The ten-year-old astronomy book I read to my five-year old son last week noted that the moon has several weak "moonquakes" every year. What's the news; the volcanic part?
OK, so the Iraq situation sucks ass and Bush is a moron for dragging us into it. But why are we reading about this on Slashdot?
Usually, the editors will at least try to find a tech tie-in. Most of the time, the warmed over press releases posted as articles on this site help them do so, but WTF is this?
Aside from the return of a beloved pair of gaming icons (Sam and Max)...
Sorry, never heard of them.
I think you have to be as famous as Mario or at least Luigi to get "icon" status.
Evil is limited trick-or-treat times...
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Evil is limited trick-or-treat times. Seriously, when I was a kid, trick-or-treat started at about 3:05 (school's out) and ended around 10:00pm. In that time we'd cover about 12 linear miles of tightly packed houses and amass about two garbage bags full of candy each.
Today, most cities only allow trick-or-treating between 6-8pm....blah.
"ASP?" C'mon, this is 2006...anyone doing pro web dev in Windows these days is using ASP.NET; it's a lot different than the old ASP/Perl/PHP scripting environments.
(So, you're probably right; if you're still using ASP, not much is going to stop you now.)
My "personal" websites are hosted on Linux, but I dev them on a Windows XP platform running Apache, MySQL and PHP. In my real job, I use mostly use "WIM." (Windows, IIS, MySQL and.NET web development)
I like PHP for my toy applications, but I can see where something Zend would be needed if you wanted to something serious with PHP. (Same reason I'd only use "modperl" if I ever wrote another perl-based web app.)
Without Google, I think Wikis would be dead on the Internet, but I also use them internally where Google can't reach (and I wouldn't want them to). I'm having a really hard time trying to find a Wiki search replacement that doesn't completely suck...
Yes, the WTO is designed to smash up "local" consumer-friendly regulations and propogate "global" corporation-friendly regulations. It helps corporations shift capital spending freely between countries and chase low labor costs and wimpy environmental protections, but there's no similar provision for individual freedom of movement.
In other words, a large part of what maintains the low labor costs is the fact that its legally hard for people stuck in most third-world countries to just pick up and move to a better country.
What's this have to do with Sony's "regional distribution?" If you were a company, it might be frowned on by the WTO, but because you are a lowly biped, you get nothing except a reminder to please stay in your own country and await further orders.
I got a Masters degree in policy from one of the most difficult schools in the country while at the same time playing WoW...
Great. Another fucking bureaucrat "making policy" with only a tenuous connection to the real world. At least it's likely this guy has no job; it's hard to network with hiring drones when you're playing WoW all day.
Ask yourself the same question the next time a Nintendo (proprietary gaming platform) or Google (proprietary search engine) blurb shows up. Many, if not most of Slashdot's stories are cheap, positive PR pieces for corporations open-source Slashdotters normally wouldn't support.
Howard Stern? Is it still 1995? Honestly, I can't think of anyone saying anything about that guy since he jumped to some subscriber radio service and nearly killed it.
Applicances would be interesting. I think a lot of companies (like Sun and HP) are advocating their recycling plans because it gives them an additional chance to "touch" their customers (and talk them into buying more stuff) when their customers are in a disposal (and therefore a "buying") mood.
Autos are largely covered by the concept of a "trade-in".
Of course, if Congress gets involved, you can also look forward to an inflated, but standard, recycling surcharge on your corporate box orders.
C-level titles are overdone. Especially "CIO" (I="Information") and "CTO" (T="Technology") and CSO (S="Security"). All of these functions are secondary to real business purposes; they wouldn't have a job if they weren't assisting someone else.
Think of it another way: When's the last time you saw your "CJO" (J="Janitorial")?
I have a big D:\Mail directory on my machine. I back that up and all my client-side mail is backed up. When I migrate to new machines, hard drives, etc, I reinstall Eudora and then just lay the old contents of D:\Mail back over the just-installed contents of D:\Mail. Even the INI files are kept in mail so my just-migrated copy pops open windows in their last positions...
I tried going to Thunderbird a few years ago. I couldn't make the switch because the Thunderbird search wasn't as good as the Eudora search and Thunderbird couldn't do simple things like sort search result dates in "date order". Maybe it's better now...guess I'll find out one way or another.
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Geologically active = not news
The ten-year-old astronomy book I read to my five-year old son last week noted that the moon has several weak "moonquakes" every year. What's the news; the volcanic part?
Good rule of thumb for anyone who invests in or works with technology:
If it's in "Wired", you know it's crap.
OK, so the Iraq situation sucks ass and Bush is a moron for dragging us into it. But why are we reading about this on Slashdot?
Usually, the editors will at least try to find a tech tie-in. Most of the time, the warmed over press releases posted as articles on this site help them do so, but WTF is this?
Evil is limited trick-or-treat times. Seriously, when I was a kid, trick-or-treat started at about 3:05 (school's out) and ended around 10:00pm. In that time we'd cover about 12 linear miles of tightly packed houses and amass about two garbage bags full of candy each.
Today, most cities only allow trick-or-treating between 6-8pm....blah.
"ASP?" C'mon, this is 2006...anyone doing pro web dev in Windows these days is using ASP.NET; it's a lot different than the old ASP/Perl/PHP scripting environments.
(So, you're probably right; if you're still using ASP, not much is going to stop you now.)
My "personal" websites are hosted on Linux, but I dev them on a Windows XP platform running Apache, MySQL and PHP. In my real job, I use mostly use "WIM." (Windows, IIS, MySQL and .NET web development)
I like PHP for my toy applications, but I can see where something Zend would be needed if you wanted to something serious with PHP. (Same reason I'd only use "modperl" if I ever wrote another perl-based web app.)
Think "Intranet" or "Internal" Wikis
Without Google, I think Wikis would be dead on the Internet, but I also use them internally where Google can't reach (and I wouldn't want them to). I'm having a really hard time trying to find a Wiki search replacement that doesn't completely suck...
No Zimmerman? Where was the real party?
Wikipedia = Crappiest Search, Anywhere
Seriously, it's 2006, and you're still doing case-sensitive searches?
Yes, the WTO is designed to smash up "local" consumer-friendly regulations and propogate "global" corporation-friendly regulations. It helps corporations shift capital spending freely between countries and chase low labor costs and wimpy environmental protections, but there's no similar provision for individual freedom of movement.
In other words, a large part of what maintains the low labor costs is the fact that its legally hard for people stuck in most third-world countries to just pick up and move to a better country.
What's this have to do with Sony's "regional distribution?" If you were a company, it might be frowned on by the WTO, but because you are a lowly biped, you get nothing except a reminder to please stay in your own country and await further orders.
NO! No SOUP for YOU!
Great. Another fucking bureaucrat "making policy" with only a tenuous connection to the real world. At least it's likely this guy has no job; it's hard to network with hiring drones when you're playing WoW all day.
Yes, Linux is free. In fact, if you're paying anyone any money for any version of Linux, you're probably being taken for a ride.
On the main topic, nothing says "enterprise software" like releasing it for home entertainment hardware first, does it?
Sirius trouble turning a profitr eetPatrol/SiriusTroubleTurningAProfit.aspx
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http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/St
Get Sirius? Not until the company does
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P134732.asp
Jock pay stings Sirius
Company's loss creates debate on Stern's value
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117942418.html?
etc., etc., etc....
It always has...just getting worse lately.
Ask yourself the same question the next time a Nintendo (proprietary gaming platform) or Google (proprietary search engine) blurb shows up. Many, if not most of Slashdot's stories are cheap, positive PR pieces for corporations open-source Slashdotters normally wouldn't support.
Howard Stern? Is it still 1995? Honestly, I can't think of anyone saying anything about that guy since he jumped to some subscriber radio service and nearly killed it.
Applicances would be interesting. I think a lot of companies (like Sun and HP) are advocating their recycling plans because it gives them an additional chance to "touch" their customers (and talk them into buying more stuff) when their customers are in a disposal (and therefore a "buying") mood.
Autos are largely covered by the concept of a "trade-in".
Of course, if Congress gets involved, you can also look forward to an inflated, but standard, recycling surcharge on your corporate box orders.
C-level titles are overdone. Especially "CIO" (I="Information") and "CTO" (T="Technology") and CSO (S="Security"). All of these functions are secondary to real business purposes; they wouldn't have a job if they weren't assisting someone else.
Think of it another way: When's the last time you saw your "CJO" (J="Janitorial")?
I have a big D:\Mail directory on my machine. I back that up and all my client-side mail is backed up. When I migrate to new machines, hard drives, etc, I reinstall Eudora and then just lay the old contents of D:\Mail back over the just-installed contents of D:\Mail. Even the INI files are kept in mail so my just-migrated copy pops open windows in their last positions...
I tried going to Thunderbird a few years ago. I couldn't make the switch because the Thunderbird search wasn't as good as the Eudora search and Thunderbird couldn't do simple things like sort search result dates in "date order". Maybe it's better now...guess I'll find out one way or another.