You now have 2.68 fewer microseconds each day to do whatever it is you do
Oddly enough, this is the exact length of a 30 minute sitcom minus commercials... I wonder which show this will force off the air?
-- Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Is this just a clever dupe of the story on vaporware?
Also, did anyone else find the list of coming attractions to be a bit underwhelming?
-- Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Apparently your product is now vaporware if it slips a quarter. I think by that definition every computer game I've ever played has at some point been vaporware...
-- Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
who have never read any of Orson Scott Card's work, run, do not walk, to the nearest bookstore/library and buy/check out/steal/photocopy Ender's Game.
For those of you who have read some of his novels but have never read his short stories, you should check out Maps in a Mirror, recently re-released in paperback. In particular, check out "The Hanged Man and the King of Words", "Unaccompanied Sonata", "Mikal's Songbird", "A Plague of Butterflies", uhm... look just buy the book ok.
And while I'm at it. There is a story in the book After the King called "Silver of Gold" by Emma Bull and another one called "The Fellowship of the Dragon" by Patricia A. McKillip, and well, you should read those too.
HITCHHIKER : You heard of this thing, the 2 line p2p app? TED : Yeah, sure, the 2 line p2p app. Yeah, the file sharing thingie. HITCHHIKER : Yeah well, this is gonna blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 1...line... P2P app. TED : Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you're going. HITCHHIKER : Think about it. You log onto slashdot, and you see the 2 line p2p app sittin' there waitin to be downloaded, and there's the 1 line p2p app right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man? TED : I would go for the 1. HITCHHIKER : Bingo, man, bingo. 1 line p2p app. And we guarantee just as good a download as the 2 line folk. TED : You guarantee it? That's -- how do you do that? HITCHHIKER : If you're not happy with the first line, we're gonna send you the second line for free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B". TED : That's right. That's -- that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with the 0 line p2p app. Then you're in trouble, huh? [Hitchhiker convulses] HITCHHIKER : No! No, no, not 0! I said 1. Nobody's comin' up with 0. Who can write code in 0 lines? You can't even type an umlaut on 0 lines.
Penn State engineers, Pouyan Amirshahi and Mohsen Kavehrad, estimated in a research paper released Wednesday that their system could deliver data at close to one gigabit per second over medium-voltage electrical lines in ideal conditions
Though Amirshahi did mention that in order to provide anything faster then modem speeds to actual home users would require lowering the mean temperature of the earth to near absolute zero.
Amiga Lover He's smart, he's understated, he keeps doing new logical puzzlement stuff
MuValasCohen decided he was kind of like that. Like Mozart? Bram and Jenna nod."
maybe he meant underrated...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
- GNU/RMS was useful at one time but he should now leave GNU/serious GNU/persons do the real GNU/work. - GNU/RMS is too extreme - GNU/RMS is a crackpot - GNU/RMS is a GNU/communist - GNU/RMS is a dirty hippy that smells bad - GNU/GNU/Linux is childish/idotic/ego-driven - The GNU/GPL is not GNU/free / GNU/viral etc...
That was always the biggest complaint I heard about RMS: his insistence that Linux be called GNU/Linux.
So now we have a private corporation (ISP) deciding on its own, what people actually want or what they should be viewing. It was bad enough having governments making decisions for us, but this
I don't know about you, but I would prefer a business making decisions like this to the government. At least the business can't throw you in jail (or worse) if you speak out against them. All other things being equal, it's much easier to overthrow a business than it is a government.
**Note** Yes I saw the post farther down that the ISP is supposedly majority-owned by a government. This does not change my argument, nor its sentiments.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
has ordered Verizon to stop deployment of FTTP until they can figure out how to stop creating sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside.
For access to reasonably priced, unmetered high-speed internet access, minivan swallowing sinkholes is an evil that I am perfectly willing to face.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
I used to play that game too
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Is Microsoft opening itself to defending thousands of lawsuits against their customers?"
I'd say it's more likely that by a remarkable coincidence, a rogue company, with no discernible ties to Microsoft, will begin suing Open Source end-users for IP infringement, effectively underscoring the significance of Microsoft's indemnification. Remind you of something?
--
I write stuff, but not that often and not that well...
This is nothing more than a promo for CBS's new CSI spinoff: CSI: Silicon Valley
From the make-believe press release: Almost all of the shows will take place in chat rooms and virtual reality environments. There, the cast will be represented by their chosen avatars, ranging from a hulking Atlas mech to Yuna from FFX to a beatifully rendered Ulala look-alike avatar. "It's not just about the crimes either" says Berny Phillips, one of the lead produces, "there's a lot of character development, too. There is one particular espisode where a characters avatar is threatened and the Atlas mech nearly sacrifices himself to save her. It's very sweet."
Of course, in real-life, all of the cast members are males.
-- I am joking. This is a joke. You have been joked with.
It involves three real-time steps: taking images of a subject with 48 cameras, transmitting the images over a network, and implanting them in a virtual world... Imagine a nurse telling a diabetic how to make an insulin injection while being far away from him.
Yes, because this is currently impossible with a single camera... or just a video.
By your argumentation, nothing we do can be called unnatural. That makes the distinction between natural and unnatural useless.
Well then, please tell me, by your argument, who or what is the arbiter of that distinction?
I'd like to argue that our sense of morality separates us from nature.
Heh. Do you mind defining morality? And just out of curiosity, how does something that supposedly arose from natural development (such as our "morality") become separated from from nature?
No, the main point is that the government frequently uses any reasoning that they can to claim power over the citizens of the United States.
It was an administrative decision from the FCC which overstepped their authority from Congress to "promote digital television"
A conservative Constitutional constructionist would argue that Congress can not delegate its power to create laws just by calling them regulations in the first place.
His parent's bought a new house with a smaller basement...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Slashdot Mirror
You now have 2.68 fewer microseconds each day to do whatever it is you do
Oddly enough, this is the exact length of a 30 minute sitcom minus commercials... I wonder which show this will force off the air?
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
However, after a 5 year break from academics I'm not sure about my decision and could do with some advice from Slashdot users.
and you will immediately do the exact opposite, I presume?
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You have been warned once. Do not touch my danish again.
Is this just a clever dupe of the story on vaporware?
Also, did anyone else find the list of coming attractions to be a bit underwhelming?
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Apparently your product is now vaporware if it slips a quarter. I think by that definition every computer game I've ever played has at some point been vaporware...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
who have never read any of Orson Scott Card's work, run, do not walk, to the nearest bookstore/library and buy/check out/steal/photocopy Ender's Game.
For those of you who have read some of his novels but have never read his short stories, you should check out Maps in a Mirror, recently re-released in paperback. In particular, check out "The Hanged Man and the King of Words", "Unaccompanied Sonata", "Mikal's Songbird", "A Plague of Butterflies", uhm... look just buy the book ok.
And while I'm at it. There is a story in the book After the King called "Silver of Gold" by Emma Bull and another one called "The Fellowship of the Dragon" by Patricia A. McKillip, and well, you should read those too.
That's it.
Oh wait. Terry Pratchett is great too...
Oh, hello Nurse Ratchet...
[Sounds of scuffling in the background]
Must press submit...
HITCHHIKER : You heard of this thing, the 2 line p2p app?
TED : Yeah, sure, the 2 line p2p app. Yeah, the file sharing thingie.
HITCHHIKER : Yeah well, this is gonna blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 1...line... P2P app.
TED : Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you're going.
HITCHHIKER : Think about it. You log onto slashdot, and you see the 2 line p2p app sittin' there waitin to be downloaded, and there's the 1 line p2p app right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?
TED : I would go for the 1.
HITCHHIKER : Bingo, man, bingo. 1 line p2p app. And we guarantee just as good a download as the 2 line folk.
TED : You guarantee it? That's -- how do you do that?
HITCHHIKER : If you're not happy with the first line, we're gonna send you the second line for free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B".
TED : That's right. That's -- that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with the 0 line p2p app. Then you're in trouble, huh?
[Hitchhiker convulses]
HITCHHIKER : No! No, no, not 0! I said 1. Nobody's comin' up with 0. Who can write code in 0 lines? You can't even type an umlaut on 0 lines.
If they do try to record HDTV, I predict that Cable/Satellite will follow up with DMCA-to-Tivo-King-4.
It looks like it's going to be a classic match.
Penn State engineers, Pouyan Amirshahi and Mohsen Kavehrad, estimated in a research paper released Wednesday that their system could deliver data at close to one gigabit per second over medium-voltage electrical lines in ideal conditions
Though Amirshahi did mention that in order to provide anything faster then modem speeds to actual home users would require lowering the mean temperature of the earth to near absolute zero.
I wrote a 2 line p2p app in python:
import modified_tinyp2p, sys
modified_tinyp2p(sys.argv[1])
dependent libraries? what dependent libraries?!
Amiga Lover He's smart, he's understated, he keeps doing new logical puzzlement stuff
MuValas Cohen decided he was kind of like that. Like Mozart? Bram and Jenna nod."
maybe he meant underrated...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Cue the GNU/assinine comments...
In no GNU/particular order:
- GNU/RMS was useful at one time but he should now leave GNU/serious GNU/persons do the real GNU/work.
- GNU/RMS is too extreme
- GNU/RMS is a crackpot
- GNU/RMS is a GNU/communist
- GNU/RMS is a dirty hippy that smells bad
- GNU/GNU/Linux is childish/idotic/ego-driven
- The GNU/GPL is not GNU/free / GNU/viral etc...
That was always the biggest complaint I heard about RMS: his insistence that Linux be called GNU/Linux.
"its makers plan to program the robot in English -- not for export, but to teach the language to Japanese children."
Well at least the future is shaping up to transpire like a good anime, with our young ninja overlords being trained in our ways by their robot tutors.
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I sincerely hope that in the movie of my life, I play a major character.
So now we have a private corporation (ISP) deciding on its own, what people actually want or what they should be viewing. It was bad enough having governments making decisions for us, but this
I don't know about you, but I would prefer a business making decisions like this to the government. At least the business can't throw you in jail (or worse) if you speak out against them. All other things being equal, it's much easier to overthrow a business than it is a government.
**Note**
Yes I saw the post farther down that the ISP is supposedly majority-owned by a government. This does not change my argument, nor its sentiments.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
has ordered Verizon to stop deployment of FTTP until they can figure out how to stop creating sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside.
For access to reasonably priced, unmetered high-speed internet access, minivan swallowing sinkholes is an evil that I am perfectly willing to face.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
But I quit.
There's no End Game.
Is Microsoft opening itself to defending thousands of lawsuits against their customers?"
I'd say it's more likely that by a remarkable coincidence, a rogue company, with no discernible ties to Microsoft, will begin suing Open Source end-users for IP infringement, effectively underscoring the significance of Microsoft's indemnification. Remind you of something?
--
I write stuff, but not that often and not that well...
they should invest in cigarette-powered batteries...
I can just see it now. In cnojunction with Apple:
the Marlpod. Light up and listen.
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Taste the Music.
or has BSD been getting a heck of a lot of stories on the main page lately
It's like they haven't been listening to the trolls at all
--
I write stuff, but not that well and not that often...
This is nothing more than a promo for CBS's new CSI spinoff: CSI: Silicon Valley
From the make-believe press release:
Almost all of the shows will take place in chat rooms and virtual reality environments. There, the cast will be represented by their chosen avatars, ranging from a hulking Atlas mech to Yuna from FFX to a beatifully rendered Ulala look-alike avatar. "It's not just about the crimes either" says Berny Phillips, one of the lead produces, "there's a lot of character development, too. There is one particular espisode where a characters avatar is threatened and the Atlas mech nearly sacrifices himself to save her. It's very sweet."
Of course, in real-life, all of the cast members are males.
--
I am joking. This is a joke. You have been joked with.
I've been signing it from the mountaintops for months now and haven't looked back.
Julie Andrews uses Firefox?!?!
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How do you solve a problem like Mozilla?
It involves three real-time steps: taking images of a subject with 48 cameras, transmitting the images over a network, and implanting them in a virtual world... Imagine a nurse telling a diabetic how to make an insulin injection while being far away from him.
Yes, because this is currently impossible with a single camera... or just a video.
Why is a list of names good marketing for Firefox?
I can just see it now...
Firefox browser 1.0 released
Mario "Lightfingers" Frazetti
Dane "the Gimp" Rostenkowski
Michael "Code Monkey" Miller
Peter "Frodo" Fry
etc...
By your argumentation, nothing we do can be called unnatural. That makes the distinction between natural and unnatural useless.
Well then, please tell me, by your argument, who or what is the arbiter of that distinction?
I'd like to argue that our sense of morality separates us from nature.
Heh. Do you mind defining morality? And just out of curiosity, how does something that supposedly arose
from natural development (such as our "morality") become separated from from nature?
--
People want to know. People are asking.
No, the main point is that the government frequently uses any reasoning that they can to claim power over the citizens of the United States.
It was an administrative decision from the FCC which overstepped their authority from Congress to "promote digital television"
A conservative Constitutional constructionist would argue that Congress can not delegate its power to create laws just by calling them regulations in the first place.
His parent's bought a new house with a smaller basement...
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.