You're quite right. Monochrome is a much more cohesive system but that is because it is a BBS with nice additions. Slashdot's community is so much more likely to be comprised of fleeting visitors rather than people who will spend all day logged in.
With all respect, perhaps you might like to really think about what you are saying before you post. it is very easy to post total rubbish, I know I've done it myself all over the place. But you should avoid this if you want to make your feelings known. It's not a question of censoring yourself, merely putting the way you feel in a manner that is understandable. Then more people will take in what you've said, your post is more effective, and you've done something positive. It's worth an extra 30 secs of thining time, or a couple of reviews of what you're saying. Putting yourself badly makes people ignore you/mark you down and no-one listens to you in the end, which is not right, as you say. Oh, and always check your facts.:-) Trolls might live under bridges, but pedants hide behind bushes ready to pounce at any time.;-)
People said that it showed a great deal that we could all ask questions to the people behind the software about is future compared with company employees that may have NDAs and so on. I think it says even more than Alan took time out to answer other questions which he felt were worth replying to.
I'm neither laughing nor crying. Just wondering why on earth you've said this. Neither turned up in server logs from what I have seen. Maybe the NSA are pretending to be AOLers?:-)
Last ditch effort = months of research, does it? Just because QNX decided to pretend that they'd not been dropped and bring out their tech just before the Amiga was finally announced properly, doesn't mean that was a last minute decision. I think it was quite a wise decision personally as linux has more developer mindshare (to coin a phrase), there are fewer licence restrictions and if you believe the rumours it is not as if Linus Torvalds is not too far away to get advice from, is it? Why don't we al wait till November to see what is released, or if you're impatient, the next press release? Might save premature obituaries.
> General advice for/. morons: whenver in doubt > of some philosophical issue, try to follow > Richard Stallman's views.
That being that acting in a peurile way towards businesses you wish to influence is daft. If people were just emailing Unisys to complain and not looking to see them remedy their position then they deserve all they work towards - nothing.
Whatever people feel about Unisys and their actions it is highly immature and not to mention destructive to the image of open source advocates to flame a company that doesn't meet your required licencing standards.
I have found it very much depends on context and so it should. Language shouldn't be so static as to demand that a paticular pronoun is used in favour of another the entire time in a situation such as this.
If BladeEnc is good for mp3s then, god, mp3s are pretty dire quality. I've heard worse encoders it has to be said but they were unlistenable. Don't use mp3 to encode at all - use something non-lossy if you are so concerned about audio quality...
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> X is probably the best protocol for a > distributed windowing environment.
Fine - but what about when someone wishes to use Linux on a desktop not on a network? I'm well aware that networking is everywhere these days but even so, that does not mean that you are going to have enough bandwidth to run X apps along the line. Surely using a windowing system that is written for distributed computing is inappropriate in terms of system overheads for a single desktop? In this case - is there an alternative that is usable and worth trying out?
You're worried about liability? Then say to all parents who would consider this scheme: "I reccomend that you supervise your child's internet usage." This has two positive effects - firstly it allows the parents to make sure their kids don't look up anything they don't want them to (and that doesn't mean Slashdot surely?) and secondly it can help young children make sense of what they see. The Internet is an adult medium in many ways, and all too often information is put there for people who browse through web sites and pick up the salient information points. Kids can't do this! They need time to learn and to take things in so having parents there to explain what is happenening is always good. If the parents are responsible then they won't stop their children from visiting sites that are informative and educational, and they will use the Internet as the tool it can be. it also encourages them to see the positive sids of it too! if the parents sit with their kids and go through sites together they end up seeing lots of stuff that may wel convince them that it isn't fll of porn and bomb-making instructions like some poor fools still believe. Supervision - it takes away the responsibilty from you and givews power to them.
Hmmmm...nope! You eigther have both boxes DoSed in equal measure to give us all a neat insight into how they cope under the same strain or you don't Dos either box at all. Clearly the latter option is far easier to achieve, and is inherently more sensible as the entire competition is about cracking and not DoSing. Anyone who attempts to DoS either machine is clearly a bit of a no-brainer as they're seeing a contest designed to be constructive and doing something destructive instead.
I can vouch for this being quite a nice choice. The audio quality is excellent, being quieter than almost any sound card you could possibly find (noise floor around -100dB) and being quite versatile. It ha an excellent frequencey response as well if you're into recording bat chatter.:-) I have myt CD player plugged into it as well as my PC right now, and I am feeding out to a set of speakers as my headphones. I use it mainly for the synth set-up though where it does fine. Yes, for serious mixing you'll need somethign like a proper deal but then again this isn't what the whole Ask Slashdot question was about.
Firstly, Linus shouldn't be anywhere near that top 20 list. For next century? Perhaps. Not for this one, though. And what the hell is Yitzak Rabin doing at the top? he was a fine man, but he's not oe of the most influential people this century by a long shot. I voted for Lenin, because he is, in my opinion, the most influential person this century. it is fair to say he was only a leader of a group but he was a strong leader, and he helped create a country that became very strong, and very influential. Look at the effect it had on the US! Without the USSR there to fight against, would Hitler have lost WW II? I think he'd have had better odds, at least. And there would not have been a Cold War for certain.
Princess Diana is about as influential a person in terms of this century as I am ie. not at all. Now if we made a list of influential computing people who were up there, RMS would have to win out against Linus any day. Ho hum. Another tuppence worth.
Less of the third world - they're going to be THE big world power in 30 years time I am prepared to bet lots of money on this.
They will almost certainly end up doing brutal things to peopel who get caught doing this. Don't forget what happened to those Chinese crackers/script kiddies.
How you can compare a test like Mindcraft's to those Spec tests is beyond me. No-one really takes spec tests too seriously, for starters. At least not if they know anything. The clueful people on Slashdot will take AMD's figures with the same pinch of salt they take Intel's figures I am sure. Midcraft test? Well that's for operating systems which are a totally different beat and there the scope for fissling is greater. It's true that some people do seem to blindly follow whatever makes their favourite processor or operating system look good though. Shame.
Oh dear. If you had even half a clue you'd know that Professor Godfrey is suing them for just *carrying* a defamatory article about him. Demon are just going through the motions of covering their behinds. If it turns out that it can be argued in court in the UK that posting up links to defamatory information is illegal then EVERY Internet Service Providor will be obliged to take this sort of action. Demon don't WANT to do this, but they have to treat the situation as though GOdfrey may win for legal reasons.
It is no surprise to me that BBC News manage to get their OSes and Desktop Environments mixed up. Their 'Internet correspondent' Chris Nuttall is not totally clued up. However they're trying which is good, but Mr NUttall reponds well to people telling him what to say (he'll gladly report what he sees on newsgroups blindly on the New web site) so if you want to get more good press at theBBC then talk to him about Linux more, get him to recognise the benfits of it and show him interesting stuff that mainstream news can cover.
Slashdot Mirror
Can you chuck a cream pie at him from that distance?
You're quite right. Monochrome is a much more cohesive system but that is because it is a BBS with nice additions. Slashdot's community is so much more likely to be comprised of fleeting visitors rather than people who will spend all day logged in.
With all respect, perhaps you might like to really think about what you are saying before you post. it is very easy to post total rubbish, I know I've done it myself all over the place. But you should avoid this if you want to make your feelings known. :-) Trolls might live under bridges, but pedants hide behind bushes ready to pounce at any time. ;-)
It's not a question of censoring yourself, merely putting the way you feel in a manner that is understandable.
Then more people will take in what you've said, your post is more effective, and you've done something positive. It's worth an extra 30 secs of thining time, or a couple of reviews of what you're saying.
Putting yourself badly makes people ignore you/mark you down and no-one listens to you in the end, which is not right, as you say.
Oh, and always check your facts.
> SUCK IT!!!!!!!
Well done - you just justified Rob's decision entirely.
People said that it showed a great deal that we could all ask questions to the people behind the software about is future compared with company employees that may have NDAs and so on.
I think it says even more than Alan took time out to answer other questions which he felt were worth replying to.
I'm neither laughing nor crying. Just wondering why on earth you've said this. :-)
Neither turned up in server logs from what I have seen.
Maybe the NSA are pretending to be AOLers?
Maybe no-one thought their questions were any good?
This is the same BeBox that Phase5 did? Maybe I'm wrong...erm...
Last ditch effort = months of research, does it?
Just because QNX decided to pretend that they'd not been dropped and bring out their tech just before the Amiga was finally announced properly, doesn't mean that was a last minute decision.
I think it was quite a wise decision personally as linux has more developer mindshare (to coin a phrase), there are fewer licence restrictions and if you believe the rumours it is not as if Linus Torvalds is not too far away to get advice from, is it?
Why don't we al wait till November to see what is released, or if you're impatient, the next press release? Might save premature obituaries.
Collas won't care anymore cos he's resigned.
> General advice for /. morons: whenver in doubt > of some philosophical issue, try to follow
> Richard Stallman's views.
That being that acting in a peurile way towards businesses you wish to influence is daft.
If people were just emailing Unisys to complain and not looking to see them remedy their position then they deserve all they work towards - nothing.
Whatever people feel about Unisys and their actions it is highly immature and not to mention destructive to the image of open source advocates to flame a company that doesn't meet your required licencing standards.
I have found it very much depends on context and so it should. Language shouldn't be so static as to demand that a paticular pronoun is used in favour of another the entire time in a situation such as this.
If BladeEnc is good for mp3s then, god, mp3s are pretty dire quality.
I've heard worse encoders it has to be said but they were unlistenable.
Don't use mp3 to encode at all - use something non-lossy if you are so concerned about audio quality...
> X is probably the best protocol for a
> distributed windowing environment.
Fine - but what about when someone wishes to use Linux on a desktop not on a network? I'm well aware that networking is everywhere these days but even so, that does not mean that you are going to have enough bandwidth to run X apps along the line.
Surely using a windowing system that is written for distributed computing is inappropriate in terms of system overheads for a single desktop?
In this case - is there an alternative that is usable and worth trying out?
You're worried about liability? Then say to all parents who would consider this scheme: "I reccomend that you supervise your child's internet usage."
This has two positive effects - firstly it allows the parents to make sure their kids don't look up anything they don't want them to (and that doesn't mean Slashdot surely?) and secondly it can help young children make sense of what they see. The Internet is an adult medium in many ways, and all too often information is put there for people who browse through web sites and pick up the salient information points. Kids can't do this! They need time to learn and to take things in so having parents there to explain what is happenening is always good.
If the parents are responsible then they won't stop their children from visiting sites that are informative and educational, and they will use the Internet as the tool it can be.
it also encourages them to see the positive sids of it too! if the parents sit with their kids and go through sites together they end up seeing lots of stuff that may wel convince them that it isn't fll of porn and bomb-making instructions like some poor fools still believe.
Supervision - it takes away the responsibilty from you and givews power to them.
Hmmmm...nope!
You eigther have both boxes DoSed in equal measure to give us all a neat insight into how they cope under the same strain or you don't Dos either box at all.
Clearly the latter option is far easier to achieve, and is inherently more sensible as the entire competition is about cracking and not DoSing.
Anyone who attempts to DoS either machine is clearly a bit of a no-brainer as they're seeing a contest designed to be constructive and doing something destructive instead.
I can vouch for this being quite a nice choice. The audio quality is excellent, being quieter than almost any sound card you could possibly find (noise floor around -100dB) and being quite versatile. :-)
It ha an excellent frequencey response as well if you're into recording bat chatter.
I have myt CD player plugged into it as well as my PC right now, and I am feeding out to a set of speakers as my headphones.
I use it mainly for the synth set-up though where it does fine.
Yes, for serious mixing you'll need somethign like a proper deal but then again this isn't what the whole Ask Slashdot question was about.
Firstly, Linus shouldn't be anywhere near that top 20 list. For next century? Perhaps. Not for this one, though.
And what the hell is Yitzak Rabin doing at the top? he was a fine man, but he's not oe of the most influential people this century by a long shot.
I voted for Lenin, because he is, in my opinion, the most influential person this century. it is fair to say he was only a leader of a group but he was a strong leader, and he helped create a country that became very strong, and very influential. Look at the effect it had on the US!
Without the USSR there to fight against, would Hitler have lost WW II? I think he'd have had better odds, at least. And there would not have been a Cold War for certain.
Princess Diana is about as influential a person in terms of this century as I am ie. not at all.
Now if we made a list of influential computing people who were up there, RMS would have to win out against Linus any day.
Ho hum. Another tuppence worth.
Less of the third world - they're going to be THE big world power in 30 years time I am prepared to bet lots of money on this.
They will almost certainly end up doing brutal things to peopel who get caught doing this. Don't forget what happened to those Chinese crackers/script kiddies.
Re: power wieleded
I didn't notice much power welided by John Major in his (eventual) minority government before the 97 election. Ah well.
Re: bill
The bill should die. I fear it will not as MPs are not technically savvy enough to work out that it stinks.
How you can compare a test like Mindcraft's to those Spec tests is beyond me.
No-one really takes spec tests too seriously, for starters. At least not if they know anything. The clueful people on Slashdot will take AMD's figures with the same pinch of salt they take Intel's figures I am sure. Midcraft test? Well that's for operating systems which are a totally different beat and there the scope for fissling is greater.
It's true that some people do seem to blindly follow whatever makes their favourite processor or operating system look good though.
Shame.
Oh dear. If you had even half a clue you'd know that Professor Godfrey is suing them for just *carrying* a defamatory article about him. Demon are just going through the motions of covering their behinds.
If it turns out that it can be argued in court in the UK that posting up links to defamatory information is illegal then EVERY Internet Service Providor will be obliged to take this sort of action.
Demon don't WANT to do this, but they have to treat the situation as though GOdfrey may win for legal reasons.
Hang on, you mention token-ring. Didn't IBM invent this in an attempt to kill off ethernet?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
It is no surprise to me that BBC News manage to get their OSes and Desktop Environments mixed up. Their 'Internet correspondent' Chris Nuttall is not totally clued up. However they're trying which is good, but Mr NUttall reponds well to people telling him what to say (he'll gladly report what he sees on newsgroups blindly on the New web site) so if you want to get more good press at theBBC then talk to him about Linux more, get him to recognise the benfits of it and show him interesting stuff that mainstream news can cover.