Did anyone else think that the ending of this one kind of sucked? For starters, the whole 'oh it was just a dream' type crap is bullshit, and I thought that it made the ending of this episode really cheesy. This episode was really good and quite intense until the very end. "It was just a training simulation...you did very well." Did the writers here just run out of ideas when they got to this part or what?
yeah, if you read the rest of the page, there is an epic saga regarding the state of the spider (and the fact that/. kept banning my IP because of it). So yeah, the data that's there is really bad and crap, but it's there to show that the project is still underway.
It is official; Dell's CIO confirms: Unix is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Unix community when IDC confirmed that Unix market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of any computer. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Unix has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Unix is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Unix's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Unix faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Unix because Unix is dying. Things are looking very bad for Unix. As many of us are already aware, Unix continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood (and when hasnt it?)
Unix is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Unix developers Some_Engineer#1 and Some_Engineer#2 only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Unix is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Unix leader Linus Torvalds states that there are 7000 users of Unix. How many users of Unix are there? Let's see. The number of Unix versus Wannabee posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Unix users. Unix posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Unix posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Unix. A recent article put Unix at about 80 percent of the Unix market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Unix users. This is consistent with the number of Unix Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of nobody, abysmal sales and so on, Unix is going out of business and is being taken over by Microsoft who sell another troubled OS. Now Unix is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Unix has steadily declined in market share. Unix is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Unix is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Unix continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *nix is dead.
You're right. Perhaps a better approach would be to take obscure artists, add them to the database:
1) Richard D. James 2) Gary Numan 3) Botch
Although these artists aren't well known now, I would bet that most electronic/industrial/punk (respectively) music in 5-10 years would be based on their work, if not already so.
Word to this. We use it at my college for Operating Systems classes, because they do a lot of work with filesystems (FAT12, ironically enough), and programming in linux lets you really get down and dirty with the hardware and rudimentary parts of an OS.
Also, later on in the course, they do some work with boot sectors and such, so it's nice to have a fast debian mirror on an ftp server, so when you screw your workstation up, just drop a floppy in the drive, come back in about 20 minutes, and it's good to go (yes, I know ghost would be easier but we lost our copy of that somewhere).
When you find someone that has a computer able to handle a WiFi card and a fast internet connection, but not a telephone, let me know. I want to shake their hand.
Also, from what I'm inferring, this is kind of a ripoff of line6's guitars, which also use a hex pickup and do analog->digital conversion on chip inside the guitar (there's even some OSS software people have developed for the amps). So not really a new idea by any means, but certainly one that could stand to be made a bit more widespread.
Personally, I'd rather see the guitar be something that is a purely acoustic/analog instrument (who the hell wants to 'upgrade' a Gibson when the computing hardware becomes obsolete), and do all the digital effects on an actual computer, which will probably generate better sound given the greater amount of processing power.
But hey, I heard they built a motorized scooter that will revolutionize transportation in cities! And for the low low price of only 5,000$, it could be yours!
Actually, there isn't -that- much in Eva that would really need to be cut. Most of the violence is nothing too special, and there's only one episode that has any nudity at all (nipple-less nudity, nonetheless). I heard (and this is just a rumor, mind you), that the only things that are actually getting cut from Eva are some religious references that might offend some people; though I can't think of what those might be offhand.
I think a far better thing to worry about is the fact that they are airing the dubbed version of NGE, which is enough to make one want to tear their eyes out. I realize that the subtitled version would probably not interest most American veiwers, but hiring a crew of voice actors from Texas certainly isn't going to do wonders for the series, either.
I was originally going to withhold from commenting on this discussion, but upon further thought, I think I'm going to offer my 2 cents.
For starters, I think that the surest sign of a nerd is someone who's just dying to be popular, but can't be. Note that this is a self-defeating cycle; people that are popular are without trying. Usually, they're just naturally amicable and friendly, and have some charisma or other personal quality that drives people to like them. People that just want to be popular, and sit in the lunch table all day making tables and charts and desperatly trying to figure out how to get into the upper echelon of the social heap are never going to make it -- it's an extremely unflattering trait (btw; am I the only one that saw the incredible irony in the author's quasi-scientific analysis of teenage social circles and his own inability to fit in there?;).
That being said, I'm really tired of seeing this generic parental advice to nerds from nerds on slashdot. "just wear deoderant". "take fashion tips from other people, NOT your friends". "shower on a daily basis". So on and so forth.
So here's my confession. I guess I'm kind a nerd, by my own definition. At the same time, I'm not unpopular; I have plenty of friends and a girlfriend-type-thing going on. I get along with most people I meet, because I just do my own thing and can usually find things to talk about with other people. Thus, I wouldn't really be considered to be 'unpopular' or 'nerdy' by/. standards.
However, I am a HUGE nerd by this said set of standards. I'll admit it: I'm fucking dirty. I fucking hate fashion, pop culture, and consumerism, so I don't buy into that shit. I wear the same thing every day. I have gone 7-8 months without washing my clothes, and while I might wear a different shirt every few days or so, I have been wearing the same pair of pants for the last six or so months. They're a pair of mutilated cargo pants with patches, studs, and other crap all over the place. They started out khaki in color, but they're really closer to brown by now. =)
Oh yeah, and I don't shower much either. Usually 1-2 weeks or when I can detect my own stench.;) Last year, I went 3 months without showering to see if I could (after the first 2 weeks, you really stop feeling dirty at all...it's quite easy after that). I hate the scent of perfume and soap, so I don't wash my hair usually. When it's dyed, most people don't really notice the grease, but like the showering thing, your body eventually reaches a plateau. Once you hit this level, you don't really get dirtier; you just remain at this level until you finally shower/wash your hair/etc.
In spite of this, people don't avoid me like the plague. Nobody gives me hell about my personal hygene or the way I dress; at this point, people realize that it's part of my personality and beliefs. My point is that these 'laundry lists' (no pun intended) of things you need to do to overcome your nerdiness are bullshit. It is the unquenchable urge to be popular that makes people true nerds, though they can certainly be outcasts for other reasons.
While this is technically true, Microsoft did a very crappy job detailing this protocol. Several key steps and improvements in the protocol are not detailed, and that document is ridiculously out of date. I've tried emailing the original programmers to try to find a document that accurately described the protocol, but none of them took responsibility for it at all. Basically, Microsoft really only released that document to try to make AOL look bad and help promote their own instant messenger. But the document doesn't give you nearly enough information regarding the protocol if you were to write your own MSN client....it's a start, but there's a considerable amount of reverse engineering involved.
oh my fucking lord this is funny. Why the FUCK is he stalking YOU? You're not the one going to rose-hulman (hell, my/. page isn't even on rose's servers...it's on my own).
btw, haven't gotten around to updating the spider anytime soon. maybe in a week or so. wanna help out?
Since December 2002, we had offered to enter into a new arrangement with Net Registrar in order to safeguard your uk.co registrations with them for a short period of time to allow you sufficient time to transition to alternative domain names..... A Council of State decision in Colombia dated 12 July 2002 ordered the Minister of Communications in Colombia to take over the administration of.co top level domain names by no later than 31 December 2003.
They had been planning this since July, and while they were supposed to have done it on the 31st of December, they actually seem to have given all the.uk.co people nearly two months to find new domains. It's not like they just swept the rug out from underneath their feet as the reg's article seems to imply (though the article does mention that this was mandated last July).
Slashdot Mirror
I had this problem too in a former job as a pr0n tester. ;p
WARNING SPOILERS
Did anyone else think that the ending of this one kind of sucked? For starters, the whole 'oh it was just a dream' type crap is bullshit, and I thought that it made the ending of this episode really cheesy. This episode was really good and quite intense until the very end. "It was just a training simulation...you did very well." Did the writers here just run out of ideas when they got to this part or what?
If there's two words in the English language that should never follow each other, they would be "Information Superhighway" and "Hack Attack".
yeah, if you read the rest of the page, there is an epic saga regarding the state of the spider (and the fact that /. kept banning my IP because of it). So yeah, the data that's there is really bad and crap, but it's there to show that the project is still underway.
Yeah, big gas clouds generally tend to drive life away, in my experience.
It is official; Dell's CIO confirms: Unix is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Unix community when IDC confirmed that Unix market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of any computer. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Unix has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Unix is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Unix's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Unix faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Unix because Unix is dying. Things are looking very bad for Unix. As many of us are already aware, Unix continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood (and when hasnt it?)
Unix is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Unix developers Some_Engineer#1 and Some_Engineer#2 only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Unix is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Unix leader Linus Torvalds states that there are 7000 users of Unix. How many users of Unix are there? Let's see. The number of Unix versus Wannabee posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Unix users. Unix posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Unix posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Unix. A recent article put Unix at about 80 percent of the Unix market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Unix users. This is consistent with the number of Unix Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of nobody, abysmal sales and so on, Unix is going out of business and is being taken over by Microsoft who sell another troubled OS. Now Unix is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Unix has steadily declined in market share. Unix is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Unix is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Unix continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *nix is dead.
Fact: Unix is dying.
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
You're right. Perhaps a better approach would be to take obscure artists, add them to the database:
1) Richard D. James
2) Gary Numan
3) Botch
Although these artists aren't well known now, I would bet that most electronic/industrial/punk (respectively) music in 5-10 years would be based on their work, if not already so.
Why do so many folks watch it? The boobs?
You're new here, aren't you?
thanks, dood. ;)
Word to this. We use it at my college for Operating Systems classes, because they do a lot of work with filesystems (FAT12, ironically enough), and programming in linux lets you really get down and dirty with the hardware and rudimentary parts of an OS.
Also, later on in the course, they do some work with boot sectors and such, so it's nice to have a fast debian mirror on an ftp server, so when you screw your workstation up, just drop a floppy in the drive, come back in about 20 minutes, and it's good to go (yes, I know ghost would be easier but we lost our copy of that somewhere).
When you find someone that has a computer able to handle a WiFi card and a fast internet connection, but not a telephone, let me know. I want to shake their hand.
Yeah, seriously. By the time Intel's 64-bit chip is out, Duke Nukem Forever just might be released.
Here is a more relevant link than the one listed in the article. But since Gibson's site seems to be taking a good slashdotting, here's a mirror of that page and one of the original, too (sorry, no graphics...site went down before I could get them).
Also, from what I'm inferring, this is kind of a ripoff of line6's guitars, which also use a hex pickup and do analog->digital conversion on chip inside the guitar (there's even some OSS software people have developed for the amps). So not really a new idea by any means, but certainly one that could stand to be made a bit more widespread.
Personally, I'd rather see the guitar be something that is a purely acoustic/analog instrument (who the hell wants to 'upgrade' a Gibson when the computing hardware becomes obsolete), and do all the digital effects on an actual computer, which will probably generate better sound given the greater amount of processing power.
Better yet, it's called a Segway. Get a patent on it.
;P
On second thought, maybe take the money for that patent filing charge and get some hookers and cheap beer instead.
I *have* watched the dubbed version. Shinji's voice absolutely killed me.
However, I agree that Trigun was a good dub. Hellsing is also pretty well done.
Finally; someone with some information. Thanks. ;)
No, sadly enough, this isn't the case. :(
But hey, I heard they built a motorized scooter that will revolutionize transportation in cities! And for the low low price of only 5,000$, it could be yours!
Actually, there isn't -that- much in Eva that would really need to be cut. Most of the violence is nothing too special, and there's only one episode that has any nudity at all (nipple-less nudity, nonetheless). I heard (and this is just a rumor, mind you), that the only things that are actually getting cut from Eva are some religious references that might offend some people; though I can't think of what those might be offhand.
I think a far better thing to worry about is the fact that they are airing the dubbed version of NGE, which is enough to make one want to tear their eyes out. I realize that the subtitled version would probably not interest most American veiwers, but hiring a crew of voice actors from Texas certainly isn't going to do wonders for the series, either.
Nonsense. Who needs fireworks when you can join along with 'ol Dubya for a rousing round of "God Bless America"?
Cold beer?
I was originally going to withhold from commenting on this discussion, but upon further thought, I think I'm going to offer my 2 cents.
;).
/. standards.
;) Last year, I went 3 months without showering to see if I could (after the first 2 weeks, you really stop feeling dirty at all...it's quite easy after that). I hate the scent of perfume and soap, so I don't wash my hair usually. When it's dyed, most people don't really notice the grease, but like the showering thing, your body eventually reaches a plateau. Once you hit this level, you don't really get dirtier; you just remain at this level until you finally shower/wash your hair/etc.
For starters, I think that the surest sign of a nerd is someone who's just dying to be popular, but can't be. Note that this is a self-defeating cycle; people that are popular are without trying. Usually, they're just naturally amicable and friendly, and have some charisma or other personal quality that drives people to like them. People that just want to be popular, and sit in the lunch table all day making tables and charts and desperatly trying to figure out how to get into the upper echelon of the social heap are never going to make it -- it's an extremely unflattering trait (btw; am I the only one that saw the incredible irony in the author's quasi-scientific analysis of teenage social circles and his own inability to fit in there?
That being said, I'm really tired of seeing this generic parental advice to nerds from nerds on slashdot. "just wear deoderant". "take fashion tips from other people, NOT your friends". "shower on a daily basis". So on and so forth.
So here's my confession. I guess I'm kind a nerd, by my own definition. At the same time, I'm not unpopular; I have plenty of friends and a girlfriend-type-thing going on. I get along with most people I meet, because I just do my own thing and can usually find things to talk about with other people. Thus, I wouldn't really be considered to be 'unpopular' or 'nerdy' by
However, I am a HUGE nerd by this said set of standards. I'll admit it: I'm fucking dirty. I fucking hate fashion, pop culture, and consumerism, so I don't buy into that shit. I wear the same thing every day. I have gone 7-8 months without washing my clothes, and while I might wear a different shirt every few days or so, I have been wearing the same pair of pants for the last six or so months. They're a pair of mutilated cargo pants with patches, studs, and other crap all over the place. They started out khaki in color, but they're really closer to brown by now. =)
Oh yeah, and I don't shower much either. Usually 1-2 weeks or when I can detect my own stench.
In spite of this, people don't avoid me like the plague. Nobody gives me hell about my personal hygene or the way I dress; at this point, people realize that it's part of my personality and beliefs. My point is that these 'laundry lists' (no pun intended) of things you need to do to overcome your nerdiness are bullshit. It is the unquenchable urge to be popular that makes people true nerds, though they can certainly be outcasts for other reasons.
While this is technically true, Microsoft did a very crappy job detailing this protocol. Several key steps and improvements in the protocol are not detailed, and that document is ridiculously out of date. I've tried emailing the original programmers to try to find a document that accurately described the protocol, but none of them took responsibility for it at all.
Basically, Microsoft really only released that document to try to make AOL look bad and help promote their own instant messenger. But the document doesn't give you nearly enough information regarding the protocol if you were to write your own MSN client....it's a start, but there's a considerable amount of reverse engineering involved.
oh my fucking lord this is funny. Why the FUCK is he stalking YOU? You're not the one going to rose-hulman (hell, my /. page isn't even on rose's servers...it's on my own).
btw, haven't gotten around to updating the spider anytime soon. maybe in a week or so. wanna help out?
doh you're right.
-blush-
From www.uk.co:
....
.co top level domain names by no later than 31 December 2003.
.uk.co people nearly two months to find new domains. It's not like they just swept the rug out from underneath their feet as the reg's article seems to imply (though the article does mention that this was mandated last July).
Since December 2002, we had offered to enter into a new arrangement with Net Registrar in order to safeguard your uk.co registrations with them for a short period of time to allow you sufficient time to transition to alternative domain names.
A Council of State decision in Colombia dated 12 July 2002 ordered the Minister of Communications in Colombia to take over the administration of
They had been planning this since July, and while they were supposed to have done it on the 31st of December, they actually seem to have given all the