Ban mathematical proofs! Ban mathematical proofs! Not only can I say an odd number plus an even number is an odd number, but I can publish the proof demonstrating the fact!
Sure, but with the laws they've been comming up with lately, once he's arrested he might not be heard from again. I think it was a necessary move to make the situation publically known. Otherwise, all you see is a blurb on page 12 of the newspaper saying "French Hacker Arrested" and no one thinks anything about it.
why do you think reality shows are ever popular with t.v. execs? They don't pay anyone, except maybe the host, anything substantial. They don't have to renogotiate multimillion dollar contracts with a half dozen "stars" every year. The contestants only get paid anything substantial if they win, and there's only one winner. Exceptions might be American Idol where they have 3 "stars" as hosts, and Survivor Allstar where since they are "allstars" (at what, being bitchy drama queenes?) they all get something for being there, progressively increasing the longer they are on.
Reality T.v. is cheap, and as long as people watch it, there will be f*ck all else on.
atleast coffee is a real tangible object that to some degree abides by supply and demand. granted coffee bean companies have burned shiploads of beans to dispose of them instead of selling them.
I was hoping to enter some deranged parallel googleverse by googling "Google" and viewing the cached version, then googling "Google" again from that cached google of Google.
But no, nothing interesting happened. It would have been sort of cool if all the returned results were all cached instances instead of fresh instances.
maybe not, but assuming he alread owned the PC, and it's use was spread out over more than just games, including things a gaming console cannot do, it's probably more economically responsible to use it instead of laying down a fresh $179 that could be used on other things.
You don't want to use a non-Free version of QT for developing commercial aps? Fine, don't. No one is saying you have to. GTK won't die precisely because of this. Stop complaining, continue to release apps using GTK (or other toolkit) and be done with it. Or better yet, consult with someone who has great insight into the QT license and see if there is a way for you to release your commercial code independent of non-Free QT, and allow the user to link their own widget toolkit in (i.e., Free QT) post-distribution.
I don't know if that is either technically or legally possible. just my.02
Your thinking all wrong about my statement, and adressing something that wasn't even said. They aren't emotionally attached to some logic involved in an algorithm or circuit. It's about being devoted to something and wanting to do it the absolute best way possible. Apply it to a different conversation often had here on slashdot... Don't go into Computer Science because of the money, do it because you love it. Would you rather work with someone doing CS for the money, or because they want to contribute to the field?
so someone who cares about something and wants to improve it versus someone who is emotionally unattached to what they do and use. take your pick, i'd prefer someone who cares about and enjoys what they work with.
if their perceptions are based on rumor or a few unfortunate encounters then they deserve to be trapped in whatever proprietary hellpit they are in.
I think you are over exagerating by using "rabid, frothing, pro-Linux zealots." There might be a vocal minority, but without the majority of the community being overly helpfull, Linux wouldn't be so popular today. (how many nice people are there out on IRC after their work day is done, doing nothing but helping newbies?) The accesibility of online, real time help that the open source community voluntarily provides is vastly superior to a 1-800 number that transfers you through person after inadequate person. The phone system is an antiquated tool in tech support. Once people get past their fear of using a new tool to recieve support, they'll possibly be much more pleased with the computer experience.
I say that the kindness of the majority of the Linux community and the accesibility of online, real time, person to person help (often multiple people helping you at once! try to get that from some cold corporation without having a huge contract for tech support) is overshadowed by people blinding and prejudicially proclaiming "linux users are rabid frothing zealots." That needs to be put to an end because it plainly isn't the truth.
sorry, but today the resolution and level of detail on a computer monitor is so much more pretty than a television. will HDTV even compare to a computer running a game at 1280x1024 or higher? thats not rhetorical, i'm really wondering.
the only bonus I see for console gaming is that you sit on a couch or sofa instead of an office chair.
If the first page of this PDF read like a good advertisement for OpenOffice and reason enough to leave MS Word behind, then you're among friends...
I almost feel like writting a letter to MS saying "Thanks" for advertising Open Office and getting the name out, mentioning that based on this PDF I've just switched from MS Word to Open Office.
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for those either too young to remember or foriegn and had more important things to care about than our inadequate politicians...
From Wikipedia - Dan Quayle: "Throughout his time as Vice President, Quayle was widely ridiculed in the media and by some of the general public as a mental lightweight and was prone to verbal gaffes; as a result of this reputation, a great many apocryphal quotations are attributed to him. Most famous was his correcting a student's spelling of potato as "potatoe". When this story is related, it is usually not mentioned that Quayle was relying on a spelling bee card on which the word had been misspelled by the teacher although admittedly Quayle should have picked that up."
This last part about it already being misspelled is new to me.
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Its not coffee itself that kills, but the plastic cup that reacts with the coffee, and generates an acid called tri-hidro-cafeine, that is lethal.
So i should just eat the plastic cup and throw away my coffee, right?
"boxen" should have made the list of the "most hated buzzwords" poll.
only metrosexuals call their machines boxen.
Ban mathematical proofs! Ban mathematical proofs! Not only can I say an odd number plus an even number is an odd number, but I can publish the proof demonstrating the fact!
too far my (_|_)
Sure, but with the laws they've been comming up with lately, once he's arrested he might not be heard from again. I think it was a necessary move to make the situation publically known. Otherwise, all you see is a blurb on page 12 of the newspaper saying "French Hacker Arrested" and no one thinks anything about it.
Though, do seek professional counsel.
safer, but should be completely unnecesary.
ha! me too, until i read your post. doh!
place bootable linux CD's into your coworkers CDROM drives, restart computer.
of course if you've got plush linux penguins and Oreilly books all over your cubicle, they'll know who did it.
Maybe tell his manager about it first, so it doesn't get out of control.
I can't see all of you jobless on April 2 and wondering what happened.
"whaaa haaaappened?"
-a mighty wind.
don't reinvent the wheel, but make it better. Or: compile from source with optimizations to take advantage of your processors performance.
bla bla bla premature optimization. ok fine, compile without optimizations, see if it works, tweak later as desired.
stealing shmealing. you just typed too much. you're stealing my page space.
why do you think reality shows are ever popular with t.v. execs? They don't pay anyone, except maybe the host, anything substantial. They don't have to renogotiate multimillion dollar contracts with a half dozen "stars" every year. The contestants only get paid anything substantial if they win, and there's only one winner. Exceptions might be American Idol where they have 3 "stars" as hosts, and Survivor Allstar where since they are "allstars" (at what, being bitchy drama queenes?) they all get something for being there, progressively increasing the longer they are on.
Reality T.v. is cheap, and as long as people watch it, there will be f*ck all else on.
atleast coffee is a real tangible object that to some degree abides by supply and demand. granted coffee bean companies have burned shiploads of beans to dispose of them instead of selling them.
your point is well taken.
agreed.
damn. i need something to laugh at this morning. getting fired for seeing whatever this might be isn't worth the laugh.
anyone have any SCO news instead?
Who said anything about a GeForce 4 or buying a new graphics card at all, for that matter?
he had the comp, he had a graphics card and monitor, had everything. he just bought a game and a controller.
arguing with an AC who brings in all other issues to dilute reason. fun stuff.
I was hoping to enter some deranged parallel googleverse by googling "Google" and viewing the cached version, then googling "Google" again from that cached google of Google.
But no, nothing interesting happened. It would have been sort of cool if all the returned results were all cached instances instead of fresh instances.
maybe not, but assuming he alread owned the PC, and it's use was spread out over more than just games, including things a gaming console cannot do, it's probably more economically responsible to use it instead of laying down a fresh $179 that could be used on other things.
You don't want to use a non-Free version of QT for developing commercial aps? Fine, don't. No one is saying you have to. GTK won't die precisely because of this. Stop complaining, continue to release apps using GTK (or other toolkit) and be done with it. Or better yet, consult with someone who has great insight into the QT license and see if there is a way for you to release your commercial code independent of non-Free QT, and allow the user to link their own widget toolkit in (i.e., Free QT) post-distribution.
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I don't know if that is either technically or legally possible. just my
maybe, but sometimes you don't want the overhead of getting laid, er I mean of a Mac. good eyecandy, accesible interface, but higher TCO.
Your thinking all wrong about my statement, and adressing something that wasn't even said. They aren't emotionally attached to some logic involved in an algorithm or circuit. It's about being devoted to something and wanting to do it the absolute best way possible. Apply it to a different conversation often had here on slashdot... Don't go into Computer Science because of the money, do it because you love it. Would you rather work with someone doing CS for the money, or because they want to contribute to the field?
so someone who cares about something and wants to improve it versus someone who is emotionally unattached to what they do and use. take your pick, i'd prefer someone who cares about and enjoys what they work with.
if their perceptions are based on rumor or a few unfortunate encounters then they deserve to be trapped in whatever proprietary hellpit they are in.
I think you are over exagerating by using "rabid, frothing, pro-Linux zealots." There might be a vocal minority, but without the majority of the community being overly helpfull, Linux wouldn't be so popular today. (how many nice people are there out on IRC after their work day is done, doing nothing but helping newbies?) The accesibility of online, real time help that the open source community voluntarily provides is vastly superior to a 1-800 number that transfers you through person after inadequate person. The phone system is an antiquated tool in tech support. Once people get past their fear of using a new tool to recieve support, they'll possibly be much more pleased with the computer experience.
I say that the kindness of the majority of the Linux community and the accesibility of online, real time, person to person help (often multiple people helping you at once! try to get that from some cold corporation without having a huge contract for tech support) is overshadowed by people blinding and prejudicially proclaiming "linux users are rabid frothing zealots." That needs to be put to an end because it plainly isn't the truth.
yeah, but a light pink iPod mini won't be helping your situation any ;)
kiddding! it's not the size that matters, it's the way you groove!
sorry, but today the resolution and level of detail on a computer monitor is so much more pretty than a television. will HDTV even compare to a computer running a game at 1280x1024 or higher? thats not rhetorical, i'm really wondering.
the only bonus I see for console gaming is that you sit on a couch or sofa instead of an office chair.
If the first page of this PDF read like a good advertisement for OpenOffice and reason enough to leave MS Word behind, then you're among friends...
I almost feel like writting a letter to MS saying "Thanks" for advertising Open Office and getting the name out, mentioning that based on this PDF I've just switched from MS Word to Open Office.
for those either too young to remember or foriegn and had more important things to care about than our inadequate politicians...
From Wikipedia - Dan Quayle:
"Throughout his time as Vice President, Quayle was widely ridiculed in the media and by some of the general public as a mental lightweight and was prone to verbal gaffes; as a result of this reputation, a great many apocryphal quotations are attributed to him. Most famous was his correcting a student's spelling of potato as "potatoe". When this story is related, it is usually not mentioned that Quayle was relying on a spelling bee card on which the word had been misspelled by the teacher although admittedly Quayle should have picked that up."
This last part about it already being misspelled is new to me.