/. is full of this kind of snearing. keed in mind that, if each of the few hunderdthousand/. readers were to post such a remark,only once, you'd have hundreds per day. So all in all,/. is a fairly tolerant place it seems.
And anyways, I wasn't laughing at the poster in person. Just the coincidence of yoda-speak. I found it quite funny. If you don't, don't moderate a post of +2 as 'overrated' because your sense of humor differs. And I definitely wasn't overrated since I wasn't even rated !
I'll throw in my +1 bonus too, so the thread doesn't die out. Other 50karma holders might do so too : it's our only way of getting attention
the whole issue is that slashdot isn't what it pretends to be : a free forum about stuff for nerds.
It isn't free (beer nor speech) it's not for nerds anymore. It's for computer illeterates and laywers
Most of the articles on/. are offtopic ! I wish we could metamoderate the editors when they select or reject
Anyway, all this is, as u said, beating a dead horse./. isn't what it used to be anymore, and it won't be coming back. I'm hanging around just to find an alternative in some sigs, which will popup sooner or later (My bet is that it will be OSX based:-)
I know this is an old debate, and you might consider it a troll, but if we had invested 58 BILLION DOLLARS (falling over backwards here...) propermy 20 years ago, we might have had an alternative for nuclear power by now. I recently heard a radio interview with a nuke expert who said that, with a bit of luck, they might have an experimental FUSION reactor by 2030. Right now they do have the capabilities of warming deuterium plasma to 150million degrees celcius, which is sufficient to start fusion. Now they have to invest 17billion dollars to build a reactor. Dollars they don't have...
The previous poster (me) does NOT believe the dotcom.is.dead hype. And it's not rekevant either in my statement. Amazon making provit on the other hand, is just another fraud. I bet when they're finished with worldcom, and if they find time for amazon, they'd find some pretty amazing stuff.
Anyways, my statement was that I don't understand why MS doesn't force-infiltrate passport into a system that allready has a lot of subsribers. Asume that they buy Amazon and force EVERY SINGLE buyer to get a passport ID. Okay, so amazon loses 75% revenue initially, but after 5 months things are leveled again and MS has several 100K passport subscribers. Costs them a bunch of money to buy amazon (which they'll earn back if Amazon is indeed ever going to be profitable and if passport does what MS promises) and 6 months loss of Amazon revenue, but hey, with god-knows-how-many-billion dollars in the bank...
I'm really wondering when MS is going to buy a large content provider and force Passport upon us. eBay, or Amazon. They're both in the red, so should be purchaseable for a giant like MS.
I've really wondered many times why MS doesn't drop it's dollar weight on passport.. Compared to the XBox, they've invested practically nothing in passport !
okay about planes, but what about satelites ??? Our skies are stuffed with them. Must be quite a pain for those telescopes ! A bit like a dove crapping in your eye when you're watching the skies without scopes.
I wonder what the exposure time of such a 'space photo' is... probably something in the order of minutes ? In that case, how do they handle stuff like an overflying plane ?
Well I don't know how to handle next... I mean, what are the implications of the fact that I realized the quality of moderation? This is a serious loophole in the./ system. A potential danger. Hey, GWB would probably call it a terrorist target !
Should I exploit it to bring it to the attention of the masses ? Play Skylarov ? Or should I shutup and pretend I never found out? Live a lie ? I could offcourse exploit it in a bad way and skyrocket my karma, but since it is capped allready, the fun is out of that one rather quickly.
Look at it the way you like, but I for one finally fond something in/. that allows me to have fun, make a difference (in a bad way) and bring back a reason for why I actually read this shit.
the above post of mine was total nonsense : absolute bogus. horsedung. donkycrap.
I know as much about soldering as my mum about jerking off : I know it hapens, but I'm afraid to look when someone does it.
It was just a test to evaluate slashdot moderators and I must say I'm terribly disapointed. Apparently this community is run by nitwits who are even more stupid then I am. My only purpose was to prove the idiocrisy of moderation.
And to prove the proof, this post will for sure be moderated as -1, offtopic.
I fugured that, now that I've reached karma 50, I should check out what it's worth. Well now I know : nuthin.
Together with some friends, we've spent 3 nights soldering an io output-debug channel on a PS2. For all of you who intend to serial-link debug a PS station : DO NOT ATTEMP TO USE 3COM boards.
We've all grown gray hair until someone contacted 3com who admitted they've got non-standard serial board interfaces.
Probably noone is going to do this, but in case you do : don't go with 3Com
".Net builders and XP hackers take note! With the announcement of various oxymoronic "trusted computing" initiatives in recent week, Bill gates, self-appointed Pope-Emperor of the Republican Innovation Movement has announced a new design contest to design a '...genuinely trustable, cheap, well-designed, rugged, sexy, accessible computer system that is owned, manufactured and operated for, well, Global Civil Dominance.'"
I'll pirate one.
"The Living Earth® image is a highly accurate composite of multiple high-resolution satellite images that has been color-enhanced to appear natural to the human eye. "
I hate this kind of crap talk : it's stressing totally silly, useless details, buzwords and nonsense. A Black and white map with only the outline of the continents would have been just as clear. And who says they didn't just scan it from a stupid $10 atlas from one of their kids ?
BAH Even when he's having fun, a millionaire can't stop blabbering peptalk. Doesn't anyone else feel like puking on his fucking balloon ?
I wonder is Apple is going to release a minor OSX update for this. If they do, they prove themselves worthy supporters of OpenSource and creators of an OS that truly respects security.
If they don't, welll, they're still a 100 times more secure than 95% of the market
All of the code in this book is in C or C++, and nearly all of the code is talks about is actually printed on the right pages in the book. No more flipping between code on your computer and the book, it's all just where it should be!
Practically all coding books do this, and I mostly find it a cheap way to poop out thick books and massive volumes... Not a measure of quality in any way.
to silence minority groups. They got a decade experience in silencing anything that doesn't fit the profile.
However, I think this time they'll have to pass : if you see the effort the chinese gov are pushing to get the falung gong movement silenced, I seriously doubt any web silencing is ever going to succeed.
As related curiousity, I wonder what the state of former-soviet intelligence is on the front of web and information technology. The east-block used to have some real geniusses in their computer staff... they practically invented cryptography (and virusses:-) but just as much as their military turned out not to be anything like the stuff we feared (read : soviets-mujhahedin in afghanistan, and now in tsetsenia) I gues sthat their computer know-how has also degraded to a point where script kiddies are making fun of them...
Is there any russian experienced enough to comment on this ?
I guess it's pretty unlikely that they'll open up all of it : a lot of flash code is part of the Freehand and Director code base too. And I can't imagine they'll let anyone copy from that. They've got a hard time getting Adobe out of their way in the lawsuits.
My guess is that they hope for a cheap linux port of flash. But they again : if they keep a ton of code under the wraps in the form of a win32 lib, it all doesn't make much sense.
Probably they just want to ride the opensource train in case it 'might just catch on'. Big corps are always late on the catching on part.
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oh come'on, it's a joke for bill's sake !
/. is full of this kind of snearing. keed in mind that, if each of the few hunderdthousand /. readers were to post such a remark ,only once, you'd have hundreds per day. So all in all, /. is a fairly tolerant place it seems.
And anyways, I wasn't laughing at the poster in person. Just the coincidence of yoda-speak. I found it quite funny. If you don't, don't moderate a post of +2 as 'overrated' because your sense of humor differs. And I definitely wasn't overrated since I wasn't even rated !
err..
no ?
cx stands for christmas island, which is a very nice domain if you think about it.
friend of mine has his nice linux box out there too
I'll throw in my +1 bonus too, so the thread doesn't die out. Other 50karma holders might do so too : it's our only way of getting attention
/. are offtopic ! I wish we could metamoderate the editors when they select or reject
/. isn't what it used to be anymore, and it won't be coming back. I'm hanging around just to find an alternative in some sigs, which will popup sooner or later (My bet is that it will be OSX based :-)
the whole issue is that slashdot isn't what it pretends to be : a free forum about stuff for nerds.
It isn't free (beer nor speech)
it's not for nerds anymore. It's for computer illeterates and laywers
Most of the articles on
Anyway, all this is, as u said, beating a dead horse.
We need new GFX ( don't ask what are them, look and do ).
You help have from the Force
You need my help not
You need new SPLCHCK (ask what are them not, look and do !)
okay, you've got me there :-)
'heating' in dutch is 'opwarmen'... that's why the mixup
I know this is an old debate, and you might consider it a troll, but if we had invested 58 BILLION DOLLARS (falling over backwards here ...) propermy 20 years ago, we might have had an alternative for nuclear power by now. I recently heard a radio interview with a nuke expert who said that, with a bit of luck, they might have an experimental FUSION reactor by 2030. Right now they do have the capabilities of warming deuterium plasma to 150million degrees celcius, which is sufficient to start fusion. Now they have to invest 17billion dollars to build a reactor. Dollars they don't have...
silly, isn't it ?
The previous poster (me) does NOT believe the dotcom.is.dead hype. And it's not rekevant either in my statement. Amazon making provit on the other hand, is just another fraud. I bet when they're finished with worldcom, and if they find time for amazon, they'd find some pretty amazing stuff.
...
Anyways, my statement was that I don't understand why MS doesn't force-infiltrate passport into a system that allready has a lot of subsribers. Asume that they buy Amazon and force EVERY SINGLE buyer to get a passport ID. Okay, so amazon loses 75% revenue initially, but after 5 months things are leveled again and MS has several 100K passport subscribers. Costs them a bunch of money to buy amazon (which they'll earn back if Amazon is indeed ever going to be profitable and if passport does what MS promises) and 6 months loss of Amazon revenue, but hey, with god-knows-how-many-billion dollars in the bank
I'm really wondering when MS is going to buy a large content provider and force Passport upon us. eBay, or Amazon. They're both in the red, so should be purchaseable for a giant like MS.
I've really wondered many times why MS doesn't drop it's dollar weight on passport.. Compared to the XBox, they've invested practically nothing in passport !
okay about planes, but what about satelites ??? Our skies are stuffed with them. Must be quite a pain for those telescopes ! A bit like a dove crapping in your eye when you're watching the skies without scopes.
I wonder what the exposure time of such a 'space photo' is... probably something in the order of minutes ?
In that case, how do they handle stuff like an overflying plane ?
the new ASUS motherboads have COP : CPU Overheating Protection, which switches off the machine when temp goes baloony.
And they're damd fine MoBo's too...
Well I don't know how to handle next... I mean, what are the implications of the fact that I realized the quality of moderation? This is a serious loophole in the ./ system. A potential danger. Hey, GWB would probably call it a terrorist target !
/. that allows me to have fun, make a difference (in a bad way) and bring back a reason for why I actually read this shit.
Should I exploit it to bring it to the attention of the masses ? Play Skylarov ? Or should I shutup and pretend I never found out? Live a lie ?
I could offcourse exploit it in a bad way and skyrocket my karma, but since it is capped allready, the fun is out of that one rather quickly.
Look at it the way you like, but I for one finally fond something in
the above post of mine was total nonsense : absolute bogus. horsedung. donkycrap.
I know as much about soldering as my mum about jerking off : I know it hapens, but I'm afraid to look when someone does it.
It was just a test to evaluate slashdot moderators and I must say I'm terribly disapointed. Apparently this community is run by nitwits who are even more stupid then I am.
My only purpose was to prove the idiocrisy of moderation.
And to prove the proof, this post will for sure be moderated as -1, offtopic.
I fugured that, now that I've reached karma 50, I should check out what it's worth. Well now I know : nuthin.
Together with some friends, we've spent 3 nights soldering an io output-debug channel on a PS2.
For all of you who intend to serial-link debug a PS station : DO NOT ATTEMP TO USE 3COM boards.
We've all grown gray hair until someone contacted 3com who admitted they've got non-standard serial board interfaces.
Probably noone is going to do this, but in case you do : don't go with 3Com
excuse me ? You company is pushing 1GB/sec into the world ?
Pardon me for falling over backwards, but how many companies are gigabit connected to the internet ? I doubt that even Google does this.
too bad he didn't answer the bandwidth Q. Can anyone here give a calculated estimate on how much bytes the google farm pushes around per day ?
How many queries do they server per minute/sec ?
".Net builders and XP hackers take note! With the announcement of various oxymoronic "trusted computing" initiatives in recent week, Bill gates, self-appointed Pope-Emperor of the Republican Innovation Movement has announced a new design contest to design a '...genuinely trustable, cheap, well-designed, rugged, sexy, accessible computer system that is owned, manufactured and operated for, well, Global Civil Dominance.'"
I'll pirate one.
"The Living Earth® image is a highly accurate composite of multiple high-resolution satellite images that has been color-enhanced to appear natural to the human eye. "
I hate this kind of crap talk : it's stressing totally silly, useless details, buzwords and nonsense. A Black and white map with only the outline of the continents would have been just as clear.
And who says they didn't just scan it from a stupid $10 atlas from one of their kids ?
BAH
Even when he's having fun, a millionaire can't stop blabbering peptalk. Doesn't anyone else feel like puking on his fucking balloon ?
I wonder is Apple is going to release a minor OSX update for this. If they do, they prove themselves worthy supporters of OpenSource and creators of an OS that truly respects security.
If they don't, welll, they're still a 100 times more secure than 95% of the market
If it's about scum, it MUST have something to do with Jar-Jar Binks.
has anyone come up yet with a DNA test ? My guess is George isn't the cute boy he pretends to be !
All of the code in this book is in C or C++, and nearly all of the code is talks about is actually printed on the right pages in the book. No more flipping between code on your computer and the book, it's all just where it should be!
Practically all coding books do this, and I mostly find it a cheap way to poop out thick books and massive volumes... Not a measure of quality in any way.
"The NY Times (registration required, mumble... mutter..."
next time you put "registration" between brackets, followed by two words, you better make sure that those two words are userID and paswd !
I really wonder what the NYT logfile-monkeys think when they see a zillion 'mumble/mutter' login attempts...
to silence minority groups. They got a decade experience in silencing anything that doesn't fit the profile.
:-) but just as much as their military turned out not to be anything like the stuff we feared (read : soviets-mujhahedin in afghanistan, and now in tsetsenia) I gues sthat their computer know-how has also degraded to a point where script kiddies are making fun of them...
However, I think this time they'll have to pass : if you see the effort the chinese gov are pushing to get the falung gong movement silenced, I seriously doubt any web silencing is ever going to succeed.
As related curiousity, I wonder what the state of former-soviet intelligence is on the front of web and information technology. The east-block used to have some real geniusses in their computer staff... they practically invented cryptography (and virusses
Is there any russian experienced enough to comment on this ?
What is it with texas these days ? ./ seems to measure anything extraterestrial in STU (Standard Texas Units).
Just for clarity : is this a metric unit ? Can we count in Millitexi, picotexi, GIGATEXI (drooldrool) ?
I guess it's pretty unlikely that they'll open up all of it : a lot of flash code is part of the Freehand and Director code base too. And I can't imagine they'll let anyone copy from that. They've got a hard time getting Adobe out of their way in the lawsuits.
My guess is that they hope for a cheap linux port of flash. But they again : if they keep a ton of code under the wraps in the form of a win32 lib, it all doesn't make much sense.
Probably they just want to ride the opensource train in case it 'might just catch on'. Big corps are always late on the catching on part.