Here, all the freshmen are required to have laptops (most of us got the IBM 600E, "linux-certified", but anyway). Now that we all have laptops, professors use Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations (we're required to have a Windows partition) to give their lectures, and they upload the lecture to the course website. That way, I can zone out during the class (or not even attend, if it's a large enough class) and not miss anything.
In the GPG discussion, Brian Knotts (bknotts@europa.com) suggested "I think it'd be really handy if the Slashdot User Info page had a field specifically for the user's PGP/GnuPG public key. Maybe give a point of karma if you have a valid public key there, even, just to try to encourage people to get and use PGP/GnuPG. Only when a significant number of people are using these programs will they become *really* useful. "
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As Far As I Know, they didn't really accomplish anything on Mir? So it was great in theory, but in reality, Mir sucked. Well, thats what I think. (first post?)
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Upon further review, maybe Wired knew that Slashdotters don't come as much as they used to? And they wanted to know their shortcomings, so a guaranteed way to be on slashdot would be.. to have a story on slashdot. That way, slashdotters annoyed with Wired would voice their comments, and bam, user (non-user?) feedback for Wired.
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I come to slashdot because I'd rather have other people filter out the crap for me. I know I could read the same stories by going directly to the other sites, but why expend my effort? Anyway, Its much more interesting to read people's comments and point out the inconsistencies or whatever, because I don't have the knowledge to be able to do that on my own, usually.
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Maybe it means Wired wants a lot slashdotters to visit & look around. Thing is, most slashdotters came here after finding Wired insufficient (or so I think. Believe it or not, I may be wrong)
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I first heard about slashdot through a PCMag Article, something to the effect of "Best Sites on the Web." The "News for Nerds" tagline interested me, I came here, and liked it. Thats what brought *me* here.
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I subscribe to the theory that there is a static amount of quality on the internet. The more sites there are, the more the quality is diluted... But someplace like slashdot takes a lot more than its share of quality:)
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MSNBC, the joint venture between Microsoft & NBC? Doesn't that count? I would imagine breaking into television would be expensive business. Would AOL do a joint venture with someone already established? "A(OL|BC)", between AOL & ABC? Or AOL|CBS? I think part of their content is served up by CBS. They could have an interesting joint logo -- both of their logos are Eyes. OK, I'm just typing stream of consciousness now...
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Yet another technology ten years away? If this isn't as vapor as other stuff we've seen, then I'd be quite interested. No mention of laptop batteries, though.
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an Initial Public Offering. When a stock is introduced to the Stock Market, and becomes publicly owned (at least partially) as opposed to privately owned..
It's amazing how little research the stock-buying public tends to do. Look how many people bought shares in China.com, just because it has two buzzwords that Wall Street likes: China, and "dot com". The amount of people buying the stock was huge, even though the company information (SEC filing, i think?) wasn't very easily available. I wonder how many people bought shares in MP3.com thinking that they *owned* the MP3 format? And will those same people buy Red Hat shares thinking Red Hat owns Linux? Hey, MP3 and Linux are some pretty hot buzzwords nowadays.
In terms of design, i like Nad Electronics' ( www.nadelectronics.com) designs. I have fallen in love with their L40. If they only had that running MP3s...
I don't think the problem with the Oscar is the simplicity.. Most of the time, simplicity is good. The Oscar, however, seems to be an unpolished & unfinished work. I would say it's a work of art, if it was made by a student for personal purposes. But selling it, making it commercial, involves an end product more refined. (usually -- we all know there are plenty of exceptions.)
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Here, all the freshmen are required to have laptops (most of us got the IBM 600E, "linux-certified", but anyway). Now that we all have laptops, professors use Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations (we're required to have a Windows partition) to give their lectures, and they upload the lecture to the course website. That way, I can zone out during the class (or not even attend, if it's a large enough class) and not miss anything.
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For e-mail encryption.
In the GPG discussion, Brian Knotts (bknotts@europa.com) suggested "I think it'd be really handy if the Slashdot User Info page had a field specifically for the user's PGP/GnuPG public key. Maybe give a point of karma if you have a valid public key there, even, just to try to encourage people to get and use PGP/GnuPG. Only when a significant number of people are using these programs will they become *really* useful. "
Needless to say, he got moderated up to a 5.
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what's the purpose of spam-proofing signatures?
Not everyone needs microsoft to survive :)
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As Far As I Know, they didn't really accomplish anything on Mir? So it was great in theory, but in reality, Mir sucked. Well, thats what I think. (first post?)
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Upon further review, maybe Wired knew that Slashdotters don't come as much as they used to? And they wanted to know their shortcomings, so a guaranteed way to be on slashdot would be.. to have a story on slashdot. That way, slashdotters annoyed with Wired would voice their comments, and bam, user (non-user?) feedback for Wired.
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I come to slashdot because I'd rather have other people filter out the crap for me. I know I could read the same stories by going directly to the other sites, but why expend my effort? Anyway, Its much more interesting to read people's comments and point out the inconsistencies or whatever, because I don't have the knowledge to be able to do that on my own, usually.
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Maybe it means Wired wants a lot slashdotters to visit & look around. Thing is, most slashdotters came here after finding Wired insufficient (or so I think. Believe it or not, I may be wrong)
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I had no idea it was that many. Is that pageviews?
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I first heard about slashdot through a PCMag Article, something to the effect of "Best Sites on the Web." The "News for Nerds" tagline interested me, I came here, and liked it. Thats what brought *me* here.
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#8: Error 404 File Not Found
(hehe, thats what it says. but it points to borland)
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I subscribe to the theory that there is a static amount of quality on the internet. The more sites there are, the more the quality is diluted... But someplace like slashdot takes a lot more than its share of quality :)
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AT&T Worldnet is AT&T's Internet Service (One of the top ranked national ISPs, too). Perhaps there's where the misinformation is coming from.
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MSNBC, the joint venture between Microsoft & NBC? Doesn't that count? I would imagine breaking into television would be expensive business. Would AOL do a joint venture with someone already established? "A(OL|BC)", between AOL & ABC? Or AOL|CBS? I think part of their content is served up by CBS. They could have an interesting joint logo -- both of their logos are Eyes. OK, I'm just typing stream of consciousness now...
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Along the same lines...
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Is this going to be available in Kansas?
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Yet another technology ten years away? If this isn't as vapor as other stuff we've seen, then I'd be quite interested. No mention of laptop batteries, though.
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As far as I can see, Islam is the only one of the major religions that makes sense. There's a book entitled "The Bible, The Qur'an, & Science" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0935782494 /o/qid=934604878/sr=8-1/002-114 6677-6052040) that compares the Qur'an (thats the holy book of Islam, for those of you uninformed) & the Bible in light of science.
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an Initial Public Offering. When a stock is introduced to the Stock Market, and becomes publicly owned (at least partially) as opposed to privately owned..
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It's amazing how little research the stock-buying public tends to do. Look how many people bought shares in China.com, just because it has two buzzwords that Wall Street likes: China, and "dot com". The amount of people buying the stock was huge, even though the company information (SEC filing, i think?) wasn't very easily available. I wonder how many people bought shares in MP3.com thinking that they *owned* the MP3 format? And will those same people buy Red Hat shares thinking Red Hat owns Linux? Hey, MP3 and Linux are some pretty hot buzzwords nowadays.
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>Lets do some math:
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>70,000 employees x $340 = $23,800,000
>1/2 half of that is $1,190,000.
um.... (no further commenting needed.)
In terms of design, i like Nad Electronics' ( www.nadelectronics.com) designs. I have fallen in love with their L40. If they only had that running MP3s...
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Yahoo Finance ( http://finance.yahoo.com/m3?u) provides exchange rates for tons of currencies.
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The currency in question was the German (Deutsch (sp?)) Mark.
I don't think the problem with the Oscar is the simplicity.. Most of the time, simplicity is good. The Oscar, however, seems to be an unpolished & unfinished work. I would say it's a work of art, if it was made by a student for personal purposes. But selling it, making it commercial, involves an end product more refined. (usually -- we all know there are plenty of exceptions.)
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just a thought.
This should be dropped to a -1.. i'm Muslim, and offended.
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That one was mentioned... "Stanford has one which is best known."
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