There's a lot of not-so-nice things to be said about the slashdot admins, but i have to give them this: they try as hard as they can to keep people looking at slashdot as a discussion site, not a game.
It sure is valid, and I'm sure people find it fun!
I listened to the NPR piece, and was disappointed by the inability of the guys interviewed or the journalist to offer any kind of insight into the motivations of the wardrivers. It kinda reminded me of trainspotting (which I was [embarassingly] into for a while in my teens) - the collecting element. Blah blah. Anyway - is the appeal that it has the feel of being slightly on the edge legally, or what? What happens to these lists of access points? What proportion of wardrivers peek at stuff on the nets they find?
On the other hand, the radio show of HHGTTG seemed to be done in a manner that may not have had that much time to go back over it
The just-out HHGTTG DVD has some things to say about this - it says Adams was short of time and writing week-to-week, but he did go over and over his writing, fine-tuning and tweaking it.
Still shocked to realize there were only six episodes...
Just had this happen to a 40GB WD drive. Sort of a scraping sound, with partial data loss. The WD site has an online warranty-checking thingy where you enter the serial number and they tell you if they will deign to replace it.
Even better, put it on an electronic keyswitch mounted on the front of the box, and you have an effective security system for things like demo stations and kiosks.
Better still, hook up a gizmo so anyone can flip the switch remotely from a web page - just think how convenient that would be for those offsite developers!
Blender Foundation in short:
goal 1
Steal all the underpants
goal 2
???
goal 3
Make Blender a better product, and promote free access to 3D technology in general
Could it be that the larger the list, the more likely some big ISPs spam filter is gonna notice you, and then throw away all your messages? Just a thought, not sure if companies like AOL use spam filters based on volume.
I used to work at a hardware manufacturing place (instrumentation, not computers) where they tested for fan failures. It was called the "Stuck Fan test", and it involved jamming a screwdriver into the fan and holding it there for a set time to see if anything happened.
Shame that both these sydtems use compression, so they'll sound worse than CD, and probably as bad as high bitrate mp3s. We'd all be better off waiting for Sony to flood the market with cheap in-dash SACD players...
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Now that's just asking for trouble - nobody should let those things write code.
WTF?
Er, apart from that Karma thing...
It sure is valid, and I'm sure people find it fun! I listened to the NPR piece, and was disappointed by the inability of the guys interviewed or the journalist to offer any kind of insight into the motivations of the wardrivers. It kinda reminded me of trainspotting (which I was [embarassingly] into for a while in my teens) - the collecting element. Blah blah. Anyway - is the appeal that it has the feel of being slightly on the edge legally, or what? What happens to these lists of access points? What proportion of wardrivers peek at stuff on the nets they find?
why why why?
I think they're planning to move from base 2 to base 1, to make the bits smaller
would get around this nicely.
One of the things I like about Mozilla is that I can easily run it without flash/shockwave - that's difficult on IE.
The just-out HHGTTG DVD has some things to say about this - it says Adams was short of time and writing week-to-week, but he did go over and over his writing, fine-tuning and tweaking it.
Still shocked to realize there were only six episodes...
I thought they usually worked the other way around in Hollywood these days...
Just had this happen to a 40GB WD drive. Sort of a scraping sound, with partial data loss. The WD site has an online warranty-checking thingy where you enter the serial number and they tell you if they will deign to replace it.
You mean, like a bowl of popcorn?
Better still, hook up a gizmo so anyone can flip the switch remotely from a web page - just think how convenient that would be for those offsite developers!
Yep, I can see some filled white space around this article right now...
Blender Foundation in short: goal 1 Steal all the underpants goal 2 ??? goal 3 Make Blender a better product, and promote free access to 3D technology in general
Could it be that the larger the list, the more likely some big ISPs spam filter is gonna notice you, and then throw away all your messages? Just a thought, not sure if companies like AOL use spam filters based on volume.
Presumably the first Intel CPUs to contain Palladium support will use a 666MHz FSB (533+133)
Or should that have been:
Microchips have become so inexpensive that Intel is now planning to implant a miniature one in the forehead of every person, at no extra cost.
Just wondering if the majority of those twenty-five countries were owned by the British at that time ;-)
I used to work at a hardware manufacturing place (instrumentation, not computers) where they tested for fan failures. It was called the "Stuck Fan test", and it involved jamming a screwdriver into the fan and holding it there for a set time to see if anything happened.
Shame that both these sydtems use compression, so they'll sound worse than CD, and probably as bad as high bitrate mp3s. We'd all be better off waiting for Sony to flood the market with cheap in-dash SACD players...