The heartland is just farm after farm after fricking farm. Traveling through Kansas is damned boring.
Boring for some, yes. But having spent the first 12 years of my life there, and spending the next 12 years in New York, I find myself pining for that flat, open nothing more often than I'd like.
For instance, did you happen to look up at night while you were there? It's amazing.
It's not. You can, however, get more connections because you now have line-of-sight with a greater number of towers, given the lack of obstructions like trees, buildings, or canyons.
Assuming your reply wasn't sarcasm, do you get it now?
Monkey Radio [monkeyradio.org] is a great alternative for all the groovers out there.
Hear hear to that, that's where I first heard K&D and Lamb. Thank god CARP didn't take them out...
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The point with the jellyfish is that it both dries them out and turns the dried jellyfish into powder. RTA.
No, that was NOT the point. The point was that this tornado in a can could combine dried, pulverized jellyfish and eggshell membrane to produce a product that could be used by pharmaceutical companies.
They should donate the time to something like the SETI@home project (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu) or the protein folding project (http://folding.stanford.edu), both of which use distributed computing and neither of which need to be concerned with security.
That would defeat the purpose of generating revenue. Not everybody wants to give everything away, least of all stockholders.
I coulda sworn they make a Mozilla for MS-Windows.
Yes, but what you are forgetting is that Christ asked for demos of open source software, not just open source software for linux. While I'm sure that's what his emphasis is on, the parent's post is still correct.
Most importantly, it's powered by 12V. That makes a huge difference when considering in-car PCs
My thoughts exactly. However, as another poster mentioned previously, a VIA Epia M-based system would end up a lot cheaper, and a lot more customizable, even considering the need for a power inverter.
Hell, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to build one of these in an external cd-rom drive case or something, with the exception of power handling, and for a fraction of the price.
They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience.
And you think you're part of that core audience? You have a SID well past the half-million mark, which means, unless your account is a dupe, you haven't been here very long at all. I happen to be one of those "nu-geeks", who also happens to have been a member since '98.
Perhaps the core audience (re: key demographic) is somebody who reads the page, clicks the links, and buys the merchandise! Who better than those college freshmen/high school seniors with all that glorious disposable income.
If you think there's any such thing as a single community here, you're sadly mistaken. There hasn't been a single community since I started reading/. There are, instead, many communities, which/. happily caters to by posting stories that might interest people in those communities.
And who's to say the people who know more than "jack shit" don't happen to like casemodding and hardware news as much as your "nu-geeks"? Not everybody is as willing to pigeonhole themselves as you apparently are.
(OT) Finally, I'd just like to mention that I'm getting slightly sick of all the elitest snobbery amongst the "Linux Gurus" around here. I have 5 machines, all well used, running Windows, Linux, Freebsd, and (gasp) OS 9. That doesn't make my penis any larger, that doesn't make me live any longer, and that doesn't make me want to prance around like some kind of lord.
You talk about the people installing linux and using it for a week as if it's supposed to be a bad thing. At least they're trying something new. Maybe they'll try it again, maybe not. I do know this, though. If I'd seen people acting as piggish as the *nix elite around here, and hadn't had the support of the few people willing to help me surmount the ridiculously steep learning curve, I probably would have deleted it too.
If you really appreciate a good game, show some respect already.
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Games are made so people buy them and play them. People find a free copy of an unreleased, highly anticipated, much hyped game. You expect people to not download it out of respect? You think people, after playing those 3 levels in the leaked alpha, aren't going to go out and buy the game?
Can you tell me the difference between George Bush and Hitler? This is not a taunt, but an honest question.
I'll bite. As much as I dislike GWB's policies regarding foreign interests, this was just too stupid to pass up.
Here's the only pertinent difference. GWB isn't killing off millions of innocent civilians based on their ethnicity.
I know what parallels you're going to draw, but all the things that allowed Hitler to come to power are prevented by our own political infrastructure. Not only that, but the evil things America might be doing to all those Mid-East countries is not for the purpose of making the general public hate Muslims, but for the purposes of killing off all the opposers of our own percieved god-given right to oil.
As neither version has any significant market advantage yet
Wrong, amigo. Ever sign up for a Hotmail account? You were automatically signed up for Passport as well. In other words, for the Liberty Alliance, the fight was pretty much over before it began.
Sure, it's probably the last nail, but for which service? As much as the majority of the userbase hates MS, it doesn't really change these two simple facts:
1) They have a single platform they can use to push their services from 2) They have a Scrooge MacDuck style bank-vault to dip into whenever they start to feel the sting of competition. Interoperability with Passport is only going to force Liberty into anonymity, not give it the huge marketshare we're all hoping for.
What do you want to bet that you'll be able to find more than your fair share "QBM compliant" montherboards that do NOT play happily with a large chunk of the available "QBM" memory and visa versa?
The same held true for DDR boards last year, where you were pretty much only guaranteed to get registered, buffered memory modules to work. Now, pretty much any recent motherboard will accept pretty much any DDR module.
Compatibility and compliance always suffer at the beginning of a new product release. That's why technology and product reviews are so helpful.
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Yeah, but he didn't get modded up either.
Wasn't that exactly what he was asking for?
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Boring for some, yes. But having spent the first 12 years of my life there, and spending the next 12 years in New York, I find myself pining for that flat, open nothing more often than I'd like.
For instance, did you happen to look up at night while you were there? It's amazing.
Here, I'll make it easy for you.
Netcraft
Mindcraft
It's not. You can, however, get more connections because you now have line-of-sight with a greater number of towers, given the lack of obstructions like trees, buildings, or canyons.
Assuming your reply wasn't sarcasm, do you get it now?
Best. Reply. Ever.
I'm quoting that. =D
Hear hear to that, that's where I first heard K&D and Lamb. Thank god CARP didn't take them out...
No, that was NOT the point. The point was that this tornado in a can could combine dried, pulverized jellyfish and eggshell membrane to produce a product that could be used by pharmaceutical companies.
RTA.
That would defeat the purpose of generating revenue. Not everybody wants to give everything away, least of all stockholders.
Don't do ANYTHING without your boss' permission.
That should have read Chris. That was either a freudian slip, or I need to stop drinking at 8AM. =]
Yes, but what you are forgetting is that Christ asked for demos of open source software, not just open source software for linux. While I'm sure that's what his emphasis is on, the parent's post is still correct.
Now stop acting like a tool.
Relating that to fitting your lifestyle, does that make you a woman, or gay?
My thoughts exactly. However, as another poster mentioned previously, a VIA Epia M-based system would end up a lot cheaper, and a lot more customizable, even considering the need for a power inverter.
Hell, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to build one of these in an external cd-rom drive case or something, with the exception of power handling, and for a fraction of the price.
Every 20 minutes? Woah there, cowboy...
And you think you're part of that core audience? You have a SID well past the half-million mark, which means, unless your account is a dupe, you haven't been here very long at all. I happen to be one of those "nu-geeks", who also happens to have been a member since '98.
Perhaps the core audience (re: key demographic) is somebody who reads the page, clicks the links, and buys the merchandise! Who better than those college freshmen/high school seniors with all that glorious disposable income.
If you think there's any such thing as a single community here, you're sadly mistaken. There hasn't been a single community since I started reading /. There are, instead, many communities, which /. happily caters to by posting stories that might interest people in those communities.
And who's to say the people who know more than "jack shit" don't happen to like casemodding and hardware news as much as your "nu-geeks"? Not everybody is as willing to pigeonhole themselves as you apparently are.
(OT) Finally, I'd just like to mention that I'm getting slightly sick of all the elitest snobbery amongst the "Linux Gurus" around here. I have 5 machines, all well used, running Windows, Linux, Freebsd, and (gasp) OS 9. That doesn't make my penis any larger, that doesn't make me live any longer, and that doesn't make me want to prance around like some kind of lord.
You talk about the people installing linux and using it for a week as if it's supposed to be a bad thing. At least they're trying something new. Maybe they'll try it again, maybe not. I do know this, though. If I'd seen people acting as piggish as the *nix elite around here, and hadn't had the support of the few people willing to help me surmount the ridiculously steep learning curve, I probably would have deleted it too.
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Games are made so people buy them and play them. People find a free copy of an unreleased, highly anticipated, much hyped game. You expect people to not download it out of respect? You think people, after playing those 3 levels in the leaked alpha, aren't going to go out and buy the game?
I think you're the one that needs to get a grip.
That was probably the most rational argument I've ever seen here. You wouldn't happen to be another of those "My word is God" types, would you?
They start voting on which one to eat first within a week. Scientists weren't designed to survive outside of a lab. =]
I'll bite. As much as I dislike GWB's policies regarding foreign interests, this was just too stupid to pass up.
Here's the only pertinent difference. GWB isn't killing off millions of innocent civilians based on their ethnicity.
I know what parallels you're going to draw, but all the things that allowed Hitler to come to power are prevented by our own political infrastructure. Not only that, but the evil things America might be doing to all those Mid-East countries is not for the purpose of making the general public hate Muslims, but for the purposes of killing off all the opposers of our own percieved god-given right to oil.
Wrong, amigo. Ever sign up for a Hotmail account? You were automatically signed up for Passport as well.
In other words, for the Liberty Alliance, the fight was pretty much over before it began.
Sure, it's probably the last nail, but for which service? As much as the majority of the userbase hates MS, it doesn't really change these two simple facts:
1) They have a single platform they can use to push their services from
2) They have a Scrooge MacDuck style bank-vault to dip into whenever they start to feel the sting of competition. Interoperability with Passport is only going to force Liberty into anonymity, not give it the huge marketshare we're all hoping for.
The same held true for DDR boards last year, where you were pretty much only guaranteed to get registered, buffered memory modules to work. Now, pretty much any recent motherboard will accept pretty much any DDR module.
Compatibility and compliance always suffer at the beginning of a new product release. That's why technology and product reviews are so helpful.
a palindrome is a word or phrase that sounds the same read backwards or forward.