I can already imagine a large group of pseudo-overclockcers and case-modders with their pants around their ankles enjoying a nice moment of "stroking the tuna" at the idea of buying a gold-plated, peltier-cooled PSU from a ridiculously expensive brand. Add some bright blue leds and the whole ensemble would fit nicely into ye olde standard Alienware case with prefab case window, prefab neon lights and prefab coloured fans.
So, why do we have an article about expensive PSUs? This is Slashdots "News for Nerds", not "News for 14 year olds who go to LANs with the latest Alienware case daddy bought for them while on parole". Geez. What's next? Comparison of 5 different blue LEDs? "I have concluded that the Antec blue LEDs are definitely more blue then the cheaper LEDs!"
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... will get beaten with a large, heavy and blunt object and be sentenced to insanity by joining AOL chatrooms with the nickname "-=lilgrrl13=-".
If more and more ISP's make use of this, SMTP could be gradually phased out...
Like IPv6? You mean most things will already be there but no one will support it, no one will care apart from a few and no one will implement regardless of how hopeless and disastrous the current implementation is?
or if you are one for a sudden cut-over, just cut to the new one at the same time as the IPv6 upgrade!
Ah yes, like IPv6 indeed. You know, I'll send a shiny mail delivered by SMTP2* over an IPv6* internet about the release of Duke Nukem Forever* to my gaming-addicted girlfriend* on the day SCO coughs up some evidence*
Note: * = May or may not require divine intervention.
Without a subwoofer, there simply isn't enough bass to make music listening, let alone gaming, sound convincing.
Let's face it, floppy drives are useless
Yes, it sounds unbelievable, but there are a lot of people without broadband
Something useful, like displaying music info or system temperatures would have been nice
Did anyone else laugh so hard they had to cry? The worthless comparative graphs were amusing too. Seriously though... Some people should be removed from the internet and never, EVER, be allowed to touch a computer again. The internet is a wonderful thing in the way it grants everyone the oppurtunity to make oneself heard. Sadly, this also applies to politicians, overclockers, script kiddies and other subhumans:(
It's a measly computer program, when all is said and done.
It's valuable. A single Microsoft OS can cost you up to 199 to 299 IIRC. Yes, it's a measly computer program not worth the money you fork over to MS for it, but that's not what matters. The market value matters. Cash should be returned at the retail price of the OS in question, back when it was still available.
the lawyers deserve to get paid.
Yes, they do need to get paid reasonably. 600 dollars per hour is a bit too much isn't it? Have you realized that in the US culture of "Sue thy neighbor", the only people making a real profit are the lawyers and stupid people with luck who can manage to push through ridiculous claims?
I can already imagine the cockpit layout of a Raptor... Altimeter, speedometer, non-functional IFF indicator, roll indicator, yaw indicator, pitch indicator, three displays for tactical data, fuel indicator, HUD, control, alt, delete...
At least Windows would be fitting on an aircraft... It's easier to move a mouse cursor around with a joystick then to type "shutdown -r now" with it!
Beside the CONRAD equipment, also the well-known US XCam/XCam2 system (from X10) is available in Europe from EDENTRONICS. Both options are still low-power small-range systems.
Wow, someone bought an X10 camera! I think I'd prolly refuse to buy an X10 camera out of principle or at least sue X10 afterwards for failure of said cameras to reveal scantly clad women all over the place!
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I saw some medical thing on a cable channel about how you could cut a specific nerve to simply make the sweating stop. Interesting.
Well, maybe a new area of interest for the masochists among us: self-modding! Open arm, cut nerve, insert obscene amount of blue leds, etcetera!
Please, never EVER mention the word "standards" and "DVD writer" in one post again. Considering DVD writers still haven't confirmed to a single standard after quite some time would make DVDs a crap archival medium for some time to come. To be realistic, archiving computer data is still impossible because of the speed at which computers evolve and things still radically change from time to time. Who knows where will be in in 5 years? Solid state HDs, blue-laser DVDs, 64 bit computing and all those kinds of innovations would make archiving stuff a disaster. Imagine in 50 years, where we might have quantum computing, 128 bit architectures, optical storage, holographic displays and what not.
That said, forcing people by law to comply to a set of "archival standards" will only be detrimental for everyone involved in an economic way. Good archives are nice; law-enforced, potentially hideously expensive and mighty unreliable archival methods won't improve things for anyone apart from NeoSCO as they try to sue Linus Torvalds Jr. into submission after they claim Linux 6.2 contains license NeoSCO code.
Isn't Mr Perens a slashdot regular himself or something? Wouldn't that more or less defeat the whole purpose of holding a slashdot interview, then send him the question he can read himself and then making him answer them while he could have answered them by just replying?
Funny, I remember hearing on the duthc news about US law enforcements agencies being allowed to arrest dutch citizens on dutch soil and prosecute them in the US. Or US agencies enforcing extreme cargo checking in the port of Rotterdam (which is one of the biggest ports in the world, if not THE biggest) and the fact dutch airline agencies have to report ALL US bound passengers and their data to US agencies. All this under the "protection against terrorism" while the dutch goverment bends over and dutyfully takes it up the arse under the motto of "But our economy needs a trade impulse.".
Jesus, I'm going to need a weapon to defend myself against my own goddamn goverment. So this is how it feels to live in a US controlled puppet-state. Remember people, all this happened in a nice "hush hush" way, so I wouldn't be TOO surprised if the same applies in several countries where the officials seem to be Bush's puppets, Like the United Kingdom, Spain and maybe Australia. In fact, I think our prime ministers wished he was with Bush, Blair and Aznar on the pro-economic war on Iraq, except the whole ensemble would look silly with a trigger-happy cowboy, someone who appears to come straight from a Monty Python sketch, Don Quixote and Harry Potter. That and the dutch armed forces have a history of helping serbian nationalists with genocide. (Remember Srebrenica? We do, hence why the goverment doesn't DARE to put dutch armed forces into a combat situation.)
The CC number is really the phone's serial number and
Ruth is really his stepmother?
The most annoying of tech stuff is showing off some times; ring tones, business people with their latest laptops and pdas, cops with laser guns... All techno-bragging!
Every robot needs three mechanics and two programmers chasing it around as no robot manufacturer can ever settle on a standard and all robots are pushed into service running alpha firmware and drivers that are incomplete because of patented parts.
That said, I'm off to patent "int main ( int argc, char * const argv[] )" so I guess I'll see most of you folks in court by the end of the week, tata:)
As someone who meditates on a daily basis, I wholeheartedly disagree. Meditation is *very* useful for clearing the mind and relieving stress. It's a useful tool for collecting your thoughts, visualizing the achievement of goals, and quieting the useless chatter in your mind that keeps you from being productive. It's a technique that's been using tens of thousands of years, and it's very, very effective. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it!
That might be because it's (or at least it seems like) your own decision to meditate. There's a HUGE difference in attitude when you go meditate on your own initiative then when you're forced to meditate during work for 15 minutes, in a hurry, without being paid. I'm no expert on these things but I'd think it's very plausible that being forced to do meditation against your will and with a bad attitude towards it effectively renders it useless indeed...
That said, I think most people would rather have easier work times, more realistic goals set by management and be treated as humans instead of expendable statistics.
Portland native women are vile though. I know two of em: One might be the anti-christ and the other one looks like a guy with boobs. Big boobs. 17 year old, geeky, gullible and disloyal; any takers?
There is already so much Microsoft FUD on here, we don't need any more. People are blind, biassed and stupid when they go "Microsoft has a poor security history! Linux r0xx0r5!". Fact is, that with some decent software and some good skills a Windows machine CAN be decently secured and WILL REMAIN secure as long as said admin takes time to read up on exploits coming out and patching them on time, or at least finding a work-around untill a patch drops by. Besides, even a Linux box can be insecure if in the hands of an incapable admin who leaves everything open, suexecs stuff for a quick fix, runs potentially dangerous programs as root (samba, sshd, apache, etc) and all those things.
It's to be expected on here, but I'm still getting SICK of all the Microsoft bashing on here, all of it done by self-righteous zealots who view themselves as revolutionairies simply because Microsoft bashes Linux. You can scream, bash and insult all you want, but security is more dependant on the ADMINISTRATOR OF A SYSTEM then the OS he runs. Get a grip, people.
... if someone wrote a nice piece of mass mailing software that would be free, look great, run fast, spam people like there's no tomorrow and available under a "free but get your paws of my source code" license? I mean, we don't want the spammers to be able to realize that their latest toy doesn't actually send anything and has more backdoors then a Win95 alpha version, now do we? And it automagically has to hook up to a webcam if available, so we can have a laugh as a spammer realizes all his computers are now hosting illegal crap like Britney/Nsync/Linkin Park MP3s, various bad Disney animations as MPGs and files like "SCO_Unixware_kernel.tar.gz" while a RIAA/MPAA APC drives his/her front window!
Bonus points if said program makes a AYB quote the moment the spammer is sued into the nine hells themselves!
You should see german tourists... My god, those people are walking concentrations of arrogance and taste for cheap beer. Then again, ALL tourists are arrogant except Japanese tourists, who are remarkably polite though a bit too curious. I wonder why tourists are arrogant anyways? Is it really that hard to go some place and NOT be an obnoxious prick?
So, what would happen if we round up 30+ slashdotters and have all of them pillage the rack of razor blades, only to put them all back and pillage some more? You know, with a bunch of beach balls and a large amount of beer we could have a great time while pillaging razorblades!
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I can already imagine a large group of pseudo-overclockcers and case-modders with their pants around their ankles enjoying a nice moment of "stroking the tuna" at the idea of buying a gold-plated, peltier-cooled PSU from a ridiculously expensive brand. Add some bright blue leds and the whole ensemble would fit nicely into ye olde standard Alienware case with prefab case window, prefab neon lights and prefab coloured fans.
So, why do we have an article about expensive PSUs? This is Slashdots "News for Nerds", not "News for 14 year olds who go to LANs with the latest Alienware case daddy bought for them while on parole". Geez. What's next? Comparison of 5 different blue LEDs? "I have concluded that the Antec blue LEDs are definitely more blue then the cheaper LEDs!"
Thank you for your attention, carry on minions!
Like IPv6? You mean most things will already be there but no one will support it, no one will care apart from a few and no one will implement regardless of how hopeless and disastrous the current implementation is?
Ah yes, like IPv6 indeed. You know, I'll send a shiny mail delivered by SMTP2* over an IPv6* internet about the release of Duke Nukem Forever* to my gaming-addicted girlfriend* on the day SCO coughs up some evidence*
Note:
* = May or may not require divine intervention.
Did anyone else laugh so hard they had to cry? The worthless comparative graphs were amusing too. Seriously though... Some people should be removed from the internet and never, EVER, be allowed to touch a computer again. The internet is a wonderful thing in the way it grants everyone the oppurtunity to make oneself heard. Sadly, this also applies to politicians, overclockers, script kiddies and other subhumans :(
It's valuable. A single Microsoft OS can cost you up to 199 to 299 IIRC. Yes, it's a measly computer program not worth the money you fork over to MS for it, but that's not what matters. The market value matters. Cash should be returned at the retail price of the OS in question, back when it was still available.
Yes, they do need to get paid reasonably. 600 dollars per hour is a bit too much isn't it? Have you realized that in the US culture of "Sue thy neighbor", the only people making a real profit are the lawyers and stupid people with luck who can manage to push through ridiculous claims?
I can already imagine the cockpit layout of a Raptor... Altimeter, speedometer, non-functional IFF indicator, roll indicator, yaw indicator, pitch indicator, three displays for tactical data, fuel indicator, HUD, control, alt, delete...
At least Windows would be fitting on an aircraft... It's easier to move a mouse cursor around with a joystick then to type "shutdown -r now" with it!
Wow, someone bought an X10 camera! I think I'd prolly refuse to buy an X10 camera out of principle or at least sue X10 afterwards for failure of said cameras to reveal scantly clad women all over the place!
Well, maybe a new area of interest for the masochists among us: self-modding! Open arm, cut nerve, insert obscene amount of blue leds, etcetera!
Did you hear? Osama hijacked the Goodyear blimp and tried to fly it into the Empire States Building!
It bounced off five times before the bastard gave up!
Please, never EVER mention the word "standards" and "DVD writer" in one post again. Considering DVD writers still haven't confirmed to a single standard after quite some time would make DVDs a crap archival medium for some time to come. To be realistic, archiving computer data is still impossible because of the speed at which computers evolve and things still radically change from time to time. Who knows where will be in in 5 years? Solid state HDs, blue-laser DVDs, 64 bit computing and all those kinds of innovations would make archiving stuff a disaster. Imagine in 50 years, where we might have quantum computing, 128 bit architectures, optical storage, holographic displays and what not.
That said, forcing people by law to comply to a set of "archival standards" will only be detrimental for everyone involved in an economic way. Good archives are nice; law-enforced, potentially hideously expensive and mighty unreliable archival methods won't improve things for anyone apart from NeoSCO as they try to sue Linus Torvalds Jr. into submission after they claim Linux 6.2 contains license NeoSCO code.
Isn't Mr Perens a slashdot regular himself or something? Wouldn't that more or less defeat the whole purpose of holding a slashdot interview, then send him the question he can read himself and then making him answer them while he could have answered them by just replying?
Did anyone else just stare blankly at the subject for a few second and wonder who took what kind of drugs?
How about a simple network, some network booting and mounting remote locations read only? People are trying to re-invent the wheel here... Again.
Funny, I remember hearing on the duthc news about US law enforcements agencies being allowed to arrest dutch citizens on dutch soil and prosecute them in the US. Or US agencies enforcing extreme cargo checking in the port of Rotterdam (which is one of the biggest ports in the world, if not THE biggest) and the fact dutch airline agencies have to report ALL US bound passengers and their data to US agencies. All this under the "protection against terrorism" while the dutch goverment bends over and dutyfully takes it up the arse under the motto of "But our economy needs a trade impulse.".
Jesus, I'm going to need a weapon to defend myself against my own goddamn goverment. So this is how it feels to live in a US controlled puppet-state. Remember people, all this happened in a nice "hush hush" way, so I wouldn't be TOO surprised if the same applies in several countries where the officials seem to be Bush's puppets, Like the United Kingdom, Spain and maybe Australia. In fact, I think our prime ministers wished he was with Bush, Blair and Aznar on the pro-economic war on Iraq, except the whole ensemble would look silly with a trigger-happy cowboy, someone who appears to come straight from a Monty Python sketch, Don Quixote and Harry Potter. That and the dutch armed forces have a history of helping serbian nationalists with genocide. (Remember Srebrenica? We do, hence why the goverment doesn't DARE to put dutch armed forces into a combat situation.)
What are the chances that:
The most annoying of tech stuff is showing off some times; ring tones, business people with their latest laptops and pdas, cops with laser guns... All techno-bragging!
Every robot needs three mechanics and two programmers chasing it around as no robot manufacturer can ever settle on a standard and all robots are pushed into service running alpha firmware and drivers that are incomplete because of patented parts.
That said, I'm off to patent "int main ( int argc, char * const argv[] )" so I guess I'll see most of you folks in court by the end of the week, tata :)
That might be because it's (or at least it seems like) your own decision to meditate. There's a HUGE difference in attitude when you go meditate on your own initiative then when you're forced to meditate during work for 15 minutes, in a hurry, without being paid. I'm no expert on these things but I'd think it's very plausible that being forced to do meditation against your will and with a bad attitude towards it effectively renders it useless indeed...
That said, I think most people would rather have easier work times, more realistic goals set by management and be treated as humans instead of expendable statistics.
Portland native women are vile though. I know two of em: One might be the anti-christ and the other one looks like a guy with boobs. Big boobs. 17 year old, geeky, gullible and disloyal; any takers?
Christ.
There is already so much Microsoft FUD on here, we don't need any more. People are blind, biassed and stupid when they go "Microsoft has a poor security history! Linux r0xx0r5!". Fact is, that with some decent software and some good skills a Windows machine CAN be decently secured and WILL REMAIN secure as long as said admin takes time to read up on exploits coming out and patching them on time, or at least finding a work-around untill a patch drops by. Besides, even a Linux box can be insecure if in the hands of an incapable admin who leaves everything open, suexecs stuff for a quick fix, runs potentially dangerous programs as root (samba, sshd, apache, etc) and all those things.
It's to be expected on here, but I'm still getting SICK of all the Microsoft bashing on here, all of it done by self-righteous zealots who view themselves as revolutionairies simply because Microsoft bashes Linux. You can scream, bash and insult all you want, but security is more dependant on the ADMINISTRATOR OF A SYSTEM then the OS he runs. Get a grip, people.
Apparently not, it's neither informative nor a troll you see. It's meant to be a joke.
It has been mirrored already
Printing is for wusses; crayons add so much "feel" and atmosphere to a picture!
... if someone wrote a nice piece of mass mailing software that would be free, look great, run fast, spam people like there's no tomorrow and available under a "free but get your paws of my source code" license? I mean, we don't want the spammers to be able to realize that their latest toy doesn't actually send anything and has more backdoors then a Win95 alpha version, now do we? And it automagically has to hook up to a webcam if available, so we can have a laugh as a spammer realizes all his computers are now hosting illegal crap like Britney/Nsync/Linkin Park MP3s, various bad Disney animations as MPGs and files like "SCO_Unixware_kernel.tar.gz" while a RIAA/MPAA APC drives his/her front window!
Bonus points if said program makes a AYB quote the moment the spammer is sued into the nine hells themselves!
You should see german tourists... My god, those people are walking concentrations of arrogance and taste for cheap beer. Then again, ALL tourists are arrogant except Japanese tourists, who are remarkably polite though a bit too curious. I wonder why tourists are arrogant anyways? Is it really that hard to go some place and NOT be an obnoxious prick?
So, what would happen if we round up 30+ slashdotters and have all of them pillage the rack of razor blades, only to put them all back and pillage some more? You know, with a bunch of beach balls and a large amount of beer we could have a great time while pillaging razorblades!