Just a few months ago, calling "google" "evil" would have made all mods go in "-1:flamebait"-mode. Now, I see a lot of posts that are actually modded insightful. Does Google know that their esteemed fans on Slashdot are slowly turning ? Would that make certain employees of Google scratch their head and dust off their resumees ? Would that lower stocks somewhat ?
...and have serious problems with some of the things they are advocating. A large part of the video was toned negative. Only the word "poisonous people" is enough to know what they are thinking. Yes, there are mistakes certain people make that can be *called* poisonous, and could indeed destroy your project, but don't label the *person* but the *behaviour*. Apart from being very undiplomatic, you run the risk of losing good people in your OSS project just because you get anal about someone not 'doing things by the book'.
An example is the "CVS date-parser contributor", where the guy wanted his name on top of the file, but SVN-dev rules stated not to. Instead of talking diplomacy, and getting a solution that satisfies both developer as community - the code was good as they said - they throw out the code *and the person who wrote it*. Maybe this example was bad, and the person was thrown out because of other reasons, but they made it an example in their video so that's the fact right now..
I think I would like a label for OSS projects that handle people this way: cactus-OSS communities - they can grow great software, but press the wrong part and you get hurt so much you don't want anything to do with it. Seriously, if you're running an OSS project by all means protect it, but try to change the behaviour people portray rather than kick them out. Kicking out a developer should be a last resort, as it on itself could have serious implications for the status of the OSS project imho.
I remember reading a review on the SMC skype phone (which surprisingly wasn't reviewed here !). It is about the same price as the other Skype phones ($150 dollars) but the main objection against it was that it doesn't have echo cancellation aboard. This will definitely make you hear quality difference between a GSM and this Skype phone. I guess the time-to-market is now more important for a lot of companies than the actual quality of the set. It is feature-complete, but wifi+skype client is not enough to make a consumer-friendly product imho.
Best option: wait a little while before you buy one.
... hurrying to prevent the news that the moon landing in fact never happened from coming out:
* Quick, launch that space junk towards the moon before LROC comes along !
* Oh, it seems that we couldn't photograph the landing site due to a metric conversion error.
* Giant moon storms have suddenly wiped out all evidence of any landing on the moon, what a coincidence eh ?
* OMG this is not the moon we landed on in 1969, we have been tricked !
* There is life there, but not as we know it - they made our moon landers disappear.
* OK, the moon landing was faked - see this little bunny, this funny little bunny ? Look how cute this little bunny is ! So cute !
* The russians did it !
* The chinese did it !
* The martians did it !
* The democrats did it !
* In a blatant act of time-terrorism, our moon landing was sabotaged and in fact never ever took place !
* Due to global warming, our moon landers have shrunk to microscopic size.
* Because we plan to go to the moon in a decade time again, we decided to clean the place up and remove all evidence of any moon landers. Neat eh ?
* Our moon landing was an advanced project, so advanced that we calculated the environmental damage the moon equipment would have on the moon would be enormous. Therefore we decided, back then in 1969, to make all equipment on the moon from bio-degradable plastics - and look : they have all degraded !
* The chance of a meteor hitting the moon is very large - by a mere coincidence meteors have struck the exact same places our moon equipment were at and removed all evidence of us ever being there.
... ever added to certain standards ? If not to protect against suddenly appearing patents that kill the standard, why would they protect any standard with an agreement such as RAND ? If it is true what you are saying, RAND is not necessary as the law can always override it.
And even if it can override it, perhaps it is pretty difficult to achieve (plus costly...).
...being used in a big hit: Kernkraft 400 which featured game music from the game Lazy Jones (C64). I don't know if David Whittaker, the original producer, ever got money for it though, but I guess he did.
...at least in some of the newsreports I saw, in which they stated that "it was not feasible to use a DRM system as the system was hacked every time", rather than (the truth) "the consumer and CD license holders (!) have fully rejected the protection systems we have devised, because they hamper fair use - especially in the area of simply playing out the CD (not even copying it) on normal consumer-grade playback systems and even outright violate consumer rights (sony rootkit)".
People like to (put things between) (paranthesis) because they cannot (place the sentence) into (the current context) but (this irritates the reader) who (has to read over these out of context) blocks (each time he reads) the (sentence). Did (you) (find this) easy to (read) ?
But why ? Does she crave for good coffee on the Battlestar ? Didn't the 12 colonies invest in fair trade coffee ? Why is she all of a sudden so sensitive about why Oxfam posted a youtube video anyway ?
...I read topics of people having various non-eating related cookbooks in their homes on Slashdot, and each time this is referred to as "innocent reading material" (or something along those lines) rather than a prelude to terrorism - even though the police could view it in that way when someone is arrested on related charges. The finding of this book (I'm not talking about other findings) and supposing any connection of this book to the murdering is therefore kind of not-Slashdot like : he could just have been generally interested in murder, perhaps a big CSI fan or something ? It's supporting evidence at most.
..to the Wiimote - at least reversed from the eeprom on the device. This should improve the compatibility of PC's to the Wiimote, and I hope we see some interesting applications on the PC soon ; that or Nintendo should release a Wii-SDK, otherwise I think they are definitely losing a whole lot of interest in the long run of the more adventurous type of user who longs for interesting applications for this simple (proven) but now widely available concept of three-axis sensing devices.
0-day-bay, your place for new gadgetries in the world of ScRiPtKidDieS GoNE CoMmErCIal !
Today, we have on offer a few jolly nice samples of the finest goods, what do you think of:
* Evil worm 2 - Dr.Evil himself would promote this one, if he were a real person, but alas: this Evil worm 2 does not come with frickin' lasers on its head. Made in China, this worm can eat away the fumbly firewalls of most present day Windows machines ! All that, at a price of just $30.000 !
* Glasnost x-ploit - Oh my, in the Western world we make the x-ploit, but in Russia - where this lovely piece of software was born - they x-ploit you ! Just like in the old days of Gorbatchov, this Glasnost worm certainly opens... backdoors ! ha ha ! For just the measle amount of $15.000, you could have your very own Glasnost'ed Windows botnet in no time !
Last but not least, we wouldn't want to forget our bestseller, our hitman, our top product in the fine world of Windows Redecorating Software : Yoghurt Trojan !
Not the milk-product, but you could say it's milky white cream covers most Windows PC's pretty well ! It has no aftertaste like some worms, and definitely likes to morph into different appearances ! It can definitely lighten the spirits of whoever is at the controls and includes a lovely "MAD"-button in case some law enforcement officer decides to peak into your operation : no more evidence, because no more Trojaned PC's survive the Mutually Assured Deletion of this king of kings ! All that, for just $50.000, it's a bargain !
...economical decision, which is the reason why MS stopped supporting Win98. Or perhaps a decision based on a sane choice: why support an OS with a browser that tries to be as secure as possible, while at the same time knowing the OS you're targeting is unsupported and thus prone to severe compromise ? What good would that do other than perhaps put the browser in a bad light of day ? Though I must add that is a bit of a political reason:)
That, scarcity of clean water, should not be an issue. There is certainly not a scarcity of salt-water. As hydrogen is produced from (for example) electrolysis, this will work for salt water as well. Yes, there is a scarcity of clean drinking water - but we do not have to use that water for this purpose. I call this particular point moot.
...more than half the slashdot-population can find themself in the name "Virgina" (even when it's mentioned twice in the post), but I sincerely request the editors lay down their powdery-pipes and at least provide the decency to call the region "Virginia".
...it depends on how you have built up your embedded system - if it uses slowly accessible flash (chances are high - because cost is low) 2 seconds is pretty much unreachable. The best you can get is probably 10-15 seconds, but without special (hardware/software) changes your kernel will definitely not boot in 2 seconds.
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...and fight the Alien Mindbenders again!
Or was that his brother Zak ?
Just a few months ago, calling "google" "evil" would have made all mods go in "-1:flamebait"-mode.
:)
Now, I see a lot of posts that are actually modded insightful. Does Google know that their esteemed fans on Slashdot are slowly turning ?
Would that make certain employees of Google scratch their head and dust off their resumees ?
Would that lower stocks somewhat ?
Anyone want to buy put-options for Google ?
it's Philips (Royal Electronics B.V.) - not Phillips (the screws).
...and have serious problems with some of the things they are advocating.
A large part of the video was toned negative. Only the word "poisonous people" is enough to know what they are thinking. Yes, there are mistakes certain people make that can be *called* poisonous, and could indeed destroy your project, but don't label the *person* but the *behaviour*.
Apart from being very undiplomatic, you run the risk of losing good people in your OSS project just because you get anal about someone not 'doing things by the book'.
An example is the "CVS date-parser contributor", where the guy wanted his name on top of the file, but SVN-dev rules stated not to. Instead of talking diplomacy, and getting a solution that satisfies both developer as community - the code was good as they said - they throw out the code *and the person who wrote it*. Maybe this example was bad, and the person was thrown out because of other reasons, but they made it an example in their video so that's the fact right now..
I think I would like a label for OSS projects that handle people this way: cactus-OSS communities - they can grow great software, but press the wrong part and you get hurt so much you don't want anything to do with it.
Seriously, if you're running an OSS project by all means protect it, but try to change the behaviour people portray rather than kick them out. Kicking out a developer should be a last resort, as it on itself could have serious implications for the status of the OSS project imho.
...can we say officially that this part of slashdot has become a FANSCOS now (First Annual NeuroScientist Convention On Slashdot) ?
I remember reading a review on the SMC skype phone (which surprisingly wasn't reviewed here !). It is about the same price as the other Skype phones ($150 dollars) but the main objection against it was that it doesn't have echo cancellation aboard. This will definitely make you hear quality difference between a GSM and this Skype phone. I guess the time-to-market is now more important for a lot of companies than the actual quality of the set.
It is feature-complete, but wifi+skype client is not enough to make a consumer-friendly product imho.
Best option: wait a little while before you buy one.
... but google seems a little bit "evil" here, and they seem to admit it.
Now mod me down and be off with it - don't forget to put on that blinker.
... hurrying to prevent the news that the moon landing in fact never happened from coming out:
* Quick, launch that space junk towards the moon before LROC comes along !
* Oh, it seems that we couldn't photograph the landing site due to a metric conversion error.
* Giant moon storms have suddenly wiped out all evidence of any landing on the moon, what a coincidence eh ?
* OMG this is not the moon we landed on in 1969, we have been tricked !
* There is life there, but not as we know it - they made our moon landers disappear.
* OK, the moon landing was faked - see this little bunny, this funny little bunny ? Look how cute this little bunny is ! So cute !
* The russians did it !
* The chinese did it !
* The martians did it !
* The democrats did it !
* In a blatant act of time-terrorism, our moon landing was sabotaged and in fact never ever took place !
* Due to global warming, our moon landers have shrunk to microscopic size.
* Because we plan to go to the moon in a decade time again, we decided to clean the place up and remove all evidence of any moon landers. Neat eh ?
* Our moon landing was an advanced project, so advanced that we calculated the environmental damage the moon equipment would have on the moon would be enormous. Therefore we decided, back then in 1969, to make all equipment on the moon from bio-degradable plastics - and look : they have all degraded !
* The chance of a meteor hitting the moon is very large - by a mere coincidence meteors have struck the exact same places our moon equipment were at and removed all evidence of us ever being there.
... ever added to certain standards ? If not to protect against suddenly appearing patents that kill the standard, why would they protect any standard with an agreement such as RAND ? If it is true what you are saying, RAND is not necessary as the law can always override it.
And even if it can override it, perhaps it is pretty difficult to achieve (plus costly...).
...being used in a big hit: Kernkraft 400 which featured game music from the game Lazy Jones (C64). I don't know if David Whittaker, the original producer, ever got money for it though, but I guess he did.
...at least in some of the newsreports I saw, in which they stated that "it was not feasible to use a DRM system as the system was hacked every time", rather than (the truth) "the consumer and CD license holders (!) have fully rejected the protection systems we have devised, because they hamper fair use - especially in the area of simply playing out the CD (not even copying it) on normal consumer-grade playback systems and even outright violate consumer rights (sony rootkit)".
People like to (put things between) (paranthesis) because they cannot (place the sentence) into (the current context) but (this irritates the reader) who (has to read over these out of context) blocks (each time he reads) the (sentence). Did (you) (find this) easy to (read) ?
(Stop) (using) (too) (many) (paranthesis) please...
...it *is* a UFO: unidentified flying object.
Why does everyone thinks of aliens when the word UFO is mentioned ?
...a response...
But why ? Does she crave for good coffee on the Battlestar ? Didn't the 12 colonies invest in fair trade coffee ? Why is she all of a sudden so sensitive about why Oxfam posted a youtube video anyway ?
What new plot twist of BG do I not understand ?
...I read topics of people having various non-eating related cookbooks in their homes on Slashdot, and each time this is referred to as "innocent reading material" (or something along those lines) rather than a prelude to terrorism - even though the police could view it in that way when someone is arrested on related charges.
The finding of this book (I'm not talking about other findings) and supposing any connection of this book to the murdering is therefore kind of not-Slashdot like : he could just have been generally interested in murder, perhaps a big CSI fan or something ?
It's supporting evidence at most.
Now *you* mentioned it to those guys !
..to the Wiimote - at least reversed from the eeprom on the device. This should improve the compatibility of PC's to the Wiimote, and I hope we see some interesting applications on the PC soon ; that or Nintendo should release a Wii-SDK, otherwise I think they are definitely losing a whole lot of interest in the long run of the more adventurous type of user who longs for interesting applications for this simple (proven) but now widely available concept of three-axis sensing devices.
...here, gives (under metamaterials) a good example of what negative refraction is here
0-day-bay, your place for new gadgetries in the world of ScRiPtKidDieS GoNE CoMmErCIal !
... backdoors ! ha ha !
Today, we have on offer a few jolly nice samples of the finest goods, what do you think of:
* Evil worm 2 - Dr.Evil himself would promote this one, if he were a real person, but alas: this Evil worm 2 does not come with frickin' lasers on its head. Made in China, this worm can eat away the fumbly firewalls of most present day Windows machines !
All that, at a price of just $30.000 !
* Glasnost x-ploit - Oh my, in the Western world we make the x-ploit, but in Russia - where this lovely piece of software was born - they x-ploit you ! Just like in the old days of Gorbatchov, this Glasnost worm certainly opens
For just the measle amount of $15.000, you could have your very own Glasnost'ed Windows botnet in no time !
Last but not least, we wouldn't want to forget our bestseller, our hitman, our top product in the fine world of Windows Redecorating Software : Yoghurt Trojan !
Not the milk-product, but you could say it's milky white cream covers most Windows PC's pretty well ! It has no aftertaste like some worms, and definitely likes to morph into different appearances ! It can definitely lighten the spirits of whoever is at the controls and includes a lovely "MAD"-button in case some law enforcement officer decides to peak into your operation : no more evidence, because no more Trojaned PC's survive the Mutually Assured Deletion of this king of kings !
All that, for just $50.000, it's a bargain !
...but we were talking about the parents here I think ?
...economical decision, which is the reason why MS stopped supporting Win98. Or perhaps a decision based on a sane choice: why support an OS with a browser that tries to be as secure as possible, while at the same time knowing the OS you're targeting is unsupported and thus prone to severe compromise ? What good would that do other than perhaps put the browser in a bad light of day ? Though I must add that is a bit of a political reason :)
That, scarcity of clean water, should not be an issue. There is certainly not a scarcity of salt-water. As hydrogen is produced from (for example) electrolysis, this will work for salt water as well.
Yes, there is a scarcity of clean drinking water - but we do not have to use that water for this purpose. I call this particular point moot.
...more than half the slashdot-population can find themself in the name "Virgina" (even when it's mentioned twice in the post), but I sincerely request the editors lay down their powdery-pipes and at least provide the decency to call the region "Virginia".
...it depends on how you have built up your embedded system - if it uses slowly accessible flash (chances are high - because cost is low) 2 seconds is pretty much unreachable. The best you can get is probably 10-15 seconds, but without special (hardware/software) changes your kernel will definitely not boot in 2 seconds.
I'm friends with a LOT of very hip, trustworthy, boy-scout-type people....that 'drain' your 'pipes' ?
;=)
You're friends with the Village People ?.
No offense, but you could have made that sentence a bit more tactic (apart from the last - pimping - remark)