from article: After you submit an edited article, it goes through several steps. First, a researcher verifies the accuracy of the suggested changes. Then an editor reviews the article for issues such as readability and organization. Finally, the proofreading staff makes sure the article adheres to Encarta style.
as i brush the dirt off myself after laughing so hard... i click on the "Encarta Style Guide" link. its sad when you have to teach propper grammar to someone that wants to post to an ENCYCLOPEDIA of all things hehe. but thats just me.
"Personally, I'm all for that. Let the private companies make the progressive steps, let NASA become..."
let NASA be the FCC of the space 'world', at least here in the usa. just dont give them the outright and overbearingness of he FCC.
Let them be the general populations "seal of approval."
sure they have f00ked up in the past, but you have got to give them SOME credit!
like me having to use BIG M's onscreen keyboard to 'type' this thanks to an unfortunate beer accident...
hear hear, great point! great idea even! hell it might even lead to.. 4. PROFIT!
lets get music.slashdot.org up & running so that indie/pop artists can contribute songs other than the played out #1-2-3 singles from their current record, which will be determined by the ARTIST and NOT the rec-exec who just wants to get paid. (and YES EVERY record exec wants to get paid, as do many artists, but i think the artists would be more into actually getting their name & music out for publicity (GOOD publicity at that))and let them be free/very-low cost (maybe sumthing like ebay, where people bid for music to DL & the highest bidder wins, that way the dude who REALLY wants the music can pay $1.25 for the single he really wants rather than.99c to itunes for something they will listen to once and then forget, even tho thats the whole idea behind selling crap-ass singles for $5, heres a song +2 you wont like so you'll just throw it away & pay us $12 for the whole cd with the same crap songs you hate.) to the masses!! THEN if thier non-payola-radio'ed-out songs (i.e. NONE of the ones currently playing cept for a few good oldies) are actually GOOD and someone else hears what your playing, *AND LIKES IT*, then it might inspire PAYING customers to either pay-for dl or, heaven forbid, GO TO A STORE and buy the cd!
subscription prices are negotiable, if there are any. at least thats the idea for radio play in the first palce; play the popular song from band-X for "free" (free as in the free bag of peanuts after you have paid for the airline ticket (tickets= listening to commercials, which is how the radio stations get paid) and if you want more, BUY THE ALBUM..
which brings up another idea, play a select few GREAT songs from decent/good artists (gotta have a wide variety for each persons definition of good/great) but only let them hear it ONCE, say on a per-ip/week\day basis, if they want more from the same artist they must pay the subscription or pay to dl or, omfg, BUY THE CD!!
is posting on slashdot a way of "patent'ing/copyrighting" an idea like the poor mans patent by mailing himself an idea on papaer & using the postmark as proof-of-date? and yes i know i ramble on & on but thats what i do so:P
"One possible flaw that might be noticed here is that this would seem to suggest that only big sites would have stable domains; with a web of trust scheme in place, though, a site with a very small userbase who all trust each other can exist among that userbase indefinitely."
Define "that userbase." do you mean userbase, as the entire dns using internet, will trust only a "small group" such as their neighboring boxes on the local branch of the cable offices' router system? or will it be a much larger group separated into large segements of the natation, serviced by random by connection-status "hub" dns servers that serve only those who know about them? speaking of which, for a decentralized network, such as the newer p2p or bittorrent protocols, a tracker or some other list providing entity (be it a host file on disk or a remote server sending broadcasts of known hubs, which would REALLY bog everything down depending on how you want it spread...)
ok ive drank to mucch & smoked one too many bowls, that was my main reply... umm
"I have no clue what you're asking here--probably because you never used a single question mark,"...
i will blame that on my "internet ink" running out before i could make the lil obtuse dollar sign thingy above the .
O . M . F. G .
THIS has GOT to be THE MOST intelligent post on slashdot yet.
Ok maybe not the WHOLE post, but there is one particular segment: "once Novell decides that the way to make money is through services, not software. They provide additional competition to..."
lets blank that out a few good times tho & sanitize it for modern day stock brokers:
once ______ decides that the way to make money is through services, not software. They provide additional competition to _________".. and a very viable market approach not yet polluted with wannabe well-doers-that-just-dont. take "PeoplePC" for a slight example... their entire market campaign was to bring cheap pc's to the masses.... but of course the fine print killed them (altho they still exist in a sense that there are a few pplpc isp cds in the ccity that i work at) when it came to having to sign their entire internet life away to a slow dial-up contract.
and when i say 'internet life' that is assuming the lifespan of such a slow connection remaining "in the best interest of the user." in other words, when they wanted that l33t0 trailers.apple.com to play more than 3 trailers in 30 minutes & saw a better way, they were screwed into paying for cable/dsl while still payingon the contract of that shoddy dialup isp for the next 3 years.
i do not mean to say peoplepc is a bad company (gawd i hate the libel laws)
Decentralization comes with its pros and cons. Amongst the feudal corps its in more of a "trustworthy" hand than in just anybody/everybodys.
when i hear "the only way to do that is to decentralize the process" i think of p2p.. sure its nice, it will live long & prosper. but its easy to taint.
"allow anybody to register a domain name, and it'll propagate as it's accessed." sorta reminds me of irc channels, sure you can reg it, but guess what. who the hell do you complain to when there are no IRCops to complain TO. which raises another point.
what happenes when it all becomes a big mess? where is the DIFINITIVE, AUTHORITIVE source for the "RIGHT" answer? and do you think that a 10, 5, 1 day old backup is enough to restore order to the chaos that would amass? do you know how many domains are registered/expire in 1 day? much less 1 hour? (man i hope you dont, at least for my point anyways hehe) i sure dont. can we say "sue"? can you tell me who to sue? then again, you have your homepage/business and then one day the dns gets tainted... now www.tobyshardware.com (not regg'ed btw) points to www.tubgirlmeetsgoatseman.net.. lets see you wiggle out of that one when your grandma (or DAUGHTER) goes to find out what new toys they can order.
which goes back to who do you shoot? i would say, in this case, yourself... because you voted on decentralizing the domain registry:P
I used PC drivers for my eyetoy so i could use it
as a netcam w/builtin mic. i sent in my pic & it turned out all pasty colored, but thats ok because i like insane clowns, and that pic looked like my face in clown makeup hehe. easy to do and a nice lil personalization (seriously) for online play.
From M$'s Site (hope they dont sue copyright infringers;)
Avalon
"Avalon" is the code name for the presentation subsystem class libraries in WinFX. Avalon provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer.
all i gotta say is.. *ahem* bloat. Bloat that probably wont run as nice as XP on my P3-500, or my celeron 1.3 hehe at least when it comes to linux i can still run enlightenment on a pentium 300mhz, albeit without the purdy water-wave epplet:P
Well, InCom Corp., the company that provided the tech free of charge to the school, has abruptly pulled out, without explanation.
the only explaination i have for pulling out is that i dont want to go through 9 months of hell + 18 years of cursing my parents for cursing me with children "just like me"
speaking as an employee of Circuit City (The "other competitiors"... I cant stand an article completely about best buy without actually MENTIONING the names of the main competitors, sorta that whole 'even negative publicity is good publicity) i can at least say that CCity got it right the first time (at least to my knowledge) that our Price Match Plus® policy is that any prices from a web site MUST be from a local dealer, and that said dealer must have the item in stock, and it must not be a "clearance" item, such as an out-of-production digital camera that they have priced below cost just for the sake of gitting it out of the store...
Oh and dont forget the obligatory FU to best buy:)
just a side note.. Circuit City stopped giving commission to their salesmen about 2 years ago (roughly, i started about a year ago and we never had it then & have heard stories.)
another side note, i sell car stereos so i resent your first sentence:P~, and beelieve it or not, Wal-Mart was(is?) the countries top large-screen (40"+) distributor/seller
as i currently read this post from the POS (point of sale? Peice of Shiat?) terminal which currently runs a shoddy winxp-embedded, i can tell you that there are no snot-nosed 16 year olds (at least not in my store.) and we generally do not stop customers exiting the doors to look at receipts unless the door alarm goes off, even if then:P
i will probably comment on alot of these posts seeing as how i have seen the open wed kiosks move from some version of linux that used Netscape/Mozilla over to xp-embedded... which probably came to be because the IDIOts who set up the linux boxes never turned off the hard-drive saving of bookmarks (if thats even do-able), which resulted in numerous error messages accumulating over the course of a day.
*APPLAUD* This has got the be the best of the comments i have ever read from the slashdot crowd, and for that sir i applaud you. i had mod points yesterday & never used them then they timed out.. so i give my own personal mods of +10 INTELLIGENT. and 2 hatchets wayy up!
MIRC r00lz!!! it EEZ the b3st3st skript0ring language around!! 3y3 CaN 0Wn0rz j00 with 1 lineof code #%!%!@ (disregarding the fact | is;'s cousin(the one without the erectile dysfunction))
#%!%@#%^!
On a semi-serious note, my own lil mental definition of a "scripting language" is a set list of syntaxies' (or whatever the hell the plural of "syntax" is) for a human readable "language" that a computer can use to control the actions of an existing program per-user input. So i mention mIRC's scripting language becuase of the amazing versatility it has in customizing such a solid (solid as in STABLE, it has had many "IRC virus" scripts due to the effect of combining malicious/fun-seeking bastards with newbie/total-idiot/naieve (heretofore & nevermore known as "The Innocent") end users (the ones you have to write instructions down on a sheet of paper at as to how to download/install/run/connect/Join #JimbozWarez.... AND FOR GOD SAKES FORGET TRYING TO TELL THEM HOW TO USE AN XDCC!!!)
Yahoo is running a story about how the Cocain Cartels are using Winamp5 to repeatedly blast Cher & Yanni songs into the rooms where suspected theifs are being held, tune in for more at 11.
Slashdot Mirror
> if you didn't agree with the EULA for Windows, one could take the shrink-wrapped box back to the vendor for a refund.
but to read the EULA for Windows you have to remove the shrink-wrap. but thats an entirely different flame-wa.... thread
... you obviously havent heard of the chewbaca defence.
from article: After you submit an edited article, it goes through several steps. First, a researcher verifies the accuracy of the suggested changes. Then an editor reviews the article for issues such as readability and organization. Finally, the proofreading staff makes sure the article adheres to Encarta style. as i brush the dirt off myself after laughing so hard ... i click on the "Encarta Style Guide" link. its sad when you have to teach propper grammar to someone that wants to post to an ENCYCLOPEDIA of all things hehe. but thats just me.
:P
> disclaimer -> i am no grammar wizard so stfu
"Personally, I'm all for that. Let the private companies make the progressive steps, let NASA become..." let NASA be the FCC of the space 'world', at least here in the usa. just dont give them the outright and overbearingness of he FCC.
Let them be the general populations "seal of approval."
sure they have f00ked up in the past, but you have got to give them SOME credit!
like me having to use BIG M's onscreen keyboard to 'type' this thanks to an unfortunate beer accident...
the RING was in the cracker jack box! The RING is bupkis! if only poor lil Frodo knew that, he wouldnt have had to done the frikkin movie.
hear hear, great point! great idea even! hell it might even lead to ..
.99c to itunes for something they will listen to once and then forget, even tho thats the whole idea behind selling crap-ass singles for $5, heres a song +2 you wont like so you'll just throw it away & pay us $12 for the whole cd with the same crap songs you hate.) to the masses!! THEN if thier non-payola-radio'ed-out songs (i.e. NONE of the ones currently playing cept for a few good oldies) are actually GOOD and someone else hears what your playing, *AND LIKES IT*, then it might inspire PAYING customers to either pay-for dl or, heaven forbid, GO TO A STORE and buy the cd!
:P
4. PROFIT!
lets get music.slashdot.org up & running so that indie/pop artists can contribute songs other than the played out #1-2-3 singles from their current record, which will be determined by the ARTIST and NOT the rec-exec who just wants to get paid. (and YES EVERY record exec wants to get paid, as do many artists, but i think the artists would be more into actually getting their name & music out for publicity (GOOD publicity at that))and let them be free/very-low cost (maybe sumthing like ebay, where people bid for music to DL & the highest bidder wins, that way the dude who REALLY wants the music can pay $1.25 for the single he really wants rather than
subscription prices are negotiable, if there are any. at least thats the idea for radio play in the first palce; play the popular song from band-X for "free" (free as in the free bag of peanuts after you have paid for the airline ticket (tickets= listening to commercials, which is how the radio stations get paid) and if you want more, BUY THE ALBUM..
which brings up another idea, play a select few GREAT songs from decent/good artists (gotta have a wide variety for each persons definition of good/great) but only let them hear it ONCE, say on a per-ip/week\day basis, if they want more from the same artist they must pay the subscription or pay to dl or, omfg, BUY THE CD!!
is posting on slashdot a way of "patent'ing/copyrighting" an idea like the poor mans patent by mailing himself an idea on papaer & using the postmark as proof-of-date? and yes i know i ramble on & on but thats what i do so
"One possible flaw that might be noticed here is that this would seem to suggest that only big sites would have stable domains; with a web of trust scheme in place, though, a site with a very small userbase who all trust each other can exist among that userbase indefinitely."
... umm
Define "that userbase." do you mean userbase, as the entire dns using internet, will trust only a "small group" such as their neighboring boxes on the local branch of the cable offices' router system?
or will it be a much larger group separated into large segements of the natation, serviced by random by connection-status "hub" dns servers that serve only those who know about them? speaking of which, for a decentralized network, such as the newer p2p or bittorrent protocols, a tracker or some other list providing entity (be it a host file on disk or a remote server sending broadcasts of known hubs, which would REALLY bog everything down depending on how you want it spread...) ok ive drank to mucch & smoked one too many bowls, that was my main reply
"I have no clue what you're asking here--probably because you never used a single question mark,"...
i will blame that on my "internet ink" running out before i could make the lil obtuse dollar sign thingy above the .
O . M . F. G . THIS has GOT to be THE MOST intelligent post on slashdot yet. Ok maybe not the WHOLE post, but there is one particular segment: "once Novell decides that the way to make money is through services, not software. They provide additional competition to ..."
lets blank that out a few good times tho & sanitize it for modern day stock brokers:
once ______ decides that the way to make money is through services, not software. They provide additional competition to _________" .. and a very viable market approach not yet polluted with wannabe well-doers-that-just-dont. take "PeoplePC" for a slight example... their entire market campaign was to bring cheap pc's to the masses.... but of course the fine print killed them (altho they still exist in a sense that there are a few pplpc isp cds in the ccity that i work at) when it came to having to sign their entire internet life away to a slow dial-up contract.
and when i say 'internet life' that is assuming the lifespan of such a slow connection remaining "in the best interest of the user." in other words, when they wanted that l33t0 trailers.apple.com to play more than 3 trailers in 30 minutes & saw a better way, they were screwed into paying for cable/dsl while still payingon the contract of that shoddy dialup isp for the next 3 years.
i do not mean to say peoplepc is a bad company (gawd i hate the libel laws)
Decentralization comes with its pros and cons. Amongst the feudal corps its in more of a "trustworthy" hand than in just anybody/everybodys.
.. lets see you wiggle out of that one when your grandma (or DAUGHTER) goes to find out what new toys they can order.
:P
when i hear "the only way to do that is to decentralize the process" i think of p2p.. sure its nice, it will live long & prosper. but its easy to taint.
"allow anybody to register a domain name, and it'll propagate as it's accessed." sorta reminds me of irc channels, sure you can reg it, but guess what. who the hell do you complain to when there are no IRCops to complain TO. which raises another point.
what happenes when it all becomes a big mess? where is the DIFINITIVE, AUTHORITIVE source for the "RIGHT" answer? and do you think that a 10, 5, 1 day old backup is enough to restore order to the chaos that would amass? do you know how many domains are registered/expire in 1 day? much less 1 hour? (man i hope you dont, at least for my point anyways hehe) i sure dont. can we say "sue"? can you tell me who to sue? then again, you have your homepage/business and then one day the dns gets tainted... now www.tobyshardware.com (not regg'ed btw) points to www.tubgirlmeetsgoatseman.net
which goes back to who do you shoot? i would say, in this case, yourself... because you voted on decentralizing the domain registry
how about... Windows XP Home Neutering: Where Do You Want To Surf Today?
Tony Hawk's Underground.
I used PC drivers for my eyetoy so i could use it
as a netcam w/builtin mic. i sent in my pic & it turned out all pasty colored, but thats ok because i like insane clowns, and that pic looked like my face in clown makeup hehe. easy to do and a nice lil personalization (seriously) for online play.
From M$'s Site (hope they dont sue copyright infringers ;)
.. *ahem* bloat. Bloat that probably wont run as nice as XP on my P3-500, or my celeron 1.3 hehe :P
Avalon "Avalon" is the code name for the presentation subsystem class libraries in WinFX. Avalon provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer.
all i gotta say is
at least when it comes to linux i can still run enlightenment on a pentium 300mhz, albeit without the purdy water-wave epplet
ditto, if you have an invite i can get that would be nice :)
Well, InCom Corp., the company that provided the tech free of charge to the school, has abruptly pulled out, without explanation.
the only explaination i have for pulling out is that i dont want to go through 9 months of hell + 18 years of cursing my parents for cursing me with children "just like me"
speaking as an employee of Circuit City (The "other competitiors" ... I cant stand an article completely about best buy without actually MENTIONING the names of the main competitors, sorta that whole 'even negative publicity is good publicity) i can at least say that CCity got it right the first time (at least to my knowledge) that our Price Match Plus® policy is that any prices from a web site MUST be from a local dealer, and that said dealer must have the item in stock, and it must not be a "clearance" item, such as an out-of-production digital camera that they have priced below cost just for the sake of gitting it out of the store...
:)
Oh and dont forget the obligatory FU to best buy
No mention of the War on Drugs
Oh my dear pot smoking (maybe?) friend... i behest you to follow this link: HighTimes - Help, I'm stoned, who should I vote for.
just a side note.. Circuit City stopped giving commission to their salesmen about 2 years ago (roughly, i started about a year ago and we never had it then & have heard stories.)
:P~, and beelieve it or not, Wal-Mart was(is?) the countries top large-screen (40"+) distributor/seller
another side note, i sell car stereos so i resent your first sentence
as i currently read this post from the POS (point of sale? Peice of Shiat?) terminal which currently runs a shoddy winxp-embedded, i can tell you that there are no snot-nosed 16 year olds (at least not in my store.) and we generally do not stop customers exiting the doors to look at receipts unless the door alarm goes off, even if then :P
i will probably comment on alot of these posts seeing as how i have seen the open wed kiosks move from some version of linux that used Netscape/Mozilla over to xp-embedded... which probably came to be because the IDIOts who set up the linux boxes never turned off the hard-drive saving of bookmarks (if thats even do-able), which resulted in numerous error messages accumulating over the course of a day.
*APPLAUD* This has got the be the best of the comments i have ever read from the slashdot crowd, and for that sir i applaud you. i had mod points yesterday & never used them then they timed out.. so i give my own personal mods of +10 INTELLIGENT. and 2 hatchets wayy up!
MIRC r00lz!!! it EEZ the b3st3st skript0ring language around!! 3y3 CaN 0Wn0rz j00 with 1 lineof code #%!%!@ (disregarding the fact | is ;'s cousin(the one without the erectile dysfunction))
#%!%@#%^!
.... AND FOR GOD SAKES FORGET TRYING TO TELL THEM HOW TO USE AN XDCC!!!)
On a semi-serious note, my own lil mental definition of a "scripting language" is a set list of syntaxies' (or whatever the hell the plural of "syntax" is) for a human readable "language" that a computer can use to control the actions of an existing program per-user input. So i mention mIRC's scripting language becuase of the amazing versatility it has in customizing such a solid (solid as in STABLE, it has had many "IRC virus" scripts due to the effect of combining malicious/fun-seeking bastards with newbie/total-idiot/naieve (heretofore & nevermore known as "The Innocent") end users (the ones you have to write instructions down on a sheet of paper at as to how to download/install/run/connect/Join #JimbozWarez
(a front-end to apt, but with "channels")
So are you saying that you cant just install regular apt to get the new files? or does it HAVE to be xandros' version to install/compile correctly?
They worked fine on my box, try here, here, or here, (IPv7.1.12.9.6). If those dont work, try using slackware 27 using kernel at least 7.18+
This clip shows the effect In Sovie... err Europe Coin takes picture of YOU!
COngrats you got FP, i might have 2nd
Yahoo is running a story about how the Cocain Cartels are using Winamp5 to repeatedly blast Cher & Yanni songs into the rooms where suspected theifs are being held, tune in for more at 11.