my biggest problem is that I'd like to be able to set up waypoints... currently I have to print out X different sets of directions... seems to me like you should ba able to say: "give me directions from Boston, MA to Austin, TX but swing through Birmingham, AL and Slydell, LA" if I wanted... I mean jesus... that's 3 sets of directions
a more practical example would be: tell me how to get from [my house] to [my girlfriend's] house with a stop by [the florist shop at this address]
I just wrote a script that constantly searches google... it randomly picks a word from a dictionary file and does the search... when the results are returned it does it again... knew I got DSL for a reason...
is this cheating?
if you look at the rdf for/. right now it looks like this article is about KDE 3.2 Aplha 1 getting named Broken Boring... like that's some major news item. well...
I thought it was amusing
<description> An anonymous reader cut-and-pastes from the announcement: "Stephan Kulow finally managed to get the last bits of the KDE 3.2 Alpha 1 codenamed 'Brokenboring'... </description>
can't compete with what??? J2EE??? if so you've got to be fucking kidding me....Net is faster than Java ever thought about being (at least in W32 environment). The Java guys must have thought "Just In Time" meant just in time to keep you from bashing your fist through the monitor. The security thing is arguable, but still... there is no real competition for the.Net Framework
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after you've paid for it? I don't particurlarly remember ever paying for the.Net framework. yes, it came on my VS.Net discs (which I, in theory, paid for), but that isn't the point... Before I had VS.Net I downloaded the framework from their website. Yep... free as in beer. No credit car numbers, paypal account, or anything. So remind me... WHEN did I pay for this product that you claim you have a right to? They've invested millions of dollars and you only had to invest the few minutes it took to download it. I think that might just give them a right to tell you not to poke and prod it because, after all, you never bought "and paid for" anything (like you'd have us believe).
I can see it now... some random Windows exploit allows a script kiddie to hax0r it so instead of the cool "Tux" logo (we're all nerds here, right???) you get "Property of Frank" tattooed right on your ass.
aw... come on people... of course he's still in some sort of a contrived world... haven't we all seen The 13th Floor??? We should know by now that this is how it's done. Title character discovers he's in fake world... title character escapes into real world... title character discovers real world is also fake.
The real question (that's actually already, kinda, been asked) is why do the machines keep the people around? They're "willing to accept" a lesser amount of readily available power... The whole movie speaks in terms of people's "destiny." Even some of the software has "a purpose" (read: Agent Smith's rebirth and transformation).
I'm just waiting for the end of Revelations to reveal that they're all just inside a big machine and they all think they're real (the machines aren't really real either). It just turns out that they're all just a part of a big war games scenario that the government is running.
- Jeremy
P.S. I don't really think what I wrote in that last paragraph... just another point of discussion.
it's all great and wonderfull, but how is it usefull? we'll never see it (at least in the forseeable future) in any sort of medium that we could possible use... anyone remember the optical drives that were supposed to get hellacious amounts of holographic data in little cubes or the 200 MPG carburator???
I won't be interested until there's a story that says "Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2 and is available in 3.5" form factor from NewEgg.com for 195 USD"
Well... this is slightly incorrect...
Warp travel could still work (at least the way it's explained in "The Physics of Star Trek"). Warp engines do just that, warp space. You aren't really traveling at speeds greater than light, you're just getting from Point A to Point B faster than light could. The engines literally warp the "fabric" of space so that you just have to step across. You can demonstrate this by looking at a peice of paper. To get from one edge to the other an ant would have to walk 11 inches, but if the ant could bend the paper so that the two edges were touching he'd only have to take one step. Also see the explanation of a Tesseract in "A Wrinkle in Time" (pages 75-78) by Madeleine L'Engle as it works in a similar way.
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my biggest problem is that I'd like to be able to set up waypoints... currently I have to print out X different sets of directions... seems to me like you should ba able to say: "give me directions from Boston, MA to Austin, TX but swing through Birmingham, AL and Slydell, LA" if I wanted... I mean jesus... that's 3 sets of directions
a more practical example would be:
tell me how to get from [my house] to [my girlfriend's] house with a stop by [the florist shop at this address]
WinGAIM 0.69 is working just fine... haven't checked GAIM 0.70 for Linux... yet.
yeah... that was a joke
however it WOULD be pretty easy to write something like that
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I just wrote a script that constantly searches google... it randomly picks a word from a dictionary file and does the search... when the results are returned it does it again... knew I got DSL for a reason... is this cheating?
if you look at the rdf for /. right now it looks like this article is about KDE 3.2 Aplha 1 getting named Broken Boring... like that's some major news item. well...
...
I thought it was amusing
<description>
An anonymous reader cut-and-pastes from the announcement: "Stephan Kulow finally managed to get the last bits of the KDE 3.2 Alpha 1 codenamed 'Brokenboring'
</description>
according to this it is
;)
can't compete with what??? J2EE??? if so you've got to be fucking kidding me... .Net is faster than Java ever thought about being (at least in W32 environment). The Java guys must have thought "Just In Time" meant just in time to keep you from bashing your fist through the monitor. The security thing is arguable, but still... there is no real competition for the .Net Framework
.Net framework. yes, it came on my VS.Net discs (which I, in theory, paid for), but that isn't the point... Before I had VS.Net I downloaded the framework from their website. Yep... free as in beer. No credit car numbers, paypal account, or anything. So remind me... WHEN did I pay for this product that you claim you have a right to? They've invested millions of dollars and you only had to invest the few minutes it took to download it. I think that might just give them a right to tell you not to poke and prod it because, after all, you never bought "and paid for" anything (like you'd have us believe).
in response to the parent:
after you've paid for it? I don't particurlarly remember ever paying for the
am I the only one who has gotten a LOT of ads for the LED Flashlight at the top of /. since this article first posted?
how about "hOW TO Leet 5P3@k" or "how to 0WNz at quake"
so the robots of the future have elected to just drop all pronouns from sentances leaving nothing in their place... bastards...
you OBVIOUSLY didn't watch it closely enough... they didn't have DVDs either... reel-to-reel was it man...
maybe, just maybe, you should try RIAA.COM
it's up and running with the worst of them
here's a link to the current /. stuff on thinkgeek:
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no... I don't think it's a casting stones thing... I think I just proved my point
Like, perhaps, the proper useage of commas???
"Interesting article that diseminates things mostly known to and hopefully well understood by the Slashdot readership."
Corrected: "Interesting article that diseminates things mostly known to(,) and hopefully well understood by(,) the Slashdot readership."
I can see it now... some random Windows exploit allows a script kiddie to hax0r it so instead of the cool "Tux" logo (we're all nerds here, right???) you get "Property of Frank" tattooed right on your ass.
so AOL invades it's user's privacy and Netscape has fallen to IE (et al)...
in other news: the world is round
aw... come on people... of course he's still in some sort of a contrived world... haven't we all seen The 13th Floor??? We should know by now that this is how it's done. Title character discovers he's in fake world... title character escapes into real world... title character discovers real world is also fake.
The real question (that's actually already, kinda, been asked) is why do the machines keep the people around? They're "willing to accept" a lesser amount of readily available power... The whole movie speaks in terms of people's "destiny." Even some of the software has "a purpose" (read: Agent Smith's rebirth and transformation).
I'm just waiting for the end of Revelations to reveal that they're all just inside a big machine and they all think they're real (the machines aren't really real either). It just turns out that they're all just a part of a big war games scenario that the government is running.
- Jeremy
P.S. I don't really think what I wrote in that last paragraph... just another point of discussion.
... it's the only weapon we have against the machines... seriously... would unplugging it count as "cheating?"
a friend of mine has the domain bobville dot com and it's quite amusing to hear him bitch about how much spam he gets (everything's rerouted to him)
and then the rice boys would lower them and quadruple the size of the fins...
it's all great and wonderfull, but how is it usefull? we'll never see it (at least in the forseeable future) in any sort of medium that we could possible use... anyone remember the optical drives that were supposed to get hellacious amounts of holographic data in little cubes or the 200 MPG carburator???
I won't be interested until there's a story that says "Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2 and is available in 3.5" form factor from NewEgg.com for 195 USD"
Well... this is slightly incorrect... Warp travel could still work (at least the way it's explained in "The Physics of Star Trek"). Warp engines do just that, warp space. You aren't really traveling at speeds greater than light, you're just getting from Point A to Point B faster than light could. The engines literally warp the "fabric" of space so that you just have to step across. You can demonstrate this by looking at a peice of paper. To get from one edge to the other an ant would have to walk 11 inches, but if the ant could bend the paper so that the two edges were touching he'd only have to take one step. Also see the explanation of a Tesseract in "A Wrinkle in Time" (pages 75-78) by Madeleine L'Engle as it works in a similar way.
1) start manufacturing CD-Rs
2) get raided by random government organization
3) ???
4) PROFIT