I can't believe that someone thought it was insightful, informative, or underrated. It seems pretty clear to me that instead of attempting to post something insightful or informatice, he was looking for that elusive fist p0st. He did get #3, but I'm sure he'll be back another day for another try. The only explanation I can come up with to explain the moderation is some kind of conspiracy. I hope it gets corrected in M2.
Thanks for responding. I was hoping I didn't tear your idea up so much that it irritated you. I didn't really make the connection that you were intending this to focus almost entirely on text based messages. In fact, if I was still unable to contact you this evening, I was thinking of hacking up adfu to serve something like what you're talking about.
If you're still looking for willing victim^H^H^H^H^H participants, I'd love to try it out on dynodns.net. I sent you a mail, but it's still sitting in my mqueue waiting for an MX record for infamous.net.;)
BTW: do you need a hostname pointing to your machine or anything else to help you out until the NIC or granitecanyon fixes your DNS?
While this project sounds pretty neat, I'm not too sure how different it is than just a banner ad service that caters to "the little guy". I'm Here's what the site says is different:
Anyone - not just those with something to sell - can become a sponsor of your site in minutes.
I think that's true for regular banner ads, too, isn't it?
Sponsors can choose the amount of their contribution, attracting many smaller contributions (it's probably easier to find
ten people willing to contribute $5 each that one person willing to contribute $50).
This may be true. I'm curious as hell to see. I'm not sure how small of a block of ads you can buy from most banner companies.
Can easily be used to allow donors to sponsor non-internet activities via your website. (For example, a high school
marching band might set up a sponsorpool on a website to let the community fund their new uniforms.)
Just like banner ads, right?
Much less annoying than banner ads.
In what way? seriously, I'm not too sure that this wouldn't just be a bunch of banner ads.
I don't mean to tear the project apart. I'd really love to see it work. I'm just concerned that there's not much difference between this and regular banner ads.
Do you see much of a difference? Does this look like a viable alternative?
I guess if it gets hyped up on slashdot, I can look forward to banner ads featuring Natalie Portman and a pantful of hot grits.
If the thought of a little downtime sounds good
to you, keep it to yourself. In today's wired
world, "downtime" doesn't connote a day at the
beach, but rather a technological headache that
will most likely have your IT staff racing toward
whichever server is on the blink.
He seems to imply there that the term "downtime" used to mean time spent relaxing, but recently people have begun to use it to describe computer problems. I'd wager that the term was more commonly used to refer to computer problems in the past and has only recently begun to be used to refer to relaxing.
It's much like the term "offline" as in "Let's take that topic offline". I really hate that (mis)use of the term.
On the other hand, if you run windows, then it's possible that "an IT staffer may make changes" that even he does not know about. Moreover, the attribute that chagned probably wasn't documented to start with.
That's OK. a quick re-installation of the OS should clear up the problem.
Check out Mercata's patent on "Dynamic market equilibrium management
system, process and article of manufacture" (ie, co-op buying), issued just yesterday.
I feel that this patent is not only as bad as Amazon's one-click patent, but these people have specifically stated that they will be investigating infringements. You can check out the Reuters
press release for more high level info if you're interested.
I'd hate to be in mobshop's shoes right about now.
The patent doesn't describe a way to email people ads, it describes a way providers (like Juno) can make you see ads when you're using their email client, but don't have connectivity. It pretty much grabs a tarball of ads when it can and them shows them to you whenever their client is running.
I understand that many people consider that spam as well, but that kind of spam is at least controlled more easily.
Here's the abstract of the patent:
A system for providing scheduled messages to a remote user in
a batch oriented system. In a preferred embodiment of the
present invention, a user creates and/or reads electronic mail
locally. While the user creates the electronic mail, a message is
displayed to the user on a portion of the local monitor, the
message preferably changing in accordance with a local display
schedule and stored on a local storage device. The message is
preferably targeted to the particular user. When the user is
ready to transmit the e-mail created and/or receive e-mail
addressed to him, the user's local client establishes a
connection via a modem with a remote e-mail server system.
The remote e-mail server system not only receives the e-mail
transmitted by the user and/or transmits e-mail addressed to
the user, but also updates the user's local messages in
accordance with a distribution schedule. After the e-mail and
message updates are transmitted, the user's local client
computer is disconnected from the remote e-mail server
system.
By the way, I wonder why they included via a modem in there. It seems like an unnecessary limitation.
It is an orgy of big business pouring money into...
the local economy. I would love to have a convention in my hometown. Of course, I like having people with money visit, stay in our hotels, eat our food, ride in our cabs, and pay us for it.
I guess if you don't like that, then harass the attendees of the convention. That would make sure they don't come back a lot more effectively than harassing the police.
And that's probably at 1 atmosphere. I doubt there's anywhere near that kind of pressure on Titan. I would think that would mean that it would have to be colder than that there.
Aside: Bought myself a couple of E-holsters to take care of more immediate gadget-loading. Works well under a sweater or jacket.
Those eholsters have to be one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen. I guess you really could use as much "Digital Tool Convergence" as is possible.
I believe that technically we could combine all sorts of devices into one, but I believe that that is not entirely desireable to consumers for two reasons.
First, the "other device" embedded into something is never as good as it could have been. The wristwatch that also has a pager in it is never a very good pager. The quality drops in phyisical objects just as it does in software. The mail client that is bundled in your browser is not a ver good mail client. The browser bundled in your MP3 player is not a very good browser. In that same sense, your PDA, pager, camera and phone bundle will not have the quality in some of the components that you desire.
Secondly, bundling products forces some consumers to buy things they don't want. If I have no use for a camera, then I'd rather not buy one when I buy my phone. Even if I did buy it, I'd hate to carry my phone, camera, PDA along with my pager everywhere I carry it.
Come to think of it, are people really going to give up the "utility belt" look that has sprung up recently? (It has replaced the pocket protector as the easiest way to spot a geek in a crowd.)
Your perception is skewed because you live on Earth, so Sol is the only sun you've ever known. When you start looking for other suns, you look for things that are very similar to Sol, so Sol begins to look very average.
If we lived on a planet that orbited a star the size of a pea (suspend your disbelief momentarily), we'd be looking for things between the size of a pinhead and a golf ball because they would be similar to the only thing we would have experience with. When we found a bunch of things in this size range, we could only conclude that our pea-sized sun is "about average"
Slashdot Mirror
If someone just marks it 'flaimbait' it will have them all. I believe.
canada, eh?
I'm not advocating it, but if you're interested in building your own, here is an article on How to Build Your Own 1U Rack Mount Server and Save a Bundle from an old slashdot article. It may prove to be a useful resource.
If you're still looking for willing victim^H^H^H^H^H participants, I'd love to try it out on dynodns.net. I sent you a mail, but it's still sitting in my mqueue waiting for an MX record for infamous.net. ;)
BTW: do you need a hostname pointing to your machine or anything else to help you out until the NIC or granitecanyon fixes your DNS?
Anyone - not just those with something to sell - can become a sponsor of your site in minutes.
I think that's true for regular banner ads, too, isn't it?
Sponsors can choose the amount of their contribution, attracting many smaller contributions (it's probably easier to find ten people willing to contribute $5 each that one person willing to contribute $50).
This may be true. I'm curious as hell to see. I'm not sure how small of a block of ads you can buy from most banner companies.
Can easily be used to allow donors to sponsor non-internet activities via your website. (For example, a high school marching band might set up a sponsorpool on a website to let the community fund their new uniforms.)
Just like banner ads, right?
Much less annoying than banner ads.
In what way? seriously, I'm not too sure that this wouldn't just be a bunch of banner ads.
I don't mean to tear the project apart. I'd really love to see it work. I'm just concerned that there's not much difference between this and regular banner ads.
Do you see much of a difference? Does this look like a viable alternative?
I guess if it gets hyped up on slashdot, I can look forward to banner ads featuring Natalie Portman and a pantful of hot grits.
I advise you to use a spellchecker on your thesis.
does this mean that the free version of ssh1 and sshd1 will not have that proprietary crap hanging over their heads anymore?
He seems to imply there that the term "downtime" used to mean time spent relaxing, but recently people have begun to use it to describe computer problems. I'd wager that the term was more commonly used to refer to computer problems in the past and has only recently begun to be used to refer to relaxing.
It's much like the term "offline" as in "Let's take that topic offline". I really hate that (mis)use of the term.
That's OK. a quick re-installation of the OS should clear up the problem.
Esc ZZ saves you 2 keystrokes.
I feel that this patent is not only as bad as Amazon's one-click patent, but these people have specifically stated that they will be investigating infringements. You can check out the Reuters press release for more high level info if you're interested.
I'd hate to be in mobshop's shoes right about now.
There was a tremendous amount of activity on the images almost every night. People apparently muck around in other peoples' stuff a lot.
I understand that many people consider that spam as well, but that kind of spam is at least controlled more easily.
Here's the abstract of the patent:
By the way, I wonder why they included via a modem in there. It seems like an unnecessary limitation.
the local economy. I would love to have a convention in my hometown. Of course, I like having people with money visit, stay in our hotels, eat our food, ride in our cabs, and pay us for it.
I guess if you don't like that, then harass the attendees of the convention. That would make sure they don't come back a lot more effectively than harassing the police.
To preserve data integrety and privacy, all my transmissions are encoded with my patented "double rot-13" technology.
cnnfn's version of the m100 press release is here in case you don't want to wait for palm.com's slashdotted, graphics intensive site to load.
http://dotslash.dynodns.net/00/08/07/147245/linuxw atch_pen.jpg
please only use it if you can't get lwn to load.
As always, if anyone with any kind of authority wants my mirror down, please mail me and let me know.
Melting Point: -182.5 C
And that's probably at 1 atmosphere. I doubt there's anywhere near that kind of pressure on Titan. I would think that would mean that it would have to be colder than that there.
http://www2.ke ck.hawaii.edu:3636/realpublic/gen_info/news/titan. html says it has "a surface temperature of minus 180 degrees Celsius (- 290 F)"
Don't lick any flagpoles, doorknobs, or train tracks on your next trip there.
http://dotslash.dynodns.net/00/08/06/215241/titan_ pueo.html
Naturally, if anyone of any authority wants it down, mail me and let me know.
Those eholsters have to be one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen. I guess you really could use as much "Digital Tool Convergence" as is possible.
First, the "other device" embedded into something is never as good as it could have been. The wristwatch that also has a pager in it is never a very good pager. The quality drops in phyisical objects just as it does in software. The mail client that is bundled in your browser is not a ver good mail client. The browser bundled in your MP3 player is not a very good browser. In that same sense, your PDA, pager, camera and phone bundle will not have the quality in some of the components that you desire.
Secondly, bundling products forces some consumers to buy things they don't want. If I have no use for a camera, then I'd rather not buy one when I buy my phone. Even if I did buy it, I'd hate to carry my phone, camera, PDA along with my pager everywhere I carry it.
Come to think of it, are people really going to give up the "utility belt" look that has sprung up recently? (It has replaced the pocket protector as the easiest way to spot a geek in a crowd.)
http://dotslash.dynodns.net/00/ 08/05/1616256/i.html
If the eazel/nautilus guys or anyone wants it down, please mail me.
If we lived on a planet that orbited a star the size of a pea (suspend your disbelief momentarily), we'd be looking for things between the size of a pinhead and a golf ball because they would be similar to the only thing we would have experience with. When we found a bunch of things in this size range, we could only conclude that our pea-sized sun is "about average"
Or at least that could be the case...
COPS is the original, and more realistic. In fact, it's real.