Wow, they have a fight on their hand. A Slashdot story from just over five years ago claimed Microsoft had already patented it! (As an aside, check out the/. user ids in that old post)
Correct, but KDE is not available by default with RedHat, and I figured since it was already going to suck up 1.8GB of space, I could do without the extra 300-400 it was claiming KDE wanted.
Doesn't matter though, I'll get Fedora 2 with KDE 3.2 which will be far better than GNOME anyway;-)
If a huge chunk of [gold|platinium|unobtainium] were found on the moon, would it be cost effective to mine it and send it back to earth?
The main problem is that the Earth's economy would be screwed up if something of immense value was brought back.
The value of gold (and our reliance on it to balance certain markets) or oil is based on there being a fixed amount of it, a regulated supply of it, or both. If you brought back several trillion dollars worth of gold in one giant lump from the Moon, the price of gold on Earth would crash, and currencies based on the gold standard would be made worthless overnight.
This is because gold is, effectively, useless, and only holds stature for traditional and rarity reasons (i.e. 'lots of gold makes me look good because there's so little of it available'). If they brought back significant amounts of oil, however, things would be quite different, as oil has a non-cosmetic use.
This is just how I understand it. An economist can correct me or fill in the blanks.
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I discriminated against the Egg McMuffin by having a Sausage Egg McMuffin, just as I discriminated against Burger King by going to Mcdonalds.
And in doing so discriminated against your waistline and your arteries too, I figure;-)
It does MP3, but they try to trick you into ripping to ATRAC so they can lock you in, typical behavior for a record company.
Yeah, but that said.. burning 64kbps ATRAC3Plus (which is bearable, if not great) means you can get 23 hours of stuff on a single CDR. I've produced a couple of these full of generic kinda stuff, then have higher quality MP3 discs for the niches/favorite stuff. It's great to have 23 hours of stuff on you in the times you can only take one CD out with you.
Also, ATRAC3 at 132kbps sounds significantly better than MP3 at even 160kbps, but I'd confess it's probably not worth the hassle with Sony's shitty software in that case.
I find the opposite. Redhat 9 crawls. SuSE 8 flies. Of course, this may be because Redhat 9 uses GNOME and SuSE 8 uses KDE.. I'm waiting for Fedora Core 2, which will have 2.6 and KDE 3.2 goodness though;-)
Fair enough, but I'd be wary of the view that they simply traded them in. After all, traded them in for what? VT isn't buying its Macs through MacMall, it works directly with Apple.
Come on, Alan, assert your authority and get Welsh and UK locale stuff to disc 1 or 2;-) BTW, I was almost expecting your Slashdot posts hereforth to be in Welsh, but alas..;-)
The problem with the original Unreal Tournament is the hideous AI. Seriously, you give orders to your team and they change their minds after about five seconds. The AI in that game is so hideously bad. Perhaps this is where they should focus rather than on graphics?
This is an educational and research establishment, not a commercial enterprise.
You'd have thought (as some students were hinting here at/.) that Virginia Tech would have sold the units to students, freshmen, whatever, at a knock down rate. Or even used a ton of them within the university itself.
Yet more profiteering from a supposedly educational institution.
There must be about as many PC's that can actually handle this game as there are macs. It's not like my dad's P-II 400 with a matrox G200 is going to be able to handle this.
That's actually an interesting point. The specs on games these days are pretty insane compared to the average PC in the family home. Even if a family has a, say, 1.4GHz machine in the home (and I'd guess way less than half of homes is at that level), it probably has a really crappy video card in it.. or even on-board video. This means that 90%+ of machines out there can barely play these games at 20fps in 640x480.
Given this, it really seems like the PC games industry is propped up by gaming die-hards.. whereas the console gaming market is propped up by everyone who owns one. Perhaps we should all remember this when we start bitching about the gaming freaks who mod their cases crazy all the time.. it's these guys who keep the PC industry in games;-)
I worked on-site with a client for a month and really enjoyed the meetings, as I found them very entertaining. I'm not the sort who really falls into line, and so I just tend to become everyone's wacky friend rather than their colleague. This meant I was constantly playing Buzzword Bingo, and bringing up crazy points and analogies when the meeting got to the "now it's wasting everyone's time" point. Everyone seemed to enjoy it, and if that client reads this post.. meh, it was fun;-)
At what point does financial globalization lead to the homogenization of national laws, even horrible ones?
It has already happened in many areas. Numerous treaties, including this one, have helped make patents cross-border. The EU is a giant cross-border experiment, and systems like NAFTA, NATO, OPEC, and the Arabian and Asian trade pacts, reinforce things even more.
The UK is already experiencing a small form of one world government in terms of the European Union. European Union laws often override the old British ones entirely, particularly in areas relating to human rights. It's not going to be long before something like UN law overrides all others, and if it's like the UK.. we won't like it, but we'll fall over and accept it anyway.
I didn't think I'd be taken seriously;-) Yeah, I know it's an ultra bad idea, I just thought I'd show the humor in developing a new diet based on shoddy and misinterpreted scientific facts.. kinda like a certain other doctor who did the same;-)
FWIW, I've lost 14 pounds on the Hacker's Diet over the past month, hip hip hooray.
Try hyperventilating for the next 20 minutes, and see how you feel... blood rushing around your body, massive stress on your heart and circulation, increased metabolic rate,
You mean I can exercise, AND lose weight more quickly if I hyperventilate for 20 minutes a day? Okay!!
I'd like to announce the "Dr. Cooper Diet." Eat whatever the hell you want, even carbs! Then hyperventilate 20 minutes a day, and your metabolism increases to compensate!
Then Windows NT isn't an operating system either. Windows NT 3.51, and Windows NT 4.0 would be. Nor is 'Windows 98', strictly.. as it would be Windows 98 OSR A, Windows 98 OSR B, and Windows 98 SE.
I don't think the humble record should die, and I don't think it will. Many will go, but the good ones will stay. The problem, as I see it, is that most record stores have become completely homogenized. They all play crappy R&B music (the new type, not real R&B), have generic attendants, and want to sell you DVDs, computer games, and all sorts of crap.
Back in the 60's it wasn't uncommon for people to hang out at the record store, buy records, lay around on beanbags checking out the latest stuff, and walk out with a bag of records at the end of the day. It was also quite common for bands (big and small) to play at record stores. Why can't this happen more these days?
Yeah, okay, I'm yearning for the record stores in films like High Fidelity, and to a lesser extent, Empire Records:-)
Vorgon is still angry about life. His next worm, he wrote, will try to specifically target the people who wouldn't hire him. It will have a ''spidering'' engine that crawls Web-page links, trying to find likely e-mail addresses for human-resource managers, ''like careers@microsoft.com, for example.'' Then it will send them a fake resume infected with the worm. (He hasn't yet decided on a payload, and he hasn't ruled out a destructive one.) ''This is a revenge worm,'' he explained -- for ''not hiring me, and hiring some loser that is not even half the programmer I am.''
So if you can't get a job.. then send them a ton of viruses so that you'll never get a job there, and possibly some time in jail? Great strategy!
1. Get turned down for jobs 2. Send virus to HR managers in revenge 3. ?? 4. Profit!
To be able to work semi-full time on an open source system and not worry about how I'm going to buy the groceries this week. To have a bunch of people (also paid) to help.. and incredibly generous clients who often need to fly me out to their Bermudan data center for a couple of weeks to do a bit of on-site work.
Jeez, almost sounds like a job at MySQL AB.
Actually, working at almost any technology company in the early 80's would also be up there. Tight deadlines, pushing the boundaries of technology, community atmosphere, modest salaries, and lots of pizza fuelled coding binges. Perhaps the early days of Apple.
This is good, but what's really funny is that SCO will be getting a whole ton of PageRank thanks to all of the incoming links, and so will get better rankings for other terms that they may want to persue:-)
My beef with Java is that the Sun SDKs are such a pain in the ass to download from a command prompt.
They use some extremely arcane methods to make sure you have to agree to their licence (which is fair enough) but then once you've started downloading, you can't pause and resume! I even tried their stupid download manager, and it couldn't deal with it.
For those of us on modems (and have ISPs who boot us off every 2 hours to avoid hogging), this is really annoying. I had to get a friend with broadband to download it, then upload it to my FTP server.. so I can stand a chance of downloading it properly!
Because it's from an author who, for the second time, is releasing his book under a "some rights reserved" license, for free, and this hasn't hurt past book sales.
Since both of his books have been released using this method, the above is unprovable. His sales may have been considerably better had he not released it online too.
Oh man, thanks for pointing this out. It solves a problem to which I've never bothered to seek an answer. We have a laptop running SuSE 8 which connects to the Internet via 56k modem, and then the whole family shares this. But if someone's downloading a file, my SSH becomes unusable. What I'd love to do is limit everyone else to, say, 90% of the bandwidth, and leave 10% 'spare' for SSH, etc.. looks like some time invested in learning this might pay off:-)
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Wow, they have a fight on their hand. A Slashdot story from just over five years ago claimed Microsoft had already patented it! (As an aside, check out the /. user ids in that old post)
Correct, but KDE is not available by default with RedHat, and I figured since it was already going to suck up 1.8GB of space, I could do without the extra 300-400 it was claiming KDE wanted.
;-)
Doesn't matter though, I'll get Fedora 2 with KDE 3.2 which will be far better than GNOME anyway
If a huge chunk of [gold|platinium|unobtainium] were found on the moon, would it be cost effective to mine it and send it back to earth?
The main problem is that the Earth's economy would be screwed up if something of immense value was brought back.
The value of gold (and our reliance on it to balance certain markets) or oil is based on there being a fixed amount of it, a regulated supply of it, or both. If you brought back several trillion dollars worth of gold in one giant lump from the Moon, the price of gold on Earth would crash, and currencies based on the gold standard would be made worthless overnight.
This is because gold is, effectively, useless, and only holds stature for traditional and rarity reasons (i.e. 'lots of gold makes me look good because there's so little of it available'). If they brought back significant amounts of oil, however, things would be quite different, as oil has a non-cosmetic use.
This is just how I understand it. An economist can correct me or fill in the blanks.
I discriminated against the Egg McMuffin by having a Sausage Egg McMuffin, just as I discriminated against Burger King by going to Mcdonalds.
;-)
And in doing so discriminated against your waistline and your arteries too, I figure
It does MP3, but they try to trick you into ripping to ATRAC so they can lock you in, typical behavior for a record company.
Yeah, but that said.. burning 64kbps ATRAC3Plus (which is bearable, if not great) means you can get 23 hours of stuff on a single CDR. I've produced a couple of these full of generic kinda stuff, then have higher quality MP3 discs for the niches/favorite stuff. It's great to have 23 hours of stuff on you in the times you can only take one CD out with you.
Also, ATRAC3 at 132kbps sounds significantly better than MP3 at even 160kbps, but I'd confess it's probably not worth the hassle with Sony's shitty software in that case.
I find the opposite. Redhat 9 crawls. SuSE 8 flies. Of course, this may be because Redhat 9 uses GNOME and SuSE 8 uses KDE.. I'm waiting for Fedora Core 2, which will have 2.6 and KDE 3.2 goodness though ;-)
Fair enough, but I'd be wary of the view that they simply traded them in. After all, traded them in for what? VT isn't buying its Macs through MacMall, it works directly with Apple.
Come on, Alan, assert your authority and get Welsh and UK locale stuff to disc 1 or 2 ;-) BTW, I was almost expecting your Slashdot posts hereforth to be in Welsh, but alas.. ;-)
The problem with the original Unreal Tournament is the hideous AI. Seriously, you give orders to your team and they change their minds after about five seconds. The AI in that game is so hideously bad. Perhaps this is where they should focus rather than on graphics?
This is an educational and research establishment, not a commercial enterprise.
/.) that Virginia Tech would have sold the units to students, freshmen, whatever, at a knock down rate. Or even used a ton of them within the university itself.
You'd have thought (as some students were hinting here at
Yet more profiteering from a supposedly educational institution.
There must be about as many PC's that can actually handle this game as there are macs. It's not like my dad's P-II 400 with a matrox G200 is going to be able to handle this.
;-)
That's actually an interesting point. The specs on games these days are pretty insane compared to the average PC in the family home. Even if a family has a, say, 1.4GHz machine in the home (and I'd guess way less than half of homes is at that level), it probably has a really crappy video card in it.. or even on-board video. This means that 90%+ of machines out there can barely play these games at 20fps in 640x480.
Given this, it really seems like the PC games industry is propped up by gaming die-hards.. whereas the console gaming market is propped up by everyone who owns one. Perhaps we should all remember this when we start bitching about the gaming freaks who mod their cases crazy all the time.. it's these guys who keep the PC industry in games
I worked on-site with a client for a month and really enjoyed the meetings, as I found them very entertaining. I'm not the sort who really falls into line, and so I just tend to become everyone's wacky friend rather than their colleague. This meant I was constantly playing Buzzword Bingo, and bringing up crazy points and analogies when the meeting got to the "now it's wasting everyone's time" point. Everyone seemed to enjoy it, and if that client reads this post.. meh, it was fun ;-)
But yeah, buzzword bingo is the bomb.
Which Nintendo products are you most looking forward to this year?
;-)
I'm looking forward to the crystal aqua Gamecube. Oh come on, it's gotta be coming
At what point does financial globalization lead to the homogenization of national laws, even horrible ones?
It has already happened in many areas. Numerous treaties, including this one, have helped make patents cross-border. The EU is a giant cross-border experiment, and systems like NAFTA, NATO, OPEC, and the Arabian and Asian trade pacts, reinforce things even more.
The UK is already experiencing a small form of one world government in terms of the European Union. European Union laws often override the old British ones entirely, particularly in areas relating to human rights. It's not going to be long before something like UN law overrides all others, and if it's like the UK.. we won't like it, but we'll fall over and accept it anyway.
I didn't think I'd be taken seriously ;-) Yeah, I know it's an ultra bad idea, I just thought I'd show the humor in developing a new diet based on shoddy and misinterpreted scientific facts.. kinda like a certain other doctor who did the same ;-)
FWIW, I've lost 14 pounds on the Hacker's Diet over the past month, hip hip hooray.
Try hyperventilating for the next 20 minutes, and see how you feel... blood rushing around your body, massive stress on your heart and circulation, increased metabolic rate,
You mean I can exercise, AND lose weight more quickly if I hyperventilate for 20 minutes a day? Okay!!
I'd like to announce the "Dr. Cooper Diet." Eat whatever the hell you want, even carbs! Then hyperventilate 20 minutes a day, and your metabolism increases to compensate!
Then Windows NT isn't an operating system either. Windows NT 3.51, and Windows NT 4.0 would be. Nor is 'Windows 98', strictly.. as it would be Windows 98 OSR A, Windows 98 OSR B, and Windows 98 SE.
:-) You're right.
Sorry, I'm just picking nits
I don't think the humble record should die, and I don't think it will. Many will go, but the good ones will stay. The problem, as I see it, is that most record stores have become completely homogenized. They all play crappy R&B music (the new type, not real R&B), have generic attendants, and want to sell you DVDs, computer games, and all sorts of crap.
:-)
Back in the 60's it wasn't uncommon for people to hang out at the record store, buy records, lay around on beanbags checking out the latest stuff, and walk out with a bag of records at the end of the day. It was also quite common for bands (big and small) to play at record stores. Why can't this happen more these days?
Yeah, okay, I'm yearning for the record stores in films like High Fidelity, and to a lesser extent, Empire Records
New Scientist is reporting a story about a new paint that can absorb noxious gas.
I heard that Darl McBride got the first stocks of this to paint on the wall facing his desk.
Vorgon is still angry about life. His next worm, he wrote, will try to specifically target the people who wouldn't hire him. It will have a ''spidering'' engine that crawls Web-page links, trying to find likely e-mail addresses for human-resource managers, ''like careers@microsoft.com, for example.'' Then it will send them a fake resume infected with the worm. (He hasn't yet decided on a payload, and he hasn't ruled out a destructive one.) ''This is a revenge worm,'' he explained -- for ''not hiring me, and hiring some loser that is not even half the programmer I am.''
So if you can't get a job.. then send them a ton of viruses so that you'll never get a job there, and possibly some time in jail? Great strategy!
1. Get turned down for jobs
2. Send virus to HR managers in revenge
3. ??
4. Profit!
To be able to work semi-full time on an open source system and not worry about how I'm going to buy the groceries this week. To have a bunch of people (also paid) to help.. and incredibly generous clients who often need to fly me out to their Bermudan data center for a couple of weeks to do a bit of on-site work.
Jeez, almost sounds like a job at MySQL AB.
Actually, working at almost any technology company in the early 80's would also be up there. Tight deadlines, pushing the boundaries of technology, community atmosphere, modest salaries, and lots of pizza fuelled coding binges. Perhaps the early days of Apple.
Yes, I'm a geek.
This is good, but what's really funny is that SCO will be getting a whole ton of PageRank thanks to all of the incoming links, and so will get better rankings for other terms that they may want to persue :-)
My beef with Java is that the Sun SDKs are such a pain in the ass to download from a command prompt.
They use some extremely arcane methods to make sure you have to agree to their licence (which is fair enough) but then once you've started downloading, you can't pause and resume! I even tried their stupid download manager, and it couldn't deal with it.
For those of us on modems (and have ISPs who boot us off every 2 hours to avoid hogging), this is really annoying. I had to get a friend with broadband to download it, then upload it to my FTP server.. so I can stand a chance of downloading it properly!
Because it's from an author who, for the second time, is releasing his book under a "some rights reserved" license, for free, and this hasn't hurt past book sales.
Since both of his books have been released using this method, the above is unprovable. His sales may have been considerably better had he not released it online too.
Oh man, thanks for pointing this out. It solves a problem to which I've never bothered to seek an answer. We have a laptop running SuSE 8 which connects to the Internet via 56k modem, and then the whole family shares this. But if someone's downloading a file, my SSH becomes unusable. What I'd love to do is limit everyone else to, say, 90% of the bandwidth, and leave 10% 'spare' for SSH, etc.. looks like some time invested in learning this might pay off :-)