Interestingly (OT, just for the record; I'll be nice and post without the bonus), the same thing is happening with SUNY Stony Brook. Not only is it a sin to call it "SUNY" these days, but they're actually trying to go private (state isn't being to nice about it) within the next few years. Just in time for me to get my degree and slip out right before tuition goes through the roof.
I'll agree, he definitly shot himself in the foot with the subject line, but he does have a point.
"We've" waited years for this product. It makes no sense to lose thousands of dollars in revenue to get the game out 8 days earlier in the United States than the rest of the world. I think "we" could have waited 8 days.
I think the police department in your town should require citizens to have RFID implants, and their movements/location should be recorded at all times. If anyone is ever murdered/raped/abducted, or if a robbery is ever reported, someone can check the recording and use the unique ID to tell almost instintaniously who the criminal is. There wouldn't even be a need to have a live watch over the feeds.
"Gates...when on to say that '[Open source] doesn't guarantee upward compatibility.'"
He's right - it doesn't. I'd say it guarantees it evenly with the way Microsoft guarantees it - if you just happen to have the correct version of the correct software, you'll have upwards compatability. If you chose the wrong end of the fork, then you're screwed.
On the other hand, Open Source, by definition, allows unlimited forking. And if there's a compatibility break between versions, you can be sure that someone, somewhere is going to start up a backwards-compatability fork, or write a backwards-compatibiltiy patch; if the problem is enough to bug you, it's probably enough of a problem to bug other people. And, if there's no backwards-compatibility fork available, you can always Do It Yourself, or put up a note on the proper mailing list, letting people know that the demand is out there, and asking if anyone else has the same need/desire.
With propritary software, the user is basically under the company's control. Unless you're a huge corporation with massive buying power and enough pull in the management level of Microsoft, all you'll wind up with is a "You're screwed, buy our other newer, more expensive software."
Overall, I'm pretty sure Open Source Software is more compatible, and that there's more old versions of software available to reduce the need for backwards compatibility.
Green transportation? These things definitly aren't designed to replace cars. Look at the min/max speeds! And the comparison was made with bikes, not cars.
What's greener, a bike powered by human-power, or a bike powered by electricity (which has to come from somewhere....fossil fuels, anyone)? I vote human-powered bikes.
The truth is, it's going to be a damn long time before we develop ANY computer hardware that'll stand the test of time. It's all just too fragile. If you really need something to be stored forever, print it out. They make special archival-quality paper and inks that are designed specifically to last hundreds of years.
Can you read your stored mail from another computer?
There are many people who are often times on the road, and need to be able to access all of their email for documents/files/etc...
Your only option would be to setup an ftp server/NFS/etc.., but that might not be convienient at either the server or the [unusual/remote/possible public and restricted] terminal level.
A) The damn guy coppied and pasted it wrong. If you read the actual article, you'll see he reversed oss_crowd with rh_dev, which completely destroys the whole intention of the satire.
B) He just copied and pasted (wrongly) something from the article, with no additional input of his own! I'm not saying he's trolling, or creating flamebait, but come on! Maybe if he'd copied/pasted it correctly, and then added some of his own lines, a Funny moderation would be justified, but there's not a single word of his own authorship!
Please, mods, use some discression (and read the articles AND the comments you're moderating). Thanks.
Of course "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
Ok, so you wouldn't mind me reading all your emails, IM conversations, listening in on your phonecalls and private conversations, installing a camera in your bedroom and bathroom, going through all your books (including diary/journal if you have one), shuffling through all your belongings, and tracking your location 24/7? And what do you say I do that to all your friends, family, and loved ones? What's that? No? You wouldn't like it?
So? I have no problem with a political party having a closed meeting. It might not be the best idea, if the standard is for such meetings to be open, but it's perfectly fine.
In fact, the idea that party meetings should be open is a pretty scary one. The party in control could mandate that all meetings must be open. As a result, that party could continue to hold closed meetings (if they've got enough power to unilatterly push through such a law, they've got enough power to ignore it), and smaller parties which challanged the government would find themselves the scruteny of law enforcement.
If you actually bother to read the articles, rather than just look at the pictures, you'd see that they used the images to scare new inmates.
The problem was/is basically that the prisons are over-populated and understaffed. Most of these prisoners are incredibly rebellious. The only way for the under-trained, under-manned guards to maintain order was to use fear, and these took these pictures to show ariving inmates and post in their cells, to scare them into behaving.
I'm not justifying what they did, but it would be nice if people actually read all those little squiggly lines that are next to those pretty images. It might help to save time, or even lives, in the future.
Indeed, very correct. Here's the pictures, for contrast:
The first picture. Note the tiny flag, and the pretty bad angle. Not a very cinimatic shot (though, personally, I think the soldier holding the gun in the bottom right gives a feel of danger to the picture, as he appears to be "on guard" and defending the position).
They're still making devices with USB 1.1? Especially for something like an MP3 player, where you're moving large amounts of data, USB 2 is a must. For low-end devices with only 512M of storage, you're going to be doing a lot of adding/removing of files, which makes having to constantly wait during every session a hastle; for the larger devices, it's insane to have to wait forever for your collection to transfer over the outdated 1.1 spec.
In a world where modern machines come with USB 2, and it's also backwards compatible with USB 1, there's no excuse to make an mp3 player that only supports USB 1.1.
What scares me is the following line from the site...[snip] Six centuries is an awfully short time...
You've got to figure that if we can, with today's technology, figure out its path for the next 600 years, then by that time has elapsed, we'll probably be able to figure out its path for at least 1000 years. Even if we don't advance that far, 600 years is still plenty of time to figure out a plan for saving the planet (although something tells me that, the way the human race/governments work, we'll wind up waiting until the last 20 years, anyhow).
This is a great idea, and it will definitly work. Why? Even if the quality of the recording sucks (hell, even if the concert wasn't that good), people will still pay to have this as a souvenir. Many people pay $30 for a T-shirt at concerts, just so they have something to remember it by (and show off, as well). I doubt they'd mind spending $10 more for an actual COPY of the darn thing.
True (I've had a 32 for a long time), but I doubt they make 16M chips anymore. Assuming they don't, it'd probably be much cheaper to buy 64M generic chips than have some company custom make a bulk load of 16M chips.
I have to say, that list makes no sense. Maybe if you'd switch "Gigablast" with "MSN", you'd have a list of the some of the major search engines, but it sounds like this guy is just tooting his own horn (and without the proper credentials).
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Interestingly (OT, just for the record; I'll be nice and post without the bonus), the same thing is happening with SUNY Stony Brook. Not only is it a sin to call it "SUNY" these days, but they're actually trying to go private (state isn't being to nice about it) within the next few years. Just in time for me to get my degree and slip out right before tuition goes through the roof.
I'll agree, he definitly shot himself in the foot with the subject line, but he does have a point.
"We've" waited years for this product. It makes no sense to lose thousands of dollars in revenue to get the game out 8 days earlier in the United States than the rest of the world. I think "we" could have waited 8 days.
I think the police department in your town should require citizens to have RFID implants, and their movements/location should be recorded at all times. If anyone is ever murdered/raped/abducted, or if a robbery is ever reported, someone can check the recording and use the unique ID to tell almost instintaniously who the criminal is. There wouldn't even be a need to have a live watch over the feeds.
You wouldn't mind that, would you?
Ok, who the fuck modded this one Informative? It's a think geek plus toy for heaven's sake.
Mods, come on, common sense tells you to at least look at the damn URL.
"Gates...when on to say that '[Open source] doesn't guarantee upward compatibility.'"
He's right - it doesn't. I'd say it guarantees it evenly with the way Microsoft guarantees it - if you just happen to have the correct version of the correct software, you'll have upwards compatability. If you chose the wrong end of the fork, then you're screwed.
On the other hand, Open Source, by definition, allows unlimited forking. And if there's a compatibility break between versions, you can be sure that someone, somewhere is going to start up a backwards-compatability fork, or write a backwards-compatibiltiy patch; if the problem is enough to bug you, it's probably enough of a problem to bug other people. And, if there's no backwards-compatibility fork available, you can always Do It Yourself, or put up a note on the proper mailing list, letting people know that the demand is out there, and asking if anyone else has the same need/desire.
With propritary software, the user is basically under the company's control. Unless you're a huge corporation with massive buying power and enough pull in the management level of Microsoft, all you'll wind up with is a "You're screwed, buy our other newer, more expensive software."
Overall, I'm pretty sure Open Source Software is more compatible, and that there's more old versions of software available to reduce the need for backwards compatibility.
In case you can't read, that entire list is made up of reasons against gun control; it's just written as a parody.
Who the hell modded this insightful?
Banner(6) is a *nix program which outputs ASCII art of a string, on the standard output.
This program sends packets in a designated pattern, and it can be used to send ASCII art of any kind, over ICMP.
These two programs have almost nothing in common, except that you could probably use banner to create the art for this program.
Green transportation? These things definitly aren't designed to replace cars. Look at the min/max speeds! And the comparison was made with bikes, not cars.
What's greener, a bike powered by human-power, or a bike powered by electricity (which has to come from somewhere....fossil fuels, anyone)? I vote human-powered bikes.
Pen. Paper.
The truth is, it's going to be a damn long time before we develop ANY computer hardware that'll stand the test of time. It's all just too fragile. If you really need something to be stored forever, print it out. They make special archival-quality paper and inks that are designed specifically to last hundreds of years.
You mean Robert Barr, the man from the Redundancy Van from the monopoly of Cizzzcoo-eeeee?
(If you don't get the joke, go check the openBSD website.)
Can you read your stored mail from another computer?
There are many people who are often times on the road, and need to be able to access all of their email for documents/files/etc...
Your only option would be to setup an ftp server/NFS/etc.., but that might not be convienient at either the server or the [unusual/remote/possible public and restricted] terminal level.
Who the hell modded this funny?
A) The damn guy coppied and pasted it wrong. If you read the actual article, you'll see he reversed oss_crowd with rh_dev, which completely destroys the whole intention of the satire.
B) He just copied and pasted (wrongly) something from the article, with no additional input of his own! I'm not saying he's trolling, or creating flamebait, but come on! Maybe if he'd copied/pasted it correctly, and then added some of his own lines, a Funny moderation would be justified, but there's not a single word of his own authorship!
Please, mods, use some discression (and read the articles AND the comments you're moderating). Thanks.
Of course "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
Ok, so you wouldn't mind me reading all your emails, IM conversations, listening in on your phonecalls and private conversations, installing a camera in your bedroom and bathroom, going through all your books (including diary/journal if you have one), shuffling through all your belongings, and tracking your location 24/7? And what do you say I do that to all your friends, family, and loved ones? What's that? No? You wouldn't like it?
Didn't think so.
So? I have no problem with a political party having a closed meeting. It might not be the best idea, if the standard is for such meetings to be open, but it's perfectly fine.
In fact, the idea that party meetings should be open is a pretty scary one. The party in control could mandate that all meetings must be open. As a result, that party could continue to hold closed meetings (if they've got enough power to unilatterly push through such a law, they've got enough power to ignore it), and smaller parties which challanged the government would find themselves the scruteny of law enforcement.
If you actually bother to read the articles, rather than just look at the pictures, you'd see that they used the images to scare new inmates.
The problem was/is basically that the prisons are over-populated and understaffed. Most of these prisoners are incredibly rebellious. The only way for the under-trained, under-manned guards to maintain order was to use fear, and these took these pictures to show ariving inmates and post in their cells, to scare them into behaving.
I'm not justifying what they did, but it would be nice if people actually read all those little squiggly lines that are next to those pretty images. It might help to save time, or even lives, in the future.
Indeed, very correct. Here's the pictures, for contrast:
The first picture. Note the tiny flag, and the pretty bad angle. Not a very cinimatic shot (though, personally, I think the soldier holding the gun in the bottom right gives a feel of danger to the picture, as he appears to be "on guard" and defending the position).
Here is the changing of the flags...
The second shot that everyone knows very well. Obviously, a very different feel to the picture.
More information on ISO-14443 is available here.
I don't think they could even do that; this device is rated for 6mbps
It's got to be an overlay - otherwise, you'd see a camera in the reflection.
They're still making devices with USB 1.1? Especially for something like an MP3 player, where you're moving large amounts of data, USB 2 is a must. For low-end devices with only 512M of storage, you're going to be doing a lot of adding/removing of files, which makes having to constantly wait during every session a hastle; for the larger devices, it's insane to have to wait forever for your collection to transfer over the outdated 1.1 spec.
In a world where modern machines come with USB 2, and it's also backwards compatible with USB 1, there's no excuse to make an mp3 player that only supports USB 1.1.
What scares me is the following line from the site...[snip]
Six centuries is an awfully short time...
You've got to figure that if we can, with today's technology, figure out its path for the next 600 years, then by that time has elapsed, we'll probably be able to figure out its path for at least 1000 years. Even if we don't advance that far, 600 years is still plenty of time to figure out a plan for saving the planet (although something tells me that, the way the human race/governments work, we'll wind up waiting until the last 20 years, anyhow).
Keep in mind that these aren't the latest ISO files. If you look at the dates, you can see that they're from 2003.
It's probably going to take a little while for all the mirrors to catch up with the latest release (especially with this slashdotting...)
This is a great idea, and it will definitly work. Why? Even if the quality of the recording sucks (hell, even if the concert wasn't that good), people will still pay to have this as a souvenir. Many people pay $30 for a T-shirt at concerts, just so they have something to remember it by (and show off, as well). I doubt they'd mind spending $10 more for an actual COPY of the darn thing.
True (I've had a 32 for a long time), but I doubt they make 16M chips anymore. Assuming they don't, it'd probably be much cheaper to buy 64M generic chips than have some company custom make a bulk load of 16M chips.
I have to say, that list makes no sense. Maybe if you'd switch "Gigablast" with "MSN", you'd have a list of the some of the major search engines, but it sounds like this guy is just tooting his own horn (and without the proper credentials).