Ah... Now I know why they suspended him. Hell, I would have suspended him too. He has criminally bad web design.
Red Text on a mostly black background image is eye-bleedingly difficult to read. And when linked to by a high traffic site, it is considered a violation of the Geneva Convention as a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
And the Metallica music embedded in the background is a sin before God and man and he should face the highest possible penalty.
Parent, Microsoft is passing OpenGL through DirectX, as sort of an emulation, all OpenGL calls will be translated into DirectX calls at runtime. Meaning that all OpenGL apps will now be slower than DirectX on Windows Vista.
This is comparable to taking all.avi files and changing them into.wmvs before decoding them. It ruins the performance, and there's no good reason to do it.
Ok, I give up, I've been searching for about 5 minutes in those drop down boxes, and I can't find the -1 Stupid moderation.
Since when is Google required to give up the algorithms that they developed at *any* cost?
C'mon now. Real love for your profession will only take you so far. Most people interested in (and good at) science are intelligent enough to get less skilled jobs elsewhere. And when these easier, less skilled jobs pay better the choice is a no brainer.
Face it, people work primarily to get money. I know that if money were purely immaterial I wouldn't work at my job. I'd sit at home, post to slashdot and work on my pet projects.
I know if I were placed in a situation where I was asked to pick a job between $60K a year as an engineer, where I'd have to work my ass off and deal with corporate crap (or as a scientist which has to spend half of his time reapplying for grants instead of doing research), which I knew would leave my mentally spent at the end of the day, or $100K as a lawyer with a comparitivly* small work load, where I could choose my clients and do pretty much what I want in the confines of my own office. I'd take the job as a lawyer. No brainer. Because then I could continue to work on my pet projects anyway. I could still do computer stuff or science stuff, but I'd have far more freedom to do so than if I worked in an scientific field.
*Note: I know lawyers actually do quite a bit of work. It was an example used in a nth-parent post.
Because of the current ubiquitousness of Windows, frequently a *nix SysAdmin needs to know more than his fair share about how to service Windows boxes. Whereas many Windows SysAdmins don't know the first thing about Linux. It's like a personal injury attorney being required to know the tax code.
Frequently the most complicated part of Linux System Administration is making it "just work" with Windows in a mixed environment (especially inside of a Windows domain). (And because Windows doesn't even acknowledge Linux inside of its OS, that invariably means it's the Linux part which needs to get complicated while Windows remains silently complacent and not any the wiser.)
I suspect that, (but I have done no research), that the TCO of doing this shit is layed on the Linux side of the aisle, when in actuality the blame for this lies with Windows for being hard to work with and not playing nice with others.
So, perhaps you can confirm or deny this, how are TCO split up in mixed environments? And if it is indeed split in the manner stated above how would you rectify this? How would you split up the TCO to be more fair in a mixed environment? And are the TCO studies of mixed environments actually being labeled TCO studies of Linux?
If Diebold is worried about the format the information is in then I have the perfect solution, export it!
Hell, I'd be happy if we got a tab delimited text file.
All we care about is the information. I don't give a damn what form it's in. Diebold's proprietary format can go screw itself, I'm not interested. This is just an untenable excuse, and it screams coverup on every band.
I think what the grandparent mistook for ads are the misspellings links.
For example, if you do a search for "profit" it will give you 3 links to sites, then ask if you meant "pro fit" and give you 3 links from there, and then finish out the rest of the page with results from "profit."
It looks suspiciously cluttered for google, and I also mistook them for ads the first time I saw them.
Unfortunately, for the longest time after SP2 was released the Windows XP CD didn't come with SP2 installed. In fact, as I recall the first group to have a CD which installed XP SP2 without having to patch was Dell, and they modified the install CD themselves because Microsoft was dragging their asses.
Not to mention getting a new CD of Linux consists of downloading it, whereas obtaining a Windows XP SP2 cd legally usually requires paying for it again, or a very stout heart and a red face from arguing with Microsoft over the phone/internet.
So, if you want to go through the hassle of "slipstreaming" SP2 into a XP installation disk more power to you I suppose, but it's easier to just carry around one the Network Admin downloadable SP2 patch on a CD if you already have a copy of XP.
Yeah, right, you saw what happened recently with Cisco, describe what you did and what you did it to and you'll have a cease and desist notice faster than you can say, "Lawyer'ed." And in the end, it's not trifinite.org's responsibility to make sure that companies keep their technologies secure.
Here's an idea. Try to hack your bluetooth yourself. If you can, return it.
Funny, I can't remember the last time I heard about a homocidal maniac running around with a swimming pool killing people.
But this is beside the topic. My point was BitTorrent does have it's legit uses. And I would personally rather hear, "Motherfucka, I gonna bust a torrent in yo' ass," than "Motherfucka, I gonna bust a cap in yo' ass," while walking down an abandoned alleyway.
The MPAA and RIAA can take care of their own damn selves. They're large, hulking, entrenched plutocracies, I'm sure that they can make it on their own. But I, for one, don't want to go back to getting my Linux ISOs, or my video game remixes, or anything the slow FTP/HTTP way. It's retarded, when I could be using BitTorrent, but for the sake of the poor record companies who's afraid that suburban teenagers won't want to pay for the overpriced shit they call music nowadays, will instead sign up for spam and search unnavigable websites for hours on end to locate that one pitiful torrent that isn't even seeded anymore and spend 1 week trying to download it before giving up in disgust.
If you want to find music, there are better alternatives out there. Ones that don't require a webmaster to risk a subpeona by putting it on his website.
And I'll bet that the 3 people who modded me Flamebait are all NRA members. I love/. where even logical conclusions are inflammatory. If you disagree with me be decent enough to argue. If you find you can't, then maybe you are the one who's wrong.
So that means that it's the other thousandth that kills 11,000 Americans each year. Try as you may, I really don't think that BitTorrent is responsible for that much damage. It's not like BitTorrent goes around and rapes your pets or anything if you use it.
Do you not still have a knife for self-defense? You can go hunting with a bow. Poisons, traps and pheromones work well for varmit removal and are overwhelmingly the preferred method. I have fun playing with Jacks. You don't need to punch holes in something to have fun. Well you might, and if that's the case I have a pneumatic drill you can borrow. But only if you ask nicely.
I'd also would like to know where that %5/95% statistic came from. Because it sounds like a rectal figure. You are forgetting all of the several hundred megabyte Linux ISOs BitTorrent serves. What about Windows SP2? It was available via BitTorrent after the release. Sites with large videos, such as AMV sites, offer torrents. Video Game Speedruns offer torrents more often than not. How about Project Gutenberg?
I think that you should open the blinders from your eyes, stop petting your goddamn gun and lauding the wonders of a fast moving hunk of metal, and rejoin civil society.
I'm not saying you shouldn't own a gun. Just for chrissakes realize that it isn't the be all and end all for the entire world.
And to all the BitTorrent users out there. If you find Fifi behind your computer with a ruptured anus two weeks from now... we never talked.
What again about GMail on "a very basic level" is not functional?
It does have bugs. It's in beta and it has bugs. I honestly don't see where this is even news.
if a beta version of a photoshop, as an example, couldn't even reliably open a JPEG file, that's a serious problem i'd be unwilling to dismiss simply as a "bug" just because "it's a beta."
That metaphor is flawed. A better one would be, "If a beta version of Photoshop couldn't open a JPEG with a bad header reliably, it's a serious problem." And, AFAIK, you can't open a JPEG in Photoshop if it has a corrupt header.
if my email and/or account can be compromised
If you're worried about security use PGP first. There are easier ways to intercept email than this. This doesn't really do anything in the way of decreasing security, all it says is "Hey look, someone at Google forgot a conditional." And it'll probably be fixed tomarrow. GMail is loads more stable than most programs in beta. Get rid of your unrealistic expectations. Nothing is bullet proof.
I wasn't talking about me. I'm fine, the people who go to the internet cafe I run. Not so smart.
And SP2 blows. Especially the security center. "Would you like me to turn on the firewall?" "No thanks, I have a hardware firewall." "OK!" *five minutes later* "Would you like me to turn on the firewall?" "No, really, it's OK. I know what I'm doing." "Are you sure?" "Yes." *five minutes later* "You don't seem to be running our firewall. Would you like me to turn it on." "... No. Stop bugging me." *three minutes later* "Well, I think you should be running our firewall, so let me just turn it on for you." "NO! STOP! BAD WINDOWS! BAD! NO TREAT FOR YOU!" "I don't like you anymore." *crash*
That's a damn shame because some of the "legit" shit is near impossible to get off.
You know those ActiveX DLs that tell you, "You must install the app to continue," 4-5 times before finally quitting, those would also be perfectly legit even though they attempt (and for less sophisticated users succeed) to trick you.
This law isn't *really* going to affect anything. Just a little hot air blowing around the chambers to make them seem less horribly divided than they really are. I guess it's because noone in Congress actually cares about technology, at least not enough to form opposing arbitrary lines and stick to them.
Any massive object has a Swartzchild radius. You could theoretically make the sun a black hole. You could theorectially make yourself a black hole (it'd be smaller than an atom and would instantly explode into pure energy, but it could be done.)
The sun is too small to form a black hole on it's own though, not enough gravitational force. But you *could* make a black hole out of it.
Reason for no nuke is because the EMP from the nuke would destroy the machines too (remember 01 the matrix and Zion are all relatively close to one another). And they still have to get it to Zion somehow, so the drilling was necessary. And no Nerve Gas, because Zion has it's own ventilation system. Even if they used it, it would never reach them.
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Ah... Now I know why they suspended him. Hell, I would have suspended him too. He has criminally bad web design.
Red Text on a mostly black background image is eye-bleedingly difficult to read. And when linked to by a high traffic site, it is considered a violation of the Geneva Convention as a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
And the Metallica music embedded in the background is a sin before God and man and he should face the highest possible penalty.
it's about damn time they updated the acronym to reflect the changes over time.
They can't. Irrelevant doesn't start with an "M."
Parent, Microsoft is passing OpenGL through DirectX, as sort of an emulation, all OpenGL calls will be translated into DirectX calls at runtime. Meaning that all OpenGL apps will now be slower than DirectX on Windows Vista. This is comparable to taking all .avi files and changing them into .wmvs before decoding them. It ruins the performance, and there's no good reason to do it.
Ok, I give up, I've been searching for about 5 minutes in those drop down boxes, and I can't find the -1 Stupid moderation. Since when is Google required to give up the algorithms that they developed at *any* cost?
If any comment in the history of /. deserved a +6, it's this one.
C'mon now. Real love for your profession will only take you so far. Most people interested in (and good at) science are intelligent enough to get less skilled jobs elsewhere. And when these easier, less skilled jobs pay better the choice is a no brainer.
Face it, people work primarily to get money. I know that if money were purely immaterial I wouldn't work at my job. I'd sit at home, post to slashdot and work on my pet projects.
I know if I were placed in a situation where I was asked to pick a job between $60K a year as an engineer, where I'd have to work my ass off and deal with corporate crap (or as a scientist which has to spend half of his time reapplying for grants instead of doing research), which I knew would leave my mentally spent at the end of the day, or $100K as a lawyer with a comparitivly* small work load, where I could choose my clients and do pretty much what I want in the confines of my own office. I'd take the job as a lawyer. No brainer. Because then I could continue to work on my pet projects anyway. I could still do computer stuff or science stuff, but I'd have far more freedom to do so than if I worked in an scientific field.
*Note: I know lawyers actually do quite a bit of work. It was an example used in a nth-parent post.
Nah, he just skiied for 2000m and then got eaten by a yeti.
Because of the current ubiquitousness of Windows, frequently a *nix SysAdmin needs to know more than his fair share about how to service Windows boxes. Whereas many Windows SysAdmins don't know the first thing about Linux. It's like a personal injury attorney being required to know the tax code.
Frequently the most complicated part of Linux System Administration is making it "just work" with Windows in a mixed environment (especially inside of a Windows domain). (And because Windows doesn't even acknowledge Linux inside of its OS, that invariably means it's the Linux part which needs to get complicated while Windows remains silently complacent and not any the wiser.)
I suspect that, (but I have done no research), that the TCO of doing this shit is layed on the Linux side of the aisle, when in actuality the blame for this lies with Windows for being hard to work with and not playing nice with others.
So, perhaps you can confirm or deny this, how are TCO split up in mixed environments? And if it is indeed split in the manner stated above how would you rectify this? How would you split up the TCO to be more fair in a mixed environment? And are the TCO studies of mixed environments actually being labeled TCO studies of Linux?
Maybe in 1995. This is 2006. Welcome to the new millenium. The most terrifying my upgrade procedures get is forgetting to type sudo before apt-get.
If Diebold is worried about the format the information is in then I have the perfect solution, export it!
Hell, I'd be happy if we got a tab delimited text file.
All we care about is the information. I don't give a damn what form it's in. Diebold's proprietary format can go screw itself, I'm not interested. This is just an untenable excuse, and it screams coverup on every band.
I think what the grandparent mistook for ads are the misspellings links.
For example, if you do a search for "profit" it will give you 3 links to sites, then ask if you meant "pro fit" and give you 3 links from there, and then finish out the rest of the page with results from "profit."
It looks suspiciously cluttered for google, and I also mistook them for ads the first time I saw them.
Unfortunately, for the longest time after SP2 was released the Windows XP CD didn't come with SP2 installed. In fact, as I recall the first group to have a CD which installed XP SP2 without having to patch was Dell, and they modified the install CD themselves because Microsoft was dragging their asses. Not to mention getting a new CD of Linux consists of downloading it, whereas obtaining a Windows XP SP2 cd legally usually requires paying for it again, or a very stout heart and a red face from arguing with Microsoft over the phone/internet. So, if you want to go through the hassle of "slipstreaming" SP2 into a XP installation disk more power to you I suppose, but it's easier to just carry around one the Network Admin downloadable SP2 patch on a CD if you already have a copy of XP.
Yeah, right, you saw what happened recently with Cisco, describe what you did and what you did it to and you'll have a cease and desist notice faster than you can say, "Lawyer'ed." And in the end, it's not trifinite.org's responsibility to make sure that companies keep their technologies secure.
Here's an idea. Try to hack your bluetooth yourself. If you can, return it.
Funny, I can't remember the last time I heard about a homocidal maniac running around with a swimming pool killing people.
/. where even logical conclusions are inflammatory. If you disagree with me be decent enough to argue. If you find you can't, then maybe you are the one who's wrong.
But this is beside the topic. My point was BitTorrent does have it's legit uses. And I would personally rather hear, "Motherfucka, I gonna bust a torrent in yo' ass," than "Motherfucka, I gonna bust a cap in yo' ass," while walking down an abandoned alleyway.
The MPAA and RIAA can take care of their own damn selves. They're large, hulking, entrenched plutocracies, I'm sure that they can make it on their own. But I, for one, don't want to go back to getting my Linux ISOs, or my video game remixes, or anything the slow FTP/HTTP way. It's retarded, when I could be using BitTorrent, but for the sake of the poor record companies who's afraid that suburban teenagers won't want to pay for the overpriced shit they call music nowadays, will instead sign up for spam and search unnavigable websites for hours on end to locate that one pitiful torrent that isn't even seeded anymore and spend 1 week trying to download it before giving up in disgust.
If you want to find music, there are better alternatives out there. Ones that don't require a webmaster to risk a subpeona by putting it on his website.
And I'll bet that the 3 people who modded me Flamebait are all NRA members. I love
So that means that it's the other thousandth that kills 11,000 Americans each year. Try as you may, I really don't think that BitTorrent is responsible for that much damage. It's not like BitTorrent goes around and rapes your pets or anything if you use it.
Do you not still have a knife for self-defense? You can go hunting with a bow. Poisons, traps and pheromones work well for varmit removal and are overwhelmingly the preferred method. I have fun playing with Jacks. You don't need to punch holes in something to have fun. Well you might, and if that's the case I have a pneumatic drill you can borrow. But only if you ask nicely.
I'd also would like to know where that %5/95% statistic came from. Because it sounds like a rectal figure. You are forgetting all of the several hundred megabyte Linux ISOs BitTorrent serves. What about Windows SP2? It was available via BitTorrent after the release. Sites with large videos, such as AMV sites, offer torrents. Video Game Speedruns offer torrents more often than not. How about Project Gutenberg?
I think that you should open the blinders from your eyes, stop petting your goddamn gun and lauding the wonders of a fast moving hunk of metal, and rejoin civil society.
I'm not saying you shouldn't own a gun. Just for chrissakes realize that it isn't the be all and end all for the entire world.
And to all the BitTorrent users out there. If you find Fifi behind your computer with a ruptured anus two weeks from now... we never talked.
What again about GMail on "a very basic level" is not functional?
It does have bugs. It's in beta and it has bugs. I honestly don't see where this is even news.
if a beta version of a photoshop, as an example, couldn't even reliably open a JPEG file, that's a serious problem i'd be unwilling to dismiss simply as a "bug" just because "it's a beta."
That metaphor is flawed. A better one would be, "If a beta version of Photoshop couldn't open a JPEG with a bad header reliably, it's a serious problem." And, AFAIK, you can't open a JPEG in Photoshop if it has a corrupt header.
if my email and/or account can be compromised
If you're worried about security use PGP first. There are easier ways to intercept email than this. This doesn't really do anything in the way of decreasing security, all it says is "Hey look, someone at Google forgot a conditional." And it'll probably be fixed tomarrow. GMail is loads more stable than most programs in beta. Get rid of your unrealistic expectations. Nothing is bullet proof.
except after "c"
Or you could try Firefox...
I wasn't talking about me. I'm fine, the people who go to the internet cafe I run. Not so smart.
And SP2 blows. Especially the security center.
"Would you like me to turn on the firewall?"
"No thanks, I have a hardware firewall."
"OK!"
*five minutes later*
"Would you like me to turn on the firewall?"
"No, really, it's OK. I know what I'm doing."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
*five minutes later*
"You don't seem to be running our firewall. Would you like me to turn it on."
"... No. Stop bugging me."
*three minutes later*
"Well, I think you should be running our firewall, so let me just turn it on for you."
"NO! STOP! BAD WINDOWS! BAD! NO TREAT FOR YOU!"
"I don't like you anymore." *crash*
That's a damn shame because some of the "legit" shit is near impossible to get off.
You know those ActiveX DLs that tell you, "You must install the app to continue," 4-5 times before finally quitting, those would also be perfectly legit even though they attempt (and for less sophisticated users succeed) to trick you.
This law isn't *really* going to affect anything. Just a little hot air blowing around the chambers to make them seem less horribly divided than they really are. I guess it's because noone in Congress actually cares about technology, at least not enough to form opposing arbitrary lines and stick to them.
You know, for someone who has a /. account number in the low five digits, you sure were on the slow side getting a GMail account.
An Object must have mass to have a Schwarzschild radius.
And... opps.
Any massive object has a Swartzchild radius. You could theoretically make the sun a black hole. You could theorectially make yourself a black hole (it'd be smaller than an atom and would instantly explode into pure energy, but it could be done.)
The sun is too small to form a black hole on it's own though, not enough gravitational force. But you *could* make a black hole out of it.
I'm such a pedant.
Another Simple One It has pictures and such. Instead of just a move list, makes it easier to visualize.
Reason for no nuke is because the EMP from the nuke would destroy the machines too (remember 01 the matrix and Zion are all relatively close to one another). And they still have to get it to Zion somehow, so the drilling was necessary. And no Nerve Gas, because Zion has it's own ventilation system. Even if they used it, it would never reach them.
Oshii Mamoru. (D'oh)