I like how when debian's servers are cracked they tell you about it and furthermore, remind you again later with the details. If a similar thing happened with Microsoft it would be hushed down and certainly no details about it would be publicized later. Come to think of it, even a commercial Linux company like Red Hat might be weary in dealing with a similar issue as well -- I think they'd be likely to be open about it, but you never know what's going to happen when money and stock prices are involved.
Whose fault were these faults? Were these faults the fault of the oceanic faults? I've heard some people say that these faults were the fault of faulty maintenance, but it seems to me that you can't fault them for the faults. Now perhaps that's a faulty assertion, but I really believe that the fault of the faults lies squarely upon the techtonic faults and not the fault of this supposedly faulty maintainers. I really doubt that the faults are their fault.
This is a great idea, but I have doubts about how successful it will be in the long run. I mean, I'd bet that there will be a number of people who see this on slashdot or read Penny Arcade regularly anyways and will see it on there and decide to participate in this program. However, it doesn't seem to me that this project is likely to keep going very long with its initial momentum.
That said, I wish this project the best of luck and I think that it's certainly an idea that's coming from the heart. I hope that even if this project's momentum slows Penny Arcade will continue charitive initiatives like this in the future.
Interestingly enough, I'm an idiot, I didn't read all of the posting before I posted the parent. What my brother made was a web app allowing people to post and manage gift lists (i.e. christmas/birthday gift lists).
Interestingly enough my brother started writing an application with PHP/MySQL a little while ago that does just that. I believe he has a version of it up and running for himself and a couple of his friends. It's not very polished and as such he hasn't posted code for it anywhere yet so I guess my posting this doesn't really help anyone, but it's interesting nonetheless.
Maybe I'll encourage him to finish up a beta and put it on Source Forge. I don't want to post a link to his app here though because I don't want to have to deal with you people potentially killing my server (running off a cable connection).
Why talk about Adult Swim staying on and only mention the anime? That's only half of the lineup! Sealab 2021, Aquateen Hunger Force, The Brak Show, Space Ghost, Harvey Birdman, Home Movies... these are all fantastically funny shows, not to mention they're the only place to see reruns of Family Guy and Futurama, two of the funniest cartoons ever.
Sure, anime's nice and all, but just as many people are attracted to the other shows on Adult Swim.
Also, Venture Brothers next summer, should be awesome if the pilot is anything to guage the series on.
but the reason I'm more interested in AMD's 64 bit chips instead of Intel's is the names. Intel's is the "Itanium" which sounds like a financial company's plan to expand their commodities market. Boring. AMD's on the other hand is "Opteron" which sounds like a massive and powerful, but benevolent robot who doles out justice all across the land with his fists of iron fury, protecting the interests of all well intentioned people.
Assuming that this "next generation xbox" thing will be as hackable as the current Xbox (and the Dreamcast and the PS2, etc.) this could lead to a reasonably priced PowerPC machine to mess around with. This could be very cool. The current Xbox isn't especially competitive with a comparable low budget x86 system, but right now the only way you can mess with a G5 is to spend a couple grand on a new mac and likely once this new system comes out a cheap G5 system will still be the better part of a grand.
I'm really astounded that something like this has made it to the front page. I would think Taco would be able to resist posting something like this over all the years.
I mean, holy crap, this will go down in troll history. This guy will flip out when he sees he made the front page.
While the Dewey Decimal system was revolutionary for its day, it's long fallen into disuse in any serious library. A lot of school libraries still use it and some local libraries use it, but I can't think of one university or college library I've been to that didn't use the library of congress system. It's a lot more useful as most people who have used both would say.
Also, it's interesting to note that the library at Amherst College, where the Dewey decimal system was created (by Dewey!) no longer uses the Dewey decimal system.
I have to admit, when I read the headline "Microsoft Offers a DRM Patch" I was pretty happy because I thought it meant they had issued a patch FOR DRM, in the same way a patch for "remote code execution exploit #502937" helps you avoid remote code execution exploit #502937.
Microsoft will be releasing their next major version of Windows under the name "Linus" in the tradition of their new "RMS" digital rights management client.
Are you serious? Their work can't be "locked down" -- no matter what any corporation does with their code they'll still have all the stuff they wrote available to them and that's what's really important.
So I read the headline talking about "bookies" and think it's going to be about online gambling. Then I read the description, see the word "bookmaking" and think "so I guess it's about people that make books -- that's a stupid headline, it's very misleading". Then I read further in the description and realize that it is in fact an article about online betting/gambling and think "Why do we call those guys editors again?"
Philip K. Dick is awesome, but I've always kind of been on the fence about John Woo and Ben Affleck. I'll probably bow down to the hollywood Gods and go see it. However, I'll go hoping for the best and expecting the worst.
If you're ever at a concert or any event like that, get like ten people you know to start doing something that makes noise (applauding, chanting something, whatever). It will spread infectiously in a matter of seconds. This works in just general crowds sometimes too but at a concert or similar event it's almost ensured.
I know this because I discovered it by accident once. For no particular reason I began clapping abnormally loud and in a pattern, long after people had stopped applauding. A group of my friends joined in as a joke and within say 20 seconds the whole room of people was clapping along. We tested this a couple other places as well.
Seriously, I don't know why this doesn't come up more often in communities interested in robotics. If I were doing anything with robotics, I would make every fucking robot I made be able to do the robot, not to mention kick out the jams by itself when no naturally occuring jams are available.
Maybe I'm just more of a visionary than most people though...
I have to say, I don't really like freenet now, but there are still some very very cool ideas in it that I think we'll see evolving into something more practical over the next few years, maybe by the guys at freenet, but maybe not. Personally I have great respect for Ian Clarke for having the guts to start in on a project this large and also for the fact that it's resulted in a product which is right now useful in its own right even if it's not as good as it could(/will?) be.
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I saw the "Don't Copy That Floppy" a few weeks ago and I have to say that my favorite part about it is that it says none-too-subtly that if you copy software illegally it will lead to the downfall of all technology and advancement of man kind. I mean, that's just ridiculous. I can understand people who think software piracy is a crime as bad as murder or whatever (even though I'm pretty firmly of the opposite opinion) but come on...
There was a duct tape company (whoever makes that duct tape with the duck on it I believe)a few years ago who sold small rolls of duct tape wrapped around a small, flat cardboard card for the purpose of being able to stick it in your pocket. I don't think it exists anymore, at least I haven't seen it for a while (maybe 3 years or so).
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I like how when debian's servers are cracked they tell you about it and furthermore, remind you again later with the details. If a similar thing happened with Microsoft it would be hushed down and certainly no details about it would be publicized later. Come to think of it, even a commercial Linux company like Red Hat might be weary in dealing with a similar issue as well -- I think they'd be likely to be open about it, but you never know what's going to happen when money and stock prices are involved.
Whose fault were these faults? Were these faults the fault of the oceanic faults? I've heard some people say that these faults were the fault of faulty maintenance, but it seems to me that you can't fault them for the faults. Now perhaps that's a faulty assertion, but I really believe that the fault of the faults lies squarely upon the techtonic faults and not the fault of this supposedly faulty maintainers. I really doubt that the faults are their fault.
...this post was all my fault. :-(
I'm sorry.
This is a great idea, but I have doubts about how successful it will be in the long run. I mean, I'd bet that there will be a number of people who see this on slashdot or read Penny Arcade regularly anyways and will see it on there and decide to participate in this program. However, it doesn't seem to me that this project is likely to keep going very long with its initial momentum.
That said, I wish this project the best of luck and I think that it's certainly an idea that's coming from the heart. I hope that even if this project's momentum slows Penny Arcade will continue charitive initiatives like this in the future.
Interestingly enough, I'm an idiot, I didn't read all of the posting before I posted the parent. What my brother made was a web app allowing people to post and manage gift lists (i.e. christmas/birthday gift lists).
Sorry, I'm stupid!
Interestingly enough my brother started writing an application with PHP/MySQL a little while ago that does just that. I believe he has a version of it up and running for himself and a couple of his friends. It's not very polished and as such he hasn't posted code for it anywhere yet so I guess my posting this doesn't really help anyone, but it's interesting nonetheless.
Maybe I'll encourage him to finish up a beta and put it on Source Forge. I don't want to post a link to his app here though because I don't want to have to deal with you people potentially killing my server (running off a cable connection).
Why talk about Adult Swim staying on and only mention the anime? That's only half of the lineup! Sealab 2021, Aquateen Hunger Force, The Brak Show, Space Ghost, Harvey Birdman, Home Movies... these are all fantastically funny shows, not to mention they're the only place to see reruns of Family Guy and Futurama, two of the funniest cartoons ever.
Sure, anime's nice and all, but just as many people are attracted to the other shows on Adult Swim.
Also, Venture Brothers next summer, should be awesome if the pilot is anything to guage the series on.
Yeah, it's more of a brisk stroll, never too much of a run. Heh.
but the reason I'm more interested in AMD's 64 bit chips instead of Intel's is the names. Intel's is the "Itanium" which sounds like a financial company's plan to expand their commodities market. Boring. AMD's on the other hand is "Opteron" which sounds like a massive and powerful, but benevolent robot who doles out justice all across the land with his fists of iron fury, protecting the interests of all well intentioned people.
Assuming that this "next generation xbox" thing will be as hackable as the current Xbox (and the Dreamcast and the PS2, etc.) this could lead to a reasonably priced PowerPC machine to mess around with. This could be very cool. The current Xbox isn't especially competitive with a comparable low budget x86 system, but right now the only way you can mess with a G5 is to spend a couple grand on a new mac and likely once this new system comes out a cheap G5 system will still be the better part of a grand.
I think it's obscene to make light of people with serious addictions to Audiohol like the site mentioned in this article have. OBSCENE!!!!
I'm really astounded that something like this has made it to the front page. I would think Taco would be able to resist posting something like this over all the years.
I mean, holy crap, this will go down in troll history. This guy will flip out when he sees he made the front page.
While the Dewey Decimal system was revolutionary for its day, it's long fallen into disuse in any serious library. A lot of school libraries still use it and some local libraries use it, but I can't think of one university or college library I've been to that didn't use the library of congress system. It's a lot more useful as most people who have used both would say.
Also, it's interesting to note that the library at Amherst College, where the Dewey decimal system was created (by Dewey!) no longer uses the Dewey decimal system.
I have to admit, when I read the headline "Microsoft Offers a DRM Patch" I was pretty happy because I thought it meant they had issued a patch FOR DRM, in the same way a patch for "remote code execution exploit #502937" helps you avoid remote code execution exploit #502937.
Microsoft will be releasing their next major version of Windows under the name "Linus" in the tradition of their new "RMS" digital rights management client.
Are you serious? Their work can't be "locked down" -- no matter what any corporation does with their code they'll still have all the stuff they wrote available to them and that's what's really important.
So I read the headline talking about "bookies" and think it's going to be about online gambling. Then I read the description, see the word "bookmaking" and think "so I guess it's about people that make books -- that's a stupid headline, it's very misleading". Then I read further in the description and realize that it is in fact an article about online betting/gambling and think "Why do we call those guys editors again?"
Philip K. Dick is awesome, but I've always kind of been on the fence about John Woo and Ben Affleck. I'll probably bow down to the hollywood Gods and go see it. However, I'll go hoping for the best and expecting the worst.
If you're ever at a concert or any event like that, get like ten people you know to start doing something that makes noise (applauding, chanting something, whatever). It will spread infectiously in a matter of seconds. This works in just general crowds sometimes too but at a concert or similar event it's almost ensured.
I know this because I discovered it by accident once. For no particular reason I began clapping abnormally loud and in a pattern, long after people had stopped applauding. A group of my friends joined in as a joke and within say 20 seconds the whole room of people was clapping along. We tested this a couple other places as well.
If I were to give you a free subscription to either the New York Post or The Economist, which would you choose?
Seriously, I don't know why this doesn't come up more often in communities interested in robotics. If I were doing anything with robotics, I would make every fucking robot I made be able to do the robot, not to mention kick out the jams by itself when no naturally occuring jams are available.
Maybe I'm just more of a visionary than most people though...
I have to say, I don't really like freenet now, but there are still some very very cool ideas in it that I think we'll see evolving into something more practical over the next few years, maybe by the guys at freenet, but maybe not. Personally I have great respect for Ian Clarke for having the guts to start in on a project this large and also for the fact that it's resulted in a product which is right now useful in its own right even if it's not as good as it could(/will?) be.
I saw the "Don't Copy That Floppy" a few weeks ago and I have to say that my favorite part about it is that it says none-too-subtly that if you copy software illegally it will lead to the downfall of all technology and advancement of man kind. I mean, that's just ridiculous. I can understand people who think software piracy is a crime as bad as murder or whatever (even though I'm pretty firmly of the opposite opinion) but come on...
There was a duct tape company (whoever makes that duct tape with the duck on it I believe)a few years ago who sold small rolls of duct tape wrapped around a small, flat cardboard card for the purpose of being able to stick it in your pocket. I don't think it exists anymore, at least I haven't seen it for a while (maybe 3 years or so).