Since this hasn't been moderated as trollbait... yet... I'll respond:)
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Oh, come on! I'll bet most nerds who are old enough to have been readers of Bloom County back then were also fans. I, for one, really appreciated the reminder to read the comics today.
Much of what appears on/. is not "news for nerds" in the classical sense but is still of general interest. If you don't like it, don't follow the link.
When a devotee of show X has a plot continue into show Y, there's a good chance that said viewer will venture into the community of Y to follow the plot. I did that once with a Practice episode and decided I kind of liked Boston Public as well.
Essentially, it's a way of bridging two "universes" -- often in a way that could have been handled by having similar characters invented on the fly, but in a way that can lead one into the other universe temporarily.
My favorite example of this sort of crossover, actually, is the way the famous author Isaac Asimov combined his Robots series with his Foundation series. There, I imagine most fans of one were already fans of the other, so it wasn't a "come on" like on TV series, but more of a real sense of closure in the last years of his writing.
You're right of course, but the comment was true to form for Slashdot, and it completely cracked me up. If I didn't take (too much) offense, I'm impressed that you would.
I liked Donaldson... if you like him, I recommend a relatively new author (and someone I knew about 20 years ago in college), Katya Reimann. She has a very nice fantasy trilogy out.
I also second all the votes for Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge.
I read Fumbling back when it came out, and found it very interesting. Can anyone who has seen both books comment on the differences? Is the newer book worthwhile for those who read the first one?
My personal domain is with an ISP that uses an interesting wrinkle: it only lets an IP address send outgoing mail through it if the same address downloaded POP3 mail within the past few minutes.
This would be one variation on the proposal here -- don't require the mail to go through one's own local ISP, but require authentication of one form or another for whichever ISP is ultimately used.
I know the comments in this forum are going about 10-1 in favor of how this is a huge ripoff.
And I confess that I personally don't want to pay more to get what I've been getting already at a lower price.
But I have to admit that the idea of paying a flat rate regardless of usage simply doesn't make economic sense. Do you think the big companies pay the same for a T1 line as a T3 line or bigger? Of course not. So why are home broadband users special? Tiered service for home users is just an extension of this.
Of course, I fully agree with the person who grumbled about how all the spam we download counts against these caps. ISPs should put in better spam control before imposing tiers.
I was at a lab from 1991-94, at which we had one of those "Airmouse" wireless mice. We called it the "Airdog" because it performed so badly.... I presume the newest generation is better.
The article mentioned how great rsync is for HTTP traffic, and left it at that. I've seen rproxy in the rsync source tree, but I wonder how active it is these days, and whether it has a chance for wide adoption. What good is cutting the transfer down by 90% if no one uses it? Also, there's a somewhat dated study of delta-encoding (and rsync/rproxy is in this genre) that raises the issue of how frequently the same data is retrieved repeatedly.
Does anyone have empirical evaluations of deltas (including, but not necessarily limited to, rproxy) on today's workloads?
I second the comment that Turtledove's alternate history about how the Confederacy might have fought to a standstill (and nearly won) is extremely well done. He's alternated books with another series, in which World War II is interrupted by an alien invasion and the Earth mostly unites to combat it but is still bothered by petty bickering among the major powers.
Both series are excellent, but the one about the Civil War (and continuing to the early 1900's) is a truly believable "what if" scenario.
Finally, fans of Turtledove should note that he's written some other books, placed in the far distant past, under the name "H.N. Turteltaub" -- and equally enjoyable.
The article says that when first accessed, it displays fireworks.
Does this mean that if PU beat the applicant to the site, they student was deprived of this display?
I see 18 lawsuits... well, maybe 3 or 4, when you factor in how many of the 18 likely got in.
My thinking exactly. Going there once to see what credentials were asked for doesn't seem really shady. Actually providing credentials they got confidentially is shady, but if they were doing it to confirm how vulnerable the site was and then would tell Yale about it, it doesn't seem so bad. Going there 18 times is criminal.
FWIW, I confirmed this directly with a faculty member I know there.
I realize that until they post the news on their website, instead of posting the advertisement for the position Bjarne has reportedly accepted, this may be hard to believe.
Does anyone have a scorecard of all the recent departures from AT&T Research?
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Since this hasn't been moderated as trollbait... yet... I'll respond :)
/. is not "news for nerds" in the classical sense but is still of general interest. If you don't like it, don't follow the link.
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Oh, come on! I'll bet most nerds who are old enough to have been readers of Bloom County back then were also fans. I, for one, really appreciated the reminder to read the comics today.
Much of what appears on
Funny, but untrue.
When a devotee of show X has a plot continue into show Y, there's a good chance that said viewer will venture into the community of Y to follow the plot. I did that once with a Practice episode and decided I kind of liked Boston Public as well.
Essentially, it's a way of bridging two "universes" -- often in a way that could have been handled by having similar characters invented on the fly, but in a way that can lead one into the other universe temporarily.
My favorite example of this sort of crossover, actually, is the way the famous author Isaac Asimov combined his Robots series with his Foundation series. There, I imagine most fans of one were already fans of the other, so it wasn't a "come on" like on TV series, but more of a real sense of closure in the last years of his writing.
Absolutely, though I'm happy to have this one.
Better yet, just like all those Practice/BostonPublic and ER/ThirdWatch crossover episodes, coming soon to the funny pages near you: Calvin & Opus.
Pastiche isn't from Microsoft, it's from the University of Michigan. Here's the link.
You're right of course, but the comment was true to form for Slashdot, and it completely cracked me up. If I didn't take (too much) offense, I'm impressed that you would.
What does that have to do with winning the award?
Hah! If I got to moderate your snipe, it definitely gets points for humor, even if I was the victim of your insult.
Actually, I've read the word in various columns and such, and this is the only time it seemed right to use it :)
And what's the address to subscribe to that list...?
Gee, and I thought it was because of copyright violations, or perhaps bad spelling.
I also second all the votes for Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge.
I read Fumbling back when it came out, and found it very interesting. Can anyone who has seen both books comment on the differences? Is the newer book worthwhile for those who read the first one?
This would be one variation on the proposal here -- don't require the mail to go through one's own local ISP, but require authentication of one form or another for whichever ISP is ultimately used.
And I confess that I personally don't want to pay more to get what I've been getting already at a lower price.
But I have to admit that the idea of paying a flat rate regardless of usage simply doesn't make economic sense. Do you think the big companies pay the same for a T1 line as a T3 line or bigger? Of course not. So why are home broadband users special? Tiered service for home users is just an extension of this.
Of course, I fully agree with the person who grumbled about how all the spam we download counts against these caps. ISPs should put in better spam control before imposing tiers.
I was at a lab from 1991-94, at which we had one of those "Airmouse" wireless mice. We called it the "Airdog" because it performed so badly.... I presume the newest generation is better.
Does anyone have empirical evaluations of deltas (including, but not necessarily limited to, rproxy) on today's workloads?
I second the comment that Turtledove's alternate history about how the Confederacy might have fought to a standstill (and nearly won) is extremely well done. He's alternated books with another series, in which World War II is interrupted by an alien invasion and the Earth mostly unites to combat it but is still bothered by petty bickering among the major powers. Both series are excellent, but the one about the Civil War (and continuing to the early 1900's) is a truly believable "what if" scenario. Finally, fans of Turtledove should note that he's written some other books, placed in the far distant past, under the name "H.N. Turteltaub" -- and equally enjoyable.
The article says that when first accessed, it displays fireworks. Does this mean that if PU beat the applicant to the site, they student was deprived of this display? I see 18 lawsuits... well, maybe 3 or 4, when you factor in how many of the 18 likely got in.
(Full disclosure: I'm a Yalie.)
I wonder what Randal Schwartz thinks of all this?
I wish I could rate your response to my question, because it was ROTFL material. Thanks.
What's "42"? Something out of a Douglas Adams book?
I realize that until they post the news on their website, instead of posting the advertisement for the position Bjarne has reportedly accepted, this may be hard to believe.
Does anyone have a scorecard of all the recent departures from AT&T Research?