Have you ever seen the apartment of any self respecting homosexual? If the slashdot editors were "fg8s" I can assure you, there would be NO dupes, a spotless front page, and perhaps a "Bette Midler" and "Barbra Streisand" logo on the front page more often.
Moderation Totals: Funny=3, Overrated=2, Total=5.
We need a new moderation: -1, I didn't get the joke, because I didn't realize that the american populace recently elected a dead senator.
AND
-1: I didn't get the joke. (moron mods)
*grumble*
Because while they "emulate" microsoft networking, they do it/better/ than microsoft.
1) network neighborhood doesnt scale
2) diff os systems (ME, 2k, 98se, etc) have diff options for sharing (simple vs user based?) etc.
Does anyone remember the early porn banners that were doing this? "Movie downloading?"
You know that something is low and bad (tm) when even the porn industry shys away from it as a form of advertising. I was surprised when I started seeing these because it harked back to earlier days of those annoying porn ads that tried to look like UI components.
I guess bonzi didn't quite catch on -- and quite frankly, its about fscking time that someone finally said, "You're obnoxious, annoying, and we've had enough!"
plz see definition #2 below...
www.m-w.com
Main Entry: hijack
Pronunciation: 'hI-"jak
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1923
1 a : to steal by stopping a vehicle on the highway b : to commandeer (a flying airplane) especially by coercing the pilot at gunpoint c : to stop and steal from (a vehicle in transit) d : KIDNAP
2 a : to steal or rob as if by hijacking b : to subject to extortion or swindling
- hijack noun
- hijacker noun
So yeah...if you wanna get technical, it IS "to subject to extortion or swindling"....and thus hijacking.
I don't think the article draws a clear enough distinction. He says that they will either "go out of business" or "stop emphasising the user..." Hmm...these two scenarios are NOT the same. If Lycoris has crappy spending habits compared to their income, yes, they'll go out of business. Ditto for redhat, any other linux distro. When these companies marked "desktop useability" they moreso mean on the -Corporate- desktop. Thats where their real dollars are. (in _SUPPORT_ contracts) As long as the support contracts vary enough from distro to distro, you can expect them to be hyping desktop-usability to corporate clients for a long time. (Some companies prefer suse licensing&support, some mandrake, some redhat....etc)
Oh, and if someone DOES go out of business? GASP! The result of a market with competition!
Wow.....i'm really shocked at the prices on these things. "PRO" is 3--$ more for a.13 ghz increase...i mean REALLY here.....*sigh*
(alienware makes some nice stuff...but so overpriced!)
His name is David GelerNter.
David Gelernter, not David Gelerter.
He is the current Director of Graduate Studies in CS as well....and so a name I am quite familiar with.
And trust me...Arvind Krishnamurthy (do a google..) will still be teaching Operating Systems in the spring. (Ahh Nachos!)
For all of you waxing locquatious on the merits of scsi....please read the article, noticeably:
SCSI drives are notorious for their noise, heat and vibration levels. These low points are not acceptable at the consumer level. Noise and heat don't matter too much in huge server rooms, but they can quickly become a problem in desktops. Unfortunately, this means that the extremely low seek times and high spindle speeds that make SCSI drives so fast are not available in consumer market. Basically until cooler, quieter, smoother drives can be manufactured in high volume, desktop hard drives will continue to make baby steps in speed.
For the time being, IDE isn't going anywhere.
NOISE & HEAT will tend to outweigh (relatively) minor performance gains in consumer systems. (Enterprise hardware is another matter entirely)
sigh....we need to start using those annoying javascripts that make people read the article BEFORE posting.
Q. What happens if I leave Yale?
A. Under the EULA you must sign you agree to immediately remove any of these products from your machine(s) as soon as you lose your status as a member of student, staff, or faculty. Please note that this is not a Yale requirement and no one at Yale can grant an exception.
I got WinXP, Frontpage, OfficeXP, and Visual Studio from MS for being a college student, why didn't we hear about this?
Because you lying sack of shit, you have to return it all when you graduate.
(See http://wss.yale.edu/msdnaa/ )
Someone should mod you flamebait, asshole.
CLARIFICATION:
My goal was actually to be FUNNY. The statement made was this is the "CLASSIC" case of the tragedy of the commons. My only statement was that the "CLASSIC" (or Canonical) case of the "Tragedy of the Commons" involves cows in England, not CD's in the USA.
Actually, the Classic case of the Tragedy of the Commons follows:
I am a cow or sheep farmer.
I may use the commons to graze my animal.
The commons may only support N animals.
There are P farmers.
Therefore, I may safely graze N/P animals without damaging the commons, like all other farmers.
There is NO incentive for me to not damage the commons, since I can profit extra by adding an extra cow.
Rinse, Lather, Repeat for each individual farmer.
This easily, _without_ a second iteration, produces NP+P cows, NP+P > NP, so the commons goes to ruin.
Having said this, can someone please show me how in the hell _not having obscene webcasting rates_ is a tragedy of the commons?
Webcasting may or may not have an economic impact on artists (*cough record companies cough*) and I make NO STATEMENT regarding that as I have absolutely no statistics and am completely unqualified to do so -- HOWEVER -- I am intelligent, rational, and quite capable of pointing out that the situation does NOT closely resemble the Tragedy of the Commons. (Music is a non-depletable good. Unlike an apple or a blade of grass -- comestibles and other consumables -- if one person listens to music, it can be listened to by another. The tragedy of the commons only applies to PUBLIC ACCESS goods which are CONSUMABLE)
-nuff said
Umm, is it me, or is _everyone_ ripping off the "Got Milk?" campaigns? Can I please see the american dairy farmers association (ADFA) sue M$? Please?!? Microsoft is stealing the "look and feel" of "got milk" adds with "gotdotnet!"
This post was intended to be modded as "funny" -- thats why they AC'd it.
Its typical/. drivel -- indicating no real knowledge of codecs/how things work/mentioning the mpaa.
*sigh*
" 1. All network traffic to/from any UCI computer, web site or server is untouched. There are no controls and no need to shape this, as it is "educational" traffic. Further, as it does not go to or from the Internet, we don't have to pay for it. As long as it stays within the UCI network, we can take advantage of the high-speed connections and equipment we have on campus."
Download the source for gnutella. Roll your own gnutella net for just UC Irvine IP's. Distribute among the student populace. (perhaps make your website on your "students" webserver, or whatever your analogue is, a hq for said application) Watch as you get blazing download speeds from all your friends, you are regarded as a campus hero among students and administrators are happy because they are saving on external bandwidth costs. Oh, and you'll get laid a lot.;)
.....Paladin? I hope joe six pack refers to abdominal muscles and not beer, because if you're that stupid, you better be cute.
Still doesn't fix the "frontpage problem"
on
Roll Your Own Browser
·
· Score: 3, Informative
I hate to be the one to point this out -- I am a big mozilla fan (3 Cheers for optimoz!!) but the real problems lie in the crappy html output of Microsoft Frontpage. Besides...has anyone seen volano chat (http://www.volano.com) in _any browser other than ie_ work properly? (Chatrooms dont scroll, etc) In fact, volanochat didnt even work properly on IE for OSX until Jaguar. *sigh*
We need a mozilla-esque frontpage replacement. GNU/Dreamweaver anyone?;)
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Have you ever seen the apartment of any self respecting homosexual? If the slashdot editors were "fg8s" I can assure you, there would be NO dupes, a spotless front page, and perhaps a "Bette Midler" and "Barbra Streisand" logo on the front page more often.
Moderation Totals: Funny=3, Overrated=2, Total=5.
We need a new moderation: -1, I didn't get the joke, because I didn't realize that the american populace recently elected a dead senator.
AND
-1: I didn't get the joke. (moron mods)
*grumble*
>Heck, even Dead people vote sometimes
Heck, even dead people get ELECTED sometimes.
Because while they "emulate" microsoft networking, they do it /better/ than microsoft.
1) network neighborhood doesnt scale
2) diff os systems (ME, 2k, 98se, etc) have diff options for sharing (simple vs user based?) etc.
Ivy = Yale Harvard Princeton Columbia Dartmouth Cornell Penn and of course, Brown.
its a old football league, nothing more.
get over it.
oh yeah, and find the poster and garrote him with some ide cables....
Does anyone remember the early porn banners that were doing this?
"Movie downloading?"
You know that something is low and bad (tm) when even the porn industry shys away from it as a form of advertising. I was surprised when I started seeing these because it harked back to earlier days of those annoying porn ads that tried to look like UI components.
I guess bonzi didn't quite catch on -- and quite frankly, its about fscking time that someone finally said, "You're obnoxious, annoying, and we've had enough!"
plz see definition #2 below...
www.m-w.com
Main Entry: hijack
Pronunciation: 'hI-"jak
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1923
1 a : to steal by stopping a vehicle on the
highway b : to commandeer (a flying airplane)
especially by coercing the pilot at gunpoint
c : to stop and steal from (a vehicle in
transit) d : KIDNAP
2 a : to steal or rob as if by hijacking b : to
subject to extortion or swindling
- hijack noun
- hijacker noun
So yeah...if you wanna get technical, it IS "to subject to extortion or swindling"....and thus hijacking.
I don't think the article draws a clear enough distinction. He says that they will either "go out of business" or "stop emphasising the user..." Hmm...these two scenarios are NOT the same. If Lycoris has crappy spending habits compared to their income, yes, they'll go out of business. Ditto for redhat, any other linux distro. When these companies marked "desktop useability" they moreso mean on the -Corporate- desktop. Thats where their real dollars are. (in _SUPPORT_ contracts) As long as the support contracts vary enough from distro to distro, you can expect them to be hyping desktop-usability to corporate clients for a long time. (Some companies prefer suse licensing&support, some mandrake, some redhat....etc)
Oh, and if someone DOES go out of business?
GASP! The result of a market with competition!
Wow.....i'm really shocked at the prices on these things. "PRO" is 3--$ more for a .13 ghz increase...i mean REALLY here.....*sigh*
(alienware makes some nice stuff...but so overpriced!)
His name is David GelerNter.
David Gelernter, not David Gelerter.
He is the current Director of Graduate Studies in CS as well....and so a name I am quite familiar with.
And trust me...Arvind Krishnamurthy (do a google..) will still be teaching Operating Systems in the spring. (Ahh Nachos!)
For the time being, IDE isn't going anywhere.
NOISE & HEAT will tend to outweigh (relatively) minor performance gains in consumer systems. (Enterprise hardware is another matter entirely)
sigh....we need to start using those annoying javascripts that make people read the article BEFORE posting.
STFU.
(See http://wss.yale.edu/msdnaa/ )
Someone should mod you flamebait, asshole.
Let me just tell you -- these are so much more amazing in real life. Come to Beinicke and visit =)
CLARIFICATION:
My goal was actually to be FUNNY. The statement made was this is the "CLASSIC" case of the tragedy of the commons. My only statement was that the "CLASSIC" (or Canonical) case of the "Tragedy of the Commons" involves cows in England, not CD's in the USA.
Actually, the Classic case of the Tragedy of the Commons follows:
I am a cow or sheep farmer.
I may use the commons to graze my animal.
The commons may only support N animals.
There are P farmers.
Therefore, I may safely graze N/P animals without damaging the commons, like all other farmers.
There is NO incentive for me to not damage the commons, since I can profit extra by adding an extra cow.
Rinse, Lather, Repeat for each individual farmer.
This easily, _without_ a second iteration, produces NP+P cows, NP+P > NP, so the commons goes to ruin.
Having said this, can someone please show me how in the hell _not having obscene webcasting rates_ is a tragedy of the commons?
Webcasting may or may not have an economic impact on artists (*cough record companies cough*) and I make NO STATEMENT regarding that as I have absolutely no statistics and am completely unqualified to do so -- HOWEVER -- I am intelligent, rational, and quite capable of pointing out that the situation does NOT closely resemble the Tragedy of the Commons. (Music is a non-depletable good. Unlike an apple or a blade of grass -- comestibles and other consumables -- if one person listens to music, it can be listened to by another. The tragedy of the commons only applies to PUBLIC ACCESS goods which are CONSUMABLE)
-nuff said
Umm, is it me, or is _everyone_ ripping off the "Got Milk?" campaigns? Can I please see the american dairy farmers association (ADFA) sue M$? Please?!? Microsoft is stealing the "look and feel" of "got milk" adds with "gotdotnet!"
;)
This post was intended to be modded as "funny" -- thats why they AC'd it. /. drivel -- indicating no real knowledge of codecs/how things work/mentioning the mpaa.
Its typical
*sigh*
Download the source for gnutella. Roll your own gnutella net for just UC Irvine IP's. Distribute among the student populace. (perhaps make your website on your "students" webserver, or whatever your analogue is, a hq for said application) Watch as you get blazing download speeds from all your friends, you are regarded as a campus hero among students and administrators are happy because they are saving on external bandwidth costs. Oh, and you'll get laid a lot.
Yeah....we already have that exhibit. ;)
Its called ALL OF PS1.
.....Paladin? I hope joe six pack refers to abdominal muscles and not beer, because if you're that stupid, you better be cute.
I hate to be the one to point this out -- I am a big mozilla fan (3 Cheers for optimoz!!) but the real problems lie in the crappy html output of Microsoft Frontpage. Besides...has anyone seen volano chat (http://www.volano.com) in _any browser other than ie_ work properly? (Chatrooms dont scroll, etc) In fact, volanochat didnt even work properly on IE for OSX until Jaguar. *sigh*
;)
We need a mozilla-esque frontpage replacement. GNU/Dreamweaver anyone?
You or the moron who modded you up?
What in the name of all hell are you TALKING about?
Read the freaking article.
And worse comes to worst, you look at the freaking source yourself.
Jesus!