Hey Taco - how about a $100-week option to allow trolls to post their "first post" ways ahead of everyone else. And a $5 week option to hide all "first post" posts -- you can have it both ways (fnarr).
"if the RFID tags follow you home.. thats another issue."
Just install a nice large electro-magentic emitter at your front door and voila! (remembering to enter the *back* door when you have credit cards, disks etc on your person....)
That's about six articles from the most recent Wired that have been covered on/. Hey - if we're that interested we can always go buy a copy. Is/. that hard up for articles....?
Within days we've seen two articles from Wired pumped here (this one and http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/144621 7&mode=thread&tid=98 this one on Sony, RIAA et al)
C'mon Taco - how about some original work rather than just pointers to magazines (that actually hit the streets about two weeks ago -- why the lag?)
Just think, Buzz Lightyear for Vice President. Sully would make a great speaker of the house (no one would dare disagree with him) and Hopper would be idea as foreign secretary (kick them stinking Iraqies.....er ants, in the ass). Plus Pixar would make way better political ads than we've ever seen in the past!
Of course, when the first one is built that's it -- market is over as users will just copy the machine. Will be great to go to Kazaa and just download one......
Unless they the DCMA is extended to cover this too!
Reliability? I can't remember the last time sf.net crashed. Can you?
Performance? Show me another system running 50,000 users that performs as well as SF.net supporting 500,000 users. Ever used SAP R/3.....
Me, I just toss a bucket of cold water on my PC when it gets too hot.
Heat is the least of my problems. I find I have to buy new PC's frequently -- anyone else have the same problem? What's up with quality control these days anyway?
Tomorrow's World ran on BBC 1 (used to be Thursday's before Top of the Pops). It was always a soft science show -- more entertainment than hard science. BBC 2 ran the harder science show "Horizon" - each episode of which was an hour long. I've been away from the UK for nearly 19 years so don't know if Horizon is still going -- but at the time it was an outstanding show - would compare with the likes of the better shows on TLC and Discovery. Sad to see Tomorrows World going -- but it did give a great start to James Burke who went on to do the Burke connection and Connections.
But it was a waste and you lost. So you have to abide by the majority decision -- that's what living in a democracy (OK - Republic) is all about. The alternative is to move on to another country...... How 'bout Iraq. Become top-dog there and you can have as much privacy as you want:-)
That this is the government that *you* voted for. Don't like what they are doing - then vote a change. Otherwise, quit bellyaching and say a big *thankyou* to the team in Washington DC. Don't vote -- then you loose all rights to complain. Do vote and it's your choice. The country has spoken and it's for less privacy and greater security.
Selenology is the study of the geology of the Moon - hence the scientist that went to the moon was a Selenologist and not a geologist (although that's what he'd be called on Earth).
Let's se: Perhaps users who'll benefit from the 2 years elapsed work of work that has gone into the Enterprise edition. The support and maintenance that is behind the product. Enterprise features (Oracle and DB2 support -- like it or not that's what Enterprises run on). Clearcase support. lots and lots of bug fixes (that I see are not in Gforge) Oh, documentation - yes, some lesser mortals do need docs. Shall I go on?
Last time I read the 10Q they had a lot more than $25 million in the bank (do your homework dimwit) - how much do you have in *your* account big boy?
Oh - and the system you posted your note is paid for by VA Software. How much do you pay to post here???? Yeah - thought so. Perhaps before you spout crap you think twice about biting the hand that feeds you.
Tool.
Gimme a freaking break! RUP is the biggest waste of time this side of the big bang. $10,000 for a developer seat + 6 months or on-again, off-again training classes to load your mind with worthless garbage. In the time spent getting up to speed with RUP, using SourceForge or other streamlined collaborative development mechanisms you could be releasing product. RUP is what's wrong with software engineering today. Big, fat and bloated. I hope IBM can the "Rational Fellows" on day one -- they've done more to retard the development of efficient, agile software development than anyone else. COBOL is a delight to use when compared with the dogmatic garbage that spews from Rational. If IBM does to Rational what it did to Lotus and CrossWorlds we'll all be better off!
Open source development has **clearly** proven how you can rapidly develop great software with no over-blown management structure and butt-head tools. Ditch RUP and use SourceForge.net I say. No cost and orders of more successful projects than Rational has ever been able to achieve.
(My next post on this topic will tell you how I *really* feeel.)
Toodles.
Certainly no use for real work -- for that I hump a laptop with me everywhere (and I do mean *everywhere*) -- why settle for 2nd best when you can have the real thing?
So contact "Jun Jiang", find out to where he shipped the camera and arrange a little "visit..."
Looks like the perp also bought another camera so if Jun Jiang can't/won't provide the address (which he should 'cos he got money from "you") - then ask the other seller. Then arrange the "visit". I'm sure a number of folks would be only too happy to help with the "visit", especially those who contributed to the tip jar.
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The oh so lovely Jenny Agutter played Jessica6
It's also interesting to note that when I cliked on the 'Images' link within the patent page the result crashed IE 6. Coincidence? I think not!
"if the RFID tags follow you home.. thats another issue." Just install a nice large electro-magentic emitter at your front door and voila! (remembering to enter the *back* door when you have credit cards, disks etc on your person....)
That's about six articles from the most recent Wired that have been covered on /. Hey - if we're that interested we can always go buy a copy. Is /. that hard up for articles....?
Within days we've seen two articles from Wired pumped here (this one and http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/24/144621 7&mode=thread&tid=98 this one on Sony, RIAA et al)
C'mon Taco - how about some original work rather than just pointers to magazines (that actually hit the streets about two weeks ago -- why the lag?)
Just think, Buzz Lightyear for Vice President. Sully would make a great speaker of the house (no one would dare disagree with him) and Hopper would be idea as foreign secretary (kick them stinking Iraqies.....er ants, in the ass). Plus Pixar would make way better political ads than we've ever seen in the past!
Yeah - the stars and stripes will be switched out for a skull and crossbones.
Why don't you think this can be done? The Egg Muffin was invented -- why not this?
Of course, when the first one is built that's it -- market is over as users will just copy the machine. Will be great to go to Kazaa and just download one......
Unless they the DCMA is extended to cover this too!
Reliability? I can't remember the last time sf.net crashed. Can you? Performance? Show me another system running 50,000 users that performs as well as SF.net supporting 500,000 users. Ever used SAP R/3.....
Me, I just toss a bucket of cold water on my PC when it gets too hot.
Heat is the least of my problems. I find I have to buy new PC's frequently -- anyone else have the same problem? What's up with quality control these days anyway?
Ahem. SourceForge.net (supporting > 500,000 users) is written in PHP (+ Perl and Python).
Like any tool - wield it correctly and you can build anything. Wield it incorrectly and you've got Windoze.
Tomorrow's World ran on BBC 1 (used to be Thursday's before Top of the Pops). It was always a soft science show -- more entertainment than hard science. BBC 2 ran the harder science show "Horizon" - each episode of which was an hour long. I've been away from the UK for nearly 19 years so don't know if Horizon is still going -- but at the time it was an outstanding show - would compare with the likes of the better shows on TLC and Discovery. Sad to see Tomorrows World going -- but it did give a great start to James Burke who went on to do the Burke connection and Connections.
But it was a waste and you lost. So you have to abide by the majority decision -- that's what living in a democracy (OK - Republic) is all about. The alternative is to move on to another country...... How 'bout Iraq. Become top-dog there and you can have as much privacy as you want :-)
That this is the government that *you* voted for. Don't like what they are doing - then vote a change. Otherwise, quit bellyaching and say a big *thankyou* to the team in Washington DC. Don't vote -- then you loose all rights to complain. Do vote and it's your choice. The country has spoken and it's for less privacy and greater security.
I submitted a story about Hokey Spokes ages ago. "2002-07-22 01:55:39 Pedal Powered Graphical Computing (articles,news)" You're loosing your grip :-)
Selenology is the study of the geology of the Moon - hence the scientist that went to the moon was a Selenologist and not a geologist (although that's what he'd be called on Earth).
Let's se: Perhaps users who'll benefit from the 2 years elapsed work of work that has gone into the Enterprise edition. The support and maintenance that is behind the product. Enterprise features (Oracle and DB2 support -- like it or not that's what Enterprises run on). Clearcase support. lots and lots of bug fixes (that I see are not in Gforge) Oh, documentation - yes, some lesser mortals do need docs. Shall I go on? Last time I read the 10Q they had a lot more than $25 million in the bank (do your homework dimwit) - how much do you have in *your* account big boy? Oh - and the system you posted your note is paid for by VA Software. How much do you pay to post here???? Yeah - thought so. Perhaps before you spout crap you think twice about biting the hand that feeds you. Tool.
"Can't make money off "/" -- gimme a break. You think the banner ads are posted by /. for free. Geeze.
And last time I checked a number of these folks are still working very productively on SF at AVA Software (Thanks Uriah!)
Gimme a freaking break! RUP is the biggest waste of time this side of the big bang. $10,000 for a developer seat + 6 months or on-again, off-again training classes to load your mind with worthless garbage. In the time spent getting up to speed with RUP, using SourceForge or other streamlined collaborative development mechanisms you could be releasing product. RUP is what's wrong with software engineering today. Big, fat and bloated. I hope IBM can the "Rational Fellows" on day one -- they've done more to retard the development of efficient, agile software development than anyone else. COBOL is a delight to use when compared with the dogmatic garbage that spews from Rational. If IBM does to Rational what it did to Lotus and CrossWorlds we'll all be better off! Open source development has **clearly** proven how you can rapidly develop great software with no over-blown management structure and butt-head tools. Ditch RUP and use SourceForge.net I say. No cost and orders of more successful projects than Rational has ever been able to achieve. (My next post on this topic will tell you how I *really* feeel.) Toodles.
Certainly no use for real work -- for that I hump a laptop with me everywhere (and I do mean *everywhere*) -- why settle for 2nd best when you can have the real thing?
Safest thing for them to do it to take the site down now before they do get /.'d -- OR.... if they pay for their bandwidth based on usage /. away!
So contact "Jun Jiang", find out to where he shipped the camera and arrange a little "visit..." Looks like the perp also bought another camera so if Jun Jiang can't /won't provide the address (which he should 'cos he got money from "you") - then ask the other seller. Then arrange the "visit". I'm sure a number of folks would be only too happy to help with the "visit", especially those who contributed to the tip jar.