I'm a freakin MORON plain and simple (drop out of Yail) and yet I have run LINUX on 7 different computers since 1998 when I first learned about it from a local LUG.
It's FREE and it's great and simple to learn.
The community is helpful (like Slashdot) and boys are nice to me.
I'm a subscriber (and I work with Larry at Google), so I have a copy of the 24MB speech already.
I'm sure the site linked above will be slow or dead by the time you read this, so if you want a copy of the speech in mp3 or ogg vorbis (I've transcoded it to ogg, which is premier for audio since it's free and open source unlike mp3), reply to this message with your spam-proof email address and I'll send it out tonight.
Really, I don't do this kind of stuff often, but this speech is good enough to warrant it. It's a must-listen, Slashdotters.
Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?
I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at http://www.primidi.com/. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers".
Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now let's talk about money. Visit BlogAds to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at Network Solutions ). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced ( link ) priced at £69.99 GBP. This is roughly, at the time of this writing, $130 USD. Assuming Roland Piquepaille pays for the Clarahost Advanced hosting service, he is out $130 leaving him with a maximum net profit of $650 each month. Keeping your website registered with Network Solutions cost $34.99 per year, or about $3 per month. This leaves Roland Piquepaille with $647 each month. He may pay for additional services related to his online journal, but I was unable to find any evidence of this.
All of the above are cold, hard, verifiable facts, except
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I'm a Wikipedia editor by night and we all simply use the History option (URL parameter is ?action=history, see this page as an example) for viewing the history of the development of whatever article we're curious about. It gives the perfect overflow of a topic's evolution; after all, we designed Wikipedia code after much consideration for exactly what we wanted.
In Slashdot terms, I'd say we mod IBM project -1, Redundant;-)
(NB: Please keep Terry and those who love her in your prayers)
And subscribers can read articles before they're posted to the main site. See this announcement from 2003 when this feature was added to Slashcode. As such I had a good half-hour or so to put my thoughts together and then happened to finish up in time for a first-post.
(Note: I didn't buy my subscription; a "fan" of mine bought it for me.)
Since you were wrong and I was right, please do me a favor and keep Terry in your thoughts and prayers in these troubling times. No matter what your take on the issue is, there's no denying it's tragic.
I tried very hard to get myself to buy the PSP this weekend but in the end I thankfully stopped myself.
I commented earlier this afternoon in the Slashdot article Pez to Dispense Music instead of Sweets that the silly little Pez mp3 players will have 16 times the storage capacity of Sony PSPs for half the price.
Sure, you can spend another hundred dollars or two for a reasonably sized memory stick after you plop down $270 for the Sony PSP, but I ask how a company can market something as the be-all-end-all of portable entertainment and ship it with 32 Megabytes of storage space. My friend says he thinks the Sony PSP developers are stuck back in 1993 or something.
I tried very hard to get myself to buy the PSP this weekend. I have a lot of free time today, as you can see in my posting history, and figured that since money isn't a limiting factor for me I could go out and spend $270 + $110 for a couple PSP games and have some fun. But then reality hit and I thought WTF am I thinking? The unit itself has some bugs which scare me; first generation stuff is always buggy. There aren't many good games for it. The battery life is (realistically) only 2 and a half hours.
In the end I spent $50 for a used Nintendo DS and another $50 on a few used games for it that are modern classics. It's a helluva lot of fun and the $100 is justified in my mind, much more so than $500 for something that I think Sony really screwed up. I mean, sure, the PSP supports 802.11b, but it has no Web browser or any functionality that's actually useful. The whole "game sharing" feature that Sony gloats about isn't supported by any existing Sony PSP games.
Conclusion: I love Sony. I love Nintendo. I love Microsoft. I enjoy gaming a ton. But I tried very hard to get myself to buy one of these PSPs and I just couldn't do it; it makes no sense. The only thing it's good at is playing games, and for $500 and considering there aren't any really good games for it right now it's just an insane purchase to make even for people like me who have money to blow. We're talking a 4 inch screen here people and we're talking proprietary everything when it comes to the UMD discs, etc.
Stay far away!
(Please continue to keep Terry in your thoughts and prayers this holiday weekend as she and the family suffers through this tragic time.)
I've been calling out sick from work the past week due to not being able to stop reading all I can about this latest Groklaw vs. SCO drama, so I figured I'd provide some good additional reading material to my fellow female Slashdot readers.
This is a great time to mention the new Tom's Hardware article featuring Groklaw's heart and brain, Pamela Jones. She's a sweet girl who's as intelligent as she is attractive and sits down with the guys from THG to share all the dirt about Groklaw and SCO. The URL to the article is http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050322_0430 01.html.
Also, check out http://www.sco.com/scoip/. It's SCO's answer to Groklaw and they claim that it's "The Right Place for SCO Intellectual Property Information" implying that Groklaw is anti-SCO biased. The contents of the site are legal filings from the following: - SCO v. IBM - SCO v. Novell - SCO v. AutoZone - SCO v. Daimler Chrysler - Red Hat v. SCO
Enjoy these links and please keep Terry in your thoughts and prayers this Easter weekend.
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Look at steroids. Look at caffeine. Look at Prozac.
Steroids make super-strong, super-angry men.
Caffeine gives people difficulty sleeping and then tricks them into thinking they need it again in the morning after only getting 5 hours of sleep.
Prozac was part of the cause of the recent Native Indian school shooting in the USA. It's a dangerous drug.
I did some research in bioethics and it's scary. We're slowly killing the human race.
Science and technology, once thought to always be good, are now being realized for their true worth and ability -- ability to kill off the human race.
I fear for the future. It's probably one of the reasons I fool around at work all day and read Slashdot and don't take girls seriously.
I just don't see Earth working out. It's too bad really cause we've had a good run.
Products like Linux, Apple... this stuff is so cool and I love it. But then we have nuclear weapons, China, Bush admin, Pfizer, Geico, Microsoft, etc. trying to mess things up.
First, rest in peace, Jef. You did amazing things for Apple and as a coder I enjoy your take on interface design theory.
But, and perhaps a bit off-topic here, I'm fascinated by comments so far in this thread about heaven and afterlife and how he's better off now than he was on Earth.
I don't believe in God. I think we die and then we lose consciousness and then that's it. No pearly gates. No halos. None of that stuff.
So why is it that we all forget our religion (or lack thereof) when people die? Why is it still politically correct for us to act like God and Jesus and all that is legit when people die, but in reality most people aren't religous and those who are... are usually evil power-hungry people.
Just curious. I study the Bible in my spare time for fun and intrigue and always am interested in this stuff.
The Humanists are a proud bunch. Never to be stopped or even delayed in bringing in their "Brave New World." They are proud of their accomplishments and even prouder of their future plans. They like to brag on the way in which they never let a "challenge" get them down. Whether it is splitting the atom, finding a cure for smallpox, defeating a fascist regime, or going to the moon, they never let the magnitude of any obstacle deter them or cause them tto fret.
Even now they are talking about setting up colonies on the lunar poles and mining water from lunar rocks in -200 degree temperatures like it's just a trip around the block. Build a space station? Travel to Mars? No Problem! Yet when faced with the ogre of "Global Warming," these same brave souls turn into quivering masses of flesh, paralyzed by the immensity of this "threat." There is no hope! "We're all going to die!" "The world is going to end!" "The sky is falling!"
If the Humanists ofthe world really believed that the world was getting warmer, they would look at it--not as a threat--but as a mere "bump" in the road that they would be certain they would overcome. Instead, they all panic and call for more control over industry. (?)
Think about this. If "Global Warming" is true, then think about the positive affects would have on the world:
1. There would be more land with moderate climate for all those people who are "overpopulating" the earth to live on. (Overpopulation problem solved)
2. There would be more fresh water available for irrigating desert lands. (Food Shortage solved)
3. More arable land to grow crops. (Food Shortage solved)
4. Milder winters. (Heat fuel shortage solved)
5. Milder winters. (Less sickness)
6. More Ultra Violet rays getting to earth. (UV kills some bacteria)
7. Longer summers, longer tourist seasons. (More national income)
If the Humanists really believed the world was getting warmer, they would be telling us not to be alarmed because "Man will rise to the occasion!" Instead, they huddle in the corner like terrified mice. Why? Because they want Americans to huddle in the corner like terrified mice so they can gain more power over us. Humanists hate America.
I have said it time and time again. The goal of environmentalism and animal rightism is not to "save the earth." Their goal is to destroy the American economy. Why? Because a strong America is a detriment to a One World government! That's why over 160 nations were exempted from the environmental restrictions placed on the U.S. at Kyoto, Japan. The nations with the dirtiest air were exempted while stricter regulations were imposed on America--the nation that has done the most to clean up its environment.
Remember the Gulf War? (The one to liberate Kuwait, not the one Clinton wants to fight to get our attention off of Monica.) Remember when Saddam Hussein poured raw crude oil into the Persian Gulf and then set over two hundred oil wells on fire? Where was the indignant outcry of environmentalism against Hussein? Nowhere! Why? Because he wasn't an American! Because Iraq isn't America!
So here are men who are optimistic about finding a cure for AIDS. Men who talk about manned flight to Jupiter as though it were plausible. Yet "Global Warming"? They can't think of anything positive to say. They can see no hope whatsoever. That's because they see it as an opportunity to place greater restrictions on your freedoms and a tool to push America into poverty.
Me? I'm going to pretend that "Global Warming" is true for a moment.
I look forward to seeing vast corn fields in northern Canada and Siberia. I look forward to the additional rainfall from "the greenhouse" (tremble, please) turning our deserts into lush, fertile plains where new cities will spring up to take in the "overflow" from the "growing population". I look forward to it being warmer the year round, to the new citrus groves in Ohio and the rest of the Midwest. I look forward to the auto and aircraft industr
I've worked on dozens... dozens of Linux applications, including ones running at very low system levels.
No other OS is more evolutionary than Linux.
Not BSD. Not Windows. Shit, not even OS X.
Look at how far Linux has come in a little over a decade. It's amazing and awe-inspiring.
Sometimes I sit at home and stare up at the posted of Linus that I have on the wall and just think, man, that guy started something huge and important, how incredible it all is. Then I touch myself (-;
I am writing to you in regards to, arguably, the world's greatest Star Wars fan, Jeff Tweiten. This name may not mean anything to you, but you may recall his exploits: Jeff was one of the guys who waited in line for over three and a half months outside Seattle's Cinerama for Star Wars Episode II.
Well now Jeff is at it again. As of January 1st, Jeff set his ass down on the concrete, and he's been there ever since. He will be there, in fact, for over five months until 'Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith' is released. I believe he allows himself ten-fifteen minutes a day to shower across the street at a Hotel (someone saves his space in "line"), but other than that, Jeff is Seattle's latest fixture: an odd mix of devotion, philosophy, and human spectacle. Most people, of course, think of this stunt as ridiculous, and the knee-jerk reaction is always to write him off as some type of lunatic fanatic.
I am writing to you because this is not the case, and someone with prominence in the science-fiction/fantasy community needs to take notice of him. Briefly: Jeff is not an attention-seeker or a local media hound, he will continue his wait with or without any recognition from the wider world; rather, Jeff is someone who, as odd as it may seem to conventional society, feels deeply motivated by the idea of "waiting" for things of value, and in a consumer driven, materialistic culture he sees as spiritually drained, this is where he's putting his time and energy down as a worthy investment. All Star Wars fans are moved by how these films capture mythic themes of heroism, discipline, and inner strength, but I would wager that very few of them have been as thoroughly transformed by these ideals as Jeff Tweiten.
I can tell you this: I have had the pleasure of meeting many astounding and impressive spiritual 'masters' in my time - I have my Masters of Divinity from Columbia's Union Theological Seminary, and I worked for many years with the Venerable Lama Pema Wangdak here in New York City and throughout India, but until the day I die, Jeff will be in my own personal top 5 list of the most creative and uniquely powerful individuals I have ever met. A successful artist from Bainbridge Island, Jeff's genius comes not only from his talent, but from that unique ability to truly transcend the opinions of contemporary society in his path to let imagination re-create him. I recognize that this still sounds like a raving fanboy at best, and a complete lunatic at worst, but here's the proof that Jeff's the real thing. Are you ready? JEFF WAITED OUTSIDE IN LINE FOR A MOVIE FOR OVER FOUR MONTHS! And now he's at it again!! I don't think any of us can really have an accurate idea of what this entails. The elements, the mental and physical demands alone would surely weed out anyone who was simply crazy or posturing. Jeff is neither, and maintains his vigil with grace, compassion, and humor.
Remember: while I'm writing this, Jeff is out on the street. He's out on the street while you're reading this, too, and while you go for lunch, forget about all of this for a few hours, and then revisit it again in your mind, Jeff is still out there, right now, on the street, waiting for Star Wars. You may very well forget about this for months, and > it won't be until April that you'll think about it again, but Jeff will still be there, constant, disciplined, a mad hatter bodhisattva manifesting as the one thing all the stuffed shirts out there will be sure to mock and look over: a sci-fi fanboy on crusade, a modern Don Quixote who is unimpressed by the siren appeals of modern culture, and instead has chosen to wait for something of true value and excitement. Whatever any of us - or him - feels about the Star Wars films, (I know his favorite is still 'Empire Strikes Back') is irrelevant, it is the ideals behind these images that moves him, and it is to these timeless and unpopular ideals that he has committed himself. Jeff is not without a sense
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I know that sometimes Slashdotters complain that "every little release" of many Open Source applications is documented on the front page, but this one really deserves it.
I've done a LOT of research into this and I personally think that Ken just got burned out and decided to be done with the whole Jeopardy thing. I mean, FedEx??? Are you kidding me???
He beat all the records like 64 days on a game show and 2 million $$$ total winnings. He said he wanted them before, too, so he accomplished that.
He talked with his family about stepping down.
He was tired at game 55.
He was slow in answering and it seemed purposeful.
He should have just said officially that he's stepping down. Why throw the thing on purpose?
Ken is OUR hero, guys. He's OUR hero. He's ONE of us. US. I miss seeing him and I hope to meet him one day before I die.
But I gotta link you guys to this.. it's all about other cool Japan/anime cardboard buildings.
I read it last week it's a great article with amazing photos. I ended up saving it to my HDD for future use and am considering building my software co. headquarters from cardboard!!
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I'm a freakin MORON plain and simple (drop out of Yail) and yet I have run LINUX on 7 different computers since 1998 when I first learned about it from a local LUG.
It's FREE and it's great and simple to learn.
The community is helpful (like Slashdot) and boys are nice to me.
I'm a subscriber (and I work with Larry at Google), so I have a copy of the 24MB speech already.
I'm sure the site linked above will be slow or dead by the time you read this, so if you want a copy of the speech in mp3 or ogg vorbis (I've transcoded it to ogg, which is premier for audio since it's free and open source unlike mp3), reply to this message with your spam-proof email address and I'll send it out tonight.
Really, I don't do this kind of stuff often, but this speech is good enough to warrant it. It's a must-listen, Slashdotters.
Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?
I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at http://www.primidi.com/. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers".
Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now let's talk about money. Visit BlogAds to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at Network Solutions ). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced ( link ) priced at £69.99 GBP. This is roughly, at the time of this writing, $130 USD. Assuming Roland Piquepaille pays for the Clarahost Advanced hosting service, he is out $130 leaving him with a maximum net profit of $650 each month. Keeping your website registered with Network Solutions cost $34.99 per year, or about $3 per month. This leaves Roland Piquepaille with $647 each month. He may pay for additional services related to his online journal, but I was unable to find any evidence of this.
All of the above are cold, hard, verifiable facts, except
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In Slashdot terms, I'd say we mod IBM project -1, Redundant
(NB: Please keep Terry and those who love her in your prayers)
And subscribers can read articles before they're posted to the main site. See this announcement from 2003 when this feature was added to Slashcode. As such I had a good half-hour or so to put my thoughts together and then happened to finish up in time for a first-post.
(Note: I didn't buy my subscription; a "fan" of mine bought it for me.)
Since you were wrong and I was right, please do me a favor and keep Terry in your thoughts and prayers in these troubling times. No matter what your take on the issue is, there's no denying it's tragic.
I tried very hard to get myself to buy the PSP this weekend but in the end I thankfully stopped myself.
I commented earlier this afternoon in the Slashdot article Pez to Dispense Music instead of Sweets that the silly little Pez mp3 players will have 16 times the storage capacity of Sony PSPs for half the price.
Sure, you can spend another hundred dollars or two for a reasonably sized memory stick after you plop down $270 for the Sony PSP, but I ask how a company can market something as the be-all-end-all of portable entertainment and ship it with 32 Megabytes of storage space. My friend says he thinks the Sony PSP developers are stuck back in 1993 or something.
I tried very hard to get myself to buy the PSP this weekend. I have a lot of free time today, as you can see in my posting history, and figured that since money isn't a limiting factor for me I could go out and spend $270 + $110 for a couple PSP games and have some fun. But then reality hit and I thought WTF am I thinking? The unit itself has some bugs which scare me; first generation stuff is always buggy. There aren't many good games for it. The battery life is (realistically) only 2 and a half hours.
In the end I spent $50 for a used Nintendo DS and another $50 on a few used games for it that are modern classics. It's a helluva lot of fun and the $100 is justified in my mind, much more so than $500 for something that I think Sony really screwed up. I mean, sure, the PSP supports 802.11b, but it has no Web browser or any functionality that's actually useful. The whole "game sharing" feature that Sony gloats about isn't supported by any existing Sony PSP games.
Conclusion: I love Sony. I love Nintendo. I love Microsoft. I enjoy gaming a ton. But I tried very hard to get myself to buy one of these PSPs and I just couldn't do it; it makes no sense. The only thing it's good at is playing games, and for $500 and considering there aren't any really good games for it right now it's just an insane purchase to make even for people like me who have money to blow. We're talking a 4 inch screen here people and we're talking proprietary everything when it comes to the UMD discs, etc.
Stay far away!
(Please continue to keep Terry in your thoughts and prayers this holiday weekend as she and the family suffers through this tragic time.)
I've been calling out sick from work the past week due to not being able to stop reading all I can about this latest Groklaw vs. SCO drama, so I figured I'd provide some good additional reading material to my fellow female Slashdot readers.
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This is a great time to mention the new Tom's Hardware article featuring Groklaw's heart and brain, Pamela Jones. She's a sweet girl who's as intelligent as she is attractive and sits down with the guys from THG to share all the dirt about Groklaw and SCO. The URL to the article is http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050322_043
Also, check out http://www.sco.com/scoip/. It's SCO's answer to Groklaw and they claim that it's "The Right Place for SCO Intellectual Property Information" implying that Groklaw is anti-SCO biased. The contents of the site are legal filings from the following:
- SCO v. IBM
- SCO v. Novell
- SCO v. AutoZone
- SCO v. Daimler Chrysler
- Red Hat v. SCO
Enjoy these links and please keep Terry in your thoughts and prayers this Easter weekend.
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Is that these silly little Pez players will have 16 times the storage capacity of Sony PSPs for half the price.
(PSP specs | Pez mp3 specs)
FACTS:
- P2P is a revolutionary and technically unstoppable technology
- P2P is positive for companies
- P2P is good for the market
- P2P is good for users
So why sue people over it? P2P is superior technology, like BitTorrent, iPods, and the Mach kernel.
And I hate to admit this.
But science is truly ruining the human race.
Look at steroids. Look at caffeine. Look at Prozac.
Steroids make super-strong, super-angry men.
Caffeine gives people difficulty sleeping and then tricks them into thinking they need it again in the morning after only getting 5 hours of sleep.
Prozac was part of the cause of the recent Native Indian school shooting in the USA. It's a dangerous drug.
I did some research in bioethics and it's scary. We're slowly killing the human race.
Science and technology, once thought to always be good, are now being realized for their true worth and ability -- ability to kill off the human race.
I fear for the future. It's probably one of the reasons I fool around at work all day and read Slashdot and don't take girls seriously.
I just don't see Earth working out. It's too bad really cause we've had a good run.
Products like Linux, Apple... this stuff is so cool and I love it. But then we have nuclear weapons, China, Bush admin, Pfizer, Geico, Microsoft, etc. trying to mess things up.
They're basic horizontal graphic banner ads.
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First, rest in peace, Jef. You did amazing things for Apple and as a coder I enjoy your take on interface design theory.
But, and perhaps a bit off-topic here, I'm fascinated by comments so far in this thread about heaven and afterlife and how he's better off now than he was on Earth.
I don't believe in God. I think we die and then we lose consciousness and then that's it. No pearly gates. No halos. None of that stuff.
So why is it that we all forget our religion (or lack thereof) when people die? Why is it still politically correct for us to act like God and Jesus and all that is legit when people die, but in reality most people aren't religous and those who are... are usually evil power-hungry people.
Just curious. I study the Bible in my spare time for fun and intrigue and always am interested in this stuff.
The Humanists are a proud bunch. Never to be stopped or even delayed in bringing in their "Brave New World." They are proud of their accomplishments and even prouder of their future plans. They like to brag on the way in which they never let a "challenge" get them down. Whether it is splitting the atom, finding a cure for smallpox, defeating a fascist regime, or going to the moon, they never let the magnitude of any obstacle deter them or cause them tto fret.
Even now they are talking about setting up colonies on the lunar poles and mining water from lunar rocks in -200 degree temperatures like it's just a trip around the block. Build a space station? Travel to Mars? No Problem! Yet when faced with the ogre of "Global Warming," these same brave souls turn into quivering masses of flesh, paralyzed by the immensity of this "threat." There is no hope! "We're all going to die!" "The world is going to end!" "The sky is falling!"
If the Humanists ofthe world really believed that the world was getting warmer, they would look at it--not as a threat--but as a mere "bump" in the road that they would be certain they would overcome. Instead, they all panic and call for more control over industry. (?)
Think about this. If "Global Warming" is true, then think about the positive affects would have on the world:
1. There would be more land with moderate climate for all those people who are "overpopulating" the earth to live on. (Overpopulation problem solved)
2. There would be more fresh water available for irrigating desert lands. (Food Shortage solved)
3. More arable land to grow crops. (Food Shortage solved)
4. Milder winters. (Heat fuel shortage solved)
5. Milder winters. (Less sickness)
6. More Ultra Violet rays getting to earth. (UV kills some bacteria)
7. Longer summers, longer tourist seasons. (More national income)
If the Humanists really believed the world was getting warmer, they would be telling us not to be alarmed because "Man will rise to the occasion!" Instead, they huddle in the corner like terrified mice. Why? Because they want Americans to huddle in the corner like terrified mice so they can gain more power over us. Humanists hate America.
I have said it time and time again. The goal of environmentalism and animal rightism is not to "save the earth." Their goal is to destroy the American economy. Why? Because a strong America is a detriment to a One World government! That's why over 160 nations were exempted from the environmental restrictions placed on the U.S. at Kyoto, Japan. The nations with the dirtiest air were exempted while stricter regulations were imposed on America--the nation that has done the most to clean up its environment.
Remember the Gulf War? (The one to liberate Kuwait, not the one Clinton wants to fight to get our attention off of Monica.) Remember when Saddam Hussein poured raw crude oil into the Persian Gulf and then set over two hundred oil wells on fire? Where was the indignant outcry of environmentalism against Hussein? Nowhere! Why? Because he wasn't an American! Because Iraq isn't America!
So here are men who are optimistic about finding a cure for AIDS. Men who talk about manned flight to Jupiter as though it were plausible. Yet "Global Warming"? They can't think of anything positive to say. They can see no hope whatsoever. That's because they see it as an opportunity to place greater restrictions on your freedoms and a tool to push America into poverty.
Me? I'm going to pretend that "Global Warming" is true for a moment.
I look forward to seeing vast corn fields in northern Canada and Siberia. I look forward to the additional rainfall from "the greenhouse" (tremble, please) turning our deserts into lush, fertile plains where new cities will spring up to take in the "overflow" from the "growing population". I look forward to it being warmer the year round, to the new citrus groves in Ohio and the rest of the Midwest. I look forward to the auto and aircraft industr
MST3k is a great example.
I helped develop and design it.
But guess what.
Who the hell owns it NOW?!
I was working for my own wife, and believe it or not I got fired today AND divorced.
Yup, true story. I was a coder on a graphics engine for a small game house and ended up marrying my boss three years ago.
I came in today, this morning, to my office, and found a note saying my wife (boss) wanted to speak to me.
I went in, she was there with her new boyfriend and my pink slip.
January 24th is the worst day? No way. For me, today was about the worst it's ever gotten. I almost drove off a bridge on the way home.
Fucking bitch.
How can we raise incomes for desk-dwelling IT types while our soldiers in the desert risking their lives don't even get ARMOR for their tanks?
It's just not right.
Please cut your fucking hair.
I've worked on dozens... dozens of Linux applications, including ones running at very low system levels.
No other OS is more evolutionary than Linux.
Not BSD. Not Windows. Shit, not even OS X.
Look at how far Linux has come in a little over a decade. It's amazing and awe-inspiring.
Sometimes I sit at home and stare up at the posted of Linus that I have on the wall and just think, man, that guy started something huge and important, how incredible it all is. Then I touch myself (-;
Here is a great letter I just got.
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to you in regards to, arguably, the world's greatest Star Wars fan, Jeff Tweiten. This name may not mean anything to you, but you may recall his exploits: Jeff was one of the guys who waited in line for over three and a half months outside Seattle's Cinerama for Star Wars Episode II.
Well now Jeff is at it again. As of January 1st, Jeff set his ass down on the concrete, and he's been there ever since. He will be there, in fact, for over five months until 'Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith' is released. I believe he allows himself ten-fifteen minutes a day to shower across the street at a Hotel (someone saves his space in "line"), but other than that, Jeff is Seattle's latest fixture: an odd mix of devotion, philosophy, and human spectacle. Most people, of course, think of this stunt as ridiculous, and the knee-jerk reaction is always to write him off as some type of lunatic fanatic.
I am writing to you because this is not the case, and someone with prominence in the science-fiction/fantasy community needs to take notice of him. Briefly: Jeff is not an attention-seeker or a local media hound, he will continue his wait with or without any recognition from the wider world; rather, Jeff is someone who, as odd as it may seem to conventional society, feels deeply motivated by the idea of "waiting" for things of value, and in a consumer driven, materialistic culture he sees as spiritually drained, this is where he's putting his time and energy down as a worthy investment. All Star Wars fans are moved by how these films capture mythic themes of heroism, discipline, and inner strength, but I would wager that very few of them have been as thoroughly transformed by these ideals as Jeff Tweiten.
I can tell you this: I have had the pleasure of meeting many astounding and impressive spiritual 'masters' in my time - I have my Masters of Divinity from Columbia's Union Theological Seminary, and I worked for many years with the Venerable Lama Pema Wangdak here in New York City and throughout India, but until the day I die, Jeff will be in my own personal top 5 list of the most creative and uniquely powerful individuals I have ever met. A successful artist from Bainbridge Island, Jeff's genius comes not only from his talent, but from that unique ability to truly transcend the opinions of contemporary society in his path to let imagination re-create him. I recognize that this still sounds like a raving fanboy at best, and a complete lunatic at worst, but here's the proof that Jeff's the real thing. Are you ready? JEFF WAITED OUTSIDE IN LINE FOR A MOVIE FOR OVER FOUR MONTHS! And now he's at it again!! I don't think any of us can really have an accurate idea of what this entails. The elements, the mental and physical demands alone would surely weed out anyone who was simply crazy or posturing. Jeff is neither, and maintains his vigil with grace, compassion, and humor.
Remember: while I'm writing this, Jeff is out on the street. He's out on the street while you're reading this, too, and while you go for lunch, forget about all of this for a few hours, and then revisit it again in your mind, Jeff is still out there, right now, on the street, waiting for Star Wars. You may very well forget about this for months, and > it won't be until April that you'll think about it again, but Jeff will still be there, constant, disciplined, a mad hatter bodhisattva manifesting as the one thing all the stuffed shirts out there will be sure to mock and look over: a sci-fi fanboy on crusade, a modern Don Quixote who is unimpressed by the siren appeals of modern culture, and instead has chosen to wait for something of true value and excitement. Whatever any of us - or him - feels about the Star Wars films, (I know his favorite is still 'Empire Strikes Back') is irrelevant, it is the ideals behind these images that moves him, and it is to these timeless and unpopular ideals that he has committed himself. Jeff is not without a sense
I want to stress here there are very significant changes here in our 4.2.0 release of Xfce.
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I know that sometimes Slashdotters complain that "every little release" of many Open Source applications is documented on the front page, but this one really deserves it.
Be sure to take a look at http://www.xfce.org/release_notes/4.2.0_changelog
We added so many great features and improvements that it's impossible to list them all here. Thanks to Slashdot editors for approving the post!
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I've done a LOT of research into this and I personally think that Ken just got burned out and decided to be done with the whole Jeopardy thing. I mean, FedEx??? Are you kidding me???
He beat all the records like 64 days on a game show and 2 million $$$ total winnings. He said he wanted them before, too, so he accomplished that.
He talked with his family about stepping down.
He was tired at game 55.
He was slow in answering and it seemed purposeful.
He should have just said officially that he's stepping down. Why throw the thing on purpose?
Ken is OUR hero, guys. He's OUR hero. He's ONE of us. US. I miss seeing him and I hope to meet him one day before I die.
I didn't get to see that episode where Ken loses yet on my TiVo...
Thanks for RUINING the whole damn thing!!!!!!!!
OMG i'm pissed
But I gotta link you guys to this.. it's all about other cool Japan/anime cardboard buildings.
I read it last week it's a great article with amazing photos. I ended up saving it to my HDD for future use and am considering building my software co. headquarters from cardboard!!