the use of role playing games and secret code names, bringing the total to 27.
Geek: Will be at home come the new millenium.
Nerd: Did the math to figure out the new millenium starts 2001, will be at home for both.
Hotnutz.com
There's a truth about the first computers that people rarely discuss anymore, and its about time somebody set the record straight.
We all know that most of the first computers didn't work at all, they were little more than great empty cabinets with flashing lights. The real truth on how they computed isn't rooted in the development of the vacuum tube or the transistor, it was due to the hundreds of midgets who lived inside the machine and worked day and night on mathematics problems.
Those first computers had to be built to confuse the ruskies, we all agree on that, but at what cost? What was the human toll in pushing those little guys faster and faster, first 1000 times faster than regular humans, then millions of times. Those first years were lessons in heat dissipation of a different sort, let me tell you 720 midgets in a box need a special kind of cooling.
Let's not let history slip from our memories and cause us to forget the real, tiny heroes of the information age.
Hotnutz.com
Can we really take the "Liberation Army Daily" seriously as a publication when their journalistic integrity has been called into question on so many occasions?
I mean who can forget the time when they ran the story about the red army sargeant deep undercover as a slightly plump Ms. Lewinsky? What about their coverage of the Tonya Harding affair? Can you say biased?
I think its time we realized that "KGB Today" is probably the only unbiased, reliable news source left in the world.
Hotnutz.com
And one that doesn't get ever get included, but we're getting used to rejection.
(Hint: The link is in the sig)
Hotnutz.com
The real problem with Sony here is their penchant for closed or proprietary formats and devices. They were into that 2.88 MB floppy drive for a while, then the mini-disc, and now they're pushing this memory stick when it seems to me that it provides very few advantages over the industry standard flash memory.
Who knows how well they'll operate in an environment where they have to get along with a number of different devices.
Hotnutz.com
This is actually their second product release from what I can see, their first being the somewhat unpopular xclock2000.
From the press release: "Xclock2000 shows our committment to the Linux community by providing the clock necessary to finally bring Linux to the desktop. Features such as 7 independant clock arms, multi-threading and expanded support for the times 2:30 and 7:15 finally bring the concept of clock to the 21st century."
The Linuxone IPO, scheduled for next week, is expected to bring in over $75 to the company. Money the company says will be used to expand their product line in the area of "weed, cocaine or something like that."
Hotnutz.com
I'm sure there's no correlation between rising /. usage and lowering pregnancy rates.
None at all.
Hotnutz.com
Took the above person's advice, and here was my contribution, feel free to steal whatever you like:
I am writing to express my disappointment with your recent suing of Barnes and Noble over the alleged infringements to your 1 click shopping method. Patents like this do not advance business on the interenet, nor does their use as a weapon in harming your nearest competitors during the critical christmas season.
I don't think anyone with any technical aptitude will agree with you that the 1-click shopping technology is either difficult to develop or original, so I'm not really sure what you hope to gain in this pursuit.
As your leader likes to remind us in interviews, success online is as much about mindshare and brand as it is technology, and you are most definately alienating any person with technical knowledge from your brand with this move.
I would perhaps threaten to stop buying things from your site, but I long ago decided to do that when you started ramming beanie babies and hula-hoops down my throat.
You're the market leader by a long shot, why don't you act like it and play fair.
Matt
Hotnutz.com
The real problem that causes the age minimum is this year's featured "Novell Fly Girls" dance troupe, which will be performing their controversial routine entitled "10 Base T&A". Check for them in the program under keynote speeches, wednesday morning.
Other highlights should include Steve Ballmer performing an interpretive dance to a collection of his favorite "slow jams." Look for that in the alley near the west entrance.
Hotnutz.com
If its an invention or a device with unique characteristics / purposes, then he should definately talk to a patent lawyer and get advice on whether to file a claim. Actually, he should probably talk to a patent lawyer in any case.
Other than that, get a lawyer to do you up some Non-Disclosures and make sure that anybody he talks to signs them. Most VC firms worth anything should be willing to do that as they regularily deal with proprietary or secret information.
Good luck and most of all, take the advice of a lawyer over any you read here. Especially mine.
Hotnutz.com
The real question here is what are they "researching" down there at the University if New Mexico?
Hotnutz.com
As I understand it, the real problem with the release was that they couldn't figure out how to make the box in clear blue plastic.
Is it just me, or is the world now being made out of clear plastic? Man, Steve Jobs has more control over the appearance of more objects...
Hotnutz.com
Thats interesting that you've had success with the IBM JDK 1.1.8. I had lots of problems even running IBM tools for DB2 under their release, although they ran well under Blackdown 1.1.7v3.
Weird. I hope they get all those revisions sorted out and everyone just gets behind a nice, solid v1.2.
And a little more speed can't hurt.
Hotnutz.com
Its an interesting time for journalism and journalists right now. Especially for those publications that deal with technology related issues. With the increasing speed of developements, the proliferation of information sources and the raw speed at which a story can propogate and grow on the Internet, journalistic integrity is having a tough time weeding out the fake stuff.
Slashdot itself is most certainly not immune to this effect and has on more than one occasion contributed to the spread of an incorrect of exagerated story, perhaps causing other more traditional media sources to pick up on the story themselves.
Unfortunately at this point in time, we can't have both lightning fast information reporting with 100% accuracy. The two are inversely related.
Hotnutz.com
I don't understand why the Linux community, and the OSS movement as it relates to Linux, has to think of any company as an enemy.
The very nature of OSS as a non-profit operation means that the normal rules of capitalistic competition do no apply. As open source software's original goal was never "domination of the desktop", but more provide free alternatives that any may choose or not choose, then what possible effect can an enemy of Linux have on those who choose it?
The real enemy of Linux specifically at this point is its success. Questions like how long can donated development co-exist with a deluge of commercial releases will make this a very interesting ride. But please, let's get off the track of us versus the world and who's with us and who's against us.
Hotnutz.com
The only problem with this announcement is that those terminator genes, although designed to be a profit saving device, may have been the only mechanism to save us from widespread ecological damage due to a runaway genetically modified plant.
With the terminator gene in place the harmful spread would have been limited to one generation, now they're free to expand indefinately.
Hotnutz.com
Selling machines doesn't necessarily create a profitable company. Take a look at SGI's last earnings report. Not too good, and trending down.
Not to slight them, I like SGI, but they've gotta find their niche again.
Hotnutz.com
Also announced by SGI today: "New logo, faster systems, a potato peeler that even makes julienne fries and anything else they hope will save their ass."
Hotnutz.com
Wow, 30 years, congratulations to all involved.
For those of you just finding out about Python, its an easy to use object oriented programming language that includes built in support for large moles and radioactive cats.
The underlying object framework is a fat lady with garters, and networking is implemented with a system of cartoon tunnels under the countryside.
For any more information, please contact Luigi Fercotti at (011) 6524-245, after 6 pm (011) 2152-487.
Hotnutz.com