Somewhere a line must be drawn. Let me take my mother for example.. My mother is a teacher in an elementry school in a small town ~4000 people.
This past year a *kindergarden* student said to her, and I quote: "I don't have to listen to you you fuckin' bitch" yes a kindergarden student, I won't go into what the older children are saying.
Where did this *child* learn this? Well the first obvious answer is his parents... When brought into the school to discuss the child's behaviour this child's mother (as overheard by my mother) said to the child, "I told you not to swear you little son of a bitch"
Obviously this situation rests on the parents who at some point *need* to instill some sort of values in their children. So for this I see the point of not letting children see this movie with out their parents.
The other side is teenagers, who do *know* better than to swear at their teachers, probably do know where to draw the line and hence should be allowed to see this movie.
My parents, who both are elementry school teachers, have noticed a general decline in respect, behaviour and general 'normal' values that children hold. Both my parents are afraid to punish or scold their students for fear of being sued by parents.
The line must be drawn somewhere, this is a good start but it might be drawn a little too high.
The question still remains, Long or Short. There will be an initial excitement that will pump up the stock price. But since the open source buisness model is a 'new' concept major investors could be jiddery driving the stock price up and down based upon financial speculations. Everything that Redhat does that week and following IPO will be watched extremely closely.
If Redhat makes a decision that's "Good" for the community but may be "Bad" for profit, stock prices will fall period, that's the way of life. Will RHAT be pressured by investors? I see no reason why they wouldn't be. Who would you listen to if you had millions at steak?
A good idea and a great product help out with things a lot, but take a look at AMD from the long term perspective. They released the K7 (better than sex, P3 killer) and their stock barely moved a couple of dollars. AMD has a great product but has been plagued by business and production problems keeping investors scared.
IMHO RHAT has a kick-ass product (better than sex, Win killer). But their business model must be rock solid inorder to suceed. They've got a tough balancing act to perform here and I really hope they pull it off. But the bottom line is, I'll be buying my shares - long or short I do not know.
How about when you post the stories make a little voice recording or something while you do it... and at the end of a couple of days / week put the good ones together.. slap it in mp3 format.. and then release it to the hounds.
I'd like to see more of this for sure. Don't worry about offending people, keep throwing out your own opinions on stuff that's happening. Rob's bit about robots taking over the earth was good "duh?" Even if you just keep doing what you were doing in the last part of the clip..
"Angels were portrayed as females - nude, very nude"
Excellent I saw nothing wrong with that
Hussein waves his disembodied male member around. And it was not a cardboard drawing like most other images of the movie -- it was of photographic resolution.
*GASP!!!* OH NO! Not his disembodied male member.. that's the last thing people need to see (well probably half of the population has one for god's sake). That's just what we need for our kids to learn.. sex is dirty, let's not talk about it.. hide it. Then when they get older they have no idea.
LIGHTEN UP! Maybe they need to "Suck my --, "Let's ([homo]sexual intercourse)"
hehe.. "God's Counter" made me laugh my ass of too.
IMVHO The Matrix had the most *amazing* fight scenes that I have *ever* seen. I guess you could say it was K-Rad (grin)
I do admit I know nothing about the technicality or the realism of the actual fighting stances and if I did I might be a little picky too. This is part of what is called "Willful suspension of disbilef" (man I can't spell) which is what the Matrix does quite well. With the suspension of (your) reality while you watch the movie, you allow yourself to actually think that Neo and others can *bend* the rules. Breaking gravity etc. Through this suspension the directors and actors do really neat things like run up walls and stuff like that. Put all these factors together and you allow to make a great fighting scene.:) (IMHO)
IMHO this is bigger news than starwars! The Matrix is to our generation what Starwars was to a past generation.
"The Matrix sequels - to be simply entitled Matrix 2 and Matrix 3... We could do a prequel and a sequel to this episode or two prequels or two sequels."
So let me get this strait. The titles are Matrix2 and Matrix3. But if it's a prequel to The Matrix, "Matrix2" would sujest that it comes after "The Matrix"(?) I would like to see one prequel and one sequel. It would be cool to see how "we marveled in our own glory with the birth of AI" and how "it was us who scorched the sky" and then in the sequel where things go from there.
I have pumped my fair share of money into this movie (seeing it >6 times in the theater) but would like to know if anyone picked up on any forshadowing??
Playing pac-man as a little kid.. I sucked, I still suck. But I loved it... and that's the whole point.
I still remember programming pong or some derevation of pong on my vic-20 late at night. As games today progress from what they used to be to a total submersion into a new reality we often forget that sometimes it's the simple things in life/computer games that are the most *fun*.
*sniff* it's almost enough to make me want to boot up that old apple IIe... na!
Wow!.. agreed.. I was thinking about that the other day. What will happen when slashdot is getting slashdotted with people. I mean major major traffic. I suspect that Rob knows that his user base is growing fast and something will have to be done..
3) perhaps more powerful navigation/selection features (e.g. only read articles from people who consistenty rank>2)
I don't agree. I may not have something extremely intelligent to say all the time but there is the odd time that someone says something extremely informitive or interesting. We can't all be witfull all the time.
I have noticed that there isn't a lot of moderating going on lately. It takes a while for a good comment to float above my threshold:) but I still love this place.
This is a far streach from Journalism, and I'm sure that journalists are having trouble accepting this. Rob did something right when he called it "News for Nerds: Stuff that Matters".. That's what it is, nothing more, nothing less.
Ture at my university our Computer Science program consists mostly of men, but there are an increasing number of women entering this growing field.
I've also notised that there is a diffrence between a "hot" chick going into Computer Science and a "cool" chick. All of my computer science buds are 'cool' people who also just happen to be what most would consider 'attractive' but that attractiveness is earned by a good personality.
This is a picture of my comp sci friends at my 21st birthday (I'm the drunken geek with the tie on). Every single one of these 'chicks', as people call them, kick most of the male population's asses in coding. These 5 girls were in the top %10 of our class (300 people, mostly male)for the year.
The Scholorship is a GREAT idea, but maybe Rob should be changed to "A really cool girl entering CS";-)
Just want I needed! I've done many installs and just hate the fact that my computer is useless during the install process.. more eye candy is good...drool...
Before you flame: Even though I can't wait till the day that people say, "Word, ha!, get with the program buddy", the fundimental problem that we are facing is that it is too deeply entrenched. The company I work at just spent a lot of time, effort and money to upgrade the documentation system to word97. Which was not a simple task, it took a number of months. Something like that will not happen again for a couple of years.
How could you transfer existing documents of a large company (literally thousands of documents) from word to _____ in a cost effective solution without having open source standards to tell how the document is produced. Otherwise there will be loss of data && formatting. etc. It was hard going from one version of MS to the next (which is suppoed to be compatable) imagine going to another program, on a diffrent platform! IT would want people to die horrible deaths.
How do you explain to your clients when they try to download some document to read and have no idea how to look at it. IMHO most documentation can be written in emacs without a Word Processor. If the content isn't there nothing will beef it up.
But I do agree that web standards would be good, for example the how-to's have a great system going for them. I fully support platform independent, web based documentation standards but it's just too good of an idea for someone to implement ~it would make too much sence~.
He's got pretty big shoes to fill though.. you may remember:
Understand My Job Please!
I agree that another person would take up the job, but as far as doing as good of a job as he has done? I don't know about that. I mean the guy just spoke to over 20,000(?) microsoft personell, he's got a big pair, (and I don't mean shoes here)..
"PPP over ATM' - talks a lot about how PPP sits on top of ATM, and how the xDSL provider only goes up to layer 2, with any layer 3 services (ISPs, video, other content) being supplied via ATM links direct to the provider. Since I work for an IP QoS company, I feel somehow this should be doable with IP, but that presumes an all-IP world which this architecture does not. "
I don't know about PPP over ATM (isn't there a lot of cell tax for such a slow connection). You are right that we live in an IP world. I know for a fact that there are routers out there that do the following:
It looks like ip, it goes in as ip, comes out as ip, so it must be ip right? wrong. IP over ATM (damm that was fast)
Here's the solution:
DMDS: "The Newbridge DMDS solution enables service providers to realize the potential of ADSL to offer a complete portfolio of broadcast voice, video and data services." -Martin Hall, chief technology officer, Stardust Forums and co-founder of the IP Multicast Initiative.
Bottom Line: Voice + Data + Video over xDSL modem. Using ATM Switching to deliver to the distribution node (local CO) then ADSL to the jack in your living room. Woudn't that be nice if the telcos all got this thing? Then there would be some competition for the cable tv companies.
They are still only 15" monitors with a post inbetween, each only capable of doing 1024x768. Using those big flat monitors from toshiba(?) seen here reciently would make this something to really drool over.
6000+ us for 3 15" monitors ??? I could get three laptops for about the same...
But If I had the money I'd order it because they just look damm cool !
YES! I couldn't agree with you more. I am NOT a nerd. No frickin way!
Nerd == No social skills, bad odour.
Geek == Good Social Skills, no odour.
Twits == "I want to" (wannabe's)
But at some point in our lives I'm sure we've all been the nerd, then the twit, and now a geek.
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What I would like to know is how many people that I have come in contact with, like in the last 10 years. How many people in the world have I had almost direct contact with? Plotting that data on a map would be very cool indeed. Seeing interdependancys, etc. Even like a elapsed playback of the last 10 years of your life on a map.. that would be powerfull.
If this were to be a sucess it would have to be DIRT cheap at first. Although it's cool I won't be paying a couple hundred dollars just so that I'm the only one in my town with one.
That guy in the first picture.
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Who ever you are.. I want to be you. I want to be just like you.. consider yourself envied. I want to be able to drive to work, (linux related of course) pimpin in my bad ass red car with I love linux on the plates.
If we cut off the reason that he is doing this it will be even better.
How do you screw over the clickthrough sight? Most porn sites have clickthrough policys, if you complain that the clickthrough site is spamming or using illegal means to generate hits they will pull the plug on his account and give him NO money.
I'd do this myself, but I'm at work so no porn sites for me.
DO NOT CLICK ON HIS BANNERS!
This is his isp: www.intra.ru can someone find his homepage?
About a week ago I got the chance to speak with Jason A. Straw, Canadian Marketing Manager and his teckie, Zack.
Both have come from Corel and have great backgrounds, Jason was a Marketing Manager for the Netwinder and I seem to recall that Zack helped port Strong Arm to the Netwinder as well? (correct me if I'm wrong)
But the point is that VA is now in Canada and will soon be located in the Toronto area! They are taking the community seriously, They are listening to us.
That's news for Canadain nerds, stuff that matters eh?
Slashdot Mirror
Somewhere a line must be drawn. Let me take my mother for example.. My mother is a teacher in an elementry school in a small town ~4000 people.
This past year a *kindergarden* student said to her, and I quote: "I don't have to listen to you you fuckin' bitch" yes a kindergarden student, I won't go into what the older children are saying.
Where did this *child* learn this? Well the first obvious answer is his parents... When brought into the school to discuss the child's behaviour this child's mother (as overheard by my mother) said to the child, "I told you not to swear you little son of a bitch"
Obviously this situation rests on the parents who at some point *need* to instill some sort of values in their children. So for this I see the point of not letting children see this movie with out their parents.
The other side is teenagers, who do *know* better than to swear at their teachers, probably do know where to draw the line and hence should be allowed to see this movie.
My parents, who both are elementry school teachers, have noticed a general decline in respect, behaviour and general 'normal' values that children hold. Both my parents are afraid to punish or scold their students for fear of being sued by parents.
The line must be drawn somewhere, this is a good start but it might be drawn a little too high.
The question still remains, Long or Short. There will be an initial excitement that will pump up the stock price. But since the open source buisness model is a 'new' concept major investors could be jiddery driving the stock price up and down based upon financial speculations. Everything that Redhat does that week and following IPO will be watched extremely closely.
If Redhat makes a decision that's "Good" for the community but may be "Bad" for profit, stock prices will fall period, that's the way of life. Will RHAT be pressured by investors? I see no reason why they wouldn't be. Who would you listen to if you had millions at steak?
A good idea and a great product help out with things a lot, but take a look at AMD from the long term perspective. They released the K7 (better than sex, P3 killer) and their stock barely moved a couple of dollars. AMD has a great product but has been plagued by business and production problems keeping investors scared.
IMHO RHAT has a kick-ass product (better than sex, Win killer). But their business model must be rock solid inorder to suceed. They've got a tough balancing act to perform here and I really hope they pull it off. But the bottom line is, I'll be buying my shares - long or short I do not know.
How about when you post the stories make a little voice recording or something while you do it ... and at the end of a couple of days / week put the good ones together .. slap it in mp3 format .. and then release it to the hounds.
I'd like to see more of this for sure. Don't worry about offending people, keep throwing out your own opinions on stuff that's happening. Rob's bit about robots taking over the earth was good "duh?" Even if you just keep doing what you were doing in the last part of the clip..
$600M CDN is ~ $50.00 US. Microsoft was probably just paying their cable bill. Nothing to worry about everyone, move along...
"Angels were portrayed as females - nude, very nude"
.. sex is dirty, let's not talk about it.. hide it. Then when they get older they have no idea.
Excellent I saw nothing wrong with that
Hussein waves his disembodied male member around. And it was not a cardboard drawing like most other images of the movie -- it was of photographic resolution.
*GASP!!!* OH NO! Not his disembodied male member.. that's the last thing people need to see (well probably half of the population has one for god's sake). That's just what we need for our kids to learn
LIGHTEN UP! Maybe they need to "Suck my --, "Let's ([homo]sexual intercourse)"
hehe.. "God's Counter" made me laugh my ass of too.
>Joe Sixpack thought the Kung Fu looked K-Rad.
:) (IMHO)
IMVHO The Matrix had the most *amazing* fight scenes that I have *ever* seen. I guess you could say it was K-Rad (grin)
I do admit I know nothing about the technicality or the realism of the actual fighting stances and if I did I might be a little picky too. This is part of what is called "Willful suspension of disbilef" (man I can't spell) which is what the Matrix does quite well. With the suspension of (your) reality while you watch the movie, you allow yourself to actually think that Neo and others can *bend* the rules. Breaking gravity etc. Through this suspension the directors and actors do really neat things like run up walls and stuff like that. Put all these factors together and you allow to make a great fighting scene.
IMHO this is bigger news than starwars! The Matrix is to our generation what Starwars was to a past generation.
... We could do a prequel and a sequel to this episode or two prequels or two sequels."
"The Matrix sequels - to be simply entitled Matrix 2 and Matrix 3
So let me get this strait. The titles are Matrix2 and Matrix3. But if it's a prequel to The Matrix, "Matrix2" would sujest that it comes after "The Matrix"(?) I would like to see one prequel and one sequel. It would be cool to see how "we marveled in our own glory with the birth of AI" and how "it was us who scorched the sky" and then in the sequel where things go from there.
I have pumped my fair share of money into this movie (seeing it >6 times in the theater) but would like to know if anyone picked up on any forshadowing??
Wireless Network Solutions
Check out the network management part. I know that what you are asking is very possible.
Playing pac-man as a little kid .. I sucked, I still suck. But I loved it... and that's the whole point.
... na!
I still remember programming pong or some derevation of pong on my vic-20 late at night. As games today progress from what they used to be to a total submersion into a new reality we often forget that sometimes it's the simple things in life/computer games that are the most *fun*.
*sniff* it's almost enough to make me want to boot up that old apple IIe
Wow! .. agreed .. I was thinking about that the other day. What will happen when slashdot is getting slashdotted with people. I mean major major traffic. I suspect that Rob knows that his user base is growing fast and something will have to be done..
:) but I still love this place.
.. That's what it is, nothing more, nothing less.
3) perhaps more powerful navigation/selection features (e.g. only read articles from people who
consistenty rank>2)
I don't agree. I may not have something extremely intelligent to say all the time but there is the odd time that someone says something extremely informitive or interesting. We can't all be witfull all the time.
I have noticed that there isn't a lot of moderating going on lately. It takes a while for a good comment to float above my threshold
This is a far streach from Journalism, and I'm sure that journalists are having trouble accepting this. Rob did something right when he called it "News for Nerds: Stuff that Matters"
If the imac was my design and I saw this, but it has a floppy drive so that makes everything ok! :)
Ture at my university our Computer Science program consists mostly of men, but there are an increasing number of women entering this growing field.
;-)
I've also notised that there is a diffrence between a "hot" chick going into Computer Science and a "cool" chick. All of my computer science buds are 'cool' people who also just happen to be what most would consider 'attractive' but that attractiveness is earned by a good personality.
PICTURE
This is a picture of my comp sci friends at my 21st birthday (I'm the drunken geek with the tie on). Every single one of these 'chicks', as people call them, kick most of the male population's asses in coding. These 5 girls were in the top %10 of our class (300 people, mostly male)for the year.
The Scholorship is a GREAT idea, but maybe Rob should be changed to "A really cool girl entering CS"
That my 28.8 just won't cut it anymore :( Now, more than ever I need high speed internet..
Just want I needed! I've done many installs and just hate the fact that my computer is useless during the install process.. more eye candy is good...drool...
Before you flame:
Even though I can't wait till the day that people say, "Word, ha!, get with the program buddy", the fundimental problem that we are facing is that it is too deeply entrenched. The company I work at just spent a lot of time, effort and money to upgrade the documentation system to word97. Which was not a simple task, it took a number of months. Something like that will not happen again for a couple of years.
How could you transfer existing documents of a large company (literally thousands of documents) from word to _____ in a cost effective solution without having open source standards to tell how the document is produced. Otherwise there will be loss of data && formatting. etc. It was hard going from one version of MS to the next (which is suppoed to be compatable) imagine going to another program, on a diffrent platform! IT would want people to die horrible deaths.
How do you explain to your clients when they try to download some document to read and have no idea how to look at it. IMHO most documentation can be written in emacs without a Word Processor. If the content isn't there nothing will beef it up.
But I do agree that web standards would be good, for example the how-to's have a great system going for them. I fully support platform independent, web based documentation standards but it's just too good of an idea for someone to implement ~it would make too much sence~.
He's got pretty big shoes to fill though.. you may remember:
Understand My Job Please!
I agree that another person would take up the job, but as far as doing as good of a job as he has done? I don't know about that. I mean the guy just spoke to over 20,000(?) microsoft personell, he's got a big pair, (and I don't mean shoes here)..
"PPP over ATM' - talks a lot about how PPP sits on top of ATM, and how the xDSL provider only goes up to layer 2, with any layer 3 services (ISPs, video, other content) being supplied via ATM links direct to the provider. Since I work for an IP QoS company, I feel somehow this should be doable with IP, but that presumes an all-IP world which this architecture does not. "
I don't know about PPP over ATM (isn't there a lot of cell tax for such a slow connection). You are right that we live in an IP world. I know for a fact that there are routers out there that do the following:
It looks like ip, it goes in as ip, comes out as ip, so it must be ip right? wrong. IP over ATM (damm that was fast)
Here's the solution:
DMDS:
"The Newbridge DMDS solution enables service providers to realize the potential of ADSL to offer a complete portfolio of broadcast voice, video and data services."
-Martin Hall, chief technology officer, Stardust Forums and co-founder of the IP Multicast Initiative.
Bottom Line: Voice + Data + Video over xDSL modem. Using ATM Switching to deliver to the distribution node (local CO) then ADSL to the jack in your living room. Woudn't that be nice if the telcos all got this thing? Then there would be some competition for the cable tv companies.
They are still only 15" monitors with a post inbetween, each only capable of doing 1024x768. Using those big flat monitors from toshiba(?) seen here reciently would make this something to really drool over.
6000+ us for 3 15" monitors ??? I could get three laptops for about the same...
But If I had the money I'd order it because they just look damm cool !
YES! I couldn't agree with you more. I am NOT a nerd. No frickin way!
Nerd == No social skills, bad odour.
Geek == Good Social Skills, no odour.
Twits == "I want to" (wannabe's)
But at some point in our lives I'm sure we've all been the nerd, then the twit, and now a geek.
What I would like to know is how many people that I have come in contact with, like in the last 10 years. How many people in the world have I had almost direct contact with? Plotting that data on a map would be very cool indeed. Seeing interdependancys, etc. Even like a elapsed playback of the last 10 years of your life on a map .. that would be powerfull.
If this were to be a sucess it would have to be DIRT cheap at first. Although it's cool I won't be paying a couple hundred dollars just so that I'm the only one in my town with one.
Who ever you are .. I want to be you. I want to be just like you.. consider yourself envied. I want to be able to drive to work, (linux related of course) pimpin in my bad ass red car with I love linux on the plates.
:)
Dude what I wouldn't give to be you.
In a talk with someone from VA linux they said that they *possibly* have a client who would is looking at setting up a 2600 Node Cluster..
.. umm... :)
Umm.. really fast Quake
If we cut off the reason that he is doing this it will be even better.
How do you screw over the clickthrough sight? Most porn sites have clickthrough policys, if you complain that the clickthrough site is spamming or using illegal means to generate hits they will pull the plug on his account and give him NO money.
I'd do this myself, but I'm at work so no porn sites for me.
DO NOT CLICK ON HIS BANNERS!
This is his isp: www.intra.ru can someone find his homepage?
Tell him what you think of spam: alexgurry@intra.ru
"Maybe he helped port Linux to the Strongarm for the Netwinder"
:)
Yep that's it!
All in all the guy's a star.
I kinda had the emfasis on the wrong salable
About a week ago I got the chance to speak with Jason A. Straw, Canadian Marketing Manager and his teckie, Zack.
Both have come from Corel and have great backgrounds, Jason was a Marketing Manager for the Netwinder and I seem to recall that Zack helped port Strong Arm to the Netwinder as well? (correct me if I'm wrong)
But the point is that VA is now in Canada and will soon be located in the Toronto area! They are taking the community seriously, They are listening to us.
That's news for Canadain nerds, stuff that matters eh?