This is the same phillips, I believe, that just a few short days ago was championed for saying that copy-proofing CD's was against the logo rules.. I love how fast this community can change its mind about someone, based soley on them attempting to protect their interests.
If you want to see a place where other peoples intellectual products belong to the community, move to a communist country. (Not that there are/were ever any truly successful communist countries, in the true sense of the word communist..). I still prefer capitalism.
Just get a really, really long ribbon cable, and a really, really long power cable, and sit a drive outside the PeeCee. Take the case off to make it easier on you, if this is temporary. (just point a big fan at the computer).
UPN is showing Enterprise in the 16 x 9 ratio in anticipation of the advent of High Definition television. This format, with more picture and better clarity, will eventually replace TV viewing as it exists now in the more limiting 4 x 3 aspect ratio. -- from FAQ at www.startrek.com
In TN, at least at Best Buy, they were only $14.00 per DVD set.. still steep. They could have at -least- fit a 3rd episode onto each DVD. Or a fourth. Better than the $12.99 for a video tape with one episode on it they did in the early 90's, though.
I've always liked the idea of specifying where some of your tax dollars are spent. For instance, the "Would you like to donate $3.00 to the presidential campagin fund?" Question. I'm not saying allow people to specify where *ALL* their tax money is spent, but i'd rather give $10 a month to the expansion of human knowledge, or cancer research, or something else.. than to paying for a BMW that some congressman needs to go back and forth to kroger. Fill in your gripe about the appropriation of tax dollars where my example is used above.
Relatively common. Some brain malfunctions are only repairable, by our medical knowledge, by removal of parts of the brain. Just the other day on DHC, they were showing a little girl having a hemispherectomy to rid her of seizures. Being so young, they estimated the impact on her life would be minimal, compared to a life of seizures. At that age, the brain has a remarkable ability to rewire itself, to an extent, lost mostly by the teenage years.
IANADJADHCA
[I am not a doctor, just a Discovery Health Channel addict.]
I think he also forgets that the world isn't completely populated by doped-up, conspiracy theorizing, Unsatiable fanatics who haven't quite made it out of the 1980's university computer philosophy mindset.
Stallman:Computers::Phelps:Religion
Of course, some would say, using the messianic POV:
Stallman:Computers::Christ:Judaism,
and i'd say most of these people are here.
but i'd counter with
Stallman:Computers::Christ:Gnostic Christianity
I do agree. Computers are a tool. I use that analogy quite often. When i want to use a drill, i don't want to build it myself. I'd rather get it from Black and Decker. Now black and decker tools arent ment to explode at random intervals.. but the last crash of windows i've ever had that was windows' fault was in 98.
Its a multimedia internet - that's not going to change. Word e-mail's bother me too in some situations, but a far more realistic solution is having microsoft open the specs to word documents officially - if they havent done so already. Its not going to go away, because, to the majority of the worlds users, rich text format/word e-mail's are a boon.
Butbutbut.. Information wants to be anthropomorphize..err, free..
Though i have to wonder how many hits the NYT lose on a daily basis because of their log-in policy. I don't go there, i'd rather get my news from CNN or ABCnews. Not because im morally opposed to the prospect of logging into a news site.. lets be honest, im just lazy.
From the bibliodot:
Book of the Wisdom of the Penguins
2:15 Learn this, young pedowan. Slashdot respects not law, nor power, nor those who wish to make money from their works, nor the good that intrensically comes from evil.
2:16 Slashdot is the counterculture. Feel with your heart, don't think with your head. Abolish 5,000 years of civilizations evolution to justify thyself as right.
2:17 Slashdot is the temple. The zealots and the faithful gather regularly and converse, yea, the zealots lead. Sensasionalism is their call, and welcome it they do;
2:18 Remove thyself from the restrictions of thy laws you see as unjust. For some laws will be unjust; yet, some laws will be just, and good for the many; yet those who wish not to let go of their purse in persuit of their gratification will call these laws evil, and unjust.
2:19 Thy enlightened ones shall have their posts marked as "offtopic", "Flamebait", or even "troll". These posts, which make thy brain spark, are against this new order; yet they are the basis of this new order.
You have valid points. I agree with you - I don't agree with misleading the consumer. I hate those ads which make themselves appear to be part of the magazine in print. (I hate worse the heavier-stock inserts that go into print magazines..)
Thank god. You're right - People waste their moderator points on posts like these, too. These are obviously offtopic posts - some people wouldn't MIND so much reading offtopic posts (chances are, this post will be marked as offtopic, even though i freely admit to it, and my karma will be hurt).
There's not a place, in particular, to discuss Slashdot herself - for instance, any criticizations, aside from those diatribes against Jon Katz, are usually marked as "trolls". 2 distinct types of fora would be needed, i suppose.. moderated and unmoderated.. As mentioned by someone in my journal, there are plenty of general forum sites out there.. but none for slashdot in particular. There's a slashdot irc channel. not a general forum, though. It would be nice, for instance, if we got into a conversation tangent like this to be able to "De-parent" the thread and have it pop up in the general forum.
Thoughts?
(Moderators: I've left my +1 off. Please be so kind as to not waste your own moderator points on a post which is, by intrensic nature, offtopic. Remember: Its better to moderate a positive comment up than a negative comment down. We need more people to bring the signal from the noise, not seperate the noise from the signal.)
Its open source! of *COURSE* it will cut the mustard.. if it doesn't, write your own extensions!
Okay. Back in the real world - How did you like NetBackup? I know it at least has the same interface, wether you be in Unix or in Windows - one of the gripes i have about networker is that the "new" GUI (nwadmin.exe) isnt the same in any way shape or form of the old gui design, which is still used in unix.
The GUI itself blows. Bad, bad, bad design. No status indicators, inaccuracies abound.. Messages window in probably the WORST fuggin place..
And have you ever tried to correct a serious issue with legato tech support? I have. It took 8 bloody hours for them to respond to a serious inquiriy. What about a bare-metal restore of all your tapes? Read the man page on scanner - it's hell on earth. Hell, our sales guy wont even return our calls. Hows that for customer service? Buy 17,000 worth of products from them a year, and they dont even return your calls. We've already invested so much in legato, they won't allow us to move away from it right now. NOt until we're back in black ink, anyway.. But i will do everything in my power to see that nobody has to suffer through the hell of legato without being warned.
I had a really long, thought out post typed out. But then slashdot went belly up. Not sure exactly what happened, but for a forum which kicks microsoft in the head each time they fubar, i find it quite ironic that at least once a day i come to find that 1: im not logged in, 2: i can't post anything, and 3: a few posts disappear into a black hole, from which they never return.
Anyways.. to recap my post.. Advertising is not a sin to me - we've had to deal with misleading adverisiments in printed press for a long time. I think the group personality here lends itself to sensationalism way too easy. Me, i'd rather see 5 banner ads on CNN than have to pay for CNN. Its not 1992 anymore, and websites carry a LOT more data than before. The internet has become a part of our economy - not a novelty relegated to just a few fortunate souls in acadamia and dialup ISP patrons browsing websites served on T1's. This is the multimedia internet, and while you or I may or may not like the barrage of images and sounds, i'd be willing to bet Joe America uses it - or else it wouldnt exist. 'Tis the nature of capitalism.
I've posted a proposed end-users bill of rights in my journal. I'd love to hear more thoughts about it. I asked slashdot about it, and, somehow, the entire post was marked as "Rejected" as soon as the submit page came back up. Interesting, eh?
I've worked first, second, and third shift, and can honestly say that sleep is my least favorite activity. I feel as I'm being robbed of part of my life.
However, once im nice and asleep, it typically takes me 10-11 hours to wake back up naturally. If i have to wake up before that (Read: Work), it takes an act of G-d to get me up and out of bed. My body (and simiconcious mind) hate waking up so much that i can turn off an alarm (even my winamp alarm) without ever becoming completely lucid. I do it every night. I have to set 3 alarms to wake up. They recently all became ineffective. (Sometimes, i'll get up, turn the alarm off BEFORE it goes off!). Now I have a flesh-and-blood alarm that makes sure im awake in time to come to work.
Once i'm awake, and have had a good 8 hours, im fine after 30 minutes, but my brain doesnt enter init 3 until about 2 hours later.
I want to beg my doctor to prescribe me modafinil, the drug they use to treat narcolepsy. A recent study by doctors at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston showed the drug is effective in letting healthy people stay awake and completely in control of their mental facilities for up to 4 days at a time. This raises an interesting question, at least for me.. my personality changes dramatically from the morning to the night.. wonder what would happen after 4 days.
this is pretty damn cool. I had a TI-92 in school, which got stolen.. extremely quickly. Knew who did it too, but being a geek, didn't confront him. Geez. Today i'd just lock his accou..err, wait.
Calculators ruined my brain though. I was in 'experimental' math classes since 7th grade, previous to that i was in a private school that didn't stress mathematics.. all in all, i've used calculators since the late 1980's. When, much to my shock, as im preparing to re-enter school and get an AA, i found i could not properly solve a long division or long multiplication problem on paper or in my head, i felt incredibly stupid. I rectified that situation extremely quickly.
In 7th grade they let us use a calculator made by TI which actually had a modulus function - in other words, NO paper work for most problems! When Math for Business and Technology came along, all was done using calculators - everything. So, in conjunction with the fact that I hated school until my senior year, i think my brain may never do mathematics again.
I want a nice Color PDA before I go back. I don't know how they feel about these in class now - but since i can't read my own writing most of the time, i think it may be helpful - and i can write faster in graffiti-esque than in cursive or print.. Now if they'll only make a good calculator (WinXP Powertoys-like) for palm/wince
An alternative thought to this is that Windows 2000, being a much more mature OS than NT, has taken over an adequate market share that unix has been pushed out of that niche. I've noticed most companies still tend to use unix for their back offices when they need massive amounts of processing power.. something that intel-based boxes just can't offer on a substantial level.
I have to wonder, in percentages, how many companies would rather deploy, say, Solaris AutoClients as opposed to Cirtix & Thin Clients.
Just a note: Solaris 9 for SPARC machines is going to go Non-developer beta next week.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't rule out:
1) Republicans, who fear we may end up finding the "Liberal Democrat" gene.
2) Fundimentalist Christians, who believe we shouldn't learn anything which may give us insight into the workings of God.
3) Democrats, who fear we may find the "can see right through your lies" gene
4) Hardcore, 14 year old Linux Advocates, for fear they may find a gene which will make everyone as 133t as said advocates.
This is the same phillips, I believe, that just a few short days ago was championed for saying that copy-proofing CD's was against the logo rules.. I love how fast this community can change its mind about someone, based soley on them attempting to protect their interests.
If you want to see a place where other peoples intellectual products belong to the community, move to a communist country. (Not that there are/were ever any truly successful communist countries, in the true sense of the word communist..). I still prefer capitalism.
Just get a really, really long ribbon cable, and a really, really long power cable, and sit a drive outside the PeeCee. Take the case off to make it easier on you, if this is temporary. (just point a big fan at the computer).
:)
While we're at it, I want an altair.
Do they make linux for the altair, yet?
For Everyone's benefit, the link is The Coroner's Toolkit
Corollary, Spammers respirate, are carbon based, and do not constitute life.
man touch finger mount pump fsck yes umount make clean sleep
UPN is showing Enterprise in the 16 x 9 ratio in anticipation of the advent of High Definition television. This format, with more picture and better clarity, will eventually replace TV viewing as it exists now in the more limiting 4 x 3 aspect ratio.
-- from FAQ at www.startrek.com
In TN, at least at Best Buy, they were only $14.00 per DVD set.. still steep. They could have at -least- fit a 3rd episode onto each DVD. Or a fourth. Better than the $12.99 for a video tape with one episode on it they did in the early 90's, though.
I've always liked the idea of specifying where some of your tax dollars are spent. For instance, the "Would you like to donate $3.00 to the presidential campagin fund?" Question. I'm not saying allow people to specify where *ALL* their tax money is spent, but i'd rather give $10 a month to the expansion of human knowledge, or cancer research, or something else.. than to paying for a BMW that some congressman needs to go back and forth to kroger. Fill in your gripe about the appropriation of tax dollars where my example is used above.
Relatively common. Some brain malfunctions are only repairable, by our medical knowledge, by removal of parts of the brain. Just the other day on DHC, they were showing a little girl having a hemispherectomy to rid her of seizures. Being so young, they estimated the impact on her life would be minimal, compared to a life of seizures. At that age, the brain has a remarkable ability to rewire itself, to an extent, lost mostly by the teenage years.
IANADJADHCA
[I am not a doctor, just a Discovery Health Channel addict.]
When antimatter is made in the lab, it is stored in something called a "Penning Trap". Indeed, it is a type of magnetic confinement.
More info, here
I'm assuming (and only that) that 1g of antimatter would be inversely identical (?!) to 1g of matter.
I'm confused. How come the SNAP-9A incident over madagascar in 1964 didn't kill people?
I think he also forgets that the world isn't completely populated by doped-up, conspiracy theorizing, Unsatiable fanatics who haven't quite made it out of the 1980's university computer philosophy mindset.
Stallman:Computers::Phelps:Religion
Of course, some would say, using the messianic POV:
Stallman:Computers::Christ:Judaism,
and i'd say most of these people are here.
but i'd counter with
Stallman:Computers::Christ:Gnostic Christianity
I do agree. Computers are a tool. I use that analogy quite often. When i want to use a drill, i don't want to build it myself. I'd rather get it from Black and Decker. Now black and decker tools arent ment to explode at random intervals.. but the last crash of windows i've ever had that was windows' fault was in 98.
Its a multimedia internet - that's not going to change. Word e-mail's bother me too in some situations, but a far more realistic solution is having microsoft open the specs to word documents officially - if they havent done so already. Its not going to go away, because, to the majority of the worlds users, rich text format/word e-mail's are a boon.
Butbutbut.. Information wants to be anthropomorphize..err, free..
Though i have to wonder how many hits the NYT lose on a daily basis because of their log-in policy. I don't go there, i'd rather get my news from CNN or ABCnews. Not because im morally opposed to the prospect of logging into a news site.. lets be honest, im just lazy.
From the bibliodot:
Book of the Wisdom of the Penguins
2:15 Learn this, young pedowan. Slashdot respects not law, nor power, nor those who wish to make money from their works, nor the good that intrensically comes from evil.
2:16 Slashdot is the counterculture. Feel with your heart, don't think with your head. Abolish 5,000 years of civilizations evolution to justify thyself as right.
2:17 Slashdot is the temple. The zealots and the faithful gather regularly and converse, yea, the zealots lead. Sensasionalism is their call, and welcome it they do;
2:18 Remove thyself from the restrictions of thy laws you see as unjust. For some laws will be unjust; yet, some laws will be just, and good for the many; yet those who wish not to let go of their purse in persuit of their gratification will call these laws evil, and unjust.
2:19 Thy enlightened ones shall have their posts marked as "offtopic", "Flamebait", or even "troll". These posts, which make thy brain spark, are against this new order; yet they are the basis of this new order.
So writes the penguin.
You have valid points. I agree with you - I don't agree with misleading the consumer. I hate those ads which make themselves appear to be part of the magazine in print. (I hate worse the heavier-stock inserts that go into print magazines..)
Thank god. You're right - People waste their moderator points on posts like these, too. These are obviously offtopic posts - some people wouldn't MIND so much reading offtopic posts (chances are, this post will be marked as offtopic, even though i freely admit to it, and my karma will be hurt).
There's not a place, in particular, to discuss Slashdot herself - for instance, any criticizations, aside from those diatribes against Jon Katz, are usually marked as "trolls". 2 distinct types of fora would be needed, i suppose.. moderated and unmoderated.. As mentioned by someone in my journal, there are plenty of general forum sites out there.. but none for slashdot in particular. There's a slashdot irc channel. not a general forum, though. It would be nice, for instance, if we got into a conversation tangent like this to be able to "De-parent" the thread and have it pop up in the general forum.
Thoughts?
(Moderators: I've left my +1 off. Please be so kind as to not waste your own moderator points on a post which is, by intrensic nature, offtopic. Remember: Its better to moderate a positive comment up than a negative comment down. We need more people to bring the signal from the noise, not seperate the noise from the signal.)
Its open source! of *COURSE* it will cut the mustard.. if it doesn't, write your own extensions!
Okay. Back in the real world - How did you like NetBackup? I know it at least has the same interface, wether you be in Unix or in Windows - one of the gripes i have about networker is that the "new" GUI (nwadmin.exe) isnt the same in any way shape or form of the old gui design, which is still used in unix.
The GUI itself blows. Bad, bad, bad design. No status indicators, inaccuracies abound.. Messages window in probably the WORST fuggin place..
And have you ever tried to correct a serious issue with legato tech support? I have. It took 8 bloody hours for them to respond to a serious inquiriy. What about a bare-metal restore of all your tapes? Read the man page on scanner - it's hell on earth. Hell, our sales guy wont even return our calls. Hows that for customer service? Buy 17,000 worth of products from them a year, and they dont even return your calls. We've already invested so much in legato, they won't allow us to move away from it right now. NOt until we're back in black ink, anyway.. But i will do everything in my power to see that nobody has to suffer through the hell of legato without being warned.
Granted, i don't have much power.
I had a really long, thought out post typed out. But then slashdot went belly up. Not sure exactly what happened, but for a forum which kicks microsoft in the head each time they fubar, i find it quite ironic that at least once a day i come to find that 1: im not logged in, 2: i can't post anything, and 3: a few posts disappear into a black hole, from which they never return.
Anyways.. to recap my post.. Advertising is not a sin to me - we've had to deal with misleading adverisiments in printed press for a long time. I think the group personality here lends itself to sensationalism way too easy. Me, i'd rather see 5 banner ads on CNN than have to pay for CNN. Its not 1992 anymore, and websites carry a LOT more data than before. The internet has become a part of our economy - not a novelty relegated to just a few fortunate souls in acadamia and dialup ISP patrons browsing websites served on T1's. This is the multimedia internet, and while you or I may or may not like the barrage of images and sounds, i'd be willing to bet Joe America uses it - or else it wouldnt exist. 'Tis the nature of capitalism.
I've posted a proposed end-users bill of rights in my journal. I'd love to hear more thoughts about it. I asked slashdot about it, and, somehow, the entire post was marked as "Rejected" as soon as the submit page came back up. Interesting, eh?
Legato Notworker!
Having had the fortune of using it for the last 4 years I can honestly say, while its gotten better, its still got a LOT of PROBLEMS.
I Can think of one answer:
"Here, lets open source trusted solaris"
I've worked first, second, and third shift, and can honestly say that sleep is my least favorite activity. I feel as I'm being robbed of part of my life.
However, once im nice and asleep, it typically takes me 10-11 hours to wake back up naturally. If i have to wake up before that (Read: Work), it takes an act of G-d to get me up and out of bed. My body (and simiconcious mind) hate waking up so much that i can turn off an alarm (even my winamp alarm) without ever becoming completely lucid. I do it every night. I have to set 3 alarms to wake up. They recently all became ineffective. (Sometimes, i'll get up, turn the alarm off BEFORE it goes off!). Now I have a flesh-and-blood alarm that makes sure im awake in time to come to work.
Once i'm awake, and have had a good 8 hours, im fine after 30 minutes, but my brain doesnt enter init 3 until about 2 hours later.
I want to beg my doctor to prescribe me modafinil, the drug they use to treat narcolepsy. A recent study by doctors at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston showed the drug is effective in letting healthy people stay awake and completely in control of their mental facilities for up to 4 days at a time. This raises an interesting question, at least for me.. my personality changes dramatically from the morning to the night.. wonder what would happen after 4 days.
this is pretty damn cool. I had a TI-92 in school, which got stolen.. extremely quickly. Knew who did it too, but being a geek, didn't confront him. Geez. Today i'd just lock his accou..err, wait.
Calculators ruined my brain though. I was in 'experimental' math classes since 7th grade, previous to that i was in a private school that didn't stress mathematics.. all in all, i've used calculators since the late 1980's. When, much to my shock, as im preparing to re-enter school and get an AA, i found i could not properly solve a long division or long multiplication problem on paper or in my head, i felt incredibly stupid. I rectified that situation extremely quickly.
In 7th grade they let us use a calculator made by TI which actually had a modulus function - in other words, NO paper work for most problems! When Math for Business and Technology came along, all was done using calculators - everything. So, in conjunction with the fact that I hated school until my senior year, i think my brain may never do mathematics again.
I want a nice Color PDA before I go back. I don't know how they feel about these in class now - but since i can't read my own writing most of the time, i think it may be helpful - and i can write faster in graffiti-esque than in cursive or print.. Now if they'll only make a good calculator (WinXP Powertoys-like) for palm/wince
Score (-5, Anti-Slashdotian)
You're requring slashdot users & editors NOT to jump to conclusions, NOT to have kneejerk reactions..
What are you thinking?
An alternative thought to this is that Windows 2000, being a much more mature OS than NT, has taken over an adequate market share that unix has been pushed out of that niche. I've noticed most companies still tend to use unix for their back offices when they need massive amounts of processing power.. something that intel-based boxes just can't offer on a substantial level.
I have to wonder, in percentages, how many companies would rather deploy, say, Solaris AutoClients as opposed to Cirtix & Thin Clients.
Just a note: Solaris 9 for SPARC machines is going to go Non-developer beta next week.