It's funny how in a completely unrelated article, Slashdotters STILL think of ways to turn it in gettings things for free. Hint: get a job. Of course you'll get modded up, it seems every other post about the record industry is Slashdotters thinking up 'ingenuous' reasons why copyright should be abolished. I thought you computer types were supposed to be loaded? If you want some music get your wallet out you cheapstake.
This payola isn't even much of a 'crime'. Just sounds like marketing to me. Companies pay billboard owners to put adverts on, what's the difference? The radio's just going to play pop crap anyway.
Nobody, except 90% of the population. A lot of people can't even get digital reception, and not many of us like waiting 10 minutes for the slow-as-syrup interface to actually do something when you press a button. Especially as most of the programmes on digital are just rejects from the main channels.
It's not bizarre, most people don't have access to digital terrestrial TV. I personally have 4 channels, as my channel 5 reception is less than watchable. I tried one of those 'set-top boxes' (hint: it's only set-top if your TV is flat on top), and it doesn't work. When I can actually receive a channel, the picture's blurry and low-quality, and the interface is garbage.
3. I'm not sure about this one. Space is a perfect insulator, so it would be like wearing a really thick suit. Imagine wearing 12" of fur or rubber all over your body. Then imagine going on a six-hour space walk. How much would you need to sweat to keep cool? You'd definitely dehydrate very quickly.
1. If you get a cut, all your blood explodes into space. 2. The skin is not designed to cope with no pressure on the outside. I predict a phenomenon similar to the bends. 3. Cooling via sweat would mean that the wearer would end up dehydrated and drenched in sweat very quickly. 4. What about the cock/arse? 5. The suit would rip easily, leading to swellings, which could burst, causing the whole body to burst out.
Surely you just need a material which is thin, flexible and air-tight.
Let's see: multiple bombs had been set off on the underground the day before. The armed police confronted a man wearing bomb-concealing clothes. What did he do? Surrender? No. He RAN ONTO THE FUCKING TRAIN. What does any remotely-sane policeman do in this situation? Say 'On your way son, don't set off any bombs please.' No, they shoot the fucker dead.
A relative of the man was on TV this morning being interviewed by phone. The interviewer asked him why he ran onto the train. The line went dead. Says it all really.
Brits should just shut the fuck up
Great, racism.
You, personally, however, are getting an honored spot on my foes list for this and other recent trolls.
Yeah, Slashdot isn't really a place for people with opinions which differ from the groupthink/hivemind. Notice how anyone who says anything remotely interesting or controversial is censored/moderated.
Re:FreeBSD is free'er, MacOS X better for users
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The BSD licence is good for the little guy, as he can use the software without having to worry about the lawyers coming round complaining about your code violating some obscure GPL snippet.
The GPL removes your freedom, as it forces you to release software which doesn't even contain GPL code, it's like a virus. All the GPL is good for is stroking the egos of fat bearded nerds.
On the other hand, the BSD licence gives everyone freedom, it's the true free software. The GPL talks the talk, the BSD walks the walk.
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Unfortuanately, whilst superficially Gentoo may be similar to FreeBSD, the systems are completely different. BSD is built from the ground up to be secure, powerful and reliable. Gentoo is a hack which attempts to make something of the mess than is Linux. At the end of the day, Linux is an amateurist effort, with uncooperative developers who argue and pull in different directions. The kernel is made by one group, the libraries by another, the distribution by another etc. All different, all disorganised.
On BSD it's a team effort, it's the full package, it all works together well. With BSD, the developers think about how to make it better, with Linux they think about how to make things more broken.
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Parent is a Linux troll.
BSD is renowned for having better documentation than Linux. Unlike on Linux where the man pages are a half-arsed effort, an after-thought, brief, confusing and full of errors, on BSD they're done properly, with skill and expertise.
They leave nothing to chance, they explain everything simply and easily, with plenty of intuitive examples and useful explanations. Yes, with BSD, you know exactly where you are and what to do.
Some of the Linux developers might think that documentation is for losers (or lusers as they like to call the people who use their software), but on BSD they realise that people might not necessarily know everything about their system, every command, every option or every file, so they treat the user with respect, explaining things which need explaining. This means that BSD is easier to use and configure, a great user experience.
So the next time you're frustrated trying to fix Linux, and the IRC channels tell you to RTFM, the newsgroups call you a Microsoft shill, and you wonder why TFM is so poor, or why no-one cares, remember that just around the corner is an operating system where the user comes first. BSD.
FreeBSD is for people who hate Linux. OpenBSD is for people who like Unix.
If you want a BSD, then you want Open. FreeBSD is a bit pointless, it doesn't really do anything well like OpenBSD, it's just more fashionable and mainstream so wannabe-geeks use it who think they're too elite for Linux.
You're right. No-one before Google ever had a search engine, or a map service. Google invented them, and Microsoft just copied them. What other Google original inventions will Microsoft steal next, webmail? Newsgroups?
Seriously, it doesn't matter who invented anything, it's what you do with it. Web services are easy, I'll be impressed when Google make an operating system or an office suite.
NASA's purse a bit LIGHT? I can't think of many non-military organisations which have bigger budgets. Compared to the results they produce, NASA get astronomical amounts of money, no pun intended. Where does it all go?
We need a proper space age with proper engineers to build giant telescopes in space. None of this 'let's spend hundreds of billions on a badly-designed space shuttle then keep it on the ground because a spec of paint is out of place.'
Get some proper reliable, efficient launch systems, then get some telescope-building facilities in outer space, and build a 200m telescope, no flaws, no imperfections, and we can do some proper observing. With the money and technology available we should be able to see into the future by now, not a few low-detail pictures of nearby nebulae.
Actually I think Windows has the best support for old operating systems than anyone. I mean, you can get hardware and software today and it runs on Windows 95, something a DECADE old. Yet a lot of Linux software won't run unless you have the latest libraries released in the last seven minutes.
Try installing the latest Mozilla or Gimp on a stock distribution from 1995. I mean, without waiting around for a few weeks as the computer downloads ten million dependencies, half of which conflict.
I'm not so sure about that. Anyone can think of an idea for a game, or film, but not many can actually make a good one.
You brought movies into this, well ever wonder why movies suck so bad? It's because of the barrier to entry, and the way it keeps creative but poorly "equipped" people out.
I don't think movies 'suck' so bad. Like any medium there's a lot of crap, but a lot of good as well. Do you think there'd be any better films if people started making them who didn't know how to make films? Do you know how many people have ideas or scripts for films? A LOT. If all these people, these 'creative but poorly equipped' people got their films made, there'd be millions of films out a year, all of them awful.
Actually it's a bad analogy because people who don't know much about filmmaking who write a good script or book can get it made into a film. See Reservoir Dogs for example.
Guess how many people have 'amazingly creative' ideas for games? Nearly everyone who's played a game. Anyone can think of an idea for a game, it's a whole different thing making one. A lot of these ideas aren't even workable, but you wouldn't know that unless you're a game developer who knows what's possible and what's not. Designing games without knowing how to make games is masturbation. It's like designing spaceships with no grasp of physics or engineering, all you do is think up all these great new concepts and wondering why those people who actually know what they're doing haven't thought of it.
"Oh, but my game idea is different..." Yeah along with a million others. You ARE one of those PHBs you complain about. You want to have everyone else do the actual work (i.e. the coding), whilst you just sit there with your thumb up your arse thinking up ideas. But of course if the game's a success you'll want to be famous as its designer.
I wouldn't want to work under you, trying to code all your half-baked ideas whilst you sit in your office drawing pictures of monsters and robots and wizards. Because when it comes down to it, that's all these creative non-developers actually want to do, think up cool worlds and characters and weapons, but they don't want the hassle of actually realising it.
I used to sell cars, and there's no way any car dealership would ever take cash. For a start it would probably be fake, secondly it's just too risky to lose or have stolen (imagine being mugged whilst carrying a briefcase full of cash to the bank). Thirdly it makes you look like a criminal. Who on earth withdraws tens of thousands in cash and takes it to the dealer rather than just writing a cheque? I mean, other than launderers.
What the hell does getting a loan have to do with anything?
The goverment doesn't have unfettered power today, its powers are entirely reasonable. Unless you're a terrorist of course. Though I can only speak for my own government and not the American one.
Although it would be useful if every server and browser supported this. It makes no sense to download a 500k file if it can be compressed to a tenth of the size transparently.
George Orwell was just a fearmonger. No-one has any business carrying around 20 grand in cash. Even if you're not a drug or arms dealer (i.e. the one in ten thousand), you can afford to lose it anyway. Redistribution of wealth is the whole idea of socialism. Think of it as a paranoia tax.
Maybe because Google maps is slow as hell and very ugly. We don't all want to wait twenty minutes for a map to download, and we're not all drooling Google fanboys, some of us actually like to get things done.
I think the subject was supposed to read, "Why I hate PDF files that aren't compressed."
Christ, it's half a megabyte, how much effort would it be to type 'gzip'? And people have the cheek to complain when they get slashdotted or their bandwidth bills are too high.
I'm a mugger, who is this man, where does he live and what does he look like?
And anyone caught with that sort of money will instantly be suspected of dealing drugs. There's a reason drug dealers use cash and law-abiding people don't.
Why a shuttle to get into space? It's an old, badly-designed sack of shit. And it's effectively grounded. Use a Soyuz instead, the Russians are the only ones with half-decent launch systems.
The shuttle doesn't have enough fuel-capacity to go to Mars and back. It barely contains enough fuel to get into orbit around earth and descend again. And low-earth orbit at that. Once its big orange fuel-tank's fallen off, it can only accelerate/deccelerate by about 500m/s. After that it's out of fuel, and that's for the entire mission.
The shuttle doesn't have enough food capacity, the crew can't last longer than a month. Then there's water, oxygen, waste etc. All of which are in short supply on the shuttle.
Until someone builds a PROPER space-shop and a PROPER launch system, Mars is not a viable destination.
Er, you can use AIM outside of America. And if 'technical' people use a system based on anything other than the people on it, they're idiots. Anyway I thought MSN was the more popular messaging system?
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It's funny how in a completely unrelated article, Slashdotters STILL think of ways to turn it in gettings things for free. Hint: get a job. Of course you'll get modded up, it seems every other post about the record industry is Slashdotters thinking up 'ingenuous' reasons why copyright should be abolished. I thought you computer types were supposed to be loaded? If you want some music get your wallet out you cheapstake.
This payola isn't even much of a 'crime'. Just sounds like marketing to me. Companies pay billboard owners to put adverts on, what's the difference? The radio's just going to play pop crap anyway.
Nobody, except 90% of the population. A lot of people can't even get digital reception, and not many of us like waiting 10 minutes for the slow-as-syrup interface to actually do something when you press a button. Especially as most of the programmes on digital are just rejects from the main channels.
It's not bizarre, most people don't have access to digital terrestrial TV. I personally have 4 channels, as my channel 5 reception is less than watchable. I tried one of those 'set-top boxes' (hint: it's only set-top if your TV is flat on top), and it doesn't work. When I can actually receive a channel, the picture's blurry and low-quality, and the interface is garbage.
So not even 5 channels.
3. I'm not sure about this one. Space is a perfect insulator, so it would be like wearing a really thick suit. Imagine wearing 12" of fur or rubber all over your body. Then imagine going on a six-hour space walk. How much would you need to sweat to keep cool? You'd definitely dehydrate very quickly.
I can think of some problems with that.
1. If you get a cut, all your blood explodes into space.
2. The skin is not designed to cope with no pressure on the outside. I predict a phenomenon similar to the bends.
3. Cooling via sweat would mean that the wearer would end up dehydrated and drenched in sweat very quickly.
4. What about the cock/arse?
5. The suit would rip easily, leading to swellings, which could burst, causing the whole body to burst out.
Surely you just need a material which is thin, flexible and air-tight.
Let's see: multiple bombs had been set off on the underground the day before. The armed police confronted a man wearing bomb-concealing clothes. What did he do? Surrender? No. He RAN ONTO THE FUCKING TRAIN. What does any remotely-sane policeman do in this situation? Say 'On your way son, don't set off any bombs please.' No, they shoot the fucker dead.
A relative of the man was on TV this morning being interviewed by phone. The interviewer asked him why he ran onto the train. The line went dead. Says it all really.
Brits should just shut the fuck up
Great, racism.
You, personally, however, are getting an honored spot on my foes list for this and other recent trolls.
Yeah, Slashdot isn't really a place for people with opinions which differ from the groupthink/hivemind. Notice how anyone who says anything remotely interesting or controversial is censored/moderated.
The BSD licence is good for the little guy, as he can use the software without having to worry about the lawyers coming round complaining about your code violating some obscure GPL snippet.
The GPL removes your freedom, as it forces you to release software which doesn't even contain GPL code, it's like a virus. All the GPL is good for is stroking the egos of fat bearded nerds.
On the other hand, the BSD licence gives everyone freedom, it's the true free software. The GPL talks the talk, the BSD walks the walk.
Unfortuanately, whilst superficially Gentoo may be similar to FreeBSD, the systems are completely different. BSD is built from the ground up to be secure, powerful and reliable. Gentoo is a hack which attempts to make something of the mess than is Linux. At the end of the day, Linux is an amateurist effort, with uncooperative developers who argue and pull in different directions. The kernel is made by one group, the libraries by another, the distribution by another etc. All different, all disorganised.
On BSD it's a team effort, it's the full package, it all works together well. With BSD, the developers think about how to make it better, with Linux they think about how to make things more broken.
Parent is a Linux troll.
BSD is renowned for having better documentation than Linux. Unlike on Linux where the man pages are a half-arsed effort, an after-thought, brief, confusing and full of errors, on BSD they're done properly, with skill and expertise.
They leave nothing to chance, they explain everything simply and easily, with plenty of intuitive examples and useful explanations. Yes, with BSD, you know exactly where you are and what to do.
Some of the Linux developers might think that documentation is for losers (or lusers as they like to call the people who use their software), but on BSD they realise that people might not necessarily know everything about their system, every command, every option or every file, so they treat the user with respect, explaining things which need explaining. This means that BSD is easier to use and configure, a great user experience.
So the next time you're frustrated trying to fix Linux, and the IRC channels tell you to RTFM, the newsgroups call you a Microsoft shill, and you wonder why TFM is so poor, or why no-one cares, remember that just around the corner is an operating system where the user comes first. BSD.
Here are some useful links:
http://freebsd.org/
http://openbsd.org/
http://netbsd.org/
FreeBSD is for people who hate Linux.
OpenBSD is for people who like Unix.
If you want a BSD, then you want Open. FreeBSD is a bit pointless, it doesn't really do anything well like OpenBSD, it's just more fashionable and mainstream so wannabe-geeks use it who think they're too elite for Linux.
You're right. No-one before Google ever had a search engine, or a map service. Google invented them, and Microsoft just copied them. What other Google original inventions will Microsoft steal next, webmail? Newsgroups?
Seriously, it doesn't matter who invented anything, it's what you do with it. Web services are easy, I'll be impressed when Google make an operating system or an office suite.
NASA's purse a bit LIGHT? I can't think of many non-military organisations which have bigger budgets. Compared to the results they produce, NASA get astronomical amounts of money, no pun intended. Where does it all go?
We need a proper space age with proper engineers to build giant telescopes in space. None of this 'let's spend hundreds of billions on a badly-designed space shuttle then keep it on the ground because a spec of paint is out of place.'
Get some proper reliable, efficient launch systems, then get some telescope-building facilities in outer space, and build a 200m telescope, no flaws, no imperfections, and we can do some proper observing. With the money and technology available we should be able to see into the future by now, not a few low-detail pictures of nearby nebulae.
Actually I think Windows has the best support for old operating systems than anyone. I mean, you can get hardware and software today and it runs on Windows 95, something a DECADE old. Yet a lot of Linux software won't run unless you have the latest libraries released in the last seven minutes.
Try installing the latest Mozilla or Gimp on a stock distribution from 1995. I mean, without waiting around for a few weeks as the computer downloads ten million dependencies, half of which conflict.
I'm not so sure about that. Anyone can think of an idea for a game, or film, but not many can actually make a good one.
You brought movies into this, well ever wonder why movies suck so bad? It's because of the barrier to entry, and the way it keeps creative but poorly "equipped" people out.
I don't think movies 'suck' so bad. Like any medium there's a lot of crap, but a lot of good as well. Do you think there'd be any better films if people started making them who didn't know how to make films? Do you know how many people have ideas or scripts for films? A LOT. If all these people, these 'creative but poorly equipped' people got their films made, there'd be millions of films out a year, all of them awful.
Actually it's a bad analogy because people who don't know much about filmmaking who write a good script or book can get it made into a film. See Reservoir Dogs for example.
Guess how many people have 'amazingly creative' ideas for games? Nearly everyone who's played a game. Anyone can think of an idea for a game, it's a whole different thing making one. A lot of these ideas aren't even workable, but you wouldn't know that unless you're a game developer who knows what's possible and what's not. Designing games without knowing how to make games is masturbation. It's like designing spaceships with no grasp of physics or engineering, all you do is think up all these great new concepts and wondering why those people who actually know what they're doing haven't thought of it.
"Oh, but my game idea is different..." Yeah along with a million others. You ARE one of those PHBs you complain about. You want to have everyone else do the actual work (i.e. the coding), whilst you just sit there with your thumb up your arse thinking up ideas. But of course if the game's a success you'll want to be famous as its designer.
I wouldn't want to work under you, trying to code all your half-baked ideas whilst you sit in your office drawing pictures of monsters and robots and wizards. Because when it comes down to it, that's all these creative non-developers actually want to do, think up cool worlds and characters and weapons, but they don't want the hassle of actually realising it.
I used to sell cars, and there's no way any car dealership would ever take cash. For a start it would probably be fake, secondly it's just too risky to lose or have stolen (imagine being mugged whilst carrying a briefcase full of cash to the bank). Thirdly it makes you look like a criminal. Who on earth withdraws tens of thousands in cash and takes it to the dealer rather than just writing a cheque? I mean, other than launderers.
What the hell does getting a loan have to do with anything?
The goverment doesn't have unfettered power today, its powers are entirely reasonable. Unless you're a terrorist of course. Though I can only speak for my own government and not the American one.
Yes, by the long time it took to download.
Although it would be useful if every server and browser supported this. It makes no sense to download a 500k file if it can be compressed to a tenth of the size transparently.
Funny, I seem to have been downloading a large uncompressed file rather than a compressed one. Obviously the point isn't 'moot' after all.
George Orwell was just a fearmonger. No-one has any business carrying around 20 grand in cash. Even if you're not a drug or arms dealer (i.e. the one in ten thousand), you can afford to lose it anyway. Redistribution of wealth is the whole idea of socialism. Think of it as a paranoia tax.
Maybe because Google maps is slow as hell and very ugly. We don't all want to wait twenty minutes for a map to download, and we're not all drooling Google fanboys, some of us actually like to get things done.
I think the subject was supposed to read, "Why I hate PDF files that aren't compressed."
Christ, it's half a megabyte, how much effort would it be to type 'gzip'? And people have the cheek to complain when they get slashdotted or their bandwidth bills are too high.
Nuclear fission is not a good idea. Think of all the problems we've had with the radioactive waste. Let alone the meltdowns.
Nuclear fusion might be possible if any of those scientists weren't deliberately not-inventing it because it would mean they would be out of jobs.
I'm a mugger, who is this man, where does he live and what does he look like?
And anyone caught with that sort of money will instantly be suspected of dealing drugs. There's a reason drug dealers use cash and law-abiding people don't.
Why a shuttle to get into space? It's an old, badly-designed sack of shit. And it's effectively grounded. Use a Soyuz instead, the Russians are the only ones with half-decent launch systems.
The shuttle doesn't have enough fuel-capacity to go to Mars and back. It barely contains enough fuel to get into orbit around earth and descend again. And low-earth orbit at that. Once its big orange fuel-tank's fallen off, it can only accelerate/deccelerate by about 500m/s. After that it's out of fuel, and that's for the entire mission.
The shuttle doesn't have enough food capacity, the crew can't last longer than a month. Then there's water, oxygen, waste etc. All of which are in short supply on the shuttle.
Until someone builds a PROPER space-shop and a PROPER launch system, Mars is not a viable destination.
Don't forget to include the costs of the RAID hardware to set up all these disks. 80Gb isn't a lot these days anyway, in fact it's only 10GB.
Er, you can use AIM outside of America. And if 'technical' people use a system based on anything other than the people on it, they're idiots. Anyway I thought MSN was the more popular messaging system?