I was pointing out the fact that organizations which are responsible for finding new words, often make words that are never used and that are often ridiculous.
I did not know what was called the "/. effect". That may seem stupid but I am not used to that/. vocabulary. I searched on google and found a page which gave a short explanation and the link I copied, so as it was one of the first posts which mentionned the "/. effect" I posted the link and the explanation so people who would read the previous post would have an explanation of the "/. effect" attached with one the first posts mentionning it.
Caring about simple things like this can be associated to karma whoring... that's kinda interesting.
So next time, I should say something which promotes Linux and OSx while being sarcastic against Microsoft and RIAA. Then I should make sure to post it not in reply to a comment, but as a reply to the story itself and in the first posts. Finally I would check that the post length would be something about 60-100 lines and full of complicated words. Now that would be karma whoring. Not that I care about numbers in front of a chunk of text but more about how you perceived my post.
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
When Slashdot links a site, often a lot of readers will hit the link to read the story or see the purty pictures. This can easily throw thousands of hits at the site in minutes. Most of the time, large professional websites have no problem with this, but often a site we link will be a smaller site, used to getting only a few thousand hits a day. When all those Slashdot readers start crashing the party, it can saturate the site completely, causing the site to buckle under the strain. When this happens, the site is said to be "Slashdotted."
Recently, the terms "Slashdot Effect" and "Slashdotted" have been used more generally to refer to any short-term traffic jam at a website.
We could conceivably cache pages, but that's a whole different ball of wax.
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Some zealot modded me flamebait, while it is only truth: the only reason I did not use a Mac as primary system is software.
When I am writing an app for a 80x86 system, I can find plenty of useful and reliable tutorials, source code and even books, at least 10x more. I can be sure that if an application has been developped for a purpose there are 99% chances that there is a PC version of that software.
... although PM's price is kinda low compared to your laptop, you can still use google to find many free programs which will allow you to resize it for free
However, I'm pretty sure that the image is a ghost image and you may be able to work on it to fit it on a previously partitionned HD
No there is another way: pay people to use your products: Instant Messaging Giveaway, I can imagine already the ads: search on yahoo.com, and win $1000
Well that may seem alot but $4 billions/year is also equal to $128/second, so that would balance it out =)
Actually MS is releasing a new version of Windows for handheld devices (the 2003 version) and some handheld upgrades won't be released before october (for some iPaqs), so that is becoming an issue, now that PDAs are almost what notebooks were at their beginning.
The other issue with proprietary hardware is that they can lack good drivers and can suffer from bugs and they were not tested as widely as their counterparts.
However, I agree with you that upgrades happens fewer often (well I suppose that s the "second Microsoft effect"(TM) =)), but maybe the firsts releases will be buggy and you may have to software reset your PDA quite often if that is the case.
I remember when I was in university, my roommate got a Sony VAIO. I think that telling its story could provide some information about how proprietary hardware could cause you headaches, especially with manufacturers such as Sony:
At first we were amazed at its design and size. But in the following months, he had to buy stuff and accessories from Sony (Sony's stuff is not often compatible with other manufacturers hardware) which were about twice more expensive than their counterparts from other manufacturers. That is even more true with PDAs upgrades which are extremely expensive compared to the original price of the device.
When he wanted to install a BSD, there was no support for his laptop for some months because Sony did not release at this time specs of the hardware used. Not to mention the integrated Wincam which was unusable outside of Windows
When XP was available, he discovered that he could not install it because of the proprietary hardware and there was no drivers available for windows XP on the Sony website. Furthermore Sony does not deliver Windows install CDs, but restore disks. When he contacted Sony, the last tech he talked to said they (Sony) don't support XP Pro since it wasn't the original software installed. Sorry, but his little sticker said "designed for Windows XP".
Not to mention some poor design about heat/small size, after a hour or more of an operation which uses alot of CPU (compiling, playing some video, picture editing), the back part of the laptop was so hot that he burned himself one time in closing it.
You just have to search some reviews from users on google Google, to see that many users had complaints about their proprietary hardware. So knowing that Sony will use a proprietary processor in their PDA kinda scares me and I hope that future users of this device will not encounter as much problems as he did.
This price is approximately equal to a small laptop. Even if a PDA has another use, the laptop can do all the things that a PDA can do and alot more even if it cannot fit your pocket. So these new PDAs are targeting the high-income market. As I am someone who works in computers, I won't buy one of these if I do not have already a decent laptop.
I totally understand your point, comparing a PDA with a laptop would be like comparing a desktop and a laptop (some years ago, now notebooks can be really used as replacements of desktops if you can afford the price). But I think that most of the people on/. use computers as their main tool in their work. So most of them won't buy a PDA if they do not have already a laptop. Although, I agree that people who do not work in computers may prefer a really nice PDA to an entry level laptop
So what ? As you said, when such acronyms are so widely used that they become themselves words, shouldn't they be considered as a part of language evolution.
I thought about the redundancy in MSCE when I wrote the reply, but as MSCE is widely used as a label, I've chosen to type 'MSCE certified engineer', referring as an engineer who was certified by passing the MSCE tests. Seems like you were one of the few who cannot accept MSCE, XML, GUI be used as words.
Anyway, it's kinda dubious =), but I can hardly imagine, that someone would argue over this fact apart if he is extremely closed-minded or apart if he was trolling
I used to work in a farm and I can say that adding altitude can give you a whole new perspective about what's going on in your fields. Over the years, there have been a number of attempts at using images gathered from airplanes and satellites to enhance scouting
These images provided some interesting views, but were never timely enough to be useful for making management decisions. Plus, the equipment was not readily available to make a pass when you needed it made.
The only option growers had for aerial scouting that provided immediate information was to learn to fly themselves. For most, the cost of flying lessons and airplanes meant that wasn't a very practical option.
Now new technology is opening the door for more immediate, more useful aerial information about your crops. And if you just want to fly over your fields to see how they look from above, that's becoming easier and more affordable, too.
After years of promise that satellites would revolutionize crop scouting, recent developments are turning promise into reality.
Aerial photos can be especially useful for mapping fields in remote areas. A group of ranchers and groups interested in resource management in Wyoming have been working together the past five years to gather aerial images of rangeland in areas that are not readily accessible by ground.
It can be used like in WHIPP program, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Lake DeSmet Conservation District are using aerial imagery to map leafy spurge locations in a 54,000-acre area.
Leafy spurge is a perennial noxious weed that's spreading on rangelands. Cattle won't eat it and herbicides provide inconsistent control so they're trying to develop an integrated weed management program.
Actually, the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which monitors the scene and enforces the GPL, says a Mountain View company has been violating the GPL for more than a year. The foundation calls the violations serious and is threatening a lawsuit.
The specifics of the FSF's beef with OpenTV have to do with the company's policies in sending source code to licensees of OpenTV software tools created under the GPL. According to the foundation, OpenTV has either refused to provide the code, or has attached improper conditions on providing it, to several programmers who have every right to it.
OpenTV's intellectual property lawyer, Scott Doyle, says there's been missed communications on both sides but that the company has no intention of violating any legal agreements. He says the company plans to post the code in question online.
But if the FSF is right that OpenTV is violating the GPL, and if this behavior is found to be legal by the courts, the entire free-software and open-source movements could be derailed. Agreeing to share the improvements you make in the GPL-licensed software you've used is an essential part of the larger ecosystem.
Some people I respect say the GPL is a bad idea, period. They say it's too restrictive of programmers' rights, in the sense of forcing them to open what they've done to the world. Fine: If you don't like the GPL, don't create software from code that used it in the first place. Then put different licensing terms on what you've done.
But legal agreements are supposed to matter in our system. Just because the GPL turns the idea of intellectual property somewhat around doesn't make it less valid.
Or you could create an OS called MINUX and criticize the whole day Linus and other people implementation swearing that Linux/Minix is obsolete =) while your fans stay at the basement and develop your OS for free =).
Slashdot Mirror
now you got the link
I was pointing out the fact that organizations which are responsible for finding new words, often make words that are never used and that are often ridiculous.
I did not know what was called the "/. effect". That may seem stupid but I am not used to that /. vocabulary. I searched on google and found a page which gave a short explanation and the link I copied, so as it was one of the first posts which mentionned the "/. effect" I posted the link and the explanation so people who would read the previous post would have an explanation of the "/. effect" attached with one the first posts mentionning it.
Caring about simple things like this can be associated to karma whoring ... that's kinda interesting.
So next time, I should say something which promotes Linux and OSx while being sarcastic against Microsoft and RIAA. Then I should make sure to post it not in reply to a comment, but as a reply to the story itself and in the first posts. Finally I would check that the post length would be something about 60-100 lines and full of complicated words. Now that would be karma whoring. Not that I care about numbers in front of a chunk of text but more about how you perceived my post.
How will they handle transition with IPv4 ?
From Slashdot FAQ:
Deep linking illegal under EU law, By Andy McCue, Computing [26-01-2001]
Danish Court Rules Deep Linking Illegal
Some examples of companies who forbid deep linking (the last link is full of stupid examples, some websites which would get a great benefit for their popularity from deep linking
... we find these new words as stupid as the organizations who try to promote them, only some companies websites are using these words
Browser is also translated by "brouteur", which can means pussy sucker in some cases. Hey this new cunilingus (Mozilla) is pretty nice.
arresting Google, they provide deep-linking and even CACHE !!!
Oh wait ... you are too lazy to put a robots.txt in your root ?
Some zealot modded me flamebait, while it is only truth: the only reason I did not use a Mac as primary system is software.
When I am writing an app for a 80x86 system, I can find plenty of useful and reliable tutorials, source code and even books, at least 10x more. I can be sure that if an application has been developped for a purpose there are 99% chances that there is a PC version of that software.
... although PM's price is kinda low compared to your laptop, you can still use google to find many free programs which will allow you to resize it for free
However, I'm pretty sure that the image is a ghost image and you may be able to work on it to fit it on a previously partitionned HD
Um because it cannot run all the nifty apps and mostly games that run under Windows =)
What is the exact model of your PCMCIA card ?
No there is another way: pay people to use your products: Instant Messaging Giveaway, I can imagine already the ads: search on yahoo.com, and win $1000
Well that may seem alot but $4 billions/year is also equal to $128/second, so that would balance it out =)
Actually MS is releasing a new version of Windows for handheld devices (the 2003 version) and some handheld upgrades won't be released before october (for some iPaqs), so that is becoming an issue, now that PDAs are almost what notebooks were at their beginning.
The other issue with proprietary hardware is that they can lack good drivers and can suffer from bugs and they were not tested as widely as their counterparts.
However, I agree with you that upgrades happens fewer often (well I suppose that s the "second Microsoft effect"(TM) =)), but maybe the firsts releases will be buggy and you may have to software reset your PDA quite often if that is the case.
I remember when I was in university, my roommate got a Sony VAIO. I think that telling its story could provide some information about how proprietary hardware could cause you headaches, especially with manufacturers such as Sony:
At first we were amazed at its design and size. But in the following months, he had to buy stuff and accessories from Sony (Sony's stuff is not often compatible with other manufacturers hardware) which were about twice more expensive than their counterparts from other manufacturers. That is even more true with PDAs upgrades which are extremely expensive compared to the original price of the device.
When he wanted to install a BSD, there was no support for his laptop for some months because Sony did not release at this time specs of the hardware used. Not to mention the integrated Wincam which was unusable outside of Windows
When XP was available, he discovered that he could not install it because of the proprietary hardware and there was no drivers available for windows XP on the Sony website. Furthermore Sony does not deliver Windows install CDs, but restore disks. When he contacted Sony, the last tech he talked to said they (Sony) don't support XP Pro since it wasn't the original software installed. Sorry, but his little sticker said "designed for Windows XP".
Not to mention some poor design about heat/small size, after a hour or more of an operation which uses alot of CPU (compiling, playing some video, picture editing), the back part of the laptop was so hot that he burned himself one time in closing it.
You just have to search some reviews from users on google Google, to see that many users had complaints about their proprietary hardware. So knowing that Sony will use a proprietary processor in their PDA kinda scares me and I hope that future users of this device will not encounter as much problems as he did.
What the original poster meant was:
This price is approximately equal to a small laptop. Even if a PDA has another use, the laptop can do all the things that a PDA can do and alot more even if it cannot fit your pocket. So these new PDAs are targeting the high-income market. As I am someone who works in computers, I won't buy one of these if I do not have already a decent laptop.
I totally understand your point, comparing a PDA with a laptop would be like comparing a desktop and a laptop (some years ago, now notebooks can be really used as replacements of desktops if you can afford the price). But I think that most of the people on /. use computers as their main tool in their work. So most of them won't buy a PDA if they do not have already a laptop. Although, I agree that people who do not work in computers may prefer a really nice PDA to an entry level laptop
That was just my 2 cents =)
So what ? As you said, when such acronyms are so widely used that they become themselves words, shouldn't they be considered as a part of language evolution.
I thought about the redundancy in MSCE when I wrote the reply, but as MSCE is widely used as a label, I've chosen to type 'MSCE certified engineer', referring as an engineer who was certified by passing the MSCE tests. Seems like you were one of the few who cannot accept MSCE, XML, GUI be used as words.
Anyway, it's kinda dubious =), but I can hardly imagine, that someone would argue over this fact apart if he is extremely closed-minded or apart if he was trolling
Are you by any chance a MCSE certified engineer ?
I used to work in a farm and I can say that adding altitude can give you a whole new perspective about what's going on in your fields. Over the years, there have been a number of attempts at using images gathered from airplanes and satellites to enhance scouting
These images provided some interesting views, but were never timely enough to be useful for making management decisions. Plus, the equipment was not readily available to make a pass when you needed it made.
The only option growers had for aerial scouting that provided immediate information was to learn to fly themselves. For most, the cost of flying lessons and airplanes meant that wasn't a very practical option.
Now new technology is opening the door for more immediate, more useful aerial information about your crops. And if you just want to fly over your fields to see how they look from above, that's becoming easier and more affordable, too.
After years of promise that satellites would revolutionize crop scouting, recent developments are turning promise into reality.
Aerial photos can be especially useful for mapping fields in remote areas. A group of ranchers and groups interested in resource management in Wyoming have been working together the past five years to gather aerial images of rangeland in areas that are not readily accessible by ground.
It can be used like in WHIPP program, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Lake DeSmet Conservation District are using aerial imagery to map leafy spurge locations in a 54,000-acre area.
Leafy spurge is a perennial noxious weed that's spreading on rangelands. Cattle won't eat it and herbicides provide inconsistent control so they're trying to develop an integrated weed management program.
... give tips about how to spend these $1000 How to spend $1000
Actually, the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which monitors the scene and enforces the GPL, says a Mountain View company has been violating the GPL for more than a year. The foundation calls the violations serious and is threatening a lawsuit.
The specifics of the FSF's beef with OpenTV have to do with the company's policies in sending source code to licensees of OpenTV software tools created under the GPL. According to the foundation, OpenTV has either refused to provide the code, or has attached improper conditions on providing it, to several programmers who have every right to it.
OpenTV's intellectual property lawyer, Scott Doyle, says there's been missed communications on both sides but that the company has no intention of violating any legal agreements. He says the company plans to post the code in question online.
But if the FSF is right that OpenTV is violating the GPL, and if this behavior is found to be legal by the courts, the entire free-software and open-source movements could be derailed. Agreeing to share the improvements you make in the GPL-licensed software you've used is an essential part of the larger ecosystem.
Some people I respect say the GPL is a bad idea, period. They say it's too restrictive of programmers' rights, in the sense of forcing them to open what they've done to the world. Fine: If you don't like the GPL, don't create software from code that used it in the first place. Then put different licensing terms on what you've done.
But legal agreements are supposed to matter in our system. Just because the GPL turns the idea of intellectual property somewhat around doesn't make it less valid.
You Have Been Moderated, YHL. HAND.
Or you could create an OS called MINUX and criticize the whole day Linus and other people implementation swearing that Linux/Minix is obsolete =) while your fans stay at the basement and develop your OS for free =).