The next probable year for a Leonid shower/storm is 2098, or maybe even 2131!
Well gee, I'm pretty sure I'm going to miss this one, being in the southern hemisphere and all, so I sure do hope the next one is in 2098. I don't think I can wait until 2131!
This is very true. Receiving a telemarketing call might not be the nicest thing in the world, but there's never a good reason to act in a rude and uncivilised way in response, no matter how much you dislike the practice.
That's the problem with your typical/.er: he's like one of the enlightened princes of Atlantis until a topic comes up about which it's fashionable to be ignorant. Then he becomes a self-rightous twat who likes to mouth off about how loud he screams at people who offend him. Yeesh.
Now if you suggested breeding pigs with human organs simply for consumption, you'd probably be forbidden by law, on the grounds that its too much like cannibalism.
Damn you conservatives! How the hell am I going to find out if it tastes like chicken if you keep dashing all of my attempts on "moral" grounds?!
Lets just face it, Ted Knight was right when he said "The world needs ditch diggers too."
Very true. Huxley made a similar observation in Brave New World. As I remember it, the story went that a bunch of the "Alphas" (the highly intelligent upper caste of the society) decided to set up their own exclusive, autonomous society without the lower castes, as a social experiment. Within a short few years, they were in a state of total civil war: the survivors begged to be readmitted to the dominant society. Imagine that flamewar.
The lesson here, I suppose, is that the working class cannot be replaced by very small shell scripts. (It'd take some serious Perl magic.)
If you can download the mind - will we be able to upload it as well at some point in the future?
Probably the best way to look at it is like a fork statement in a Unix program.
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Not like the libraries I know back home
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from the internet-is-just-a-giant-library dept.
I don't know what kind of libraries you tend to frequent, Roblimo, but it seems to me that no library I've even been to is 90% porn. The place you live in must seriously r0xx0r!
... wanting to execute the smallest possible elf. You Americans and your bloodsports. Barbarians.
If you guys go ahead with your cold-hearted plan to execute this elf, the Olsen twins better watch their backs next time they're in Ireland, if you catch my drift.
/. picks up the story (again) without reading it, and further butchers it by altering the title again and attributing a quote that's entirely fictitous but sounds really inflammatory and good, presenting it as fact.
I'm beginning to suspect that the/. editors are doing this on purpose. People come to this site not only for discussion, but because it incites them. Those who skim the headlines without dipping into the discussion get worked up over Ballmer's "intent to stomp." Those of us who are regulars here in the forums, however, perhaps come back (just a little bit) because of the endless shenanigans of the editors.
JonKatz's fabricated "letter from Afghanistan." The "fictitous but inflammatory" misquotations of well-known figures. Bitchslap script investigations. Troll wars. Frequent story double-posts. (Well, maybe not that last one, that's just annoying.) Point being, we enjoy picking these things apart in the discussions, and that keeps us coming back. Increases the page-views, thereby increasing the ad-views, and revenue goes up.
Slashdot isn't about news, it's about entertainment. It's the internal politics that keep the regulars regular. I just can't help but wonder sometimes if that's not somehow intentional (I mean, what other explanation could there possibly be for JonKatz still being on staff?)
Now, if this gets modded down, it's because of an editor conspiracy. Tell the people!
I was just saying to my girlfriend that if there's any one company that I have more respect for than any other company in the world, it would be Google.
And then this came out. I got to point and say, "See, this is why!" Then I ran around the room in my underwear laughing maniacally. I think I'm sleeping on the couch tonight.
Hmm...wouldn't eBay's point system be prior art in this situation?
If someone does have evidence of prior art in a case like this, is there some procedure for bringing it to the attention of the patent office? I mean, we obviously can't rely on the good people at the USPTO to do their homework - surely it's in the best interests of the tech community to do it for them, in cases like these?
If someone knows of prior art, posting it on Slashdot is not going to help. It needs to be nipped in the bud, by putting it in the face of these patent-happy bureaucrats.
So the online thing is great to a point. But you gotta have the real world behind it.
Heh, once upon a time, the "real world" would have been considered to be outside the university environment, as the Jargon File notes. How things change.:)
What terrifies me the most is that the government of my country (Australia) seems to think very much the same way that you do. Higher education == the acquisition of job skills. Or, at least, that's the way it should be, and nothing more.
The thing is, that's not how it is. That's not how it should be. But it's a matter of degree (so to speak), depending on the nature of the course that you're taking. I did a computer science degree at one university, and was extremely dissatisfied with the experience. The majority of the course I did over the 'net, I saw little need for class attendance. It was something I thought I could do just as well through some certification / training school. I'm now doing another degree philosophy and art history at a different university. Whole different ballpark. I look forward to class every week now, because I know that when I go, I'm sure as hell going to learn something, I'm going to get insights from someone who knows what they're talking about (well, generally:).
The university format for the delivery of that kind of learning is excellent. It provides an environment in which you can discuss the meaning of what you're studying with experienced teachers and students. It provides a social aspect that is different from anything that exists in the "real world." To some people, it's not about getting "job skills", it's about getting an education. That's not the way it needs to be for everyone: from my own experience, I see little reason why CS needs to be taught in a university environment. But there's a big world of knowledge out there, and some of it is better taught face-to-face. Not the mention the fact that female art students are hot.:)
My government has been attacking higher education for years, cutting funding, forcing it towards becoming a service industry. In my last semester at the university I attended for CS, the university registered itself as a.com, deprecated the use of their.edu.au domain, and started referring to their teaching staff as "academic consultants." Now that's fucking scary.
But why the hell is the Open Source Inititive spending all this time making UO characters? Are they really short on money? Is Bruce Perens having trouble finding things to do with his time?
Or should the article poster have made it a bit clearer what he was talking about?
Maybe one of the OSIs should sue the other OSI for trademark infringement or something. I mean, talk about "confusingly similar." If there's no legal conundrum here, be on the lookout for my upcoming "MS Linux 2002," to be released early in 2003!
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This is very true. Receiving a telemarketing call might not be the nicest thing in the world, but there's never a good reason to act in a rude and uncivilised way in response, no matter how much you dislike the practice.
/.er: he's like one of the enlightened princes of Atlantis until a topic comes up about which it's fashionable to be ignorant. Then he becomes a self-rightous twat who likes to mouth off about how loud he screams at people who offend him. Yeesh.
That's the problem with your typical
Maxis sues India for diluting their valuable trademark.
Sid Meier had only one enigmatic comment to make: "F-U-N-D! *manic laughter*"
Hey, if you're buying, make mine a Guniness.
Finally, link describing the manner of beast that is the parent comment's poster.
The lesson here, I suppose, is that the working class cannot be replaced by very small shell scripts. (It'd take some serious Perl magic.)
... not to mention his "spoken word" comedy routines.
:)
I'm willing to bet his intellectual resume stands tall above young SethJohnson's.
Okay, I understand what transpired in your demonstration. Kinda using the directory tree to access and manipulate ordered data in a file.
However, I'm not clear what feature of Reiser4 it is that you're demonstrating. Could you provide an explanation to accompany your example?
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... wanting to execute the smallest possible elf. You Americans and your bloodsports. Barbarians.
If you guys go ahead with your cold-hearted plan to execute this elf, the Olsen twins better watch their backs next time they're in Ireland, if you catch my drift.
... with virix being the new Linux distribution that includes a full-featured Microsoft Outlook client?
I'm fairly sure this would go (-1, Troll) because the poster was (-1, Trolling.)
JonKatz's fabricated "letter from Afghanistan." The "fictitous but inflammatory" misquotations of well-known figures. Bitchslap script investigations. Troll wars. Frequent story double-posts. (Well, maybe not that last one, that's just annoying.) Point being, we enjoy picking these things apart in the discussions, and that keeps us coming back. Increases the page-views, thereby increasing the ad-views, and revenue goes up.
Slashdot isn't about news, it's about entertainment. It's the internal politics that keep the regulars regular. I just can't help but wonder sometimes if that's not somehow intentional (I mean, what other explanation could there possibly be for JonKatz still being on staff?)
Now, if this gets modded down, it's because of an editor conspiracy. Tell the people!
I was just saying to my girlfriend that if there's any one company that I have more respect for than any other company in the world, it would be Google.
And then this came out. I got to point and say, "See, this is why!" Then I ran around the room in my underwear laughing maniacally. I think I'm sleeping on the couch tonight.
If someone knows of prior art, posting it on Slashdot is not going to help. It needs to be nipped in the bud, by putting it in the face of these patent-happy bureaucrats.
What terrifies me the most is that the government of my country (Australia) seems to think very much the same way that you do. Higher education == the acquisition of job skills. Or, at least, that's the way it should be, and nothing more.
:).
:)
.com, deprecated the use of their .edu.au domain, and started referring to their teaching staff as "academic consultants." Now that's fucking scary.
The thing is, that's not how it is. That's not how it should be. But it's a matter of degree (so to speak), depending on the nature of the course that you're taking. I did a computer science degree at one university, and was extremely dissatisfied with the experience. The majority of the course I did over the 'net, I saw little need for class attendance. It was something I thought I could do just as well through some certification / training school. I'm now doing another degree philosophy and art history at a different university. Whole different ballpark. I look forward to class every week now, because I know that when I go, I'm sure as hell going to learn something, I'm going to get insights from someone who knows what they're talking about (well, generally
The university format for the delivery of that kind of learning is excellent. It provides an environment in which you can discuss the meaning of what you're studying with experienced teachers and students. It provides a social aspect that is different from anything that exists in the "real world." To some people, it's not about getting "job skills", it's about getting an education. That's not the way it needs to be for everyone: from my own experience, I see little reason why CS needs to be taught in a university environment. But there's a big world of knowledge out there, and some of it is better taught face-to-face. Not the mention the fact that female art students are hot.
My government has been attacking higher education for years, cutting funding, forcing it towards becoming a service industry. In my last semester at the university I attended for CS, the university registered itself as a
We've discovered Earth-like extrasolar planets... just kidding!
We've found bacterial life from Mars... just kidding!
Jeez, these scientist guys need a hobby.
Your hours of work aren't worthless. They're worth precisely $29.95. There's a big difference there. :)
But why the hell is the Open Source Inititive spending all this time making UO characters? Are they really short on money? Is Bruce Perens having trouble finding things to do with his time? Or should the article poster have made it a bit clearer what he was talking about?
Maybe one of the OSIs should sue the other OSI for trademark infringement or something. I mean, talk about "confusingly similar." If there's no legal conundrum here, be on the lookout for my upcoming "MS Linux 2002," to be released early in 2003!