Well, it took a while, but at least we finally found those darn WMDs!
Seriously, what the fuck was going on in Washington when they were trying to sell us on going to war in Iraq? We knew at the time for a fact that North Korea did have nuclear weapons (they even admitted it), but we went to war in Iraq on the possibility that Saddam Hussein might could maybe possibly be on his way towards making a nuclear weapon... which was later shown to be faulty evidence anyways.
I work at a convenience store and you are not allowed to buy lottery tickets (scratch tickets or regular tickets) on credit or debit. I have no idea whether this is because of the credit card companies or a state law (Massachusetts). It's something I've been meaning to look into.
This is what went through my mind during the split second as I read the title.
"3D Chocolate Printer"
What the crap? Somebody made 3D printer out of chocolate?
"3D Chocolate Printer Made from Legos?" Made from legos? What? This person made it out of chocolate legos? Insanity. That is so awesome.
And then a second later I realized what it actually meant and while it's pretty cool, it just couldn't live up to my above first impressions. That said, I'm going to go see about making some chocolate legos.
Looks like a fatal misunderstanding of the Coral P2P cache. Coral only caches the page/file linked through it, not the images, video, etc. on the page. So people going to the page will be able to read what he says about it, but his ADSL connect will still be slammed on all the images (it's slow now... surprisingly not slashdotted yet).
Also, since Coral doesn't cache links, anybody clicking on his links to look at anything other than the one page linked to by slashdot will further increase the load on his server (or more likely just be disappointed and continue the DoSing of this poor guy's DSL line).
I think whenever there's a really big number used in an article write-up we should just abandon metric prefixes. I mean, c'mon, which number looks bigger (and thus cooler)? 34Gbit/s or 36,507,222,016bits/s? This could also be extended further for data rates by not writing them per second. How about 131,425,999,257,600 per hour? 3,154,223,982,182,400 bits per day? etc.
I still haven't bought a satellite or digital cable subscription. Partly because I am cheap, but also in large part because MPEG fragments drive me up the wall. I mean, I'll deal with it when it's a uhh... legally downloaded movie I'm watching on my computer, but when I'm watching shows on my TV, I don't want them to be skimping on the bandwidth. If I can tell that you're using compression, then your bitrate is too low! Lord help the people with HDTVs, paying a boatload more for a better TV and HDTV channels and still getting MPEG fragments? Come on people, it's 2004.
While all the topics presented at the beginning of this thread are interesting, I think most slashdot users (and real users in general) are much more interested in the various foolish choices made in the design of the real player client. Why is the "express" installation so horribly unusable and why is it made so difficult to turn off all the various disruptive features of real player when you do a custom installation (i.e. setting it up so that it doesn't hijack all your file associations, make icons everywhere, etc.). I mean, come on, nobody wants to view JPEGs with real player and hardly anybody wants real player in their quicklaunch tray.
Furthermore, since I know Real has addressed these issues in the past and promised a less hostile installer, what the heck is keeping you guys!
And on a more aesthetic note, I think it was a silly choice to make real one use a non-standard window. It just looks stupid.
So now instead of curing diseases, finding large mersenne primes or discovering inteligent life forms we can get hyper realisitc renderings of Gollum's eyelash crust. Spectacular.
Yarrr... 'tis sad to be seein one o' me own kind be taken in. But that's one o' the hazards of the swashbucklin' life. This swig o' rum be for you, lad!
I'm not trying to detract from your point, but about having sex with a 16 year old or having sex before you were 18 being illegal in the United States, neither of those are really true. The age of consent in most states is 16. There are a few in which it is 18 (and a few where it's lower) but 16 is the average. Furthermore, in the majority of states the law is smart enough to add an exception for people in close age, i.e. in many states the age of consent is 16, or two years younger than you are, so if you turn 16 and your willing girlfriend is still only 15, you're alright.
Am I missing something? Why not just switch to a different network that isn't so hostile towards their customers. I mean, the fact that Verizon is actually saying that they don't offer a bluetooth phone because it doesn't fit their business model, despite the fact that many customers want it is ridiculous. Sounds like a path towards an out-of-business model to me.
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Well, it took a while, but at least we finally found those darn WMDs!
Seriously, what the fuck was going on in Washington when they were trying to sell us on going to war in Iraq? We knew at the time for a fact that North Korea did have nuclear weapons (they even admitted it), but we went to war in Iraq on the possibility that Saddam Hussein might could maybe possibly be on his way towards making a nuclear weapon... which was later shown to be faulty evidence anyways.
Hey now, maybe it's a good mushroom cloud. You know, like umm... err... a cotton candy factory exploding. That wouldn't be too bad, right?
I could do without a star wars TV show. I would be much more interested in a show starring "The Star Wars Kid".
I would like to coin a new phrase for Lucas's continued desecration of Star Wars: "Beating a dead tauntaun".
I work at a convenience store and you are not allowed to buy lottery tickets (scratch tickets or regular tickets) on credit or debit. I have no idea whether this is because of the credit card companies or a state law (Massachusetts). It's something I've been meaning to look into.
This is what went through my mind during the split second as I read the title.
"3D Chocolate Printer"
What the crap? Somebody made 3D printer out of chocolate?
"3D Chocolate Printer Made from Legos?"
Made from legos? What? This person made it out of chocolate legos? Insanity. That is so awesome.
And then a second later I realized what it actually meant and while it's pretty cool, it just couldn't live up to my above first impressions. That said, I'm going to go see about making some chocolate legos.
Looks like a fatal misunderstanding of the Coral P2P cache. Coral only caches the page/file linked through it, not the images, video, etc. on the page. So people going to the page will be able to read what he says about it, but his ADSL connect will still be slammed on all the images (it's slow now... surprisingly not slashdotted yet).
Also, since Coral doesn't cache links, anybody clicking on his links to look at anything other than the one page linked to by slashdot will further increase the load on his server (or more likely just be disappointed and continue the DoSing of this poor guy's DSL line).
I think whenever there's a really big number used in an article write-up we should just abandon metric prefixes. I mean, c'mon, which number looks bigger (and thus cooler)? 34Gbit/s or 36,507,222,016bits/s? This could also be extended further for data rates by not writing them per second. How about 131,425,999,257,600 per hour? 3,154,223,982,182,400 bits per day? etc.
The possibilities are endless.
I'm not sure how to work it in, but there has to be some joke you can make about calling the "Ku band" the "ku klux band" or something.
I still haven't bought a satellite or digital cable subscription. Partly because I am cheap, but also in large part because MPEG fragments drive me up the wall. I mean, I'll deal with it when it's a uhh... legally downloaded movie I'm watching on my computer, but when I'm watching shows on my TV, I don't want them to be skimping on the bandwidth. If I can tell that you're using compression, then your bitrate is too low! Lord help the people with HDTVs, paying a boatload more for a better TV and HDTV channels and still getting MPEG fragments? Come on people, it's 2004.
What we need to do is warm his cold heart with a cool island song.
Wait no, cool his hot heart with a warm island song.
Wait a minute, that's not it either...
Wait a minute... What's that?
Television, enhance image! Enhance. Enhance.
My God.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Why bother with pictures when I can just use the 3D models it makes for me? Geez, pictures? What is this, 1994?
While all the topics presented at the beginning of this thread are interesting, I think most slashdot users (and real users in general) are much more interested in the various foolish choices made in the design of the real player client. Why is the "express" installation so horribly unusable and why is it made so difficult to turn off all the various disruptive features of real player when you do a custom installation (i.e. setting it up so that it doesn't hijack all your file associations, make icons everywhere, etc.). I mean, come on, nobody wants to view JPEGs with real player and hardly anybody wants real player in their quicklaunch tray. Furthermore, since I know Real has addressed these issues in the past and promised a less hostile installer, what the heck is keeping you guys! And on a more aesthetic note, I think it was a silly choice to make real one use a non-standard window. It just looks stupid.
I propose the name of this new section be changed to flames.slashdot.org
Yes, yes, this will conflict with the slashdot section devoted to the Calgary Flames hockey team, but I'm sure we'll be able to deal.
Deader Alive?
Dead Aliver?
Deader Aliver?
Hmm... if you look at the top 500 it appears that 80th was their previous place and that they have since upgraded their cluster to become 77th.
So now instead of curing diseases, finding large mersenne primes or discovering inteligent life forms we can get hyper realisitc renderings of Gollum's eyelash crust. Spectacular.
Are we going to see a "Meet the Feebles part 2" or what?
Search Google for " wares". It comes up saying "Did you mean: warez".
Hehe, my brother pointed that one out to me.
Yarrr... 'tis sad to be seein one o' me own kind be taken in. But that's one o' the hazards of the swashbucklin' life. This swig o' rum be for you, lad!
I'm not trying to detract from your point, but about having sex with a 16 year old or having sex before you were 18 being illegal in the United States, neither of those are really true. The age of consent in most states is 16. There are a few in which it is 18 (and a few where it's lower) but 16 is the average. Furthermore, in the majority of states the law is smart enough to add an exception for people in close age, i.e. in many states the age of consent is 16, or two years younger than you are, so if you turn 16 and your willing girlfriend is still only 15, you're alright.
Well, if you became an arrogant foreigner you could help keep the rest of us from fucking things up.
Am I missing something? Why not just switch to a different network that isn't so hostile towards their customers. I mean, the fact that Verizon is actually saying that they don't offer a bluetooth phone because it doesn't fit their business model, despite the fact that many customers want it is ridiculous. Sounds like a path towards an out-of-business model to me.