"You obviously have no concept of sacrifice, humility, and honor if you would willingly put your pride before the well being of your own family."
Dammit! Just as I'm gettin' ready to give up completely on the mental/moral wasteland that/. has become, someone like you comes along casting pearls before swine...and I'm hooked all over again.
Thank you.
Oh...and to everyone that participated in modding Ian's post as Troll: Quit wondering why SlashDot sucks so much now...you are the reason.
"It's rather sad that getting married and having kids is seen as a good excuse for not standing up for what you believe in."
Standing up for what they believe in is precisely what those parents ARE doing. They believe that their commitment and obligation to support and provide for the family that loves and depends on them is so much more important than some trifling IP dispute between SCO, IBM and the Linux Community that the two concerns are not even in the same moral universe.
"You'd think that parents would be more likely to think setting an example is important. "
So you'd rather have them set the example that it's okay to bail out on REAL commitments to the well-being of your family so you can enjoy a round of moral masturbation?
Yep, I just built one of these SFF units for a friend. Very cool and elegant design on the heat pipe. The whole thing lifts right out of the case in one rigid piece. Completely self-contained. All heatsinks should be made this way.
"There will be a tremendous job loss, and it will be lost jobs for the poorest and least-educated people"
Yeah? Well, it's great to know the system is still working for all of us after all these millions of years. It's called Natural Selection. Those who have made the choice to be poorly equipped to succeed in their environments...don't. Losing their thankless jobs as parasites on the ass of humanity might be the best thing that's ever happened to telemarketers. For those WITH the will to succeed, it could serve as the catalyst that leads them to improve upon their lot in life; For those WITHOUT the will to succeed...nothing will
The only correct course of action is to use systems such as Gorman's for their intended purpose: to identify points of weakness in our infrastructure and, from there, eliminate them.
WELL SAID! Basically, Gorman's system is "Nessus for Infrastructures". If we recognize the need for vulnerability scans against our computer networks...why is it such a "leap" to realize that ALL critical systems must be regularly assessed for vulnerabilities if we hope to ever have a prayer of securing them.
...How hard is it to get some underling -- an underling whose job it is to figure out how to compete with Linux anyway -- to download and install Red Hat Linux 9 and then tell you about it?
This reminds me of the JITB commercial where Jack sends this yuppie yes-man cube-dweller to Philadelphia to "learn all he can about Philly Cheese Steaks" and the guy comes back this totally de-evolved mullet-sporting beastie-boy wannabe spouting stuff like "Yo Jack-EEEE! I soaked up Philly like a SPONGE!"
I'm trying to envision what evolutionary mutations would occur in a Micro-serf who was told by Bill Gates to "Learn all you can about Linux".
I doubt some makeshift terrorist camp is going to give people programming skill
Yeah...'cause programming skill is so tough and all; much more difficult than say...successfully hijacking multiple jumbo jets and piloting them into the WTC and Pentagon on cue.
Yeah...because it's so much better to be eaten by a tiger than be shot.
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Are you using the wheelmouse switch when you boot Knoppix?
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Is it necessary to let the energy pass THROUGH us in order to achieve invisibility. If the light doesn't get reflected back into the viewer's cornea...we're invisible. Right?
IANAP either so I expect this next theory to have an extremely short lifespan before it, and myself, are logically shredded...BUT I own a DLP projector that uses a tiny little array of individually controllable mirrors on-a-chip to reproduce images with a great deal of clarity and definition.
Couldn't you cover a suit with these things and start redirecting light anywhere but back towards the viewer? Or would this create a noticeable "dark spot" in their field of vision? Why couldn't you cover the back of the suit with digital cameras that photographed the area behind you and reprojected it, through the DLP's, in front of you?
"If you're going to be truly geeky about baking, your tools are an oven and a bread pan."
If you're going to be truly geeky about baking, your tools are a tornado vortex generator to sift the flour and a particle accelerator to provide heat.
As far as the inability to admit to totally wasting ones time, that is a well documented psychological fact. It is a trait of humanity that is exploited well by bosses and politicians.
The inability to admit to totally wasting ones time is the human trait that makes Slashdot possible as well.
You're not the Burgermeister Meisterburger, are ya? What's wrong with owning Transformer toys? Or ANY toys for that matter? There's a grown man in the office next to mine, who has so many 'bots, his hutch looks like the Transformer Graveyard.
I still miss my original Voltron that broke into the five different Lions (garage sale casualty). Now THERE was a great toon. Though I never really could figure out why they spent 25 minutes gettin' their butts kicked in the Lions before they trailer-hitched into Voltron, formed the "Blazing Sword", and started kickin' ass and takin' names.
"Schoolhouse Rock" was saturday morning greatness!
Here's a link with the lyrics and some.au files...
Schoolhouse Rock Does anyone else remember the saturday morning newsbyte series, with Christopher Glen, called "In the News" ?
In The News Time was you might actually get edu-ma-cated on saturday morning, or at the very least, entertained.
Now all the cartoons are just 30 minute blipverts for whatever toy they're hawking.
Too True! Every item you listed should be mandatory curriculum in High School. I look back, from the perspective of a technical trainer, on how and what was ostensibly "covered" in HS and wonder, "WTF were they actually trying to teach us...if anything?!"
Granted, I attended four different high schools (father was in the AF security service) which doesn't make for a very contiguous learning experience but, seriously, the instructors I encountered didn't seem to have a clue about the most basic tenets of effective training delivery.
Where was Slashdot and THIS website,
HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!, when I was in highschool and needed them, dammit!
Oh...Right! Websites hadn't been invented yet. Oh well, I'd have settled for a BBS.
...WITH the Speech Synthesizer module plugged in and warmed up. Only '99ers would remember this but, because the TI Speech Synth plugged into the console edge connector right next to a flat module slot that you could seriously use as a hotplate, it tended to overheat all the time. When it overheated, it didn't stop working; it started "whispering". Not clearly discernible speech, mind you, but irregular, chanty, eerie, "people-under-the-stairs", sub-vocal whispering. The exact same sort of whispering you hear in every horror movie right before some random teenager catches a fireman's axe in the spleen. Amazing how raw terror can increase the immersive quality of a game.
I can understand all too easily as well. Lately it seems like everytime I get stuck, I find myself loitering around here instead of working through the block. Slashdot is quickly becoming my preferred method of escapist procrastination and that is not a good thing when one has deadlines to meet. Stream-of-consciousness rambling, brainstorming, navel-contemplation, waiting on the muse, and "putting it down and coming back to it later" are not always effective strategies, sometimes simple discipline is the key.
"How reluctant my mind is to face its task! How it loiters about the edges and finds, suddenly, urgent interest in some tangential preoccupation. There are times when one must lash and leash it and lead it, as one would a reluctant beast, grasping first at one firm real object, and then another until there is no other way for it to go and one mounts the beast and rides it, perhaps fearfully." --Maya Deren
Seriously though, no reasonable person would expect me to stay off/. when I've got moderator points to burn! w00t!
"I'll spare you the lecture about how animals take what they need and humans take all in their field of vision. I think you get my point."
Actually...No, I think I don't get your point. The implication that "animals" (as opposed to WHAT...Plants?) make some sort of conscious decision to limit their impact on their environment is a bit anthropomorphic, don't ya think?
Despite what Agent Smith said, animals do not instinctively seek "balance" in their environments. Governed by the instinct to survive, animals seek to dominate their environments just like every other living organism. The "balance" is provided by competition with other animals who are also seeking to dominate the environment.
The only difference is that human animals have developed the intellectual capacity (seldom exercised) to choose what governs their actions.
Amen to that brother! I'm not exactly a dedicated anime fan...I've seen a few things on toonami that I thought were kind of cool but the voice-overs are AWFUL...subtitles would be so much better. Those high-pitched unnatural "Iron-Chef"-like voices are enough to make me switch channels pretty quickly.
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you.
Oh...and to everyone that participated in modding Ian's post as Troll: Quit wondering why SlashDot sucks so much now...you are the reason.
Yep, I just built one of these SFF units for a friend. Very cool and elegant design on the heat pipe. The whole thing lifts right out of the case in one rigid piece. Completely self-contained. All heatsinks should be made this way.
Yeah? Well, it's great to know the system is still working for all of us after all these millions of years.
It's called Natural Selection. Those who have made the choice to be poorly equipped to succeed in their environments...don't.
Losing their thankless jobs as parasites on the ass of humanity might be the best thing that's ever happened to telemarketers.
For those WITH the will to succeed, it could serve as the catalyst that leads them to improve upon their lot in life;
For those WITHOUT the will to succeed...nothing will
I'm trying to envision what evolutionary mutations would occur in a Micro-serf who was told by Bill Gates to "Learn all you can about Linux".
Yeah, but think how "stiff" the competition will be for the airport screener positions for flights to Cancun...during Spring Break
Nope. Kevin is already employed here: Intense School
Yeah...because it's so much better to be eaten by a tiger than be shot.
Are you using the wheelmouse switch when you boot Knoppix?
Is it necessary to let the energy pass THROUGH us in order to achieve invisibility. If the light doesn't get reflected back into the viewer's cornea...we're invisible. Right?
IANAP either so I expect this next theory to have an extremely short lifespan before it, and myself, are logically shredded...BUT I own a DLP projector that uses a tiny little array of individually controllable mirrors on-a-chip to reproduce images with a great deal of clarity and definition.
Couldn't you cover a suit with these things and start redirecting light anywhere but back towards the viewer? Or would this create a noticeable "dark spot" in their field of vision? Why couldn't you cover the back of the suit with digital cameras that photographed the area behind you and reprojected it, through the DLP's, in front of you?
You're not the Burgermeister Meisterburger, are ya? What's wrong with owning Transformer toys? Or ANY toys for that matter?
There's a grown man in the office next to mine, who has so many 'bots, his hutch looks like the Transformer Graveyard.
I still miss my original Voltron that broke into the five different Lions (garage sale casualty). Now THERE was a great toon. Though I never really could figure out why they spent 25 minutes gettin' their butts kicked in the Lions before they trailer-hitched into Voltron, formed the "Blazing Sword", and started kickin' ass and takin' names.
"Schoolhouse Rock" was saturday morning greatness! Here's a link with the lyrics and some .au files...
Schoolhouse Rock
Does anyone else remember the saturday morning newsbyte series, with Christopher Glen, called "In the News" ?
In The News
Time was you might actually get edu-ma-cated on saturday morning, or at the very least, entertained. Now all the cartoons are just 30 minute blipverts for whatever toy they're hawking.
Too True! Every item you listed should be mandatory curriculum in High School. I look back, from the perspective of a technical trainer, on how and what was ostensibly "covered" in HS and wonder, "WTF were they actually trying to teach us...if anything?!"
Granted, I attended four different high schools (father was in the AF security service) which doesn't make for a very contiguous learning experience but, seriously, the instructors I encountered didn't seem to have a clue about the most basic tenets of effective training delivery.
Where was Slashdot and THIS website, HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!, when I was in highschool and needed them, dammit!
Oh...Right! Websites hadn't been invented yet. Oh well, I'd have settled for a BBS.
Maybe he wouldn't say that to his boss, but Herbert "Da H-Dog" Kornfeld sure as hell would.h tml
http://www.theonion.com/archive/archive_kornfeld.
...WITH the Speech Synthesizer module plugged in and warmed up. Only '99ers would remember this but, because the TI Speech Synth plugged into the console edge connector right next to a flat module slot that you could seriously use as a hotplate, it tended to overheat all the time. When it overheated, it didn't stop working; it started "whispering" .
Not clearly discernible speech, mind you, but irregular, chanty, eerie, "people-under-the-stairs", sub-vocal whispering. The exact same sort of whispering you hear in every horror movie right before some random teenager catches a fireman's axe in the spleen. Amazing how raw terror can increase the immersive quality of a game.
Amen to that brother! I'm not exactly a dedicated anime fan...I've seen a few things on toonami that I thought were kind of cool but the voice-overs are AWFUL...subtitles would be so much better. Those high-pitched unnatural "Iron-Chef"-like voices are enough to make me switch channels pretty quickly.