Rudy was nearly killed in the first collapse. He walked away from the scene 10 minutes before the first collapse, and was in a nearby building, which was heavily damaged when the tower did fall.
A short while later he was on TV, taking charge and being a leader to NYC, and IMO the country.
>>Actually, a laptop would be a great weapon against them , imagine being hit in the head repeatedly with a laptop.
Or being pummelled in the head by 2 fists over and over and over again, only to have their ears boxed, their foreheads slammed into a knee and then either shove their nose up into the base of their brain, or pop their eyeballs out.
Laptops are great tools, but sometimes a guy should just do things by hand.
>>I can understand you're upset. You've never had to deal with something like this before, in the safety and comfort of your metropolis. I'm sure your daily runs to Starbucks will resume, once it's all cleaned up for you. Perhaps, over the next cup o' bean, you'll give pause to think about just what sort of charade it is you're living, and what it takes to keep it there.
Fuck you.
The charade that I'm living? What frigging charade? Freedom? Peace? A place to raise my daughter?
It's not only Americans that live this so called charade of yours. How many other nations share our views, and quality of life? How many up and coming nations are trying to be like the USA? MANY.
If you think real hard about it, you might realize that the bastards that burn our flags and kill our civilians are plain old jealous of how we live. They'd live this life if they could. But they can't. So they hate us for having it.
If it's such a terrible place, aka, charade, aka, satanic place, then maybe all the people from all those poor backwards third world countries should stop coming here.
People immigrate here for a better life. Oh, I know, it's a charade.
And yes, I will continue to go to starbucks, and post to slashdot and spend money on CD's. But I will never, ever forget what happened here yesterday. Nor will anyone else. Americans aren't as dumb and lazy as you think. We're just happy. Or should I say that we WERE happy.
Now we're pissed off.
Changes are coming. Fucking count on it.
>>It is your arrogance that assumes that death has not been presented to me in the same way that you are facing. I have faced death, in ways I hope you can only ever imagine.
No dumbass. What you read in my post was my anger at my homeland being attacked. I assume nothing about you and your experiences. But that does not change my view that you are wrong for trivializing what happened here. If anything, if you were the least bit human, you show some sympathy, having "been through it".
At least that's what I'd do. And will do in the future.
Learn this. (Some)Americans may be soft. But we love our country. And we will fight to the death in the streets, if need be, for it.
You can shove your arrogance straight up your ass . If not, perhaps you'd like to your kneecaps to meet my baseball bat.
Keep watching your TV dumbass. You have no idea what it's really like in NYC right now..... what the cameras don't show you. The body parts... the airplane parts... the firetrucks buried beneath rubble... firehoses snaking from trucks, to someplace under the rubble. There is death here. Maybe someone like you needs to see it up close and personal before you truly understand the scope of the tragedy.
As far as the terrorists not fearing death, then perhaps they should start to worry about fearing for the lives of THEIR mothers, daughters & children. Payback is coming.
They may not fear death, but they can't fly planes into buildings if they're dead to begin with.
Am I angry? Sure I fucking am. I had to step over body parts to get to my apartment yesterday. Yeah, americans like to prolong the inevitable. We, like all other normal people prefer not to die. You'd have to be a fucking madman to want to kill yourself.
>>Violence induces more violence. Retaliation will only lead to more deaths. If you are a citizen of the U.S. of America, please write your representative right now and ask him to join a plea for peace. Historically the U.S. reaction to this kind of attack is to counter strike.
You should spend some time walking around downtown NYC, then see what kind of letter you'd like to write.
There are bodies in the streets here. There are Firemen and Cops (rescue workers) buried beneath the towers. There are thousands of dead here. Maybe 10's of thousands. We don't know yet.
I don't know who's dead yet, but I know that I'm going to funerals soon. Funerals that I shouldn't have to have attended for many many years.
My sister works in the WTC.
The only letter I'll be writing to a representative (if at all)is for more military spending, and for a tougher policy against terrorism.
America will survive this, but today everything changed.
My shit does stink ( just not as much as my bosses' ), and my code isn't the best.... not by a long shot. But it is good.
I'm not a primadonna by any means. My sleeves are always rolled up, and I do everything from enhancing old COBOL reports, to training interns, to writing the API for our distributed system. I put out a lot of fires, and I take on a lot of jobs that the primadonnas don't want to be bothered with. And besides that, my users know that they can TALK to me. I try hard to keep an open, honest relationship with them.
Despite all this, I don't think that the company owes me a damned thing (except maybe a raise and a promotion:). I am the kind of IT worker that you want in your shop. I work hard, nothing is beneath me, and I know the business.
If I spend half an hour a day, reading the news, or the next chapter of the JAVA API tutorial, it's because I need a frigging break... not because I'm being unproductive. I work hard. Managers like you probably don't realize this, you think that we're ALL slackers. You're so wrapped up in increasing productivity that you blindly put the squeeze on the guys that keep your shop running.
Maybe I should spend some more time reading Dead Tree manuals... You can't track that. Or maybe I should start spending time in stall # 3 with my copy of Information Week... when does their next salary survey come out?
The problem with the firewall reports/usage monitoring, in my shop anyway, is that the guys that make the decisions about how much online time is too much, or who gets laid off next are so far removed from the day to day work, that they have no idea what's really going on. They just see numbers... function points.. how far above or below budget were X department's projects last quarter. IMO, their ties are tied a bit too tight and they forget that they have real people working for them. Not bodies, but people.
Sure, you'll find another programmer when someone like me leaves. Maybe he/she will work out. Maybe they wont. But I'm sure that the leadership just radiates from your body, and you'll inspire your team to help the new guy along while he figures out how to fit in.
Sure.
And then the next guy will quit, and you'll have to replace him... more valuable project time wasted while HE tries to figure out what's going on. Then YOU can explain to the boys upstairs why the projects are late.
Oh, one more thing. I was rewarded for working from home. The key word is 'WAS'. Now it's expected from me. It no longer comes up in my reviews, and I'm no longer thanked when I do it. So how should it feel for me to take time out of my personal life, to solve a problem (which is usually caused by someone else), to have the work pretty much ignored? It pisses me off to no end.
My reward for my continued hard work is a talk about how all employess need to be more productive and productivity is being measured, in part, by internet & phone usage. Give me a fucking break... why do I even need to hear this kind of stuff?
Looking at the timestamp on your post(Wednesday August 08, @10:21AM EDT ), I think that it's likely that you're posting from work.
So you think it's OK to tell the guys in the trencehs that they can't surf on company time.. but you can post to/. .
Typical manager mentality.
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My job monitors "everything". Lately, with the slowing economy, and crappy IT job market, they've taken to distributing the firewall reports to the boys upstairs. So, basically out of fear for our jobs we can't use the internet for personal stuff anymore.... even if out projects are delivered on time or early.
That's OK though, becuse except for essential production support, I now refuse to work at home, on my own time. Why should I use MY hardware and MY bandwith for them? I usually spend about 15-20 hours a week writing code at home... trying to get stuff projects done early... try out different things etc. But no more.
In order to practice and to keep my skills sharp, I'm looking for an open source project to contribute to. I haven't found a project that I like yet, but I'm looking... Now that I have all this free personal coding time.
Anyway, when the job market picks up again, my company and all the suits upstairs can kiss my ass. I'm going to find another job. Hell, I should start looking now. And I will be missed... nobody... and I mean nobody in my group can hit the ground running with my code. The API's are easy to use, but the implementations are quite complicated... and I wrote them all.:)
Getting back to my interest in open source, Does anyone have any suggestions for an up and coming project that needs help? I'm a solid C/C++ programmer with a financial background. I can probably offer about 15 hours a week to a project.
Well, after making a bunch of DooM maps in 1994 & 1995, I felt that I was ready for an internship with a local architect. After all, not everyone can figure out the difference between a room and a sector right? You've got to be pretty bright to understand all those item codes too. Yup, and every level must have an exit. Very important.
I figured that there couldn't be that much difference between working in DoomCad and some fancy-shmancy professional 3D design tool. If I can design a sliding door in Doom, it must be easy to do the same in the real world. Right?
The architect turned me down. So I made a map of his office, and 1 week later I was there to give him my own interpretation of the Columbine treatment.
You implicitly learn (get) all of the research the previous programmer did to get to that point. All the different failures he went through you can avoid, because you know what he ended up using.
By doing so, you "take" all of his work as yours. All his testing, all his troubleshooting, JUST by lookign at the code and knowing what he used
How do we know that each and every MSFT developer has never looked at Open Source code.
If it could be proven that a MSFT development team "avoided failure" becuase they had seen Open Source code, would that make the MSFT project in question Open Source?
It'd be so hard to prove though. Programming, at least part of the time is recycling old ideas or code snippets. Even if someone isn't cutting and pasting, it's hard not to be influenced by other code.
If I read the MSFT code today, and did an open source hack 1 year from now that used something similiar to what I saw in the MSFT code, could they really come after me?
How the hell is anybody supposed to get any work done if they have to worry about stuff like this?
I'm curious to see what MSFT code looks like. I actually expect it to be very high quality. I'm sure I could learn a few things by looking at it But I'd hate to pick up a really good idea and have to pay for it later.
>>the assholes with their 110dB subwoofer ripping through residential neighbourhoods at 2AM
Or the little freaks who beep their horns instead of ringing the doorbell, when picking up their friends. (This has woken up my 2 1/2 month old daughter more times than I can remember)
Another case of selfishness:
I went on a 2 month hacking spree to re-write some of the API's that my project at work uses.
It's not, and can't be open source, but it's really some of my est work. I'd be prooud to open it up to the commnuity. Anyway, this little intern at my job was looking for an idea for her comp-sci final project. This was back in April. I asked her to take a look at the new code, and see if she could figure it out... maybe there was something in there that she could use as inspiration.
There was some stuff in there that, if modified and extended, would have gotten her an easy A.
Wouldn't you know it that the little worm took the whole damned API, and handed it in!! She even took the project name off the comment headers & replaced my name with hers. She changed a few variable names, etc. She got the A, and the professor wants the code for his classes next semester.
So today she asks me if this is OK. OK??? She could lose her freakin job!! The code is proprietary. Also I feel that the code was stolen from me personally. I didn't HAVE to tell her about it. Nobody would have cared if she lifted a couple of classes and changed them. That's what I was prompting her to do anyway, but the little thief walked off with & took credit for the whole damned thing. Auurgh!
Perhaps I should take the time out of my busy schedule to write a brand new "open" version of my company's proprietay code. That way, the little community of interns and students can have something new and free to play with.
>>We'v taken care of everything, the words you read, the songs you sing, the pictures that bring pleasure to your eyes....
It breaks my heart to see Neil's words used to describe the current situation.
But then again, He's probably worried about his revenue stream too.
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It makes sense, from some people's point of view
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OK, I can understand how the search engine guys could want to make a few $$ by putting paid links at the top of every search. I'm sure that those guys have kids to feed and mortgages to pay.
But for a guy like me, looking for real stuff, to answer real questions, it just plain sucks.... It's bad enough that we have to sort through pages of slush before we (maybe) find something useful. But to have to sort through what amount to commercials first?? WTF?
Admittedly, I've known this for a long time... but I get a little steamed when I'm reminded about it.
Perhaps the solution is for the search engines to offer a setting that will allow Joe User to view 'pure' and commercialized links seperately. Not that they'll do this of course....most folks will probably pick the pure links. But it would be a nice thing to do.
I suppose that the moisture farmers could use these little computers to keep track of their harvests, as well as check out the Mos Eisley web site to see what's happening in town that week.
>>intended for use within Third-world countries where its ultra-low-power design enables it to be used indefinitely away from sources of mains electricity.
Now if we could design a box with solar powered, satellite internet access, the Talbian might have some problems enforcing their internet ban.
How does crap like this get posted??
If I was reading this at work, and the sniffer software got a hold of that page, I'd be walking home with my O'reilly books & Legos in a cardboard box.
I know that I'm new here, but I'd expect that garbage like that wouldn't make it on to an otherwise cool site.
>>We absolutely have to develop a solution as well. Given current realities, communication empowers the Strategic Initiative. Having a plug-in that is fiscal, it follows that data disseminate a prominent suite of tools. As always, goals are the team.
No offense intended, but this looks like it could have been generated by Dilbert's Mission Statement Generator.
LOL
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/career/bin/m s2.cgi
>>saying that a license that users don't even have to see before downloading online free software isn't binding.
Yeah, but you have to read the license before installation, in most cases.
grepper
Slashdot Mirror
Rudy was nearly killed in the first collapse. He walked away from the scene 10 minutes before the first collapse, and was in a nearby building, which was heavily damaged when the tower did fall.
A short while later he was on TV, taking charge and being a leader to NYC, and IMO the country.
>>Actually, a laptop would be a great weapon against them , imagine being hit in the head repeatedly with a laptop.
Or being pummelled in the head by 2 fists over and over and over again, only to have their ears boxed, their foreheads slammed into a knee and then either shove their nose up into the base of their brain, or pop their eyeballs out.
Laptops are great tools, but sometimes a guy should just do things by hand.
>>I can understand you're upset. You've never had to deal with something like this before, in the safety and comfort of your metropolis. I'm sure your daily runs to Starbucks will resume, once it's all cleaned up for you. Perhaps, over the next cup o' bean, you'll give pause to think about just what sort of charade it is you're living, and what it takes to keep it there.
Fuck you.
The charade that I'm living? What frigging charade? Freedom? Peace? A place to raise my daughter?
It's not only Americans that live this so called charade of yours. How many other nations share our views, and quality of life? How many up and coming nations are trying to be like the USA? MANY.
If you think real hard about it, you might realize that the bastards that burn our flags and kill our civilians are plain old jealous of how we live. They'd live this life if they could. But they can't. So they hate us for having it.
If it's such a terrible place, aka, charade, aka, satanic place, then maybe all the people from all those poor backwards third world countries should stop coming here.
People immigrate here for a better life. Oh, I know, it's a charade.
And yes, I will continue to go to starbucks, and post to slashdot and spend money on CD's. But I will never, ever forget what happened here yesterday. Nor will anyone else. Americans aren't as dumb and lazy as you think. We're just happy. Or should I say that we WERE happy.
Now we're pissed off.
Changes are coming. Fucking count on it.
>>It is your arrogance that assumes that death has not been presented to me in the same way that you are facing. I have faced death, in ways I hope you can only ever imagine.
No dumbass. What you read in my post was my anger at my homeland being attacked. I assume nothing about you and your experiences. But that does not change my view that you are wrong for trivializing what happened here. If anything, if you were the least bit human, you show some sympathy, having "been through it".
At least that's what I'd do. And will do in the future.
Learn this. (Some)Americans may be soft. But we love our country. And we will fight to the death in the streets, if need be, for it.
You can shove your arrogance straight up your ass . If not, perhaps you'd like to your kneecaps to meet my baseball bat.
Keep watching your TV dumbass. You have no idea what it's really like in NYC right now..... what the cameras don't show you. The body parts... the airplane parts... the firetrucks buried beneath rubble... firehoses snaking from trucks, to someplace under the rubble. There is death here. Maybe someone like you needs to see it up close and personal before you truly understand the scope of the tragedy.
As far as the terrorists not fearing death, then perhaps they should start to worry about fearing for the lives of THEIR mothers, daughters & children. Payback is coming.
They may not fear death, but they can't fly planes into buildings if they're dead to begin with.
Am I angry? Sure I fucking am. I had to step over body parts to get to my apartment yesterday. Yeah, americans like to prolong the inevitable. We, like all other normal people prefer not to die. You'd have to be a fucking madman to want to kill yourself.
>>Violence induces more violence. Retaliation will only lead to more deaths. If you are a citizen of the U.S. of America, please write your representative right now and ask him to join a plea for peace. Historically the U.S. reaction to this kind of attack is to counter strike.
You should spend some time walking around downtown NYC, then see what kind of letter you'd like to write.
There are bodies in the streets here. There are Firemen and Cops (rescue workers) buried beneath the towers. There are thousands of dead here. Maybe 10's of thousands. We don't know yet.
I don't know who's dead yet, but I know that I'm going to funerals soon. Funerals that I shouldn't have to have attended for many many years.
My sister works in the WTC.
The only letter I'll be writing to a representative (if at all)is for more military spending, and for a tougher policy against terrorism.
America will survive this, but today everything changed.
My shit does stink ( just not as much as my bosses' ), and my code isn't the best.... not by a long shot. But it is good.
:). I am the kind of IT worker that you want in your shop. I work hard, nothing is beneath me, and I know the business.
I'm not a primadonna by any means. My sleeves are always rolled up, and I do everything from enhancing old COBOL reports, to training interns, to writing the API for our distributed system. I put out a lot of fires, and I take on a lot of jobs that the primadonnas don't want to be bothered with. And besides that, my users know that they can TALK to me. I try hard to keep an open, honest relationship with them.
Despite all this, I don't think that the company owes me a damned thing (except maybe a raise and a promotion
If I spend half an hour a day, reading the news, or the next chapter of the JAVA API tutorial, it's because I need a frigging break... not because I'm being unproductive. I work hard. Managers like you probably don't realize this, you think that we're ALL slackers. You're so wrapped up in increasing productivity that you blindly put the squeeze on the guys that keep your shop running.
Maybe I should spend some more time reading Dead Tree manuals... You can't track that. Or maybe I should start spending time in stall # 3 with my copy of Information Week... when does their next salary survey come out?
The problem with the firewall reports/usage monitoring, in my shop anyway, is that the guys that make the decisions about how much online time is too much, or who gets laid off next are so far removed from the day to day work, that they have no idea what's really going on. They just see numbers... function points.. how far above or below budget were X department's projects last quarter. IMO, their ties are tied a bit too tight and they forget that they have real people working for them. Not bodies, but people.
Sure, you'll find another programmer when someone like me leaves. Maybe he/she will work out. Maybe they wont. But I'm sure that the leadership just radiates from your body, and you'll inspire your team to help the new guy along while he figures out how to fit in.
Sure.
And then the next guy will quit, and you'll have to replace him... more valuable project time wasted while HE tries to figure out what's going on. Then YOU can explain to the boys upstairs why the projects are late.
Oh, one more thing. I was rewarded for working from home. The key word is 'WAS'. Now it's expected from me. It no longer comes up in my reviews, and I'm no longer thanked when I do it. So how should it feel for me to take time out of my personal life, to solve a problem (which is usually caused by someone else), to have the work pretty much ignored? It pisses me off to no end.
My reward for my continued hard work is a talk about how all employess need to be more productive and productivity is being measured, in part, by internet & phone usage. Give me a fucking break... why do I even need to hear this kind of stuff?
pressure/grep
Looking at the timestamp on your post(Wednesday August 08, @10:21AM EDT ), I think that it's likely that you're posting from work.
/. .
So you think it's OK to tell the guys in the trenches that they can't surf on company time.. but you can post to
Typical manager mentality.
pressure/grep
Looking at the timestamp on your post(Wednesday August 08, @10:21AM EDT ), I think that it's likely that you're posting from work. So you think it's OK to tell the guys in the trencehs that they can't surf on company time.. but you can post to /. .
Typical manager mentality.
pressure/grep
Fair is fair, right Mr. manager?
:)
My job monitors "everything". Lately, with the slowing economy, and crappy IT job market, they've taken to distributing the firewall reports to the boys upstairs. So, basically out of fear for our jobs we can't use the internet for personal stuff anymore.... even if out projects are delivered on time or early.
That's OK though, becuse except for essential production support, I now refuse to work at home, on my own time. Why should I use MY hardware and MY bandwith for them? I usually spend about 15-20 hours a week writing code at home... trying to get stuff projects done early... try out different things etc. But no more.
In order to practice and to keep my skills sharp, I'm looking for an open source project to contribute to. I haven't found a project that I like yet, but I'm looking... Now that I have all this free personal coding time.
Anyway, when the job market picks up again, my company and all the suits upstairs can kiss my ass. I'm going to find another job. Hell, I should start looking now. And I will be missed... nobody... and I mean nobody in my group can hit the ground running with my code. The API's are easy to use, but the implementations are quite complicated... and I wrote them all.
Getting back to my interest in open source, Does anyone have any suggestions for an up and coming project that needs help? I'm a solid C/C++ programmer with a financial background. I can probably offer about 15 hours a week to a project.
pressure/grep
Well, after making a bunch of DooM maps in 1994 & 1995, I felt that I was ready for an internship with a local architect. After all, not everyone can figure out the difference between a room and a sector right? You've got to be pretty bright to understand all those item codes too. Yup, and every level must have an exit. Very important.
I figured that there couldn't be that much difference between working in DoomCad and some fancy-shmancy professional 3D design tool. If I can design a sliding door in Doom, it must be easy to do the same in the real world. Right?
The architect turned me down. So I made a map of his office, and 1 week later I was there to give him my own interpretation of the Columbine treatment.
Just kidding.
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And how come nobody has a similar accusation for id Software when they released the source to Wolf 3d or Quake?)
Probably because id wants people to work on the source and build new games & mods. They want other developers to learn from, and build on their ideas.
They GPL'ed the source for DooM, and I think it's the same for Quake.
I believe that id really cares about the community. They don't have to release their source. They just do. It's pretty damned cool if you ask me.
I'm looking forward to seeing the Q3Arena source, probably about the same time that DooM3 comes out.
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You implicitly learn (get) all of the research the previous programmer did to get to that point. All the different failures he went through you can avoid, because you know what he ended up using.
By doing so, you "take" all of his work as yours. All his testing, all his troubleshooting, JUST by lookign at the code and knowing what he used
How do we know that each and every MSFT developer has never looked at Open Source code.
If it could be proven that a MSFT development team "avoided failure" becuase they had seen Open Source code, would that make the MSFT project in question Open Source?
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It'd be so hard to prove though. Programming, at least part of the time is recycling old ideas or code snippets. Even if someone isn't cutting and pasting, it's hard not to be influenced by other code.
If I read the MSFT code today, and did an open source hack 1 year from now that used something similiar to what I saw in the MSFT code, could they really come after me?
How the hell is anybody supposed to get any work done if they have to worry about stuff like this?
I'm curious to see what MSFT code looks like. I actually expect it to be very high quality. I'm sure I could learn a few things by looking at it But I'd hate to pick up a really good idea and have to pay for it later.
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>>the assholes with their 110dB subwoofer ripping through residential neighbourhoods at 2AM
Or the little freaks who beep their horns instead of ringing the doorbell, when picking up their friends. (This has woken up my 2 1/2 month old daughter more times than I can remember)
Another case of selfishness:
I went on a 2 month hacking spree to re-write some of the API's that my project at work uses. It's not, and can't be open source, but it's really some of my est work. I'd be prooud to open it up to the commnuity. Anyway, this little intern at my job was looking for an idea for her comp-sci final project. This was back in April. I asked her to take a look at the new code, and see if she could figure it out... maybe there was something in there that she could use as inspiration.
There was some stuff in there that, if modified and extended, would have gotten her an easy A.
Wouldn't you know it that the little worm took the whole damned API, and handed it in!! She even took the project name off the comment headers & replaced my name with hers. She changed a few variable names, etc. She got the A, and the professor wants the code for his classes next semester.
So today she asks me if this is OK. OK??? She could lose her freakin job!! The code is proprietary. Also I feel that the code was stolen from me personally. I didn't HAVE to tell her about it. Nobody would have cared if she lifted a couple of classes and changed them. That's what I was prompting her to do anyway, but the little thief walked off with & took credit for the whole damned thing. Auurgh!
Perhaps I should take the time out of my busy schedule to write a brand new "open" version of my company's proprietay code. That way, the little community of interns and students can have something new and free to play with.
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Sitting on a park bench, eying .jpg's with bad intent
snot running down his nose, greasy fingers keying adult check login coodes,
AQUALUNG!!
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16K?? I've got #defines that are > than 16K!! Jeez.
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>>We'v taken care of everything, the words you read, the songs you sing, the pictures that bring pleasure to your eyes....
It breaks my heart to see Neil's words used to describe the current situation.
But then again, He's probably worried about his revenue stream too.
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OK, I can understand how the search engine guys could want to make a few $$ by putting paid links at the top of every search. I'm sure that those guys have kids to feed and mortgages to pay.
But for a guy like me, looking for real stuff, to answer real questions, it just plain sucks.... It's bad enough that we have to sort through pages of slush before we (maybe) find something useful. But to have to sort through what amount to commercials first?? WTF?
Admittedly, I've known this for a long time... but I get a little steamed when I'm reminded about it.
Perhaps the solution is for the search engines to offer a setting that will allow Joe User to view 'pure' and commercialized links seperately. Not that they'll do this of course....most folks will probably pick the pure links. But it would be a nice thing to do.
pressure/grep
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I suppose that the moisture farmers could use these little computers to keep track of their harvests, as well as check out the Mos Eisley web site to see what's happening in town that week.
pressure/grep
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>>intended for use within Third-world countries where its ultra-low-power design enables it to be used indefinitely away from sources of mains electricity.
Now if we could design a box with solar powered, satellite internet access, the Talbian might have some problems enforcing their internet ban.
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How does crap like this get posted??
If I was reading this at work, and the sniffer software got a hold of that page, I'd be walking home with my O'reilly books & Legos in a cardboard box.
I know that I'm new here, but I'd expect that garbage like that wouldn't make it on to an otherwise cool site.
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Long live the Great Worm!!
I can't wait to see how the special effects for the worm/empreror turn out.
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>>We absolutely have to develop a solution as well. Given current realities, communication empowers the Strategic Initiative. Having a plug-in that is fiscal, it follows that data disseminate a prominent suite of tools. As always, goals are the team.
m s2.cgi
No offense intended, but this looks like it could have been generated by Dilbert's Mission Statement Generator.
LOL
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/career/bin/
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>>saying that a license that users don't even have to see before downloading online free software isn't binding. Yeah, but you have to read the license before installation, in most cases. grepper
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>>No coding required, do a fresh install of your favorite (FreeBSD) Linux distro,
Perhaps this is a dumb question, but how can you install a new OS.. any OS( LINUX/BSD/SOLARIS ) on the Xbox if it doesn't have a floppy drive?
How would one get the Xbox to boot the first time after installing a new HD?
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