Couldn't you have hosted a torrent or something? I'd have loved to hear this. Stern's poor-me martyr act is all about gaining publicity, of course, but still entertaining none the less.
Was the submitter really stupid enough to think his blog would stand up to a slashdotting?
Kerry is more popular because the rest of the world is even stupider than the average American voter.
They just don't like Bush. So therefore, Kerry must be an angel.
They're the same guy. Someone tell me the differences in their platforms.
All I've heard is "Bush is a dummy!" from the Kerry camp, and "Kerry is a wimp!" from the Bush camp.
There are no issues in this campaign, because they agree on all of them. Kerry has no intentions of discontinuing the operations in Iraq, repealing PATRIOT, fixing MediCare or Social Security, etc, etc, etc..
The only issue I can think of where they disagree is abortion, which is too much of a hot-button topic to bring up during a campaign.
So you have foreign dopes saying stupid-ass shit. Like the Vatican endorsing Kerry. Then they're asked, "isn't it a sin to vote for a candidate in favor of abortion? Didn't you say exactly that LAST ELECTION?". And they go "ummm ummm ummmm But Bush is a dummY!!!!!1!!!! Him mess up a cliche during a speech!1!1!!"
Frankly, the rest of the world *is* irrelevant when it comes to an American election.
It's a political campaign site, and any decisions as to how it's being run are made by people working on the campaign, not Bush himself.
The election is in 6 days, I wouldn't be too shocked if they decided it was time to pull the plug on the site completely. It's served it's purpose. They have limited funds with which to campaign (albeit not limited enough, IMO).
Seems to me to be a preemptive move against DDOS attacks from foreign dopes.
Battery life and price were big factors in GameBoys success, but I attribute it mainly to the fact that Nintendo realised what the killer app was, and shipped it with the Gameboy... Multiplayer. The original gameboy shipped with Tetris and the link cable.
If your friend had a gameboy, you had a good reason to get one so you could play head to head. If your friend had a GameGear, he was off in a corner by himself.
The year after it came out, I could hardly navigate the halls of my highschool without tripping over 20 link cables. Multiplayer was HUGE.
I reboot my machines all the time, because it's easier than ssh'ing in, and figuring out what the problem is.
One is mainly an LDAP server/PDC, and for some reason OpenLDAP just dies once in awhile. Has something to do with BDB settings, I'm supposed to know some magical cache size setting or something to make it stable. I have no time for that. It boots from a RO image, which I rarely need to update.
Same for the firewall/gateway. It's just much easier to tell people "if the internet or vpn isnt working, reset this box and wait a minute".
Linux can have really really long uptimes, but only if you have an admin who can babysit it and solve problems without rebooting.
I'm not an admin, and I don't have time to figure out why "dhcpcd" or "dnsmasq" decided they dont need to spawn anymore. While such problems could probably be easily fixed by deleting some lockfile or clearing some log, rebooting is just easier.
Linux needs to be able to boot fast to move forward, especially in the world of "embedded" or single-function PCs.
The submission is misleading, it takes 15 seconds for TCC to compile the kernel (without modules and just enough support to read the HDD). They just jammed the compiling into boot time. So 15 seconds from when your POST screen clears to the time the machine actually starts booting the kernel.
Boot time would still be measured in minutes, it doesn't magically make init.d or all the other crud load up fast.
It takes a couple minutes to compile my kernel on a 3.06 P4, and of course, forever and a day to boot.
I guess 15 seconds is to compile without any device support other than the boot drive.
That said, linux boot time as it is sucks, especially if you want to use it on something like a router/firewall box like I do. The only button I ever press on that machine is reset. VPN not working? Reset.
That's how it should work IMO, but every time I do it the 'net is out for 10 mintues until it's back up.
Resetting the whole box should be faster than ssh'ing in and typing a "/etc/init.d/shorewall restart" and "/etc/init.d/openvpn restart".
You can break the same song into multiple tracks with no gaps between them. It's done on CD all the time (ie; pretty much every live recording album ever made).
Would you Apple zealots really get upset if there was something out there better than the iPod? You're paying all that cash for a "lifestyle", not a piece of electronics. If it doesn't have the Apple logo, and the hipster douchebag image that comes along with it, then it's not real competition.
For most of the rest of us, a $30 mp3-cd walkman is more than we need.
Whoopty do the FFW is only 10x, so what? Lots of people don't listen to 60 minute tracks, most are smart enough to break 60 minute performances into several 5-10 minute tracks to facilitate jumping around (look at Mike Oldsfield's Tubular Bells on CD for example).
I'm so sick of reading iPod ads here. Can you please create an iPod section so I can block it from the front page?
When will Firefox render slashdot properly? I still have the page text overlapping the margins, and about 9 times out of 10 when I submit a comment or click to read into a thread, I get a page full of crap and have to reload a few times.
What's the deal? 1.0 preview release now, and it's been this way since 0.6. It's in Bugzilla, though I suspect it's slashdot's problem, like so many other amateur websites they probably only test with IE.
The word "BASIC" scares elitist morons who think all "good" code is obscure unreadable bullshit with one letter variable names (all defined globally, of course), no real error detection, and has to be able to compile with "gcc -Funrolloops -O3 -megaoptimizeformyathlon" or else its crappy.
High level languages are the future, the closer to spoken language the better.
You can write good code in VB, only elitist morons hear the word "BASIC" and think it's beneath them.
We have tons and tons of VB code that we have no time, or really need, to port.
High level languages are the future. People who think if it isn't written in C or ASM will be left in the past.
The easier it is to write, the easier it is to maintain, and the easier it is to use good code form and techniques. It doesn't mean any idiot can fire it up and write good code, writing good code is a skill. Just like anyone can learn to speak english, but it doesn't make them a good poet or author.
The problem is your boss's 12 year old kid, not the language. Be thankful he didn't write his dogshit code in FORTRAN, COBOL or C, using the most obscure syntax he could because it made him feel smarter. I've had to maintain/port plenty of that crap and it's no fun at all.
I was forced to write my own geometry manager, in VB, to overcome this problem in a clean way.
I wrote one in C. It all depends what you want to do when a form resizes. By default, the controls stay where they are. That's the proper behaviour for many applications.
With one of our apps, we (not me but my dumbass PHB) wanted everything to scale with the size of the form. We used third party controls from VS (now ComponentOne, I believe) called vsElastic and vsElasticLight, but they started to piss me off with the wonky way it would choose to scale the fonts (one label would scale to one font, another of the exact same size would somehow get a differnent one), hence I wrote my own.
But like I said, for many apps, it's not a problem. When I resize my browser or word processor, the widgets don't scale with the window size. A "for each control in form.controls" loop isn't the end of the world and would solve most folk's problems.
In either case, if you're writing everything by hand you have to write your own geometry manager anyways.
Porting everything takes time that many people simply don't have.
Anyone have some details on this? How visual basic-like is it? Any.NET/mono integration? Cross-compilation features?
Something for linux that's close enough to VB to make porting effortless would be a dream come true, and our company could move away from MSFT. Of course, some customers will always wan't VB clients and SQL Server backends, because they're asshats.
The free edition of Sybase for linux perked eyebrows among the PHB's around here, and I was actually give time to set a box up to prove that it could, indeed be a drop in replacement for a SQL Server backend, and I impressed them somewhat showing how much easier it would be to maintain over a crappy dial-up connection..
Now it's all these bazillion client apps I want rid of. We're looking hard at mono and C# for new development, but we have oodles of legacy VB6 code to maintain, and nowhere near the manpower to port all of it. Hell, we don't even have time to port it to.NET yet. By we I mean me since I have no real help here. Fuck it, I haven't even had time to replace all the old RDO code in a lot of the crap.
Someone post some details. Could Sybase+gambas be a drop-in replacement for VB6+SQL Server?
I got news for them. I hate Dance Dance Revolution, Pokemon and anime dating simulators.
BFD. The XBox can be (and at this point, just barely is) profitable without the Japanese market, and I think it's a good thing there's an American competitor in a market long dominated by the Japanese.
Japan is not the be-all and end-all of video gaming. Most of the games I've truly enjoyed in the last year or two didn't come from Japan.
Prince Of Persia: SOT was done in Montreal, Far Cry in germany, HALO in the US, GTA, Doom 3, Half Life 2, The Suffering, etc etc etc.... With the exception of some of Nintendo's title, Japan's super-fantastic-fun-fun gaming industry hasn't shit out anything I care for in a while.
I tire fairly quickly of giant robots piloted by schoolgirls while they're raped by octopi.
What was I talking about? Oh yeah, who really cares how the XBox does in Japan. Apparently MSFT doesn't, they haven't given more than a half-hearted effort marketing it there.
Every once in a while they issue a press release about how they plan to entice the Japanese, but that's nothing more than hot air to appease investors.
This is an RFID tag which could become part of your body
No, it's attached to the cast that your orthodontist sends to the lab. The "embedded" in your teeth is pure slashbot FUD, and appears in none of the linked articles.
Maybe you want your government to be able to track your every. fucking. move, but I am not at all interested in that kind of future.
Neither am I, but I am interested in a future in which proper medical care becomes within the reach of everyone, and if this technology can help, I'm all for it.
You're probably in favor of Palladium, and want P2P to be outlawed too, right?
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He was appointed to the commission by Clinton, but made the head of the FCC by GWB.
Which was Howards point, in his words he was "moved to the head of the class" because of his father. Which should be obvious to anyone.
All political appointments are based on politics. Colin Powell was incredibly popular, Clinton appointing a Powell makes for good politics.
Couldn't you have hosted a torrent or something? I'd have loved to hear this. Stern's poor-me martyr act is all about gaining publicity, of course, but still entertaining none the less.
Was the submitter really stupid enough to think his blog would stand up to a slashdotting?
Troops will route through US routers (.mil.gov) you dope.
If they're stupid enough to install the IOL's (Iraq OnLine) free 30 day trial then maybe they shouldn't be voting.
Kerry is more popular because the rest of the world is even stupider than the average American voter.
They just don't like Bush. So therefore, Kerry must be an angel.
They're the same guy. Someone tell me the differences in their platforms.
All I've heard is "Bush is a dummy!" from the Kerry camp, and "Kerry is a wimp!" from the Bush camp.
There are no issues in this campaign, because they agree on all of them. Kerry has no intentions of discontinuing the operations in Iraq, repealing PATRIOT, fixing MediCare or Social Security, etc, etc, etc..
The only issue I can think of where they disagree is abortion, which is too much of a hot-button topic to bring up during a campaign.
So you have foreign dopes saying stupid-ass shit. Like the Vatican endorsing Kerry. Then they're asked, "isn't it a sin to vote for a candidate in favor of abortion? Didn't you say exactly that LAST ELECTION?". And they go "ummm ummm ummmm But Bush is a dummY!!!!!1!!!! Him mess up a cliche during a speech!1!1!!"
Frankly, the rest of the world *is* irrelevant when it comes to an American election.
It's a political campaign site, and any decisions as to how it's being run are made by people working on the campaign, not Bush himself.
The election is in 6 days, I wouldn't be too shocked if they decided it was time to pull the plug on the site completely. It's served it's purpose. They have limited funds with which to campaign (albeit not limited enough, IMO).
Seems to me to be a preemptive move against DDOS attacks from foreign dopes.
If you're referring to military personel, they route through domestic (US) networks and wouldn't be affected.
They don't want to waste campaign dollars on bandwidth. I'm fine with that.
Any webmaster can block connections from any IPs he doesn't want connecting, I don't see how georgewbush.com should be any different.
Four more days till Hallowe'en!
Hallowe'en, Hallowe'en!
Four more days till Hallowe'en!
SILVER SHAMROCK!
Battery life and price were big factors in GameBoys success, but I attribute it mainly to the fact that Nintendo realised what the killer app was, and shipped it with the Gameboy... Multiplayer. The original gameboy shipped with Tetris and the link cable.
If your friend had a gameboy, you had a good reason to get one so you could play head to head. If your friend had a GameGear, he was off in a corner by himself.
The year after it came out, I could hardly navigate the halls of my highschool without tripping over 20 link cables. Multiplayer was HUGE.
I reboot my machines all the time, because it's easier than ssh'ing in, and figuring out what the problem is.
One is mainly an LDAP server/PDC, and for some reason OpenLDAP just dies once in awhile. Has something to do with BDB settings, I'm supposed to know some magical cache size setting or something to make it stable. I have no time for that. It boots from a RO image, which I rarely need to update.
Same for the firewall/gateway. It's just much easier to tell people "if the internet or vpn isnt working, reset this box and wait a minute".
Linux can have really really long uptimes, but only if you have an admin who can babysit it and solve problems without rebooting.
I'm not an admin, and I don't have time to figure out why "dhcpcd" or "dnsmasq" decided they dont need to spawn anymore. While such problems could probably be easily fixed by deleting some lockfile or clearing some log, rebooting is just easier.
Linux needs to be able to boot fast to move forward, especially in the world of "embedded" or single-function PCs.
That's because you're using GCC.
The submission is misleading, it takes 15 seconds for TCC to compile the kernel (without modules and just enough support to read the HDD). They just jammed the compiling into boot time. So 15 seconds from when your POST screen clears to the time the machine actually starts booting the kernel.
Boot time would still be measured in minutes, it doesn't magically make init.d or all the other crud load up fast.
It takes a couple minutes to compile my kernel on a 3.06 P4, and of course, forever and a day to boot.
I guess 15 seconds is to compile without any device support other than the boot drive.
That said, linux boot time as it is sucks, especially if you want to use it on something like a router/firewall box like I do. The only button I ever press on that machine is reset. VPN not working? Reset.
That's how it should work IMO, but every time I do it the 'net is out for 10 mintues until it's back up.
Resetting the whole box should be faster than ssh'ing in and typing a "/etc/init.d/shorewall restart" and "/etc/init.d/openvpn restart".
There's also a bootlegged SMB3 cart for the SNES. The rom is floating around the 'net, called bs_smb3 or something.
You can break the same song into multiple tracks with no gaps between them. It's done on CD all the time (ie; pretty much every live recording album ever made).
Buy an iPod
Buy an iPod
Buy an iPod
Buy an iPod
Buy an iPod
Buy an iPod
Buy an iPod
Buy an iPod
and a mac
weoooooooo Apple
Would you Apple zealots really get upset if there was something out there better than the iPod? You're paying all that cash for a "lifestyle", not a piece of electronics. If it doesn't have the Apple logo, and the hipster douchebag image that comes along with it, then it's not real competition.
For most of the rest of us, a $30 mp3-cd walkman is more than we need.
Whoopty do the FFW is only 10x, so what? Lots of people don't listen to 60 minute tracks, most are smart enough to break 60 minute performances into several 5-10 minute tracks to facilitate jumping around (look at Mike Oldsfield's Tubular Bells on CD for example).
I'm so sick of reading iPod ads here. Can you please create an iPod section so I can block it from the front page?
When will Firefox render slashdot properly? I still have the page text overlapping the margins, and about 9 times out of 10 when I submit a comment or click to read into a thread, I get a page full of crap and have to reload a few times.
What's the deal? 1.0 preview release now, and it's been this way since 0.6. It's in Bugzilla, though I suspect it's slashdot's problem, like so many other amateur websites they probably only test with IE.
The word "BASIC" scares elitist morons who think all "good" code is obscure unreadable bullshit with one letter variable names (all defined globally, of course), no real error detection, and has to be able to compile with "gcc -Funrolloops -O3 -megaoptimizeformyathlon" or else its crappy.
High level languages are the future, the closer to spoken language the better.
Yes.
You can write good code in VB, only elitist morons hear the word "BASIC" and think it's beneath them.
We have tons and tons of VB code that we have no time, or really need, to port.
High level languages are the future. People who think if it isn't written in C or ASM will be left in the past.
The easier it is to write, the easier it is to maintain, and the easier it is to use good code form and techniques. It doesn't mean any idiot can fire it up and write good code, writing good code is a skill. Just like anyone can learn to speak english, but it doesn't make them a good poet or author.
The problem is your boss's 12 year old kid, not the language. Be thankful he didn't write his dogshit code in FORTRAN, COBOL or C, using the most obscure syntax he could because it made him feel smarter. I've had to maintain/port plenty of that crap and it's no fun at all.
I was forced to write my own geometry manager, in VB, to overcome this problem in a clean way.
I wrote one in C. It all depends what you want to do when a form resizes. By default, the controls stay where they are. That's the proper behaviour for many applications.
With one of our apps, we (not me but my dumbass PHB) wanted everything to scale with the size of the form. We used third party controls from VS (now ComponentOne, I believe) called vsElastic and vsElasticLight, but they started to piss me off with the wonky way it would choose to scale the fonts (one label would scale to one font, another of the exact same size would somehow get a differnent one), hence I wrote my own.
But like I said, for many apps, it's not a problem. When I resize my browser or word processor, the widgets don't scale with the window size. A "for each control in form.controls" loop isn't the end of the world and would solve most folk's problems.
In either case, if you're writing everything by hand you have to write your own geometry manager anyways.
Porting everything takes time that many people simply don't have.
Anyone have some details on this? How visual basic-like is it? Any .NET/mono integration? Cross-compilation features?
.NET yet. By we I mean me since I have no real help here. Fuck it, I haven't even had time to replace all the old RDO code in a lot of the crap.
Something for linux that's close enough to VB to make porting effortless would be a dream come true, and our company could move away from MSFT. Of course, some customers will always wan't VB clients and SQL Server backends, because they're asshats.
The free edition of Sybase for linux perked eyebrows among the PHB's around here, and I was actually give time to set a box up to prove that it could, indeed be a drop in replacement for a SQL Server backend, and I impressed them somewhat showing how much easier it would be to maintain over a crappy dial-up connection..
Now it's all these bazillion client apps I want rid of. We're looking hard at mono and C# for new development, but we have oodles of legacy VB6 code to maintain, and nowhere near the manpower to port all of it. Hell, we don't even have time to port it to
Someone post some details. Could Sybase+gambas be a drop-in replacement for VB6+SQL Server?
5 more days to Hallowe'en,
Hallowe'en, Hallowe'en.
5 more days to Hallowe'en,
SILVER SHAMROCK!
SMB3 is on the Mario All-Stars cart.
Who cares if or why Japan hates the XBox.
I got news for them. I hate Dance Dance Revolution, Pokemon and anime dating simulators.
BFD. The XBox can be (and at this point, just barely is) profitable without the Japanese market, and I think it's a good thing there's an American competitor in a market long dominated by the Japanese.
Japan is not the be-all and end-all of video gaming. Most of the games I've truly enjoyed in the last year or two didn't come from Japan.
Prince Of Persia: SOT was done in Montreal, Far Cry in germany, HALO in the US, GTA, Doom 3, Half Life 2, The Suffering, etc etc etc.... With the exception of some of Nintendo's title, Japan's super-fantastic-fun-fun gaming industry hasn't shit out anything I care for in a while.
I tire fairly quickly of giant robots piloted by schoolgirls while they're raped by octopi.
What was I talking about? Oh yeah, who really cares how the XBox does in Japan. Apparently MSFT doesn't, they haven't given more than a half-hearted effort marketing it there.
Every once in a while they issue a press release about how they plan to entice the Japanese, but that's nothing more than hot air to appease investors.
No reviews of cold cathode lights or window appliques for us today, Taco?
This is an RFID tag which could become part of your body
No, it's attached to the cast that your orthodontist sends to the lab. The "embedded" in your teeth is pure slashbot FUD, and appears in none of the linked articles.
Maybe you want your government to be able to track your every. fucking. move, but I am not at all interested in that kind of future.
Neither am I, but I am interested in a future in which proper medical care becomes within the reach of everyone, and if this technology can help, I'm all for it.
You're probably in favor of Palladium, and want P2P to be outlawed too, right?