This article seems to have forgotten some of the biggest players in the social revolution of the business PC.
ICQ (and later AIM) should be on the list. How many people here can still remember their original ICQ number? How many are running something similar right now?
I agree that you're out of your league, but there are some alternative methods for cooling your server room.
One of the most ingenious I've heard of (right here on/. even), is to strike a deal with your neighbors to provide heating for their businesses. It basically gives you a big heat sink and you may even be able to get away with charging a little for your services. This is assuming you're located in an area where heating is a concern for a large portion of the year.
I'm currently taking a Microprocessors class at Ferris State University. We're using the Motorola 68HC11. It's a CISC processor with simple nmenonics. We both have quite a few physical boards, but we also use a Windows-based emulator called Wookie with MiniIDE as the IDE/assembler.
(Mootar) morons.
(Mootar) these people who live in my apartment complex are connected to my wireless
(Mootar) they must think they're super-cool hackers by breaking into my completely unsecure network
(Mootar) unfortunatly, the connection works both ways
(Mootar) long story short, they now have loads of horse porn on their computer
Here's an idea, how about after so many replies, the article is 'promoted.' Where the full article summary is listed rather than just the one title. This would only apply to articles that were posted as the one-liners to begin with. Basically, it would prevent topics from falling through the cracks because you or one of the other editors didn't believe it was worthy of the front page.
I'm probably in the minority in this second suggestion, but how about allowing the one-liner articles to be expanded using script. That way I don't need to open the entire article in order to get an idea on what its about. There are bandwidth concerns with doing this though. A sizable chunk of your bandwidth would be used for something that a good amount of slashdot readers may never actually expand and read. If I were in your shoes, I probably wouldn't have the feature turned on by default, but I know I certainly would use it.
The European Union has agreed to switch to a range of frequencies known as Binary Offset Carrier 1.1 in June 2004, which will allow both European and American forces to block each other's signals in the battlefield without disabling the entire system.
The writeup is a little confusing, it looks like its saying that GPS is blockable by "European forces" and the USA is alright with it. As far as I'm aware, that is not the case.
Despite the fact I'm still stuck on dialup at home (in the US, just outside of Lansing, MI); Australia has been getting screwed for a long time. They have some of the most outragous connection fees and draconian limits on use. Good for them.
Oh yeah, and here's the obligatory bash quote for the local phone monopoly:
<FreeFrag> The most secure computer in the world is one not connected to the internet.
<FreeFrag> Thats why I recommend Telstra ADSL.
Who wants to bet that the announcement includes a integrated memory controller? I wouldn't be suprised if they just licenced Opteron technology from AMD; it would be alot cheaper than developing their own. Although, they could always just outright steal it.
I think the ESRB is doing a great job, and it'd be a shame if people started to ignore them. Compared to the MPAA and RIAA equivlents, it's amazing. The RIAA's simply is the "Explicit Content" sticker, where the MPAA's is the G/PG/PG-13/R/NC-17. Not until recently has the R rating included why it got the rating, and even then it's only flashed for half a second. I've yet to see the expanded warning label on a movie poster. I've really only seen it flashed in trailers and on the back of DVDs, which come out months later.
Now, look at the ESRB's rating system. It has the same generalized ratings: EC/E/E10+/T/M/AO+. It also includes 32 content descriptors, ranging from Tobacco Reference to Comic Mischief to Edutainment. It's much more comprehensive than the others.
What I'd really hate to see is Rockstar going the movie studio route and releasing a game as "UNRATED" rather than accept the dreaded "AO+" rating. It is a very unfortunate loophole, and hopefully the big boys won't carry unrated games.
Also, I'd like to point out that this entire thing is 100% Rockstar's fault. They're required to send video footage to the ESRB that covers the overall gameplay of the game, as well as the game's most explicit scenes. The ESRB uses that footage to rate the game, if Rockstar didn't include it then the ESRB can't really be at fault.
If they get everyone who contributed to agree to licence the softoware, then it can go proprietary. The copyright holders can licence it however and as many times as they want.
Samba will continue development, get together all it's code contributers, and officially licence a version of Samba to a non-profit that they set up. Which will maintain a version of Samba that includes the information Microsoft released as a result of the settlement...then charge like $0.13 or something along those lines.
I'm sure RMS would throw a fit, but he is so radical his opinion is almost irrelevant.
How about a contest? Developers are given a few monthes to start and finish a "killer" application for Linux. The winning development team gets the money.
Obviously, it'd be a little lame to allow established projects to enter, because it'd just be unfair. There would need to be some rules like:
No code forks
Projects must be relativly new
obviously -- The code has to be open source (GPL/BSD/MIT, it doesn't matter. Open Source doesn't automatically imply GPL).
It seems like the perfect idea for the money, to me, but it is my idea...
An easy way to add a second line? I'd need a few more hands to be able to count the number of people I know with two cell phones (a few have a pager aswell).
Windwaker was easily my favorite Zelda game. It was very visually stunning. It's actually the single reason I went out and bought a GameCube. (I've since bought a few other games like Tales of Symphonia, Madden, etc.) Infact, every Zelda game since A Link to the Past has been the single reason I bought the console it was on.
I've found that the majority of people who thought Wind Waker was too cartoony weren't really true fans. They may have played Ocarina of Time, but not the others. On more than one occasion, I heard someone say someting along the lines of "They made Link a kid!" Heh, it's quite easy to pick out gaming newbies when they say something like that. Not to generalize, but litterally everyone I've ever heard call Wind Waker "kiddy" or "cartoony" (In a negative way, some people like that) was someone from the MTV generation. Who actively watched such filth as TRL or Punk'd, people who actually care what MTV thinks. Where the real GameCube fans could give a flying fuck what society thinks is cool, and enjoys fun games.
I'm looking forward to Twilight Princess, even if the name makes me recoil in disgust.
Smack dab between Portland and Eagle. Believe me, I have no options. Now that I think about it, I could probably get ISDN, but that's more expesnive than Satilite for even less.
I'm in the same situation as the article poster. I get 26400 bps on a good day. I live about 15 miles west of Lansing, Michigan. Right on a county line and only 4 miles from the towns on either side of me (Well, if you can call one a town, with only a few hundred people. The other has a few thousand.) Cable and DSL are both out of the question. DirecWay/Satilite isn't really all that great either, with the extremely high costs, high latencies, and AUPs.
I believe my best bet is to simply wait until someone sets up a WiMAX antenna in Lansing or one of the other nearby cities, but Intel is just now starting to make the chips. Manufacturers will need to start making the boxes, and then someone will need to setup a network. Even then I don't expect it to be much less expensive than satilite.
Back a few years ago I even quoted Charter on bringing their lines down the rest of the way, which is about 9/10ths of a mile. At $100 for every 10 feet the price came to $47,520; at that price I should own the line.
Does anyone know if the latencies on WiMAX are going to be much better than satilite? I assumed they would be, because the signal only has to go only about a dozen miles rather than thousands.
<YuFFie> SO U HACKING ME THEN HUH
<YuFFie> WElL I GOT NEWS FOR U MISTER I GOT MORE FIREWALL POWERS NOW SO IM SECURE AND IM USING WINDOWS 98 SO IM REALLY SECURE FROM HACKERS LIKE YOU SO YOU BETTA JUST GIVE UP CUZ U GOT NO HOPE MISTER.
* YuFFie (~mirc@3B942731.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net) Quit (Quit: Owned.)
* YuFFie (~mirc@3B942731.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net) has joined #
<YuFFie> HELP MY MOUSE IS MOVING BY IT SELF
*sigh* I just wish I hadn't already used Mod Points on this topic.
(Oops, I thought posting Anon wouldn't undo my moderation, but it did.:-[)
A few days ago, I was going through the Project Gutenberg FAQ. I forget why, but it covers a few copyright issues with public domain works:
C.16. How come my paper book of Shakespeare says it's "Copyright 1988"?
Shakespeare was published long enough ago to be indisputably in the public domain everywhere, so how can a Shakespeare text be copyrighted?
There are two possibilities:
1. The author or publisher has changed or edited the text enough to qualify as a "new edition", which gets a "new copyright".
2. The publisher has added extra material, such as an introduction, critical essays, footnotes, or an index. This extra material is new, and the publisher owns the copyright on it.
The problem with these practices is that a publisher, having added this copyrighted material, or edited the text even in a minor way, may simply put a copyright notice on the whole book, even though the main part of it--the text itself--is in the public domain! And as time goes on, the number of original surviving books that can be proved to be in the public domain grows smaller and smaller; and meanwhile publishers are cranking out more and more editions that have copyright notices. Eventually it becomes harder and harder to prove that a particular book is in the public domain, since there are few pre-1923 copies available as evidence.
C.17. What makes a "new copyright"?
A special case, that isn't quite a new edition, is when someone "marks up" a public domain text in, for example, HTML. Where this happens, the text is in the public domain, but the markup is copyrighted. We've already seen that when an editor adds footnotes to a public domain text, he owns copyright on the footnotes but not on the text: similarly, when he adds markup to the text, he owns copyright on the markup.
So, basically the formatting, anything additional added, and the general presentation are all copyrighted. I don't visit Groklaw, but I'm sure they made edits, footnotes, and other changes. If SCO included any of those, they'd be violating copyright.
When I was living in the dorms, I put my alarm clock on top of my TV, which was on top of a huge dresser. I could only reach it by jumping to hit the snooze. After about 3 days, I just pulled the plug and went back to sleep.
Maybe that's why I'm going to community college now....
I think a resonable solution to this would be for Google to send a second spider to the site for every 302 Redirect they find, with a user-agent indicating its IE or any other browser. Then compare the data.
Although, they could probably still figure out it's google by their IP, but it's a step in the right direction.
Slashdot Mirror
This article seems to have forgotten some of the biggest players in the social revolution of the business PC.
ICQ (and later AIM) should be on the list. How many people here can still remember their original ICQ number? How many are running something similar right now?
I agree that you're out of your league, but there are some alternative methods for cooling your server room.
/. even), is to strike a deal with your neighbors to provide heating for their businesses. It basically gives you a big heat sink and you may even be able to get away with charging a little for your services. This is assuming you're located in an area where heating is a concern for a large portion of the year.
One of the most ingenious I've heard of (right here on
I'm currently taking a Microprocessors class at Ferris State University. We're using the Motorola 68HC11. It's a CISC processor with simple nmenonics. We both have quite a few physical boards, but we also use a Windows-based emulator called Wookie with MiniIDE as the IDE/assembler.
I'm enjoying the class so far.
One of my all-time favorites. :)
(Mootar) morons.
(Mootar) these people who live in my apartment complex are connected to my wireless
(Mootar) they must think they're super-cool hackers by breaking into my completely unsecure network
(Mootar) unfortunatly, the connection works both ways
(Mootar) long story short, they now have loads of horse porn on their computer
http://bash.org/?202477
I tried searching for Porn and the 5th link down was to this article on the Register that claims Porn makes you blind. :(
Yeah, that instantly turned me off on it. I then went looking at the MacBook Pros and it looks like they bumped the processor speeds a bit.
Here's an idea, how about after so many replies, the article is 'promoted.' Where the full article summary is listed rather than just the one title. This would only apply to articles that were posted as the one-liners to begin with. Basically, it would prevent topics from falling through the cracks because you or one of the other editors didn't believe it was worthy of the front page.
I'm probably in the minority in this second suggestion, but how about allowing the one-liner articles to be expanded using script. That way I don't need to open the entire article in order to get an idea on what its about. There are bandwidth concerns with doing this though. A sizable chunk of your bandwidth would be used for something that a good amount of slashdot readers may never actually expand and read. If I were in your shoes, I probably wouldn't have the feature turned on by default, but I know I certainly would use it.
I admit I havn't really done much research on AJAX yet, but has anyone come out with a BBS system for it similiar to phpBB or vBulletin?
Oh yeah, and here's the obligatory bash quote for the local phone monopoly:
Who wants to bet that the announcement includes a integrated memory controller? I wouldn't be suprised if they just licenced Opteron technology from AMD; it would be alot cheaper than developing their own. Although, they could always just outright steal it.
I think the ESRB is doing a great job, and it'd be a shame if people started to ignore them. Compared to the MPAA and RIAA equivlents, it's amazing. The RIAA's simply is the "Explicit Content" sticker, where the MPAA's is the G/PG/PG-13/R/NC-17. Not until recently has the R rating included why it got the rating, and even then it's only flashed for half a second. I've yet to see the expanded warning label on a movie poster. I've really only seen it flashed in trailers and on the back of DVDs, which come out months later.
Now, look at the ESRB's rating system. It has the same generalized ratings: EC/E/E10+/T/M/AO+. It also includes 32 content descriptors, ranging from Tobacco Reference to Comic Mischief to Edutainment. It's much more comprehensive than the others.
What I'd really hate to see is Rockstar going the movie studio route and releasing a game as "UNRATED" rather than accept the dreaded "AO+" rating. It is a very unfortunate loophole, and hopefully the big boys won't carry unrated games.
Also, I'd like to point out that this entire thing is 100% Rockstar's fault. They're required to send video footage to the ESRB that covers the overall gameplay of the game, as well as the game's most explicit scenes. The ESRB uses that footage to rate the game, if Rockstar didn't include it then the ESRB can't really be at fault.
If they get everyone who contributed to agree to licence the softoware, then it can go proprietary. The copyright holders can licence it however and as many times as they want.
I've got an idea on how to get around it...
Samba will continue development, get together all it's code contributers, and officially licence a version of Samba to a non-profit that they set up. Which will maintain a version of Samba that includes the information Microsoft released as a result of the settlement...then charge like $0.13 or something along those lines.
I'm sure RMS would throw a fit, but he is so radical his opinion is almost irrelevant.
Obviously, it'd be a little lame to allow established projects to enter, because it'd just be unfair. There would need to be some rules like:
- No code forks
- Projects must be relativly new
- obviously -- The code has to be open source (GPL/BSD/MIT, it doesn't matter. Open Source doesn't automatically imply GPL).
It seems like the perfect idea for the money, to me, but it is my idea...Windwaker was easily my favorite Zelda game. It was very visually stunning. It's actually the single reason I went out and bought a GameCube. (I've since bought a few other games like Tales of Symphonia, Madden, etc.) Infact, every Zelda game since A Link to the Past has been the single reason I bought the console it was on.
I've found that the majority of people who thought Wind Waker was too cartoony weren't really true fans. They may have played Ocarina of Time, but not the others. On more than one occasion, I heard someone say someting along the lines of "They made Link a kid!" Heh, it's quite easy to pick out gaming newbies when they say something like that. Not to generalize, but litterally everyone I've ever heard call Wind Waker "kiddy" or "cartoony" (In a negative way, some people like that) was someone from the MTV generation. Who actively watched such filth as TRL or Punk'd, people who actually care what MTV thinks. Where the real GameCube fans could give a flying fuck what society thinks is cool, and enjoys fun games.
I'm looking forward to Twilight Princess, even if the name makes me recoil in disgust.
I'll look into it.
Smack dab between Portland and Eagle. Believe me, I have no options. Now that I think about it, I could probably get ISDN, but that's more expesnive than Satilite for even less.
I'm in the same situation as the article poster. I get 26400 bps on a good day. I live about 15 miles west of Lansing, Michigan. Right on a county line and only 4 miles from the towns on either side of me (Well, if you can call one a town, with only a few hundred people. The other has a few thousand.) Cable and DSL are both out of the question. DirecWay/Satilite isn't really all that great either, with the extremely high costs, high latencies, and AUPs.
I believe my best bet is to simply wait until someone sets up a WiMAX antenna in Lansing or one of the other nearby cities, but Intel is just now starting to make the chips. Manufacturers will need to start making the boxes, and then someone will need to setup a network. Even then I don't expect it to be much less expensive than satilite.
Back a few years ago I even quoted Charter on bringing their lines down the rest of the way, which is about 9/10ths of a mile. At $100 for every 10 feet the price came to $47,520; at that price I should own the line.
Does anyone know if the latencies on WiMAX are going to be much better than satilite? I assumed they would be, because the signal only has to go only about a dozen miles rather than thousands.
*sigh* I just wish I hadn't already used Mod Points on this topic.
(Oops, I thought posting Anon wouldn't undo my moderation, but it did.
XChat did this a few monthes ago with their Window's version. I seem to recall there being a Slashdot article on it.
C.16. How come my paper book of Shakespeare says it's "Copyright 1988"?
C.17. What makes a "new copyright"? So, basically the formatting, anything additional added, and the general presentation are all copyrighted. I don't visit Groklaw, but I'm sure they made edits, footnotes, and other changes. If SCO included any of those, they'd be violating copyright.
It'd have to be battery powered.
When I was living in the dorms, I put my alarm clock on top of my TV, which was on top of a huge dresser. I could only reach it by jumping to hit the snooze. After about 3 days, I just pulled the plug and went back to sleep.
Maybe that's why I'm going to community college now....
I think a resonable solution to this would be for Google to send a second spider to the site for every 302 Redirect they find, with a user-agent indicating its IE or any other browser. Then compare the data.
Although, they could probably still figure out it's google by their IP, but it's a step in the right direction.