This guy sounds like an inflamatory id10t (long-term cookie my ass), but perhaps he has a subtle point.
When searching for "namebase" on Teoma, his site shows up in the top ten. Perhaps this isn't an intentional bias on Google's part, but mearly a limitation of thier search algorithm.
After having spent the last two weeks visiting the I-90 tollway in Chicago and a tollway near the Orlando International Airport, I can tell you that camera's have been there for quite some time and are quite obvious.
What should be MORE disturbing is the cameras that take a pic of your licence plate as you leave the Universal Studio's parking lot in Orlando.
I don't know which is more extreme: UK viewers insisting on viewing the US version for 1 second of extra film, or that a 1 second cut means the difference between a '12' (~PG-13) and a 'PG' certificate.
That extra second is when we see Anakin cop a feel of Padme. It's a perk of being a Sith Lord.
Before announcing new useful project to Slashdot community, create Freshmeat/Sourceforge page first there by eliminating the need for my host to shut me down for execssive bandwidth.
And that, my friend, is exactly why free/open software will be the wave of the future.
Sure you can use the software for free, but the software means nothing without programmers to support it and add needed features to it. Software should be free, however programmers are not. That is why AOL is looking to buy RH.
I'd say it's time to dust off your programming skills and code your own. Picture this: Apache, MySQL, and your choice of web programming tools, and viola, your own customizimable linux CRM solution that will work on any system with a web browser.
I was able to get a working system working in under 2 weeks and made it pretty and ready for production use with one additional week (but that's because I love PHP).
Why is it that every CD/DVD player that supports *.mp3 or *.ogg is celebrated because but every player that will now support *.wmf is flamed. Let's face it, there is demand for *.wmf support, so why would manufacturers not support it.
Why not have players that support many different formats. How about a convercence box that will play divx, dvd, mp3, quicktime, ogg, and wmf.
I have been a customer of both MediaComm/AT&T/@Home and Cedar Falls Utilities Cybernet (Cedar Falls, IA). My MediaComm service has been marginal at best; bad modems, crappy bandwidth, and work arounds to account to allow for my operating system of choice.:)
My service from CFU was a much better experience. Better technical support, when needed, OS freedom, and best of all, no 128kbs upstream cap.
I think having a local service rather than a national broadband mass of companies has several advantages both its customers and the internet in general. Small localize services can better control the amount of spam running through thier networks, do some preventative virus blocking and security checks while still providing all the web, mail, news, and IRC that you could hope for. And in my case, it's all put together in just one bill along with my water, tv, electric, etc. A small, but definatly side effect.
Now, if only my landlord had not signed a bulk contract for all his units to use AT&T.
cfu.net@home
Here is a little secret, after years and years of experience (ie hard work), you have accumulated vast amounts of knowlege that other people might like. And the most profitable way to dispense this knowlege is Consulting
That's right, you get to help out others while doing little, if any of the work yourself. No pagers, some travel, and usually the pay and benifits are outstanding.
I was thinking I've seen this before, then I remembered.....12 Monkies.
Is linux an Army? Army of the 12 Penguins?
All jest asside, IBM seems to be doing lots for the commnunity; hardware, software, laptops w/dvd, etc. I'm pleased to see this Giant in the industry get so involved with Linux. And if the city of San Francisco desides to fine IBM, it's still a pretty cheap ad campaign; cheaper than buying TV advertisements or hundreds of bill boards.
After compareing these the Handspring to the Palm, I'm left shocked and amazed. Not in this engineering marvel, but the fact that this company reinvented the wheel; or more specifically, the Palm V(x).
Flashing lights and expantions slot are great bells and whistles, but other than that, I see no major differences.
I find it hard to belive that techies so impassioned by thier OS or editor can be so dispassionate, apathetic even, about who is running for public office. If you don't vote, you have no right to complain about who is in office!
And just one more comment to all you voters, voting for a third party candidate is not throwing your vote. It's a statement for your party. Politics asside, do you think that Jesse Ventura would have been elected governer of Minnisota if it wasn't for Ross Perot's run for the presidency two years earlier? If the reform (independance) party can elect a governer, any party can, and that should be the starting point for any party.
I have dreamed about tetis, Bust A Move 2nd edition, and occactionally Gnibbles.
Dreaming seems to able to recall long bouts of heavy congnitive load. So dreaming of Tetris would be more a common occurance, than writing a bike, or running. But why are falling dreams reported most often?
I'm sure you could call the domicile I live in a geek house. 3 computer science majors and a math major.
The key to finding a geek house is a fast internet connection and a relaxed land lord. Fast Internet because if you are each trying to dial out and order pizza at the same time tensions will mount. Relaxed land lords will be understanding when he notices you've installed network ports in every room in the house (including the bathroom).
Any house is a geek house, it's just a fixer-uper.
Universal Access is a great idea, implementing is will take decades. In metropolises, such as New York, Chicago, and LA, you can get *dsl, or cable modem internet access without putting much of a dent in your wallet. But only within the last year, as Des Moines gotten dsl service and at a cost of $60/month. Here in Cedar Falls, Iowa, we can get cable modem access for $40/month, we are pretty lucky. Waverly (15 miles north of Cedar Falls), is lucky to have 56k dial up service.
My point is this, Universal Access to the internet might be possible, but there will always be divisions between fast and slow service. And while there might be a connection to the internet, the "quality" of the connection might make the Internet unsuitable for anything other than Plain Old Text email.
Ada is taught at my school for both Comp Sci I and II. The reason given for teaching ADA is that it's a "stongly typed" language and it's pretty fair with error recovery. According to my prof. ADA is used in military tasks involving 100% reliablity (submarine radar traking systems, air traffic control systems, stuff like that).
There are almost no professional opportunities for ADA programmers, unless you would like to work for Rockwell (no offence to those Rockwell folks, but you are the only people I know hiring ADA programmers.) Ada is almost SO strongly typed, it's almost code prohibitive; I get bogged down in the structures and not the implementation of the solution.
Wow, it took Motorola that long to get one of those certified. Cisco has had thier Ubr9x4 with 4 ethernet ports and up to 2 phone jacks. The inside has 8Mb ram and the box runs Cisco's Router OS. These cable modems are basically office routers and switches, and cable modems.
Being both a Computer Scince and Psychology major, I hear professors from both majors complaining about the lack of sexual diversity in these majors; psychology being female dominated, and obviously computer science being male dominated. I'm wondering, where are the roll models for woman in computer science? Ada Lovelace or Alan Cox?
I'm surprised those crazy folks at x-10 haven't gotten on the ball an created an "Do-it-all" remote; but wait, that's not IR (oops)
The ir ports on Palm Pilots aren't quite strong enough for effective remotes. My friend's Casiopia (sp?) has better range. I'm assuming the Phillips brand stuff is pretty good too (refers to thier commercials)
Most of those IR ports are made for data transfer, not long range bursts like remotes are used to.
Perhaps we are forgetting the most critical piece of evidence against Internet voting; only a relativly small, (but growing) % of people are accually wired.
Slashdot Mirror
This guy sounds like an inflamatory id10t (long-term cookie my ass), but perhaps he has a subtle point.
When searching for "namebase" on Teoma, his site shows up in the top ten. Perhaps this isn't an intentional bias on Google's part, but mearly a limitation of thier search algorithm.
This is news for nerds?!
After having spent the last two weeks visiting the I-90 tollway in Chicago and a tollway near the Orlando International Airport, I can tell you that camera's have been there for quite some time and are quite obvious.
What should be MORE disturbing is the cameras that take a pic of your licence plate as you leave the Universal Studio's parking lot in Orlando.
Or maybe the camera's are just following me.
That extra second is when we see Anakin cop a feel of Padme. It's a perk of being a Sith Lord.
Before announcing new useful project to Slashdot community, create Freshmeat/Sourceforge page first there by eliminating the need for my host to shut me down for execssive bandwidth.
One ring to rule them all?
LAN Party in Terminal 8b!
And that, my friend, is exactly why free/open software will be the wave of the future.
Sure you can use the software for free, but the software means nothing without programmers to support it and add needed features to it. Software should be free, however programmers are not. That is why AOL is looking to buy RH.
I'd say it's time to dust off your programming skills and code your own. Picture this: Apache, MySQL, and your choice of web programming tools, and viola, your own customizimable linux CRM solution that will work on any system with a web browser.
I was able to get a working system working in under 2 weeks and made it pretty and ready for production use with one additional week (but that's because I love PHP).
VI or die!!
Why is it that every CD/DVD player that supports *.mp3 or *.ogg is celebrated because but every player that will now support *.wmf is flamed. Let's face it, there is demand for *.wmf support, so why would manufacturers not support it.
Why not have players that support many different formats. How about a convercence box that will play divx, dvd, mp3, quicktime, ogg, and wmf.
I have been a customer of both MediaComm/AT&T/@Home and Cedar Falls Utilities Cybernet (Cedar Falls, IA). My MediaComm service has been marginal at best; bad modems, crappy bandwidth, and work arounds to account to allow for my operating system of choice. :)
My service from CFU was a much better experience. Better technical support, when needed, OS freedom, and best of all, no 128kbs upstream cap.
I think having a local service rather than a national broadband mass of companies has several advantages both its customers and the internet in general. Small localize services can better control the amount of spam running through thier networks, do some preventative virus blocking and security checks while still providing all the web, mail, news, and IRC that you could hope for. And in my case, it's all put together in just one bill along with my water, tv, electric, etc. A small, but definatly side effect.
Now, if only my landlord had not signed a bulk contract for all his units to use AT&T.
cfu.net
@home
That's right, you get to help out others while doing little, if any of the work yourself. No pagers, some travel, and usually the pay and benifits are outstanding.
Check out the big companys: Accenture and/or Deloit and Touche.
Is linux an Army? Army of the 12 Penguins?
All jest asside, IBM seems to be doing lots for the commnunity; hardware, software, laptops w/dvd, etc. I'm pleased to see this Giant in the industry get so involved with Linux. And if the city of San Francisco desides to fine IBM, it's still a pretty cheap ad campaign; cheaper than buying TV advertisements or hundreds of bill boards.
After compareing these the Handspring to the Palm, I'm left shocked and amazed. Not in this engineering marvel, but the fact that this company reinvented the wheel; or more specifically, the Palm V(x).
Flashing lights and expantions slot are great bells and whistles, but other than that, I see no major differences.
A simple google search yielded the following URL . It contains a list of ALL candidates running for president. Cast your votes everyone!
And just one more comment to all you voters, voting for a third party candidate is not throwing your vote. It's a statement for your party. Politics asside, do you think that Jesse Ventura would have been elected governer of Minnisota if it wasn't for Ross Perot's run for the presidency two years earlier? If the reform (independance) party can elect a governer, any party can, and that should be the starting point for any party.
I have dreamed about tetis, Bust A Move 2nd edition, and occactionally Gnibbles.
Dreaming seems to able to recall long bouts of heavy congnitive load. So dreaming of Tetris would be more a common occurance, than writing a bike, or running. But why are falling dreams reported most often?
I'm sure you could call the domicile I live in a geek house. 3 computer science majors and a math major.
The key to finding a geek house is a fast internet connection and a relaxed land lord. Fast Internet because if you are each trying to dial out and order pizza at the same time tensions will mount. Relaxed land lords will be understanding when he notices you've installed network ports in every room in the house (including the bathroom).
Any house is a geek house, it's just a fixer-uper.
Universal Access is a great idea, implementing is will take decades. In metropolises, such as New York, Chicago, and LA, you can get *dsl, or cable modem internet access without putting much of a dent in your wallet. But only within the last year, as Des Moines gotten dsl service and at a cost of $60/month. Here in Cedar Falls, Iowa, we can get cable modem access for $40/month, we are pretty lucky. Waverly (15 miles north of Cedar Falls), is lucky to have 56k dial up service.
My point is this, Universal Access to the internet might be possible, but there will always be divisions between fast and slow service. And while there might be a connection to the internet, the "quality" of the connection might make the Internet unsuitable for anything other than Plain Old Text email.
Ada is taught at my school for both Comp Sci I and II. The reason given for teaching ADA is that it's a "stongly typed" language and it's pretty fair with error recovery. According to my prof. ADA is used in military tasks involving 100% reliablity (submarine radar traking systems, air traffic control systems, stuff like that).
There are almost no professional opportunities for ADA programmers, unless you would like to work for Rockwell (no offence to those Rockwell folks, but you are the only people I know hiring ADA programmers.) Ada is almost SO strongly typed, it's almost code prohibitive; I get bogged down in the structures and not the implementation of the solution.
However, here are some links for ya'll
ADA Reference Manual
a prof's home page
Wow, it took Motorola that long to get one of those certified. Cisco has had thier Ubr9x4 with 4 ethernet ports and up to 2 phone jacks. The inside has 8Mb ram and the box runs Cisco's Router OS. These cable modems are basically office routers and switches, and cable modems.
Being both a Computer Scince and Psychology major, I hear professors from both majors complaining about the lack of sexual diversity in these majors; psychology being female dominated, and obviously computer science being male dominated.
I'm wondering, where are the roll models for woman in computer science? Ada Lovelace or Alan Cox?
I'm surprised those crazy folks at x-10 haven't gotten on the ball an created an "Do-it-all" remote; but wait, that's not IR (oops)
The ir ports on Palm Pilots aren't quite strong enough for effective remotes. My friend's Casiopia (sp?) has better range. I'm assuming the Phillips brand stuff is pretty good too (refers to thier commercials)
Most of those IR ports are made for data transfer, not long range bursts like remotes are used to.
Perhaps we are forgetting the most critical piece of evidence against Internet voting; only a relativly small, (but growing) % of people are accually wired.