Do you mean they took down the download site (free/be.com) or they took down the main page (be.com)? 'cause the main page was just as inaccessible about 3am est.
About 2 or 3 EST this morning The Register said Ars Technica had the link. Went there, clicked the link to Be, it was already slashdotted. Now the story has disappeared without a trace from Ars Technica. Other cool stuff on The Register right now, another Brit spy looses another laptop, and look for the hidden Motorola/IBM story (hint: eleven)
And did you notice that "webreference.com" isn't mentioned in the Slashdot article and that Andy King doesn't lead to "Andrew King, Managing Editor (aking@internet.com)", it only leads to the WebReference mainpage, and he didn't start the story by saying,"We here at WebReferenceinterview the design diva herself, Lynda Weinman.", he just says we. timothy should have caught and fixed that.
If he (she?) needed convincing that wireless would be easier, I think you just accomplished that. : ) It sounds as though this is part of a house or other privately owned structure instead of a cookie-cutter apartment complex. If the landlord is a person instead of some company, why not approach them about "improving" their property for them for free? (much better than getting caught and evicted) Tell them it will help them to rent the place to another nice geek when you move out. If possible (check local building codes, including electrical) use some sort of conduit, like schedule 40 PVC or,my favorite, Electrical Non-metallic Tubing, a ribbed flexible plastic tubing known as "smurf pipe" because of the bright blue color. That way, you can upgrade just by pulling wire or cable or fiber or whatever the "next big thing" is.
When the story first hit I sent them a couple of questions (one of which also contained a somewhat impolitely worded critique of something on their web site FAQ)about whether it had to be used with their ISP service and whether their ISP service would work with other machines. John Bortscheller responded to both more politely than I deserved and fairly quickly.
"... may have been the usual long, boring and self-congratulatory." Gee, that sure does remind me of something around here but I can't quite put my finger on it.
That's the trouble with good ideas. Like good comebacks, you never think of them until *after* you need them. : ) If the idea was that good, however(and I'm not saying it wasn't)it could have stood on it's own as an anonymous post. If you are a dedicated and responsible moderator, then I thank you, as I have been seeing a distressing number lately who aren't. And I'm referring to moderation done to posts other than mine.
If pizza and/or fried chicken taste good right out of the refrigerator the next day, that's how you know they were good hot the night before. If they don't, they weren't.
"...some 700 odd people, and not a one of them has ever been discriminated against." I'd have thought that odd people would be the ones *most* likely to be discriminated against. Not that I'm saying that they should be.
I thank you for pointing that out, off topic though it may be, and even though the article itself wasn't of great interest to me. Slashdot has a nasty habit of treating the occasional story like a South American political prisoner; they just disappear. No explanation, no notice, as though they were never there in the first place.
If you feel compelled to comment on issues raised by this story you could always direct your moderating talents to any of the other stories current on Slashdot, especially on some of the higher number posts ignored by most moderators who tend to concentrate on the first few. That way you wouldn't need to be anonymous here but could stand behind your viewpoint as well as avoid any chance of giving the impression that you'll be moderating any of these comments with an ax to grind.
Shouldn't the objective behind punishing them for being a monopoly be not to hurt them just to be hurting them but to "make good" to those who were damaged whatever damages they suffered?
In the Star Trek universe, hasn't money been obsoleted on Earth, and can't people teleport to work? At which point all those San Francisco dotcoms become meaningless or don't need to locate anywhere in particular or both and all of a sudden there's a lot of available real estate there. : )
But maybe somebody will see this anyway. I was wondering about the possiblities of a jury-rigged wireless network with "rubber-duckie" antennae with BNC connnectors attached to NIC cards. The cards are essentially transceivers, if the antenna gives it the proper impedance to work into, could this work over short distances, like inside a house?
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Go back and read again. The PS2 RGB gets sent through an RGB to NTSC converter. Comes out as your garden variety RCA jack video.
Do you mean they took down the download site (free/be.com) or they took down the main page (be.com)? 'cause the main page was just as inaccessible about 3am est.
About 2 or 3 EST this morning The Register said Ars Technica had the link. Went there, clicked the link to Be, it was already slashdotted. Now the story has disappeared without a trace from Ars Technica.
Other cool stuff on The Register right now, another Brit spy looses another laptop, and look for the hidden Motorola/IBM story (hint: eleven)
And did you notice that "webreference.com" isn't mentioned in the Slashdot article and that Andy King doesn't lead to "Andrew King, Managing Editor (aking@internet.com)", it only leads to the WebReference mainpage, and he didn't start the story by saying,"We here at WebReference interview the design diva herself, Lynda Weinman.", he just says we. timothy should have caught and fixed that.
"...attorney Irwin Schwartz introduced part of a slashdot posting,,,"
So, can the poster sue Schwartz for copyright violation : )
After your first couple of successes, or maybe even before, don't forget that all-important Initial Public Offering!
Now I understand why unsigned stuff is labeled "Anonymous Coward".
"Creating a truly open marketplace for electronic services"
Sounds hilarious enough to me!
It appears that it was the person (Rombuu)to whom he replied in reasonable tone who was moderated as flamebait.
If he (she?) needed convincing that wireless would be easier, I think you just accomplished that. : ) ,my favorite, Electrical Non-metallic Tubing, a ribbed flexible plastic tubing known as "smurf pipe" because of the bright blue color. That way, you can upgrade just by pulling wire or cable or fiber or whatever the "next big thing" is.
It sounds as though this is part of a house or other privately owned structure instead of a cookie-cutter apartment complex. If the landlord is a person instead of some company, why not approach them about "improving" their property for them for free? (much better than getting caught and evicted) Tell them it will help them to rent the place to another nice geek when you move out. If possible (check local building codes, including electrical) use some sort of conduit, like schedule 40 PVC or
When the story first hit I sent them a couple of questions (one of which also contained a somewhat impolitely worded critique of something on their web site FAQ)about whether it had to be used with their ISP service and whether their ISP service would work with other machines. John Bortscheller responded to both more politely than I deserved and fairly quickly.
"... may have been the usual long, boring and self-congratulatory."
Gee, that sure does remind me of something around here but I can't quite put my finger on it.
That's the trouble with good ideas. Like good comebacks, you never think of them until *after* you need them. : )
If the idea was that good, however(and I'm not saying it wasn't)it could have stood on it's own as an anonymous post.
If you are a dedicated and responsible moderator, then I thank you, as I have been seeing a distressing number lately who aren't. And I'm referring to moderation done to posts other than mine.
If pizza and/or fried chicken taste good right out of the refrigerator the next day, that's how you know they were good hot the night before. If they don't, they weren't.
"...some 700 odd people, and not a one of them has ever been discriminated against."
I'd have thought that odd people would be the ones *most* likely to be discriminated against. Not that I'm saying that they should be.
I thank you for pointing that out, off topic though it may be, and even though the article itself wasn't of great interest to me. Slashdot has a nasty habit of treating the occasional story like a South American political prisoner; they just disappear. No explanation, no notice, as though they were never there in the first place.
If you feel compelled to comment on issues raised by this story you could always direct your moderating talents to any of the other stories current on Slashdot, especially on some of the higher number posts ignored by most moderators who tend to concentrate on the first few.
That way you wouldn't need to be anonymous here but could stand behind your viewpoint as well as avoid any chance of giving the impression that you'll be moderating any of these comments with an ax to grind.
Shouldn't the objective behind punishing them for being a monopoly be not to hurt them just to be hurting them but to "make good" to those who were damaged whatever damages they suffered?
I thought I was the only one around here old enough to remember Tinkertoys(insert lawyer-approved symbols here). : )
So "real" engineers never try out new ideas with scale models?
How would you have felt if someone had "thrown" an old Ferrari or D-type Jag on the fire?
And you haven't unleashed your trained attack lawyers yet?
In the Star Trek universe, hasn't money been obsoleted on Earth, and can't people teleport to work? At which point all those San Francisco dotcoms become meaningless or don't need to locate anywhere in particular or both and all of a sudden there's a lot of available real estate there. : )
But maybe somebody will see this anyway.
I was wondering about the possiblities of a jury-rigged wireless network with "rubber-duckie" antennae with BNC connnectors attached to NIC cards. The cards are essentially transceivers, if the antenna gives it the proper impedance to work into, could this work over short distances, like inside a house?
Henceforth he will be know as Professor Cyber-Brown.