Can I be the first to say: dork! Whether or not it "works" with Linux at the moment (I know it does/will), the thing is, it can/will, _and_ I've been using a Y-shaped connector cord (don't know the real name of it; it came with my personal CD player so that it could be connected to speakers....) to connect the headphone outlet jack on my laptop with the 2 connections on the back of my stereo and just playing mp3s like that. Of course, having read a number of the other comments, I see that there are lots of other, more convenient ways to play mp3s via stereos, etc... so, where is your triumph? Looks like you lost before you even started the battle. Ha!
I realize this is off-topic, but, assuming that someone could make a device to run on this bandwidth/wavelength/"", what could they do, intercepting the signals sent to and fro this new fangled device? could someone invent something like police-scanners to prevent themselves from being detected/warn themselves that they're being watched?
then again, if they actually did release _all_ of the source code, they'd be acting too much like pseudo-OSS [because, as M$, they could never truly be an OSS company], and they couldn't possibly stand to do something good. that would be sinning against the very evil nature of their soul.
My profession is system administrator. According to this test, I'm comparable to Emperor Palpatine... Pity my users;-) Then again, I'm comparable to Yoda, among others.
When like me you become, as logical you will not think! hmmm!
I'm going to assume, although I couldn't actually know (and tragically enough, I didn't read the 2 other [at the time of this writing] replies to the comment I'm replying to), that you won't really ever be able to encrypt something.. software or hardware wise, etc., etc. This is because, in my mind, since it was encrypted in the first place, that means that there exists a code somewhere (or some "code" somewhere) that is the key to its undoing. Whether or not anyone else knows this besides the maker of said code is not important. As long as it was encoded, it can be decoded. It's inevitable, therefore, that it will be "cracked," as long as the actual cracking of it will be worth the while. Therefore, I figure they might as well give up. It's a waste of time. Besides, who likes M$?;-)
tamagotchi's don't adapt themselves until the most robust code wins. and they can't take care of themselves. and they're just "toys," as in, the dinky little toys made to entertain children, or bored high schoolers (as I once was.. bored, that is. still a high schooler.), and they don't feed themselves, and....
so, Iridium's busted.. and Motorola continues to carry the torch for them... if Motorola's this "in" with Iridium, why didn't they just take over Iridium, and save them the disgrace of filing for bankruptcy?
Of course, mine wasn't [computer] hardware problems, but try having the power go out as soon as you get up, be off for 2 hours, come on for 10 mins, go off again for approx. and hour, and then come back on? Besides having a laptop monitor that's spazzing on the video (at some angles, the screen won't display.. but move it a bit, and the picture comes back). And a few other minor details.
But hey, getting back to topic here, tis ok. Stuff happens.. hee hee hee. and always at the most convenient time(s).
As it turns out, however, this causes compatibility issues, and the system is weighed down by "feature bloat" to try and solve every problem at once. Yeah.... it seems to be another one of those situations in which, to conquer the market, the company tries to be everything at once, so that they'll have a rush of supporters for start up (even though their product sucks) so that they can ensnare these supporters with upgrades as they work frantically to improve their product to 'working' status... later to introduce a new release, fabled to correct the problems of the original/previous version(s) and to introduce new and never-seen-before features.
If you noticed, it said that 752 United Statesians and Canadians were surveyed/studied..... which I think is a very small number. Too small, IMHO, for this survey to be considered accurate by any means.
However, I'd also like to add that I think that the results are a good thing, esp. since it seems everybody's going to take them anyway (well, ok, probably not everbody.. I didn't reall all the comments)... I just think that a broader and more thorough survey should be done.
"The smallest web server ever created melted down today, trying to bear the burden of a link from the infamous geek portal site, Slashdot." "Looking around to find the melted remains of the teensy server, the team of intensely trained, tweezer-armed sweepers were saddened to find that it had been swept up."
I think it's a ridiculous idea, b/c it appears to be now making a search engine of itself, because now, instead of finding your page (whether or not you (1) know it actually exists (2) know where it is (3) care that much to find it) you're going to get every bloomin' page out there with the remotest semblance to yours.. as implied in the article:
"For example, typing in the word "Apple" might bring up Apple Computer's Web site or information about growing apples, depending on the context of the request. "
Of course, I also note that the quote says "depending on the context of the request," but isn't that delving, still, into the realm of some sort of pseudo-AI, high-tech search engine? Is this necessary? Are we having soo many problems finding web pages? Or is it some attempt to make us think we're being "more efficient" (re: lazy) while really making us work more? Hmmmm.......
I think it's a waste of time, money, effort, and the lives of the members of the task/action team...and I personally don't like it one bit (could ya tell?)
And should it not be distro-neutral? I mean, for pete's sake, we're talking about Linux.. a "common" kernel, I thought, existed here. Therefore, why would Domino/Notes not be distro-neutral? I'd hardly think it Linux software if it wasn't......
I have always felt (from his posts to linux-kernel, etc) that he spoke English very well. Better than most of the people here in the midwestern US, as a matter of fact.;-) I wondered about their motivation myself. Not to be redundant, of course, but I thought he spoke english well (I've never heard him in person, of course). And it is often that non-native english speakers, once trained in the "full" depth and breadth of english, speak it better than native speakers, who often relax the language into their dialects, and distort it with their regional accents, etc.
I went to the page, the source for lizard won't even be available until Sept. 3rd.:( By then who knows what'll of happened and how many times they've decided to change the way it'll be released (if at all still). Yeah, my thoughts are, if they're going to do something, they ought to do it right, and just go ahead and release the source now. I'm thinking, if they're so sincere about Open Sourcing, and if they'd really been in the true spirit of Linux, they would not even be having this press release now........ they'd have already open sourced everything, and it'd be no biggie. However, apparently they don't quite understand what they're dealing with, and what they're missing out on.
What does all of this mean? I have no idea. This small (but rigorously unscientific) study, like the psychic hotlines advertised heavily on late-night cable TV, is meant to be used for entertainment purposes only. Please feel free to add to it (or subtract from it) and draw your own conclusions, which I'm sure will be far more insightful than any I could possibly come up with on my own.
Maybe CMR and ACC should collaborate on reverse engineering alien sanitation technology. If they're thousands of years ahead of us, they must have worked out how to clean a toilet by now. Assuming that aliens _had_ toilets to clean.....
...but I remember when CNN announced that a verdict was expected to be announced the next day.... that was a month ago. They retracted that comment about 2 and half hours later, I believe.;) yeah...... a good majority of cases (esp. big ones like these) take soooo long to resolve. and why?
because, apparently, either the sides of the case aren't prepared.. or they're just dawdling along, wasting money, money, money.. that stupid government of ours) (or... I don't know) either way, it's a waste of time, effort, and by the end of it, i'm so disgusted, I'd just rather lock everybody up (i realize this is rash) and just get on with life...... esp so that the government will stop wasting all this time and tax money by making a mess.
This is one of the better contests that I have seen. It not only awards for correctness, but creativity. Indeed... I agree. If only I could program, heck, I'd enter the thing!
Newbies may find this especially useful, if even to just practice an installation before the "real" one. The little blurbs in the RH install that describe each app are generally good, but it's nowhere near enough info to make an informed decision. Of course... but then, for some (like me), it's more fun (as I noticed someone earlier said) to learn the hard way by installing it yourself using the boot disks (the CD, for me)....
Even though I complained about it (technical difficulties....... you know) I'm still glad I did it myself, and learned.
well, I wouldn't have moderated it off-topic. yes, they were wrong, since it was on yahoo, but the article didn't say much to me, and i read the whole thing. it was just another boring, sterile, commentary on the situation and the most interesting thing about it was the reference to poor ol' BeOs...
Slashdot Mirror
Can I be the first to say: dork!
Whether or not it "works" with Linux at the moment (I know it does/will), the thing is, it can/will, _and_ I've been using a Y-shaped connector cord (don't know the real name of it; it came with my personal CD player so that it could be connected to speakers....) to connect the headphone outlet jack on my laptop with the 2 connections on the back of my stereo and just playing mp3s like that. Of course, having read a number of the other comments, I see that there are lots of other, more convenient ways to play mp3s via stereos, etc... so, where is your triumph? Looks like you lost before you even started the battle. Ha!
I realize this is off-topic, but, assuming that someone could make a device to run on this bandwidth/wavelength/"", what could they do, intercepting the signals sent to and fro this new fangled device? could someone invent something like police-scanners to prevent themselves from being detected/warn themselves that they're being watched?
just curious....
then again, if they actually did release _all_ of the source code, they'd be acting too much like pseudo-OSS [because, as M$, they could never truly be an OSS company], and they couldn't possibly stand to do something good. that would be sinning against the very evil nature of their soul.
My profession is system administrator. According to this test, I'm comparable to Emperor Palpatine ... Pity my users ;-)
Then again, I'm comparable to Yoda, among others.
When like me you become, as logical you will not think! hmmm!
What if we (consumers) say "Shove it!", will they?
When, oh when will they? That day will not come soon enough....
I'm going to assume, although I couldn't actually know (and tragically enough, I didn't read the 2 other [at the time of this writing] replies to the comment I'm replying to), that you won't really ever be able to encrypt something.. software or hardware wise, etc., etc. This is because, in my mind, since it was encrypted in the first place, that means that there exists a code somewhere (or some "code" somewhere) that is the key to its undoing. Whether or not anyone else knows this besides the maker of said code is not important. As long as it was encoded, it can be decoded. It's inevitable, therefore, that it will be "cracked," as long as the actual cracking of it will be worth the while. Therefore, I figure they might as well give up. It's a waste of time. Besides, who likes M$? ;-)
tamagotchi's don't adapt themselves until the most robust code wins. and they can't take care of themselves. and they're just "toys," as in, the dinky little toys made to entertain children, or bored high schoolers (as I once was.. bored, that is. still a high schooler.), and they don't feed themselves, and....
Enjoy Cocaine
"I tried sniffing coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck up my nose"
- Unknown (to me, at least)
so, Iridium's busted.. and Motorola continues to carry the torch for them... if Motorola's this "in" with Iridium, why didn't they just take over Iridium, and save them the disgrace of filing for bankruptcy?
I realize that this may be a very stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway. Who/what are "Nyarlothotep and Cthulhu"?
Besides that, if they actually had daemons, I know I'd be going.. hee hee hee
Of course, mine wasn't [computer] hardware problems, but try having the power go out as soon as you get up, be off for 2 hours, come on for 10 mins, go off again for approx. and hour, and then come back on? Besides having a laptop monitor that's spazzing on the video (at some angles, the screen won't display.. but move it a bit, and the picture comes back). And a few other minor details.
But hey, getting back to topic here, tis ok. Stuff happens.. hee hee hee. and always at the most convenient time(s).
As it turns out, however, this causes compatibility issues, and the system is weighed down by "feature bloat" to try and solve every problem at once.
Yeah.... it seems to be another one of those situations in which, to conquer the market, the company tries to be everything at once, so that they'll have a rush of supporters for start up (even though their product sucks) so that they can ensnare these supporters with upgrades as they work frantically to improve their product to 'working' status... later to introduce a new release, fabled to correct the problems of the original/previous version(s) and to introduce new and never-seen-before features.
ha! who do they think they're kidding?
If you noticed, it said that 752 United Statesians and Canadians were surveyed/studied..... which I think is a very small number. Too small, IMHO, for this survey to be considered accurate by any means.
However, I'd also like to add that I think that the results are a good thing, esp. since it seems everybody's going to take them anyway (well, ok, probably not everbody.. I didn't reall all the comments)... I just think that a broader and more thorough survey should be done.
"The smallest web server ever created melted down today, trying to bear the burden of a link from the infamous geek portal site, Slashdot."
"Looking around to find the melted remains of the teensy server, the team of intensely trained, tweezer-armed sweepers were saddened to find that it had been swept up."
I think it's a ridiculous idea, b/c it appears to be now making a search engine of itself, because now, instead of finding your page (whether or not you (1) know it actually exists (2) know where it is (3) care that much to find it) you're going to get every bloomin' page out there with the remotest semblance to yours.. as implied in the article:
"For example, typing in the word "Apple" might bring up Apple Computer's Web site or information about growing apples, depending on the context of the request. "
Of course, I also note that the quote says "depending on the context of the request," but isn't that delving, still, into the realm of some sort of pseudo-AI, high-tech search engine? Is this necessary? Are we having soo many problems finding web pages? Or is it some attempt to make us think we're being "more efficient" (re: lazy) while really making us work more? Hmmmm.......
I think it's a waste of time, money, effort, and the lives of the members of the task/action team...and I personally don't like it one bit (could ya tell?)
And should it not be distro-neutral? I mean, for pete's sake, we're talking about Linux.. a "common" kernel, I thought, existed here. Therefore, why would Domino/Notes not be distro-neutral? I'd hardly think it Linux software if it wasn't......
I have always felt (from his posts to linux-kernel, etc) that he spoke English very well. Better than most of the people here in the midwestern US, as a matter of fact. ;-) I wondered about their motivation myself.
Not to be redundant, of course, but I thought he spoke english well (I've never heard him in person, of course). And it is often that non-native english speakers, once trained in the "full" depth and breadth of english, speak it better than native speakers, who often relax the language into their dialects, and distort it with their regional accents, etc.
I went to the page, the source for lizard won't even be available until Sept. 3rd. :( By then who knows what'll of happened and how many times they've decided to change the way it'll be released (if at all still).
Yeah, my thoughts are, if they're going to do something, they ought to do it right, and just go ahead and release the source now. I'm thinking, if they're so sincere about Open Sourcing, and if they'd really been in the true spirit of Linux, they would not even be having this press release now........ they'd have already open sourced everything, and it'd be no biggie. However, apparently they don't quite understand what they're dealing with, and what they're missing out on.
Which is why he said:
What does all of this mean? I have no idea. This small (but rigorously unscientific) study, like the psychic hotlines advertised heavily on late-night cable TV, is meant to be used for entertainment purposes only. Please feel free to add to it (or subtract from it) and draw your own conclusions, which I'm sure will be far more insightful than any I could possibly come up with on my own.
Need I say more?
Maybe CMR and ACC should collaborate on reverse engineering alien sanitation technology. If they're thousands of years ahead of us, they must have worked out how to clean a toilet by now.
Assuming that aliens _had_ toilets to clean.....
...but I remember when CNN announced that a verdict was expected to be announced the next day.... that was a month ago. They retracted that comment about 2 and half hours later, I believe. ;)
yeah...... a good majority of cases (esp. big ones like these) take soooo long to resolve. and why?
because, apparently, either the sides of the case aren't prepared.. or they're just dawdling along, wasting money, money, money.. that stupid government of ours) (or... I don't know)
either way, it's a waste of time, effort, and by the end of it, i'm so disgusted, I'd just rather lock everybody up (i realize this is rash) and just get on with life...... esp so that the government will stop wasting all this time and tax money by making a mess.
This is one of the better contests that I have seen. It not only awards for correctness, but creativity.
Indeed... I agree. If only I could program, heck, I'd enter the thing!
All I can say is, "Carry on! Carry on!"
Newbies may find this especially useful, if even to just practice an installation before the "real" one. The little blurbs in the RH install that describe each app are generally good, but it's nowhere near enough info to make an informed decision.
Of course... but then, for some (like me), it's more fun (as I noticed someone earlier said) to learn the hard way by installing it yourself using the boot disks (the CD, for me)....
Even though I complained about it (technical difficulties....... you know) I'm still glad I did it myself, and learned.
yeah its too late to salvage the system we have now
I couldn't have said it better myself
well, I wouldn't have moderated it off-topic. yes, they were wrong, since it was on yahoo, but the article didn't say much to me, and i read the whole thing. it was just another boring, sterile, commentary on the situation and the most interesting thing about it was the reference to poor ol' BeOs...