After they get over their shock, you'll have half a dozen acne-face geeks knocking over their Mountain Dew, pot-bellies a-jiggling to write you your own kernel.
especially if you say that guys who live in their mothers' basements are "way cool".
The online version did in fact come with a license (online?) but hey I'm not complaining, this is a few hundred dollars worth of free software.
Yeah, and I'll bet the first baggie of crack, from the campus dealer, is free too.
But how much does it cost to break the habit?
Re:/bzzzt *black cloud of smoke*
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I can surely find you plenty of people that don't want to pay for anything, though. natch.
I can surely find you pleanty of people on Slashdot who don't pay for anything.
I mean, after all, living in Mom's basement, eating from her fridge, and using Dad's Xbox and Dad's DSL is all free, right?
And not even Mom or Dad have to pay for hot water; it's not like these geeks are showering. Why wash off that nice layer of Dorito Dust and Mountain Dew?
How much development is still done in "regular" C and C++?
Who actually owns copies of those standards? I know I don't - simply because they charge several hundred bucks a copy.
I own both, and I use both.
Each is $18 in pdf format from ANSI, as others have noted.
Standards don't help you learn how to code ["real world" programs].
Standards document what you can expect, and what you cannot expect, from the language.
Want your "real world" program to run after yopu've upgraded or changed your compiler? Want to be able to port your "real world" program to another architechture? Want it to run for years and years? Then it needs to be written to the Standard. And so your programmers have to know (enough of) the Standard to write to that Standard.
It would start a market, particularly in college, when you need to know something. Just implant a piece of brain with some knowledge, kinda like the matrix.
Maybe you can whip up a spelling and grammar module.
Theirs alot of need's for that in teh Slashdot community, its true isnt it? I mean, it's need is aparant, right?
Of course, the 1337 5p34k module would probably sell better.
The problem with that argument is that it has also been the law of the land, since the earliest days of this republic, that prisoners of war are not criminal suspects, but fall in a different category.
And when did the government prove, with due process of law, that Padilla is a P.O.W.?
He wasn't detained pursuant to any combat, nor did he surrender to any member of any military force.
He was arrested in O'Hare Airport, in Chicago (not a military zone, last I checked), by civilian police.
Padilla is a U.S. citizen, arrested in the U.S., wearing civilian clothes and with no connection to any foreign military -- other than that claimed by an enemy of the U.S. under interrogation, and techoed by the administration.
Allowing the administration to decide that anyone is an enemy combatant, just because they say so, is far more of a threat to American liberties than any terrorist.
Speaking of libraries, there's already a peer-pressure effect. My wife works as a librarian and reports she doesnt't have trouble with people surfing "objectionable" sites because all of the machines are well in the open with plenty of patrons passing by.
And that's an excellent solution to the problem of trench-coated weirdos using library computers for sleazy purposes.
By the way, how many credit card numbers has seen seen?
Can she also point out which patrons who have searched the web about their private medical issues?
What about those browsing for unpopular political ideas?
I was willing to take a chance on GW Bush after eight years of Clinton.
But Ashcroft scares me.
He imprisons people who have been legally appointed by California towns to distribute medical marijuana to the terminally ill.
He wants to prevent states from allowing assisted suicide, but claims he's a supporter of states' rights.
While terrorists threaten out country, he make a point of going after, of all things, head shops.
He wants the power to deprive Americans of their citizenship without due process, if they're suspected of involvement with designated terrorist organizations.
He allows the American citizens to be taken into military custody and held incommunicado if they're merely designated "enemy combatants" -- even if arrested within U.S. borders.
Four more years of Ashcroft will see the U.S. Constitution a historical curiosity. "Your papers, citizen!"
And this is why I'm voting for the Democratic candidate for President in 2004 -- whomever that candidate is. Dump Ashcroft.
I remember reading once that even if the moon were made of solid gold, any mining effort would still lose quite a bit of money due to tremendous launch/return costs that are between $7000 and $20000 per pound. Even if you brought a metric ton of gold back you'd be losing money.
I remember reading once that it took eight months to get a sailing ship from Spain to Japan. It would never make sense for the Japanese to trade, oh, integrated curcuits to the Spanish. Much less Hondas.
And meanwhile NASA's been sitting with its collective thumb up its collective ass for nearly thirty-three years, driving a space truck.
I mean no disrespect to our astronauts, who do the best they can with the beauracracy they've got -- but I have no respect for out visonless politicians, and I'm ashamed of the American people.
We were there. We made it, atop a column of fire. We had our chance. And then we turned out back on our destiny, and turned on MTv.
God Bless America. Maybe the Chinese can wake us up.
Or maybe any of you with dreams to be explorers of space should start learning Madndarin.
Slashdot Mirror
Damn, you figured me out. :-[ Just... dont tell anyone else. I'm on IRC with the nick "Miss Kat"
She talked to me!
A real girl!
And I didn't have to use Mom's credit card!
a/s/l? Can I write you a kernel? Do you like to go to Star Trek conventions? Wanna see my collection of Spider-Man comix?
Go onto a linux channel on IRC, and....
Pretend you're a girl.
After they get over their shock, you'll have half a dozen acne-face geeks knocking over their Mountain Dew, pot-bellies a-jiggling to write you your own kernel.
especially if you say that guys who live in their mothers' basements are "way cool".
In other news, thanks to everybody using that code I released to the public domain.
Suckers!!!
Now that it's deeply embedded in your projects, All Your Base Are Belong To Me!
Yours sincerely,
Richard Stallman
Let's face it, this won't work for Slashdotters...
Half are too young to buy alcohol, and the other half will want to wait until they can use their favorite re-charger:
Mountain Dew.
The online version did in fact come with a license (online?) but hey I'm not complaining, this is a few hundred dollars worth of free software.
Yeah, and I'll bet the first baggie of crack, from the campus dealer, is free too.
But how much does it cost to break the habit?
I can surely find you plenty of people that don't want to pay for anything, though. natch.
I can surely find you pleanty of people on Slashdot who don't pay for anything.
I mean, after all, living in Mom's basement, eating from her fridge, and using Dad's Xbox and Dad's DSL is all free, right?
And not even Mom or Dad have to pay for hot water; it's not like these geeks are showering. Why wash off that nice layer of Dorito Dust and Mountain Dew?
Rejoice Geeks!
You may never have to shower again!
(Not that you do now.)
In other news, the "killer clothes" also absorb Dorito dust and Mountaion Dew, turning these compounds into comparitively harmless carbon monoxide.
How much development is still done in "regular" C and C++?
Who actually owns copies of those standards? I know I don't - simply because they charge several hundred bucks a copy.
I own both, and I use both.
Each is $18 in pdf format from ANSI, as others have noted.
Standards don't help you learn how to code ["real world" programs].
Standards document what you can expect, and what you cannot expect, from the language.
Want your "real world" program to run after yopu've upgraded or changed your compiler? Want to be able to port your "real world" program to another architechture? Want it to run for years and years? Then it needs to be written to the Standard. And so your programmers have to know (enough of) the Standard to write to that Standard.
"According to Daily Daemon News and The FreeBSD Diary, NetBSD, FreeBSD and GNU/OpenBSD are to be merged."
I won't believe this until ; Netcraft confirms.
Yah, I develop killer app for Orange SmartPhone.
You betcha'!
Yah, I pay for priviledge, you betcha'!
Yah, I tell all friends, you buy Orange SmartPhone, you betcha'!
Conch shells.
If your plane crashes on a deserted island, and you get the conch shell, you 0\/\/n3rs the island.
Please don't get Proxomitron: we, and I'm sure many other sites, use the referrer header to tell us about broken links from other web sites to ours.
I'm sure it's convenient to use your visitors' browsing to let you know about errors in pages that link to you.
But the referrer header can also be used to track my browsing; given the choice between my privacy and your convenience, my privacy has to win.
links straight from slashdot.org are disabled, but not from developer.slashdot.org
Get Proxomitron, suppress the REFERRER http header.
Please, somebody think of the children!
It would start a market, particularly in college, when you need to know something. Just implant a piece of brain with some knowledge, kinda like the matrix.
Maybe you can whip up a spelling and grammar module.
Theirs alot of need's for that in teh Slashdot community, its true isnt it? I mean, it's need is aparant, right?
Of course, the 1337 5p34k module would probably sell better.
This man lost his rights as a US citizen when he traveled overseas and conspired with a foreign government to harm the United States.
Um, what a bout due proces of law? What about proving that he conspired to harm the U.S.? What abbout doing this in a court of law?
How does letting him have his day in court threaten our safety?
And how does not letting him have his day in court safeguard our liberties?
The problem with that argument is that it has also been the law of the land, since the earliest days of this republic, that prisoners of war are not criminal suspects, but fall in a different category.
And when did the government prove, with due process of law, that Padilla is a P.O.W.?
He wasn't detained pursuant to any combat, nor did he surrender to any member of any military force.
He was arrested in O'Hare Airport, in Chicago (not a military zone, last I checked), by civilian police.
Padilla is a U.S. citizen, arrested in the U.S., wearing civilian clothes and with no connection to any foreign military -- other than that claimed by an enemy of the U.S. under interrogation, and techoed by the administration.
Allowing the administration to decide that anyone is an enemy combatant, just because they say so, is far more of a threat to American liberties than any terrorist.
Speaking of libraries, there's already a peer-pressure effect. My wife works as a librarian and reports she doesnt't have trouble with people surfing "objectionable" sites because all of the machines are well in the open with plenty of patrons passing by.
And that's an excellent solution to the problem of trench-coated weirdos using library computers for sleazy purposes.
By the way, how many credit card numbers has seen seen?
Can she also point out which patrons who have searched the web about their private medical issues?
What about those browsing for unpopular political ideas?
"You prev! I see from the NetAccountablity log you've been "browsing" FreshMeat again!"
"But honey, it's all about software! Honest!"
"Software, hardcore, whatever, it's all dirty!"
But Ashcroft scares me.
Four more years of Ashcroft will see the U.S. Constitution a historical curiosity. "Your papers, citizen!"
And this is why I'm voting for the Democratic candidate for President in 2004 -- whomever that candidate is. Dump Ashcroft.
I remember reading once that even if the moon were made of solid gold, any mining effort would still lose quite a bit of money due to tremendous launch/return costs that are between $7000 and $20000 per pound. Even if you brought a metric ton of gold back you'd be losing money.
I remember reading once that it took eight months to get a sailing ship from Spain to Japan. It would never make sense for the Japanese to trade, oh, integrated curcuits to the Spanish. Much less Hondas.
And meanwhile NASA's been sitting with its collective thumb up its collective ass for nearly thirty-three years, driving a space truck.
I mean no disrespect to our astronauts, who do the best they can with the beauracracy they've got -- but I have no respect for out visonless politicians, and I'm ashamed of the American people.
We were there. We made it, atop a column of fire. We had our chance. And then we turned out back on our destiny, and turned on MTv.
God Bless America. Maybe the Chinese can wake us up.
Or maybe any of you with dreams to be explorers of space should start learning Madndarin.
physicists have worked out how to look at the smallest sizes and shortest time[s]....
So physicists have so little to do they're investigating the sex life of geekus unattractiveus, the common Slashdotter?
Shouldn't they be spending that grant money on smething useful, like Total Information Awareness of what the Goatse man is up to (or had up him)?
Anyone know of a good open source POP & SMTP proxy that runs under MS Windows and is written in C or C++?
Thanks.
Virgin Tracker?
You mean the Slashdot user list?
Oh, Perversion Tracker!
Yeah, that's the Slashdot user list.