Then you may remember my old Pent 133 box that I hosted images.slashdot.org on when Malda was getting started and his T-1 was slammed. I was working at an ISP in Seattle (wolfe.net) and we had the BIG pipe, a frickin T-3. (You can put a lot of modems on a T-3.)
Ahh, wolfe.net, my old ISP. I'm in the Seattle area. I was working for Spry ("Internet in a Box") at the time.
My first website in Seattle was www.wolfe.net/~tmblwd/
Same # of digits means sibling, not parent. You're not the boss of me!
I waited a long time before bothering to get a slashdot account, as there wasn't much benefit to it in the early days. Once the 'first post' morons came along en masse, though, it had a practical benefit, so I signed up. I've been around a lot longer than my 4-digit UID would indicate.:)
but do you even had computer in the 4 digit era? or was slashdot some sort of paper mail based discussion forum?
Gawd, don't they teach you brats anything in school these days? It was all vacuum tubes back then. Of course, it's all ball bearings, now. We would've _killed_ for ball bearings back in the day!
Where's the Ubuntu option, though? Only options I saw were Vista or 7...
Dell used to (still does?) keep thier Ubuntu machines on a different path at the site, something like dell.com/ubuntu - it's not done as one would expect/prefer, as an OS option, as that would be enabling consumers to easily choose something other than Windows. I really don't consider Dell all that Linux-friendly, considering this, and the fact that they don't offer the same hardware options (even when it has NOTHING to do with Linux compatibility) as the same hardware with Windows. Dell is full of WeakSauce(tm).
Don't forget to destroy the evidence of your destruction of the evidence of the destruction of the evidence and backups and its backups and its backups.
This is going to turn into one of two things: A painting of Stephen Colbert, or an episode of Black Adder.
>>> If you destroy evidence, make sure you destroy the backups, too.
>> Also, make sure you destroy evidence of your destruction of evidence and backups.
> And don't forget to destroy evidence of your destruction of your destruction of evidence and backups.
But always make backups!
Wait...something's wrong here...
I know, claim that since your WiFi access point is unsecured, someone could have hacked the system! "Yeah, it was a virus from a popup or a hacker or something that did that!"
searswireless.com (I never thought I'd type a domain with those two words in it) has the DROID for $150 (instead of Verizon's $200), and withOUT the $100 mail in rebate. Just FYI.
This is true ONLY in certain areas, and from what I've read, it's usually Verizon that has the better coverage and service.
But Sprint definitely has the better prices (I'm on Sprint now). For the same service as I have with Sprint now, I'd have to spend an extra $20/mo, and I still wouldn't have unlimited minutes to other mobile callers (on any network).
(Also, the numbers Americans throw around for their cell phone contracts scare me - $100 a month or more? Do they deliver your data to you in gold-plated USB sticks or something?)
What, you mean you DON'T get gold-plated USB sticks? Wow, you're getting ripped off!
A great deal of the 'increase' in oil in the U.S. lately is also due to the falling value of the dollar. And the price quoted for a barrel of oil is for the spot market, which isn't the same as the deals the big oil companies make for longer term contracts, which is one reason why you won't see a direct correlation between spot market oil prices quoted, and the price at the pump. Nevertheless, the equation is made much more complicated by the fact that the entire market is crooked as hell. And crooked on the part of multiple players in muliple countries around the world, all with different agendas. Chavez certainly has a different agenda than the typical OPEC nation in the Middle East, even though he's nominally aligned with them.
No matter what the reasons behind it, high oil prices are good in the long run for efforts aimed at increasing energy efficiency. It's better for us to be working on new transportation technology now, rather than after it's 'official' that we've run out of affordable oil.
I used to be a reporter specializing in the energy industry, and saw this coming 4 years ago. I'm amazed that people think the 'known oil reserve' figures are even remotely accurate.:(
I traded in my gas (2000) Jetta for a diesel (2001) Jetta a few years ago, and it gets 50% better mileage than the gas one did. Current hybrids, though, get much better in-city mileage than even my 2001 diesel Jetta, though the current diesel Jetta gets pretty great mileage, too. I really prefer the Jetta IV design to the Jetta V, though.:(
I'm hoping Honda's upcoming CR-Z hybrid is really efficient. I haven't seen any solid numbers on it yet.
It's really not. OPEC deliberately (and publicly) slows production to keep prices high. They've gotten used to the profits that $70+/bbl oil brings. We're never going back to pre-Katrina oil prices. In the long run, though, this is good - it merely ensures the rise of much more fuel efficient vehicles.
People here on Slashdot complain about Flash all the time, but it's not generally Flash that is the problem, but bad design. This will make that problem worse (like the poster who joked about seeing Comic Sans more now - that's literally going to be the case). I like the ability, sure, but I know what the downside is going to be.
My machine at home is configured to use only the fonts I find most readable (trebuchet ms for proportional fonts (serif or sans serif - always gets the same font for me), and andale mono for monospaced. But I'm a UI guy, so I'm extra-picky about things like fonts and colors and contrast, etc. Most people don't seem to care that much.
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Then you may remember my old Pent 133 box that I hosted images.slashdot.org on when Malda was getting started and his T-1 was slammed. I was working at an ISP in Seattle (wolfe.net) and we had the BIG pipe, a frickin T-3. (You can put a lot of modems on a T-3.)
Ahh, wolfe.net, my old ISP. I'm in the Seattle area. I was working for Spry ("Internet in a Box") at the time.
My first website in Seattle was www.wolfe.net/~tmblwd/
01d 5k001! :)
Both of you! To bed now!
Same # of digits means sibling, not parent. You're not the boss of me!
I waited a long time before bothering to get a slashdot account, as there wasn't much benefit to it in the early days. Once the 'first post' morons came along en masse, though, it had a practical benefit, so I signed up. I've been around a lot longer than my 4-digit UID would indicate. :)
but do you even had computer in the 4 digit era? or was slashdot some sort of paper mail based discussion forum?
Gawd, don't they teach you brats anything in school these days? It was all vacuum tubes back then. Of course, it's all ball bearings, now. We would've _killed_ for ball bearings back in the day!
UID 3706 replies to UID 6544:
I am not a number, you young punk! And get off my damned lawn!
So, Slashdot, I know this is asking a lot, but can you PLEASE at least read the article before posting?
No! I hate everything you stand for.
You mean, if you fail to get a joke, an angel gets its wings? God, they must be a depressing lot.
Nah, I'm sure there's no such thing as an angel without wings ever since the Tea Party people showed up.
>> Don't you mean Chekov's Dogs?
> No, Pavlov. You know, the researcher who developed an obsession to ring bells whenever he saw a dog salivating.
Chekov did a different experiment with dogs. He'd ring a bell when they failed to get a joke.
Where's the Ubuntu option, though? Only options I saw were Vista or 7...
Dell used to (still does?) keep thier Ubuntu machines on a different path at the site, something like dell.com/ubuntu - it's not done as one would expect/prefer, as an OS option, as that would be enabling consumers to easily choose something other than Windows. I really don't consider Dell all that Linux-friendly, considering this, and the fact that they don't offer the same hardware options (even when it has NOTHING to do with Linux compatibility) as the same hardware with Windows. Dell is full of WeakSauce(tm).
Don't forget to destroy the evidence of your destruction of the evidence of the destruction of the evidence and backups and its backups and its backups.
This is going to turn into one of two things: A painting of Stephen Colbert, or an episode of Black Adder.
I'm good with either outcome, really.
>>> If you destroy evidence, make sure you destroy the backups, too.
>> Also, make sure you destroy evidence of your destruction of evidence and backups.
> And don't forget to destroy evidence of your destruction of your destruction of evidence and backups.
But always make backups!
Wait...something's wrong here...
I know, claim that since your WiFi access point is unsecured, someone could have hacked the system! "Yeah, it was a virus from a popup or a hacker or something that did that!"
If you destroy evidence, make sure you destroy the backups, too.
Also, make sure you destroy evidence of your destruction of evidence and backups.
Now we have to decide what color to paint it.
Black.
searswireless.com (I never thought I'd type a domain with those two words in it) has the DROID for $150 (instead of Verizon's $200), and withOUT the $100 mail in rebate. Just FYI.
Sprint has better coverage and better service
This is true ONLY in certain areas, and from what I've read, it's usually Verizon that has the better coverage and service.
But Sprint definitely has the better prices (I'm on Sprint now). For the same service as I have with Sprint now, I'd have to spend an extra $20/mo, and I still wouldn't have unlimited minutes to other mobile callers (on any network).
(Also, the numbers Americans throw around for their cell phone contracts scare me - $100 a month or more? Do they deliver your data to you in gold-plated USB sticks or something?)
What, you mean you DON'T get gold-plated USB sticks? Wow, you're getting ripped off!
A great deal of the 'increase' in oil in the U.S. lately is also due to the falling value of the dollar. And the price quoted for a barrel of oil is for the spot market, which isn't the same as the deals the big oil companies make for longer term contracts, which is one reason why you won't see a direct correlation between spot market oil prices quoted, and the price at the pump. Nevertheless, the equation is made much more complicated by the fact that the entire market is crooked as hell. And crooked on the part of multiple players in muliple countries around the world, all with different agendas. Chavez certainly has a different agenda than the typical OPEC nation in the Middle East, even though he's nominally aligned with them.
No matter what the reasons behind it, high oil prices are good in the long run for efforts aimed at increasing energy efficiency. It's better for us to be working on new transportation technology now, rather than after it's 'official' that we've run out of affordable oil.
We've had them since 1977: Diesel.
I used to be a reporter specializing in the energy industry, and saw this coming 4 years ago. I'm amazed that people think the 'known oil reserve' figures are even remotely accurate. :(
I traded in my gas (2000) Jetta for a diesel (2001) Jetta a few years ago, and it gets 50% better mileage than the gas one did. Current hybrids, though, get much better in-city mileage than even my 2001 diesel Jetta, though the current diesel Jetta gets pretty great mileage, too. I really prefer the Jetta IV design to the Jetta V, though. :(
I'm hoping Honda's upcoming CR-Z hybrid is really efficient. I haven't seen any solid numbers on it yet.
Where did you get that figure? I keep track of this daily:
http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/
We've been flirting with $80/bbl for quite some time.
It's all supply and demand
It's really not. OPEC deliberately (and publicly) slows production to keep prices high. They've gotten used to the profits that $70+/bbl oil brings. We're never going back to pre-Katrina oil prices. In the long run, though, this is good - it merely ensures the rise of much more fuel efficient vehicles.
I don't think anyone sells common sense.
It wouldn't matter if they did; no one would buy it as everyone thinks they already have it.
It is not Flash Player - it is Shockwave Player, and frankly I am really surprised devs still use Shockwave and people still install Shockwave Player.
In my Firefox, it's called "Shockwave Flash" - one plugin that does both.
SO much less evil than Microsoft!
Linux on the desktop, Android on the cellphone, and everyone else can kiss my ass.
People here on Slashdot complain about Flash all the time, but it's not generally Flash that is the problem, but bad design. This will make that problem worse (like the poster who joked about seeing Comic Sans more now - that's literally going to be the case). I like the ability, sure, but I know what the downside is going to be.
My machine at home is configured to use only the fonts I find most readable (trebuchet ms for proportional fonts (serif or sans serif - always gets the same font for me), and andale mono for monospaced. But I'm a UI guy, so I'm extra-picky about things like fonts and colors and contrast, etc. Most people don't seem to care that much.
Now I know what to disable first in Firefox 3.6.
my point is NASA is all over the board.
Dude, don't worry about it. I'm sure NASA has a room full of guys whose job is just to think shit up!