"They informed Vorilhon (the cult leader) that he was the final prophet -- sent to relay a message of peace and sensual meditation to humankind under his new name of Raël -- before the Elohim would return to Jerusalem in 2025"
Well, at least they'll all know in 2025 that it's a crock of s***...
Steve Jobs
Opray Winfrey
Tiger Woods
Bruce Springsteen
John Steinbeck
Sting
Tina Turner
Steven Spielberg
Pele
Robert Redford
Van Morrison
Michael Jordan
Two of the Beatles (George and Paul)
...Oh, and I like the "official pic" of Albert Einstein...
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
These are just mistakes on the part of the staff. They happen. We have
posted over ten thousand stories in our history. The occasional duplicate
is inevitable.
If you see a duplicate, you can mail the story's author. If the story
is still quiet, we may pull it down. However, once the comments are rolling
in, we often leave the story up so that the discussion can continue.
Some people have suggested that there might be a software solution to
this problem. If you think you've got one, visit the
Slashcode site and submit a diff. As long as it isn't a performance
hit, I'd consider using it. (Be aware however that the trick of searching
for duplicate URLs isn't as helpful as you might think, since the same
story can appear in multiple locations.)
your PVR costs $500+. You can pay them now, or you can break half of that out in installments.
That math only works if you take out a loan on $250 and pay it back "in installments". If you pay $250 for a PVR and pay/TiVo|SonicBlue/'s installment plan, you're not done after two years, and in fact, would have to pay the $250 like you would in the beginning.
I just got a ReplayTV (just too many supported, built-in features to not choose it over a TiVo), and I'm probably going to pay the first month to try it out, then get a lifetime subscription.
Just to add my experience with Sony to the mix.. I also have bought Sony as my first (among middle-end brands). My 7 year old receiver is still working fine (though lacks the connections I wish I would've gotten before). However my 5-disk CD changer went bad after only a couple of years.. tracks would skip quite often on perfectly good CDs.
I now have a Sony cordless phone/answering machine as well.. the answering machine works great, but I have two huge gripes with it.. the first is that you can only use either the corded base phone OR the cordless handset, not both at the same time. That is absolutely ridiculous. Worse, the cordless handset cuts out very often -- a loose connection somewhere in the handset (probably due to us moving three times since we got it, but we're generally careful with things). I've taken it apart twice already and it seems to temporarily fix it only to break again. Next I'm going to rip it apart and turn it on to see if I can get it working from there.
I'm not at home, so I can't give model numbers at this time..
I seriously doubt that only 26% of the downloading population is 18-24 yrs old.. I would guess that it's more around 40%. Downloading music is the new pasttime for college students (especially since you can do other things while it's downloading..)
I wonder if the survey respondents were including Windows (et al) sharing in their responses? (e.g. "Have you ever transferred music to your hard drive from a source other than your personally owned CD?)
The possibilities are limited only by imagination and hardware. Evolution also plans to sell expansion kits, such as a gripper ($199) for grabbing that beer..
Clarification: it won't automatically format it, without a dumb enough user to press "y". Still very scary that you can run any command you want, though..
I tested the code on my Win2000 IE 6.0 machine, and it popped up a javascript window, a Windows help menu, and a command prompt (which appeared minimized), all farely quickly.
However.. the command prompt was waiting for me to push "y" to the "do you really want to format?" y/n prompt.. I don't believe there's a/Y switch either.. at least, not a documented one, so perhaps it can't format your drive after all?
Why is the Linux GUI (X/Gnome/KDE.. don't have the patience or time right now to try others) so slow to respond to everything? Especially opening simple programs like shells, web browsers, etc. What can I do (other than hardware) to speed it up? Any sufficiently advanced flavor of Linux better for this?
I've run Red Hat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.x on my PIII 450 w/192MB RAM. Granted it's an old machine, but I can use Win9x and Win2K on it and basic programs open much faster. I use it as a server only now, pretty much, which it works well for. But I obviously don't use my server as a main system.
Note: my "experience" is more limited than most here, thus I'm asking the question..
You are so full of yourself, I don't know where to start.
Try this: leave your firewall disabled for the weekend. Can you sleep easily at night? If not, then you have problems.
So if I leave my doors unlocked in a mall parking lot at night, I should be able to sleep at night?
Identify a given component that's currently running. Any process at all. Do you understand exactly what it does? All of its inputs and outputs? How does it react to unexpected inputs or other circumstances?
This explains it.. you have so little of a life, that you perform QA for every program on your system. How ludicrous.
If something like Windows plays any part at all in your system design, you should probably give up now...holes are discovered constantly.
Why not take your own advice and subscribe to Bugtraq? Maybe you'll learn that other OSes are have "holes that are discovered constantly".
It should be a crime to teach people C/C++.
Is this why all but one of your projects are written in C?
High level languages are usually more secure than C/C++
WTF? C/C++ is a high-level language. Have you never programmed Assembly? Java is not that much higher on the evolutionary chain than C++.
[The speed of C/C++] isn't even worth arguing and the fact that you said something like that calls your skills into question.
Really? So whenever a good point is brought up, you just use ad ignorum? Just reading your entire paper brings your skills into question.
Okay, okay.. I'll give you one thing..
The only logical conclusion here is that I'm a perfectionist crackpot doom-sayer idiot
For those of you who think this is stupid, unimplementable, too limiting on your 1st amendment rights, etc..
That's perfectly fine -- don't use it! Ignorance is bliss!
Seriously, this is clearly optional, so if you don't like the idea, then just continue using whatever method (or none) that you want. This just provides parents another option.
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"They informed Vorilhon (the cult leader) that he was the final prophet -- sent to relay a message of peace and sensual meditation to humankind under his new name of Raël -- before the Elohim would return to Jerusalem in 2025"
Well, at least they'll all know in 2025 that it's a crock of s***...
Do your part... continue slashdotting a cult leader!
Interesting choices..
...Oh, and I like the "official pic" of Albert Einstein...
Steve Jobs
Opray Winfrey
Tiger Woods
Bruce Springsteen
John Steinbeck
Sting
Tina Turner
Steven Spielberg
Pele
Robert Redford
Van Morrison
Michael Jordan
Two of the Beatles (George and Paul)
13) ???
14) LOSE MONEY!!!
In the Twin Cities (MN), we have a ride that drops you straight down called the Power Tower (not that unique, actually).
How are you going to simulate that in a 11x12x? volume?
This probably won't work, because they don't check for duplicate email addresses. That is, they don't use the email address as a primary key.
For your convenience:
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
These are just mistakes on the part of the staff. They happen. We have posted over ten thousand stories in our history. The occasional duplicate is inevitable.
If you see a duplicate, you can mail the story's author. If the story is still quiet, we may pull it down. However, once the comments are rolling in, we often leave the story up so that the discussion can continue.
Some people have suggested that there might be a software solution to this problem. If you think you've got one, visit the Slashcode site and submit a diff. As long as it isn't a performance hit, I'd consider using it. (Be aware however that the trick of searching for duplicate URLs isn't as helpful as you might think, since the same story can appear in multiple locations.)
Answered by: CmdrTaco
Last Modified: 10/28/00
Why don't people quit complaining about duplicate articles and actually do something to solve it? (see above)
Hokey Spokes? Cool...
Oh yeah, but when do nerds have time to pull themselves away from the monitor to actually get some exercise?..
your PVR costs $500+. You can pay them now, or you can break half of that out in installments.
/TiVo|SonicBlue/'s installment plan, you're not done after two years, and in fact, would have to pay the $250 like you would in the beginning.
That math only works if you take out a loan on $250 and pay it back "in installments". If you pay $250 for a PVR and pay
I just got a ReplayTV (just too many supported, built-in features to not choose it over a TiVo), and I'm probably going to pay the first month to try it out, then get a lifetime subscription.
Mr. Christmas said he didn't even know what email was. Obviously a PC user.
I think the more telling fact is that he used AOL..
I guess I'll have to tough it out with my mere dual Athlon 2400+ workstation for now (heh heh heh).
[sigh] You're bragging about a single dual Athlon machine when I've got a beowulf cluster of those??..
Just to add my experience with Sony to the mix.. I also have bought Sony as my first (among middle-end brands). My 7 year old receiver is still working fine (though lacks the connections I wish I would've gotten before). However my 5-disk CD changer went bad after only a couple of years.. tracks would skip quite often on perfectly good CDs.
I now have a Sony cordless phone/answering machine as well.. the answering machine works great, but I have two huge gripes with it.. the first is that you can only use either the corded base phone OR the cordless handset, not both at the same time. That is absolutely ridiculous. Worse, the cordless handset cuts out very often -- a loose connection somewhere in the handset (probably due to us moving three times since we got it, but we're generally careful with things). I've taken it apart twice already and it seems to temporarily fix it only to break again. Next I'm going to rip it apart and turn it on to see if I can get it working from there.
I'm not at home, so I can't give model numbers at this time..
I seriously doubt that only 26% of the downloading population is 18-24 yrs old.. I would guess that it's more around 40%. Downloading music is the new pasttime for college students (especially since you can do other things while it's downloading..)
I wonder if the survey respondents were including Windows (et al) sharing in their responses? (e.g. "Have you ever transferred music to your hard drive from a source other than your personally owned CD?)
Thanks for giving me my biggest laugh of the day -- that's hilarious. :-)
They've got you covered...
The possibilities are limited only by imagination and hardware. Evolution also plans to sell expansion kits, such as a gripper ($199) for grabbing that beer..
From the article:
"But anyone who opts to plunk an extra $100 for the assembled version is missing half the fun."
No, buying a kit is missing half the fun -- designing your own exactly how you want it is the only that would satisfy a True Geek.
Bottom line:
What a complete and utter waste of money. $600 + you need a laptop hooked up... who's going to get an extra laptop just for this thing?
IE has had it for a couple of years, in a developer toolkit plugin to the browser (for sure since IE 5.5, can't remember about prior releases)
built a cheap (less than $1k per unit) 294-unit Beowulf claster
So all I have to do is sell my house, truck, car, computers, tv, piano, and (most) clothes, and I can build this?!?
Umm.. I'll be right back.. gotta call my wife..
Clarification: it won't automatically format it, without a dumb enough user to press "y". Still very scary that you can run any command you want, though..
I tested the code on my Win2000 IE 6.0 machine, and it popped up a javascript window, a Windows help menu, and a command prompt (which appeared minimized), all farely quickly. However.. the command prompt was waiting for me to push "y" to the "do you really want to format?" y/n prompt.. I don't believe there's a /Y switch either.. at least, not a documented one, so perhaps it can't format your drive after all?
The Linux GUI(s) is so slow, in my experience.
Question for the Slashdot community:
Why is the Linux GUI (X/Gnome/KDE.. don't have the patience or time right now to try others) so slow to respond to everything? Especially opening simple programs like shells, web browsers, etc. What can I do (other than hardware) to speed it up? Any sufficiently advanced flavor of Linux better for this?
I've run Red Hat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.x on my PIII 450 w/192MB RAM. Granted it's an old machine, but I can use Win9x and Win2K on it and basic programs open much faster. I use it as a server only now, pretty much, which it works well for. But I obviously don't use my server as a main system.
Note: my "experience" is more limited than most here, thus I'm asking the question..
You are so full of yourself, I don't know where to start.
Try this: leave your firewall disabled for the weekend. Can you sleep easily at night? If not, then you have problems.
So if I leave my doors unlocked in a mall parking lot at night, I should be able to sleep at night?
Identify a given component that's currently running. Any process at all. Do you understand exactly what it does? All of its inputs and outputs? How does it react to unexpected inputs or other circumstances?
This explains it.. you have so little of a life, that you perform QA for every program on your system. How ludicrous.
If something like Windows plays any part at all in your system design, you should probably give up now...holes are discovered constantly.
Why not take your own advice and subscribe to Bugtraq? Maybe you'll learn that other OSes are have "holes that are discovered constantly".
It should be a crime to teach people C/C++.
Is this why all but one of your projects are written in C?
High level languages are usually more secure than C/C++
WTF? C/C++ is a high-level language. Have you never programmed Assembly? Java is not that much higher on the evolutionary chain than C++.
[The speed of C/C++] isn't even worth arguing and the fact that you said something like that calls your skills into question.
Really? So whenever a good point is brought up, you just use ad ignorum? Just reading your entire paper brings your skills into question.
Okay, okay.. I'll give you one thing..
The only logical conclusion here is that I'm a perfectionist crackpot doom-sayer idiot
I completely agree.
For those of you who think this is stupid, unimplementable, too limiting on your 1st amendment rights, etc..
That's perfectly fine -- don't use it! Ignorance is bliss!
Seriously, this is clearly optional, so if you don't like the idea, then just continue using whatever method (or none) that you want. This just provides parents another option.
Wow -- that's really sad.
I be using a whitelist filter immediately if I were you... blacklist filters just don't work when your email address is that exposed.