If only we could moderate up a comment to +1 billion, and have the rest of the world see it.
Imagine if the money, time, and legislation spent fighting "terrorism" since 9/11 was instead spent on disaster-proofing American cities. It's a fact that natural disasters will continue to happen. It's also a fact that we can avoid much of the loss of life and property damage, if we plan for it (think of earthquake and hurricane damage 100 years ago vs today). Instead, Bush (and most politicians in the US) continue to focus on the boogeyman: something which may never happen again, is virtually impossible to stop, and really does little in the way of long-term damage.
The people in power in the US, and those that support them, sicken me after seeing REAL disaster and no major policy change. Maybe we need a tsunami in the Atlantic to wake these morons up.
After the strict monitor/TV separation of the past 10-15 years (other than TV-in cards, which are still the rarity), it was pretty cool to see a monitor with picture-in-picture (composite or s-video!) input at work the other day. Made me think of the C64 days.
Drop me a note at "hsonpal at our domain name" when you apply - I'll let HR know that I'm referring you.
Heh. That just tickled me for some reason.
HR: Hey, we have this resume, who is this guy? You: Some dude from Slashdot. I don't know anything about him, but hey, he's on Slashdot!
Honestly though, thanks for the tip (too bad MA is just about the last place I wanna live, personally). If you have HR people that would seriously take a Slashdot recommendation, it must be a pretty cool place to work.
What I don't get is the number of posts to this story like this one. You have 5000 CDs (an impressive collection!) and you're ripped 200 of them?
I started ripping my CDs over 5 years ago, when I had something like 3-400 sitting around, and the constant "remove 5 from changer, insert 5 new ones" started becoming a huge hassle. It's been several years at least since I've owned a CD for more than a week without it being ripped.
Who are you people who've been sitting around for years, blissfully buying hundreds of CDs a year, and never thinking "hey, maybe storing these on the computer would be a good idea"? I'd imagine anyone who owns thousands of CDs probably listens to music constantly - hasn't it occured to you to go mp3 before this?
Encyclopedias are about bang for the buck -- you can't fit everything into an article.
PRINTED encyclopedias fit this model. There's never been any reason to keep encyclopedia articles short, other than the sheer cost of reproduction.
On a webserver, it's trivial to have articles two, three, even ten times longer and still be feasible.
Hmm, 200 more inch thick bound volumes of Britannica, or a new 300GB hard drive. The single best thing about Wikipedia is that it's NOT limited in scope. Longer articles, more varied articles, more pictures, *anything* is possible. With the caveat that it's good information, of course, but that applies to any source of information regardless of length.
Condoning his actions implies you agree with, and to some extent support him. Your post speaks differently.
Perhaps you mean condemning?
Oh well, I'm still mystified as to why this is either a) removing your freedom of choice, or b) zealotry. A man gives his opinion. You're free to do whatever you choose.
Papa John's did this with DVDs a few years back. Free DVD of your choice (from 4 pretty uninteresting selections) with every large pizza. I ended up watching Drop Dead Fred as a result, and I wish I had those 90 minutes of my life back.
It was pretty cool at the time, though - this was when the "bargain bin" DVDs cost $15. These days I'm amazed everyone and their dog isn't doing this. You can buy older DVDs for next to nothing, so I can only imagine how cheap McDonalds could get "classic cartoons" type discs for.
the last major security outbreak happened back in 2003
Hahahahahahahaha (x1000)
The last catastophic, taking-down-millions-of-systems, DoSing-the-Internet, making-headlines-all-over-the-world-for-days-after wards outbreak happened in 2003.
Several major outbreaks have happened this year, Zobot for one. The only thing that saved the day was the uptake in XP installs; otherwise, we would have had another Code Red on our hands.
Incremental improvement. A good thing for Microsoft, a good thing for average users, a good thing for the internet, yes. But "slowly but surely, you're losing your security argument"? Call me when a million Linux webservers get infected. Call me when desktop Linux starts spreading automatically executed worm code.
Most importantly, call me when Linux sees as many viruses and/or outbreaks as its marketshare would imply. Not the almsot nonexistent numbers we see today. That always seems to be the argument, that it's a marketshare thing. So just keep in touch, and let me know when 5% (or whatever Linux is at) of viruses/worms/spyware is targetted at, and infecting, Linux. Then you might actually have a point.
Why is it so hard to understand that one of the reasons Windows is so popular is that it handles all of this automatically.
It's not hard to understand that at all. Well, it wouldn't be if it were actually true. Windows and its predecessor MS-DOS got popular even though they DIDN'T handle all of these things automatically.
Microsoft had well over 90% of the desktop market long before Windows 98 came along with decent driver support. History shows that their marketshare has little to do with things "just working". People stick with it because its familiar.
Imagine skiing on mountains (instead of glaciers) year round!!
Actually, if you *could* ski on the mountains year round, then pretty much by definition you'd be skiing on glaciers. Hint: glaciers are what form when the snow doesn't melt in the summer.
I guess you could quibble, and only ski on the newest snow at any given point, which hasn't yet compressed enough to be true glacial ice. You'd just have to move your ski resort every few years:)
Go back to the basics. Hell, just go back to Space Police, Blacktron, Castle, and Forest legos.
It's funny to see comments like this. When I was growing up, the original Space sets were just coming out. My older brothers complained that Lego was making far too many specialized pieces in order to help you construct their pre-prepared models.
Short answer: yes. Long answer: yes, at least in Calgary.
Someone just coming out of school with a B.C.Sc. can make $45-60,000 here, depending on the company. Considering the average house price runs around $200,000 right now, that ain't half bad for just out of school.
Add 10 years experience and you should be close to doubling that figure. Mostly though, it's sysadmin/architect work, as nearly all companies here are oil & gas related, so there's very little in-house development work. It does exist, though.
Oh, and this past month we've been beating southern California for high temperatures. Canada isn't the Arctic, contrary to popluar belief:)
Libertarians (at least based on their Slashdot posts) want to abolish government power completely, leaving corporations the only entities with any power - which, of course, will lead to them merging into cartels and ultimately a single entity.
Well, if you eliminated government power, then corporations, by definition, would cease to exist. Corporations only exist as allowed by government.
Anyway, a desire to abolish government is most definitely not a Libertarian idea. You're thinking of Anarchists. Libertarians want to LIMIT government power, not ELIMINATE it.
Lesson: don't learn your political theory from Slashdot:)
It's obvious these bubbles are safe, as they were grown without using any pesticides or other chemicals whatsoever. Most probably these are also free-range bubbles.
It's unbelievable how scientifically illiterate and ignorant people somehow think they are qwualified to critique the ENTIRE educated professional scientific community that has studied these things and all of the evidence.
Welcome to Slashdot.
Seriously. Check out most science/technology stories here. You're going to find dozens of highly moderated posts to the effect of "yeah but they forgot $FACTX so it can never work!!" and "this was disproved $Y years ago, everyone knows that!!". Most of them haven't even read the articles involved, let alone reviewed the research done.
It's scary. There's been a slowly growing wave of anti-intellectualism for the past few decades in North America. Lately I see it being expressed even in tech geek circles. Slashdot is just a very visible example of this, but it's becoming more and more common every day, in every walk of life.
It's fun to knock the smart guy, I guess. Personally, I'm awed by the things other people can do with their minds. Unfortunately, far too many people are intimidated by this, and have to believe that THEY are the correct ones.
Oddly enough, up here in Alberta (Canada) we have public service announcements exactly like this, for crystal meth. Start out with all of the "benefits", and then the long (3/4 of the commercial) side-effect disclaimer. It's pretty creepy, and I'd say, the most effective anti-drug commercial I've ever seen.
Then again, I never really thought my brain was an egg.
Huge companies don't employ millions of people.... Exxon mobil is the largest oil company and it only employs 120 thousand people or so.
You know Exxon isn't the only oil company in existence, right? Just taking the big boys alone (and there are thousands of smaller outfits) the oil industry employs millions around the world.
So, for a minority of industries, and for a minority of employees in those industries there are some applications that are not available in linux.
Yup. A minority can also be defined as 2 billion people. It's a big planet. Taking what I've seen here, I can extrapolate that at least 10% of the P&G workforce uses these applications in one fashion or another. THAT'S HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. Things they use in their day-to-day business simply don't exist for Linux.
As I said if you have locked yourself into a vendor who is shoving an operating system down your throat then it sucks to be you.
*shrug* It seems to me that the P&G industry is making record profits. Believe me, I'm a zealot. I'll admit it. I'd like Microsoft to be nuked out of existence. Fact of the matter is, not only are they the big game in town for hosting some of these apps, no one has come up with a competitive solution.
If you think you can do it, go for it. You'll make yourself a millionaire overnight. Just keep in mind that no one else in the software industry has been able to do it yet.
It may not fit into your or my philosophy, but Windows-based solutions make a lot of people a lot of money. Just sucks that I have to support them, sometimes.
the near-exact scenario played out on The Lone Gunmen only six months before the actual event
Dear god.
It's 4+ years since 9/11. We've seen thousands of stories on it. We've had dozens of Slashdot stories about it, some of them with 3000+ comments. I keep up (enough, anyway) with pop culture and the daily news. I've never seen the Lone Gunmen (not much of an X-files fan, personally).
Yet I've never heard of this until today. Collective amnesia, indeed. I can't believe the talking heads never picked up on this en masse. They stopped showing the Simpsons WTC episode for a year, with much news attention. They stopped running the Spider-Man trailer with the WTC in it, forever, with similar attention. But no one in my life, on the news, on Slashdot, or anywhere I'm exposed to, has mentioned this in my hearing until now.
I think I'm going to buy the DVD set just to see this. Creepy as all hell.
Slashdot Mirror
If only we could moderate up a comment to +1 billion, and have the rest of the world see it.
Imagine if the money, time, and legislation spent fighting "terrorism" since 9/11 was instead spent on disaster-proofing American cities. It's a fact that natural disasters will continue to happen. It's also a fact that we can avoid much of the loss of life and property damage, if we plan for it (think of earthquake and hurricane damage 100 years ago vs today). Instead, Bush (and most politicians in the US) continue to focus on the boogeyman: something which may never happen again, is virtually impossible to stop, and really does little in the way of long-term damage.
The people in power in the US, and those that support them, sicken me after seeing REAL disaster and no major policy change. Maybe we need a tsunami in the Atlantic to wake these morons up.
Heh. How fondly I remember those days.
After the strict monitor/TV separation of the past 10-15 years (other than TV-in cards, which are still the rarity), it was pretty cool to see a monitor with picture-in-picture (composite or s-video!) input at work the other day. Made me think of the C64 days.
Drop me a note at "hsonpal at our domain name" when you apply - I'll let HR know that I'm referring you.
Heh. That just tickled me for some reason.
HR: Hey, we have this resume, who is this guy?
You: Some dude from Slashdot. I don't know anything about him, but hey, he's on Slashdot!
Honestly though, thanks for the tip (too bad MA is just about the last place I wanna live, personally). If you have HR people that would seriously take a Slashdot recommendation, it must be a pretty cool place to work.
No virus tried to infect me on that site.
Then again, maybe it's an IE thing?
What I don't get is the number of posts to this story like this one. You have 5000 CDs (an impressive collection!) and you're ripped 200 of them?
:)
I started ripping my CDs over 5 years ago, when I had something like 3-400 sitting around, and the constant "remove 5 from changer, insert 5 new ones" started becoming a huge hassle. It's been several years at least since I've owned a CD for more than a week without it being ripped.
Who are you people who've been sitting around for years, blissfully buying hundreds of CDs a year, and never thinking "hey, maybe storing these on the computer would be a good idea"? I'd imagine anyone who owns thousands of CDs probably listens to music constantly - hasn't it occured to you to go mp3 before this?
Am I just too much of a geek?
How would this steam automobile compare to say, a steam train... which I could also afford!
Encyclopedias are about bang for the buck -- you can't fit everything into an article.
PRINTED encyclopedias fit this model. There's never been any reason to keep encyclopedia articles short, other than the sheer cost of reproduction.
On a webserver, it's trivial to have articles two, three, even ten times longer and still be feasible.
Hmm, 200 more inch thick bound volumes of Britannica, or a new 300GB hard drive. The single best thing about Wikipedia is that it's NOT limited in scope. Longer articles, more varied articles, more pictures, *anything* is possible. With the caveat that it's good information, of course, but that applies to any source of information regardless of length.
What if enough people use Firefox and AdBlock, and block all of their ads?
Legislation.
I'd laugh if it wasn't already coming down the pipes.
I'm just condoning his actions.
Condoning his actions implies you agree with, and to some extent support him. Your post speaks differently.
Perhaps you mean condemning?
Oh well, I'm still mystified as to why this is either a) removing your freedom of choice, or b) zealotry. A man gives his opinion. You're free to do whatever you choose.
Papa John's did this with DVDs a few years back. Free DVD of your choice (from 4 pretty uninteresting selections) with every large pizza. I ended up watching Drop Dead Fred as a result, and I wish I had those 90 minutes of my life back.
It was pretty cool at the time, though - this was when the "bargain bin" DVDs cost $15. These days I'm amazed everyone and their dog isn't doing this. You can buy older DVDs for next to nothing, so I can only imagine how cheap McDonalds could get "classic cartoons" type discs for.
the last major security outbreak happened back in 2003
r wards outbreak happened in 2003.
Hahahahahahahaha (x1000)
The last catastophic, taking-down-millions-of-systems, DoSing-the-Internet, making-headlines-all-over-the-world-for-days-afte
Several major outbreaks have happened this year, Zobot for one. The only thing that saved the day was the uptake in XP installs; otherwise, we would have had another Code Red on our hands.
Incremental improvement. A good thing for Microsoft, a good thing for average users, a good thing for the internet, yes. But "slowly but surely, you're losing your security argument"? Call me when a million Linux webservers get infected. Call me when desktop Linux starts spreading automatically executed worm code.
Most importantly, call me when Linux sees as many viruses and/or outbreaks as its marketshare would imply. Not the almsot nonexistent numbers we see today. That always seems to be the argument, that it's a marketshare thing. So just keep in touch, and let me know when 5% (or whatever Linux is at) of viruses/worms/spyware is targetted at, and infecting, Linux. Then you might actually have a point.
That's OK.
Most of the time, neither could he.
Why is it so hard to understand that one of the reasons Windows is so popular is that it handles all of this automatically.
It's not hard to understand that at all. Well, it wouldn't be if it were actually true. Windows and its predecessor MS-DOS got popular even though they DIDN'T handle all of these things automatically.
Microsoft had well over 90% of the desktop market long before Windows 98 came along with decent driver support. History shows that their marketshare has little to do with things "just working". People stick with it because its familiar.
Imagine skiing on mountains (instead of glaciers) year round!!
:)
Actually, if you *could* ski on the mountains year round, then pretty much by definition you'd be skiing on glaciers. Hint: glaciers are what form when the snow doesn't melt in the summer.
I guess you could quibble, and only ski on the newest snow at any given point, which hasn't yet compressed enough to be true glacial ice. You'd just have to move your ski resort every few years
Go back to the basics. Hell, just go back to Space Police, Blacktron, Castle, and Forest legos.
It's funny to see comments like this. When I was growing up, the original Space sets were just coming out. My older brothers complained that Lego was making far too many specialized pieces in order to help you construct their pre-prepared models.
Plus ca change...
Short answer: yes. Long answer: yes, at least in Calgary.
:)
Someone just coming out of school with a B.C.Sc. can make $45-60,000 here, depending on the company. Considering the average house price runs around $200,000 right now, that ain't half bad for just out of school.
Add 10 years experience and you should be close to doubling that figure. Mostly though, it's sysadmin/architect work, as nearly all companies here are oil & gas related, so there's very little in-house development work. It does exist, though.
Oh, and this past month we've been beating southern California for high temperatures. Canada isn't the Arctic, contrary to popluar belief
Libertarians (at least based on their Slashdot posts) want to abolish government power completely, leaving corporations the only entities with any power - which, of course, will lead to them merging into cartels and ultimately a single entity.
:)
Well, if you eliminated government power, then corporations, by definition, would cease to exist. Corporations only exist as allowed by government.
Anyway, a desire to abolish government is most definitely not a Libertarian idea. You're thinking of Anarchists. Libertarians want to LIMIT government power, not ELIMINATE it.
Lesson: don't learn your political theory from Slashdot
Oh baloney.
It's obvious these bubbles are safe, as they were grown without using any pesticides or other chemicals whatsoever. Most probably these are also free-range bubbles.
Sheesh, people, get with the newspeak!
To my mind, these fundamentalists are more guilty of idolatry.
Excellent. Time to unleash Matt Damon on their ass!
It's unbelievable how scientifically illiterate and ignorant people somehow think they are qwualified to critique the ENTIRE educated professional scientific community that has studied these things and all of the evidence.
Welcome to Slashdot.
Seriously. Check out most science/technology stories here. You're going to find dozens of highly moderated posts to the effect of "yeah but they forgot $FACTX so it can never work!!" and "this was disproved $Y years ago, everyone knows that!!". Most of them haven't even read the articles involved, let alone reviewed the research done.
It's scary. There's been a slowly growing wave of anti-intellectualism for the past few decades in North America. Lately I see it being expressed even in tech geek circles. Slashdot is just a very visible example of this, but it's becoming more and more common every day, in every walk of life.
It's fun to knock the smart guy, I guess. Personally, I'm awed by the things other people can do with their minds. Unfortunately, far too many people are intimidated by this, and have to believe that THEY are the correct ones.
Thanks for the sig. You've practically summed up the history of the world in one sentence.
Oddly enough, up here in Alberta (Canada) we have public service announcements exactly like this, for crystal meth. Start out with all of the "benefits", and then the long (3/4 of the commercial) side-effect disclaimer. It's pretty creepy, and I'd say, the most effective anti-drug commercial I've ever seen.
Then again, I never really thought my brain was an egg.
Don't think past the end of your nose, do you?
... Exxon mobil is the largest oil company and it only employs 120 thousand people or so.
Huge companies don't employ millions of people.
You know Exxon isn't the only oil company in existence, right? Just taking the big boys alone (and there are thousands of smaller outfits) the oil industry employs millions around the world.
So, for a minority of industries, and for a minority of employees in those industries there are some applications that are not available in linux.
Yup. A minority can also be defined as 2 billion people. It's a big planet. Taking what I've seen here, I can extrapolate that at least 10% of the P&G workforce uses these applications in one fashion or another. THAT'S HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. Things they use in their day-to-day business simply don't exist for Linux.
As I said if you have locked yourself into a vendor who is shoving an operating system down your throat then it sucks to be you.
*shrug* It seems to me that the P&G industry is making record profits. Believe me, I'm a zealot. I'll admit it. I'd like Microsoft to be nuked out of existence. Fact of the matter is, not only are they the big game in town for hosting some of these apps, no one has come up with a competitive solution.
If you think you can do it, go for it. You'll make yourself a millionaire overnight. Just keep in mind that no one else in the software industry has been able to do it yet.
It may not fit into your or my philosophy, but Windows-based solutions make a lot of people a lot of money. Just sucks that I have to support them, sometimes.
the near-exact scenario played out on The Lone Gunmen only six months before the actual event
Dear god.
It's 4+ years since 9/11. We've seen thousands of stories on it. We've had dozens of Slashdot stories about it, some of them with 3000+ comments. I keep up (enough, anyway) with pop culture and the daily news. I've never seen the Lone Gunmen (not much of an X-files fan, personally).
Yet I've never heard of this until today. Collective amnesia, indeed. I can't believe the talking heads never picked up on this en masse. They stopped showing the Simpsons WTC episode for a year, with much news attention. They stopped running the Spider-Man trailer with the WTC in it, forever, with similar attention. But no one in my life, on the news, on Slashdot, or anywhere I'm exposed to, has mentioned this in my hearing until now.
I think I'm going to buy the DVD set just to see this. Creepy as all hell.
I'm willing to vote for the Element of consoles.
Damn thing looks like a Zamboni, which as a Canadian, I should dream about driving.