The summery above says that the internet savvy test subjects were younger than those who have never used it before, however, the article linked clearly mentions that all subjects were aged 55-76, and that "the groups were similar in age, gender and education."
Also, the test only included 24 subjects, which is not very much to base a theory on. A larger study showing similar results would be more reliable.
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Actually, you can create that filter using gmail's filter system. It would look something along the lines of:
Matches: from:-(*.edu OR *.com OR *.net OR *.org) Do this: delete it. (or if you want to be sure you don't accidentally delete real mail, give it a label and skip inbox)
The article said that "They've even open sourced the kernel." I would actually be quite surprised if they didn't- after all, the Linux kernel is released under the GPL, which requires all derived works to also be open source. I don't see why Logik stated this fact as if it's nice of them to do that - it's not like they had any other option.
With minor differences, this is a standard lease agreement. It turned the car industry upside-down, for a period of a couple years. Now, it's about equal to the purchase-outright agreement. The benefits and problems are a personal decision to the buyor/lessor. But atleast they have a choice.
It's amazing how the entertainment and software industries think they can do whatever they want... I wonder how people would react if all the car manufacturers would unite and decide that from now on, all the cars aren't sold, they are rented. That there is no warranty, not even if the car came defective from the factory or even missing vital parts such as the engine or wheels. That the car manufacturer could at his will take away your car without having to justify himself or reimburse you for it. That you may only take your car to several garages that have been approved by the car manufacturing consortium. That you are not allowed to touch any of the internal pats of the car, or even open the hood to look at the engine. The record, movie, and software companies must be stopped by legistlation before it's too late.
I belive that the future will be very similar to what we find in many cyberpunk books- a global network of VR with which people will interface using data jacks that will connect directly to the brain. Some people will like it so much, that they will simply stay connected all the time and live in the VR. Also, people will have cybernetic implants put in their bodies, thus making them cyborgs with superhuman abilities.
I think I read a story about something like that on/. a while back-i don't remember precicely, since it was a while ago and i haven't slept in 31 hours. I think it was something about passing one gigaflops or somethink...
Back when I joined slashdot over 2 years ago (is there any way to find out exactly when?), it was an inovative site with an interface that was hardly used anywhere on the web- back then, the hot things in webdesign were frames and portals. Now, I can hardly pass 10 websites without seeing atleast one that has a similar "web-logesque" interface. It looks like slashdot was one of the first sites of this trend. Now, we have reached version 1.0 of Slashcode, and we can truely say that both slashdot and it's community have gone a long way. Even though we have to face trolls on a permanent basis, we can now easily face them with our army of well-selected moderators. We have even grown some "hidden" forums, created by using comments.pl with a sid that doesn't point to an article. Back when I joined, I got ID #4213. The comunity has grown so much, that the poll often goes into the tens of thousends of votes, and that's just the people who vote! Slashdot has grown from an anonymous site that only a few select geeks knew about to a gaigentic news agency of sorts for nerds worldwide! Way to go Slashdot!!
I would love to see either Rainbow Six or Delta Force ported to linux. In both games you play the role of an anti-terrorist organization, planning your assult and executing it in first-person shooter style. Both have thier strengths and weeknesses- R6 has far better graphics, much more plot, and a better selection of equipment, but has mostly indoor missions and can be very difficult at times. Delta force has bad graphics (it was build so it doesn't use any hardware acceleration), but has better computer AI for your teammates and supperior multiplayer mode. I personally would be willing to pay the full price for either of those games if offered for linux. A wise man once said that peace is a dream. Let's all be dreamers.
I agree with you that the artists should get paid for thier work. What I'm saying is that once it goes on the computer, want it or not, someone will figure out a way to break it. Also, you are forgetting the fact that of the say 15$ you pay for a CD, about 10-12$ goes to the record company and 2$ or so to the distributer, which means that the artist doesn't see much of the cash anyways. I do buy CDs, and if they didn't cost so much (the price of a blank disk when bought in bulk is negligable, and the entire burning proccess including the purchase of the disk costs less then.5$). The total cost of production (studio, burning, promotion, etc.) is about 5-8$, which means that while the artist sees only about 1-2$ per CD, the record company makes a net profit of about 5$ per CD. And that is what they are trying to protect, not the artist. A wise man once said that peace is a dream. Let's all be dreamers.
When will they realize that they will never be able to stop us from getting the music? it happend with csc, realaudio, and it will happend with others as well. once it goes on the computer, someone will eventually figure a way to crack it. They shouldn't sue them- if they hadn't done it, someone else would have. A wise man once said that peace is a dream. Let's all be dreamers.
Well, nothing like seeing another linux port on/. Makes me happy for the rest of the day. Now that we have mainframe support, the next thing to do is go the exact opposite direction- embedded systems. Then we may truely bask in the glory of an os that supports every machine from embedded systems to mainframes. Are there any major architectures that Linux doesn't support yet?
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I agree that the article has some inaccuracies so big you can drive a truck trough them, however it is nice to get some PR for a linux project. I belive they didn't let Miguel see the article before it was published. I'm certain he would ave been glad to go over it and correct the mistakes.
As to e-mailing the author- appearantly ABC does not publisize authors' e-mails, however they have a feedback form here. Be sure to put "http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews /gnome990507.html" in the URL field so that they know what you are talking about. Please, do not write them messages like "you l@m3rs are so stupid", since such messages won't promote the cause and and might discourage them from writing more articles about Linux, if not write about "the many bad people who use Linux". Maybe someone with some time and knowledge on his/her hands could offer to advise on Linux-related issues, and correct such mistakes before they are published. Again, please go there only if you intend to send some quality feedback.
hmm.... why not have a diffrent color for every score? i suggest a rainbow-like scheme: -1=purple 0=blue 1=indigo 2=green 3=yellow 4=orange 5=red
Or maybe use the resistor scheme (damn. forgot everything except that there are 8 colors.... IIRC one of those is white, so that means one for each level)
or maybe a changing scheme? have some sort of "guess the scheme" thing?
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welcome our new primate overlords.
Just one question:
How long will it be before I can take out my liver and replace it with an alcohol resistent one?
The summery above says that the internet savvy test subjects were younger than those who have never used it before, however, the article linked clearly mentions that all subjects were aged 55-76, and that "the groups were similar in age, gender and education."
Also, the test only included 24 subjects, which is not very much to base a theory on. A larger study showing similar results would be more reliable.
Actually, you can create that filter using gmail's filter system.
It would look something along the lines of:
Matches: from:-(*.edu OR *.com OR *.net OR *.org)
Do this: delete it. (or if you want to be sure you don't accidentally delete real mail, give it a label and skip inbox)
They already have this thing. They have been testing it since the 70's on science fiction authors.
The article said that "They've even open sourced the kernel." I would actually be quite surprised if they didn't- after all, the Linux kernel is released under the GPL, which requires all derived works to also be open source. I don't see why Logik stated this fact as if it's nice of them to do that - it's not like they had any other option.
With minor differences, this is a standard lease agreement. It turned the car industry upside-down, for a period of a couple years. Now, it's about equal to the purchase-outright agreement. The benefits and problems are a personal decision to the buyor/lessor. But atleast they have a choice.
The record, movie, and software companies must be stopped by legistlation before it's too late.
Once the new TLDs are available for registration, I want to register www.in.tel, www.nerd.news and www.i-hate-to.shop
I belive that the future will be very similar to what we find in many cyberpunk books- a global network of VR with which people will interface using data jacks that will connect directly to the brain. Some people will like it so much, that they will simply stay connected all the time and live in the VR. Also, people will have cybernetic implants put in their bodies, thus making them cyborgs with superhuman abilities.
I think I read a story about something like that on /. a while back-i don't remember precicely, since it was a while ago and i haven't slept in 31 hours. I think it was something about passing one gigaflops or somethink...
I just saw this on UF a few hours ago. oh well, it's still cool.
i'm not sure if it's related or not, but it seems that all the comments of past polls were erased for some reason?
Back when I joined slashdot over 2 years ago (is there any way to find out exactly when?), it was an inovative site with an interface that was hardly used anywhere on the web- back then, the hot things in webdesign were frames and portals. Now, I can hardly pass 10 websites without seeing atleast one that has a similar "web-logesque" interface. It looks like slashdot was one of the first sites of this trend. Now, we have reached version 1.0 of Slashcode, and we can truely say that both slashdot and it's community have gone a long way. Even though we have to face trolls on a permanent basis, we can now easily face them with our army of well-selected moderators. We have even grown some "hidden" forums, created by using comments.pl with a sid that doesn't point to an article. Back when I joined, I got ID #4213. The comunity has grown so much, that the poll often goes into the tens of thousends of votes, and that's just the people who vote! Slashdot has grown from an anonymous site that only a few select geeks knew about to a gaigentic news agency of sorts for nerds worldwide!
Way to go Slashdot!!
I would love to see either Rainbow Six or Delta Force ported to linux. In both games you play the role of an anti-terrorist organization, planning your assult and executing it in first-person shooter style. Both have thier strengths and weeknesses- R6 has far better graphics, much more plot, and a better selection of equipment, but has mostly indoor missions and can be very difficult at times. Delta force has bad graphics (it was build so it doesn't use any hardware acceleration), but has better computer AI for your teammates and supperior multiplayer mode.
I personally would be willing to pay the full price for either of those games if offered for linux.
A wise man once said that peace is a dream. Let's all be dreamers.
As a side note, Prof. Hawking's 58th birthday starts in about 2 hours, GMT. This is also the 358th anniversary of Galileo's death.
A wise man once said that peace is a dream. Let's all be dreamers.
I agree with you that the artists should get paid for thier work. What I'm saying is that once it goes on the computer, want it or not, someone will figure out a way to break it. Also, you are forgetting the fact that of the say 15$ you pay for a CD, about 10-12$ goes to the record company and 2$ or so to the distributer, which means that the artist doesn't see much of the cash anyways. I do buy CDs, and if they didn't cost so much (the price of a blank disk when bought in bulk is negligable, and the entire burning proccess including the purchase of the disk costs less then .5$). The total cost of production (studio, burning, promotion, etc.) is about 5-8$, which means that while the artist sees only about 1-2$ per CD, the record company makes a net profit of about 5$ per CD. And that is what they are trying to protect, not the artist.
A wise man once said that peace is a dream. Let's all be dreamers.
When will they realize that they will never be able to stop us from getting the music? it happend with csc, realaudio, and it will happend with others as well. once it goes on the computer, someone will eventually figure a way to crack it. They shouldn't sue them- if they hadn't done it, someone else would have.
A wise man once said that peace is a dream. Let's all be dreamers.
Well, nothing like seeing another linux port on /.
Makes me happy for the rest of the day. Now that we have mainframe support, the next thing to do is go the exact opposite direction- embedded systems. Then we may truely bask in the glory of an os that supports every machine from embedded systems to mainframes. Are there any major architectures that Linux doesn't support yet?
I agree that the article has some inaccuracies so big you can drive a truck trough them, however it is nice to get some PR for a linux project. I belive they didn't let Miguel see the article before it was published. I'm certain he would ave been glad to go over it and correct the mistakes.
s /gnome990507.html" in the URL field so that they know what you are talking about. Please, do not write them messages like "you l@m3rs are so stupid", since such messages won't promote the cause and and might discourage them from writing more articles about Linux, if not write about "the many bad people who use Linux". Maybe someone with some time and knowledge on his/her hands could offer to advise on Linux-related issues, and correct such mistakes before they are published. Again, please go there only if you intend to send some quality feedback.
As to e-mailing the author- appearantly ABC does not publisize authors' e-mails, however they have a feedback form here. Be sure to put "http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNew
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hmm.... why not have a diffrent color for every score? i suggest a rainbow-like scheme:
-1=purple
0=blue
1=indigo
2=green
3=yellow
4=orange
5=red
Or maybe use the resistor scheme (damn. forgot everything except that there are 8 colors.... IIRC one of those is white, so that means one for each level)
or maybe a changing scheme? have some sort of "guess the scheme" thing?
Just some stuff to think about.
--The Tomer
Just use cypherpunks/cypherpunks if you don't want to register to the NY Times.