Too bad too few women in [the advert] (maybe 1:50).
I think that's just representational of how much women like computers in general at the moment. Hopefully that will change as people are less into stereotypes when, say, choosing what to buy their kids as Christmas presents (I was lucky enough to have a Commodore +4 when I was about 5 or 6 so grew up with computers).
At any rate, my girlfriend and I are doing our bit to spread the word about Firefox:)
Re:this is BAD in my opinion
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Just when the name "Mozilla" and "firefox" started to become creditable, then all of a sudden AOL wants back in! They will just make an adware version of firefox that also installs aol icons all over the place, and slap the name Netscape on it.
Netscape can use our changes in any way at all--even in proprietary licensed versions of the software... [it] says that working on a free program means contributing to a proprietary software product.
Here we go: according to Wikipedia, decimal time was officially introduced in 1793 and one proposed metric time system was introduced in the 1990s. They most definately have been invented yet.
But surely if you can think of something, by its very definition it's been invented, you just don't have a working prototype...
I know a girl who's extremely interested in OpenBSD, I could give you her number if you want. Nah, just messing with you, made that up.
What, it's that unlikely? I know about the BSDs and use FreeBSD myself, and I used to work at an ISP where most of the people there (excluding management) used some form of free Unix clone.
* "The Internet" and "The Web"
* "PC" and "Windows"
* "Microsoft" and "Windows"
* "Macintosh" and "the Mac OS" (or "Mac OS X")
* "Apple" and "Macintosh"
Not to mention IBM compatible PCs running Windows, IBM compatible PCs regardless of what they're running, or PCs in general, or for that matter the roman numeral for ten or the letter X (let alone how to pronounce TeX).
I believe the parent post is right, although I'm not entirely sure. I heard Nintendo commissioned Sony to help them build a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES after the "success" of the Mega-CD (or Sega-CD as it's known in America), then changed their mind. Sony weren't too pleased about this so went ahead with the system anyway, improved it quite a bit, and released it as the PlayStation.
Apparently, however, they're not very happy about crossing over into hardcore fantasy.
Am I missing something? Did this person cosplay as Zelda or something:shudder: or did they just say they liked the game? Surely anyone should be able to say they like a product by name without fear of getting threatened by the company that makes the product. Are Nintendo really afraid of someone who happens to be on a pornographic site liking their games giving them a tainted image?
I find the site offensive as an objectification of women
Well yeah, that's what almsot all porn sites do at the moment. Ideally, this should change so that they won't objectify women, but how can you bring this about? It doesn't appear to be what the consumers want, unfortunately, and all companies are only interested in profits.
Clearly many would object to advertisement to sites that promote bestiality or child pornography.
If you're referring to the BDSM nature of the site, then I think it's about consent: adults are generally thought to be able to consent to what they get up to, whereas children and animals aren't.
I submit that if a site is not suitable for work, there should not be a damn hot link to it on Slashdot's front page.
If you're referring to pornography in general, then yes, it should at least have a warning (which I believe Slashdot did indeed have) if it's a relevant link, or not at all if it's unnecessary to link to it. In this case, an individual was threatened for saying they liked games by a certain company, so linking to them saying it seems pretty relevant.
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Because then you're going to have the suits trying to push it down, no matter how great/useful it is in an effort to kill the possibility of coming out with something that could make pirating any easier or more efficient. That's the only way they're going to see it.
Surely if that was the case, the music industry would have been against radios... oh, wait...
If only there were some sort of visual stimuli -- say, something which appeals to our most basic primal instincts -- which could be stored on such a device, and subsequently accessed whenever one is bored and no one is watching. Alas, I am unable to imagine anything suitable. Perhaps one of my fellow Slashdotters has an idea?
"you ask a database for "all entries where field X is not equal to 47" it won't return any of those where field X is null because instead of saying "Null doesn't equal 47", the value "null" is deemed not to be comparable with any non-null field."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole point of null was to act as a kind of placeholder when you don't know what the value is yet. So you can say "where X is not equal to 47" and it'll get all the tuples where it definately isn't 47, or you can say "where X is not equal to 47 or X is equal to null" and it'll get all the tuples where it's either 47, or a null value that may or may not turn out to be 47 later on.
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Too bad too few women in [the advert] (maybe 1:50).
I think that's just representational of how much women like computers in general at the moment. Hopefully that will change as people are less into stereotypes when, say, choosing what to buy their kids as Christmas presents (I was lucky enough to have a Commodore +4 when I was about 5 or 6 so grew up with computers).
At any rate, my girlfriend and I are doing our bit to spread the word about Firefox :)
Free music!
Microsoft could be forced to change Internet Explorer and make it incompatible with some web pages.
Trust me, they don't need to change IE in order to make it incompatible with a lot of web pages.
This sounds a lot like Akili Kuwale's encryption method in Greg Egan's novel Permutation City. It's always good to see sci-fi coming true :)
...this is a dupe.
rendering the GBA one of the most cool digital gadgets for musicians that travel a lot...
...or any of the Yamaha QY products.
Just when the name "Mozilla" and "firefox" started to become creditable, then all of a sudden AOL wants back in! They will just make an adware version of firefox that also installs aol icons all over the place, and slap the name Netscape on it.
Just as Richard M. Stallman predicted.
It'll never have the same feel that Netscape had.
I've got that feel right here, in Firefox: Tools > options > general > fonts and colors > and set the background to light grey. :)
...then be amazed at how many web sites break because they assume it's white and don't bother specifying white in the CSS.
Don't SSH keys already provide an alternative to passwords for both shell access and file transfers?
(Not that I'd expect Microsoft to use an existing technology rather than making their own proprietary one...)
Here we go: according to Wikipedia, decimal time was officially introduced in 1793 and one proposed metric time system was introduced in the 1990s. They most definately have been invented yet.
But surely if you can think of something, by its very definition it's been invented, you just don't have a working prototype...
This will be a museum where they exhibit things that haven't been invented yet, like... metric time.
There were ten hour pocketwatches a long time ago, if that's what you mean. They just never caught on.
I switched from buying new CDs to buying used ones. It saves money and puts dents in the RIAA statistics.
Good idea, as is downloading legally free music and buying albums that aren't made by majors from decent shops.
(Shameless plug: My free music.)
The article doesn't tell you anything significant about how it works...
Proudly posting without reading the article since 1998!
Liar!
Cool, now it's up there with the classical station WCPE!
Does anyone know of any other Ogg Vorbis streams? The only other one I know is a police scanner.
I know a girl who's extremely interested in OpenBSD, I could give you her number if you want. Nah, just messing with you, made that up.
What, it's that unlikely? I know about the BSDs and use FreeBSD myself, and I used to work at an ISP where most of the people there (excluding management) used some form of free Unix clone.
Most bozos nowadays can't distinguish between:
* "The Internet" and "The Web"
* "PC" and "Windows"
* "Microsoft" and "Windows"
* "Macintosh" and "the Mac OS" (or "Mac OS X")
* "Apple" and "Macintosh"
Not to mention IBM compatible PCs running Windows, IBM compatible PCs regardless of what they're running, or PCs in general, or for that matter the roman numeral for ten or the letter X (let alone how to pronounce TeX).
I believe the parent post is right, although I'm not entirely sure. I heard Nintendo commissioned Sony to help them build a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES after the "success" of the Mega-CD (or Sega-CD as it's known in America), then changed their mind. Sony weren't too pleased about this so went ahead with the system anyway, improved it quite a bit, and released it as the PlayStation.
Apparently, however, they're not very happy about crossing over into hardcore fantasy.
Am I missing something? Did this person cosplay as Zelda or something :shudder: or did they just say they liked the game? Surely anyone should be able to say they like a product by name without fear of getting threatened by the company that makes the product. Are Nintendo really afraid of someone who happens to be on a pornographic site liking their games giving them a tainted image?
I find the site offensive as an objectification of women
Well yeah, that's what almsot all porn sites do at the moment. Ideally, this should change so that they won't objectify women, but how can you bring this about? It doesn't appear to be what the consumers want, unfortunately, and all companies are only interested in profits.
Clearly many would object to advertisement to sites that promote bestiality or child pornography.
If you're referring to the BDSM nature of the site, then I think it's about consent: adults are generally thought to be able to consent to what they get up to, whereas children and animals aren't.
I submit that if a site is not suitable for work, there should not be a damn hot link to it on Slashdot's front page.
If you're referring to pornography in general, then yes, it should at least have a warning (which I believe Slashdot did indeed have) if it's a relevant link, or not at all if it's unnecessary to link to it. In this case, an individual was threatened for saying they liked games by a certain company, so linking to them saying it seems pretty relevant.
Because then you're going to have the suits trying to push it down, no matter how great/useful it is in an effort to kill the possibility of coming out with something that could make pirating any easier or more efficient. That's the only way they're going to see it.
Surely if that was the case, the music industry would have been against radios... oh, wait...
Am I the only one who thinks the Wampa (ice creature) looks an awful lot like the abonimable snowman from the children's Christmas special?
As a guess, yes, because you're the only person who's watched that horrible thing all the way through? :)
(And I mean that with the utmost respect to you and your stamina)
important changes as the color of Han Solo's jacket
i suspect that my definition of "important" seems to vary considerably from that of the submitter.
I assumed it was sarcasm. I mean, we're talking about changes in a film...
This has actually been discussed at length in other books
Not to mention it was also discussed in Robert X. Cringley's Triumph of the Nerds.
...here's a free half hour TV show about BBSs, made all the way back when they were popular, which features CompuServe, Byte BBS and The Well.
If only there were some sort of visual stimuli -- say, something which appeals to our most basic primal instincts -- which could be stored on such a device, and subsequently accessed whenever one is bored and no one is watching. Alas, I am unable to imagine anything suitable. Perhaps one of my fellow Slashdotters has an idea?
Pictures of yummy doughnuts?
"you ask a database for "all entries where field X is not equal to 47" it won't return any of those where field X is null because instead of saying "Null doesn't equal 47", the value "null" is deemed not to be comparable with any non-null field."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole point of null was to act as a kind of placeholder when you don't know what the value is yet. So you can say "where X is not equal to 47" and it'll get all the tuples where it definately isn't 47, or you can say "where X is not equal to 47 or X is equal to null" and it'll get all the tuples where it's either 47, or a null value that may or may not turn out to be 47 later on.
Or am I missing something fundamental?