From the/. article: The EPA's application regulations
Actually the usage is correct, as the application regulations belong to the EPA, and as a result the possessive is the correct tense.
To be completely grammatically correct, the sentence should have read: The application regulations of the EPA apparently proved too burdensome, and the stuff sits in a warehouse.
The A/C who decided to enlighten us with his immaculate grasp of the English language must be American, but at least his spelling was correct...
You should know by now that if anything is linked remotely to linux it gets posted on/.
Hell, if you submitted a story to slashdot that you are making coffee right now and have heard about linux somewhere the editors would post it... and if Timothy posted it he would probably add some inane comment like "The nerve of this guy, calling himself a coffee drinker while having only berely heard of linux"
Then there would be 50 posts telling people to go to your [now] slashdotted homepage to read the article while it turned into a discussion about big brother.
In this particular case (qouted from A Clockwork Orange for those of you who do not know) I believe that commercials would have been a welcome break for the boy, considering they were putting him though his own personal hell.
Apparently my attepmt at humor was mis-guided as well. For those who don't know, CmdrTaco makes many typos. It was a vain attempt at point out that Taco cracked his own system and used other peoples userIDs to post, just so that people wouldn't think he makes so many typos anymore.
Technically it's not because the earth is closer at times (altho that is true).
The reason seasons exist is because the earth's axis is tilted, thus various hemispheres receive light at different angles during the year. So really seasons are caused by parts of the earth are closer to the sun.
As well as the distance from the equator, the fact that the earth is closer to the sun causes the seasons of various regions to be different.
Most of Europe, for example, although on the same latitude, has vastly different summers and winters than Toronto. Coastal variances also affect this, but a lot of it is because of the different distances from the sun.
A [l]user should not have to download a 15-45 MB compressed browser every time a new virus comes out. Although I connect with nothing less than a T1 (no matter where I go), most of the internet community connects
On top of that, many do not have unlimited time. Because of this, a 45 mb download (45 min @ 56K, 3 hrs @ 28.8) really isn't feasible.
This all could have been avoided had the bundled mail program used by millions of people actually been properly tested before it was shipped.
Of course giving any incoming email direct root [equivalent] access to your client's (the end-user) PC wasn't exactly the brightest idea either...
China could just launch a massive denial-of-service attack by sending billions of "GET HERBAL VIAGRA" e-mails from the.cn TLD."
Since many mail administrators have simply blocked anything coming from the.cn TLD (as well as pretty much any other domain known to originate from China), who is the massive DDoS going to affect?
I think for this to be effective, not only would Chinese administrators have to smarten up and close off their mail servers, but they would have to prove it to the rest of the world... that could take years.
Technically, through the most literal interpretation of the term, it is a computer.
A computer is something that computes
Anything that can, given some input, output a reasonably accurate answer. Tho this effect, the abacus was a computer. If you know how to use it properly it is an incredibly fast computer, albeit manual.
Even the human brain is a computer, well, most human brains...
So what does that make this story then...
Slashdot tech review special edition?
And to think some people pay for this...
MS Browser wars
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· Score: 2, Interesting
What became clear in the browser wars was that open standards was the only way to win any war on the Internet. One may be able to truthfully say that Microsoft has won the browser wars.
Microsoft may have won the browser war with Internet Explorer, but it is not because of open standards.
Any web developer will tell you that javascript et.al., although founded on the same basic functions and routines, is quite different from one browser to another.
Microsoft did not win the browser war through open standards, but by bundling it with Windows.
The fact is, people are too ignorant and lazy to download a completely separate browser, even though it may be (and generally is) more secure than IE. Because of this, the majority of the global online community uses Internet Explorer. The reason this has not changed is because companies realized this. They have thus developed their pages using proprietary MS javascript extensions.
Why build a nuclear car when 99% of gas stations sell gasoline?
"Computer games don't affect kids. If Pac-Man Affected us as children, we would spend all of our time running around in darkened rooms eating magic pills and listening to repetetive electronic music..."
Don't forget... The 170TB install does not include IE, since they've finally decided not to bundle them.
To get IE running on the system you need an extra 400TB storage and 17TB RAM
Oh yeah... and it's gonna cost you your first and second child if you want support when you hit back
Who wants to sell me a million copies of an implementation of CIFS for... errm... this lovely snail shell I own based on the fact that I found it on my property and noone made a claim to it in the reasonable amount of time of say.. 10 minutes??
Since the license is transferrable I now transfer these million licenses I have just bought, minus 10 licenses for my own personal use, on a first come first serve basis.
1. Oil driller becomes hydrogen driller.
2. Hydrogen [Oil] driller has 21st bday
3. Birthday cake falls down before he blows out the candles.
4. Instead of possible oil fire and possible polluted atmosphere we have unavoidable hydrogen explosion and 3/4mi crater
What I'm wondering is... aside from a lower population on the planet, where's the upside to this? Doesn't the increase in danger kinda outweigh our (potentially) shortterm energy needs?
Why can't we all just stop driving... Try site-to-site teleportation... Or you could always do what I do, just pretend you go somewhere.
Much of the reason a recovery disk or DOS boot disk takes so long to load is because of the speed of the device from which the bootstrap, kernel and shell are being loaded.
Although floppy drives have gotten (marginally) faster over the years, they are still incredibly slow (especially by today's standards.)
If it takes 5 seconds to read the bootstrap, kernel and shell (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM respectively) off of the disk, then no matter how fost your POST routine is, your absolute minimum time to reach command prompt is 5 secs, and thats for the
This gives you no services (aside from mouse), no network support (DOS network drivers are insanely huge), just a bare command prompt.
If you want faster boot times off of a floppy... the first thing you have to do is lose the floppy...
When I moved into my current place I went with Rogers Cable (then Rogers@home). I called them up to send someone for a do-it-yourself install (where they take off the bw filter on the cable, hand me the modem, nic, and cd, and leave)
They said are you sure you want to do this? it can be difficult... I am now a database programmer and had then just finished a network engineering course at school... so of course I would do it.
On the saturday when the guy came, it turned out that because I knew more about networking than much of the city, Rogers felt tat I would require the services of a supertech (their top end technician).
It was actually quite funny... I talked him into giving me 2 nics (i needed 1 for my laptop and the other they just threw in for free). But whats worse, I had my masq/NAT box all set up... and had to fight with the tech because he wanted to do the install on my windows box... but I wouldn't let him touch it... It was, IMHO, a very bad move on Roger's part... sending a supertech when I asked for DIY.
And potsing the same response twice is not only redundant and stupid, but a waste of bandwidth (albeit minute) of many people, including the/. servers.
You're no better than the spammers and trolls everyone complains about... Ever thought of getting a plutonium enema?
The PS2 also has DTS5.1, with optical audio out.
I don't personally know if the xbox has optical, so I wont comment further on that.
The games, however, do no support it yet. DVD playback does work @5.1
Xbox does not support HDTV, it supports 480i, but not 1080i (HDTV standard)
PS2 doesn't either, but it does support true 16:9 modes, and many games now support it also (gt3 and state of emergency come to mind)
Gamecube is the only current console that does not support extended modes.
And although the Gamecube has had a couple of hits (i do admint Halo looks nice, but I didn't like the gameplay, blood wake is boring, and DOA3 (as well as its predecessors on DC and PS1) is just another tekken clone, which is just another SF clone.
GTA3 (which has sold more copies than Xbox has even sold consoles) annihilates Rally, GT3 is unequalled. FFX doesn't even have competition, as other current consoles dont have good RPGs yet. THPS3 I prefer on PSX to the Xbox version.
As for GC (even though I am biased towards PS2 personally I can't leave it out of a console discussion) has a couple of good games too, PikMan and Smash Bros. Melee come to mind, and are amazing for game parties. When my friends and I get together for game party we'll get a PS2 and a GC running.
As a result, your arguments, as I see them, are invalid.
Although this is the truth I'll probably get flamed for it, but wait... I said I'd get flamed.. so noone will... schweet...
"If a plane is crashing into something, and you're in the way, it's bad news..." ...Solicitor General John Turnbull
These are the main reasons why Xbox doesn't have a very large market share.
That and the fact that its games crash... I know a friend of mine who couldn't play a full game of NHL2k2 because of the crashes...
Slashdot Mirror
EPAs
/. article:
NOT EPA's
From the
The EPA's application regulations
Actually the usage is correct, as the application regulations belong to the EPA, and as a result the possessive is the correct tense.
To be completely grammatically correct, the sentence should have read:
The application regulations of the EPA apparently proved too burdensome, and the stuff sits in a warehouse.
The A/C who decided to enlighten us with his immaculate grasp of the English language must be American, but at least his spelling was correct...
One word: Linux.
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You should know by now that if anything is linked remotely to linux it gets posted on
Hell, if you submitted a story to slashdot that you are making coffee right now and have heard about linux somewhere the editors would post it... and if Timothy posted it he would probably add some inane comment like "The nerve of this guy, calling himself a coffee drinker while having only berely heard of linux"
Then there would be 50 posts telling people to go to your [now] slashdotted homepage to read the article while it turned into a discussion about big brother.
Just my CDN$0.02 (US$0.01)
Then we can finally watch the mice while they rebuild the earth from the top down :)
In this particular case (qouted from A Clockwork Orange for those of you who do not know) I believe that commercials would have been a welcome break for the boy, considering they were putting him though his own personal hell.
:)
Nice reference tho
Apparently my attepmt at humor was mis-guided as well. For those who don't know, CmdrTaco makes many typos. It was a vain attempt at point out that Taco cracked his own system and used other peoples userIDs to post, just so that people wouldn't think he makes so many typos anymore.
Sorry...
No, actually, it takes just one to complain about the typo.
If you noticed it why did you not fix it? Oh yeah, I forgot, Taco doesn't use his own ID anymore...
they'd better find a safer way to store hydrogen first. Maybe make a big tank out of a bucky ball and put the hydrogen in there...
They'd better make sure its more than one atom thick... Otherwise they might create their own big bang
Technically it's not because the earth is closer at times (altho that is true).
The reason seasons exist is because the earth's axis is tilted, thus various hemispheres receive light at different angles during the year. So really seasons are caused by parts of the earth are closer to the sun.
As well as the distance from the equator, the fact that the earth is closer to the sun causes the seasons of various regions to be different.
Most of Europe, for example, although on the same latitude, has vastly different summers and winters than Toronto. Coastal variances also affect this, but a lot of it is because of the different distances from the sun.
A [l]user should not have to download a 15-45 MB compressed browser every time a new virus comes out. Although I connect with nothing less than a T1 (no matter where I go), most of the internet community connects
On top of that, many do not have unlimited time. Because of this, a 45 mb download (45 min @ 56K, 3 hrs @ 28.8) really isn't feasible.
This all could have been avoided had the bundled mail program used by millions of people actually been properly tested before it was shipped.
Of course giving any incoming email direct root [equivalent] access to your client's (the end-user) PC wasn't exactly the brightest idea either...
Matt
China could just launch a massive denial-of-service attack by sending billions of "GET HERBAL VIAGRA" e-mails from the .cn TLD."
.cn TLD (as well as pretty much any other domain known to originate from China), who is the massive DDoS going to affect?
Since many mail administrators have simply blocked anything coming from the
I think for this to be effective, not only would Chinese administrators have to smarten up and close off their mail servers, but they would have to prove it to the rest of the world... that could take years.
Technically, through the most literal interpretation of the term, it is a computer.
A computer is something that computes
Anything that can, given some input, output a reasonably accurate answer. Tho this effect, the abacus was a computer. If you know how to use it properly it is an incredibly fast computer, albeit manual.
Even the human brain is a computer, well, most human brains...
So what does that make this story then...
Slashdot tech review special edition?
And to think some people pay for this...
What became clear in the browser wars was that open standards was the only way to win any war on the Internet. One may be able to truthfully say that Microsoft has won the browser wars.
Microsoft may have won the browser war with Internet Explorer, but it is not because of open standards.
Any web developer will tell you that javascript et.al., although founded on the same basic functions and routines, is quite different from one browser to another.
Microsoft did not win the browser war through open standards, but by bundling it with Windows.
The fact is, people are too ignorant and lazy to download a completely separate browser, even though it may be (and generally is) more secure than IE. Because of this, the majority of the global online community uses Internet Explorer. The reason this has not changed is because companies realized this. They have thus developed their pages using proprietary MS javascript extensions.
Why build a nuclear car when 99% of gas stations sell gasoline?
"Computer games don't affect kids. If Pac-Man Affected us as children, we would spend all of our time running around in darkened rooms eating magic pills and listening to repetetive electronic music..."
By 24" tapes I beliece they are speaking of the diameter of the reel on which the tape is wound.
And continuing the saga... JarJar will be ported to middle earth to play saruman... And they'll have banthas to play the treants...
2) 170 TB can hold 42.5 thousand times the contents of the entire Library of Congress books .(+ all the MP3s you downloaded )
But how many copies of the Human Genome is this?
Don't forget... The 170TB install does not include IE, since they've finally decided not to bundle them.
To get IE running on the system you need an extra 400TB storage and 17TB RAM
Oh yeah... and it's gonna cost you your first and second child if you want support when you hit back
Who wants to sell me a million copies of an implementation of CIFS for... errm... this lovely snail shell I own based on the fact that I found it on my property and noone made a claim to it in the reasonable amount of time of say.. 10 minutes??
Since the license is transferrable I now transfer these million licenses I have just bought, minus 10 licenses for my own personal use, on a first come first serve basis.
So let me get this straight...
1. Oil driller becomes hydrogen driller.
2. Hydrogen [Oil] driller has 21st bday
3. Birthday cake falls down before he blows out the candles.
4. Instead of possible oil fire and possible polluted atmosphere we have unavoidable hydrogen explosion and 3/4mi crater
What I'm wondering is... aside from a lower population on the planet, where's the upside to this? Doesn't the increase in danger kinda outweigh our (potentially) shortterm energy needs?
Why can't we all just stop driving... Try site-to-site teleportation... Or you could always do what I do, just pretend you go somewhere.
Anyone have a shell open on A.root?
Much of the reason a recovery disk or DOS boot disk takes so long to load is because of the speed of the device from which the bootstrap, kernel and shell are being loaded.
Although floppy drives have gotten (marginally) faster over the years, they are still incredibly slow (especially by today's standards.)
If it takes 5 seconds to read the bootstrap, kernel and shell (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM respectively) off of the disk, then no matter how fost your POST routine is, your absolute minimum time to reach command prompt is 5 secs, and thats for the This gives you no services (aside from mouse), no network support (DOS network drivers are insanely huge), just a bare command prompt.
If you want faster boot times off of a floppy... the first thing you have to do is lose the floppy...
When I moved into my current place I went with Rogers Cable (then Rogers@home). I called them up to send someone for a do-it-yourself install (where they take off the bw filter on the cable, hand me the modem, nic, and cd, and leave) They said are you sure you want to do this? it can be difficult... I am now a database programmer and had then just finished a network engineering course at school... so of course I would do it.
On the saturday when the guy came, it turned out that because I knew more about networking than much of the city, Rogers felt tat I would require the services of a supertech (their top end technician).
It was actually quite funny... I talked him into giving me 2 nics (i needed 1 for my laptop and the other they just threw in for free). But whats worse, I had my masq/NAT box all set up... and had to fight with the tech because he wanted to do the install on my windows box... but I wouldn't let him touch it... It was, IMHO, a very bad move on Roger's part... sending a supertech when I asked for DIY.
Sorry, wrong guy... I never post anonymously...
/. servers.
And potsing the same response twice is not only redundant and stupid, but a waste of bandwidth (albeit minute) of many people, including the
You're no better than the spammers and trolls everyone complains about... Ever thought of getting a plutonium enema?
The PS2 also has DTS5.1, with optical audio out. I don't personally know if the xbox has optical, so I wont comment further on that. The games, however, do no support it yet. DVD playback does work @5.1
...Solicitor General John Turnbull
Xbox does not support HDTV, it supports 480i, but not 1080i (HDTV standard)
PS2 doesn't either, but it does support true 16:9 modes, and many games now support it also (gt3 and state of emergency come to mind)
Gamecube is the only current console that does not support extended modes.
And although the Gamecube has had a couple of hits (i do admint Halo looks nice, but I didn't like the gameplay, blood wake is boring, and DOA3 (as well as its predecessors on DC and PS1) is just another tekken clone, which is just another SF clone.
GTA3 (which has sold more copies than Xbox has even sold consoles) annihilates Rally, GT3 is unequalled. FFX doesn't even have competition, as other current consoles dont have good RPGs yet. THPS3 I prefer on PSX to the Xbox version.
As for GC (even though I am biased towards PS2 personally I can't leave it out of a console discussion) has a couple of good games too, PikMan and Smash Bros. Melee come to mind, and are amazing for game parties. When my friends and I get together for game party we'll get a PS2 and a GC running.
As a result, your arguments, as I see them, are invalid.
Although this is the truth I'll probably get flamed for it, but wait... I said I'd get flamed.. so noone will... schweet...
"If a plane is crashing into something, and you're in the way, it's bad news..."
These are the main reasons why Xbox doesn't have a very large market share. That and the fact that its games crash... I know a friend of mine who couldn't play a full game of NHL2k2 because of the crashes...