And it's really pretty good. It was fast, efficient, and had no hiccups. For those of you running stable edition, and complaining about speed problems: switch to the unstable version. Unstable Freenet for me really sped things up. I would have to recommend it.
...was pretty good about Java. I've been writing in Java for a long time now, and I like it a lot.
The only gripe I have is that a lot of systems don't have the newer Java 2 VM (it's been out for a few years now, people, update your VM already). A lot of people are still operating with the older standard, so I have to keep the older JDK 1.1.8 development kit around. Sun, if you're reading, launch an ad blitz, educate the nontechnical to visit java.com and grab an updated VM. And make sure you hit some of the "neglected" computer users too, such as school districts. Perhaps press a few million CDs with the Java VM and offer to mail them for free, or reduced postage?
The Java of today is much better than the perceptions of many developers. Java is decently fast, the Swing packages offer a lot of flexibility, i/o support is terrific, etc.
Just one last plea: PLEASE, SUN, stop labeling everything you sell Java. You're diluting the brand.
Don't know anything about that, but there are people offering Ragnarok Online items. (I played Ragnarok when it was in the testing stages. I got out once they started charging.) And this is just the same thing, people shifting items and stuff on Ragnarok servers.
I particularly like this auction, where the guy states "By viewing this auction, you verify that you are not an employee, affiliate, or of family member of Gravity Corp." Like that's legally binding.
Well, it's already slow, but yes, why shouldn't phone numbers be salable? They're a part of you; you give out your phone number, when people call they expect to get you. So they're property, at least to a degree, and you can definitely sell property. What's the problem here?
I wonder if we could petition Visa/MasterCard to have a process for cutting off the merchant accounts when there is evidence of illegal spam.
What about people who BUY from spam? Shouldn't they have their credit cards cancelled and a mark put on their credit report? "Hey, I'm so stupid I buy from spam. Hit me with offers, pleeezeee!"
Yeah, that sucks, but usually in warranties they'll have a statement that says something along the lines of "we have the choice of sending you a refurbished unit, your repaired unit, or a new unit."
But what about mailing lists and whatnot operated by small organizations? Obviously they can't afford to pay 0.1 cents/email. I subscribe to the IETF mailing lists; those servers must send hundreds of thousands of emails a day. I doubt they would want to pay so much to provide a free discussion service, and then there's mailing lists operated by nonprofit orgs, charities, etc.
We've known this all the time. Spammers spam because it makes them money. Didn't we have a/. article a while back showing how big of a house a big-time spammer had, and giving all sorts of stats, e.g. foreign servers in China, Russia, etc spewing spam, three T1 lines, a network of computers in his basement, etc?
Yes, spammers spam to make money. But that doesn't make it legal. Robbers rob to make money, but stealing is illegal.
But when is the US going to start funding some serious exploration of space? NASA needs billions more. And giving NASA an increase of $1 billion dollars every year, to go to Mars, is laughable. Doesn't NASA need that billion dollars *JUST for research? The Mars rover pair cost what, $600 million? It's going to take quite a few billion (tens/hundreds of billions, perhaps?) to actually land people on Mars, and get them back safely. And yes, I did read the article that proposed just leaving the astronauts on Mars and firing "care packages" at them every two years, but come on. The American public would never stand for it.
How do they define these things? If even a background character smokes, is that counted as tobacco use? It's just a realistic background, nothing more.
I wish Halo was available for the GameCube, but other than that, it's a terrific console. Star Wars, the Game Boy Advance adapter, Zelda, etc are all good games.
At least we should boost Hubble to higher orbit, so when NASA gets additional funding, it can try again to bring it down. Putting it in a museum somewhere would really be a inspiration to many children to go into science.
...I don't care how many pages it returns. People seem to forget that even though a search returns hundreds of thousands of results, you're only going to look at the first few pages, if even that. Relevance is the key here. I want my information, and I don't want to go deep sea fishing in the results pages.
What?! Troll? You idiot mods, I sent in the story! Compare the name of the person who wrote the story with my name. Simple equality test. I was trying to clarify a few points. Funny, Interesting, Underrated I was expecting, but Troll?
Well, let me start out by saying that this is very cool, having my story accepted, and using one of my websites as reference material too! I am an official Slashdotter!
Anyway, just wanted to say, yes, everything in the About page is completely correct. I am a student at the U of Wisconsin @ Madison, freshman. My computer is a single-boot system, only runs Windows XP Home, with Windows Media Player as default for music, IE for web pages, etc. Yes, I can hear all you Linux zealots calling for my head on a platter. But I love Microsoft software, I've used every Windows version from 3.1 to XP Professional, including all the Server editions, NT, etc. (Trial CDs from MS are a wonderful thing) I play Halo (love it) and I fully expect to get Halo 2 when it's released. (Get Halo 2 out already, MS, the trailers look awesome.) Used competently, MS products are terrifically powerful. I have yet to get a single virus or spyware component.
But, I'm an open minded kinda guy, I've tried out some open source products, I like them (the James email server is particularly intriguing), I have a voting software project open on SourceForge, etc. I also don't like whiny people/organizations, which is the main reason I opened SCO Countdown.
Also, I just wanted to ask a tiny question. It just so happens that scoletter.com and scoletters.com belong to me (check the domain regs if you want, they're at GoDaddy). Would anyone be interested in a site where people could write letters to SCO, IBM, Novell, etc, and have the letters delivered to the companies? If not, does anyone have any suggestions what to do with these domains? And no, they're not for sale.
And now the hard part comes: parlaying this into extra credit in my Physics and Calculus classes, and turning this into a plus for meeting girls.... Perhaps the RA from 5th floor will start talking to me now; she already thinks I'm crazy....
I go to the University of Wisconsin Madison, and I would advise you not to bother. Very rarely is a Tablet PC a useful accessory. I have a Dell Inspiron, and sometimes I wish I had a regular desktop PC. Fact is, you can't carry around a laptop/tablet; it gets bumped, scratched, etc in the bustle of the college world. I leave my laptop on my desk much of the time; the only time it leaves there is when I go home for the weekend or go on Student Council trips.
If your heart is really set on a tablet pc, I would advise you to grab an older generation tablet pc from ebay (like this). Or, see if you can salvage one from local companies or relatives.
If you're going to Madison, Wisconsin, contact me so you can get a students' view of things.
Yeah, I run litigiousbastards.com, as well as scolawsuit.com, scoreport.com, ibmlawsuit.com, scocountdown.com, etc. Just wanted to note that I am extremely happy with the Google Bomb. even though sco is not the first hit, the point still gets across.
Just a tiny question here, but I run SCO Countdown, and according to what,A HREF="http://www.linuxworld.com/story/38045.htm">d ocuments I have, the deadline for SCO to sue another Linux user is fastapproaching. Problem is, I have just received a question on the feedback form wondering whether the 90 day countdown ends on February 16 or 17. Currently, it ends on the 17, but I'd thought I'd get an educated person's opinion on this. Thanks.
Also, just wanted to insert a small poll here. I have noticed that SCOlawsuit.com website is kind of (-1, Redundant) with people like PJ and everyone else covering the SCO case far better than I can, so I wanted to put out a quick poll: since really the important things that I own are the domain names (scoletters.com, scoletter.com, scofile.com, scofiles.com, scoreport.com, scoreport.com, scolawsuit.com) would it be beneficial it I pointed one or two of these domain names to another site? Thanks.
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And it's really pretty good. It was fast, efficient, and had no hiccups. For those of you running stable edition, and complaining about speed problems: switch to the unstable version. Unstable Freenet for me really sped things up. I would have to recommend it.
...We have to go all the way to Los Angeles for this concert. Why can't they move it somewhere closer to the Midwest (hint: Illinois/Wisconsin)
...was pretty good about Java. I've been writing in Java for a long time now, and I like it a lot.
The only gripe I have is that a lot of systems don't have the newer Java 2 VM (it's been out for a few years now, people, update your VM already). A lot of people are still operating with the older standard, so I have to keep the older JDK 1.1.8 development kit around. Sun, if you're reading, launch an ad blitz, educate the nontechnical to visit java.com and grab an updated VM. And make sure you hit some of the "neglected" computer users too, such as school districts. Perhaps press a few million CDs with the Java VM and offer to mail them for free, or reduced postage?
The Java of today is much better than the perceptions of many developers. Java is decently fast, the Swing packages offer a lot of flexibility, i/o support is terrific, etc.
Just one last plea: PLEASE, SUN, stop labeling everything you sell Java. You're diluting the brand.
...Windows source code as examples!
Don't know anything about that, but there are people offering Ragnarok Online items. (I played Ragnarok when it was in the testing stages. I got out once they started charging.) And this is just the same thing, people shifting items and stuff on Ragnarok servers.
I particularly like this auction, where the guy states "By viewing this auction, you verify that you are not an employee, affiliate, or of family member of Gravity Corp." Like that's legally binding.
Because you buy domains, you don't lease them. They're your property. The registrars admin the nameservers, handle the paperwork, etc.
Well, it's already slow, but yes, why shouldn't phone numbers be salable? They're a part of you; you give out your phone number, when people call they expect to get you. So they're property, at least to a degree, and you can definitely sell property. What's the problem here?
I wonder if we could petition Visa/MasterCard to have a process for cutting off the merchant accounts when there is evidence of illegal spam.
What about people who BUY from spam? Shouldn't they have their credit cards cancelled and a mark put on their credit report? "Hey, I'm so stupid I buy from spam. Hit me with offers, pleeezeee!"
carefully-target unsolicited email (aka spam) was an essential part of our business plan
..
He's a spammer! I'll grab the tar, someone get feathers and pitchforks..
Yeah, that sucks, but usually in warranties they'll have a statement that says something along the lines of "we have the choice of sending you a refurbished unit, your repaired unit, or a new unit."
But what about mailing lists and whatnot operated by small organizations? Obviously they can't afford to pay 0.1 cents/email. I subscribe to the IETF mailing lists; those servers must send hundreds of thousands of emails a day. I doubt they would want to pay so much to provide a free discussion service, and then there's mailing lists operated by nonprofit orgs, charities, etc.
We've known this all the time. Spammers spam because it makes them money. Didn't we have a /. article a while back showing how big of a house a big-time spammer had, and giving all sorts of stats, e.g. foreign servers in China, Russia, etc spewing spam, three T1 lines, a network of computers in his basement, etc?
Yes, spammers spam to make money. But that doesn't make it legal. Robbers rob to make money, but stealing is illegal.
But when is the US going to start funding some serious exploration of space? NASA needs billions more. And giving NASA an increase of $1 billion dollars every year, to go to Mars, is laughable. Doesn't NASA need that billion dollars *JUST for research? The Mars rover pair cost what, $600 million? It's going to take quite a few billion (tens/hundreds of billions, perhaps?) to actually land people on Mars, and get them back safely. And yes, I did read the article that proposed just leaving the astronauts on Mars and firing "care packages" at them every two years, but come on. The American public would never stand for it.
How do they define these things? If even a background character smokes, is that counted as tobacco use? It's just a realistic background, nothing more.
I wish Halo was available for the GameCube, but other than that, it's a terrific console. Star Wars, the Game Boy Advance adapter, Zelda, etc are all good games.
At least we should boost Hubble to higher orbit, so when NASA gets additional funding, it can try again to bring it down. Putting it in a museum somewhere would really be a inspiration to many children to go into science.
...I don't care how many pages it returns. People seem to forget that even though a search returns hundreds of thousands of results, you're only going to look at the first few pages, if even that. Relevance is the key here. I want my information, and I don't want to go deep sea fishing in the results pages.
What?! Troll? You idiot mods, I sent in the story! Compare the name of the person who wrote the story with my name. Simple equality test. I was trying to clarify a few points. Funny, Interesting, Underrated I was expecting, but Troll?
Well, let me start out by saying that this is very cool, having my story accepted, and using one of my websites as reference material too! I am an official Slashdotter!
Anyway, just wanted to say, yes, everything in the About page is completely correct. I am a student at the U of Wisconsin @ Madison, freshman. My computer is a single-boot system, only runs Windows XP Home, with Windows Media Player as default for music, IE for web pages, etc. Yes, I can hear all you Linux zealots calling for my head on a platter. But I love Microsoft software, I've used every Windows version from 3.1 to XP Professional, including all the Server editions, NT, etc. (Trial CDs from MS are a wonderful thing) I play Halo (love it) and I fully expect to get Halo 2 when it's released. (Get Halo 2 out already, MS, the trailers look awesome.) Used competently, MS products are terrifically powerful. I have yet to get a single virus or spyware component.
But, I'm an open minded kinda guy, I've tried out some open source products, I like them (the James email server is particularly intriguing), I have a voting software project open on SourceForge, etc. I also don't like whiny people/organizations, which is the main reason I opened SCO Countdown.
Also, I just wanted to ask a tiny question. It just so happens that scoletter.com and scoletters.com belong to me (check the domain regs if you want, they're at GoDaddy). Would anyone be interested in a site where people could write letters to SCO, IBM, Novell, etc, and have the letters delivered to the companies? If not, does anyone have any suggestions what to do with these domains? And no, they're not for sale.
And now the hard part comes: parlaying this into extra credit in my Physics and Calculus classes, and turning this into a plus for meeting girls.... Perhaps the RA from 5th floor will start talking to me now; she already thinks I'm crazy....
Visit http://www.litigiousbastards.com!
I go to the University of Wisconsin Madison, and I would advise you not to bother. Very rarely is a Tablet PC a useful accessory. I have a Dell Inspiron, and sometimes I wish I had a regular desktop PC. Fact is, you can't carry around a laptop/tablet; it gets bumped, scratched, etc in the bustle of the college world. I leave my laptop on my desk much of the time; the only time it leaves there is when I go home for the weekend or go on Student Council trips.
If your heart is really set on a tablet pc, I would advise you to grab an older generation tablet pc from ebay (like this). Or, see if you can salvage one from local companies or relatives.
If you're going to Madison, Wisconsin, contact me so you can get a students' view of things.
Yeah, I run litigiousbastards.com, as well as scolawsuit.com, scoreport.com, ibmlawsuit.com, scocountdown.com, etc. Just wanted to note that I am extremely happy with the Google Bomb. even though sco is not the first hit, the point still gets across.
Can you send me some of the free stuff they're giving away there? Like pens, USB keydrives, etc?
Just a tiny question here, but I run SCO Countdown, and according to what ,A HREF="http://www.linuxworld.com/story/38045.htm">d ocuments I have, the deadline for SCO to sue another Linux user is fast approaching. Problem is, I have just received a question on the feedback form wondering whether the 90 day countdown ends on February 16 or 17. Currently, it ends on the 17, but I'd thought I'd get an educated person's opinion on this. Thanks.
Also, just wanted to insert a small poll here. I have noticed that SCOlawsuit.com website is kind of (-1, Redundant) with people like PJ and everyone else covering the SCO case far better than I can, so I wanted to put out a quick poll: since really the important things that I own are the domain names (scoletters.com, scoletter.com, scofile.com, scofiles.com, scoreport.com, scoreport.com, scolawsuit.com) would it be beneficial it I pointed one or two of these domain names to another site? Thanks.
Lookie what I got when I searched for Litigious bastards
SCO.com is blocked by Google as a top result for "Litigious Bastards", I have a viable alternative:
Try searching for it again