I stopped reading when I realized the list didn't include The Fly, quite possibly the most interesting Sci-Fi flick ever made (the end got a little lame, but what geek could resist the wondrous telepod invention Seth Brendel had been working on).
I was also surprised to see Alien listed, while its far superior sequel Aliens did not (although they did admit that Aliens was better "in many ways".
I suppose this will be marked off-topic, since the poster is asking about digitization hardware. But whenever I see coworkers with tons of books on their desk shelf, I wonder to myself why they really need them. Do they actually have time to read them? Or are they more for show?
Personally, I have about 3 books I consider _essential_, and I've read them cover to cover (mostly while in the crapper;-) ). The rest of the time, I get what I need off the web or USENET.
As far as I'm concerned, the most important quality in an engineer is not what you know but what search engine you use to look stuff up.
You've got a point, but do you think the guy deserved to lose 2 points on a marginally off-topic post? (Besides, a new release of Linux _does_ mean his guy gets a little older, so it kinda sorta _is_ on topic). Seeing the load of crap postings on here that either get ignored, or modded up as "Funny" I'm not sure why he got punished.
Besides, don't the moderator guidelines encourage moderating UP rather than moderating DOWN? I'll be watching for this one in meta-moderation.
(Now watch this posting get moderated down as well.)
Happy 2002 from Tokyo. I must say, for each passing year the New Year's countdown gets more boring, and this year didn't fail to disappoint (er, it was as boring as you could stand). Can't believe it's already over an hour into the new year.
I'm spending the evening watching Discovery Channel. (^_^)
$9.95 a month is too expensive. Hell, I can buy hosting for $9.95 a month! I wouldn't mind supporting them and getting the benefit of higher bandwidth, but a fair market price as far as I'm concerned would be about $9.95 a quarter.
Darn, I set this alternate account up for trolling, to prevent my low-digit ( 18000) account from being bitch-slapped, and I end up getting this account modded up to a 5 almost straight off. (^_^)
> User would go to download a game demo or something,
> receive pieces from several different places, and knit
> them together?
This technology has *nothing* to do with ``downloading chunks from multiple sources and splicing them together''. Man, it's bad enough seeing how many Slashdot readers didn't bother reading the article, but Michael himself didn't bother reading the article.
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I stopped reading when I realized the list didn't include The Fly, quite possibly the most interesting Sci-Fi flick ever made (the end got a little lame, but what geek could resist the wondrous telepod invention Seth Brendel had been working on).
I was also surprised to see Alien listed, while its far superior sequel Aliens did not (although they did admit that Aliens was better "in many ways".
No, you couldn't...the & characters would be interpreted by your shell and you'd have a mess of shit running in the background. ;-)
Escape the & characters with a \ and you'll be off to the races, however. (I'd suggest lynx over linx anyday, however).
I suppose this will be marked off-topic, since the poster is asking about digitization hardware. But whenever I see coworkers with tons of books on their desk shelf, I wonder to myself why they really need them. Do they actually have time to read them? Or are they more for show?
;-) ). The rest of the time, I get what I need off the web or USENET.
Personally, I have about 3 books I consider _essential_, and I've read them cover to cover (mostly while in the crapper
As far as I'm concerned, the most important quality in an engineer is not what you know but what search engine you use to look stuff up.
You've got a point, but do you think the guy deserved to lose 2 points on a marginally off-topic post? (Besides, a new release of Linux _does_ mean his guy gets a little older, so it kinda sorta _is_ on topic). Seeing the load of crap postings on here that either get ignored, or modded up as "Funny" I'm not sure why he got punished.
Besides, don't the moderator guidelines encourage moderating UP rather than moderating DOWN? I'll be watching for this one in meta-moderation.
(Now watch this posting get moderated down as well.)
When RH 7.2 came out, I was surprised (and impressed) to see that they made the Japanese version available at the same time. Not so, this time around.
Anybody know how long before 7.3J is ready?
The sad fact is, around here there is a fine line between a (-1, troll) and a (+1, funny). I wanted to 'splain it to the moderators. ;-)
Okay...hmmm...something funny to go for the coveted +5 score. How about:
I've decided to fork a *BSD tree into my own offering. I'm going to call it "The Darwin Awards". Why? Because, "BSD is dying". Ba-dump-ba!
Yeah, the mp3's are hilarious. I couldn't make out a few sentences in bernie.mp3. Was that French or something??
Happy 2002 from Tokyo. I must say, for each passing year the New Year's countdown gets more boring, and this year didn't fail to disappoint (er, it was as boring as you could stand). Can't believe it's already over an hour into the new year.
I'm spending the evening watching Discovery Channel. (^_^)
$9.95 a month is too expensive. Hell, I can buy hosting for $9.95 a month! I wouldn't mind supporting them and getting the benefit of higher bandwidth, but a fair market price as far as I'm concerned would be about $9.95 a quarter.
Darn, I set this alternate account up for trolling, to prevent my low-digit ( 18000) account from being bitch-slapped, and I end up getting this account modded up to a 5 almost straight off. (^_^)
Look for the most insightful posts from the original article and whore all you want:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/13/201
> User would go to download a game demo or something,
> receive pieces from several different places, and knit
> them together?
This technology has *nothing* to do with ``downloading chunks from multiple sources and splicing them together''. Man, it's bad enough seeing how many Slashdot readers didn't bother reading the article, but Michael himself didn't bother reading the article.