You misunderstand what the rest of the world does.
You think programmers get to write fulfilling awesome pieces of code to stimulate their creativity? No... they write boring back-end database and financial software.
You think lawyers all get to smartly outwit each other in their cerebral battles in court? No... it's mostly drafting contracts from templates and doing boring papery things.
You think that doctor gets to save lives by cleverly doing differential diagnosis and finding the obscure diseases that no-one could? No... it's mostly the same snotty noses and strange genital rashes day in and day out.
I could go on, but I think the point here is that work is not glamorous for most people.
So if you have to play a pop cover in the bar to make ends meet - suck it up! Go experiment and be deep on your own time and dime. The rest of the world does too.
So, to follow your analogy, it is not so much like throwing your mitten in the opposite direction than it is trying to jet your way to the bank by a single, unenthusiastic fart. Which, as a strategy, is pretty close to the usual generous slashdot manner.
So what stops me from burying my competition with this? Instead of getting cheap far-east labor to link to me in linkfarms, the same people will just now engage in blocking out my competitors.
Well, for people like you and me who do this, a more "advanced" and elegant solution is not a problem. Just open up a VM to boot off the CD. For grandma, rebooting off the CD is good enough.
Not sure about the sound issue, but I had the video issue too this morning. It's because I installed the proprietary Nvidia drivers. Simply rerun the installer and it should recompile and build the driver from scratch and install it properly.
This is not really a 9.04 to 9.10 issue though, it happens whenever you upgrade the kernel - happened to me twice with normal Jaunty updates.
They actually re-used the code, not just copied it. From TFA:
I'd also like to point out that this is not just a clone of my game. They didn't see my game and set out to make a similar game. They actually stole my game. I'll say it again: The Olympics stole my game. They downloaded the swf file from my site, decompiled it, swapped out the little guy for the Fuwa characters, took my name off of it and republished it as their own. I can tell this is what happened because they are still using some of my original art from Snow Day (the clouds and the ice cube are exactly the same). I also took the liberty of decompiling their game and actually found it still contains the sound files from Snow Day, even though they aren't being used in the Olympic version. It even still has the splash sound effect from The Lake (I used the engine from The Lake to make Snow Day and must have forgot to delete this file).
The decision was made by PJ himself. And since we didn't explicitly see Saruman's demise in TTT, this won't affect the storyline for the average movie-goer. More here.
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Try http://planets.nu/ if you want to relive that nostalgia.
Pretty nifty reimplementation which is 100% web based.
You misunderstand what the rest of the world does.
You think programmers get to write fulfilling awesome pieces of code to stimulate their creativity? No... they write boring back-end database and financial software.
You think lawyers all get to smartly outwit each other in their cerebral battles in court? No... it's mostly drafting contracts from templates and doing boring papery things.
You think that doctor gets to save lives by cleverly doing differential diagnosis and finding the obscure diseases that no-one could? No... it's mostly the same snotty noses and strange genital rashes day in and day out.
I could go on, but I think the point here is that work is not glamorous for most people.
So if you have to play a pop cover in the bar to make ends meet - suck it up! Go experiment and be deep on your own time and dime. The rest of the world does too.
We renamed it!
So, to follow your analogy, it is not so much like throwing your mitten in the opposite direction than it is trying to jet your way to the bank by a single, unenthusiastic fart. Which, as a strategy, is pretty close to the usual generous slashdot manner.
You sir made my day! I tip my hat to thee.
So what stops me from burying my competition with this? Instead of getting cheap far-east labor to link to me in linkfarms, the same people will just now engage in blocking out my competitors.
There's no easy solution.
People are less likely to hem and haw with a couple of AK-47s pointed at them. Most people would just flip the switch.
Watch this youtube video - it explains a lot more about it - including where the phonebook is. Image that, pen and paper! :-)
What on earth happened to Maemo? It's running on my N900 right now and pretty awesome. Who wouldn't like some debian niceness on their phone?
Well, for people like you and me who do this, a more "advanced" and elegant solution is not a problem. Just open up a VM to boot off the CD. For grandma, rebooting off the CD is good enough.
I'm in Australia you insensitive clod!
It still happens - called the persistence hunt. Check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUpo_mA5RP8
Not sure about the sound issue, but I had the video issue too this morning. It's because I installed the proprietary Nvidia drivers. Simply rerun the installer and it should recompile and build the driver from scratch and install it properly.
This is not really a 9.04 to 9.10 issue though, it happens whenever you upgrade the kernel - happened to me twice with normal Jaunty updates.
I disabled pulse (not uninstalled it) last night following this guide: http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/ubuntu-904-jaunty-keeping-the-beast-pulseaudio-at-bay/
So far so good - fixed up my Skype lag issues.
Authorities believe 11% of Germans are hiding something.
Update at 9.
Like google. Just try and get someone on the phone. Heck, try and get a phone number off their site.
They actually re-used the code, not just copied it. From TFA:
I'd also like to point out that this is not just a clone of my game. They didn't see my game and set out to make a similar game. They actually stole my game. I'll say it again:
The Olympics stole my game.
They downloaded the swf file from my site, decompiled it, swapped out the little guy for the Fuwa characters, took my name off of it and republished it as their own. I can tell this is what happened because they are still using some of my original art from Snow Day (the clouds and the ice cube are exactly the same). I also took the liberty of decompiling their game and actually found it still contains the sound files from Snow Day, even though they aren't being used in the Olympic version. It even still has the splash sound effect from The Lake (I used the engine from The Lake to make Snow Day and must have forgot to delete this file).
welcome our new acid rendering browser evil overlords.
Oh... never mind...
Is it just me, or is Yahoo really what Google purports to be these days?
Mmmmmm....
This happens on Slashdot all the time.
Move along...
People completely overestimate the effect of exercise on weight loss.
A grown man jogging (fast) burns around 100 kcal per 10 minutes. I'm assuming it's less for kids (because they're smaller).
Now compare this with the calories in a 65g Mars bar = 294 kcal.
Or in a Big Mac = 492kcal.
So let me sum it up: kids aren't fat because they're not getting exercise... they're fat because they eat CRAP all the time.
Am I the only one who first read the url as "the crack channel"?
Must be good stuff!
Why the hell would we want to do this? The Asgard's been fighting them for millenia. How do we with out puny little brains think we'll do any better?
Talk some sense into them Jack!!!
The decision was made by PJ himself. And since we didn't explicitly see Saruman's demise in TTT, this won't affect the storyline for the average movie-goer. More here.
I don't think this will affect the Slashdot crowd much. I mean, who here has enough of a social life to have ever even *seen* the inside of a bar?
lol! Point taken!