Sure you can, that's what makes it even stupider. True.com claims to do criminal background checks and public records checks to see if you're married, but they don't say a word about outright liars.:)
Not to mention that the linked article is primarily about the _shuffle_ feature on the iPod, not the _iPod Shuffle_ player. Might use the same algorithm, but it's two different things.
If you live "in the western states", and sometime this year for the rest of us in the USA, you can get your credit info for free. You can also get info on your medical, insurance, tenant, and hiring histories from the links here. That link comes from TFA. It will take some time to track down everything, but it's easier now than it used to be, and everyone in the USA should do it!
For some more info on ChoicePoint, check out this article from a couple months ago in the Washington Post. I was surprised it was seen here on Slashdot too. Gives a little more background on what they do and how they do it.
I'm running SimplyMepis on my laptop now, and I just tried the live version of Ubuntu last night.
Both Mepis and Ubuntu detect my Centrino wireless, but only Mepis makes it work. Ubuntu gives some error at boot and then doesn't even show it as a device once the system is up. Both detect my Synaptics touchpad, but only Mepis has all its functionality working "out of the box". And Mepis provides most useful (though not Free) plugins for Mozilla/Firefox already installed and configured.
YMMV, but if you try Ubuntu and have problems with it, you definitely should take a look at Mepis.
We got a Ceiva for my parents last Christmas. It's great that so many of you have space on your desk/table for a laptop. And maybe you all live right next door to your parents (ok, this is slashdot, most of you live _with_ your parents!). But I live 300 miles away from mine. I have two kids, my sisters each have two kids and live at least as far away. We've tried email, but the parents really aren't into it.
But the Ceiva...cool. Whenever I download pics onto my computer I can upload them to my parents. No printing, no mail, no burning a CD. My Mom checks the Ceiva practically as soon as she gets up. She loves it, it's near instant gratification.
So until you can comprehend the intended market for the product, your great wisdom on how you can build one cheaper from a laptop, or print out your pictures, or heaven forbid move out of your parents' house and breed - your concept of the value of these is pretty obviously way off base.
For any of you that can relate to my situation, I highly recommend Ceiva.
I actually RTFA, so I had seen her pic already, but I clicked your provided link anyway. The second pic that comes up has the truncated caption "Jeri Ellsworth giving a b"...
Everyone's talking about how cool the SGI boxes used to look, but I guess none of you are thinking back far enough! I started with SGI 2400 machines, which were big and beige and just as ugly as any other computer. They probably weighed at least 200 pounds.
Back in the mid-80s these puppies cost $50-60k each. For that price we got 4MB of RAM (yes, MEGAbytes), a 15.67 MHz 68020 processor, and no X-Windows. Their windowing environment at the time was something called "mex", which was probably worse to use than twm. But their graphics capability for the time was unmatched.
My name's even in the SGI 2000 FAQ. We used to walk their support people through hardware problems, because we knew the hardware better than they did.
We eventually upgraded to the Indy, then jumped all the way to the Onyx with Reality Engine. Took a long break from SGI, but starting to play with their Altix 350 these days.
For example, in Objective-C, there are several keywords that start with @, such as @interface. Some archives of Objective-C mailing lists have e-mail blockers, and so you see weird stuff like:
But surely you and the other guy using Objective-C know each other and your email addresses by now?!;-)
Lucky you. Check out their station lineup at XM Radio and tell me if you can really hear 90% of that on the "normal" FM radio. I live between Baltimore and Washington DC, so I have a large selection of stations from both areas to listen to - but for the most part they're crap. Not to mention endless commercials. I have a fairly short commute between home and work, but there are times when the FM stations only play one song in that period. Plus XM is exposing me to a lot of cool new music that I probably wouldn't have heard otherwise.
Satellite radio is kind of like cable tv. I mean why would I want to pay for all those cable channels, when I can pick up these two nice local channels for free?!
But I am just SO tired of cell phones. People want to drive while they talk on them, but they really can't - swerving, slowing down in traffic, whatever - dangerous and a pain in the ass. Not to mention the way the signal drops out, no matter what the user is doing. I am SO tired of talking to people on their cell phones and losing the connection, or one of us not being able to hear the other.
We got along before we had cellphones, I really think we could continue to. Personally I don't want to have people being able to contact me every moment of the day, nor do I need to take it into the grocery store to send my wife a picture of the damn steaks I want to buy. For some people they are literally life savers, but for the most part they are intrusive and rude - as are the people who use them everywhere.
Notice how IBM is responding to competition by offering something to the community, while Sun's response to competition is to take something away (Novell/SUSE). I know, I know, it's GPL, they can't really take it away, but I think the point is still valid. Sun's response to competition should be to GPL Solaris and/or Java, not try to lock things up. Rather than try to improve themselves, stupid Sun's trying to compete by trying to hurt the competition instead - which will backfire.
I find it interesting that on one hand, he says no real hackers want to use Microsoft software, but it's Microsoft that has the number one hacker perk of private offices. So does that mean that no good hackers work at MS or that they rate offices higher than the tools they use?
That would be The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where I used to work. NEAR was the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, the spacecraft that landed on an asteroid (a year or two ago?). I know a number of the people from APL involved in the project. There's a pretty detailed article in our local paper (local to JHU/APL) that describes more of the background. And of course their Messenger website is informative too.
The source code is here.
There are a couple other source RPMs in that directory that might be needed too.
Not to YOU of course, because you have no need for such things.
Remember, it's Free Software. That means you can pay Red Hat for it and get their support. Don't want that, fine. Now the source is available, so you can download and compile it yourself, or print it out and wipe your ass with it. Or maybe your favorite distro will download it, package it, enhance it, and include it in their next release.
I live in HoCo too. Luis and Mike spoke at the Columbia Area LUG in March. It was a great and very informative talk. We were all hoping they'd get some coverage for what they've done. Also read the article by their manager in the Library Journal. That kind of article will reach far more library-types than any discussion on Slashdot, and will probably be a lot more influential. Libraries are a great place to introduce people to Linux. Way to go guys!
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So the robots must have about the same physique and musculature of the average slashdot reader?
Sure you can, that's what makes it even stupider. True.com claims to do criminal background checks and public records checks to see if you're married, but they don't say a word about outright liars. :)
Altix 350
;)
Altix 3000
The Altix 350 can take something like 384 GB of RAM, and the 3000 can take 24 TB! That should hold you for a while. Maybe.
Not to mention that the linked article is primarily about the _shuffle_ feature on the iPod, not the _iPod Shuffle_ player. Might use the same algorithm, but it's two different things.
If you live "in the western states", and sometime this year for the rest of us in the USA, you can get your credit info for free. You can also get info on your medical, insurance, tenant, and hiring histories from the links here. That link comes from TFA. It will take some time to track down everything, but it's easier now than it used to be, and everyone in the USA should do it!
For some more info on ChoicePoint, check out this article from a couple months ago in the Washington Post. I was surprised it was seen here on Slashdot too. Gives a little more background on what they do and how they do it.
Is it physically possible to remove your head from your ass?
I'm running SimplyMepis on my laptop now, and I just tried the live version of Ubuntu last night.
Both Mepis and Ubuntu detect my Centrino wireless, but only Mepis makes it work. Ubuntu gives some error at boot and then doesn't even show it as a device once the system is up. Both detect my Synaptics touchpad, but only Mepis has all its functionality working "out of the box". And Mepis provides most useful (though not Free) plugins for Mozilla/Firefox already installed and configured.
YMMV, but if you try Ubuntu and have problems with it, you definitely should take a look at Mepis.
> What we have here is just that, a useless sticker.
But it's NOT useless!
If you see someone with said sticker on their cell battery, you know they're either a) gullible/stupid or b) Cowboy Neal!
But the Ceiva...cool. Whenever I download pics onto my computer I can upload them to my parents. No printing, no mail, no burning a CD. My Mom checks the Ceiva practically as soon as she gets up. She loves it, it's near instant gratification.
So until you can comprehend the intended market for the product, your great wisdom on how you can build one cheaper from a laptop, or print out your pictures, or heaven forbid move out of your parents' house and breed - your concept of the value of these is pretty obviously way off base.
For any of you that can relate to my situation, I highly recommend Ceiva.
'nuf said!
As an Ohio State alumnus, I have to say - I didn't even know they had books in michigan! Didn't think anyone there could read.
Back in the mid-80s these puppies cost $50-60k each. For that price we got 4MB of RAM (yes, MEGAbytes), a 15.67 MHz 68020 processor, and no X-Windows. Their windowing environment at the time was something called "mex", which was probably worse to use than twm. But their graphics capability for the time was unmatched.
My name's even in the SGI 2000 FAQ. We used to walk their support people through hardware problems, because we knew the hardware better than they did.
We eventually upgraded to the Indy, then jumped all the way to the Onyx with Reality Engine. Took a long break from SGI, but starting to play with their Altix 350 these days.
Man, things change!
But surely you and the other guy using Objective-C know each other and your email addresses by now?!
Satellite radio is kind of like cable tv. I mean why would I want to pay for all those cable channels, when I can pick up these two nice local channels for free?!
But I am just SO tired of cell phones. People want to drive while they talk on them, but they really can't - swerving, slowing down in traffic, whatever - dangerous and a pain in the ass. Not to mention the way the signal drops out, no matter what the user is doing. I am SO tired of talking to people on their cell phones and losing the connection, or one of us not being able to hear the other.
We got along before we had cellphones, I really think we could continue to. Personally I don't want to have people being able to contact me every moment of the day, nor do I need to take it into the grocery store to send my wife a picture of the damn steaks I want to buy. For some people they are literally life savers, but for the most part they are intrusive and rude - as are the people who use them everywhere.
Cell phones, just say NO!
Would they have been? Remember the Tommy Tutone song "867-5309 Jenny"? Lots of people had that phone number, but noone got sued over it.
Notice how IBM is responding to competition by offering something to the community, while Sun's response to competition is to take something away (Novell/SUSE). I know, I know, it's GPL, they can't really take it away, but I think the point is still valid. Sun's response to competition should be to GPL Solaris and/or Java, not try to lock things up. Rather than try to improve themselves, stupid Sun's trying to compete by trying to hurt the competition instead - which will backfire.
I find it interesting that on one hand, he says no real hackers want to use Microsoft software, but it's Microsoft that has the number one hacker perk of private offices. So does that mean that no good hackers work at MS or that they rate offices higher than the tools they use?
That would be The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where I used to work. NEAR was the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, the spacecraft that landed on an asteroid (a year or two ago?). I know a number of the people from APL involved in the project. There's a pretty detailed article in our local paper (local to JHU/APL) that describes more of the background. And of course their Messenger website is informative too.
Nope, I don't think pets.com EVER seemed like a good investment! At least it shouldn't have.
Not to YOU of course, because you have no need for such things.
Remember, it's Free Software. That means you can pay Red Hat for it and get their support. Don't want that, fine. Now the source is available, so you can download and compile it yourself, or print it out and wipe your ass with it. Or maybe your favorite distro will download it, package it, enhance it, and include it in their next release.
Holy cow!
I live in HoCo too. Luis and Mike spoke at the Columbia Area LUG in March. It was a great and very informative talk. We were all hoping they'd get some coverage for what they've done. Also read the article by their manager in the Library Journal. That kind of article will reach far more library-types than any discussion on Slashdot, and will probably be a lot more influential. Libraries are a great place to introduce people to Linux. Way to go guys!
See the original homepage for this type of visualization (called a treemap) here.