"If PCs with a 400-MHz Celeron processor and several gigabytes of hard-disk storage satisfy most PC users, product differentiation loses meaning and only price talks, he said. Some PCs have broke $1,000 and dropped to $500 or less, and some are offered for free. " well seeing someone is giving away free pc's let us all build beowolfs..... what the funk is this guy on about? sounds like marketing hype at its best..... everyone email sony for the location of these "free" pc's........
The jokes on you this time.>:) My Free (Completely, 100 percent free for 0 cash) PC will be arriving at my house in approximately 3 days. The conditions are as follows: 1. You must spend 10 hours per month online with the PC, 1 of which must be spent using the FREE dialup ISP provided with the system.
2. You can not fubar the system or remove the stuff it comes with.
3. 15% of the screen realestate is taken up by AD BANNERS which you look at when you use the system.
4. After 3 years you get to keep the PC, free and clear. If you want it before then you can purchase it for Original cost-(NumMonthsOwned*20)
I intend on hooking mine to my cable modem and using it to run Alladvantage, GotoWorld, all of that sort of thing using my Girlfriends accounts, signed up under me.>:) 1 hour per month using their dialup ISP, no problem...>:) the system is even fairly decent, 400mhz celeron, 56k modem, 4 gig HD (Actually 6 but I think 2 are taken up by their ad crap) ethernet as well I believe, though if not I have a spare in my desk y'know. The website is www.free-pc.com It took about 2 months for us to go from the point of signing up to actually getting the PC.
If only we could have a small hard drive on the thing. Well, I guess I'm assuming ethernet will take up the PC Card slot. Perhaps not, we could use a USB->Ethernet connection, and slam 340meg or so into the PC Card slot.
USB harddrives are around, just not bootable... Firewire on the other hand.... Perhaps once USB becomes a bootable medium these things will be more viable.
It is not agreed. There has been considerable work done on discovering pathways leading to the first self-replicating molecule. After that, it's just evolution. Take a look at this. It's a couple of years old, but it shows some of the research paths being followed.
Ok, the existence of nothing, as in not space, not dust, not a universe, not stars, etc... Nothing. And then the spontaneous creation of a universe through some mischance is what 'science' proposes. If this doesn't seem absurd to you I'm not sure what I can say to make you see my point. I am not saying that belief in God is more valid than belief in the Big Bang, I am saying that they are both equally absurd but that it makes more sense to lean towards the greatest reward until some conclusive proof can be found. I've never yet heard of or found a scientist who is respected among the community who will say 'YES. This is the way it happened, definately.' I am a christian by choice, though an agnostic by inclination. Atheists irritate me because the usually propose to have some kind of scientific backing which turns out to be some blurb they were taught in high school which they have no support for. When I find a truly defensible argument for the Big Bang then I may perhaps change me views.
First, A Warning, this is going to become a religious debate, if you aren't interested then skip it now. Will religion fade away into obscurity? While it may never go away, I think the answer to this question is a definite yes. With your biblical prediction babble aside, there is overwhelming reason why this will happen.
With today being an age of great intellectual thought, more and more people are becoming athiests. Almost the only people who still believe in a diety are :
1) Brainwashed by their environment, 2) Suffering from problems only a god could help them with, or 3) Illogical and uneducated individuals. Hopefully with better schooling and genetically enhanced human minds, idiocy will someday be only a memory. That takes care of #3. Also, with more people being atheist, less children will be brought up in religous homes. Slowly #1 will fade away as well. Im not sure what to do about #2 though.
After a few generations, religion will not be as prevelent in our society as it now is. Religion will never completely go away, or maybe I am too pessimistic to believe that such a utopia could exist.
Alright, since you seem to have to drop down to insulting anyone who believes in a deity of any kind I'll assume you definately believe that there is NOT a deity. Now, there is no conclusive evidence that there is or is not a deity of some kind in existence. Agnostics far out number Atheists, and there are plenty of perfectly reasonable intelligent, un brainwashed people who believe in God or some other deity. I would like to hear your argument for the non-existence of a deity, and hence I will outline my argument that a deity must exist:
1. It is agreed that life can not be created from non-life in a scientific manner.
2. It is impracticle to assume with no evidence that the universe was formed with no outside force acting upon it.
3. Referencing number 1 it is not generally believed to be possible that even if life could come into being from nonlife that such life would exist in great enough quanitites or in such conditions that it would progress beyond the original form without outside interference.
4. There is no natural progression or link from a single common animal at the origin of earth to suggest that life evolved from a single point.
As you can see, even science agrees that its own theories are full of bullshit. If I am going to believe in something which has no evidence whatsoever then I shall choose the option which makes the most sense and promises the most reward.
Religion is a GOOD thing, it teaches people not to kill each other, not to rape each other, not to steal from each other. All of this is placed into a framework which can be taught to people. I really don't see how you can view a world with no religion as a Utopia. I can easily agree that a world without any corrupt religion would be wonderful....
As we enter the 21st century, the United States is one of the most hated, if not the most hated nation in the world. While we have done a great job of spreading democracy throughout the world, this expansion has come through rampant abuse of third world nations.
I'm not going to qoute the entire post, but I noticed some striking similarities to Microsoft and its rise and fall in your description of the US.
1. Microsoft and USA both came into existence as underdogs with high ideals and good ideas.
2. Both shamelessly exploited everyone around them as often as possible, but with good intentions in the early years.
3. Both became more and more bloated, inefficient, and corrupt as time went by.
I think that it's not such a bad idea, to keep Linux in the light, but I think that if it is to be done, whoever does it should probably be a big, heterogenous group of Linux-dudes who spend as much time researching the specific differences as they do tweaking their wording.
Well, there is a crappy site up at www.linuxvsnt.com with a crappy and old message board, we could always get in touch with whoever owns that, take it away from them, and turn it into a decent and informative site. Perhaps even one that shows the places where NT does beat Linux (though they be few and far between). Imagine that, a fair and objective site....
"The largest file size Linux supports is 2 GB versus 16 terabytes (TB) for Windows NT 4.0" Does NTFS even support partitions this large, or is this just the theoretical limit of the operating system? I know NT has large file system support, but didn't think it could scale this large.
Well, gee, let me see, I'll just hook up this 20 terabyte drive I have laying around and test it...
I mean really, you can't refute a claim like that because it's just ABSURD... NO ONE PERSON has 16 terabytes of anything... Yeesh, they can say this with complete security since it will be at least 2 years before anyone can actually test this.
Why? Tell me why it's so funny. Do you really think it's funny or do you feel compelled to watch it as a Rite of Passage to geekdom?
I like what little of John Cleese I've seen in American movies but I haven't seen Monty Python either. I'm wondering how well it holds up today.
It REALLY is funny, it's genuinely funny in a way that the craptastic comedians of today can't match. When you watch Monty Python you realize that one can be funny without swearing every third word. Some of the sketches are down right disgusting, some are terrible, but most are hilarious! Try out 'Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail' first if you ask me. I still think it's the best, with 'And now for something completely different' taking a close second.
When will some people finally sit down at a table and say: "What is a computer? What does it have to do? What is the most efficient way to achieve this?"
When you are dealing with a small site, individual patches are probably preferable - I would prefer them myself.
But on an enterprise level of any decent size, there is no way I want to have to deal with individual patches.
So you are telling us that you would rather leave 21 security holes on 200 servers for 4 months waiting for someone to release a big service pack than turn on Auto RPM for 1 night to update all of them? Where do you work? Someone should be firing you right now....
Besides, other founders = Adrian Carmack (no relation) and he's an artist, not a programmer so I think he doesn't care whether it's open source or not.
Other founders (Hall, Romero) have left id long time ago.
Frac is right, Carmack wanted to release the Q3 engine open source and has stated so deep down in his.plan file a while back. There was some conflict amongst the other members of ID that ended up with Carmack agreeing to keep it closed source. You can find it all in his.plan.
These computer(s) were given a set of criteria, and a goal to complete, as the article says. This means that the computer was told what the bridge was supposed to look like,
Wrong, it was NOT told what the bridge should look like. It was told 'You have these pieces, make something from here to there that won't fall down'. And it did.
This article seems to be more about using current and future technology to assist in conventional terrorism and warfare than using the technology itself as a weapon. The article focused primarily on the use of the internet as a communication/propoganda medium for terrorists when you can just as easily insert the word 'Telephone' for every instance of 'internet' with almost identical results.
If you want to write about 'Cyberwarfare' then the article should focus more on the abilities and technology needed to bring down the computer based infrastructure of a country. A few hundred script kiddies turned loose with the latest hardware and software could probably cripple most governments simply by destroying the ability to communicate through any means other than Shortwave radio. Given enough knowledge of an opposing system it would seem that a determined group of crackers could knock out Telephone, Electrical, Water, and Gas as most of those are now computerised and the computers are sitting on a network with an access point on the internet somewhere. Many times these systems seem secure and unbreakable, but that is only because no one has yet made a concerted effort to take one down. As I was saying, this article should focus more on the actual Computer Warfare aspect as opposed to the Conventional Warfare with the aid of computers line that it currently follows.
It was Quake 1. Whole computer went KABLOOIE! when you hit Cntrl+Alt+Del, I found that out because my sound card locked up the game every time I killed a monster... Blah.
Ok, how is this post offtopic? It deals DIRECTLY with one of the questions he was asked and his answer. The question was:
What conferences are you planning to attend this year? Do you have plans for organizing Geeks with Guns outings during them? If so, is there a mailing list or some other source of information about how to join?
And his answer was that he hadn't found a (Firing)range yet. I pointed out a possible location for one in case someone who was attending was interested. I don't think that qualifies as off topic in any way.
For determining if something is worth my time to read it usually takes me about five seconds to infer whether the post is a flame or a friend
Ok then, let's start with a nice low estimate and say that there are 1 billion distinct individual pages making up the entire internet at this moment with none being added. That's 5 billion seconds... Lemme do some quick math here, 5 billion/60 = 83333333.3333 minutes = 1388888.8888889 hours = 57870 days = 158 years...
Looks like you'll be dead before you get half way there most likely. Especially since that's 158 years without doing anything else, if you only get say... 8 hours per day then it's 3 times as long... Of course, if you throw 10000 people at it you can cut that down to just a few years, if they do it full time, and no knew content is added. But in the meantime, I hope you don't have anything better to do.
This is really just kind of a silly idea, you have to pick a group to moderate your content? I'd rather moderate my own, and I can do this with my brain, and alot faster too, no group or person is going to feel EXACTLY as I do about a wide range of things, (this is the point on reading content, your view point and knowledge can change.) and personally I wouldn't even trust or have the audicity to ask Linus Torvalds to sift thru information on a subject like linux
My impression of this system would be like you and a group of your friends splitting up the 'net and everyone searching for things the group was interested in and sending them to each other. Everyone would search a different 'part' of the net or for different things. Not censorship per se, though you would lose out on some content in some places. Heck, come to think of it that's the best idea I've had in a few days, I think I'll go tell all of my friends to start e-mailing me things that are interesting.>:)
There is a gun store called 'Franklins' in Atlanta, I'm not sure how far from the Atlanta Linux conference center it is but it has a HUGE shooting range that will accomodate around 100 people at one time, they shouldn't be too hard to get in touch with and last time I was there the range was free if you brought your own gun and you could rent/check out various different firearms for a few bucks.
Yeah Yeah, now would any of yo BJJ people like to go up against a top class Muay Thai fighter? Ha!
In a recent(ish) publicity event, ten of the worlds best Kung Fu Masters, met ten of the best Muay Thai Fighters. The results?
Nine of the Kung Fu people got knocked out in the opening round. The 10th Kung Fu guy submitted in the 2nd.
I'm not being all "My form is better than yours", but when you have to mess somebody up, Muay Thai is the weapon of choice:)
Now, if this isn't offtopic, I don't know what is!
Mong.
I've seen people watch Muay Thai Kickboxers and turn to me and say 'Why is he standing so funny? I'd just punch him in the stomach... he has no guard base' And after I stop laughing I inform them that punching a Muay Thai fighter in the stomach is just a really fast way of commiting suicide... I whole heartedly agree that Muay Thai is the meanest and quite likely most effective fighting style if you want to break someone in half... Capoeira on the other hand is a FAR prettier style, and I've seen a couple of Capoeiristas that could dismantle a Thai Kickboxer in seconds... Those guys are pretty damn brutal too.
Yes it will, you have to hold control during the DVD startup, it just won't have any of the special features available. I think there are more details at some of the Mac sites... But it IS possible to play it.
okay, I've been reading slashdot for like 2 years now, and I still can't figure out what the fsck ^H^H^H^H^H^H is supposed to mean. What the h#() is it?
(sorry for being so blatantly offtopic, but nobody I know uses this or knows what it means either, and I work at a software company)
It's a backspace code, I believe it's left over from the old BBS days, I know that my BBS would translate backspace as ^H if I didn't have ansi/Vt01 turned on.... May be from somewhere else though.
Roblimo knows this too. We're in the same LUG here in Baltimore, and we all know that @Home wants Windows on your system when they come to install the cable modem. Most have just bit the bullet and grudgingly installed a 200 MB partition with Dos 6.22 and Win 3.1, but a few of the guys have basically told them, "my computer's down right now, but if you give me all the information I need, I'm an IS person and could set it up. I'll just sign any paperwork for you that you need signed saying that you did your job correctly." As a matter of fact, I think that our server here has the @Home Cable modem experience written down in exciting FAQ-O-RAMA.
I'm right outside of Baltimore City (White Marsh) and when the tech came out here they sent a Mac guy, so we had him set it up on my GFs iMac and then I just took the info and set up my Win98(Shoot me, please...) box... And soon we'll have 3 Mac systems, 1 BEOS system, 1 Linux and 1 win98 (I only use it for Quake, I swear!) system on it... Though right now I'm seriously considering blowing them off and getting a T1 as soon as I get a raise. I've noticed a huge speed drop in the last week or so. Yet it still looks as if no one else is on my loop... The neighborhood is empty of 'net savvy people. Blah! They also kept me on hold for over an hour, twice, when I just wanted to check on some settings for the mail server... Those bastards.
This way, you leave the decision in the hands of the consumer WHERE IT SHOULD BE. Right now, I can choose to go to a store and buy this stuff or not. Why not make the web work that way too?
What?! Are you saying there are people who WANT to see porn?? I thought the smut merchants were trying to force their disgusting nudity into the minds of our impressionable young children in order to warp and corrupt them and turn them into homicidal killers and playthings of Satan!! Of course we should act to save these poor defensless children from their unholy impulses! They don't know what they want! WE know what they want! They only think they don't want what we know they want, and we know it! Choice is EVIL! It lets bad things happen! End choice! More Censorship! PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!
Kintanon Disclaimer: The above was sarcasm and possibly satire, please do not take this as a serious statement regarding my position on any subject, ever.
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"If PCs with a 400-MHz Celeron processor and several gigabytes of hard-disk storage satisfy most PC users, product differentiation loses meaning and only price talks, he said. Some PCs have broke $1,000 and dropped to $500 or less, and some are offered for free. " well seeing someone is giving away free pc's let us all build beowolfs..... what the funk is this guy on about? sounds like marketing hype at its best..... everyone email sony for the location of these "free" pc's........
The jokes on you this time.>:) My Free (Completely, 100 percent free for 0 cash) PC will be arriving at my house in approximately 3 days. The conditions are as follows:
1. You must spend 10 hours per month online with the PC, 1 of which must be spent using the FREE dialup ISP provided with the system.
2. You can not fubar the system or remove the stuff it comes with.
3. 15% of the screen realestate is taken up by AD BANNERS which you look at when you use the system.
4. After 3 years you get to keep the PC, free and clear. If you want it before then you can purchase it for Original cost-(NumMonthsOwned*20)
I intend on hooking mine to my cable modem and using it to run Alladvantage, GotoWorld, all of that sort of thing using my Girlfriends accounts, signed up under me.>:) 1 hour per month using their dialup ISP, no problem...>:) the system is even fairly decent, 400mhz celeron, 56k modem, 4 gig HD (Actually 6 but I think 2 are taken up by their ad crap) ethernet as well I believe, though if not I have a spare in my desk y'know. The website is www.free-pc.com It took about 2 months for us to go from the point of signing up to actually getting the PC.
Kintanon
If only we could have a small hard drive on the thing. Well, I guess I'm assuming ethernet will take up the PC Card slot. Perhaps not, we could use a USB->Ethernet connection, and slam 340meg or so into the PC Card slot.
USB harddrives are around, just not bootable... Firewire on the other hand....
Perhaps once USB becomes a bootable medium these things will be more viable.
Kintanon
It is not agreed. There has been considerable work done on discovering pathways leading to the first self-replicating molecule. After that, it's just evolution. Take a look at this. It's a couple of years old, but it shows some of the research paths being followed.
Ok, the existence of nothing, as in not space, not dust, not a universe, not stars, etc... Nothing. And then the spontaneous creation of a universe through some mischance is what 'science' proposes. If this doesn't seem absurd to you I'm not sure what I can say to make you see my point.
I am not saying that belief in God is more valid than belief in the Big Bang, I am saying that they are both equally absurd but that it makes more sense to lean towards the greatest reward until some conclusive proof can be found.
I've never yet heard of or found a scientist who is respected among the community who will say 'YES. This is the way it happened, definately.' I am a christian by choice, though an agnostic by inclination. Atheists irritate me because the usually propose to have some kind of scientific backing which turns out to be some blurb they were taught in high school which they have no support for. When I find a truly defensible argument for the Big Bang then I may perhaps change me views.
Kintanon
First, A Warning, this is going to become a religious debate, if you aren't interested then skip it now.
Will religion fade away into obscurity? While it may never go away, I think the answer to this question is a definite yes. With your biblical prediction babble aside, there is overwhelming reason why this will happen.
With today being an age of great intellectual thought, more and more people are becoming athiests. Almost the only people who still believe in a diety are :
1) Brainwashed by their environment,
2) Suffering from problems only a god could help them with, or
3) Illogical and uneducated individuals.
Hopefully with better schooling and genetically enhanced human minds, idiocy will someday be only a memory. That takes care of #3. Also, with more people being atheist, less children will be brought up in religous homes. Slowly #1 will fade away as well. Im not sure what to do about #2 though.
After a few generations, religion will not be as prevelent in our society as it now is. Religion will never completely go away, or maybe I am too pessimistic to believe that such a utopia could exist.
Alright, since you seem to have to drop down to insulting anyone who believes in a deity of any kind I'll assume you definately believe that there is NOT a deity. Now, there is no conclusive evidence that there is or is not a deity of some kind in existence. Agnostics far out number Atheists, and there are plenty of perfectly reasonable intelligent, un brainwashed people who believe in God or some other deity.
I would like to hear your argument for the non-existence of a deity, and hence I will outline my argument that a deity must exist:
1. It is agreed that life can not be created from non-life in a scientific manner.
2. It is impracticle to assume with no evidence that the universe was formed with no outside force acting upon it.
3. Referencing number 1 it is not generally believed to be possible that even if life could come into being from nonlife that such life would exist in great enough quanitites or in such conditions that it would progress beyond the original form without outside interference.
4. There is no natural progression or link from a single common animal at the origin of earth to suggest that life evolved from a single point.
As you can see, even science agrees that its own theories are full of bullshit. If I am going to believe in something which has no evidence whatsoever then I shall choose the option which makes the most sense and promises the most reward.
Religion is a GOOD thing, it teaches people not to kill each other, not to rape each other, not to steal from each other. All of this is placed into a framework which can be taught to people. I really don't see how you can view a world with no religion as a Utopia. I can easily agree that a world without any corrupt religion would be wonderful....
Kintanon
As we enter the 21st century, the United States is one of the most hated, if not the most hated nation in the world. While we have done a great job of spreading democracy throughout the world, this expansion has come through rampant abuse of third world nations.
I'm not going to qoute the entire post, but I noticed some striking similarities to Microsoft and its rise and fall in your description of the US.
1. Microsoft and USA both came into existence as underdogs with high ideals and good ideas.
2. Both shamelessly exploited everyone around them as often as possible, but with good intentions in the early years.
3. Both became more and more bloated, inefficient, and corrupt as time went by.
4. Both are intensly hated by their 'peers'.
5. Both have been wildly succesfull.
Interesting, no?
Kintanon
I think that it's not such a bad idea, to keep Linux in the light, but I think that if it is to be done, whoever does it should probably be a big, heterogenous group of Linux-dudes who spend as much time researching the specific differences as they do tweaking their wording.
Well, there is a crappy site up at www.linuxvsnt.com with a crappy and old message board, we could always get in touch with whoever owns that, take it away from them, and turn it into a decent and informative site. Perhaps even one that shows the places where NT does beat Linux (though they be few and far between). Imagine that, a fair and objective site....
Kintanon
"The largest file size Linux supports is 2 GB versus 16 terabytes (TB) for Windows NT 4.0" Does NTFS even support partitions this large, or is this just the theoretical limit of the operating system? I know NT has large file system support, but didn't think it could scale this large.
Well, gee, let me see, I'll just hook up this 20 terabyte drive I have laying around and test it...
I mean really, you can't refute a claim like that because it's just ABSURD... NO ONE PERSON has 16 terabytes of anything... Yeesh, they can say this with complete security since it will be at least 2 years before anyone can actually test this.
Kintanon
Why? Tell me why it's so funny. Do you really think it's funny or do you feel compelled to watch it as a Rite of Passage to geekdom?
I like what little of John Cleese I've seen in American movies but I haven't seen Monty Python either. I'm wondering how well it holds up today.
It REALLY is funny, it's genuinely funny in a way that the craptastic comedians of today can't match. When you watch Monty Python you realize that one can be funny without swearing every third word. Some of the sketches are down right disgusting, some are terrible, but most are hilarious! Try out 'Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail' first if you ask me. I still think it's the best, with 'And now for something completely different' taking a close second.
Kintanon
When will some people finally sit down at a table and say: "What is a computer? What does it have to do? What is the most efficient way to achieve this?"
One Word: Transmeta
Kintanon
When you are dealing with a small site, individual patches are probably preferable - I would prefer them myself.
But on an enterprise level of any decent size, there is no way I want to have to deal with individual patches.
So you are telling us that you would rather leave 21 security holes on 200 servers for 4 months waiting for someone to release a big service pack than turn on Auto RPM for 1 night to update all of them? Where do you work? Someone should be firing you right now....
Kintanon
I don't think so.
.plan file a while back. There was some conflict amongst the other members of ID that ended up with Carmack agreeing to keep it closed source. You can find it all in his .plan.
Besides, other founders = Adrian Carmack (no relation) and he's an artist, not a programmer so I think he doesn't care whether it's open source or not.
Other founders (Hall, Romero) have left id long time ago.
Frac is right, Carmack wanted to release the Q3 engine open source and has stated so deep down in his
Kintanon
Only in the sense that they are both FPSes, Quake used an entirely different engine from Doom.
Kintanon
These computer(s) were given a set of criteria, and a goal to complete, as the article says. This means that the computer was told what the bridge was supposed to look like,
Wrong, it was NOT told what the bridge should look like. It was told 'You have these pieces, make something from here to there that won't fall down'. And it did.
Kintanon
This article seems to be more about using current and future technology to assist in conventional terrorism and warfare than using the technology itself as a weapon. The article focused primarily on the use of the internet as a communication/propoganda medium for terrorists when you can just as easily insert the word 'Telephone' for every instance of 'internet' with almost identical results.
If you want to write about 'Cyberwarfare' then the article should focus more on the abilities and technology needed to bring down the computer based infrastructure of a country. A few hundred script kiddies turned loose with the latest hardware and software could probably cripple most governments simply by destroying the ability to communicate through any means other than Shortwave radio. Given enough knowledge of an opposing system it would seem that a determined group of crackers could knock out Telephone, Electrical, Water, and Gas as most of those are now computerised and the computers are sitting on a network with an access point on the internet somewhere. Many times these systems seem secure and unbreakable, but that is only because no one has yet made a concerted effort to take one down.
As I was saying, this article should focus more on the actual Computer Warfare aspect as opposed to the Conventional Warfare with the aid of computers line that it currently follows.
Kintanon
It was Quake 1. Whole computer went KABLOOIE! when you hit Cntrl+Alt+Del, I found that out because my sound card locked up the game every time I killed a monster... Blah.
Kintanon
Ok, how is this post offtopic? It deals DIRECTLY with one of the questions he was asked and his answer. The question was:
What conferences are you planning to attend this year? Do you have plans for organizing Geeks with Guns outings during them? If so, is there a mailing list or some other source of information about how to join?
And his answer was that he hadn't found a (Firing)range yet. I pointed out a possible location for one in case someone who was attending was interested. I don't think that qualifies as off topic in any way.
Kintanon
For determining if something is worth my time to read it usually takes me about five seconds to infer whether the post is a flame or a friend
Ok then, let's start with a nice low estimate and say that there are 1 billion distinct individual pages making up the entire internet at this moment with none being added.
That's 5 billion seconds... Lemme do some quick math here, 5 billion/60 = 83333333.3333 minutes = 1388888.8888889 hours = 57870 days = 158 years...
Looks like you'll be dead before you get half way there most likely. Especially since that's 158 years without doing anything else, if you only get say... 8 hours per day then it's 3 times as long... Of course, if you throw 10000 people at it you can cut that down to just a few years, if they do it full time, and no knew content is added.
But in the meantime, I hope you don't have anything better to do.
Kintanon
This is really just kind of a silly idea, you have to pick a group to moderate your content? I'd rather moderate my own, and I can do this with my brain, and alot faster too, no group or person is going to feel EXACTLY as I do about a wide range of things, (this is the point on reading content, your view point and knowledge can change.) and personally I wouldn't even trust or have the audicity to ask Linus Torvalds to sift thru information on a subject like linux
My impression of this system would be like you and a group of your friends splitting up the 'net and everyone searching for things the group was interested in and sending them to each other. Everyone would search a different 'part' of the net or for different things. Not censorship per se, though you would lose out on some content in some places. Heck, come to think of it that's the best idea I've had in a few days, I think I'll go tell all of my friends to start e-mailing me things that are interesting.>:)
Kintanon
There is a gun store called 'Franklins' in Atlanta, I'm not sure how far from the Atlanta Linux conference center it is but it has a HUGE shooting range that will accomodate around 100 people at one time, they shouldn't be too hard to get in touch with and last time I was there the range was free if you brought your own gun and you could rent/check out various different firearms for a few bucks.
Kintanon
Doctor Who! >:) I wish they would bring back that series... The 3rd Doctor just Rocked....
'Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!'
Gotta love Dahleks.>:)
Kintanon
Yeah Yeah, now would any of yo BJJ people like to go up against a top class Muay Thai fighter? Ha!
:)
In a recent(ish) publicity event, ten of the worlds best Kung Fu Masters, met ten of the best Muay Thai Fighters. The results?
Nine of the Kung Fu people got knocked out in the opening round. The 10th Kung Fu guy submitted in the 2nd.
I'm not being all "My form is better than yours", but when you have to mess somebody up, Muay Thai is the weapon of choice
Now, if this isn't offtopic, I don't know what is!
Mong.
I've seen people watch Muay Thai Kickboxers and turn to me and say 'Why is he standing so funny? I'd just punch him in the stomach... he has no guard base' And after I stop laughing I inform them that punching a Muay Thai fighter in the stomach is just a really fast way of commiting suicide... I whole heartedly agree that Muay Thai is the meanest and quite likely most effective fighting style if you want to break someone in half... Capoeira on the other hand is a FAR prettier style, and I've seen a couple of Capoeiristas that could dismantle a Thai Kickboxer in seconds... Those guys are pretty damn brutal too.
Kintanon
ARGH....
my Apple G3 350 with DVD can't play it at all...
evil plot of the evil empire?
Yes it will, you have to hold control during the DVD startup, it just won't have any of the special features available. I think there are more details at some of the Mac sites... But it IS possible to play it.
Kintanon
okay, I've been reading slashdot for like 2 years now, and I still can't figure out what the fsck ^H^H^H^H^H^H is supposed to mean. What the h#() is it?
(sorry for being so blatantly offtopic, but nobody I know uses this or knows what it means either, and I work at a software company)
It's a backspace code, I believe it's left over from the old BBS days, I know that my BBS would translate backspace as ^H if I didn't have ansi/Vt01 turned on.... May be from somewhere else though.
Kintanon
Roblimo knows this too. We're in the same LUG here in Baltimore, and we all know that @Home wants Windows on your system when they come to install the cable modem. Most have just bit the bullet and grudgingly installed a 200 MB partition with Dos 6.22 and Win 3.1, but a few of the guys have basically told them, "my computer's down right now, but if you give me all the information I need, I'm an IS person and could set it up. I'll just sign any paperwork for you that you need signed saying that you did your job correctly." As a matter of fact, I think that our server here has the @Home Cable modem experience written down in exciting FAQ-O-RAMA.
I'm right outside of Baltimore City (White Marsh) and when the tech came out here they sent a Mac guy, so we had him set it up on my GFs iMac and then I just took the info and set up my Win98(Shoot me, please...) box... And soon we'll have 3 Mac systems, 1 BEOS system, 1 Linux and 1 win98 (I only use it for Quake, I swear!) system on it... Though right now I'm seriously considering blowing them off and getting a T1 as soon as I get a raise. I've noticed a huge speed drop in the last week or so. Yet it still looks as if no one else is on my loop... The neighborhood is empty of 'net savvy people. Blah! They also kept me on hold for over an hour, twice, when I just wanted to check on some settings for the mail server... Those bastards.
Kintanon
This way, you leave the decision in the hands of the consumer WHERE IT SHOULD BE. Right now, I can choose to go to a store and buy this stuff or not. Why not make the web work that way too?
What?! Are you saying there are people who WANT to see porn?? I thought the smut merchants were trying to force their disgusting nudity into the minds of our impressionable young children in order to warp and corrupt them and turn them into homicidal killers and playthings of Satan!! Of course we should act to save these poor defensless children from their unholy impulses! They don't know what they want! WE know what they want! They only think they don't want what we know they want, and we know it! Choice is EVIL! It lets bad things happen! End choice! More Censorship! PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!
Kintanon
Disclaimer: The above was sarcasm and possibly satire, please do not take this as a serious statement regarding my position on any subject, ever.