I've been reading Slashdot prettymuch since day 1. I was one of the resistors of the (then new) login system, and when I finally capitulated, several thousand people were onboard. That's when I really understood how many (and diverse) people viewed this site daily. Recently, I've not been around as much. Mostly reading, almost no commenting, but/. has always had a place in my heart.
I remember going to one of the first Linuxconfs in NYC, where/. had their hangout area. Hemos had logged into the/. back-end on one of the floating laptops, then left the area. I happened to pick up the laptop, and saw/. from "the other side". It was like seeing the code stream in The Matrix (although many years prior to the film). (I logged him out immediately). When he eventually came back, I informed him what had happened, and we chatted for a brief time. Rob and Jeff fostered a community, and while the community has changed, it's still strong.
Rob,/. will miss you, but it'll keep going strong, thanks to your help. May your Karma always be Excellent!
Your premise is wrong. You assume that the entrance essay is "graded". It's not. It's meant to give the admissions board more information about your character as a student, and insight into how you express yourself in the day-to-day.
While the essay isn't graded, it is *judged*. It is judged based upon your ability to convey your thoughts and ideas (along with your test scores, 2ndary school grades, extra-curricular activities, etc), and whether that type of expression fits into MIT society.
They can refuse a warranty if the 3rd party part was shown to be the cause of the problem (ECU remapping, for example), but it doesn't go beyond that (they can't refuse the seat mounting rails warranty coverage).
Considering every time Dragon Warrior or a Final Fantasy game comes out, they sell 2 million copies in the first week-end, of course they're going to sell 80,000 PS3s.
I'd like to see a breakdown of High end-vs-Low end units. Does anyone have those numbers?
Do you have credible URLs to back this up? I am not saying you're making this up, but if this information is true, it should be shouted at the top of the hills. I'd like to get more information (about the heads of Diebold and ES&S heads being über-Xtain fundie whackjobs)
People for the American Ways list and description of notable 5-4 Supreme Court decisions that could have gone the other way if a more conservative justice were sitting in OConnors seat:
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) affirmed the right of state colleges and universities to use affirmative action in their admissions policies to increase educational opportunities for minorities and promote racial diversity on campus;
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. EPA (2004) said the Environmental Protection Agency could step in and take action to reduce air pollution under the Clean Air Act when a state conservation agency fails to act;
Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran (2002) upheld state laws giving people the right to a second doctors opinion if their HMOs tried to deny them treatment;
Hunt v. Cromartie (2001) affirmed the right of state legislators to take race into account to secure minority voting rights in redistricting;
Tennessee v. Lane (2004) upheld the constitutionality of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and required that courtrooms be physically accessible to the disabled;
Hibbs v. Winn (2004) subjected discriminatory and unconstitutional state tax laws to review by the federal judiciary;
Zadvydas v. Davis (2001) told the government it could not indefinitely detain an immigrant who was under final order of removal even if no other country would accept that person;
Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (2001) affirmed that civil rights laws apply to associations regulating interscholastic sports;
Lee v. Weisman (1992) continued the tradition of government neutrality toward religion, finding that government-sponsored prayer is unacceptable at graduations and other public school events;
Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington (2003) maintained a key source of funding for legal assistance for the poor;
Morse v. Republican Party of Virginia (1996) said key anti-discrimination provisions of the Voting Rights Act apply to political conventions that choose party candidates;
Federal Election Commission v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee (2001) upheld laws that limit political party expenditures that are coordinated with a candidate and seek to evade campaign contribution limits;
McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003) upheld most of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, including its ban on political parties use of unlimited soft money contributions;
Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) overturned a state ban on so-called partial birth abortion; and
McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005) upheld the principle of government neutrality towards religion and ruled unconstitutional Ten Commandments displays in several courthouses.
I test drove the E5c and the E3c, and I purchased the E3c. Brilliant noise isolation, and fantastic sound. Shure even allows you to "test drive" them with no obligation to purchase.
well, considering the Connectix Virtual Game Station played Playstation games at full speed using hardware from 1997/8. (You could run all the games using a first revision iMac (233MHz G3).) It's not too difficult to emulate the small bits of logic it takes to run a game. It is much more difficult to make *anything* fast. This is why VPC is still quite slow, even on very fast hardware when running "normal" applications. Also, I imagine most stuff is offloaded to the GPU
Remember back in the NES days when (I think it was) Tengen came out with several games that Nintendo didn't like, and so did not receive the Nintendo Seal of Approval? Games like Gauntlet, Tetris (a Tetris that more closely resembled the arcade version than Nintendo's own) and others were available on the shelves. Nintendo tried to get them removed through the court system, and lost.
The SCEA is clearly doing the same thing, "if we don't like your game, you can't distribute it". How about letting *THE PUBLIC* decide if they like a game by purchasing it (or not). I prefer 2D games over 3D games, as the game-play tends to be better. Consequently I sold my PS2 a long time ago, and purchased a GBA SP.
Quit telling me what I want, let me decide for myself.
The funny thing about all of this is that the game makers are putting up all the risk, and they *still* have to pay Sony for each game sold. Why does Sony *not* want additional income?
Perhaps the SNK people should release an "un-approved" disc. If the SCEA takes them to the courts, SNK may have legal precedent on their side.
Actually, there has been much re-designing of the Useit website from the "ring o' web designers"
Nielson's beef isn't so much that the proposed designs suck, it's that he's not a designer and can't be bothered with keeping it from borking when he decides to add something...
...Of course, this is what CSS is supposed to alleviate.
There are many publicly available time servers. I don't quite get why this is all that important. When "Public Time Server" is entered in Google, the first hit yields a good resource:
And to think, with all the advancements that Hubble is making, they still want to decommission the thing. I can understand decommissioning it when we launch fully function-equivalent replacements, but not "because the shuttle is too dangerous and we can't be bothered to go up and move Hubble out of the decaying orbit".
Granted, it would be easier if you didn't have to take the card out of your wallet, or a woman could keep the card in an outside pocket of her purse. you could just hold your wallet/purse up to the reader.
But what happens when you have multiple RFID-enabled cards? which one gets read?
DO NOT ADD Virtual Desktops as part of the Manager--Add command key options ala NeXTSTEP that commandkey-dblclick autohides ALL OTHER APPS BUT THE ONE YOU WANT TO WORK ON
Actually, if you option-command click on the icon in the doc, you will get this functionality.
Size of the binary has little to do with what it needs to run. If you remember the Demo Scene of the 80s, coders would routinely cram some pretty massive special effects into *very* small binaries (much smaller than this game). If you didn't have higher-end hardware, they'd run slowly, or not at all.
I imagine that this game relies quite a bit on tight assembler code and pixel shader instructions to get the most out of the higher end video cards [making the hardware work for you]. Of course, I only looked at the screen shots, so I could be wrong.
It's all good. I would also like to apologise for the possibly-perceived-as-flame-ish reply.
As for the binaries being larger. I am not an authority on the subject, but if you are comparing binaries from X86 to those of PPC, the reason for the % increase in size is usually due to the architecture RISC processor. Back when "Fat" binaries were all the rage, a stripped 68k binary was often [always??] smaller than the stripped PPC binary. Donnow about the anomaly that is your "ls" in Fedora.
Not that it really matters, as modern OSs only load into RAM parts of the application that need to be loaded [this was also true in the "classic OS" [7/8/9] age. 68k binaries would load their entire binary into RAM, while the PPC version would only load what it needed [assuming you had VM turned on]
>>Are you suggesting that using RAM as cache is somehow unusual?
Not at all. Merely stating fact. OSX [like all Unix(like) machines] use as much RAM as cache as it can. Where in my previous post do you find a suggestion that it is unusual? If I stated something like "unlike most OSs, OS X uses RAM as cache", that suggests something [and also happens to be false]. Stating "OSX likes to use RAM as cache" is just a fact that the OP may not be aware of.
The eMac is a good machine. the proc is fast enough to do most things [web, mail, WP, digital camera editing, mp3 ripping, etc.]. A few things to be aware of. The eMac is much larger than you think it is. Unlike the original iMac, the eMac doesn't have a handle, and the 17" monitor makes it rather awkward to pick up and move around.
And yes, you'll want to up the RAM to as much as you can afford [OSX likes to use RAM as cache].
Except that all (X)HTML tools include sundry items like "bold," "italic," "18pt sans-serif," and "horizontal line," and "red." These are all presentation concerns that have no place in standardized documentation. This is why he mentioned DocBook XML.
While HTML tools may have style as you mentioned, valid XHTML specifically separates style from presentation. Everything you mentioned above [with the exception of the "hr". I believe that to be valid.] are supposed to be in CSS, the presentation layer. XHTML is valid XML.
And just because the tools may have them, you aren't forced to use all the buttons!
While it is true that Aldus was the creator of PageMaker, Adobe bought out Aldus in the late 80s/early 90s. Dropping PageMaker 10+ years later isn't such a big deal, considering their new product InDesign was to take over the roll of PageMaker when it first came on the scene.
It was only when old-schoolers refused to change over to the new app that Adobe decided to keep PageMaker around for a while longer [rightly so, InDesign 1 sucked, and was *not* a Quark killer that they promised it would be].
Frame was a good app, but it was also a niche app, as it was really only good for long document publishing [books]. That said Indesign and XPress own the much larger magazine and newspaper publishing arena. Adobe just realized that they weren't selling that many copies of the application on the Mac side, and decided to drop it.
The Solaris version may continue to survive, as some RIPs are still running on Solaris, and it is helpful to have the app on that platform [and they can charge *much* more for each seat... take a look at what Adobe charged for Photoshop on SGI/IRIX and compare it to the Mac/Win version].
It is always sad when a large company drops a product for an OS, but if the audience isn't there, why bother? Smart move on Adobe's part.
>>The normal guy's going to aim lower like the people teaching them tell them to.
Interesting. I am not much of a gun person, but I am an archer. In my experience [and instruction] I was always told to aim higher than what I thought to be "correct"
Obviously they are totally different animals, but an interesting observation
Slashdot Mirror
I've been reading Slashdot prettymuch since day 1. I was one of the resistors of the (then new) login system, and when I finally capitulated, several thousand people were onboard. That's when I really understood how many (and diverse) people viewed this site daily. Recently, I've not been around as much. Mostly reading, almost no commenting, but /. has always had a place in my heart.
I remember going to one of the first Linuxconfs in NYC, where /. had their hangout area. Hemos had logged into the /. back-end on one of the floating laptops, then left the area. I happened to pick up the laptop, and saw /. from "the other side". It was like seeing the code stream in The Matrix (although many years prior to the film). (I logged him out immediately). When he eventually came back, I informed him what had happened, and we chatted for a brief time. Rob and Jeff fostered a community, and while the community has changed, it's still strong.
Rob, /. will miss you, but it'll keep going strong, thanks to your help. May your Karma always be Excellent!
Your premise is wrong. You assume that the entrance essay is "graded". It's not. It's meant to give the admissions board more information about your character as a student, and insight into how you express yourself in the day-to-day.
While the essay isn't graded, it is *judged*. It is judged based upon your ability to convey your thoughts and ideas (along with your test scores, 2ndary school grades, extra-curricular activities, etc), and whether that type of expression fits into MIT society.
They can't actually do this in the US.
They can refuse a warranty if the 3rd party part was shown to be the cause of the problem (ECU remapping, for example), but it doesn't go beyond that (they can't refuse the seat mounting rails warranty coverage).
Considering every time Dragon Warrior or a Final Fantasy game comes out, they sell 2 million copies in the first week-end, of course they're going to sell 80,000 PS3s.
I'd like to see a breakdown of High end-vs-Low end units. Does anyone have those numbers?
Do you have credible URLs to back this up? I am not saying you're making this up, but if this information is true, it should be shouted at the top of the hills. I'd like to get more information (about the heads of Diebold and ES&S heads being über-Xtain fundie whackjobs)
Yes, the built-in iSights are *not* firewire, but USB. They also are fixed-focus, and single CCD (unlike the stand-alone iSight).
This is reprinted from salon.com.
People for the American Ways list and description of notable 5-4 Supreme Court decisions that could have gone the other way if a more conservative justice were sitting in OConnors seat:
I test drove the E5c and the E3c, and I purchased the E3c. Brilliant noise isolation, and fantastic sound. Shure even allows you to "test drive" them with no obligation to purchase.
well, considering the Connectix Virtual Game Station played Playstation games at full speed using hardware from 1997/8. (You could run all the games using a first revision iMac (233MHz G3).) It's not too difficult to emulate the small bits of logic it takes to run a game. It is much more difficult to make *anything* fast. This is why VPC is still quite slow, even on very fast hardware when running "normal" applications. Also, I imagine most stuff is offloaded to the GPU
Remember back in the NES days when (I think it was) Tengen came out with several games that Nintendo didn't like, and so did not receive the Nintendo Seal of Approval? Games like Gauntlet, Tetris (a Tetris that more closely resembled the arcade version than Nintendo's own) and others were available on the shelves. Nintendo tried to get them removed through the court system, and lost.
The SCEA is clearly doing the same thing, "if we don't like your game, you can't distribute it". How about letting *THE PUBLIC* decide if they like a game by purchasing it (or not). I prefer 2D games over 3D games, as the game-play tends to be better. Consequently I sold my PS2 a long time ago, and purchased a GBA SP.
Quit telling me what I want, let me decide for myself.
The funny thing about all of this is that the game makers are putting up all the risk, and they *still* have to pay Sony for each game sold. Why does Sony *not* want additional income?
Perhaps the SNK people should release an "un-approved" disc. If the SCEA takes them to the courts, SNK may have legal precedent on their side.
Nielson's beef isn't so much that the proposed designs suck, it's that he's not a designer and can't be bothered with keeping it from borking when he decides to add something...
Check it out here: Re-UseIt
Blame IE.
IE was the first browser to default to a white background. The great unwashed masses of HTML jockeys never saw the problem.
This is why we have standards. It's a shame few decide to use them.
There are many publicly available time servers. I don't quite get why this is all that important. When "Public Time Server" is entered in Google, the first hit yields a good resource:
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html
Can anyone enlighten me on why this is special? I couldn't make it out from the site
And to think, with all the advancements that Hubble is making, they still want to decommission the thing. I can understand decommissioning it when we launch fully function-equivalent replacements, but not "because the shuttle is too dangerous and we can't be bothered to go up and move Hubble out of the decaying orbit".
Sigh
But what happens when you have multiple RFID-enabled cards? which one gets read?
Actually, if you option-command click on the icon in the doc, you will get this functionality.
Size of the binary has little to do with what it needs to run. If you remember the Demo Scene of the 80s, coders would routinely cram some pretty massive special effects into *very* small binaries (much smaller than this game). If you didn't have higher-end hardware, they'd run slowly, or not at all.
I imagine that this game relies quite a bit on tight assembler code and pixel shader instructions to get the most out of the higher end video cards [making the hardware work for you]. Of course, I only looked at the screen shots, so I could be wrong.
>>Sorry, I wasn't trying to make a big deal of it
It's all good. I would also like to apologise for the possibly-perceived-as-flame-ish reply.
As for the binaries being larger. I am not an authority on the subject, but if you are comparing binaries from X86 to those of PPC, the reason for the % increase in size is usually due to the architecture RISC processor. Back when "Fat" binaries were all the rage, a stripped 68k binary was often [always??] smaller than the stripped PPC binary. Donnow about the anomaly that is your "ls" in Fedora.
Not that it really matters, as modern OSs only load into RAM parts of the application that need to be loaded [this was also true in the "classic OS" [7/8/9] age. 68k binaries would load their entire binary into RAM, while the PPC version would only load what it needed [assuming you had VM turned on]
Rock!
>>Are you suggesting that using RAM as cache is somehow unusual?
Not at all. Merely stating fact. OSX [like all Unix(like) machines] use as much RAM as cache as it can. Where in my previous post do you find a suggestion that it is unusual? If I stated something like "unlike most OSs, OS X uses RAM as cache", that suggests something [and also happens to be false]. Stating "OSX likes to use RAM as cache" is just a fact that the OP may not be aware of.
breathe.
The eMac is a good machine. the proc is fast enough to do most things [web, mail, WP, digital camera editing, mp3 ripping, etc.]. A few things to be aware of. The eMac is much larger than you think it is. Unlike the original iMac, the eMac doesn't have a handle, and the 17" monitor makes it rather awkward to pick up and move around.
And yes, you'll want to up the RAM to as much as you can afford [OSX likes to use RAM as cache].
Enjoy!
While HTML tools may have style as you mentioned, valid XHTML specifically separates style from presentation. Everything you mentioned above [with the exception of the "hr". I believe that to be valid.] are supposed to be in CSS, the presentation layer. XHTML is valid XML.
And just because the tools may have them, you aren't forced to use all the buttons!
ok, I am stating this up front. I didn't read the entire patent article. My apologies.
That said, isn't the idea of a cookie, in fact, a structure? In this case, a key/value pair??
While it is true that Aldus was the creator of PageMaker, Adobe bought out Aldus in the late 80s/early 90s. Dropping PageMaker 10+ years later isn't such a big deal, considering their new product InDesign was to take over the roll of PageMaker when it first came on the scene.
It was only when old-schoolers refused to change over to the new app that Adobe decided to keep PageMaker around for a while longer [rightly so, InDesign 1 sucked, and was *not* a Quark killer that they promised it would be].
Frame was a good app, but it was also a niche app, as it was really only good for long document publishing [books]. That said Indesign and XPress own the much larger magazine and newspaper publishing arena. Adobe just realized that they weren't selling that many copies of the application on the Mac side, and decided to drop it.
The Solaris version may continue to survive, as some RIPs are still running on Solaris, and it is helpful to have the app on that platform [and they can charge *much* more for each seat... take a look at what Adobe charged for Photoshop on SGI/IRIX and compare it to the Mac/Win version].
It is always sad when a large company drops a product for an OS, but if the audience isn't there, why bother? Smart move on Adobe's part.
>>The normal guy's going to aim lower like the people teaching them tell them to.
Interesting. I am not much of a gun person, but I am an archer. In my experience [and instruction] I was always told to aim higher than what I thought to be "correct"
Obviously they are totally different animals, but an interesting observation