I'm not an american, and I'm an atheist, but... a country's pledge of allegiance is as important a symbol to a country (at least to those that have a pledge) as a flag, or an anthem. You're not supposed to feel "offended" by it, or opressed, or whatever else you might be feeling. You're supposed to respect whatever symbols your country has, and you're supposed to love them. It's all meant to bring a sense of nationality, a sense of unity. I don't mind swearing by a third party that does not exist, but I would certainly mind losing all sense of nationality (especially my beloved anthem).... Now to all those weenies who feel offended by one of your national symbols: BOO HOO, YOU FUCKING SHITHEADS!!! (Go call your mommies and tell them some dork on/. offended you!!! use 1-800-COLLECT, fools!)
What's next? The blind being offended by the "Oh say can you see", and the american anthem being declared unconstitutional??
Perhaps the american people are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY too sensitive... Go watch Full Metal Jacket....
handspring != one drop wonder I've had my trusty visor standard (lowest of the low end visors) for about a year and two months now, and being the careless slob that I am, I have dropped it countless times, on pavement, granite floors, wooden floors, etc... I even threw it on my bed once and it bounced right off and landed on my bedroom floor... but the little beast is still alive and kicking... I've always had the provision of keeping the little screen protector that came with it hooked up, 'cause I never know where the little visor might end up next.... But so far, no cracks, only a couple of scratches on the back. So cheap doesn't necessarily mean "cheap"....
and I can bet it'll be a hit among us Day of Defeat lovers... But the real question is: will they make it a MMOFPS? Imagine thousands vs thousands of players staging a world war!!!! That would surely beat HL's limit of 32(?) players on a given server...
There will be Gamertag, a unique online ID for each member that can be used across the entire network. Note that this is a unique ID that's being pushed as a positive feature, which may be something of a first
What about the WON ID???? It came out _way_before_ the Gamertag, and it's essentially a unique id every HL gamer has......
I don't want to seem like a thankless moron to the guys developing SAMBA, but they should just quit SAMBA. I know it's been a lot of work to make other platforms "interoperate" with Windows, especially without any kind of support from MS. But let's screw it. Screw SMB, screw Windows, screw.NET, screw Office, screw IE, screw Trustworthy Computing, screw all of that shit. It plain sucks. Let's evolve (let the chips fall where they may - anyone?). Let's do something else. Why do other operating systems (software, etc?) have to keep up with Windows? We are stifling innovation ourselves!!! Let's just screw MS, and follow standards ourselves. If MS does not like it, it can go fuck itself for all I care. We have more power than we think (hey, the CDBTPA was turned down by geeks like us!), so let's use it.
I believe I expressed myself incorrectly. In my country, there's an agency involved with the actual creation of ID's (and their db maintenance, etc....). It's called "Junta Central Electoral". It deals with ID's and all the voting crap (presidents and the like), and only they have (secure) write access to the ID db... Other agencies have only read access...
I don't feel righteous on this, though the company that I work for implemented the (country-wide) ID system... very few people have access to the database. All of them work for government agencies.... none of them with "write-access", since it's supposed to be sensitive information (doh.... you've watched "The Net" a bit too many times)... Credit card companies (or anyone else) who wants info from your ID can get it, by asking you to show your ID (in person).... The company I work for thought it all out before making any stupid mistakes, as I believe any company implementing such a sensitive system should....
you're all a bunch of whiners... Out here, in the middle of the Caribbean we got a unique ID (that is the same all across our country, unlike your ID systems), It's got our fingerprints on it, and it's got plenty of security features, unlike most of your ID systems. Let's face it: with your systems (driver's licence, and library card! what a joke...) anybody can become someone else by either forging his ID, or leaving the state. And that's great for felons on the run. Are any of you complaining on/. about single ID's, and biometric info felons? Murderers? Dope-pushers? Con-artists? Do you need to assume a new identity in a flash? Nope? I thought so. Why whine then? We have no problems with "big brother" in my country, but it is easier to track a felon in my country than in the US. That's what it's all about.
Note to conspiracy theorists: shut the hell up. Don't even reply to this. Go get a life.
We're fooling around with WindowsXP embedded (unforunately!) at the office, and it's just your standard edition of WindowsXP, and you get a bunch of tools to help you remove whatever it is you don't need, and create some policies on the machine. Hell, the instructions tell you to start with a machine that has a "normal" version of WindowsXP Professional... Now, the first thing to go was IE. And the system runs perfectly. So MS should cut the "IE being absolutely necessary for Windows' emotional well-being" bullcrap.
Oh, and maybe some brilliant lawyer should bring Windows 2000 Embedded or WindowsXP Embedded to the case...
Well, if you don't use 3DSMAX or Maya as part of your everyday job, you will not appreciate all those little things SGI rams into its workstations. A friend of mine has had both NT and Linux workstations by SGI and they kick some serious ass on Maya (which I'm learning on one of his workstations!!). So excuse all those who have different and/or heavier processing needs....
This just won't work Why? Just because you don't need those little things to play MP3's and read/.? Well, I've got news for you buddy... different people use their computers for different things, and the whole one-size-fits-all model most people here want to push is horribly flawed...
I don't get it... A broadband provider goes out of business because they could not make a profit on the ultra-cheap service they were offering, and the whole/. crowd whines.
Another broadband provider is raising its prices to make ends meet (trying avoid both going out of business and leaving customers out in the dark) and the wole/. crowd whines.
Just in case you have not noticed, bandwidth _costs_money_. Just like food, housing, etc. And if you're using it, you might as well pay for it.
Unless you like getting paid 10 US dollars (new ultra-low unlimited access flat rate!) a month too....
First Punxsutawney Phil (it's groundhog day!), then the techs (it's backend day!), then MS (it's clean code day!), then the robots (it's judgement day!), and now this...
What's next?
Studies have shown live organisms are statistically more prone to dying than other organisms
Jack sez: "on a long enough time frame, the survival rate drops to zero."
(Sorry for the stupid mistake above.... here's a correction...)
for a new feature on/.
How about not displaying comments from stories by posters I wish to exclude from my homepage on the metamoderation page?
because of two reasons:
a)The elitist attitude of some, who will tell you to go RTFM. And unless you are willing to write code for a really old kernel, you won't find much documentation. And even so, the little free documentation you will find, is not that helpful for newbie kernel hackers (and I don't mean to piss on the efforts of those who have written docs, but they're complex to digest for real newbies).
b)The recipe-minded newbie. Let's face it, you won't find a connect-a-b-and-c-shake-bake-and-wham!-You-have-a- module guide or howto. You have to be armed with good C knowledge, and some idea of how a computer _really_ works (understand interrupts? memory addresses?). If you want to write for a current kernel (say, 2.4.17), you _will_ have to look at the source code, and actually try to understand what is happening (told you you'd need to know C). You will also need to know, or at least have some idea of how the peripheral you're writing code for (say, if you're writing a driver module) works.
My experience: I was an absolute newbie to kernel programming, so I started reading the code for the tty driver on kernel 2.4.0, which seems to me is one of the simpler parts. After a lot of reading, I wrote my own module (it was just for fun, so don't think it was anything useful...) as a simple device you could write data to, then read it back. Try it on a machine you don't mind screwing up, though, because you will have tons of oopses and kernel panics.
How about learning to write drivers instead? That would be a lot more useful than bickering, and a hell lot more entertaining than "practicing networking skills and using the internet". Quit wasting your time: do something useful not only for yourself, but for everybody else...
The big money over the next decade will be in transforming the computer into an entertainment device
Wrong. The big money over the next few years will be in transforming computers into usable devices. The first steps are being taken now (with "internet appliances", TiVOs, etc), but computers are still way too complicated for the average Joe. The big money will be not in helping Average Joe to learn Linux, but in creating something he can use to accomplish simple, everyday tasks.
You let cockfucker JonKatz review this shithole of a movie and you reject my posts on "Band of Brothers"... you are all a bunch of cocksuckers...
You want a war movie, do yourself a favor: go watch Saving Private Ryan, and then when Band of Brothers comes out on DVD, go buy it. Warning for the/. crew: BoB is not for sissies, so don't let JonKatz review or even watch it...
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I'm not an american, and I'm an atheist, but... /. offended you!!! use 1-800-COLLECT, fools!)
a country's pledge of allegiance is as important a symbol to a country (at least to those that have a pledge) as a flag, or an anthem. You're not supposed to feel "offended" by it, or opressed, or whatever else you might be feeling. You're supposed to respect whatever symbols your country has, and you're supposed to love them. It's all meant to bring a sense of nationality, a sense of unity.
I don't mind swearing by a third party that does not exist, but I would certainly mind losing all sense of nationality (especially my beloved anthem)....
Now to all those weenies who feel offended by one of your national symbols: BOO HOO, YOU FUCKING SHITHEADS!!! (Go call your mommies and tell them some dork on
What's next? The blind being offended by the "Oh say can you see", and the american anthem being declared unconstitutional??
Perhaps the american people are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY too sensitive... Go watch Full Metal Jacket....
handspring != one drop wonder
I've had my trusty visor standard (lowest of the low end visors) for about a year and two months now, and being the careless slob that I am, I have dropped it countless times, on pavement, granite floors, wooden floors, etc... I even threw it on my bed once and it bounced right off and landed on my bedroom floor... but the little beast is still alive and kicking...
I've always had the provision of keeping the little screen protector that came with it hooked up, 'cause I never know where the little visor might end up next....
But so far, no cracks, only a couple of scratches on the back.
So cheap doesn't necessarily mean "cheap"....
and I can bet it'll be a hit among us Day of Defeat lovers...
But the real question is: will they make it a MMOFPS? Imagine thousands vs thousands of players staging a world war!!!!
That would surely beat HL's limit of 32(?) players on a given server...
There will be Gamertag, a unique online ID for each member that can be used across the entire network. Note that this is a unique ID that's being pushed as a positive feature, which may be something of a first
What about the WON ID???? It came out _way_before_ the Gamertag, and it's essentially a unique id every HL gamer has......
I don't want to seem like a thankless moron to the guys developing SAMBA, but they should just quit SAMBA. .NET, screw Office, screw IE, screw Trustworthy Computing, screw all of that shit.
I know it's been a lot of work to make other platforms "interoperate" with Windows, especially without any kind of support from MS.
But let's screw it. Screw SMB, screw Windows, screw
It plain sucks. Let's evolve (let the chips fall where they may - anyone?). Let's do something else. Why do other operating systems (software, etc?) have to keep up with Windows? We are stifling innovation ourselves!!!
Let's just screw MS, and follow standards ourselves. If MS does not like it, it can go fuck itself for all I care. We have more power than we think (hey, the CDBTPA was turned down by geeks like us!), so let's use it.
I believe I expressed myself incorrectly. In my country, there's an agency involved with the actual creation of ID's (and their db maintenance, etc....). It's called "Junta Central Electoral". It deals with ID's and all the voting crap (presidents and the like), and only they have (secure) write access to the ID db... Other agencies have only read access...
Oh, I forgot, there are laws as to how ID's are to be used (accessed, and the like.....)....
I don't feel righteous on this, though the company that I work for implemented the (country-wide) ID system...
very few people have access to the database. All of them work for government agencies.... none of them with "write-access", since it's supposed to be sensitive information (doh.... you've watched "The Net" a bit too many times)...
Credit card companies (or anyone else) who wants info from your ID can get it, by asking you to show your ID (in person).... The company I work for thought it all out before making any stupid mistakes, as I believe any company implementing such a sensitive system should....
you're all a bunch of whiners... Out here, in the middle of the Caribbean we got a unique ID (that is the same all across our country, unlike your ID systems), It's got our fingerprints on it, and it's got plenty of security features, unlike most of your ID systems. Let's face it: with your systems (driver's licence, and library card! what a joke...) anybody can become someone else by either forging his ID, or leaving the state. And that's great for felons on the run. Are any of you complaining on /. about single ID's, and biometric info felons? Murderers? Dope-pushers? Con-artists? Do you need to assume a new identity in a flash? Nope? I thought so. Why whine then? We have no problems with "big brother" in my country, but it is easier to track a felon in my country than in the US. That's what it's all about.
Note to conspiracy theorists: shut the hell up. Don't even reply to this. Go get a life.
slashdotted already?
Well, life has been better for me since I blocked Katz's articles... I suggest all those who dislike his writings do the same....
We're fooling around with WindowsXP embedded (unforunately!) at the office, and it's just your standard edition of WindowsXP, and you get a bunch of tools to help you remove whatever it is you don't need, and create some policies on the machine.
Hell, the instructions tell you to start with a machine that has a "normal" version of WindowsXP Professional...
Now, the first thing to go was IE. And the system runs perfectly. So MS should cut the "IE being absolutely necessary for Windows' emotional well-being" bullcrap.
Oh, and maybe some brilliant lawyer should bring Windows 2000 Embedded or WindowsXP Embedded to the case...
Have a happy life together!!!!
Oh, and nice way to propose, CmdrTaco!!!!
Well, if you don't use 3DSMAX or Maya as part of your everyday job, you will not appreciate all those little things SGI rams into its workstations. A friend of mine has had both NT and Linux workstations by SGI and they kick some serious ass on Maya (which I'm learning on one of his workstations!!). So excuse all those who have different and/or heavier processing needs....
/.? Well, I've got news for you buddy... different people use their computers for different things, and the whole one-size-fits-all model most people here want to push is horribly flawed...
This just won't work
Why? Just because you don't need those little things to play MP3's and read
I don't get it... A broadband provider goes out of business because they could not make a profit on the ultra-cheap service they were offering, and the whole /. crowd whines.
/. crowd whines.
Another broadband provider is raising its prices to make ends meet (trying avoid both going out of business and leaving customers out in the dark) and the wole
Just in case you have not noticed, bandwidth _costs_money_. Just like food, housing, etc. And if you're using it, you might as well pay for it.
Unless you like getting paid 10 US dollars (new ultra-low unlimited access flat rate!) a month too....
First Punxsutawney Phil (it's groundhog day!), then the techs (it's backend day!), then MS (it's clean code day!), then the robots (it's judgement day!), and now this...
What's next?
Studies have shown live organisms are statistically more prone to dying than other organisms
Jack sez: "on a long enough time frame, the survival rate drops to zero."
(Sorry for the stupid mistake above.... here's a correction...) /.
for a new feature on
How about not displaying comments from stories by posters I wish to exclude from my homepage on the metamoderation page?
for a new feature on /.
How about not displaying comments from stories by posters I have wish to exclude from my homepage on the metamoderation page?
because of two reasons:
- module guide or howto. You have to be armed with good C knowledge, and some idea of how a computer _really_ works (understand interrupts? memory addresses?). If you want to write for a current kernel (say, 2.4.17), you _will_ have to look at the source code, and actually try to understand what is happening (told you you'd need to know C). You will also need to know, or at least have some idea of how the peripheral you're writing code for (say, if you're writing a driver module) works.
a)The elitist attitude of some, who will tell you to go RTFM. And unless you are willing to write code for a really old kernel, you won't find much documentation. And even so, the little free documentation you will find, is not that helpful for newbie kernel hackers (and I don't mean to piss on the efforts of those who have written docs, but they're complex to digest for real newbies).
b)The recipe-minded newbie. Let's face it, you won't find a connect-a-b-and-c-shake-bake-and-wham!-You-have-a
My experience: I was an absolute newbie to kernel programming, so I started reading the code for the tty driver on kernel 2.4.0, which seems to me is one of the simpler parts. After a lot of reading, I wrote my own module (it was just for fun, so don't think it was anything useful...) as a simple device you could write data to, then read it back. Try it on a machine you don't mind screwing up, though, because you will have tons of oopses and kernel panics.
How about learning to write drivers instead? That would be a lot more useful than bickering, and a hell lot more entertaining than "practicing networking skills and using the internet". Quit wasting your time: do something useful not only for yourself, but for everybody else...
The big money over the next decade will be in transforming the computer into an entertainment device
Wrong. The big money over the next few years will be in transforming computers into usable devices. The first steps are being taken now (with "internet appliances", TiVOs, etc), but computers are still way too complicated for the average Joe. The big money will be not in helping Average Joe to learn Linux, but in creating something he can use to accomplish simple, everyday tasks.
we plan on selling our LINUX based operating systems over the Internet to very sophisticated and discriminating customers
Unlike those who ask for replacement cup holders all around the world...
Dude! I just hate Jon Katz....
You let cockfucker JonKatz review this shithole of a movie and you reject my posts on "Band of Brothers"... you are all a bunch of cocksuckers... /. crew: BoB is not for sissies, so don't let JonKatz review or even watch it...
You want a war movie, do yourself a favor: go watch Saving Private Ryan, and then when Band of Brothers comes out on DVD, go buy it. Warning for the
Everybody's been hacking... hacking USA!