the parent post (by "alfs boner") is just a copy of a this post...when will people learn that users with userIDs in the 900,000+ range with the word boner in their name are probably not legitimate posters?
and everyone wonders why there's so many trolls on slashdot - because it's so trivial to rack up karma.
and for the record: this layout is destroying IE...
This counts as a review?
No kidding it was spoiler-free; it was content-free as well...
There's a somewhat less mediocre review on kuro5hin. In the comments, there's also links to way more in-depth reviews.
I saw it last night, read a bunch of reviews this morning to see what everyone else was saying and the best review I read is on IMDB.
There was a episode of Nova about the very same topic last night on our local PBS affiliate. Quite disturbing, especially in regards to the experiments of the Soviet Union even after global treaties had been signed.
The pictures of smallpox victims were even more disturbing.
Check out the schedule, maybe it's on again, for those interested.
this is why the moderation system sucks.
or maybe it's the moderators.
an insightful, ontopic post like the parent will languish at 0 and not be read, while all sorts of crap will get modded up to +5, most of it written by trolls trying to accumulate karma so they can get +2 first posts.
One issue I ran into with my pc-based mp3 server is that there's no way to view and edit the playlists other than at your computer...i can skip a track via an IR receiver, but in terms of any more complicated interaction with the computer remotely, i haven't been able to find anything, other than a IR-boosted palm pilot using Bluetooth or WAP...and that's not the simplest or cheapest way. Anybody else got suggestions?
In that sense, then this almost becomes worth it (almost). it's integrated, remote controllable and won't look wacky sitting in your living room.
The best thing I can see about this is that it uses your tv to do stuff like this...and it's always more convenient/easier to be able to use a tv w/ remote than having to walk to your computer.
...my 2 cents...
Rarely has software which contains security holes.
BSD style init scripts
No RPM locking dependancy. If there's an issue, you can upgrade from source quickly.
There's an article here explaining why one site runs Slackware, which you might find interesting.
If you'd grown up on it, or come from another Unix-alike (such as OpenBSD, etc), you'd probably find Slackware quite friendly... most Slackware-heads would find Red Hat or even Debian restrictive and unfriendly.
I was at work when i first heard, as were most people...unfortunately, it meant the major news sites all crumbled under the load, so I ended up on #cnn on EFNET IRC, where some of the ops were providing the latest news updates (with the source quoted, like if it came from CNN etc).
lots of people also spread mpeg/divx/rm files, taken from various tv channels (mainly from CNN, but also european channels too) which showed the attacks & tons of related footage. and not only that, but some people even broadcast the CNN audio via shoutcast servers so people without access to the tv news could at least listen, which helped to keep ppl up to date on happenings.
maybe it should be noted that at it's peak, there were about 3600 people in the #cnn irc channel before the servers started buckling from the load (plus some irc clients crashed simply because they couldn't handle so many people in a single channel).
thanks should go to all the people who helped spread the news.
come on, moderators, this is NOT informative.
Row-level locking is available in mysql by using a third-party table type...As are transactions, and page-level locking.
you use what you need, and for a lot of people, they really don't need to use correlated subqueries, they don't mind replicating the functionality of a stored procedure in perl or php, and they really don't need a 5-digit price tag. MySQL's main feature seems to be its immense popular support among people who haven't used any of the alternatives.
really? so yahoo and NASA don't know about alternatives to mysql?
this is such total FUD...i really don't understand the motivation for everyone to tear down mysql based on these same objections and that damn phillip greenspun article. can't everyone just let people use the solution that fits their requirements?
i would like to point out that someone who is looking for an pre-packaged alternative to a couple hours spent installing linux on a old computer just used the term "boxen", thus demonstrating that this word is, and never has been "cool" or "with-it".
if you are going to call a computer a 'box', at least pluralize it like a regular english speaking human.
his editorials are annoying??
how about the fact that his pathetic spelling is now propogating...
it's not "the what-a-lame-sentance dept", it's "SENTENCE" for christ's sake.
how can all these self-proclaimed genius nerds from slashdot be so retarded when it comes to spelling?
its != it's
effect != affect
your != you're
etc.etc.
don't you people read any properly written english?
what would you think you could gain any insight into programming from someone who kept on writing "mallock" and insisting "spelling doesn't matter". it would be obvious that this person is not a programmer and shouldn't be programming. well, all spelling mistakes do is show the illiteracy of the writer and make everyone forced to read it think, "why should i care what this individual's opinion is?".
get a clue. learn the language you're trying to communicate in, especially if you expect anyone to listen.
(this excludes typos, and non-native english speakers.)
in 1992, the world produced 125,000 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel. now it's about 200,000/yr, and the International Atomic Energy Agency speculates it will by 450,000/yr by 2050.
despite this huge amount of shit produced, and people speculating on what "could" be done with it, the fact is, no one knows what to do with nuclear waste.
bury it? have fun drinking contaminated groundwater.
shoot it into space? a challenger-type explosion (or a terrorist with a rocket launcher) and you irradiate all of florida.
there's really no real solution now...not to mention what will theoretically happen when the time comes to shut down a nuclear power plant. best suggestion anyone's got about that is just encasing the entire building in concrete.
ppl like you should take a look at the _real_ consequences of nuclear power, and put some thought towards the future of the planet...no doubt a solution/replacement for carbon-based fuels is needed, but for now, nuclear power is not it, so might as well keep looking.
...but who cares.
i've been checking google, but have come up empty so far.
does anyone know what exactly "exercising their First Amendment right to criticize the company" means? what were these people saying to incite defamation lawsuits?
if their right to anonymous free speech is so protected, where have all the records of it gone?
a friend of mine is involved with this company, and it really sounds sketchy to me...as most MLM-type things do. i'd love to be able to cite some links though.
to all you karma whores out there, here's a chance to modded up.
...that canada's still represented...although the university of waterloo is getting weirder and weirder. take a bunch of nerds, put them in a small town with a beer festival and this is the result, i guess.
anybody (from UW or otherwise) got an abstract for this one?
Canada
University of Waterloo
Intelligent Motion Control Using the TMS320LF2407 Applied to a Six-Legged Walking Robot
that's how we get everything at my workplace...as soon as someone gets laid off, scavenge their office for anything of value, and replace your stuff with it.
that's how i got my scroll mouse, 19" monitor and speakers.
i realize those things are piddley compared to a $700 chair, but over here the "dot-com" days are definitely over.
It's sad, but true: The only defense commercial software companies have against the GPL (which they see as a threat to their entire business model) is to get a patent on some aspect of the product. This is true not only for large companies such as Microsoft, but also for smaller ones that are not predatory monopolists. Microsoft is smart to use patents as a defense against the GPL, because (at least until and unless the GPL is ruled unenforceable) it is the only sure defense.
U.S.-style patent laws will deprive Third World people of innovative drugs at cheaper prices. AZT (an AIDS drug), developed by Burroughs Wellcome, has been at the center of controversy in the United States over the issue of patents and the drug's very high price.
Indian (as in from India) patent law, which protects pharmaceutical patents but not processes, has enabled Indian scientists to develop an alternate process for the production of AZT. The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, which developed the process, has licensed it free of cost to three Indian drug firms. According to the director of IICT, the Indian-made AZT will cost a quarter or less of the current Burroughs Wellcome price. Indian companies are exploring foreign markets in Africa and other countries where Burroughs Wellcome has no patent for its AZT.
U.S.-style patent law and the price charged by Burroughs Wellcome mean that AIDS victims in the Third World will be deprived of AZT. Indian scientists have made a breakthrough enabling thousands of AIDS sufferers access to it.
The Third World pharmaceutical industry will certainly be adversely affected [by the adoption of U.S.-style patent laws]. Several of the smaller firms will close down. The bigger ones may consider mergers with a view to capturing the generic market. Prices of drugs will escalate and in the end, a vast majority of Third World people will not be able to afford even a few basic essential drugs.
well, it's about time there was an open source alternative to the previously announced systems by at&t, dell and compaq.
the best part about an open source system is that by definition, it'll have an open architecture that lets it interoperate with other systems...not to toe the slashdot line, but the last thing we need is a proprietary voting protocol run by a big company.
last i heard as well, california and arizona were implementing this the way it sounds, i.e. voters can actually vote over the internet...i think it was using some sort of shared public-key security to encrypt the ballots, and the key for decrypting the ballots is shared among election officials, so that no one party can view the actual ballot.
This is becoming more and more obvious everyday: If something is technically possible and profitable, someone is going to want to do it. It is profitable to use the legislation to restrict other people's freedom in ways that allow you to sell more.
I don't begrudge authors and publishers a living. I actively support it by buying an enormous number of books, including printed books of material that I can get online.
The publishers are feeling threatened by technology. Sharing of books online is easy and cheap. It takes less time than buying a physical copy and costs less. Electronic copies of texts allow you to cut and paste what you want to quote with ease. If they are on the Web, they permit hyperlinking to the full version.
The problem here is that we don't have an acceptable model for how content is to be sold online. Subscriptions and broadcasting offer excellent models for information that is time-critical such as news,weather, stock quotes, even video feeds of live sports. Neither model is good for books.
We have grown used to buying a copy. When I purchase a book, I don't own the rights to the words, but that single physical copy is mine. I can read it, sell it, give it away, loan it to a friend, mark up the pages with notes, or destroy it. I have the right to read it today, next week, next year, or on my death bed 500 years from now when nanotechnology can no longer rebuild my failing body. My right to read it does not require paying an ongoing license fee, and is not subject to the continued availability of special hardware or software to make the pages readable.
Who would want to give up that flexibility and receive nothing in return?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, 80% of CEOs never work as CEOs again...
the parent post (by "alfs boner") is just a copy of a this post...when will people learn that users with userIDs in the 900,000+ range with the word boner in their name are probably not legitimate posters?
and everyone wonders why there's so many trolls on slashdot - because it's so trivial to rack up karma.
and for the record: this layout is destroying IE...
you don't have to wait... http://google.mobi/ is already active...
good call.
This counts as a review?
No kidding it was spoiler-free; it was content-free as well...
There's a somewhat less mediocre review on kuro5hin. In the comments, there's also links to way more in-depth reviews.
I saw it last night, read a bunch of reviews this morning to see what everyone else was saying and the best review I read is on IMDB.
read the article, karma whore.
it's a different case, updated to resolve the problems people had with the other one.
and since i'm replying, might as well get in a link you missed:
http://www.arstechnica.com/tweak/oc_cooling.html
There was a episode of Nova about the very same topic last night on our local PBS affiliate. Quite disturbing, especially in regards to the experiments of the Soviet Union even after global treaties had been signed.
The pictures of smallpox victims were even more disturbing.
Check out the schedule, maybe it's on again, for those interested.
this is why the moderation system sucks.
or maybe it's the moderators.
an insightful, ontopic post like the parent will languish at 0 and not be read, while all sorts of crap will get modded up to +5, most of it written by trolls trying to accumulate karma so they can get +2 first posts.
my condolences, anonymous kev.
One issue I ran into with my pc-based mp3 server is that there's no way to view and edit the playlists other than at your computer...i can skip a track via an IR receiver, but in terms of any more complicated interaction with the computer remotely, i haven't been able to find anything, other than a IR-boosted palm pilot using Bluetooth or WAP...and that's not the simplest or cheapest way. Anybody else got suggestions?
In that sense, then this almost becomes worth it (almost). it's integrated, remote controllable and won't look wacky sitting in your living room.
The best thing I can see about this is that it uses your tv to do stuff like this...and it's always more convenient/easier to be able to use a tv w/ remote than having to walk to your computer.
...my 2 cents...
Stable out of the box.
Easy to configure (for the average Unix guy).
Rarely has software which contains security holes.
BSD style init scripts
No RPM locking dependancy. If there's an issue, you can upgrade from source quickly.
There's an article here explaining why one site runs Slackware, which you might find interesting.
If you'd grown up on it, or come from another Unix-alike (such as OpenBSD, etc), you'd probably find Slackware quite friendly... most Slackware-heads would find Red Hat or even Debian restrictive and unfriendly.
To each their own.
I was at work when i first heard, as were most people...unfortunately, it meant the major news sites all crumbled under the load, so I ended up on #cnn on EFNET IRC, where some of the ops were providing the latest news updates (with the source quoted, like if it came from CNN etc).
lots of people also spread mpeg/divx/rm files, taken from various tv channels (mainly from CNN, but also european channels too) which showed the attacks & tons of related footage. and not only that, but some people even broadcast the CNN audio via shoutcast servers so people without access to the tv news could at least listen, which helped to keep ppl up to date on happenings.
maybe it should be noted that at it's peak, there were about 3600 people in the #cnn irc channel before the servers started buckling from the load (plus some irc clients crashed simply because they couldn't handle so many people in a single channel).
thanks should go to all the people who helped spread the news.
come on, moderators, this is NOT informative.
Row-level locking is available in mysql by using a third-party table type...As are transactions, and page-level locking.
you use what you need, and for a lot of people, they really don't need to use correlated subqueries, they don't mind replicating the functionality of a stored procedure in perl or php, and they really don't need a 5-digit price tag.
MySQL's main feature seems to be its immense popular support among people who haven't used any of the alternatives.
really? so yahoo and NASA don't know about alternatives to mysql?
this is such total FUD...i really don't understand the motivation for everyone to tear down mysql based on these same objections and that damn phillip greenspun article.
can't everyone just let people use the solution that fits their requirements?
i would like to point out that someone who is looking for an pre-packaged alternative to a couple hours spent installing linux on a old computer just used the term "boxen", thus demonstrating that this word is, and never has been "cool" or "with-it".
if you are going to call a computer a 'box', at least pluralize it like a regular english speaking human.
his editorials are annoying??
how about the fact that his pathetic spelling is now propogating...
it's not "the what-a-lame-sentance dept", it's "SENTENCE" for christ's sake.
how can all these self-proclaimed genius nerds from slashdot be so retarded when it comes to spelling?
its != it's
effect != affect
your != you're
etc.etc.
don't you people read any properly written english?
what would you think you could gain any insight into programming from someone who kept on writing "mallock" and insisting "spelling doesn't matter". it would be obvious that this person is not a programmer and shouldn't be programming. well, all spelling mistakes do is show the illiteracy of the writer and make everyone forced to read it think, "why should i care what this individual's opinion is?".
get a clue. learn the language you're trying to communicate in, especially if you expect anyone to listen.
(this excludes typos, and non-native english speakers.)
"lowest environmentally impacting"???
in 1992, the world produced 125,000 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel. now it's about 200,000/yr, and the International Atomic Energy Agency speculates it will by 450,000/yr by 2050.
despite this huge amount of shit produced, and people speculating on what "could" be done with it, the fact is, no one knows what to do with nuclear waste.
bury it? have fun drinking contaminated groundwater.
shoot it into space? a challenger-type explosion (or a terrorist with a rocket launcher) and you irradiate all of florida.
there's really no real solution now...not to mention what will theoretically happen when the time comes to shut down a nuclear power plant. best suggestion anyone's got about that is just encasing the entire building in concrete.
ppl like you should take a look at the _real_ consequences of nuclear power, and put some thought towards the future of the planet...no doubt a solution/replacement for carbon-based fuels is needed, but for now, nuclear power is not it, so might as well keep looking.
>The thing that is the worst about all of these
> companies hurting financially is that some
> genuinely cool tech is lost when they go bust.
nothing's lost...it just gets set aside for someone else to pick up.
that's what the GPL is for.
...but who cares.
i've been checking google, but have come up empty so far.
does anyone know what exactly "exercising their First Amendment right to criticize the company" means? what were these people saying to incite defamation lawsuits?
if their right to anonymous free speech is so protected, where have all the records of it gone?
a friend of mine is involved with this company, and it really sounds sketchy to me...as most MLM-type things do. i'd love to be able to cite some links though.
to all you karma whores out there, here's a chance to modded up.
...that canada's still represented...although the university of waterloo is getting weirder and weirder. take a bunch of nerds, put them in a small town with a beer festival and this is the result, i guess.
anybody (from UW or otherwise) got an abstract for this one?
Canada
University of Waterloo
Intelligent Motion Control Using the TMS320LF2407 Applied to a Six-Legged Walking Robot
that's how we get everything at my workplace...as soon as someone gets laid off, scavenge their office for anything of value, and replace your stuff with it.
that's how i got my scroll mouse, 19" monitor and speakers.
i realize those things are piddley compared to a $700 chair, but over here the "dot-com" days are definitely over.
and since you think you were joking about MS replacing TCP/IP, read someone else's thoughts on the subject: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802. html
U.S.-style patent laws will deprive Third World people of innovative drugs at cheaper prices. AZT (an AIDS drug), developed by Burroughs Wellcome, has been at the center of controversy in the United States over the issue of patents and the drug's very high price.
Indian (as in from India) patent law, which protects pharmaceutical patents but not processes, has enabled Indian scientists to develop an alternate process for the production of AZT. The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, which developed the process, has licensed it free of cost to three Indian drug firms. According to the director of IICT, the Indian-made AZT will cost a quarter or less of the current Burroughs Wellcome price. Indian companies are exploring foreign markets in Africa and other countries where Burroughs Wellcome has no patent for its AZT.
U.S.-style patent law and the price charged by Burroughs Wellcome mean that AIDS victims in the Third World will be deprived of AZT. Indian scientists have made a breakthrough enabling thousands of AIDS sufferers access to it.
The Third World pharmaceutical industry will certainly be adversely affected [by the adoption of U.S.-style patent laws]. Several of the smaller firms will close down. The bigger ones may consider mergers with a view to capturing the generic market. Prices of drugs will escalate and in the end, a vast majority of Third World people will not be able to afford even a few basic essential drugs.
from the talking-with-smart-people-gud dept.???
jeez, hemos, can't you spell properl-
oh.
it's a joke...i get it.
fine...make me do a google search...
California Internet Voting Task Force
well, it's about time there was an open source alternative to the previously announced systems by at&t, dell and compaq.
the best part about an open source system is that by definition, it'll have an open architecture that lets it interoperate with other systems...not to toe the slashdot line, but the last thing we need is a proprietary voting protocol run by a big company.
last i heard as well, california and arizona were implementing this the way it sounds, i.e. voters can actually vote over the internet...i think it was using some sort of shared public-key security to encrypt the ballots, and the key for decrypting the ballots is shared among election officials, so that no one party can view the actual ballot.
This is becoming more and more obvious everyday: If something is technically possible and profitable, someone is going to want to do it. It is profitable to use the legislation to restrict other people's freedom in ways that allow you to sell more.
I don't begrudge authors and publishers a living. I actively support it by buying an enormous number of books, including printed books of material that I can get online.
The publishers are feeling threatened by technology. Sharing of books online is easy and cheap. It takes less time than buying a physical copy and costs less. Electronic copies of texts allow you to cut and paste what you want to quote with ease. If they are on the Web, they permit hyperlinking to the full version.
The problem here is that we don't have an acceptable model for how content is to be sold online. Subscriptions and broadcasting offer excellent models for information that is time-critical such as news,weather, stock quotes, even video feeds of live sports. Neither model is good for books.
We have grown used to buying a copy. When I purchase a book, I don't own the rights to the words, but that single physical copy is mine. I can read it, sell it, give it away, loan it to a friend, mark up the pages with notes, or destroy it. I have the right to read it today, next week, next year, or on my death bed 500 years from now when nanotechnology can no longer rebuild my failing body. My right to read it does not require paying an ongoing license fee, and is not subject to the continued availability of special hardware or software to make the pages readable.
Who would want to give up that flexibility and receive nothing in return?