Given what the "will of the people" has produced over the millenia, I'd steer as far away from anything that comes from there.
Communisum's ideal is that people are evolving. Therefore, as a evolved communal whole everyone can help everyone else. Problem being that we aren't evolved enough to use this system. And as proven in our past communist states, the state is forced to take an oppresive hand against the people to make them work for this system.
A 5 second clip of Bush saying "I Can't Do My Job" doesn't seem very revolutionary...
It was actually 1.5 seconds worth of bush. Enough for anyone surely.
Direct from the G4 press release, it looks like the only TechTV originals surviving are Anime Unleashed, X-Play, The Screen Savers, Fresh Gear, and Robot Wars. It doesn't say specifically if those are the only TechTV shows to continue or if any of the old staff will keep their position. As long as Adam Sessler doesn't come back I won't complain too much.
The Grokdoc project sounds really really interesting. No doubt it will help the newbies with those problems that just aren't apparent. However if they follow the initial usability study idea (gathering all information and errors that people encouter) the project will be amazing.
Imagine being able to enter your hardware--or potential hardware--distro of choice and getting a list of problems you will encounter. Knowing that you will need to disable SMP for your install to work on a laptop would be invaluable (for example).
The first few sectors of a hard drive (read MBR Boot loaders) aren't very hard to recover. Even if it damaged super important filesystem data a chkdsk -r will fix it up no problem.
Where on the hard drive though could you erase to totally scrap a Windows OS?
The article briefly mentions the fact that Mandrake is going to emerge from bankruptcy and pay off a 3.3 million euro debt. It's made me curious how much Mandrake made from the HP move. Did HP just take mandrake with a few modifications and put it on, or was a licence purchased?
"Hey, boss, Microsoft gave you nothing for something. Now check out this OOo [openoffice.org] stuff, where you get something for nothing."
The article actually states that the office suites and XP subscriptions did offer an expected return. Where, Microsoft's SQL server showed nothing but delays to customers.
"Press Release: We've started the final countdown to the launch of DC2! The all-Dell facility will offer a wide range of available servers starting next week. We're hosting a ribbon cutting, tour and luncheon at 11am on Wednesday, March 3."
I'm sure that Dell has linux on a few of their servers that they ship out. But I'll bet you that a good majority of that new Dell-only facility will be Windows servers especially consitering that ev1 found a solution to Linux in Windows. Hell, it was even Dell PowerEdge 1600 SC Servers that they hosted the "solution" on.
I probably could have payed ev1's SCO licencing costs out of my laundry money.
It'll only take about 10 seconds to identify your message and send out a template reply. Instead, head over to ev1server's live support and waste their time too.
The xbox I think would be a very good implementation for a 1000 video media center. However, without the linux.
You could get an Xecuter 2 Pro from Team Xecuter to mod the xbox. Then go ahead and replace the default desktop with an Xecuter bios, and load that puppy up with XBMC, an Xbox Media Center dashboard (or one of the other more popular dashs). Going from there, you would download dvd2xbox. This will give you an exact 1 to 1 rip of your DVDs, Xbox games etc. You can simply play then from your hard drive with the default xbox dvd player (or a homebrew one).
Of course, if you want to fit all 1TB or so you'll need to add an external box with the 4HDs you have with a switch. The xbox can't use more than one HD at a time, so just order them from A to Z. The outcome though would be an amazing shuttle like system that you can use to play games, and even control fully (except for the games) with your xbox remote.
I just want to toss out the notion that the general complaint that slashdot readers don't read the article, and the slashdot effect are mutually exclusive. There were only 8 replies to this thread when I clicked the main article link, and although it wasn't completely slashdotted, it was incredibly slow coming up.
Probably very true, but not true in this case. Internet.com's servers are reputably slow, probably because of the huge amount of daughter sites they run.
Conversation after the RIAA cornered one of the newly sued.
RIAA:You really would let me sue you, you sick fuck. College Kid:You ever hear of casettes? People have been downloading music for decades. The Industry tried to take advantage of people back then, and where are they now? RIAA:You're looking at them, asshole.
I tend to find that the good professors give you the "irresponsible comments and criticism" right upfront and in class.
Submitted for your review: "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You can't just sleep through my class then hand in shit assignments like this. Sit down, pay attention, or get out"
Put it on a website? Well sure, might be better off using FreeNet for something like that though...
If I had mod points I'd mod you up.
If you ever needed a screw from me you could just check under any piece of furnature and find a few. And there's no way you can tell me that every screw included has a purpose... especially with the unfortunate server situation over at bunkermentality.net
Other countries might not speak english, but they still get assigned english TLDs, so x.gov wouldn't be a stretch. For example, why is Japan.jp instead of.nh, when germany got.dk?
I've also found it sad that while the internet is a global service, many TLDs (namely.gov.edu) are US centric. Some countries right now use a.gov.TLDcc title for their government uses, I don't see why it couldn't have been.TLDcc.gov.
If people, such as the people who wrote the article, can say that the iPod mini is worth the lesser space for the greater buck just because it's smaller... I think they need to re-review the iRiver. I mean, come on. The iRiver looks like a freaking skateboard.
I mean, come on! I'd choose the skateboard over the apple branded over-sized suppository.
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Communisum's ideal is that people are evolving. Therefore, as a evolved communal whole everyone can help everyone else.
Problem being that we aren't evolved enough to use this system. And as proven in our past communist states, the state is forced to take an oppresive hand against the people to make them work for this system.
A 5 second clip of Bush saying "I Can't Do My Job" doesn't seem very revolutionary... It was actually 1.5 seconds worth of bush. Enough for anyone surely.
Oh well, she will live on Photoshop.
And in my nude celebrities gallery.
Direct from the G4 press release, it looks like the only TechTV originals surviving are Anime Unleashed, X-Play, The Screen Savers, Fresh Gear, and Robot Wars. It doesn't say specifically if those are the only TechTV shows to continue or if any of the old staff will keep their position.
As long as Adam Sessler doesn't come back I won't complain too much.
How ironic. The first line of the last post on the main page announces "Life goes on."
That man was actually making a tron costume. The results are quite frightening.
Imagine being able to enter your hardware--or potential hardware--distro of choice and getting a list of problems you will encounter. Knowing that you will need to disable SMP for your install to work on a laptop would be invaluable (for example).
You mean like everyone else does? Interesting concept.
The first few sectors of a hard drive (read MBR Boot loaders) aren't very hard to recover. Even if it damaged super important filesystem data a chkdsk -r will fix it up no problem. Where on the hard drive though could you erase to totally scrap a Windows OS?
The article briefly mentions the fact that Mandrake is going to emerge from bankruptcy and pay off a 3.3 million euro debt. It's made me curious how much Mandrake made from the HP move.
Did HP just take mandrake with a few modifications and put it on, or was a licence purchased?
The article actually states that the office suites and XP subscriptions did offer an expected return. Where, Microsoft's SQL server showed nothing but delays to customers.
I'm sure that Dell has linux on a few of their servers that they ship out. But I'll bet you that a good majority of that new Dell-only facility will be Windows servers especially consitering that ev1 found a solution to Linux in Windows. Hell, it was even Dell PowerEdge 1600 SC Servers that they hosted the "solution" on.
I probably could have payed ev1's SCO licencing costs out of my laundry money.
It'll only take about 10 seconds to identify your message and send out a template reply. Instead, head over to ev1server's live support and waste their time too.
You could get an Xecuter 2 Pro from Team Xecuter to mod the xbox. Then go ahead and replace the default desktop with an Xecuter bios, and load that puppy up with XBMC, an Xbox Media Center dashboard (or one of the other more popular dashs).
Going from there, you would download dvd2xbox. This will give you an exact 1 to 1 rip of your DVDs, Xbox games etc. You can simply play then from your hard drive with the default xbox dvd player (or a homebrew one).
Of course, if you want to fit all 1TB or so you'll need to add an external box with the 4HDs you have with a switch. The xbox can't use more than one HD at a time, so just order them from A to Z. The outcome though would be an amazing shuttle like system that you can use to play games, and even control fully (except for the games) with your xbox remote.
Probably very true, but not true in this case. Internet.com's servers are reputably slow, probably because of the huge amount of daughter sites they run.
RIAA: You really would let me sue you, you sick fuck.
College Kid: You ever hear of casettes? People have been downloading music for decades. The Industry tried to take advantage of people back then, and where are they now?
RIAA: You're looking at them, asshole.
Submitted for your review: "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You can't just sleep through my class then hand in shit assignments like this. Sit down, pay attention, or get out"
Put it on a website? Well sure, might be better off using FreeNet for something like that though...
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. If you ever needed a screw from me you could just check under any piece of furnature and find a few. And there's no way you can tell me that every screw included has a purpose... especially with the unfortunate server situation over at bunkermentality.net
Other countries might not speak english, but they still get assigned english TLDs, so x.gov wouldn't be a stretch. For example, why is Japan .jp instead of .nh, when germany got .dk?
I've also found it sad that while the internet is a global service, many TLDs (namely .gov .edu) are US centric. Some countries right now use a .gov.TLDcc title for their government uses, I don't see why it couldn't have been .TLDcc.gov.
I mean, come on! I'd choose the skateboard over the apple branded over-sized suppository.
I guess the web server, running on a 250 T-cube beowulf cluster mind you, couldn't stand up to the throngs of slashdotters.
That would be the Hanoi Xlib version.
Or how about STFU (SOCAN Takes money From end Users)
Here's a link for child's play that won't dissipear when PA posts a new article in a few hours.