Yes, really. It was quite a shock at the time, but it's true, the 133Mhz unit ran rings around the standard 100Mhz box. What's more, it was 33% faster! Fancy that!
If you don't want anyone to go near something, you need to find out why people don't go to certain places. So, where on the world don't we generally go today?
a) Deep under the ocean. b) To the center of the earth. c) Tops of sheer faced mountains. d) North/South poles. e) Space.
So, this means that those places are the best place to put dangerous stuff. The End.
If the +1 bonus was turned off by default, you'd have a point. But I'm not 'using' my +1 bonus, it's just what you get for having over 25 karma points.
Besides, where do you get off? It was a Beowulf cluster joke.. those are the funniest jokes ever!!;-)
(Using the No Score +1 Bonus for your satisfaction.)
This sounds pretty weird. Usually they have celebrities or people with interesting opinions on there (recent guests include Tom Waits, Mary Tyler Moore, Hugh Grant).. who the hell outside of Slashdot has heard of Jon Katz?
Good luck to him though. Perhaps he'll be making a guest appearance in Friends next.
From a pitiable 56kbps AOL dial-up somewhere in suburban Colorado, 19-year-old Myko Hein would like to tap out this sad, regretful message to the powers-that-be at his former cable Internet provider, AT&T Broadband: I was wrong. It'll never happen again. Please take me back.
Is that not the most heart-wrenching shit? No, really. How pathetic is that? *wail* I have no bandwidth, take me back or I'll die!
I don't like soccer either. Ice hockey all the way baby. It's the only sport that's fast enough to keep me interested. I do also like female tennis but that's for a different reason.
I used to use IE all the time, but now I use Mozilla.. however, for some reason I happened to be using IE to read Slashdot today, and wow, that 'release-notes' page doesn't work in IE but is perfect in Mozilla.
I looked at the source and it said the page had been created from AbiWord. So.. I'm guessing that Abiword docs don't work in IE, although anyone with some sense is on Mozilla anyway;-)
(Perhaps it's just an IE5.5 problem, you 'IE Sicks' users might be okay?)
You think DVDs are more expensive on your side of the pond? That doesn't explain why I buy my DVDs from Canada (and they do free international delivery).
In US dollars, new DVDs cost $27-30 here, although there are a lot of 'Buy 2, get 1 free' offers. But in my experience, that's no worse than the US. I've got new DVDs from Canada for $15 or less.
A fair point, but taxes should not be used to control consumption in an open economy. In an open economy, prices are used to control consumption, and taxes are an artificial method of jacking up the price.
If there was less oil to go around more people, the price would go up automatically. The fact that the price of gasoline is so low in the US tells us that there's plenty of supply to meet the demand.. hence the price should remain low.
Environmentalists should not be protesting about gasoline. They should join the rest of us who are pissed off at the oil companies for buying out all of the people who come up with cheap/clean alternatives to the internal combustion engine. With our technology nowadays, there are better solutions, but we never hear of them.
I was talking about price to the consumer. I heard that, pre tax, fuel is actually cheaper in Europe, but since large taxes are levied, it's a moot point. Taxes are rarely a good solution.
in saying.. "How is this going to help e-commerce??" and so on. It's simple.
Europeans already pay VAT (Value Added Tax) on purchases made within their own countries or the EU as a whole.
This means that buying stuff from the US can work out cheaper than buying it from your own country. So, by forcing US companies to tax EU citizens on purchases, this will force consumers to buy from e-commerce sites in the EU.
This sounds fair enough, but it's actually extremely unfair. For a start, many things are far cheaper in the US, or aren't ever available in the EU.
I'm a big Jewel fan, and her album came out in the US last year, so I ordered it from Amazon.com and paid about £15 in all, including delivery. Amazon.co.uk wanted £20!
I'd fully support the EU's ideas on this one if things in the EU were competitively priced. They're not. The EU business world is governed by cartels intent on driving prices as high as possible. It's only in the past year that CD prices have come down to US levels.. we used to pay up to three times more just five years ago!
So if the EU wants us to buy from EU stores, perhaps the EU should be a bit more like the US and open up its economy and not be so bureaucratic! If the US can have cheap gasoline and cheap CDs, I'm sure as hell the EU could too (since the EU is technically richer than the US and all).
The Simpsons jumped the shark in the season that ended with the Behind The Laughter episode.. Season 12, I think? The characters have been rather 'off' since then.. and 'Behind The Laughter' was worst episode ever anyway.. so it's a good point to mark.
This might not be true but a few people have said that they've noticed an interesting quirk with their HP printers.
They've said that they bought generic brand photo paper for their printers and selected 'other photo paper' in the HP drivers.. and the prints came out fine.
They then decided to select 'HP Photo Paper' in the drivers, and the prints came out far better!
Could this be similar behavior to that mentioned in the story?
I once had one of those old Logitech hand scanner jobs. So what I did was take the glass top off my stereo cabinet and would use the hand scanner on that to take pictures. [..] I got my GF at the time to take her pants off and squat over the pane of glass...
You almost rose to the rank of a true geek there, but what a wannabe you are! Real geeks don't have girlfriends. I bet you had sex too, right? Begone! And leave us to our regular expressions.
Slashdot Mirror
Come on. One of the greatest games ever.. DOOM on the Atari 2600
can any Cingular customers reading this confirm it?
How can they? Surely Slashdot is censored because it's 99% objectionable material?
Oh, hang on, I got it wrong. Slashdot's content is objectionless, not objectionable.
Yes, really. It was quite a shock at the time, but it's true, the 133Mhz unit ran rings around the standard 100Mhz box. What's more, it was 33% faster! Fancy that!
Here is my report for the DOE.
If you don't want anyone to go near something, you need to find out why people don't go to certain places. So, where on the world don't we generally go today?
a) Deep under the ocean.
b) To the center of the earth.
c) Tops of sheer faced mountains.
d) North/South poles.
e) Space.
So, this means that those places are the best place to put dangerous stuff. The End.
Instead of going and downloading it from the main site, I decided to be kind and find it on a mirror this time. So I went to their mirrors page.
.uk mirror and all of them only had RC1! So I went through the .fr mirrors, ditto. How slow are these people?
I went through EVERY
Read the article? Huh, I'm a Slashdot poster.. I don't think it's legal for me to actually read the stories I'm commenting on, is it?
If the +1 bonus was turned off by default, you'd have a point. But I'm not 'using' my +1 bonus, it's just what you get for having over 25 karma points.
;-)
Besides, where do you get off? It was a Beowulf cluster joke.. those are the funniest jokes ever!!
(Using the No Score +1 Bonus for your satisfaction.)
This sounds pretty weird. Usually they have celebrities or people with interesting opinions on there (recent guests include Tom Waits, Mary Tyler Moore, Hugh Grant).. who the hell outside of Slashdot has heard of Jon Katz?
Good luck to him though. Perhaps he'll be making a guest appearance in Friends next.
First: Love Says Caldera's Doing Fine
then.. Caldera is barely scraping along. Those statements are mutually exclusive.
(in contrast to little brother Lineo, which may not survive)
In contrast to? If Caldera are 'barely scraping along' then surely they might not survive either.
The bad financial report out of Caldera yesterday is actually good news
That makes absolutely no sense.
This story sounds like a giant spoof. Noel Coward.. (of "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun" fame?).. And 'Ransom Love'? Eh?
Is Slashdot trying to be The Onion of tech stories? If so, do your homework, this is only funny because of how stupid it is.
From a pitiable 56kbps AOL dial-up somewhere in suburban Colorado, 19-year-old Myko Hein would like to tap out this sad, regretful message to the powers-that-be at his former cable Internet provider, AT&T Broadband: I was wrong. It'll never happen again. Please take me back.
Is that not the most heart-wrenching shit? No, really. How pathetic is that? *wail* I have no bandwidth, take me back or I'll die!
Still living with a 56k modem here.
Absolutely excellent.
I don't like soccer either. Ice hockey all the way baby. It's the only sport that's fast enough to keep me interested. I do also like female tennis but that's for a different reason.
Grow a brain, Europeans don't watch your stupid 'pick the ball up for two seconds then do nothing for two minutes' sport.
I used to use IE all the time, but now I use Mozilla.. however, for some reason I happened to be using IE to read Slashdot today, and wow, that 'release-notes' page doesn't work in IE but is perfect in Mozilla.
;-)
I looked at the source and it said the page had been created from AbiWord. So.. I'm guessing that Abiword docs don't work in IE, although anyone with some sense is on Mozilla anyway
(Perhaps it's just an IE5.5 problem, you 'IE Sicks' users might be okay?)
You think DVDs are more expensive on your side of the pond? That doesn't explain why I buy my DVDs from Canada (and they do free international delivery).
In US dollars, new DVDs cost $27-30 here, although there are a lot of 'Buy 2, get 1 free' offers. But in my experience, that's no worse than the US. I've got new DVDs from Canada for $15 or less.
You're right. And it's a good point, but GNP is higher so technically the EU is richer than the US.
GNP per capita is more important to measure quality of life, but in measuring economic power, it's the raw figures that count.
A fair point, but taxes should not be used to control consumption in an open economy. In an open economy, prices are used to control consumption, and taxes are an artificial method of jacking up the price.
If there was less oil to go around more people, the price would go up automatically. The fact that the price of gasoline is so low in the US tells us that there's plenty of supply to meet the demand.. hence the price should remain low.
Environmentalists should not be protesting about gasoline. They should join the rest of us who are pissed off at the oil companies for buying out all of the people who come up with cheap/clean alternatives to the internal combustion engine. With our technology nowadays, there are better solutions, but we never hear of them.
I was talking about price to the consumer. I heard that, pre tax, fuel is actually cheaper in Europe, but since large taxes are levied, it's a moot point. Taxes are rarely a good solution.
in saying.. "How is this going to help e-commerce??" and so on. It's simple.
Europeans already pay VAT (Value Added Tax) on purchases made within their own countries or the EU as a whole.
This means that buying stuff from the US can work out cheaper than buying it from your own country. So, by forcing US companies to tax EU citizens on purchases, this will force consumers to buy from e-commerce sites in the EU.
This sounds fair enough, but it's actually extremely unfair. For a start, many things are far cheaper in the US, or aren't ever available in the EU.
I'm a big Jewel fan, and her album came out in the US last year, so I ordered it from Amazon.com and paid about £15 in all, including delivery. Amazon.co.uk wanted £20!
I'd fully support the EU's ideas on this one if things in the EU were competitively priced. They're not. The EU business world is governed by cartels intent on driving prices as high as possible. It's only in the past year that CD prices have come down to US levels.. we used to pay up to three times more just five years ago!
So if the EU wants us to buy from EU stores, perhaps the EU should be a bit more like the US and open up its economy and not be so bureaucratic! If the US can have cheap gasoline and cheap CDs, I'm sure as hell the EU could too (since the EU is technically richer than the US and all).
Go on, laugh.
If programmers had to refuse to write software that did no good for users, surely all of Microsoft's programmers would be out of a job?
The Simpsons jumped the shark in the season that ended with the Behind The Laughter episode.. Season 12, I think? The characters have been rather 'off' since then.. and 'Behind The Laughter' was worst episode ever anyway.. so it's a good point to mark.
This might not be true but a few people have said that they've noticed an interesting quirk with their HP printers.
They've said that they bought generic brand photo paper for their printers and selected 'other photo paper' in the HP drivers.. and the prints came out fine.
They then decided to select 'HP Photo Paper' in the drivers, and the prints came out far better!
Could this be similar behavior to that mentioned in the story?
I once had one of those old Logitech hand scanner jobs. So what I did was take the glass top off my stereo cabinet and would use the hand scanner on that to take pictures. [..] I got my GF at the time to take her pants off and squat over the pane of glass...
You almost rose to the rank of a true geek there, but what a wannabe you are! Real geeks don't have girlfriends. I bet you had sex too, right? Begone! And leave us to our regular expressions.
No-one else has said it yet.. but.. whoa, Kirsten Dunst.. ain't she looking FINE? Great tits.
Come on, you know that's what you're all thinking. Her tits and motherly looks could sell a film any day.