Honestly how many of us are going to use a 1ghz processor for something other than RC5, Seti, and Quake 4? Thanks, but no thanks, i'll stick with my 266 and keep stacking on the ram and storage. I have yet to see a useful program that requires mor than a 266. Sure, maybe some new media device will come along soon, and it will be a must have, but right now I'm running netscape, mozilla, xchat, gaim, x, and enlightenment, and my processor is 97% idle.
There are a lot of people out there who could develop faster and better if they could just get their hands on some newer hardware. Many OSS developers have no cash to spare, and giving them a hundred dollars to help fund that new video card or harddrive could make all the difference.
I've been using last-night nightly build for the last several hours, and (on my machine) it hasn't crashed. I know that on some machines the luck is not so good. But I'm using a newer version of glibc than the computer that built it was(i use libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 and it was built for libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2), i had to symlink the libs, and it still works great.
Note: If you are using woody, until the debian build comes out mozilla won't run out-of-the-box on your computer, symlink libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 to libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 , then it should work(at least it did for me).
If you subtract a negative number you add a positive number. If they shipped negative 90 million cds, then they shipped 90 million above normal. If they had $1,400,000,000 stolen from them they were given $1,400,000,000. Sorry, for griping, it's just my pet peeve.
And not so crotchety('hey damn kids get off my lawn')
But I happen to find my IBM personal portable computer JUST FINE thank you. In case of wondering yes it is that 30 pound _portable_ offered by IBM back sometime long ago. It cost me 5 bucks. It has a blazin 186 processor, and 612 whole kb of ram(with a delay time soooo slow it takes 30 seconds to count it all up during boot). But yeah baby, I can MOVE on this badboy. It has a full sized 8 inch CRT monitor built in. No hd to slow it down, and 2-count 'em 2 5.25inch floppy drives.
When I was a kid(wait i still am) we didn't have these Ninos and Palmpilots. You'd be lucky if you're "laptop" didn't crush your manlihood beyond recognition. The only thing we had to worry about screwing our transistors was rats(you're wimpy Pentiums getting screwed up by radiation, ha, ha).
I like to fire up my blazin 186 every now and then and goat over how much _faster_ mine is that both MIR and all the Apollo spacecraft. I'll take my 186 with 612kb of ram anyday over you're winCE devices, ick.
(And before you come over and beat me senseless with you're "mice" yes I am joking)
Yeah but you're probably paid to **be there** not really to work your ass off for the entirety of your x hour work day. If your company (ebay, etrade, amazon) is getting a ddos attack, they need you there right now. But the majority of the time you're there just in case something happens. My father is a doctor, and while he slacks off much less than the slashdot crowd does while he's working, he gets paid to be in the hospital. If someone gives birth to a premature baby he needs to be ontop of that situation, just how cowboyneal or hemos needs to get on top of the situation immediatly if slashdot gets a ddos attack or a hard drive fails. So in short you aren't working all the time, but having you there is an insurance policy for your employer.
Now the sad thing is that I'm 14 and I'm working about 60 hours a week as it is. 6 hours every day for school(not that i'm nescessarily paying attention, most of my classes are so easy listening is optional), 2 hours of home work, about 2 hours programming or/.ing per day, and then 10 or 12 hours programming over the weekend. and that's right, i don't get a red cent for any of it.
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erm wouldn't that be a HUGE security risk? ie someone cracking into your system, replacing vmlinux with a new insecure vmlinux, rebooting, and changing your uptime to never show it?
that price quote was what it cost for those legos about a year ago. I was told the legos cost about $530. I wasn't aware the price has changed that much, i stand corrected.
I was in the Penninsula Robotics Competition here in south eastern Virginia. We(my school's team) had to build a robot that would drive around a rectangular course and collect small white wiffle balls.
Programming for the Mindstorms robots isn't very hard. However there are many other problems with them.
For one you are only allowed to have three engines on a given mindstorms robot. I guess i should more accuratly say that you are only given 3 power terminals to plug your engines into, you may plug in more than three engines, but then two of them must go in the same direction.
Another problem with the mindstorms robots is that they don't allow much room for a "smart" robot, as you are only given 3 sensors (like the engines above you can plug in more than three sensors but then two of them must respond to the same stimulus).
Also the strength of legos in general is much worse when you try to put legos and a moving vehicle into one. Your building style will have to be entirely reformed if you plan on keeping your mindstorm alive for more than 10 minutes. The technic legos help with this a little, because they are longer and contain those neat axle shafts which we used liberally. But overall if you decide to change anything on the robot it will have to be entirely rebuilt for strengh/durability reasons.
The last major problem with mindstorms robots is that they cost way too much. For a kit including three engines, a bunch of legos, and one cpu unit(basically the bare minimum you can get by on if you want a robot that moves), it was > 500$.
after the nuclear dust settles and i start a farm here in southern virginia i plan to take a trip across the giant desert that was once our great country on my hummer. I will come and visit you'll, and i will gather the materials nescessary to build my floating city. once my floating city is constructed i won't be able to leave, because i'll have too much work to do. But if any of you ever want to come visit my floating city some day i will greet you with open arms, all you must do is tell me "i just poured hot grits down my pants" and i will realize you are one of the many slashdot readers and i will welcome you.
Linux has more developers, but few that are full time developers. A company could easily hire 1/4 of the linux developers and get a good/stabe OS out. the problem isn't money, it's that they'd rather add more features than actually get some work done on making it stable.
If you mean Science's inability to explain WHY the Universe formed, or WHERE the Big Bang matter came from in the first place, then I agree with you. Science has an explanation for the origin of the universe. Before the Big bang, there was no time, because EVERYTHING was crunched int a tiny little blurb. the big bang was the beginning of time. The univese's matter always existed. Matter cannot be created or destroyed.
if you don't agree that something can have always existed, then explain who made your god. did it always exist? if it did then you can't disprove the universe, if something made your god, then what made the maker of your god?
wait now, i am rather uneducated in this field, do you mean the eros os as that used by EROS in south dakota for the United States Geological Survey? I went there last week and the tourguide told us about their special networking software used to anayalize the satellite data.
yeah flourine is bad, but so is oxygen. You HAVE looked at an apple that was left out after it was cut right? that could happen to us(and does if we get cut open). Also my father is a neonatologist(he takes care of premature babies) and he will tell you that a premature baby's lungs aren't developed enough to handle oxygen. So they have to let the babies breath liquid(like in the abyss). So even though oxygen is a horrible poisin to many creatures, we have evolved around it. And creatures on another planet could evolve around floruine.
therefore if there were more flourine on earth from the get-go we could probably handle it perfectly. But because there isn't if there was a sudden spike in the flourine chart we could all die. Same thing with Cyanide(HCN)
It contains some very important resources for life(Hydrogen, Carbon, and Nitrogen), but it kills us in a whiff. However on another planet, with another type of animal, they may eat the stuff as it contains good atoms.
ok i know this is annoying, but can linux with a gui be loaded onto this? I would like it, if they would offer perhaps a multi-microdrive package, so i could load linux on it, or some data, ms98 with a 350meg hd leaves about 100 megs to spare.
whenever something new comes along someone thinks we need to get a liscense to use it. Why the hell should i need a liscense to surf? is there something about reading slashdot that i shoulnd't be allowed to read unless i'm over 18? I can understand the possiblity of someone needing to restrict access to porn, but otherwise where do they get off saying i need a liscence to read stuff? most of the internet (i said most) is like a book. You can crash a car, but not a book. A liscence strongly reduces your likely hood of crashing your car(think driver's ed), but a computer liscece can't do much good in that department.
Anonimity is a great thing on the net, there is no need for you to know weather I'm and 85 year old American woman on an iMac, or a 4 year old child in India on a Compaq Presario.
I ordered some cds from cheapbytes and it took them 5 days to get to my house. They were guaranteed for 2 day delivry. So i called ups and after explaining my situation to the clerk she rudely told me that they'd issue me a refund.
i was in model un this weekend and I(IRAN) was getting bashed by Russia and the U.S. over our possession of chemical weapons. So we handed out maps of all 30 of Russia's known chemical weapons facilities, they weren't very happy. We also cited several times when they used them irresponsibly.
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Honestly how many of us are going to use a 1ghz processor for something other than RC5, Seti, and Quake 4? Thanks, but no thanks, i'll stick with my 266 and keep stacking on the ram and storage. I have yet to see a useful program that requires mor than a 266. Sure, maybe some new media device will come along soon, and it will be a must have, but right now I'm running netscape, mozilla, xchat, gaim, x, and enlightenment, and my processor is 97% idle.
There are a lot of people out there who could develop faster and better if they could just get their hands on some newer hardware. Many OSS developers have no cash to spare, and giving them a hundred dollars to help fund that new video card or harddrive could make all the difference.
I've been using last-night nightly build for the last several hours, and (on my machine) it hasn't crashed. I know that on some machines the luck is not so good. But I'm using a newer version of glibc than the computer that built it was(i use libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 and it was built for libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2), i had to symlink the libs, and it still works great.
Note: If you are using woody, until the debian build comes out mozilla won't run out-of-the-box on your computer, symlink libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 to libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 , then it should work(at least it did for me).
If you subtract a negative number you add a positive number. If they shipped negative 90 million cds, then they shipped 90 million above normal. If they had $1,400,000,000 stolen from them they were given $1,400,000,000. Sorry, for griping, it's just my pet peeve.
Ok so maybe I'm not that old(14)
And not so crotchety('hey damn kids get off my lawn')
But I happen to find my IBM personal portable computer JUST FINE thank you. In case of wondering yes it is that 30 pound _portable_ offered by IBM back sometime long ago. It cost me 5 bucks. It has a blazin 186 processor, and 612 whole kb of ram(with a delay time soooo slow it takes 30 seconds to count it all up during boot). But yeah baby, I can MOVE on this badboy. It has a full sized 8 inch CRT monitor built in. No hd to slow it down, and 2-count 'em 2 5.25inch floppy drives.
When I was a kid(wait i still am) we didn't have these Ninos and Palmpilots. You'd be lucky if you're "laptop" didn't crush your manlihood beyond recognition. The only thing we had to worry about screwing our transistors was rats(you're wimpy Pentiums getting screwed up by radiation, ha, ha).
I like to fire up my blazin 186 every now and then and goat over how much _faster_ mine is that both MIR and all the Apollo spacecraft. I'll take my 186 with 612kb of ram anyday over you're winCE devices, ick.
(And before you come over and beat me senseless with you're "mice" yes I am joking)
Yeah but you're probably paid to **be there** not really to work your ass off for the entirety of your x hour work day. If your company (ebay, etrade, amazon) is getting a ddos attack, they need you there right now. But the majority of the time you're there just in case something happens. My father is a doctor, and while he slacks off much less than the slashdot crowd does while he's working, he gets paid to be in the hospital. If someone gives birth to a premature baby he needs to be ontop of that situation, just how cowboyneal or hemos needs to get on top of the situation immediatly if slashdot gets a ddos attack or a hard drive fails.
/.ing per day, and then 10 or 12 hours programming over the weekend. and that's right, i don't get a red cent for any of it.
So in short you aren't working all the time, but having you there is an insurance policy for your employer.
Now the sad thing is that I'm 14 and I'm working about 60 hours a week as it is. 6 hours every day for school(not that i'm nescessarily paying attention, most of my classes are so easy listening is optional), 2 hours of home work, about 2 hours programming or
erm wouldn't that be a HUGE security risk? ie someone cracking into your system, replacing vmlinux with a new insecure vmlinux, rebooting, and changing your uptime to never show it?
it was a strictly legos competiton. we had conciderd some sort of switch, but you still have to have some extra equipment for that.
i'll emphasize again: that's what i was TOLD, i am sorry if it was wrong. Maybe they added extra legos to the set or something... geez
that price quote was what it cost for those legos about a year ago. I was told the legos cost about $530. I wasn't aware the price has changed that much, i stand corrected.
I was in the Penninsula Robotics Competition here in south eastern Virginia. We(my school's team) had to build a robot that would drive around a rectangular course and collect small white wiffle balls.
Programming for the Mindstorms robots isn't very hard. However there are many other problems with them.
For one you are only allowed to have three engines on a given mindstorms robot. I guess i should more accuratly say that you are only given 3 power terminals to plug your engines into, you may plug in more than three engines, but then two of them must go in the same direction.
Another problem with the mindstorms robots is that they don't allow much room for a "smart" robot, as you are only given 3 sensors (like the engines above you can plug in more than three sensors but then two of them must respond to the same stimulus).
Also the strength of legos in general is much worse when you try to put legos and a moving vehicle into one. Your building style will have to be entirely reformed if you plan on keeping your mindstorm alive for more than 10 minutes. The technic legos help with this a little, because they are longer and contain those neat axle shafts which we used liberally. But overall if you decide to change anything on the robot it will have to be entirely rebuilt for strengh/durability reasons.
The last major problem with mindstorms robots is that they cost way too much. For a kit including three engines, a bunch of legos, and one cpu unit(basically the bare minimum you can get by on if you want a robot that moves), it was > 500$.
after the nuclear dust settles and i start a farm here in southern virginia i plan to take a trip across the giant desert that was once our great country on my hummer. I will come and visit you'll, and i will gather the materials nescessary to build my floating city. once my floating city is constructed i won't be able to leave, because i'll have too much work to do. But if any of you ever want to come visit my floating city some day i will greet you with open arms, all you must do is tell me "i just poured hot grits down my pants" and i will realize you are one of the many slashdot readers and i will welcome you.
what is rook mate and how does a knight take rook mate?
dang, think different for once.
all you need to fool a computer is a problem that CAN'T be solved with logic. like a riddle. Riddles are solved by defying logic.
Linux has more developers, but few that are full time developers. A company could easily hire 1/4 of the linux developers and get a good/stabe OS out. the problem isn't money, it's that they'd rather add more features than actually get some work done on making it stable.
If you mean Science's inability to explain WHY the Universe formed, or WHERE the Big Bang matter came from in the first place, then I
agree with you.
Science has an explanation for the origin of the universe. Before the Big bang, there was no time, because EVERYTHING was crunched int a tiny little blurb. the big bang was the beginning of time. The univese's matter always existed. Matter cannot be created or destroyed.
if you don't agree that something can have always existed, then explain who made your god. did it always exist? if it did then you can't disprove the universe, if something made your god, then what made the maker of your god?
wait now, i am rather uneducated in this field, do you mean the eros os as that used by EROS in south dakota for the United States Geological Survey? I went there last week and the tourguide told us about their special networking software used to anayalize the satellite data.
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yeah flourine is bad, but so is oxygen. You HAVE looked at an apple that was left out after it was cut right? that could happen to us(and does if we get cut open). Also my father is a neonatologist(he takes care of premature babies) and he will tell you that a premature baby's lungs aren't developed enough to handle oxygen. So they have to let the babies breath liquid(like in the abyss). So even though oxygen is a horrible poisin to many creatures, we have evolved around it. And creatures on another planet could evolve around floruine.
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therefore if there were more flourine on earth from the get-go we could probably handle it perfectly. But because there isn't if there was a sudden spike in the flourine chart we could all die. Same thing with Cyanide(HCN)
It contains some very important resources for life(Hydrogen, Carbon, and Nitrogen), but it kills us in a whiff. However on another planet, with another type of animal, they may eat the stuff as it contains good atoms.
matisse:~$ cat
ok i know this is annoying, but can linux with a gui be loaded onto this? I would like it, if they would offer perhaps a multi-microdrive package, so i could load linux on it, or some data, ms98 with a 350meg hd leaves about 100 megs to spare.
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matisse:~$ cat
you missed two points there:
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anyone smart enough to crack a website(script kiddies excluded maybe) should also be smart enough to mask their identity.
and that you can't walk into a book store and pay with cash and then scream "M4Y L1NK N4K3D 4N0 P3TR1F13D D00D" while keeping your anonimity.
matisse:~$ cat
WOW. i posted directly after you(and i didn't read your post first) and i had the exact same ideas in my post.... funky[tm]...hmmm[tm]....
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matisse:~$ cat
whenever something new comes along someone thinks we need to get a liscense to use it. Why the hell should i need a liscense to surf? is there something about reading slashdot that i shoulnd't be allowed to read unless i'm over 18?
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I can understand the possiblity of someone needing to restrict access to porn, but otherwise where do they get off saying i need a liscence to read stuff? most of the internet (i said most) is like a book. You can crash a car, but not a book. A liscence strongly reduces your likely hood of crashing your car(think driver's ed), but a computer liscece can't do much good in that department.
Anonimity is a great thing on the net, there is no need for you to know weather I'm and 85 year old American woman on an iMac, or a 4 year old child in India on a Compaq Presario.
matisse:~$ cat
am I really supposed to respect a network who's last miniseries was "Leprechans"?
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matisse:~$ cat
I ordered some cds from cheapbytes and it took them 5 days to get to my house. They were guaranteed for 2 day delivry. So i called ups and after explaining my situation to the clerk she rudely told me that they'd issue me a refund.
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.. it never arrived.
matisse:~$ cat
heh,
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i was in model un this weekend and I(IRAN) was getting bashed by Russia and the U.S. over our possession of chemical weapons. So we handed out maps of all 30 of Russia's known chemical weapons facilities, they weren't very happy. We also cited several times when they used them irresponsibly.
matisse:~$ cat