I couldn't get on all morning, but it wasn't a big deal as I was rather busy. However at about 10AM I set up a job to run, and settled in to read a little/. . Much to my surprise I got yesterday's edition. Everything was from about 4PM yesterday. Very odd, and when I refreshed to get the newest version, I got nothing. Odd, but I survived. I agree with past posters who were in favor of getting Andover.net to purchase some new equipment.
I heard this morning on an unreliable but funny radio talk show that in fact they got no pictures of the asteroid. Apparently the camera was pointed in the wrong direction. Again, usually the news from this show is correct, but has been wrong just often enough for me to have doubts. Although something like this wouldn't surprise me coming from NASA. Anyone have memories of the Hubble Space PaperWeight?
I was thinking about this article and particularly his last sentence about Christmas 2000. Right now I'm doing all kinds of tech support for computer illiterate friends. It's always a pleasure/pain to tell them that because their computer is running Windows 9x and it has a problem, I really have no idea what to do. Microsoft's frequent errors seem to be uncurable. Than I had this picture of people asking me what OS to get on their new computer, and what all the differences were. I nearly had a heart attack thinking about it. I find it hard to believe that anything other than Microsoft Whatever 95 will be in widespread use a year and a half from now. College campuses especially will still be using Microsoft products, as the faculty will have a hissy fit being forced to learn all kinds of new stuff. Just some random thoughts that don't really flow together well... $0.015 (it rounds up to $0.02 at least)
I just read the article through for a second time. I am absolutely amazed at how moronic it is. The author hardly put any thought, if at all, into this article. She make gross generalizations that are unsupported and unfounded. I get mighty sick of people going around claiming to "know all about the internet". I know more than them, and I hardly claim to be an expert, merely an experienced user.
Your logic is completely and totally wrong. You are saying that because a lot of time was spent on it, THAN you shouldn't rip it off. The unstated part of this is that if not much work was put into it, than go ahead and rip it off. WRONG!! It shouldn't be ripped off because it is illegal. That and that alone is the reason. We can have a whole seperate debate about whether or not this law should be obeyed or not, but my point here is that your logic is seriously flawed.
I sincerely hope that Katz is being incredibly sarcastic here, because if he's not, than he is just incredibly wrong. It's one thing to bring kids into the movie. That one particular case was okay Jon, but to organize some kind of ill-conceived campaign to bring children to movies that they have no business seeing is just plain idiocy. I did not see South Park, but two of my friends did. I figured that they would like it more than I would, so I prepared to take what they said about the movie with a grain of salt. However they came back and said it was the worst movie that they had ever seen. They also mentioned that it had scarred them for life. Obviously they were being a bit sarcastic, but the movie apparently had just too much useless and gratuitous sexual content. Before anyone mention their "sheltered" background, I would like to mention that they attend the University of Michigan, a very large public university, and so in fact they are hardly sheltered. What is the point of bringing a twelve year old to such a movie? Arguments to the effect of "they hear it all the time in school" or "they know about it anyway" are just plain bullshit. What kind of logic is that? Example: Junior hears about calculus all the time freshman year of high school, so why don't we just teach him it? Easy you say, he is too young to fully grasp it. That is exactly my point. The children are too young to fully grasp the complexity of some of the themes from South Park. All that is going on is warping of their view of sexuality and the like. People wonder why our society is so immoral, well surprise surprise, maybe it has something to do with what our children are getting exposed to. Well enough of my rant. I know that these views are going directly against some other views of people here. I am open to others, so please feel free to consider taking children to movies. In my opinion, however, doing so is incredibly foolish. For shame Katz, you are a confused person, who obviously has not thought out the implications of what you wrote. Your one action with the 3 kids was fine, but on a grander scale you are headed for trouble.
I like this a lot. More and more small products that individually could not hope to overcome the Microsoft giant are being absorbed by larger companies. These companies stand a chance of doing so, and I love it. The one thing we have to worry about, but not for a while, is that Sun and such companies don't become like Microsoft. We'll see...
Let's not forget 2 things here: 1. It's not the theater that makes the ratings, it's the government. Some of the posters seems to be confused on that subject. Granted, they could use more common sense however. The rule is just that one has to be 17 or older to buy tickets I believe. 2. Even if jocks contributed to the Columbine problem, let's not forget that 2 very sick individuals actually went out and killed people. There actions can be forgiven, but never condoned or forgotten.
As a 19 year old college student, I was more than a little surprised to discover that JFK Jr. "was the icon, the moral leader for the next generation of young Americans." I had obviously heard of him, it's kind of hard not to, and knew a bit about his life. However the very notion that he was a leader of his generation is perposterous. If he was such a leader he would have run for public office and gone into civil service. Instead only later in life did he even do anything, start a magazine, that was visible to the public. As far as being an inspiration, I hardly think so. His magazine has flopped miserably, with sales in the red for every year of its operation. I don't mean to say that he was not a nice man. He very well could be. However this is just another example of the hero and celebrity worship that occurs in the homes of many simple-minded Americans on a nightly basis. These are the people who watch Entertainment Tonight and A Current Affair religiously and follow the every nuance of the pathetic lives of Hollywood actors. Obvioiusly this makes good TV as thousands and millions do this, so the networks do not have much choice but to air coverage. The network execs say "Hey this gets great ratings, cancel the meaningful coverage of... Cover the JFK crash instead!" This topic was covered recently in this article. It is a terrible tragedy, but for all the people out there who need to "work out your grief." I ask you: Why? Just sit down and actually think before you embaress yourself further with pathetic shows of fake emotion.
I'm more than a little confused as to why they refuse to go back and look for the hatch. The majority of the interest in this seems to be concerning the hatch, and now they aren't even going to look for it. Oh well, it's still a great recovery.
I found his point about the majority of Americans not realizing who owns the major TV stations interesting. I am somewhat aware of who owns each one, and so it was blatantly obvious a while ago when some lawsuits were filed against Disney and ABC did not report on the matter that something was up. Both NBC and CBS had stories on this lawsuit, but ABC did not. Not a good sign. One of the reason I get my news from/. is that the news is culled from all over. Granted everything has a definite pro-Linux flavor to it, but the mere fact that the majority of people have heard of or use Linux indicates above average intelligence. This generally leads towards more open and free discussions. We should watch for Andover.net stories however. No matter how partial our 2 head geeks are, they will undoubtedly have second thoughts about making disparaging comments about their new bosses. Something to watch for...
It seems that Microsoft has not beaten the public into submission enough with its Office 2000 product, and wishes to inflict more punishment with Win2000. It is undeniably true that the majority of businesses and individuals will upgrade to Win2000. It will be widely successful in the sense that it will make money. However Microsoft has not really done anything substantially different from previous approaches. Sure they have improved some features and Microsoft keeps approaching a more stable and satisfactory level for us/. readers. But as the article points out, they attempt this, and definitely have the potential to be substantially better than their NT OS, but do not achieve true stability on a wider server scale. I too almost feel sorry for Microsoft, they are like a little child who keeps trying to get it right, but never totally does. My feelings of sadness quickly leave when I think of the Micro$oft billions.
With the ridiculous prices of CD's nowadays, is it any wonder that mp3's are booming? I was at the local Tower Records this past Monday for the first time in about a year, and I don't plan on going back for another year. Their regular price for CD's is $18.99! Typically the CD's are about 45 - 50 minutes long, which translates out to a rip off. Why buy a CD when you can just get the one or two songs you want off the net? Small wonder artists are starting to put their songs on the net. With the high prices no one buys the CD's and so the labels keep upping the price. It's a vicious loop with the artists and customers getting screwed. I laugh at the thought of the labels shutting down illegal music sites. 2000 sites shut down to date is a mere blip. Hardly noticeable at all. Good luck major record labels! You're screwing yourself!
This is certainly quite a change from the standard view. When I mention to people that I am a college student working towards a CS degree they immediately mention that there are many job opportunities. Everywhere I turn people are looking for experienced programmers. This story certainly makes one wonder about long term job security. Sure one can get that first job, but later? The example of the 40 year old with knowledge of multiple languages and OS's without a decent job was a bit scary...
I figured it was a slightly different ad, but I believe everything was the same. And yes I am aware that it CAN run Linux. It was not in the ad however.
I saw in ad for this in a BestBuy flyer this weekend. (http://www.bestbuy.com) I don't remember the exact details of the ad, but I do know that it was not running Linux. And surprise surprise it was at least $100 more. I wish they would have some of these price cuts for higher end pcs with larger HD's and more RAM, but beggars can't be choosers.
I was aware of the hall of fame, but I was hoping for some variation on that cool concept. The top 5 hit sites in terms of hits in the last week might be something cool.
When I edited my Prefs for the first time I was pretty pumped to see a stats box. The concept is great, but it's a shame that it's broken. A Slashbox that contains most visited stories by hits would also be cool.
You're totally missing my point. My point was that he shouldn't have the right to go around the net saying "This offends me!! Remove it immediately."
This is very much a gray area, as the agreement between Ken and Harvard was only verbal. If it was a student site: www.harvard.edu/~SomeName then it's an entirely different story. I'm not denying Harvard's right to yank the site, I'm saying that they could have handled it in a manner that was fitting of their usual high standards.
It seems to me that Harvard's wimping out here. From everything I have read they didn't take the time to investigate the allegations for themselves, and instead just accepted them as truth. As an ISP Harvard certainly has the right to yank material that might damage their reputation or good name. However the actions they did take seem to have damaged their name more.
When did someone (jp) get the right to ask for a site to be shut down because it contained sexually explicit material? Last time I checked there's one or two other sexually explicit sites out there. Maybe they'll get shut down too...
After repeated attempts to view this site earlier, I finally got through and was able to read the posted statement.
It's appalling that jp claims to be a major supporter of free speech and then when he is slighted decides that somehow this is against the law.
If/. keeps visiting the site it will probably go back down again. When I was browsing around some pages took a couple of tries to open. Serves them right...
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here's my little PS1 line in .bashrc. what's nice about it is that it displays the time.
export PS1='\[\033[1;36m\][\[\033[1;33m\]$(date +%I:%M) \[\033[1;36m\]\u@\h \[\033[1;32m\]\w\[\033[1;36m\]]$\[\033[0m\] '
I couldn't get on all morning, but it wasn't a big deal as I was rather busy. However at about 10AM I set up a job to run, and settled in to read a little /. . Much to my surprise I got yesterday's edition. Everything was from about 4PM yesterday. Very odd, and when I refreshed to get the newest version, I got nothing. Odd, but I survived. I agree with past posters who were in favor of getting Andover.net to purchase some new equipment.
I heard this morning on an unreliable but funny radio talk show that in fact they got no pictures of the asteroid. Apparently the camera was pointed in the wrong direction. Again, usually the news from this show is correct, but has been wrong just often enough for me to have doubts. Although something like this wouldn't surprise me coming from NASA. Anyone have memories of the Hubble Space PaperWeight?
I was thinking about this article and particularly his last sentence about Christmas 2000. Right now I'm doing all kinds of tech support for computer illiterate friends. It's always a pleasure/pain to tell them that because their computer is running Windows 9x and it has a problem, I really have no idea what to do. Microsoft's frequent errors seem to be uncurable. Than I had this picture of people asking me what OS to get on their new computer, and what all the differences were. I nearly had a heart attack thinking about it. I find it hard to believe that anything other than Microsoft Whatever 95 will be in widespread use a year and a half from now. College campuses especially will still be using Microsoft products, as the faculty will have a hissy fit being forced to learn all kinds of new stuff. Just some random thoughts that don't really flow together well... $0.015 (it rounds up to $0.02 at least)
I just read the article through for a second time. I am absolutely amazed at how moronic it is. The author hardly put any thought, if at all, into this article. She make gross generalizations that are unsupported and unfounded. I get mighty sick of people going around claiming to "know all about the internet". I know more than them, and I hardly claim to be an expert, merely an experienced user.
Your logic is completely and totally wrong. You are saying that because a lot of time was spent on it, THAN you shouldn't rip it off. The unstated part of this is that if not much work was put into it, than go ahead and rip it off. WRONG!! It shouldn't be ripped off because it is illegal. That and that alone is the reason. We can have a whole seperate debate about whether or not this law should be obeyed or not, but my point here is that your logic is seriously flawed.
I sincerely hope that Katz is being incredibly sarcastic here, because if he's not, than he is just incredibly wrong. It's one thing to bring kids into the movie. That one particular case was okay Jon, but to organize some kind of ill-conceived campaign to bring children to movies that they have no business seeing is just plain idiocy. I did not see South Park, but two of my friends did. I figured that they would like it more than I would, so I prepared to take what they said about the movie with a grain of salt. However they came back and said it was the worst movie that they had ever seen. They also mentioned that it had scarred them for life. Obviously they were being a bit sarcastic, but the movie apparently had just too much useless and gratuitous sexual content. Before anyone mention their "sheltered" background, I would like to mention that they attend the University of Michigan, a very large public university, and so in fact they are hardly sheltered. What is the point of bringing a twelve year old to such a movie? Arguments to the effect of "they hear it all the time in school" or "they know about it anyway" are just plain bullshit. What kind of logic is that? Example: Junior hears about calculus all the time freshman year of high school, so why don't we just teach him it? Easy you say, he is too young to fully grasp it. That is exactly my point. The children are too young to fully grasp the complexity of some of the themes from South Park. All that is going on is warping of their view of sexuality and the like. People wonder why our society is so immoral, well surprise surprise, maybe it has something to do with what our children are getting exposed to. Well enough of my rant. I know that these views are going directly against some other views of people here. I am open to others, so please feel free to consider taking children to movies. In my opinion, however, doing so is incredibly foolish. For shame Katz, you are a confused person, who obviously has not thought out the implications of what you wrote. Your one action with the 3 kids was fine, but on a grander scale you are headed for trouble.
I like this a lot. More and more small products that individually could not hope to overcome the Microsoft giant are being absorbed by larger companies. These companies stand a chance of doing so, and I love it. The one thing we have to worry about, but not for a while, is that Sun and such companies don't become like Microsoft. We'll see...
Let's not forget 2 things here:
1. It's not the theater that makes the ratings, it's the government. Some of the posters seems to be confused on that subject. Granted, they could use more common sense however. The rule is just that one has to be 17 or older to buy tickets I believe.
2. Even if jocks contributed to the Columbine problem, let's not forget that 2 very sick individuals actually went out and killed people. There actions can be forgiven, but never condoned or forgotten.
As a 19 year old college student, I was more than a little surprised to discover that JFK Jr. "was the icon, the moral leader for the next generation of young Americans." I had obviously heard of him, it's kind of hard not to, and knew a bit about his life. However the very notion that he was a leader of his generation is perposterous. If he was such a leader he would have run for public office and gone into civil service. Instead only later in life did he even do anything, start a magazine, that was visible to the public. As far as being an inspiration, I hardly think so. His magazine has flopped miserably, with sales in the red for every year of its operation. I don't mean to say that he was not a nice man. He very well could be. However this is just another example of the hero and celebrity worship that occurs in the homes of many simple-minded Americans on a nightly basis. These are the people who watch Entertainment Tonight and A Current Affair religiously and follow the every nuance of the pathetic lives of Hollywood actors. Obvioiusly this makes good TV as thousands and millions do this, so the networks do not have much choice but to air coverage. The network execs say "Hey this gets great ratings, cancel the meaningful coverage of... Cover the JFK crash instead!" This topic was covered recently in this article. It is a terrible tragedy, but for all the people out there who need to "work out your grief." I ask you: Why? Just sit down and actually think before you embaress yourself further with pathetic shows of fake emotion.
I'm more than a little confused as to why they refuse to go back and look for the hatch. The majority of the interest in this seems to be concerning the hatch, and now they aren't even going to look for it. Oh well, it's still a great recovery.
I found his point about the majority of Americans not realizing who owns the major TV stations interesting. I am somewhat aware of who owns each one, and so it was blatantly obvious a while ago when some lawsuits were filed against Disney and ABC did not report on the matter that something was up. Both NBC and CBS had stories on this lawsuit, but ABC did not. Not a good sign. One of the reason I get my news from /. is that the news is culled from all over. Granted everything has a definite pro-Linux flavor to it, but the mere fact that the majority of people have heard of or use Linux indicates above average intelligence. This generally leads towards more open and free discussions. We should watch for Andover.net stories however. No matter how partial our 2 head geeks are, they will undoubtedly have second thoughts about making disparaging comments about their new bosses. Something to watch for...
It seems that Microsoft has not beaten the public into submission enough with its Office 2000 product, and wishes to inflict more punishment with Win2000. It is undeniably true that the majority of businesses and individuals will upgrade to Win2000. It will be widely successful in the sense that it will make money. However Microsoft has not really done anything substantially different from previous approaches. Sure they have improved some features and Microsoft keeps approaching a more stable and satisfactory level for us /. readers. But as the article points out, they attempt this, and definitely have the potential to be substantially better than their NT OS, but do not achieve true stability on a wider server scale. I too almost feel sorry for Microsoft, they are like a little child who keeps trying to get it right, but never totally does. My feelings of sadness quickly leave when I think of the Micro$oft billions.
With the ridiculous prices of CD's nowadays, is it any wonder that mp3's are booming? I was at the local Tower Records this past Monday for the first time in about a year, and I don't plan on going back for another year. Their regular price for CD's is $18.99! Typically the CD's are about 45 - 50 minutes long, which translates out to a rip off. Why buy a CD when you can just get the one or two songs you want off the net? Small wonder artists are starting to put their songs on the net. With the high prices no one buys the CD's and so the labels keep upping the price. It's a vicious loop with the artists and customers getting screwed. I laugh at the thought of the labels shutting down illegal music sites. 2000 sites shut down to date is a mere blip. Hardly noticeable at all. Good luck major record labels! You're screwing yourself!
This is certainly quite a change from the standard view. When I mention to people that I am a college student working towards a CS degree they immediately mention that there are many job opportunities. Everywhere I turn people are looking for experienced programmers. This story certainly makes one wonder about long term job security. Sure one can get that first job, but later? The example of the 40 year old with knowledge of multiple languages and OS's without a decent job was a bit scary...
I figured it was a slightly different ad, but I believe everything was the same. And yes I am aware that it CAN run Linux. It was not in the ad however.
I saw in ad for this in a BestBuy flyer this weekend. (http://www.bestbuy.com) I don't remember the exact details of the ad, but I do know that it was not running Linux. And surprise surprise it was at least $100 more. I wish they would have some of these price cuts for higher end pcs with larger HD's and more RAM, but beggars can't be choosers.
I was aware of the hall of fame, but I was hoping for some variation on that cool concept. The top 5 hit sites in terms of hits in the last week might be something cool.
When I edited my Prefs for the first time I was pretty pumped to see a stats box. The concept is great, but it's a shame that it's broken. A Slashbox that contains most visited stories by hits would also be cool.
You're totally missing my point. My point was that he shouldn't have the right to go around the net saying "This offends me!! Remove it immediately."
This is very much a gray area, as the agreement between Ken and Harvard was only verbal. If it was a student site: www.harvard.edu/~SomeName then it's an entirely different story. I'm not denying Harvard's right to yank the site, I'm saying that they could have handled it in a manner that was fitting of their usual high standards.
It seems to me that Harvard's wimping out here. From everything I have read they didn't take the time to investigate the allegations for themselves, and instead just accepted them as truth. As an ISP Harvard certainly has the right to yank material that might damage their reputation or good name. However the actions they did take seem to have damaged their name more.
When did someone (jp) get the right to ask for a site to be shut down because it contained sexually explicit material? Last time I checked there's one or two other sexually explicit sites out there. Maybe they'll get shut down too...
After repeated attempts to view this site earlier, I finally got through and was able to read the posted statement.
/. keeps visiting the site it will probably go back down again. When I was browsing around some pages took a couple of tries to open. Serves them right...
It's appalling that jp claims to be a major supporter of free speech and then when he is slighted decides that somehow this is against the law.
If