Or, to continue with the "if you're a moderate muslim and you find that offensive" train of thought, you could always kill the poster.
C'mon, can't moderates be killers too?
I'm so tired of people and their moderates = "peace loving beatniks" philosophy. Some moderates are whackjobs too.:)
...if you don't believe that a rulebook can be a piece of art, please see any of the published DND rulebooks. See amazon for case in point.
I'm aware that wizards.com has the rulebook online as plain-jane; a large part of the reason that I buy DND rulebooks obsessively is because of the amazing artwork within. Truly recommended if you have not seen.
It will also break many "click trackers", "portals", "directory sites", "search engine optimizers", and other annoyances, which is probably a plus for Google users. You know, those sites where you click on some phrase in Google and, three redirects later, you're at some irrelevant porno site.
It's a feature, not a bug! It's a porno random link feature... rather than the *relevant* porn that you were searching for, you get new irrelevant porn! Hurrah!
I remember using this in an upper-year math class at university. We were all staring at the whiteboard, trying to figure out how the complicated left-hand-side equalled the right-hand-side.
Nothing was going anywhere, so I thought I'd head to one of the Tim Horton's on-campus (gotta love Canadian universities). Before I went out the door I jokingly multiplied both sides of the equation by 0, wrote "0=0 therefore, true" and went for coffee.
How was I supposed to know that some people actually submitted that as an answer to the teacher? Man, did I catch hell for that.
Anyways, always remember, if you're lost in math, multiply everything by 0 and your problems will turn out to be nothing;-)
personally i think tossing the win32 build of firebird on there would be pretty sweet. IIRC, firebird on windows is distributed as a.tgz (or.zip, whatever) with a binary that you can execute right out of the directory. no installer required.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Y'know what would sell more subscriptions, since we're playing the humor-the-psychos-who-click-reload-all-day-long game... how about if you could see your numeric karma score if you had a subscription?
if a company is not after money, suing is not the way to go.
I'm not sure how many people out there are versed in logic but essentially:
IF HYPOTHESIS THEN CONCLUSION is logically equivalent to IF NOT CONCLUSION THEN NOT HYPOTHESIS. (you're examining the contrapostive of the original statement)
Anyways, if you apply this transformation to the original statement (if a company is not after money then suing is not the way to go) you get:
Suing is the way to go if a company is after money
Why can I see a project like this getting huge funding and support from the government (we're protecting the country, no, the PLANET from weapons of mass destruction!), while NASA has to fight to justify itself? Why will weapons research and detection get more funding, attention and support than space exploration?
"There are many open-source projects that still host encryption code outside the US because of past rules. Is there still a reason for doing so?"
uhm... why should anyone outside the US believe that the US will continue with its current position? Does the current political climate of the US, as observed by other nations (i.e. Canada), suggest that open-source encryption (read: tools to aid and abet terrorists) will continue to enjoy the lack of restrictions?
i dunno, it seems like a whole shwack of 'once bitten, twice shy' to me.
not trying to flame, i just can't see anything (from this side of the border) to suggest that we should be trusting the US not to change their position. *shrugs*
If you look at the two personalities that are most influential in the GNU/Linux combination, RMS and Linus (just my opinion of course), I think it's the individual personas of these two individuals that form a striking combination that makes "Linux" (as RMS is loth to call it) so popular.
If you look at the surge of "Linux" popularity over the last decade, it's primarily been the GNU/Linux combination that RMS refers to (although other combinations of GNU/* exist). I would think that it takes this combination of individuals to have this happen --- the idealistic evangelist in RMS, and the pragmatic engineer in Linus.
Of course, all of this discounts the contributions of ESR. If you were going to quickly generalize: RMS is a pot-smoking hippie, Linus is an indifferent capitalist, and ESR is a gun-toting libertarian. They all have their place; they all contribute.
Actually if you break./ tradition and read the article, you'll notice it says "I do not expect a huge amount of change as a result, testament to just/how/ freely Transmeta has let me do Linux work"
It's nice to see that you've maintained/. tradition by tossing in some typos. Thanks for the irony.
The other 90% was the hard part, typically requiring running some coke, poking at the data, and running the code again to see what changed. "Maze wall moved here, then things crashed when I tried to walk through it."
Woah, you crazy drug running americans... I guess your disassembling was "productive" and "profitable", eh?;)
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Or, to continue with the "if you're a moderate muslim and you find that offensive" train of thought, you could always kill the poster. C'mon, can't moderates be killers too? I'm so tired of people and their moderates = "peace loving beatniks" philosophy. Some moderates are whackjobs too. :)
...if you don't believe that a rulebook can be a piece of art, please see any of the published DND rulebooks. See amazon for case in point. I'm aware that wizards.com has the rulebook online as plain-jane; a large part of the reason that I buy DND rulebooks obsessively is because of the amazing artwork within. Truly recommended if you have not seen.
Uhm... because he's Lord Apathy?
You wouldn't believe how fast my NOOP protocol is... There's (almost) no I/O wait at all... :)
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this but instead of:
I think you meant:
Or even:
It will also break many "click trackers", "portals", "directory sites", "search engine optimizers", and other annoyances, which is probably a plus for Google users. You know, those sites where you click on some phrase in Google and, three redirects later, you're at some irrelevant porno site.
It's a feature, not a bug! It's a porno random link feature... rather than the *relevant* porn that you were searching for, you get new irrelevant porn! Hurrah!
oh... well, in the "feature not a bug" line, i'd like to say that my original comment was irony. that's the ticket ;)
Of course, that's doubly clever as you didn't bold the 's' in places. To those who aren't reading the message, it reads: "i am tupid"
I remember using this in an upper-year math class at university. We were all staring at the whiteboard, trying to figure out how the complicated left-hand-side equalled the right-hand-side. Nothing was going anywhere, so I thought I'd head to one of the Tim Horton's on-campus (gotta love Canadian universities). Before I went out the door I jokingly multiplied both sides of the equation by 0, wrote "0=0 therefore, true" and went for coffee. How was I supposed to know that some people actually submitted that as an answer to the teacher? Man, did I catch hell for that. Anyways, always remember, if you're lost in math, multiply everything by 0 and your problems will turn out to be nothing ;-)
is this what they call vapor-ware ?
...your humor is so transparent *ducks*
personally i think tossing the win32 build of firebird on there would be pretty sweet. IIRC, firebird on windows is distributed as a .tgz (or .zip, whatever) with a binary that you can execute right out of the directory. no installer required.
Game Makers Aren't Chasing Women
...and in other news, game *players* aren't chasing women either... unless beach volleyball counts... mmm...
(unfortunately google searches for 'wireless internet' or 'wireless data' just turns up a whole lot of crap)? Any other advice?
Alright, admittedly off-topic, but:
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Y'know what would sell more subscriptions, since we're playing the humor-the-psychos-who-click-reload-all-day-long game... how about if you could see your numeric karma score if you had a subscription?
C'mon, Taco... anyone?
if a company is not after money, suing is not the way to go.
I'm not sure how many people out there are versed in logic but essentially:
IF HYPOTHESIS THEN CONCLUSION is logically equivalent to IF NOT CONCLUSION THEN NOT HYPOTHESIS. (you're examining the contrapostive of the original statement)
Anyways, if you apply this transformation to the original statement (if a company is not after money then suing is not the way to go) you get:
Suing is the way to go if a company is after money
Food for thought ;)
Well, maybe i'm a cynic, but...
Why can I see a project like this getting huge funding and support from the government (we're protecting the country, no, the PLANET from weapons of mass destruction!), while NASA has to fight to justify itself? Why will weapons research and detection get more funding, attention and support than space exploration?
"There are many open-source projects that still host encryption code outside the US because of past rules. Is there still a reason for doing so?"
uhm... why should anyone outside the US believe that the US will continue with its current position? Does the current political climate of the US, as observed by other nations (i.e. Canada), suggest that open-source encryption (read: tools to aid and abet terrorists) will continue to enjoy the lack of restrictions?
i dunno, it seems like a whole shwack of 'once bitten, twice shy' to me.
not trying to flame, i just can't see anything (from this side of the border) to suggest that we should be trusting the US not to change their position. *shrugs*
Explains why I get daily spam about toner, but none at all for booze!
geez, don't give them ideas!
If you look at the two personalities that are most influential in the GNU/Linux combination, RMS and Linus (just my opinion of course), I think it's the individual personas of these two individuals that form a striking combination that makes "Linux" (as RMS is loth to call it) so popular.
If you look at the surge of "Linux" popularity over the last decade, it's primarily been the GNU/Linux combination that RMS refers to (although other combinations of GNU/* exist). I would think that it takes this combination of individuals to have this happen --- the idealistic evangelist in RMS, and the pragmatic engineer in Linus.
Of course, all of this discounts the contributions of ESR. If you were going to quickly generalize: RMS is a pot-smoking hippie, Linus is an indifferent capitalist, and ESR is a gun-toting libertarian. They all have their place; they all contribute.
Actually if you break ./ tradition and read the article, you'll notice it says "I do not expect a huge amount of change as a result, testament to just /how/ freely Transmeta has let me do Linux work"
It's nice to see that you've maintained /. tradition by tossing in some typos. Thanks for the irony.
The other 90% was the hard part, typically requiring running some coke, poking at the data, and running the code again to see what changed. "Maze wall moved here, then things crashed when I tried to walk through it."
Woah, you crazy drug running americans... I guess your disassembling was "productive" and "profitable", eh? ;)
You would be annoyed if someone digged up your grave.
As annoyed as I could be considering I'd be freaking DEAD!
I can't think of anything that typifies Slashdot better than posting a four-week old article from the Weekly World News.
They could post it repeatedly
They could have misspelled something in the description
They could have used it as an opportunity to bitch about the MPAA... then ranted about how good the Matrix: Reloaded is going to be in theatres
The article could have appeared yesterday at the register
In short, I don't think this article quite typifies Slashdot
Time to kick ass and chew bubble gum!
Sorry, I had to :)
Do any slashdot readers have any creative suggestions for filling the gap?
Duct tape. 'nuff said, eh?