Well maybe you're right. I installed fbsd this morning for exactly that reason though. A passion. A hobby. I code at work for money. At home it's for fun. Work can dictate what OS('s) I develop for, but at home it's all about choice, and what _I_ think is fun. The fun seems to have gone out of Linux (for me). Don't get me wrong, Linux is GREAT! But I think that, perhaps, it's heading in the wrong direction.
I first installed linux in 1995 (Yggdrasil Linux) and have used it predominately since. The reason I installed it was because I like hacking. Linux these days seems to have moved away from hacking to "World Domination". I don't give a flying monkey's tail about World Domination. I want to hack, and feel as though I am doing something for the pure passion of it. The fact that compilation on fbsd is now a gnome requirement (if it doesn't compile on fbsd it's considered a serious bug) seems, to me, to confirm that other people think like me.
Hacking is (as you said) a hobby. A labour of love. I get paid for programming. In my spare time I hack.
Does anybody know the physical effects of alchohol at this altitude and low gravity environments? Every time I have flown to LAX (I live in AUS) I've been warned about excess alcohol cosumption at high altitude. Maybe the cosmonauts should have documented the effects and dubbed it "Serious Scientific Research".
I don't know much about PI. I've only calculated it to 1 million decimal places. But, I reckon a cool slashdot project would be to make a dist net program to calc PI to beat the world record (64.5 billion places i think). Would be easy, and just think... would get/. in the guiness book of records. Speaking of which,/me has a guiness.
But earlier today AOL was not responsible for their users trading kiddy porn (not the germany division involved in the case mind you)... but it's responsible for their users trading (c) material? Is it just me, or does this just make no sense at all?
As you may have gathered I am really, really angry:-) I would like my son to read slashdot, but how can I let him with articles like this being posted, that _seem_ to be biased towards protecting the criminals and/or prosecuting as many people as you can? You may call it "right", but, well, it just boils down to how good your lawyer is and nit picking over the law. Child pornography is wrong. Whether AOL get prosecuted or not I am not interested in it... the criminal got caught; what else matters? And again I assert this is not news for nerds.
Why is news about child pornography on slashdot? This it not the first time in the last few weeks it's been on the front page. How is it "News for Nerds"? I am a nerd, but i have no interest in child pornography and quite frankly find the whole matter sick. Post something interesting, not something I see on the regular news every god damn minute of my life.
But I don't think batteries _have_ to last long. Only as long as it takes to drive to the coupling device, which would hopefully only be a small distance. Once on the rail, I presume, the 'car' would be powered by infrastructure provided by the rail.
... but then I read the article and it dawned on me that this really is a cool idea. I drive to work via the same route everyday (it's a mindless monototony). If I could have this hybrid car thing, I could drive to the 'train station' and sleep most of the way to work. Then just drive a short distance the rest of the way to work. I would buy one, just for the extra half hour of sleep:-)
What's so new? I started Paper Phones years ago.
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I make paper phones all the time. Basically what I do is write the message on a piece of foolscap paper and fold it into a paper airplane. I then send the message by throwing the paper plane towards the reciever. Works great.
I find this quite sad. I associate MIT with a mecca for hackers... and their "pranks" are basically a tribute to the "Hacker Ethic". The hacker museum was actually good for the hacker image. It presented a view of the light heartedness and FUN that the hackers follow; why did you do it? Because it was FUN. Why else? *strange stare*
I don't see how this is different to making millions off dealing drugs and storing it in a swiss bank -- or a similiar situation for tax evasion purposes. Maybe (IANAL, so I can only say maybe) this avoids responsibility but does this make it any less illegal?
Disclaimer: I am not saying Napster is wrong, just that to try and avoid the legal implications doesn't seem the right way to go about things (IMO)
Who says it's not good parenting? You? Just because you don't believe it is, doesn't make it so. And also, who's to say that the parent didn't explain WHY the content was going to be blocked to the child AND block it? There is nothing wrong with censorware that is enforced on the user side.
Yes, I am referring to the fact that the content control in IE is basically the software equivalent of the v-chip. This is not really censorship, it's more like giving the parents of children more control over what their children see. You could argue this _is_ censorship but it's at a parent/child level, not government imposed. I see no problem with it.
How is this different to training a cat to respond to a "dinner call" by banging a teaspoon on a tin. It's pretty simple really... There is a thing called "homeostasis". Good things get rewarded.. thou must strive after these. Bad things you will get punished for... avoid these at all costs. I don't see what ground-breaking revolution has been discovered here.....
Personally, I would read an online journal if the person was interesting enough - like Linus or Alan Cox. Even then, I take what's in the so called journal with a grain of salt. If the journal were technically orientated I would be more inclined to read it - I mean if I want personal details I will watch some trashy TV show like Ricky Lake or Operah, and probably get more info than from an online journal.
I think that AmigaOS is very underated. Back in it's hey day it was a multitasking OS that fit in (i think) 256MB ROM. That's no mean feat. Exec (i think that's what the kernel was called) is something that should be studied.
Not to mention all the custom chips that could do co-processing (something that PC's have only started doing in the last few years); shoving off gfx stuff to where it belongs - the graphics chips.
I would not go as far to say "AmigaOS is better than Linux", but I will agree with you in that, for it's day AmigaOS was a very worthy technical achievment. And the writer of Exec should get more credit than he usually gets.
I just realised what is wrong with the IT industry. We have a new technology and people seem to think that this creates new 'laws'. New fangled keywords such as 'reverse engineering' which (as far as i see) translates to 'let's see how this works' suddenly become issues. Where would we be now if Mr Grog Caveman said 'It's against the law to reverse engineer my heat generating device (fire(tm))?
This just doesn't seem to be right. If I was a blacksmith, the government would not impose undue restrictions on the horse shoes I make. Like making me liable if the horse becomes lame. The fact that I want to craft software and give it away "No strings attached" should be a good thing (tm). But Nooooooo they have to place all these restrictions on me. Maybe I will write code and distribute it as "(c)2001 Anonymous Coward".
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That picture of the monitoring system is taken directly from the movie "War Games".
The article is an obvious attempt to obscure their real purpose; to establish a world wide tic-tac-toe solving distributed supercomputer.
it is primarily a hobby operating system
Well maybe you're right. I installed fbsd this morning for exactly that reason though. A passion. A hobby. I code at work for money. At home it's for fun. Work can dictate what OS('s) I develop for, but at home it's all about choice, and what _I_ think is fun. The fun seems to have gone out of Linux (for me). Don't get me wrong, Linux is GREAT! But I think that, perhaps, it's heading in the wrong direction.
I first installed linux in 1995 (Yggdrasil Linux) and have used it predominately since. The reason I installed it was because I like hacking. Linux these days seems to have moved away from hacking to "World Domination". I don't give a flying monkey's tail about World Domination. I want to hack, and feel as though I am doing something for the pure passion of it. The fact that compilation on fbsd is now a gnome requirement (if it doesn't compile on fbsd it's considered a serious bug) seems, to me, to confirm that other people think like me.
Hacking is (as you said) a hobby. A labour of love. I get paid for programming. In my spare time I hack.
They might have to change their name... "Libranet" just doesn't sound correct anymore.
On a serious note (well, kind of serious).
Does anybody know the physical effects of alchohol at this altitude and low gravity environments? Every time I have flown to LAX (I live in AUS) I've been warned about excess alcohol cosumption at high altitude. Maybe the cosmonauts should have documented the effects and dubbed it "Serious Scientific Research".
cosmonauts who for luck urinate on the back tire of the bus that takes them to the launch pad
Looks like they not only drank while they were onboard the space station, but before launch as well. I wonder if they wrote their names in urine....
I don't know much about PI. I've only calculated it to 1 million decimal places. But, I reckon a cool slashdot project would be to make a dist net program to calc PI to beat the world record (64.5 billion places i think). Would be easy, and just think... would get /. in the guiness book of records. Speaking of which, /me has a guiness.
... we should start calling computers a "toolbox" rather than a tool.
But earlier today AOL was not responsible for their users trading kiddy porn (not the germany division involved in the case mind you)... but it's responsible for their users trading (c) material? Is it just me, or does this just make no sense at all?
As you may have gathered I am really, really angry :-) I would like my son to read slashdot, but how can I let him with articles like this being posted, that _seem_ to be biased towards protecting the criminals and/or prosecuting as many people as you can? You may call it "right", but, well, it just boils down to how good your lawyer is and nit picking over the law. Child pornography is wrong. Whether AOL get prosecuted or not I am not interested in it... the criminal got caught; what else matters? And again I assert this is not news for nerds.
Why is news about child pornography on slashdot? This it not the first time in the last few weeks it's been on the front page. How is it "News for Nerds"? I am a nerd, but i have no interest in child pornography and quite frankly find the whole matter sick. Post something interesting, not something I see on the regular news every god damn minute of my life.
But I don't think batteries _have_ to last long. Only as long as it takes to drive to the coupling device, which would hopefully only be a small distance. Once on the rail, I presume, the 'car' would be powered by infrastructure provided by the rail.
... but then I read the article and it dawned on me that this really is a cool idea. I drive to work via the same route everyday (it's a mindless monototony). If I could have this hybrid car thing, I could drive to the 'train station' and sleep most of the way to work. Then just drive a short distance the rest of the way to work. I would buy one, just for the extra half hour of sleep :-)
I make paper phones all the time. Basically what I do is write the message on a piece of foolscap paper and fold it into a paper airplane. I then send the message by throwing the paper plane towards the reciever. Works great.
I find this quite sad. I associate MIT with a mecca for hackers... and their "pranks" are basically a tribute to the "Hacker Ethic". The hacker museum was actually good for the hacker image. It presented a view of the light heartedness and FUN that the hackers follow; why did you do it? Because it was FUN. Why else? *strange stare*
I don't see how this is different to making millions off dealing drugs and storing it in a swiss bank -- or a similiar situation for tax evasion purposes. Maybe (IANAL, so I can only say maybe) this avoids responsibility but does this make it any less illegal? Disclaimer: I am not saying Napster is wrong, just that to try and avoid the legal implications doesn't seem the right way to go about things (IMO)
Who says it's not good parenting? You? Just because you don't believe it is, doesn't make it so. And also, who's to say that the parent didn't explain WHY the content was going to be blocked to the child AND block it? There is nothing wrong with censorware that is enforced on the user side.
Yes, I am referring to the fact that the content control in IE is basically the software equivalent of the v-chip. This is not really censorship, it's more like giving the parents of children more control over what their children see. You could argue this _is_ censorship but it's at a parent/child level, not government imposed. I see no problem with it.
Well AFAIK (not used Windows in ages) there is already the basic equivalent of the v-chip in Windows. Not that it stops the smart kids....
yes, 256KB... my bad i just checked out rebol's website.. interesting. thank-you for the information.
How is this different to training a cat to respond to a "dinner call" by banging a teaspoon on a tin. It's pretty simple really... There is a thing called "homeostasis". Good things get rewarded.. thou must strive after these. Bad things you will get punished for... avoid these at all costs. I don't see what ground-breaking revolution has been discovered here.....
Personally, I would read an online journal if the person was interesting enough - like Linus or Alan Cox. Even then, I take what's in the so called journal with a grain of salt. If the journal were technically orientated I would be more inclined to read it - I mean if I want personal details I will watch some trashy TV show like Ricky Lake or Operah, and probably get more info than from an online journal.
I think that AmigaOS is very underated. Back in it's hey day it was a multitasking OS that fit in (i think) 256MB ROM. That's no mean feat. Exec (i think that's what the kernel was called) is something that should be studied. Not to mention all the custom chips that could do co-processing (something that PC's have only started doing in the last few years); shoving off gfx stuff to where it belongs - the graphics chips. I would not go as far to say "AmigaOS is better than Linux", but I will agree with you in that, for it's day AmigaOS was a very worthy technical achievment. And the writer of Exec should get more credit than he usually gets.
I just realised what is wrong with the IT industry. We have a new technology and people seem to think that this creates new 'laws'. New fangled keywords such as 'reverse engineering' which (as far as i see) translates to 'let's see how this works' suddenly become issues. Where would we be now if Mr Grog Caveman said 'It's against the law to reverse engineer my heat generating device (fire(tm))?
Balloon crashed on Australia. Skylab did also. Maybe I should move countries before something hits me on the head.
This just doesn't seem to be right. If I was a blacksmith, the government would not impose undue restrictions on the horse shoes I make. Like making me liable if the horse becomes lame. The fact that I want to craft software and give it away "No strings attached" should be a good thing (tm). But Nooooooo they have to place all these restrictions on me. Maybe I will write code and distribute it as "(c)2001 Anonymous Coward".