The point of the submitter's comments was that the products with a support structure in place were less expensive than products without a support structure in place (that would require someone on staff to do support). Whether any of the projects involved (on either side) were open source or not doesn't factor into the equation -- it would've been just as likely that they could've gotten the author (or team) of one of the open source projects to charge for support as to blow them off, and if that happened, there'd be no article, would there?
(This all assumes that you will live in your house for at least five years. Less than that and you're liable to lose money due to closing costs, etc.)
Look worse after the bubble bursts? Doubtful. Sure, the housing market is rising because people move their money out of stocks and into real estate, but a house is still a better investment than an apartment.
With an apartment, you flush your money down the toilet. With a house, you get to keep the principal, and you get to deduct the interest on your taxes. With interest rates so low, your mortgage could even turn out to be lower than your rent.
Now, is housing a good investment for making money? Not particularly; you can get better (and stabler) rates of return elsewhere with your money. But you need a place to live, and a house definitely wins over an apartment.
Searching for the days of yesteryear?
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Then why not sit back and read this Slashdot review of High Score from July 10th.
Seems to me that arcades have closed because there's less of a need / desire for them. Ten years ago, you could play games at home on your Nintendo, but it didn't even come close to the stuff they had in the arcades. Since then, though, consoles have gotten better, and arcades haven't -- the games you have on an XBox / Gamecube / PS2 rival what you're going to see in an arcade.
I would agree, unless your hobbies/interests include computer related issues.
On the other hand...
I have been told by headhunters that you should not put computer-related items in your hobbies, because it makes you look like a stereotypical geek, and turns prospective employers off unless they are also geeks (which is rare).
Bottom line is, I don't think there's a right answer on this one. Go with what feels best to you.
competing and overtaking each other over and over again - still, one will win in the end....Compete for a long time, yes, but I did not specify a time limit
And in the long run we're all dead. And the universe suffers a (pick one) Big Crunch / heat death.
But if you're talking about _meaningful_ time frames...
What I find funny is that I can't run the original Fallout under Windows 2000, but can run it under Wine/WineX.
That's funny. I picked up the Fallout/Fallout2 CD pack (only $10!) just a few months ago, and it ran fine on my Win2k box (with the exception of installing, which you have to do manually). Don't know if there was a difference between this and the originals, though.
It's sad. I read the opener, and the very first thought into my head, the very first one, was "What about X10?"
Why is this sad? Because the only reason I know about X10 is through their pop up ads(1), which I despise, and in no way wish to support -- yet they're obviously successful. I hate it when reality interferes with me like that.
Same reason people believe in coincidences -- it's because they want to feel that their lives _are_ special, rather than the alternative of being essentially meaningless.
Belief in a god gives some meaning to life. Belief in prayer gives the ability to control the uncontrollable. Belief in precognition gives the ability to know the unknowable. Etc.
2. Respond to all queries with an affirmative "I have that file!" message ["karma" increase].
That's already a problem that's been dealt with by Gnutella clients -- you would have servents that would respond positive to any (and all) query requests (typically by appending '.html' to it and returning a redirect to some spam page).
The easy answer is that the newer clients have an option to send out queries for random data every so often -- anything that answers affirmative to those queries gets ignored. Simple and effective.
Although I can see why a cached copy of the article in question that can be read after the website is slashdotted could be considered 'informative', perhaps next time the moderator could take the time to read the comment fully.
For instance, I highly doubt that '...has just sucked you off' appears in the original article.
There can be a dark side to all this. Swarmers can have difficulty living in the present.
Living in the present? It sounds like these people have some problems living by themselves. We've already got attention-deficit disorder, and the article brings this up near the end -- that you get people who leave if the situation doesn't immediately grab (and hold) their attention -- but the extension of this would be people who can't (or won't) go and do things on their own, without their friends (or 'swarm').
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They want people...to test parachutes...in a helicopter.
Let me think about that one.
The OP is +5 insightful, and the parent is 1, unmoderated? Mod parent up.
"shouldn't be trusted" != "lies all the time"
You've been able to buy the script at any bookstore for years now.
I've had this for awhile. I call it "Alt-Tab"
Just remember -- caching is bad, it wouldn't help Slashdot, and it would hurt the server owners.
The point of the submitter's comments was that the products with a support structure in place were less expensive than products without a support structure in place (that would require someone on staff to do support). Whether any of the projects involved (on either side) were open source or not doesn't factor into the equation -- it would've been just as likely that they could've gotten the author (or team) of one of the open source projects to charge for support as to blow them off, and if that happened, there'd be no article, would there?
In other words: SHBT. SHL. HAND.
Come on? No fair running the submission through the questionizer filter?!?!?!? Next thing you now, they'll do it to comments, too?
Oh well? At least everything's spelled correctly?
(This all assumes that you will live in your house for at least five years. Less than that and you're liable to lose money due to closing costs, etc.)
Look worse after the bubble bursts? Doubtful. Sure, the housing market is rising because people move their money out of stocks and into real estate, but a house is still a better investment than an apartment.
With an apartment, you flush your money down the toilet. With a house, you get to keep the principal, and you get to deduct the interest on your taxes. With interest rates so low, your mortgage could even turn out to be lower than your rent.
Now, is housing a good investment for making money? Not particularly; you can get better (and stabler) rates of return elsewhere with your money. But you need a place to live, and a house definitely wins over an apartment.
Then why not sit back and read this Slashdot review of High Score from July 10th.
Seems to me that arcades have closed because there's less of a need / desire for them. Ten years ago, you could play games at home on your Nintendo, but it didn't even come close to the stuff they had in the arcades. Since then, though, consoles have gotten better, and arcades haven't -- the games you have on an XBox / Gamecube / PS2 rival what you're going to see in an arcade.
I would agree, unless your hobbies/interests include computer related issues.
On the other hand...
I have been told by headhunters that you should not put computer-related items in your hobbies, because it makes you look like a stereotypical geek, and turns prospective employers off unless they are also geeks (which is rare).
Bottom line is, I don't think there's a right answer on this one. Go with what feels best to you.
competing and overtaking each other over and over again - still, one will win in the end....Compete for a long time, yes, but I did not specify a time limit
And in the long run we're all dead. And the universe suffers a (pick one) Big Crunch / heat death.
But if you're talking about _meaningful_ time frames...
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
(And throwing this into the bypass the 'all caps' lameness filter)
I think that the protocol needs to be updated a little. How do we know when the end of the list of robots is reached?
It's all sent on one line, so the newline character marks the end of the list. See the examples.
Again, why weren't we notified?
You mean notified like in this Slashdot article posted two days ago?
What I find funny is that I can't run the original Fallout under Windows 2000, but can run it under Wine/WineX.
That's funny. I picked up the Fallout/Fallout2 CD pack (only $10!) just a few months ago, and it ran fine on my Win2k box (with the exception of installing, which you have to do manually). Don't know if there was a difference between this and the originals, though.
It's sad. I read the opener, and the very first thought into my head, the very first one, was "What about X10?"
Why is this sad? Because the only reason I know about X10 is through their pop up ads(1), which I despise, and in no way wish to support -- yet they're obviously successful. I hate it when reality interferes with me like that.
(1) Until I started using Mozilla, of course.
Too bad the task is assigned by the contest and not picked by the coder, then, innit?
Same reason people believe in coincidences -- it's because they want to feel that their lives _are_ special, rather than the alternative of being essentially meaningless.
Belief in a god gives some meaning to life. Belief in prayer gives the ability to control the uncontrollable. Belief in precognition gives the ability to know the unknowable. Etc.
Gold dragons have been able to fly without wings since 1st edition AD&D.
2. Respond to all queries with an affirmative "I have that file!" message ["karma" increase].
That's already a problem that's been dealt with by Gnutella clients -- you would have servents that would respond positive to any (and all) query requests (typically by appending '.html' to it and returning a redirect to some spam page).
The easy answer is that the newer clients have an option to send out queries for random data every so often -- anything that answers affirmative to those queries gets ignored. Simple and effective.
Although I can see why a cached copy of the article in question that can be read after the website is slashdotted could be considered 'informative', perhaps next time the moderator could take the time to read the comment fully.
For instance, I highly doubt that '...has just sucked you off' appears in the original article.
There can be a dark side to all this. Swarmers can have difficulty living in the present.
Living in the present? It sounds like these people have some problems living by themselves. We've already got attention-deficit disorder, and the article brings this up near the end -- that you get people who leave if the situation doesn't immediately grab (and hold) their attention -- but the extension of this would be people who can't (or won't) go and do things on their own, without their friends (or 'swarm').
Maybe now the three-eyed, ten-tongued aliens of Vega will be able to get some rest once we turn the noise down.
Bad intergalactic neighbors, that's what we are.