I have been using eBay sinc 1997 and being the paranoid sort, never had any problem.
Most ebay fraud involves chump change and law enforcement will not bother with it. It is like calling your local police and yelling: "My bicycle was stolen." You expect to ever get it back?
My cousin teaches adult education creative writing at the University of Colorado. She gets a lot of computer programmers in her class that aspire to be science fiction writers. As a programmer, that was my dream also.
My cousin says she has yet to have a programmer in her class that was any good at fiction.
I understand the need for speed when doing simulations but you have to wonder how much of this is a Freudian need for a bigger computer to top the competition?
Maybe you need to start measuring PeterFlops.
Go ahead and give me an Offtopic. I am COLLECTING them.
I was thinking of putting some flavor of *nix on a spare machine at home. But the more I read/., the more I am leaning towards just letting the spare machine be a piece of non-functional furniture.
It is like going into some mythical hamburger joint intendding to get a burger and being confronted with a menu of 8000 burgers. And many of those burgers have multiple versions. "Chunky Munkey Burger V5.3"
I gotta get more of a real life. Call me offtopic or whatever.
You may not be able to buy a "general purpose computer" anymore. They will all have this specialized DRM crap and who knows what else. All built into the chips, so it will be difficult if not impossible to avoid it.
No problem in a couple of years of sending and receivng money. However, they definitely need a good competitor and Google can do it. I also like the suggestion by someone that Google start its own auction site. Ebay needs competition in all areas and Yahoo auctions never went anywhere.
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I have been using eBay sinc 1997 and being the paranoid sort, never had any problem.
Most ebay fraud involves chump change and law enforcement will not bother with it. It is like calling your local police and yelling: "My bicycle was stolen." You expect to ever get it back?
Is mentioned again.
My prurient is definitely interested!
Interesting article.
Is there lots of beer at these things?
I mean LOTS. Every computer conference I have been to involved getting blind drunk every night.
OOPSLA conferences were the best.
My cousin teaches adult education creative writing at the University of Colorado. She gets a lot of computer programmers in her class that aspire to be science fiction writers. As a programmer, that was my dream also.
My cousin says she has yet to have a programmer in her class that was any good at fiction.
I just couldn't watch or listen to the launch. I was just too worried about it.
I am keeping fingers crossed that all goes well with this mission. There is so much at stake.
I understand the need for speed when doing simulations but you have to wonder how much of this is a Freudian need for a bigger computer to top the competition?
Maybe you need to start measuring PeterFlops.
Go ahead and give me an Offtopic. I am COLLECTING them.
Is there such a thing as a "Metaflop?"
Inquiring idiots want to know!
I was thinking of putting some flavor of *nix on a spare machine at home. But the more I read /., the more I am leaning towards just letting the spare machine be a piece of non-functional furniture.
It is like going into some mythical hamburger joint intendding to get a burger and being confronted with a menu of 8000 burgers. And many of those burgers have multiple versions. "Chunky Munkey Burger V5.3"
I gotta get more of a real life. Call me offtopic or whatever.
How long would it take the average slashdotter to fill that puppy with pr0n?
I have no friends whatsoever. At least not human friends.
AmISnotOrNot ?
Smalltalk by Parc Place Systems was my favorite language/programming environment of all time. Alan Kay will alsways be a hero to me.
I am sure he will get a super great job somewhere.
No more roasting weiners in the warp drive.
RIP, Scotty.
I have done a variety of programming environments and every one of them thinks they sit at the feet of God. Or Gawd. Or Dog.
My attitude is that "You go to your church, I'll go to mine."
Programming is cool whereever you do it. Got that?
I want a USB/Firewire Holodeck to really experience porn sites with.
Anything else is just fluff.
How about websites posted in slashdot that would not get slashdotted? Now that would be innovative.
You may not be able to buy a "general purpose computer" anymore. They will all have this specialized DRM crap and who knows what else. All built into the chips, so it will be difficult if not impossible to avoid it.
It is no guarantee, but to maximize your privacy, you must say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.
To never upgrade to Longhorn. Put that Longhorn where the sun don't shine, Mr. Bill.
If OS/2 is still in use in a lot of places, someone else may step in to do support. It is not going to be cheap to transition to any other OS.
I used OS/2 on my first ThinkPad in 1995 and 1996. A very stable platform.
Slashdotters not only crashed the site, they crashed the train.
You are all the wrong kind of engineers.
I THINK I CAN, I KNOW I CAN...
I will give it rave reviews.
Hahaha. That is funny.
Stallman is a crackpot. No more, no less.
Publishers have the right to distribute their book now they want. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
Now we need a mechanical drummer.
Oh, and machines that do drugs and then we will have mechanical rock bands.
I am not sure why people think Microsoft should support a competitor. Do you see McDonalds supporting Burger King?
I swear that so few people understand the nature of competition.
No problem in a couple of years of sending and receivng money. However, they definitely need a good competitor and Google can do it. I also like the suggestion by someone that Google start its own auction site. Ebay needs competition in all areas and Yahoo auctions never went anywhere.