Ok, I read this post, and although it sounds a bit like an advertisment, I wouldn't be like all the others to reply and say that you can't be for real. Think about it people, haven't you ever had a gadget or toy that you really liked and told lots of people about? When I got my Zaurus SL-5500, I showed everyone I know, and I've posted about it here. I'm a living advertisment for that thing, but I have no vested interest in it. I just got a new cell phone, a Samsung N400, and I've been showing off the polyphonic ring tones and the color lcd and the web access to all my friends and family. Just because he loves his Segway HT and wants others to know how cool he thinks it is, doesn't mean he has to be working for Segway!
Just a small note specific to the parent post, "i don't think it's for everyone" I'm glad you added that part. You said it replaced your car, but there's no way it could do that for me. I drive an hour (35 miles) into Pittsburgh, and an hour home every day for work, and I know that I couldn't do that going at top speeds of 12 mph (or whatever it does) =D It'd be a cool toy, but I can't afford to pay that much for a toy. I only paid $550 for my car:-P
The machine is agonizingly slow because of its tiny 3GB drive, which the manufacturer said was recycled from an old notebook computer
Apparently the reviewer doesn't understand all that much about PC hardware. (S)he claims that the machine was slow because of the size of the hard drive!? The only way I can think of that mattering is if it causes you to have less swap space. Yeah, that drive is deinitely too small, but that won't make the machine slower! If it's a slow drive, then that will cut back performance, but when it comes to the speed of access "size doesn't matter". You could make a 3 gig drive that spins at 7200 rpms, and has 8 mb cache, and could be blazing (almost) and still small. That comment discredited everything (s)he said to me. Also, if it's taken from an old notebook, does that mean it's a 2.5" drive?
I have one more question that (s)he never answered. (S)he said that all but one of them didn't have a monitor included, but never said which came with one. Either I mis-read it, or there's some important information missing here. A 1 GHz system with a monitor for only $199 is incredible. Anyone have any info on that?
I'm confused. You seem to contradict yourself quite often. First off you say I'm new to the world of programming And then you follow it up with I've read countless books and online tutorials on QBASIC, C++, PHP, and other various languages Now something doesn't seem to add up here.... Either you spend WAY too much time reading programming books, but never actually *use* that knowledge, or one of the statements isn't really true. You also say So, what good can I say about the book? Not much And you closely follow that with [...]it can be useful to experienced programmers [snip]. It goes deeply into data structures, arrays, and databases. There are many helpful features[...] Something seems strange here... You're talking yourself in circles... Are you a politician?
I see lots of people asking this question, and I think I have the solution. I think the main reason something like this would be posted is because many people may hear about it in various places, and it seems like a scary sort of bad thing. Michael was pointing out that although you may hear that there's lots of under-handed evil going on with this, it's all hogwash actually. Without pointing things like this out, stoopid people (like me) might not have realized that this isn't such a big deal afterall. Had I just heard about the story somewhere else, I might have thought that rh was trying to abuse the GPL, and that's a Bad Thing (tm).
Is it just me, or does the SCO latest new story gain a new icon every other story... I mean, pretty soon when you go to look at the story you'll see 3 pages worth of category icons on the right side of the story;).
older versions of Windows don't do DHCP very well at all. Some don't like releasing old IPs or grabbing new ones. Think a bit before you flame someone.
Slashdot should have a section titled "rejected stories". It'd contain all the rejected stories submitted to the editors that day. I'd love to see those! Sure, some will suck and some will be dupes, but there's all those rare gems of stories we'll never get to see
I think this is a great idea, but remember the incredible potential for abuse that this has. Also it may become a waste of space if they allow comments on all rejected articles too.
Wow... I'm honestly impressed. Husqvarna, the same company my father buys chain saws from! And if you look at their site, they even consider California a seperate country from the rest of USA!! What a cool company!!
duh... my whole point of writing that comment was to ask for a link, if there is one, and I forgot to ask... so, er, pretty please, can I have a link;-)
Okay, this was modded to interesting, but is it for real? As I read it I thought the moderators were on crack, and it was a joke, but after reading some of the replies I think that I'm either way too gullable, or this is a real thing... I was picturing something like the iGrill
Actually, from my take on the whole matter, the title of this article on slashdot was slightly misleading (never!!)... It isn't actually the DMCA v. Monsterpatterns (or whatever the site was called). from the article:
The companies invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which shields Internet service providers from liability if they comply with takedown requests
The DMCA's involvement was keeping the ISP from getting in trouble for breaking the hosting contract or for any other reason. The DMCA part didn't seem to actually be about the PATTERNS, it was about the web site while the legal procedings are happening. That's how I interperted that at least, and feel free to prove me wrong.
on a side note, does this whole dumpster diving situation reming anyone of that garbage man (er... sanitation worker, to be P.C.) who saw a McDonalds cup in the trash and peeled the little game piece off it and won a million dollars?;-)
Imagine a Zaurus for the price of a lowend Palm OS machine, no don't imagine purchase it in a couple of years
Admittadly I can't spell;), nor do I know the cost of a lower end palm. That aside, I just bought a Zaurus (SL-5500) for $200. It is recertified, but in very good shape. plus I paid $23 for an extra year's warranty. It's been trating me great. Is that a competitive price?
Simple. Buy one copy of a piece of software. Install it on every computer in sight (whether it's your computer or not, and whether it will be used or not). Voila! Piracy running rampant. BSA has been doing this quite a bit, to create statistics of this magnitude!
When you mentioned making up numbers, I thought you were speaking of "the equivalent of (some number like 500) cd burners" since they were a lot less (faster) burners that got confiscated during that raid a few months back... Where they assumed an average cd burner was like 4x, and that a 12x burner counts as 3 burners, since it (theoretically) can burn 3 cd's in the same amount of time.... Along those lines, a 52x burner is like having 13 burners. Don't you love having fun with numbers?
I'll be kind and refrain from saying "RTFA", but in the article it mentions that gas pumps will charge two seperate prices... to avoid having to retro-fit old cars, but it would also solve this. If the car getting gas has a GPS system (or odometer based one) then it won't charge gas tax, but will tack on their milage tax. If the car doesn't have a system in it, (or presumably if it's malfunctioning), it will charge them the 28 cent (or whatever it was) gas tax. It accomidates all types, whether it's right or not;-)
Okay, other people have stated plenty (more than enough) times that there shouldn't be tax on miles outside of OR, or that there may not be annual inspections, or that they can illegally change odometer readings, but I have two points against this that are neither of these.
First, my car is slightly old (1990), and not in perfect shape by any means. Occasionally the spedometer decides not to work... when this happens, the odometer doesn't move forward either, and in essence, I'd drive tax free. Secondly, I used to own a 1986 Cavalier, and the odometer in that only read up to 100,000 miles. It rolled over twice on me. How would they know how many times it's rolled over?
just a few thoughts of my own... I do appreciate other peoples thoughts and opinions, and I'm glad to see some people are coming up with ideas.;-)
I haven't paid much attention to this lately, but last I knew (a few years back), web petitions were worthless. Is this different now? What's to stop the same person from signing the petition 5,000 times? It seems that a web petition is nearly as inacurate as a slashdot poll.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
They dont work for Microsoft, Microsoft simply provides the grants that fund their research
So you're saying that soon these people will be looking for new grants, since MS will pull theirs based on these findings??;-)
On a different note, I don't even begin to understand why my first post (the grand-parent to this one) was modded as flamebait, I wasn't saying that Linux CAN'T handle it, I was saying that MS may be HOPING that Linux can't. I was simply hoping to hear some people's thoughts, not provoke a fight;-)
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Ok, I read this post, and although it sounds a bit like an advertisment, I wouldn't be like all the others to reply and say that you can't be for real. Think about it people, haven't you ever had a gadget or toy that you really liked and told lots of people about? When I got my Zaurus SL-5500, I showed everyone I know, and I've posted about it here. I'm a living advertisment for that thing, but I have no vested interest in it. I just got a new cell phone, a Samsung N400, and I've been showing off the polyphonic ring tones and the color lcd and the web access to all my friends and family. Just because he loves his Segway HT and wants others to know how cool he thinks it is, doesn't mean he has to be working for Segway!
:-P
Just a small note specific to the parent post, "i don't think it's for everyone" I'm glad you added that part. You said it replaced your car, but there's no way it could do that for me. I drive an hour (35 miles) into Pittsburgh, and an hour home every day for work, and I know that I couldn't do that going at top speeds of 12 mph (or whatever it does) =D It'd be a cool toy, but I can't afford to pay that much for a toy. I only paid $550 for my car
Thank you for the clarification there, I read the "or" on the other side of the parenthases I think. My bad.
The machine is agonizingly slow because of its tiny 3GB drive, which the manufacturer said was recycled from an old notebook computer
Apparently the reviewer doesn't understand all that much about PC hardware. (S)he claims that the machine was slow because of the size of the hard drive!? The only way I can think of that mattering is if it causes you to have less swap space. Yeah, that drive is deinitely too small, but that won't make the machine slower! If it's a slow drive, then that will cut back performance, but when it comes to the speed of access "size doesn't matter". You could make a 3 gig drive that spins at 7200 rpms, and has 8 mb cache, and could be blazing (almost) and still small. That comment discredited everything (s)he said to me. Also, if it's taken from an old notebook, does that mean it's a 2.5" drive?
I have one more question that (s)he never answered. (S)he said that all but one of them didn't have a monitor included, but never said which came with one. Either I mis-read it, or there's some important information missing here. A 1 GHz system with a monitor for only $199 is incredible. Anyone have any info on that?
I'm confused. You seem to contradict yourself quite often. First off you say
I'm new to the world of programming
And then you follow it up with
I've read countless books and online tutorials on QBASIC, C++, PHP, and other various languages
Now something doesn't seem to add up here.... Either you spend WAY too much time reading programming books, but never actually *use* that knowledge, or one of the statements isn't really true. You also say
So, what good can I say about the book? Not much
And you closely follow that with
[...]it can be useful to experienced programmers [snip]. It goes deeply into data structures, arrays, and databases. There are many helpful features[...]
Something seems strange here... You're talking yourself in circles... Are you a politician?
Then why is it news?
I see lots of people asking this question, and I think I have the solution. I think the main reason something like this would be posted is because many people may hear about it in various places, and it seems like a scary sort of bad thing. Michael was pointing out that although you may hear that there's lots of under-handed evil going on with this, it's all hogwash actually. Without pointing things like this out, stoopid people (like me) might not have realized that this isn't such a big deal afterall. Had I just heard about the story somewhere else, I might have thought that rh was trying to abuse the GPL, and that's a Bad Thing (tm).
Is it just me, or does the SCO latest new story gain a new icon every other story... I mean, pretty soon when you go to look at the story you'll see 3 pages worth of category icons on the right side of the story ;).
and these strange input devices?
older versions of Windows don't do DHCP very well at all. Some don't like releasing old IPs or grabbing new ones. Think a bit before you flame someone.
I agree... come on... "Costs More, Less Useful" was the slogan for WinME!
Slashdot should have a section titled "rejected stories". It'd contain all the rejected stories submitted to the editors that day. I'd love to see those! Sure, some will suck and some will be dupes, but there's all those rare gems of stories we'll never get to see
I think this is a great idea, but remember the incredible potential for abuse that this has. Also it may become a waste of space if they allow comments on all rejected articles too.
just my two sense.
Wow... I'm honestly impressed. Husqvarna, the same company my father buys chain saws from! And if you look at their site, they even consider California a seperate country from the rest of USA!! What a cool company!!
duh... my whole point of writing that comment was to ask for a link, if there is one, and I forgot to ask... so, er, pretty please, can I have a link ;-)
Okay, this was modded to interesting, but is it for real? As I read it I thought the moderators were on crack, and it was a joke, but after reading some of the replies I think that I'm either way too gullable, or this is a real thing... I was picturing something like the iGrill
Actually, from my take on the whole matter, the title of this article on slashdot was slightly misleading (never!!)... It isn't actually the DMCA v. Monsterpatterns (or whatever the site was called). from the article:
;-)
The companies invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which shields Internet service providers from liability if they comply with takedown requests
The DMCA's involvement was keeping the ISP from getting in trouble for breaking the hosting contract or for any other reason. The DMCA part didn't seem to actually be about the PATTERNS, it was about the web site while the legal procedings are happening. That's how I interperted that at least, and feel free to prove me wrong.
on a side note, does this whole dumpster diving situation reming anyone of that garbage man (er... sanitation worker, to be P.C.) who saw a McDonalds cup in the trash and peeled the little game piece off it and won a million dollars?
Imagine a Zaurus for the price of a lowend Palm OS machine, no don't imagine purchase it in a couple of years
;), nor do I know the cost of a lower end palm. That aside, I just bought a Zaurus (SL-5500) for $200. It is recertified, but in very good shape. plus I paid $23 for an extra year's warranty. It's been trating me great. Is that a competitive price?
Admittadly I can't spell
And you may ask yourself....
;-)
"how does one create piracy statistics?"
Simple. Buy one copy of a piece of software. Install it on every computer in sight (whether it's your computer or not, and whether it will be used or not). Voila! Piracy running rampant. BSA has been doing this quite a bit, to create statistics of this magnitude!
(damn boyscouts
well, if we wanted truly accurate numbers, we'd just have a slashdot poll about it. duh ;-)
When you mentioned making up numbers, I thought you were speaking of "the equivalent of (some number like 500) cd burners" since they were a lot less (faster) burners that got confiscated during that raid a few months back... Where they assumed an average cd burner was like 4x, and that a 12x burner counts as 3 burners, since it (theoretically) can burn 3 cd's in the same amount of time.... Along those lines, a 52x burner is like having 13 burners. Don't you love having fun with numbers?
I'll be kind and refrain from saying "RTFA", but in the article it mentions that gas pumps will charge two seperate prices... to avoid having to retro-fit old cars, but it would also solve this. If the car getting gas has a GPS system (or odometer based one) then it won't charge gas tax, but will tack on their milage tax. If the car doesn't have a system in it, (or presumably if it's malfunctioning), it will charge them the 28 cent (or whatever it was) gas tax. It accomidates all types, whether it's right or not ;-)
Okay, other people have stated plenty (more than enough) times that there shouldn't be tax on miles outside of OR, or that there may not be annual inspections, or that they can illegally change odometer readings, but I have two points against this that are neither of these.
;-)
First, my car is slightly old (1990), and not in perfect shape by any means. Occasionally the spedometer decides not to work... when this happens, the odometer doesn't move forward either, and in essence, I'd drive tax free. Secondly, I used to own a 1986 Cavalier, and the odometer in that only read up to 100,000 miles. It rolled over twice on me. How would they know how many times it's rolled over?
just a few thoughts of my own... I do appreciate other peoples thoughts and opinions, and I'm glad to see some people are coming up with ideas.
-Jon
what an article... since it may get slashdotted, here's the whole text as I saw it...
/home/misskim/public_html/linmagau.org/pnadodb/dri vers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 170
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in
wait a minute... what does an Irish Car Bomb have to do with beer? ;-)
They dont work for Microsoft, Microsoft simply provides the grants that fund their research
;-)
;-)
So you're saying that soon these people will be looking for new grants, since MS will pull theirs based on these findings??
On a different note, I don't even begin to understand why my first post (the grand-parent to this one) was modded as flamebait, I wasn't saying that Linux CAN'T handle it, I was saying that MS may be HOPING that Linux can't. I was simply hoping to hear some people's thoughts, not provoke a fight
but doesn't your fish taste kind of soapy afterwards? :-P