A lot of it seemed to ramble on and on, without ever getting to the point. When I was done with it I felt as if he tried to make me hate fast food companies, but didn't present a very convincing case.
0: redundant? What's up with that? Yeah I was the second person to post it. But we posted less than ONE minute apart. Obviously I wasn't karma whoring. Slashdot moderation........
Ok point taken, but I (along with many other people) must use IE for the 8+ hours a day we spend at our jobs. So it isn't as simple as "switch to another browser".
Plus if you look over slashdot's OWN stats, you'll see that the greatest # hits come from IE. It is the #1 browser, whether we like it or not, and the/. crew should fix this glaring problem.
Why hasn't the/. crew done something about these stupid page widening posts?
And why don't they show the story when you change the threshold? I upped the threshold to +1 and now the story disappears and I'm left with only the comments...
Great, now we have a new Linux distro coming out backed by a big fat stew of companies who couldn't compete with RedHat on their own, plus a bunch more who for whatever reason are latching on as "partners".
While stopping child pornography sounds noble, it seems that these powers will do little to meet this goal and much to allow the government to decide what websites are suitable for public viewing.
The gov't has already decided that child porn is not suitable for public viewing. This is just one way of enforcing that decision.
While I'm as big a conspiracy theorist as anyone, I do think this could actually stop some child porn.
Man how I wish I had some mod points to boost your post back out of the -1 hole it's in. You're dead right about k5. A bunch of know-it-alls hiding behind the anonymity of the internet to spout their self-proclaimed righteousness.
Those pretentious pricks actually posted and voted to the front page an article about how some guy died from rocking a coke machine which then fell on him. Yeah, dumb move on his part, but the guy is frickin' dead. No need to write a story about how whooptie-do smart you are and how much of a fat fucking idiot the guy was.
With all the talk lately about how cryptic and information-less the Linux kernel changelogs are, I just now noticed how refreshingly descriptive the WM changelogs are (and have always been).
Re:I bought my girlfriend a flatpanel monitor...
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Merry Christmas
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Dude I did the same thing. It went over pretty well.
No point really, just a coincidence that we bought the same gift:)
Not because it's a bad magazine, but because the articles are very technical, and seem to be more oriented towards admins rather than home users. The original poster says he's a newbie to linux.
I was a subscriber to Maximum Linux, which I thought was a great newbie magazine. It came with cdroms full of useful software so you wouldn't have to scour the net for stuff, and the articles were aimed at desktop users. It went belly up though, and my subscription was replaced with wired.
Why not just go to your local Barnes and Nobles and see what's on the rack?
The article calls us NAT users "dishonest" and compares us to people getting free HBO with descramblers. What a crock! We're not taking something we didn't pay for, just using what bandwidth we have creatively.
Just about every broadband provider caps its bandwidth, so if 2 (or more) neighbors want to go halves on the monthly cost, what is the real problem? Where is the dishonesty in that? The article even says:
Tactically, it works like this: Anyone with a networkable computer, an 802.11b antenna and receiver, and approval from the master PC connected to a wireless hub, can sit, invisibly, "behind" the NAT, and share the throughput of the cable modem attached "ahead of" the NAT.
Notice the words share the throughput. Remember when Lars Ulrich was on MTV saying that Napster wasn't sharing in the sense that if you share a sandwich with someone you are left with only 1/2 a sandwich. (Thus you are not as inclined to share when it means less for you). That is what is going on in this scenario, and I see nothing wrong with it.
Hey guess what? I have a friend who just moved, and another friend's mother who just moved. They rented a Uhaul truck for a day, and split the cost. Once I shared a plate of french fries with someone at the local diner. Yeah it was half the cost, but each person got 1/2 the fries/uhaul/bandwidth too.
``Faculty members were finding students surfing the Net, sending instant messages, even looking at porn in some of the freshman intro classes,'' said Phillip Knutel, Bentley's director of academic technology.
I think it's funny that they mention freshman intro classes. I think most/.ers who have been through a University CS program have suffered through those introductory lets-seperate-the-men-from-the-boys classes. You know, those ones that teach you how to use IE, Word and Powerpoint. It no wonder a student would want something to divert their attention from dumb mandatory courses like these.
I know my school had a class like that, which consisted of the above, plus some basic PC hardware knowledge and then finishing up with HTML. And I did exactly what this article mentioned. Sat in the back row reading/. and other more-intersting-than-the-class web sites.
Like many posts here have said, this is stupid because these students are adults, and honestly they don't have to be in class at all. If I wouldn't have wanted to even show up to class, I could have stayed home, so why me for showing up to a class that I should have been allowed to test out of anyways?
I did make sure to type as little as possible (clicking w/ the mouse when I could) and generally just keeping it on the DL so as not to disturb anyone. And I got the A easily so what's the problem?
How many proprietary programs/operating systems have "stolen" GPL/BSD code and never told anyone. I mean, how would anyone ever know unless they could see the source?
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I didn't think this book was that great.
A lot of it seemed to ramble on and on, without ever getting to the point. When I was done with it I felt as if he tried to make me hate fast food companies, but didn't present a very convincing case.
0: redundant? What's up with that? Yeah I was the second person to post it. But we posted less than ONE minute apart. Obviously I wasn't karma whoring. Slashdot moderation........
Since this will eventually be shut down....
Best Male Performance: Will Smith
Best Female Performance: Nicole Kidman
Best On Screen Team: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker
Best Villain: Denzel Washington
Best Comedic Performance: Reese Witherspoon
Best Musical Sequence: Moulin Rouge, Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman
Best Kiss: Jason Biggs and Seann William Scott
Best Action Sequence: Pearl Harbor, The Attack Scene
Best Fight: Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan versus The Hong Kong Gang
Breakthrough Male: Orlando Bloom
Breakthrough Female: Mandy Moore
Best Movie: Lord of the Rings
I agree w/ you for the most part (hey we have very close UIDs).
But k5? Yuck, what a bunch of pretentious, self-righteous pricks over there. (not everyone, of course, but a lot of them)
No. If you read my post you would know that this is not my computer. I like my job and would like to keep it.
Ok point taken, but I (along with many other people) must use IE for the 8+ hours a day we spend at our jobs. So it isn't as simple as "switch to another browser".
/. crew should fix this glaring problem.
Plus if you look over slashdot's OWN stats, you'll see that the greatest # hits come from IE. It is the #1 browser, whether we like it or not, and the
Why hasn't the /. crew done something about these stupid page widening posts?
And why don't they show the story when you change the threshold? I upped the threshold to +1 and now the story disappears and I'm left with only the comments...
Great, now we have a new Linux distro coming out backed by a big fat stew of companies who couldn't compete with RedHat on their own, plus a bunch more who for whatever reason are latching on as "partners".
They even have a "product roadmap" with quarterly release cycles. The PHBs will love this.
I think I'll be sticking with RedHat. They've been around since before Linux was the cool thing to pitch to companies.
While stopping child pornography sounds noble, it seems that these powers will do little to meet this goal and much to allow the government to decide what websites are suitable for public viewing.
The gov't has already decided that child porn is not suitable for public viewing. This is just one way of enforcing that decision.
While I'm as big a conspiracy theorist as anyone, I do think this could actually stop some child porn.
I guess your only reason to post to /. is you're too fuckwitted to let people prefer whatever text editor they want without being insulted.
Man how I wish I had some mod points to boost your post back out of the -1 hole it's in. You're dead right about k5. A bunch of know-it-alls hiding behind the anonymity of the internet to spout their self-proclaimed righteousness.
Those pretentious pricks actually posted and voted to the front page an article about how some guy died from rocking a coke machine which then fell on him. Yeah, dumb move on his part, but the guy is frickin' dead. No need to write a story about how whooptie-do smart you are and how much of a fat fucking idiot the guy was.
The first figure is probably a wildly overestimated guess.
;)
The second figure....well it's 100% of course
With all the talk lately about how cryptic and information-less the Linux kernel changelogs are, I just now noticed how refreshingly descriptive the WM changelogs are (and have always been).
Dude I did the same thing. It went over pretty well.
:)
No point really, just a coincidence that we bought the same gift
Merry Christmas!
Enjoy some Christmas music!
:)
Merry Christmas! And may the new year bring us all 1 MB kernels with support for every single hardware device ever made!
And don't forget to listen to Christmas music at my website nopants.org
I am very satisfied with my DirecTV DSL (formerly Telocity).
I get a static IP and I am allowed to run anything I want, no firewalls, no port blocking.
$50/month. I couldn't be happier (especially since I live 2 blocks from the nearest DSL switch).
So the government still thinks they're in the right, they're just turning the targets against each other.
This is NOT a step in the right direction.
...that the link to the original lycos at Carnegie Mellon University still works.
Not because it's a bad magazine, but because the articles are very technical, and seem to be more oriented towards admins rather than home users. The original poster says he's a newbie to linux.
I was a subscriber to Maximum Linux, which I thought was a great newbie magazine. It came with cdroms full of useful software so you wouldn't have to scour the net for stuff, and the articles were aimed at desktop users. It went belly up though, and my subscription was replaced with wired.
Why not just go to your local Barnes and Nobles and see what's on the rack?
The article calls us NAT users "dishonest" and compares us to people getting free HBO with descramblers. What a crock! We're not taking something we didn't pay for, just using what bandwidth we have creatively.
Just about every broadband provider caps its bandwidth, so if 2 (or more) neighbors want to go halves on the monthly cost, what is the real problem? Where is the dishonesty in that? The article even says:
Tactically, it works like this: Anyone with a networkable computer, an 802.11b antenna and receiver, and approval from the master PC connected to a wireless hub, can sit, invisibly, "behind" the NAT, and share the throughput of the cable modem attached "ahead of" the NAT.
Notice the words share the throughput. Remember when Lars Ulrich was on MTV saying that Napster wasn't sharing in the sense that if you share a sandwich with someone you are left with only 1/2 a sandwich. (Thus you are not as inclined to share when it means less for you). That is what is going on in this scenario, and I see nothing wrong with it.
Hey guess what? I have a friend who just moved, and another friend's mother who just moved. They rented a Uhaul truck for a day, and split the cost. Once I shared a plate of french fries with someone at the local diner. Yeah it was half the cost, but each person got 1/2 the fries/uhaul/bandwidth too.
I have an old TI-99-4/A in my attic that probably doesn't work anymore from the temperature extremes
I don't see how a Commodore is going to work after being UNDERGROUND for ~15 years.
I want the m-systems disk-on-key.
It's a flash memory stick on a keychain that has a USB plug on it. Plug it in an copy files to it. Works under Linux too.
``Faculty members were finding students surfing the Net, sending instant messages, even looking at porn in some of the freshman intro classes,'' said Phillip Knutel, Bentley's director of academic technology.
/.ers who have been through a University CS program have suffered through those introductory lets-seperate-the-men-from-the-boys classes. You know, those ones that teach you how to use IE, Word and Powerpoint. It no wonder a student would want something to divert their attention from dumb mandatory courses like these.
/. and other more-intersting-than-the-class web sites.
I think it's funny that they mention freshman intro classes. I think most
I know my school had a class like that, which consisted of the above, plus some basic PC hardware knowledge and then finishing up with HTML. And I did exactly what this article mentioned. Sat in the back row reading
Like many posts here have said, this is stupid because these students are adults, and honestly they don't have to be in class at all. If I wouldn't have wanted to even show up to class, I could have stayed home, so why me for showing up to a class that I should have been allowed to test out of anyways?
I did make sure to type as little as possible (clicking w/ the mouse when I could) and generally just keeping it on the DL so as not to disturb anyone. And I got the A easily so what's the problem?
How many proprietary programs/operating systems have "stolen" GPL/BSD code and never told anyone. I mean, how would anyone ever know unless they could see the source?