Your take is indeed very interesting. I couldn't moderate (not my turn yet), so I'll just say it here instead.
Most likely the open source community should take the same tactic and play it right back against the purveyors of it.
There are certainly enough keywords that could be used in a first paragraph against other companies. A couple that come to mind are "insecure" and "monopolistic".
In fact, it might be fun to play that game. It's somewhat of a creative process to come up with these things.
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An unprecendented number of Slashdot geeks have started receiving massive amounts of spam after signing up for free Google shares. The email-harvesting www.googleiposwami.co seemed to be endorsed by/. editors by way of posting the article.
2. And in other/. news.../. editors use spam techniques to make money from their subscriber base. CowboyNeal could not be reached at his new off-shore resort for comment.
less wires = more ecologically friendly
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with technology, durability and ecological features in mind
This isn't a direct answer to the question since I don't know how to best wire a neighbourhood, however if it has to be an ecological solution then less wires are good, so wireless internet access might be the way to go (depending upon how much weight ecological gets in comparison to the others). Of course you will want to wrap some good security around that.
Otherwise if you need wires then double up on the power lines for internet access instead of laying new wires.
Just a couple of quick thoughts off the top of my head.
wow, a new contest,, and all i do is give my email
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Hey guys, I got this great contest going. Just visit my page and you could win free Google stock if you enter your email address.
Actual excerpt from the rules:
(Note that I'll never share your personal information with anyone, without exeption). I'll give the aggregated information away for educational use and other worthy causes. Email me.
It's slightly obvious that "Searchlight the international anti-facist magazine" who published the story is as dangerously intolerant as it makes others out to be and seems to exude as much hatred towards those it disagrees with. One questions is, if the Domino guy is intolerant in some ways, then does intolerance towards him fix the situation?
Some of the opinionated words used in the story are:
anti-(fill in vice here) extremists
extreme
cultish
sketchy
blatantly fascist
Whatever happened to telling the facts without providing and opinion? Opinions tend to turn people off.
Sounds like somebody has it in for somebody else. The article would be much more palattable if it didn't have so much opinion injected into it. Looks like it's just out to paint the worst picture possible, and does a good job at it.
There are usually pieces of truth in anything, no matter how one-sided the representation of the facts are. It would be nice to read some more level-headed, balanced material. Folks, don't jump on the bandwagon too fast without getting a balanced perspective. This magazine definitely does not exude that. Take a look through it. They're into the idea of "anti-fascist" so deeply that they can not see the forest for the trees.
Now the perfect reply to this would be to call me a fascist pig.;)
2 Quotes from the article:
"The cuts took place at the end of the company's second fiscal quarter and were part of its goal "of trying to be profitable within our core business"--selling the UnixWare and OpenServer Unix products, Stowell said."
(and)
"BayStar Capital, which earlier in April said SCO should drop its Unix product business and pay more attention to its legal case against Linux."
Sounds like Baystar isn't doing SCO any favors:
1. Baystar tries to withdraw funding recently
2. Baystart suggests SCO drop core line of business and focus on war (where will the $ come from now)?.
These companies are very interesting to say the least.
Re:bork bork bork (put ze cheeken in de oven)
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%BORK - Bork Pointer This 32-bit register always points to the translated instruction on the stack : this means that the PUSH and POP operations would be specified in pseudo-C as:
Hey, remember the Canadian startup icravetv.com (archive link) and the fuss it stirred up. It was a good little service for its time, before getting squashed by legalities. Maybe it would be a good time for them to consider starting it up again.
So this DRM stuff has to be touchy. If the DRM'd item thinks it might not be legally running, then it won't. It would be relatively easy to play small tricks on DRM'd items legally running in a computing environment, and then everybody who is having trouble (lots and lots of people) can swamp the sellers with tech support calls and request media replacements. This type of huge backlash could cause DRM to be fiscally more trouble than it's worth. That might stall it for a while anyways. Just a thought -- a foolish thought in the vein of stemming this technology, but a thought worth expressing none-the-less.
It could be that people are making fun of Jay because those people wouldn't look half as good in the same costume. Jay does that costume 10x more justice than I ever could.
That being said, if he's an avid reader of Slashdot then I'm sure the flood of jokes didn't catch him by surprise either.
You have to laugh at yourself in life too. I hope Jay is one of those cool people who can, otherwise he stands to be emotionally scarred for life. I know the older I get the more apt I am to laugh at myself instead of getting offended every time someone makes fun at me. If half of these jokes were made about me, I would definitely laugh at them -- they're not all bad. Very few are seething. I'm getting a kick out of most comments... and would even consider posting myself in spandex just to get a reaction. However I'm sure the Slashdot editors are all spandexed-out by now.
The LAN is already paid for because the equipment has been paid for and the bits and bytes being sent around the network are being paid for through the electrical bill. There's nothing left to pay for -- and you would think it's impossible to pay for nothing -- but obviously not in today's world. And that's my opinion.
And if I may expand on my already-jaded point about this product (this just came to mind) maybe they should start producing a
Chainsaw-wielding Robotic Submarine to compete in the underwater tree market -- instead of just inadvertantly destroying delicated underwater environments for the sake of the entertainment value for the common consumer.
Their motto should be "Throwing unknowledgable persons into a machine to scoot around a delicate underwater environment." Yes, real smart.
I once took a diving course, as have others who are reading this. There are a number of things to learn regarding safety. This Scuba-Doo machine obviously tries to handle all that worry for you. However I don't believe an unknowledgable person should be sent underwater just for recreational purpose, even if a machine *may* handle the main safety features automatically. The person will be better off if they learn about their underwater environment (the fundamentals) before attempting to enter it in any way, and how to react properly in certain situations. Save the $14,000 and instead spend a few hundred bucks on a diving course which will provide you with much more enjoyment and hands down give you a safer experience (by way of knowledge).
This machine is impractical (does not remotely resemble classic diving) because you can only use it in a very basic environment... and even then it looks like a good reef-destroyer.
whether technology spurs greater achievements by speeding rote calculations or deprives people of fundamentals.
As far as calculator example goes, I believe a person should understand the fundamentals before using the calculator. Don't give a power tool to a kid. Somebody with an understanding of the fundamentals can wield the tool correctly and wisely whereas some cowboy is just dangerous. The old saying comes to mind "know just enough to be dangerous". As far as those oranges in the article, well somebody had better figure out a way to confirm the computer answer, without having to go through the exact same meticulous steps. Don't put your trust in technology without the proof to back it up, because technology built by people is prone to error. Now I'm sure the orange problem won't cause harm to anybody, however I hope I never read such an article about a nuclear power plant!
What would be really fun is a deathmatch -- whoever hosts is at risk. You would have to stop the other players before they actually bring down your computer system. With something at risk I'm sure the game would be that much more exciting.
They should try doing this with the Quake engine to have more realistic worlds.
Is there a prompt option to confirm deletion? e.g. Do you really want to blow up this file?
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen... 350 radio telescopes being built to find signs of life in space
This is living proof that no matter how popular, powerful or rich a computer geek becomes, he never leaves his roots. The difference is instead of running SETI@home like the rest of the masses, instead he's funding such projects because he can -- plus it would be nice to have your name attached to an array of radio telescopes. Maybe he has to pay for each letter of his last name -- the latest being 13.5 mil to get the 'N' -- good thing he doesn't have a Russian last name.
Slashdot Mirror
* compilers, linkers, debuggers, and other tools will be plugin frameworks, rather than monolithic applications;
For example, see the .Net Microsoft.CSharp Namespace, the System.Codedom namespace to represent code as objects, etc. in the framework class library.
* programmers will be able to extend the syntax of programming languages; and
don't know about extension of languages yet, but the next one is interesting ....
* programs will be stored as XML documents, so that programmers can represent and process data and meta-data uniformly.
take a look at Microsoft's XAML technology -- describing code by using XML. That's the general direction.
I'm sure other technology frameworks have similar things, but I'm not as familiar with those technologies.
Most likely the open source community should take the same tactic and play it right back against the purveyors of it.
There are certainly enough keywords that could be used in a first paragraph against other companies. A couple that come to mind are "insecure" and "monopolistic".
In fact, it might be fun to play that game. It's somewhat of a creative process to come up with these things.
1. An unprecendented number of Slashdot geeks have started receiving massive amounts of spam after signing up for free Google shares. The email-harvesting www.googleiposwami.co seemed to be endorsed by /. editors by way of posting the article.
2. And in other /. news ... /. editors use spam techniques to make money from their subscriber base. CowboyNeal could not be reached at his new off-shore resort for comment.
This isn't a direct answer to the question since I don't know how to best wire a neighbourhood, however if it has to be an ecological solution then less wires are good, so wireless internet access might be the way to go (depending upon how much weight ecological gets in comparison to the others). Of course you will want to wrap some good security around that.
Otherwise if you need wires then double up on the power lines for internet access instead of laying new wires.
Just a couple of quick thoughts off the top of my head.
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they won't know to mod this down
Some of the opinionated words used in the story are:
anti-(fill in vice here) extremists
extreme
cultish
sketchy
blatantly fascist
Whatever happened to telling the facts without providing and opinion? Opinions tend to turn people off.
Sounds like somebody has it in for somebody else. The article would be much more palattable if it didn't have so much opinion injected into it. Looks like it's just out to paint the worst picture possible, and does a good job at it.
There are usually pieces of truth in anything, no matter how one-sided the representation of the facts are. It would be nice to read some more level-headed, balanced material. Folks, don't jump on the bandwagon too fast without getting a balanced perspective. This magazine definitely does not exude that. Take a look through it. They're into the idea of "anti-fascist" so deeply that they can not see the forest for the trees.
Now the perfect reply to this would be to call me a fascist pig. ;)
Company profile for Anousheh Ansari
Can anybody find Amir's info?
"The cuts took place at the end of the company's second fiscal quarter and were part of its goal "of trying to be profitable within our core business"--selling the UnixWare and OpenServer Unix products, Stowell said."
(and)
"BayStar Capital, which earlier in April said SCO should drop its Unix product business and pay more attention to its legal case against Linux."
Sounds like Baystar isn't doing SCO any favors:
1. Baystar tries to withdraw funding recently
2. Baystart suggests SCO drop core line of business and focus on war (where will the $ come from now)?.
These companies are very interesting to say the least.
%BORK - Bork Pointer
// put ze cheeken in de oven
// done
This 32-bit register always points to the translated instruction on the stack : this means that the PUSH and POP operations would be specified in pseudo-C as:
*--BORK = value;
value = *BORK++;
Hey, remember the Canadian startup icravetv.com (archive link) and the fuss it stirred up. It was a good little service for its time, before getting squashed by legalities. Maybe it would be a good time for them to consider starting it up again.
So this DRM stuff has to be touchy. If the DRM'd item thinks it might not be legally running, then it won't. It would be relatively easy to play small tricks on DRM'd items legally running in a computing environment, and then everybody who is having trouble (lots and lots of people) can swamp the sellers with tech support calls and request media replacements. This type of huge backlash could cause DRM to be fiscally more trouble than it's worth. That might stall it for a while anyways. Just a thought -- a foolish thought in the vein of stemming this technology, but a thought worth expressing none-the-less.
It could be that people are making fun of Jay because those people wouldn't look half as good in the same costume. Jay does that costume 10x more justice than I ever could. ... and would even consider posting myself in spandex just to get a reaction. However I'm sure the Slashdot editors are all spandexed-out by now.
That being said, if he's an avid reader of Slashdot then I'm sure the flood of jokes didn't catch him by surprise either.
You have to laugh at yourself in life too. I hope Jay is one of those cool people who can, otherwise he stands to be emotionally scarred for life. I know the older I get the more apt I am to laugh at myself instead of getting offended every time someone makes fun at me.
If half of these jokes were made about me, I would definitely laugh at them -- they're not all bad. Very few are seething. I'm getting a kick out of most comments
The same thing is free from the iTunes interface, and the Apple version works much better. You know which one I'll use.
The LAN is already paid for because the equipment has been paid for and the bits and bytes being sent around the network are being paid for through the electrical bill. There's nothing left to pay for -- and you would think it's impossible to pay for nothing -- but obviously not in today's world. And that's my opinion.
What if there's speeding in all four directions at the same time? Will it give all reds?
And if I may expand on my already-jaded point about this product (this just came to mind) maybe they should start producing a Chainsaw-wielding Robotic Submarine to compete in the underwater tree market -- instead of just inadvertantly destroying delicated underwater environments for the sake of the entertainment value for the common consumer.
I once took a diving course, as have others who are reading this. There are a number of things to learn regarding safety. This Scuba-Doo machine obviously tries to handle all that worry for you. However I don't believe an unknowledgable person should be sent underwater just for recreational purpose, even if a machine *may* handle the main safety features automatically. The person will be better off if they learn about their underwater environment (the fundamentals) before attempting to enter it in any way, and how to react properly in certain situations. Save the $14,000 and instead spend a few hundred bucks on a diving course which will provide you with much more enjoyment and hands down give you a safer experience (by way of knowledge).
... and even then it looks like a good reef-destroyer.
This machine is impractical (does not remotely resemble classic diving) because you can only use it in a very basic environment
As far as calculator example goes, I believe a person should understand the fundamentals before using the calculator. Don't give a power tool to a kid. Somebody with an understanding of the fundamentals can wield the tool correctly and wisely whereas some cowboy is just dangerous. The old saying comes to mind "know just enough to be dangerous". As far as those oranges in the article, well somebody had better figure out a way to confirm the computer answer, without having to go through the exact same meticulous steps. Don't put your trust in technology without the proof to back it up, because technology built by people is prone to error. Now I'm sure the orange problem won't cause harm to anybody, however I hope I never read such an article about a nuclear power plant!
They should try doing this with the Quake engine to have more realistic worlds.
Is there a prompt option to confirm deletion? e.g. Do you really want to blow up this file?
"Martin, you don't scare me". (ref)
Momma's geek.
Fortunately the content is old enough that it's available through the Internet Archive
This is living proof that no matter how popular, powerful or rich a computer geek becomes, he never leaves his roots. The difference is instead of running SETI@home like the rest of the masses, instead he's funding such projects because he can -- plus it would be nice to have your name attached to an array of radio telescopes. Maybe he has to pay for each letter of his last name -- the latest being 13.5 mil to get the 'N' -- good thing he doesn't have a Russian last name.
Would it be worth anybody's time to check the radiation levels inside some of these silos before buying? You never know.