The problem I get alot with my DSL when I get the quick disconnect isn't with the actual DSL link. It's with the verizon PPPoE authentication. Sometimes it will lose this authentication after the link retrains, and I have to reconnect the PPPoE link. I've build a simple wget script to connect to my router (seperate from the modem, it's something I bought to do NAT connection sharing) and reconnect the PPPoE link. This is a major pain in the ass though, when my roommate gets a call or something. We've both taking to using our cells for most calls we make just to avoid dropping our connection. I really miss when I had SDSL on a seperate wire pair. It was slower, but didn't disconnect 2-3 times a day
Yes, I was joking. I am a computational physicist; I use C and Fortran extensively. The gimpy leg thing was to give a reason for wanting to shoot it. If a horse breaks its leg you used to have to shoot it to put it out of it's misery. In this case, it would be MY misery I'm putting C out of.
I admit it's still the quickest, that's why I said you WANT to shoot it but cant because the old sonofabitch can still gallop when it wants to.
C? The retarded horse with a gimpy leg. You wanna shoot the damn thing so bad, but I'll be damned if the sonofabitch can't still get up and run at a decent gallop now and then, when you take a good cattle prod to its ass
I actually didn't even design the shirts, it was a design from the "open source" tshirts site geekshirts.sourceforge.net. I created the cafepress site mainly because myself and my friends wanted one, and decided to leave it up afterwards. If you have a complaint about the origins of the quote, i'd suggest contacting the designer who submitted to geekshirts.sourceforge.net
A bit of a correction to my own point, it's not a petabyte database, that petabyte of storage contains several hundred copies of the database. It's still a friggin LOT of data.
Or it could be the fact that they are serving up bazillions of pages a day, each involving searches thru a petabyte database. Google's code is insanely good, they just happen to be one of the most heavily accessed sites on the internet, performing a very computationally intense operation (database searces).
I knew some zealots tend to make out RMS or ESR or Linus as larger than life, but, REALLY GUYS, this is Taco we're talking about. Personally I like to picture him looking like Smithers and Katz looking like Hans Moleman
I respect that you have your own moral views, however I don't agree with them, and realize I won't change your mind, so I will not bother to address them.
What I will address is that the original poster wasn't stating his own views, however. He was attacking Taco's, implying that Taco is being a hypocrite for saying one patent is ok and another is not. There is nothing hypocritical about this at all. There are certain conditions that Taco considers worthy of a patent, and some that are pure horseshit. Rob saying this patent was ok had nothing to do with how much he likes the toy; it had everything to do with what the actual patent was.
I believe IP is incredibly broken. I do think patents have a place, but I think the duration should be more like 10 years. There are a million other reasons I think current US IP laws suck, but that wasn't my point. What my point WAS, is that I'm sick of people whining about slashdot and grasping at any straw they can to attack Rob. It's fine to complain when there's a valid point to complain about, but the original poster had no valid point.
Guess patents and copyrights are evil unless they somehow enhance Taco's movie/videogame fanboy-ism.
Patents and copyrights are allright when they are there to protect real innovation and development of new technology. From the post, its plain to see that these patents deal with a specific method and implementation of an idea. This isn't one-click nonsense, this is a specific protocol.
This latest in a series of patents for Color Kinetics covers
systems and methods of combining and decoding lighting control information with an entertainment signal, so that video games, music,movies, and Internet content can directly drive full spectrum digital lighting as an enhancement to that content
Hello, prior art.
Hello, not quite. This patent is for THEIR SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGY AND IMPLEMENTATION. This patent in no way states "we have exclusive rights to every time anyone ever uses lights to augment their television viewing."
Please at least try reading the article before jerking your knee. Taco opposes meaningless and assinine patents. No where did he say patents on their own are inherently evil.
Is one of those remote controlled dragonflies like they had in The 5th Element, so I could spy on people and know what my boss is saying about me in that meeting. I'd build in some kinda compressor/limiter on the audio end tho, so when it gets smashed my eardrums don't get blown out.
If they will make a large robot version of this. I like the idea of bouncing around for fun, however I am lazy and would prefer not to have to exert energy to enjoy the bouncing sensation.
I am a wearable computing enthusiast, just won a new CPU unit off of ebay for hacking, as a matter of fact, and let me tell you, none of us is holding our breath waiting for this tech. With new display tech being available at less than 1000 dollars, it's actually becoming feasable to make an HMD with vga resolution. The Cy-visor, for example, can do 800x600 and is fairly easy to get on ebay brand new for about a grand
This makes alot of sense to me. Businesses have certainly seen already that using un*x-type OS'es can give great results in terms of stability and power. However, recently they are also seeing that it's really difficult to make money by producing GPL'ed software. All the PHB's are seeing all these companies that produce linux products folding. It's only natural that if they hear about BSD, and hear that the license allows them to take the software and not release their changes, that they are going to want to move to BSD where they can use the traditional proprietary business models they are used to.
disclaimer: This post is in no way meant to imply my preference of one license over another. That's one holy war I desperately wanna avoid.
Any substantial home entertainment system is going to have a great big sub sitting off in a corner anyway. Since it's a lot harder to tell which direction a deep bass tone is coming from than with a higher tone, I don't see this being a problem. Then again, I don't know where the actual cutoff point lies. Plus that volume issue bugs me... I need my matrix gunfights to be LOUD
What I would like to see would be whenever a website attempts to popup a window, the browser gives me an option window. ie, "Page hotnudepetrifiedgrits.com is attempting to open a popup. Allow?"
Below the yes/no buttons, there should also be checkboxes. Always allow originating from this server, and never allow. Is this too much to ask?
This is why I keep my cell turned off when I carry it with me. It's nice, however, for the convenience of being able to check my messages from anywhere I want if I am expecting a call. Also nice for when my car breaks down on me yet again. In the past, I have even carried a pager along with the cell. If someone pages and I don't want them to reach me, I ignore the page. If it's someone I wanna talk to, say a hot date (hypothetically speaking, geeks never get dates, right?), I can use the cell to call them back. Literally three people have my cell number. Two of those got it from caller ID. I have since blocked caller ID on my phone.
When things get too hot at work I switch into my brain-cooling mode. I spend 0.2 microseconds working then switch off to slashdot reading mode for 2 seconds. This modified duty cycle allows time for my brain to cool down. Once frustration levels are within acceptable tolerances, I switch back into 100% work mode.
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We are here to protect you.
I am the pusher robot.
Shoving will protect you.
I am the shover robot.
Pushing will protect you.
Do you have stairs in your house? Please go stand by your stairs.
So I can protect you.
Grandpa is protected.
Grandpa has gone down the stairs Grandpa is protected at the bottom of the stairs.
They must have HORRIBLY misconfigured things on the sun if it actually ran faster on the pentium. For a single processor intel box to outperform a sun server is not a sign of how powerful linux on intel is; it is a sign of the difference between an average joe who knows some unix and a real admin who knows all the tricks for real optimization. I should know, I am one of the aforementioned average joes who knows a bit of unix here and there.
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The problem I get alot with my DSL when I get the quick disconnect isn't with the actual DSL link. It's with the verizon PPPoE authentication. Sometimes it will lose this authentication after the link retrains, and I have to reconnect the PPPoE link. I've build a simple wget script to connect to my router (seperate from the modem, it's something I bought to do NAT connection sharing) and reconnect the PPPoE link. This is a major pain in the ass though, when my roommate gets a call or something. We've both taking to using our cells for most calls we make just to avoid dropping our connection. I really miss when I had SDSL on a seperate wire pair. It was slower, but didn't disconnect 2-3 times a day
Yes, I was joking. I am a computational physicist; I use C and Fortran extensively. The gimpy leg thing was to give a reason for wanting to shoot it. If a horse breaks its leg you used to have to shoot it to put it out of it's misery. In this case, it would be MY misery I'm putting C out of.
I admit it's still the quickest, that's why I said you WANT to shoot it but cant because the old sonofabitch can still gallop when it wants to.
C? The retarded horse with a gimpy leg. You wanna shoot the damn thing so bad, but I'll be damned if the sonofabitch can't still get up and run at a decent gallop now and then, when you take a good cattle prod to its ass
I actually didn't even design the shirts, it was a design from the "open source" tshirts site geekshirts.sourceforge.net. I created the cafepress site mainly because myself and my friends wanted one, and decided to leave it up afterwards. If you have a complaint about the origins of the quote, i'd suggest contacting the designer who submitted to geekshirts.sourceforge.net
its irony, i was playing off the long-time slashdot "i wish i had a beowulf cluster of these" tradition
although I agree it's not terribly witty, but i found it slightly amusing.
For the cost of re-outfitting those machines with SCSI, you could probably add another 8000 servers
A bit of a correction to my own point, it's not a petabyte database, that petabyte of storage contains several hundred copies of the database. It's still a friggin LOT of data.
Or it could be the fact that they are serving up bazillions of pages a day, each involving searches thru a petabyte database. Google's code is insanely good, they just happen to be one of the most heavily accessed sites on the internet, performing a very computationally intense operation (database searces).
As my 3 Node IBM PS/2 Beowulf cluster
That would make CmdrTaco over ten feet tall...
I knew some zealots tend to make out RMS or ESR or Linus as larger than life, but, REALLY GUYS, this is Taco we're talking about. Personally I like to picture him looking like Smithers and Katz looking like Hans Moleman
Worse yet, his shoulder is at the perfect altitude to come runnin at you on a full charge and slug you in the nuts
I respect that you have your own moral views, however I don't agree with them, and realize I won't change your mind, so I will not bother to address them.
What I will address is that the original poster wasn't stating his own views, however. He was attacking Taco's, implying that Taco is being a hypocrite for saying one patent is ok and another is not. There is nothing hypocritical about this at all. There are certain conditions that Taco considers worthy of a patent, and some that are pure horseshit. Rob saying this patent was ok had nothing to do with how much he likes the toy; it had everything to do with what the actual patent was.
I believe IP is incredibly broken. I do think patents have a place, but I think the duration should be more like 10 years. There are a million other reasons I think current US IP laws suck, but that wasn't my point. What my point WAS, is that I'm sick of people whining about slashdot and grasping at any straw they can to attack Rob. It's fine to complain when there's a valid point to complain about, but the original poster had no valid point.
Patents and copyrights are allright when they are there to protect real innovation and development of new technology. From the post, its plain to see that these patents deal with a specific method and implementation of an idea. This isn't one-click nonsense, this is a specific protocol.
Hello, prior art.
Hello, not quite. This patent is for THEIR SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGY AND IMPLEMENTATION. This patent in no way states "we have exclusive rights to every time anyone ever uses lights to augment their television viewing."
Please at least try reading the article before jerking your knee. Taco opposes meaningless and assinine patents. No where did he say patents on their own are inherently evil.
Is one of those remote controlled dragonflies like they had in The 5th Element, so I could spy on people and know what my boss is saying about me in that meeting. I'd build in some kinda compressor/limiter on the audio end tho, so when it gets smashed my eardrums don't get blown out.
If they will make a large robot version of this. I like the idea of bouncing around for fun, however I am lazy and would prefer not to have to exert energy to enjoy the bouncing sensation.
I am a wearable computing enthusiast, just won a new CPU unit off of ebay for hacking, as a matter of fact, and let me tell you, none of us is holding our breath waiting for this tech. With new display tech being available at less than 1000 dollars, it's actually becoming feasable to make an HMD with vga resolution. The Cy-visor, for example, can do 800x600 and is fairly easy to get on ebay brand new for about a grand
This makes alot of sense to me. Businesses have certainly seen already that using un*x-type OS'es can give great results in terms of stability and power. However, recently they are also seeing that it's really difficult to make money by producing GPL'ed software. All the PHB's are seeing all these companies that produce linux products folding. It's only natural that if they hear about BSD, and hear that the license allows them to take the software and not release their changes, that they are going to want to move to BSD where they can use the traditional proprietary business models they are used to.
disclaimer: This post is in no way meant to imply my preference of one license over another. That's one holy war I desperately wanna avoid.
A similar contest for Python. There's nuthing more amusing than what a buncha sex starved geeks would come up with for clever python jokes
Any substantial home entertainment system is going to have a great big sub sitting off in a corner anyway. Since it's a lot harder to tell which direction a deep bass tone is coming from than with a higher tone, I don't see this being a problem. Then again, I don't know where the actual cutoff point lies. Plus that volume issue bugs me... I need my matrix gunfights to be LOUD
What I would like to see would be whenever a website attempts to popup a window, the browser gives me an option window. ie, "Page hotnudepetrifiedgrits.com is attempting to open a popup. Allow?"
Below the yes/no buttons, there should also be checkboxes. Always allow originating from this server, and never allow. Is this too much to ask?
This is why I keep my cell turned off when I carry it with me. It's nice, however, for the convenience of being able to check my messages from anywhere I want if I am expecting a call. Also nice for when my car breaks down on me yet again. In the past, I have even carried a pager along with the cell. If someone pages and I don't want them to reach me, I ignore the page. If it's someone I wanna talk to, say a hot date (hypothetically speaking, geeks never get dates, right?), I can use the cell to call them back. Literally three people have my cell number. Two of those got it from caller ID. I have since blocked caller ID on my phone.
When things get too hot at work I switch into my brain-cooling mode. I spend 0.2 microseconds working then switch off to slashdot reading mode for 2 seconds. This modified duty cycle allows time for my brain to cool down. Once frustration levels are within acceptable tolerances, I switch back into 100% work mode.
We are here to protect you.
I am the pusher robot.
Shoving will protect you.
I am the shover robot.
Pushing will protect you.
Do you have stairs in your house?
Please go stand by your stairs.
So I can protect you.
Grandpa is protected.
Grandpa has gone down the stairs
Grandpa is protected at the bottom of the stairs.
Gratuitously stolen from The Laziest Men on Mars.
They must have HORRIBLY misconfigured things on the sun if it actually ran faster on the pentium. For a single processor intel box to outperform a sun server is not a sign of how powerful linux on intel is; it is a sign of the difference between an average joe who knows some unix and a real admin who knows all the tricks for real optimization. I should know, I am one of the aforementioned average joes who knows a bit of unix here and there.
And just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me...