Why would you want to get off caffeine? The stuff is beautiful! Break up a couple Vivarin capsules, cut a line, sniff it up and it'll be the thrill of your life, I guarantee.
Well, simple in theory, but a little harder in practice. You have to wean yourself off it, going cold turkey will just cause more pain, be harder and most likely won't actually get you off the stuff! If you usually drink 6 cups of coffee every day, drink 5 and a half and reduce as you feel comfortable. You have to have some discipline, but it's definitely the easier, more managable way to do it.
I mean, I guess this is cool, and it's not my time being spent on this, but I really don't see the point. I've used Konqueror and I honestly think that while it's not bad, it pales in comparison to Mozilla, Netscape and Opera (plus Safari on OSX). Same with KOffice, it's alright, but Open Office is far more full-featured (and MSOffice if you like that type of thing...). I'm not a huge fan of KDE in general, but there are still plenty of good things about it. However, Konqueror and Koffice are, in my opinion, not its highlights.
Honestly, as much as I'm concerned by this and "e-voting" in general, I'm really glad that they're willing to say that they were broken into. Furthermore, it's good that they were planning on disclosing the source code, even if they never really put forth a definite date.
E-voting has a lot of problems and the way it's being executed has just as many, but this is definitely a step in the right direction when compared to the problems of Diebold.
Who cares how a no-name site like distrowatch ranks linux distros? I'm more interested in where Casey Kasem and Rick Dee's weekly Top 40 distro rankings puts them.
Flying a kite in a populated area like New York or London sounds like a nice way to get electrocuted or, failing that (like if you've got underground lines like most people in NYC) it sounds like a good way to cause some traffic accidents and pedestrian injuries... not to mention the cost of the camera.
After watching the Simpsons and the 10 minutes of commercial I get from that and coming to slashdot to waste some time geeking out and seeing an ad for "OSDN personals" (WTF, by the way...) I just got the feeling that I wasn't watching nearly enough commercials.
DVD burner included, eh? So now you don't even need a computer to pirate your playstation games? Seems like an odd plan, but then again I'm not the one with the degree in Strategized Marketecture, so what do I know.
Try getting Atari to support your Asteroids machine. Actually, try getting anybody at Atari on the phone that even remembers what Asteroids is. It'll be difficult for sure.
Is anybody else wondering why exactly this guy had a T1 line in his house in the first place last year? Furthermore, is anybody else a little disappointed that he didn't decide to upgrade his T1 line to a home T3 line this year instead of paying for hosting?
I think that more important than the number of employed programmers and engineers is the number of people that program in their free time. A lot of programming employment opportunities are just soul draining code lackey positions. A lot of the really interesting, creative work comes from peoples' hobby projects.
In case you're a little slow on the metric conversions, 14 meters per minute is only a little over half a mile per hour (i.e. way slower than a normal walking pace for a full sized person). At that slow it's not so much running as it is walking with a little hop during each step.
1. Get everybody food and water
2. Get everybody feeling reasonably secure in their safety.
3. Setup a stable, fair and working government.
4. Decide whether Iraqi cellphones will use GSM or CDMA
5. Decide which operating system to use.
I think we're stuck around #2 or #3, but these people are already jumping up to 5 (and other people to 4).
The Intel Corporation is planning to do to digital television what it has already done to computing.
They're going to bully out competition and make ethically questionable deals with other companies (cable, movie and videogame most likely) to maintain their market dominance?
When will people learn that linking to a video from a Slashdot article is almost always a bad idea? Think about it, 40MB+ times 100,000+ people is easily into the area of multiple tens of Terabytes! That's abso-fucking-lutely nuts!
If you really want to have people see a video, at least get a friend to setup a bit torrent tracker for it in advance or something, then the site will at least have a chance.
Now Chinese business men will be able to peruse the 5 websites their government allows them to view -- on the move! Plus they'll be able to speak with their business partners and family about ideas that are inoffensive to the government!
This article, Groklaw and the place on Groklaw where she says "For personal pleasure, I always turned to GNU/Linux" have combined to make Pamela Jones a burgeoning Open Source icon.
Undoubtedly, since she is also a woman there will be plenty of geeks lusting after her or at least holding her up as proof that yes, there are in fact women geeks (or at least a woman geek). The question remains though: Will she be able to dethrone the BSD girl as OSS Sex Symbol #1?
I pretty much only use Debian for linux, but Mandrake is pretty cool. Mainly for how simple it is. It's a distro that I know I could give to most people (largely computer inexperienced) I know if they wanted to play with Linux. The simple installer is as easy as installing a *nix distro gets. Period. It is, in fact, easier than the Windows installer is.
I recently signed up with Serverpronto who offer the in-fucking-credible price of $30/month for a dedicated linux box (Redhat or now Debian as well) . I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not when the prices are so cheap they make you suspicious...
Biggest piece of vaporware of all time. However, I'll still put some faith in it on the slim chance that it really has needed and benefitted from being in development for ~20 years. Seriously though, can you think of any other piece of software that's been in development that long and is still largely incomplete?
When are people finally going to realize that situations like this, caused by strong copyright law are an inhibitor to the free market and not something that helps it. In this situation, even the copyright crazy who believe it's an artist's god given right to control the dispersion of their ideas should be able to see the problem with it. The "artists" (film-makers, actors etc.) released this movie abroad and are getting paid for it, these people were simply importing it.
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Why would you want to get off caffeine? The stuff is beautiful! Break up a couple Vivarin capsules, cut a line, sniff it up and it'll be the thrill of your life, I guarantee.
Well, simple in theory, but a little harder in practice. You have to wean yourself off it, going cold turkey will just cause more pain, be harder and most likely won't actually get you off the stuff! If you usually drink 6 cups of coffee every day, drink 5 and a half and reduce as you feel comfortable. You have to have some discipline, but it's definitely the easier, more managable way to do it.
I mean, I guess this is cool, and it's not my time being spent on this, but I really don't see the point. I've used Konqueror and I honestly think that while it's not bad, it pales in comparison to Mozilla, Netscape and Opera (plus Safari on OSX). Same with KOffice, it's alright, but Open Office is far more full-featured (and MSOffice if you like that type of thing...). I'm not a huge fan of KDE in general, but there are still plenty of good things about it. However, Konqueror and Koffice are, in my opinion, not its highlights.
Honestly, as much as I'm concerned by this and "e-voting" in general, I'm really glad that they're willing to say that they were broken into. Furthermore, it's good that they were planning on disclosing the source code, even if they never really put forth a definite date.
E-voting has a lot of problems and the way it's being executed has just as many, but this is definitely a step in the right direction when compared to the problems of Diebold.
Who cares how a no-name site like distrowatch ranks linux distros? I'm more interested in where Casey Kasem and Rick Dee's weekly Top 40 distro rankings puts them.
Flying a kite in a populated area like New York or London sounds like a nice way to get electrocuted or, failing that (like if you've got underground lines like most people in NYC) it sounds like a good way to cause some traffic accidents and pedestrian injuries... not to mention the cost of the camera.
After watching the Simpsons and the 10 minutes of commercial I get from that and coming to slashdot to waste some time geeking out and seeing an ad for "OSDN personals" (WTF, by the way...) I just got the feeling that I wasn't watching nearly enough commercials.
DVD burner included, eh? So now you don't even need a computer to pirate your playstation games? Seems like an odd plan, but then again I'm not the one with the degree in Strategized Marketecture, so what do I know.
Now that Gulf War 2: Junior's Revenge is ending we have Russian/American Space Race 2: Above and Beyond to look forward to.
Where will Hollywo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Washington's obsession with sequels end?
Try getting Atari to support your Asteroids machine. Actually, try getting anybody at Atari on the phone that even remembers what Asteroids is. It'll be difficult for sure.
Is anybody else wondering why exactly this guy had a T1 line in his house in the first place last year? Furthermore, is anybody else a little disappointed that he didn't decide to upgrade his T1 line to a home T3 line this year instead of paying for hosting?
How long until there's good support for these in EMacs?
I think that more important than the number of employed programmers and engineers is the number of people that program in their free time. A lot of programming employment opportunities are just soul draining code lackey positions. A lot of the really interesting, creative work comes from peoples' hobby projects.
An open letter to Bob Young, re: your open letter to Darl McBride:
Never argue with a fool, you'll be brought down to his level and he'll beat you with experience.
P.S. don't feed the trolls, Bob, really.
In case you're a little slow on the metric conversions, 14 meters per minute is only a little over half a mile per hour (i.e. way slower than a normal walking pace for a full sized person). At that slow it's not so much running as it is walking with a little hop during each step.
Expanding the scope of SETI@Home, eh? So like SETI@Work, SETI@Car, SETI@Vacation, SETI@LunchBreak and such? Sounds good!
It's supposed to go like this:
1. Get everybody food and water
2. Get everybody feeling reasonably secure in their safety.
3. Setup a stable, fair and working government.
4. Decide whether Iraqi cellphones will use GSM or CDMA
5. Decide which operating system to use.
I think we're stuck around #2 or #3, but these people are already jumping up to 5 (and other people to 4).
When will people learn that linking to a video from a Slashdot article is almost always a bad idea? Think about it, 40MB+ times 100,000+ people is easily into the area of multiple tens of Terabytes! That's abso-fucking-lutely nuts!
If you really want to have people see a video, at least get a friend to setup a bit torrent tracker for it in advance or something, then the site will at least have a chance.
Now Chinese business men will be able to peruse the 5 websites their government allows them to view -- on the move! Plus they'll be able to speak with their business partners and family about ideas that are inoffensive to the government!
This article, Groklaw and the place on Groklaw where she says "For personal pleasure, I always turned to GNU/Linux" have combined to make Pamela Jones a burgeoning Open Source icon.
Undoubtedly, since she is also a woman there will be plenty of geeks lusting after her or at least holding her up as proof that yes, there are in fact women geeks (or at least a woman geek). The question remains though: Will she be able to dethrone the BSD girl as OSS Sex Symbol #1?
I pretty much only use Debian for linux, but Mandrake is pretty cool. Mainly for how simple it is. It's a distro that I know I could give to most people (largely computer inexperienced) I know if they wanted to play with Linux. The simple installer is as easy as installing a *nix distro gets. Period. It is, in fact, easier than the Windows installer is.
Every geek wants a fast webhost.
I recently signed up with Serverpronto who offer the in-fucking-credible price of $30/month for a dedicated linux box (Redhat or now Debian as well) . I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not when the prices are so cheap they make you suspicious...
40GB HD, 200GB transfer from a DEDICATED Athlon 2000+ box with 256MB RAM
You have to put $150 down for setup fees though so that kinda sucks.
Biggest piece of vaporware of all time. However, I'll still put some faith in it on the slim chance that it really has needed and benefitted from being in development for ~20 years. Seriously though, can you think of any other piece of software that's been in development that long and is still largely incomplete?
When are people finally going to realize that situations like this, caused by strong copyright law are an inhibitor to the free market and not something that helps it. In this situation, even the copyright crazy who believe it's an artist's god given right to control the dispersion of their ideas should be able to see the problem with it. The "artists" (film-makers, actors etc.) released this movie abroad and are getting paid for it, these people were simply importing it.