The real victim here is going to be the ability to use scripts on web pages. It's almost to the point where I'll turn off scripting entirely just to get away from these terrible things. It's like the ability to put macro things in emails. It could provide valuable new capabilities, but it's ruined by abuse.
whose contribution to the first computer is virtually unknown because of the Cold War mentality that infected much of society on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
You should do some rereading I think. I don't think it was the "mentality...on both sides" that is responsible for his anonymity.
I've often fantasized about throwing bricks at the front of the car as it went by at 40 mph. People with those stereos should realize what they're doing to the small percentage of people who are trying to get through the day with a migraine. It's senseless harm. But I see the people who have those stereos, I don't expect much realizing to go on there.
if they arrested people in cars playing it loud under the 'public performanc' aspect I'd be all for it. Many times now I've been ambling through a migraine, trying to make it through the day, to have some idiot drive by, booming noise as loud as he can, with the windows down, making life unbearable.
I'm glad to see they're keeping for now the year-based naming convention and calling this Server 2003. Most product names are somewhat random. Often they are an opaque large number with strange incrementing i.e. the 80386 followed the 80286--don't even get me started on the motorola chip numbering. Year-based product naming has several good qualities: you automatically know where the product fits in the series, you automatically have a rough idea how old the tech is, and it's infinitely simply extensible.
Aside from the obvious, imagine the ultimate cellphone - one that charges the battery every time it rings/vibrates What is this, a creationist website? It seems like Slashdot's letting me down every day with just lack of understanding.
I'm still rethinking my beliefs on a lot of these things. I thought I had things sorted out. I had a set of beliefs which seemed to make sense, for instance, the idea that an armed populace is much less susceptible to oppression than an unarmed populace. But common sense in this case got blown out of the water by facts-on-the-ground when I became aware that guns and oppression are omnipresent in Saddam's Iraq, and almost nonexistent in Blair's UK.
And to think that over the last few weeks I've complained about the quality of Slashdot post selection these days (really terrible) and been modded down. Do you see now people? Do you see? HELLO-OOOOOO!
To clarify, the couple made a special trip of it. They didn't go because it was electronic, I meant to say that they had to be 'troubled' to do it in meatspace. Mibad.
It seems strange to amass a collection of objects at a point in meatspace, when the objects are related to scifi, given the importance of the notion, widely distributed throughout scifi, of the virtual experience, and the use of technology to recreate a place or time without demanding travel. One of the first scifi stories I ever read, in the eighties, was about a couple who troubled themselves to go to a warehouse to pick out a bike because shopping was done electronically, and there weren't (any or many) stores anymore.
I'd hate for the well-established need for law enforcement to be able to tap phones with a warrant to be thwarted by this sort of technical implementation detail.
Note to flamers: I belong to, and contribute to, the ACLU, so weigh in with a little more than "You don't care about keepin gummint off my back..." please.
A thousand dollars for a linux install, eh? These SCO people must know something I don't. Seriously, can anyone tell me what would justify paying that?
Only if they were to succeed, which they won't. In this direction I could only see a smaller disaster like Europe banning GM foods. But that won't matter so much because there are 350 million Europeans, vs a billion Africans, a billion Chinese, a billion Indians. The Africans have very little scientific understanding, though, and could go along with European influence--I think one destitute country did recently ban aid which contained GM corn or something--but hopefully overall beggers won't be choosers. Speaking of little understanding I wonder if Mbeki is still blaming western doctors for HIV.
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I mean, I'd hate to be shot in the face by a space laser.
The ping time to Venus SUX
Some tech is just useless.
See you at Guantanamo, beeotch!
Both posts which mentioned link responsibility contained spelling errors. Interesting.
Why no one linked to the photos is beyond me, but slashdot posts are well-known for poorly-placed/defined links. Anyway, here it is.
The real victim here is going to be the ability to use scripts on web pages. It's almost to the point where I'll turn off scripting entirely just to get away from these terrible things. It's like the ability to put macro things in emails. It could provide valuable new capabilities, but it's ruined by abuse.
If I had a distro, I'd pay Microsoft to make it installable, make it usable, make it intuitive to install programs, etc...
You should do some rereading I think. I don't think it was the "mentality...on both sides" that is responsible for his anonymity.
I've often fantasized about throwing bricks at the front of the car as it went by at 40 mph. People with those stereos should realize what they're doing to the small percentage of people who are trying to get through the day with a migraine. It's senseless harm. But I see the people who have those stereos, I don't expect much realizing to go on there.
no, I shouldn't be checking nuisance laws. They should be charged with Assault and Battery, with a side order of Depraved Indifference.
if they arrested people in cars playing it loud under the 'public performanc' aspect I'd be all for it. Many times now I've been ambling through a migraine, trying to make it through the day, to have some idiot drive by, booming noise as loud as he can, with the windows down, making life unbearable.
You could say that about any product named via any common method, so that criticism is not relavant to the naming system.
I'm glad to see they're keeping for now the year-based naming convention and calling this Server 2003. Most product names are somewhat random. Often they are an opaque large number with strange incrementing i.e. the 80386 followed the 80286--don't even get me started on the motorola chip numbering. Year-based product naming has several good qualities: you automatically know where the product fits in the series, you automatically have a rough idea how old the tech is, and it's infinitely simply extensible.
Aside from the obvious, imagine the ultimate cellphone - one that charges the battery every time it rings/vibrates What is this, a creationist website? It seems like Slashdot's letting me down every day with just lack of understanding.
A T-shirt cannon? My first reaction was, how nerdy. But you know, anything that can take out a Flanders is fine by me.
I'm still rethinking my beliefs on a lot of these things. I thought I had things sorted out. I had a set of beliefs which seemed to make sense, for instance, the idea that an armed populace is much less susceptible to oppression than an unarmed populace. But common sense in this case got blown out of the water by facts-on-the-ground when I became aware that guns and oppression are omnipresent in Saddam's Iraq, and almost nonexistent in Blair's UK.
And to think that over the last few weeks I've complained about the quality of Slashdot post selection these days (really terrible) and been modded down. Do you see now people? Do you see? HELLO-OOOOOO!
To clarify, the couple made a special trip of it. They didn't go because it was electronic, I meant to say that they had to be 'troubled' to do it in meatspace. Mibad.
It seems strange to amass a collection of objects at a point in meatspace, when the objects are related to scifi, given the importance of the notion, widely distributed throughout scifi, of the virtual experience, and the use of technology to recreate a place or time without demanding travel. One of the first scifi stories I ever read, in the eighties, was about a couple who troubled themselves to go to a warehouse to pick out a bike because shopping was done electronically, and there weren't (any or many) stores anymore.
Note to flamers: I belong to, and contribute to, the ACLU, so weigh in with a little more than "You don't care about keepin gummint off my back..." please.
A thousand dollars for a linux install, eh? These SCO people must know something I don't. Seriously, can anyone tell me what would justify paying that?
I am skeptical that your time is billed at $100/hr.
oh okay. There are so many flamers I assumed it was one.
Only if they were to succeed, which they won't. In this direction I could only see a smaller disaster like Europe banning GM foods. But that won't matter so much because there are 350 million Europeans, vs a billion Africans, a billion Chinese, a billion Indians. The Africans have very little scientific understanding, though, and could go along with European influence--I think one destitute country did recently ban aid which contained GM corn or something--but hopefully overall beggers won't be choosers. Speaking of little understanding I wonder if Mbeki is still blaming western doctors for HIV.