The author of the article says that he can't imagine people being more useful with a Palm than with a Daytimer and a laptop, which completely ignores the fact that laptops cost at least twice what even the Palm 5 and the modem cost. Daytimers are also expensive and bulky, and I know many people who have paid for (or had the company pay for) the really expensive classes on how to use their daytimer. Paying $450 ($350 at some websites) for a computer that fits in my pants pocket, does all the stuff the laptop and daytimer do plus some, and that I can also play games on, what more can I ask for? I can easily see within 10 years everyone having a handheld system that will put even today's desktop computers to shame and laptops happily relegated to our memories.
These people are doing a scientific experiment. They need to know what code people are running so the programs don't give false results. Think of the uproar if they announced the discovery of alien intelligence and it turned out to be some dufus's "custom" client.
We use a program called Lone-Tar at the ISP where I work. We have a couple of +2gig partitions and it handles them nicely. It also has internal dialogs for setting up cron jobs, and tons of other stuff. I like it a lot, as much as one can like a backup program I guess. Lone-Tar.com.
If your only exposure to DiCaprio was Titanic, than sure, you're going to be hell bent on killing him before he ruins Episode 2. If, however, you have seen his other work, you, like me, will be sceptical but not horrified. If you've seen "Basketball Diaries," "This Boys Life," or "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," DiCaprio distinguishes himself as a great actor for someone his age. Lucas has always said, "I don't cast stars, I make them" so I have a feeling if DiCaprio is going to be in the movie, it will be a sort-of cameo like Samuel Jackson in Ep1. You never know though, he does look like he could be the father of Luke.
I read an interview with the person who paid like $1500 for one account. The programmer in the article paid money for an account, and a friend of mine bought some gear for UO off eBay. I bet this is just the beginning. Just because something doesn't happen to exist as atoms in reality, doesn't mean you can't buy it.
Just because you think it isn't true, doesn't make it so.
Saying that moderators have a bias is foolish. I'm a moderator and I have no idea why I was selected (beyond posting alot and reading Slashdot for a long time). I'm not a friend of Rob's, I have no obvious bias in my posting, etc. and I assume the same is true with a majority of the other moderators. There 400 some moderators, not all can be Linux-biased since I don't think Rob hand chooses everyone. The moderator guidelines provide for sending in posts that are seemingly mis-moderated. If you have a problem, email somebody in charge with the article. Don't just rant on without trying to do something about it.
That's only a little over $5 per person! I'd certainly pay my fair share to see more competition and a bigger piece of the pie for so-called "alternative operating systems."
I love Perl. I can program in other languages but I can safely say the only one I will go out of my way to promote is Perl. One of my favorite Larry Wall quotes is "I don't want people to say 'I can program in Perl,' I want them to say 'I'm a Perl programmer.' Exactly how I feel and I'm sure many others also.
The main problem I have with homeschooling (I wasn't but I know those who were) is that you only have one teacher, maybe two if both your parents teach you. I did not really enjoy high school but I did like the many different types of teachers and many different styles. I got a lot out of just different things we did in each class, even if it was just the same stuff I could have learned out of a book. I also think you have a bit of a disadvantage in the socialization department because you don't have the tons of different types of people to be around. When you only socialize at functions you choose, you are dealing primarily with people with the same interests as you, not the weirdo sitting you behind you, the pretty girl in the next seat over, whoever.
I think the best thing to do for your kids is to teach them self-reliance and independance. Not just teaching them to be totally different all the time, because that is just another form of basing you self worth on what others think about you, but truly doing what you want to do, whether that be the same as others sometimes or not. Like many people on Slashdot and around the world, I am just like these kids. The difference is that I was taught to do my own thing and not to condone or condemn other for doing theirs. The most important thing is to teach your kids that yes, high school is usually four years of shit, even for the "popular" kids, but it will end. The real world is nothing like high school and definately worth waiting for.
That's how it used to be. They used to actually enforce the "rules." Now, the NSI site actually tells you to register the.org and.net if you get a.com Now it's just blatantly about the money. They want you to spend as much as possible, screw what's right.
Look at the bottom of the article. There are usually big fights in the comments after book reviews between people who don't like Amazon.com and people who do, but for some reason those have slacked off recently.
Am I the only one who saw the heads of Mulder & Scully in the Museum? When the camera pans around to find Bender and Fry "hiding" behind the head shelf, you can see them.
I loved the new show. Of course, I'm not someone who says Simpson's is anything but hilarious now. It's hard to do a show for 10 years and Groening and company do a fine job. Unfortunately Futurama's regular time slot is going be on Tuesdays so I'll have to keep not watching That 70s Piece Of Crap.
I've been telling people for a long time (since before we could put inline images on webpages) that the web would be seen in history as just as important if not more so, than the invention of movable type. I just wish we had Tim Berners-Lee's first webpage as we have the Guttenburg Bible. But the discussion of the destruction of old webpages to make way for the new as opposed to the storage of centuries old books is a completely different topic.
Since when is adding a screen making the board better? It just looks like a really short board with little or nothing in the way of ramps, obsticles, etc. I happen to like the Attack from Mars (or whatever it's called) in it's normal board form and this little video/pinball half-and-half game looks like it looses the fun of pinball and doesn't add anything to the videogame experience. Seems to be a big gimick to sell more machines in these days of steadily decreasing arcade sales. Unless the real thing turns out to be a hell of a lot better than the pictures on the webpage make it seem, it won't be taking any of my quarters away from real pinball games.
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The author of the article says that he can't imagine people being more useful with a Palm than with a Daytimer and a laptop, which completely ignores the fact that laptops cost at least twice what even the Palm 5 and the modem cost. Daytimers are also expensive and bulky, and I know many people who have paid for (or had the company pay for) the really expensive classes on how to use their daytimer. Paying $450 ($350 at some websites) for a computer that fits in my pants pocket, does all the stuff the laptop and daytimer do plus some, and that I can also play games on, what more can I ask for? I can easily see within 10 years everyone having a handheld system that will put even today's desktop computers to shame and laptops happily relegated to our memories.
These people are doing a scientific experiment. They need to know what code people are running so the programs don't give false results. Think of the uproar if they announced the discovery of alien intelligence and it turned out to be some dufus's "custom" client.
Just testing.
We use a program called Lone-Tar at the ISP where I work. We have a couple of +2gig partitions and it handles them nicely. It also has internal dialogs for setting up cron jobs, and tons of other stuff. I like it a lot, as much as one can like a backup program I guess. Lone-Tar.com.
If your only exposure to DiCaprio was Titanic, than sure, you're going to be hell bent on killing him before he ruins Episode 2. If, however, you have seen his other work, you, like me, will be sceptical but not horrified. If you've seen "Basketball Diaries," "This Boys Life," or "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," DiCaprio distinguishes himself as a great actor for someone his age. Lucas has always said, "I don't cast stars, I make them" so I have a feeling if DiCaprio is going to be in the movie, it will be a sort-of cameo like Samuel Jackson in Ep1. You never know though, he does look like he could be the father of Luke.
I totally agree! Those monkeys have been causing trouble long enough!
I read an interview with the person who paid like $1500 for one account. The programmer in the article paid money for an account, and a friend of mine bought some gear for UO off eBay. I bet this is just the beginning. Just because something doesn't happen to exist as atoms in reality, doesn't mean you can't buy it.
Just because you think it isn't true, doesn't make it so.
Saying that moderators have a bias is foolish. I'm a moderator and I have no idea why I was selected (beyond posting alot and reading Slashdot for a long time). I'm not a friend of Rob's, I have no obvious bias in my posting, etc. and I assume the same is true with a majority of the other moderators. There 400 some moderators, not all can be Linux-biased since I don't think Rob hand chooses everyone. The moderator guidelines provide for sending in posts that are seemingly mis-moderated. If you have a problem, email somebody in charge with the article. Don't just rant on without trying to do something about it.
I love Perl. I can program in other languages but I can safely say the only one I will go out of my way to promote is Perl. One of my favorite Larry Wall quotes is "I don't want people to say 'I can program in Perl,' I want them to say 'I'm a Perl programmer.' Exactly how I feel and I'm sure many others also.
The main problem I have with homeschooling (I wasn't but I know those who were) is that you only have one teacher, maybe two if both your parents teach you. I did not really enjoy high school but I did like the many different types of teachers and many different styles. I got a lot out of just different things we did in each class, even if it was just the same stuff I could have learned out of a book. I also think you have a bit of a disadvantage in the socialization department because you don't have the tons of different types of people to be around. When you only socialize at functions you choose, you are dealing primarily with people with the same interests as you, not the weirdo sitting you behind you, the pretty girl in the next seat over, whoever.
I think the best thing to do for your kids is to teach them self-reliance and independance. Not just teaching them to be totally different all the time, because that is just another form of basing you self worth on what others think about you, but truly doing what you want to do, whether that be the same as others sometimes or not. Like many people on Slashdot and around the world, I am just like these kids. The difference is that I was taught to do my own thing and not to condone or condemn other for doing theirs. The most important thing is to teach your kids that yes, high school is usually four years of shit, even for the "popular" kids, but it will end. The real world is nothing like high school and definately worth waiting for.
That's how it used to be. They used to actually enforce the "rules." Now, the NSI site actually tells you to register the .org and .net if you get a .com Now it's just blatantly about the money. They want you to spend as much as possible, screw what's right.
Look at the bottom of the article. There are usually big fights in the comments after book reviews between people who don't like Amazon.com and people who do, but for some reason those have slacked off recently.
Am I the only one who saw the heads of Mulder & Scully in the Museum? When the camera pans around to find Bender and Fry "hiding" behind the head shelf, you can see them.
I loved the new show. Of course, I'm not someone who says Simpson's is anything but hilarious now. It's hard to do a show for 10 years and Groening and company do a fine job. Unfortunately Futurama's regular time slot is going be on Tuesdays so I'll have to keep not watching That 70s Piece Of Crap.
I've been telling people for a long time (since before we could put inline images on webpages) that the web would be seen in history as just as important if not more so, than the invention of movable type. I just wish we had Tim Berners-Lee's first webpage as we have the Guttenburg Bible. But the discussion of the destruction of old webpages to make way for the new as opposed to the storage of centuries old books is a completely different topic.
Since when is adding a screen making the board better? It just looks like a really short board with little or nothing in the way of ramps, obsticles, etc. I happen to like the Attack from Mars (or whatever it's called) in it's normal board form and this little video/pinball half-and-half game looks like it looses the fun of pinball and doesn't add anything to the videogame experience. Seems to be a big gimick to sell more machines in these days of steadily decreasing arcade sales. Unless the real thing turns out to be a hell of a lot better than the pictures on the webpage make it seem, it won't be taking any of my quarters away from real pinball games.