Cambridge Energy Research Associates - Hmmmm. I suppose I should give the benefit of doubt. But really, do we need to ponder hard who pays their bills with a name like that? It screams Big Oil Think Tank.
Heroes are inventions of the beholder, it is the way we cope with understanding how normal people can accomplish such great things. Heroes are not defined by who they are, what they do, or even their worth as an individual. They are defined as how the populace perceives the individual and their actions.
A good example of this concept is probably playing in a theater near you, Flags of our Fathers. This is a mostly true story about the men who were declared heroes because they happened to have their picture taken while raising the flag at Iwo Jima. (Note: My comment is not meant to be disrespectful to them, this is the view the movie presents as the view of the men who performed did the task who most vehimately did not consider themselves heroes.)
What Linus did, may not have been individually a great feat (though I would argue otherwise), he may not have had as much to do with Linux's current popularity (though I would argue otherwise), he could even be the biggest jerk on earth (again I would disagree) but he is a hero.
Regardless of whether he was just in the right place at the right time, or if his accomplishments are actually due to his own merits, what he did was seen as raising the torch for the Open Source movement without Linux, without Linus, and the galvanizing boot to the rear that these gave the Open Source movement, we'd all probably still be stuck in a world where *nix was exclusively the providence of huge corporations and academic organizations. And without the pressure of Linux on MS's heels, we'd probably still be using WinME.
You might scoff that what Linus has done does not compare to the actions of the others on this list. And you'd probably be correct. But regardless of the magnitude of the action, his impact upon how what was became what is now and how both software and the Open Source movement is perceived now really can't be argued. You pointed it out yourself when you invited the "Linux fanboys" to start.
"A poorly informed opinion based on a soundbite....(t)hat's my opinion." -nuggz on 09-23-06 concerning his opinion of people getting their news from the Daily Show.
You've obviously never worked or have been extremely luckly in your career if you can tell me that you've never noticed that no matter how smart the foundation of an organization is, the higher up you get, the easier it is for one fool to ruin the whole works.
This is the way of any organization, not just the government, and is one of the reasons why we will never actually have to worry about any one group ever actually being in control of the world for any real length of time. Call it the ultimate application of the Peter Principle.
It takes a million right decisions to get to the top, and only one wrong one to tumble all the way back down to the bottom.
Your suggestion is the equivalent of suggesting banning violent video games would end crime.
It is not religion that causes people to kill, religion is simply the excuse used. Remove one excuse, and a million more are waiting in the wings. Race, national pride, political beliefs, sexual orientation, gender, and favorite sports team have all been criteria used in the past to select victims by people simply looking for a reason to hate and an excuse to hurt.
Banning religion would not stop the killing, only finding a method which prevents children from ever being able to learn to distrust those who are different will change this. And you would have a far easier time banning religion than telling the world how they must raise their children.
Peter left Bullfrog Productions to form his own company, Lionhead Studios, at that time.
The real problem with Peter is a fairly simple one. He goes for "Wiz! Bang!" more heavily than he goes for "Once upon a time...."
None of the games he's done have had stories that were deep or complex. The closest he's ever been to that were Fable and Black and White. Both of which were over ambitious games where the story was present and actually tied to the game, but the games themselves did not live up to the hype. Primarily because rather than spending time on things like storyline or ensuring the games had any sort of deep complexity to them, he spent time on making sure your animal knew how to throw poo or you could boast that you would do your next quest naked.
The man has vision, but he lacks the ability to cause it to bear fruit. And when this invariably happens, he attempts to cover up the shortcomings by piling on meaninless eye candy.
Have you seen the delivery charges for getting Domino's Pizza over there, much less how much you have to tip to make sure it gets there warm? This is their pizza fund!
In a world with undeath, exactly what is evil about those in that state and believing it to be superior to life or death to want to help the rest of the world reach it? You could make a case that it was misguided, but many people with good intentions are misguided.
INDIVIDUALS in all races in the game have evil tendencies, both in a general sense and in a specific "these are the cutural values we've been given in WoW" sense.
I can't see any playable race in WoW as evil. In the Warcraft series, it was more blunt and there were points where it was obvious you were playing evil. But Blizzard toned that down alot when WoW came out.
He hosts a NTP server with the intention of it being used by a certain audience. He's not pissed people outside of that audience are using the server, he's pissed that D-Link decided to abuse the service he's providing and now the overwhelming majority of the people using his service are outside the intended audience.
Sorta like how server admins get pissed when an article posted on their site causes them to be Slashdotted.
And honestly, the fact that D-Link is acting in the way it is while he trys to get them to resolve the issue probably isn't helping matters.
Then again, as a former owner of a D-Link product which rebooted itself anytime I went over 50 simultaneous connections (think P2P), I don't doubt they'd be too cheap to actually just run their own.
If they want to make a difference, how about investing money into good civics lessons in the countries wracked by violence. Teach them peaceful resolution of differences, undermine their tribal identities to create a unified national identity and teach them the value of working together in a way respectful of basic civil rights. That's why they get in this mess. Almost every time an African country manages a decent election, the opposition goes onto the warpath to try and take power. If they want to really shake things up, teach them the values that made America be able to unify and work together to become an industrial power. Until then, it's all a bunch of shiny things.
Please.
Even if we were to pretend that we didn't get to where we are today through a long string of violent, self-serving, and often inhumane acts, that we somehow are the "Immaculate Conception" of nations and have never done any wrong, that doesn't give us the right to step in and tell them how they should run their nation. We tried that, it turned out the guys we backed were crap.
Face it, our history provides no basis for the claim that we somehow have a grasp on the right way to run things. We've gotten here through sweat, blood, and death. We might know what doesn't work, we might know what we'd like to have happened. But we don't know what SHOULD happen.
Censorship implies suppression of information. This is the equivalent of someone refusing to allow you to read what they've written on a piece of paper, after they've shown the rest of the room. There is no supression of information, simply a refusal to share with you.
Would you call the NYT restricting access to it's website unless you register, or sites which require a subscription, per user censorship? Would you call a library requiring proof of citizenship in their county before allowing you to check out books per county cenorship?
It may very well be that the person who uploaded the videos did so to make it look as if they were being censored. I don't know. I'm not them. But I do know that even if they were pretending to be censored, that is NOT censorship.
When you upload a video to Google, you pick the countries it is viewable in. The reason Google has this in place is because Google Video was originally meant to be a video store and not just another YourTube. When selling video, it's sometimes important that only certain regions are allowed to view the video, as the rights to distribution in other regions might not be yours.
This is not Google censoring anything, the person who uploaded the video just indicated that it should not be viewable in the USA.
PBX - Private Branch eXchange. Sometimes also called Postbox exchange, or Private Business Exchange. I'm not sure what the 'official' meaning is.
Basically it's a voicemail/call routing system. Almost every company that handles more than one incoming line has a PBX. It's the internal phone system. Extensions, voicemail boxes, hold music, voice menus, etc. are all run by your companies PBX.
Asterix is an open source PBX designed to be run off any system that can run Linux. It's fairly extensible and because it runs on commodity hardware, very popular. Normal PBX systems can cost in the $10k amounts to do half of what a $5k Asterix system can. Plus, if you are truly a geek, you can setup your own home PBX off normal phone lines.
Another reason Asterix is becoming popular is that it can handle Voice Over IP (VOIP) calls. This means you can setup a small home machine (many times people hook it into their router, PC or embedded) to work with a VOIP account such as Vontage and let you have more control with it.
I'm not a paid subscriber to Slashdot. I've never had a story accepted. I don't use the jiffy 'advanced' features of Slashdot such as journals.
I moderate, and even meta-moderate, but I browse the site primarily from work and don't often have the time or opportunity to do so.
I come here to read news, stories, and articles which relate to things that I'm interested in. I could care less the intentions or motivations of the person submitting that story to Slashdot, as long as the story itself meets my standards. And overwhelmingly they do.
The people who complain that an article is a 'slashad', quite frankly, need to put up or shut up. If they have better news to share, then share it. If they can present an article in a better manner than the people who are currently presenting it, then do it. Otherwise STFU. I'm constantly amazed that anyone from the culture that made Open Source and GPL so popular could honestly sit back on their ass and whine rather than come up with a better, competing solution.
We live in a world of commercialism and that is neither inherently horrible nor evil. If you want to live in a commune, go live in one. If you want to live in this world, then you need to grow a thicker skin and stop being so offended that someone bringing you something for free would ever think to include an ad in the content they provide.
Let the moderators downmod the complaints till they are six feet under and leave it at that. There is no need to setup complicated policies just to please the vocal few, who honestly seem to find fault wherever they are and whatever they are given.
I agree that's something to be aware of, and I'm assuming you are using Windows given the description of the hardware discovery routine, however why don't you simply setup your powermanagment to switch the monitor to standby after a certain number of minutes of idle time?
I have my Windows machine setup to go to screensaver after 5 min, and to shut the monitor off after 20 min.
Even if this isn't a Windows machine, I have a hard time believing that Linux doesn't have SOMETHING that could do that for you.
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Cambridge Energy Research Associates - Hmmmm. I suppose I should give the benefit of doubt. But really, do we need to ponder hard who pays their bills with a name like that? It screams Big Oil Think Tank.
A good example of this concept is probably playing in a theater near you, Flags of our Fathers. This is a mostly true story about the men who were declared heroes because they happened to have their picture taken while raising the flag at Iwo Jima. (Note: My comment is not meant to be disrespectful to them, this is the view the movie presents as the view of the men who performed did the task who most vehimately did not consider themselves heroes.)
What Linus did, may not have been individually a great feat (though I would argue otherwise), he may not have had as much to do with Linux's current popularity (though I would argue otherwise), he could even be the biggest jerk on earth (again I would disagree) but he is a hero.
Regardless of whether he was just in the right place at the right time, or if his accomplishments are actually due to his own merits, what he did was seen as raising the torch for the Open Source movement without Linux, without Linus, and the galvanizing boot to the rear that these gave the Open Source movement, we'd all probably still be stuck in a world where *nix was exclusively the providence of huge corporations and academic organizations. And without the pressure of Linux on MS's heels, we'd probably still be using WinME.
You might scoff that what Linus has done does not compare to the actions of the others on this list. And you'd probably be correct. But regardless of the magnitude of the action, his impact upon how what was became what is now and how both software and the Open Source movement is perceived now really can't be argued. You pointed it out yourself when you invited the "Linux fanboys" to start.
"A poorly informed opinion based on a soundbite....(t)hat's my opinion."
-nuggz on 09-23-06 concerning his opinion of people getting their news from the Daily Show.
Troll tribe - population 100.
Booty Bay - population 2000.
I think it says it all there.
Actually, the next phase of this project is planned to remove the whole issue of documents altogether.
Instead everyone will have a crystal embeded into their palm. When the crystal turns red...
You've obviously never worked or have been extremely luckly in your career if you can tell me that you've never noticed that no matter how smart the foundation of an organization is, the higher up you get, the easier it is for one fool to ruin the whole works.
This is the way of any organization, not just the government, and is one of the reasons why we will never actually have to worry about any one group ever actually being in control of the world for any real length of time. Call it the ultimate application of the Peter Principle.
It takes a million right decisions to get to the top, and only one wrong one to tumble all the way back down to the bottom.
We know who you are AC. And we are not amused. Expect a visit.
-signed
Majestic 12
Your suggestion is the equivalent of suggesting banning violent video games would end crime.
It is not religion that causes people to kill, religion is simply the excuse used. Remove one excuse, and a million more are waiting in the wings. Race, national pride, political beliefs, sexual orientation, gender, and favorite sports team have all been criteria used in the past to select victims by people simply looking for a reason to hate and an excuse to hurt.
Banning religion would not stop the killing, only finding a method which prevents children from ever being able to learn to distrust those who are different will change this. And you would have a far easier time banning religion than telling the world how they must raise their children.
Peter left Bullfrog Productions to form his own company, Lionhead Studios, at that time.
The real problem with Peter is a fairly simple one. He goes for "Wiz! Bang!" more heavily than he goes for "Once upon a time...."
None of the games he's done have had stories that were deep or complex. The closest he's ever been to that were Fable and Black and White. Both of which were over ambitious games where the story was present and actually tied to the game, but the games themselves did not live up to the hype. Primarily because rather than spending time on things like storyline or ensuring the games had any sort of deep complexity to them, he spent time on making sure your animal knew how to throw poo or you could boast that you would do your next quest naked.
The man has vision, but he lacks the ability to cause it to bear fruit. And when this invariably happens, he attempts to cover up the shortcomings by piling on meaninless eye candy.
Have you seen the delivery charges for getting Domino's Pizza over there, much less how much you have to tip to make sure it gets there warm? This is their pizza fund!
In a world with undeath, exactly what is evil about those in that state and believing it to be superior to life or death to want to help the rest of the world reach it? You could make a case that it was misguided, but many people with good intentions are misguided.
INDIVIDUALS in all races in the game have evil tendencies, both in a general sense and in a specific "these are the cutural values we've been given in WoW" sense.
I can't see any playable race in WoW as evil. In the Warcraft series, it was more blunt and there were points where it was obvious you were playing evil. But Blizzard toned that down alot when WoW came out.
He hosts a NTP server with the intention of it being used by a certain audience. He's not pissed people outside of that audience are using the server, he's pissed that D-Link decided to abuse the service he's providing and now the overwhelming majority of the people using his service are outside the intended audience.
Sorta like how server admins get pissed when an article posted on their site causes them to be Slashdotted.
And honestly, the fact that D-Link is acting in the way it is while he trys to get them to resolve the issue probably isn't helping matters.
Then again, as a former owner of a D-Link product which rebooted itself anytime I went over 50 simultaneous connections (think P2P), I don't doubt they'd be too cheap to actually just run their own.
If you haven't heard of Will Wright, you don't need to be reading games articles on Slashdot.
That's like reading the IT section and having never heard of that old Internet thingy.
The point of proving that he did not have insider information is to protect him from the accusation of trade secret misappropation.
However, IIRC, that would be the extent of what they could go after him for unless he stole actual code.
IANALBAFS.
Please.
Even if we were to pretend that we didn't get to where we are today through a long string of violent, self-serving, and often inhumane acts, that we somehow are the "Immaculate Conception" of nations and have never done any wrong, that doesn't give us the right to step in and tell them how they should run their nation. We tried that, it turned out the guys we backed were crap.
Face it, our history provides no basis for the claim that we somehow have a grasp on the right way to run things. We've gotten here through sweat, blood, and death. We might know what doesn't work, we might know what we'd like to have happened. But we don't know what SHOULD happen.
If I've learned anything from the Internet, it's that Japan loves porn. How many other nations sell used panties in vending machines?
This is not censorship.
Period.
Censorship implies suppression of information. This is the equivalent of someone refusing to allow you to read what they've written on a piece of paper, after they've shown the rest of the room. There is no supression of information, simply a refusal to share with you.
Would you call the NYT restricting access to it's website unless you register, or sites which require a subscription, per user censorship? Would you call a library requiring proof of citizenship in their county before allowing you to check out books per county cenorship?
It may very well be that the person who uploaded the videos did so to make it look as if they were being censored. I don't know. I'm not them. But I do know that even if they were pretending to be censored, that is NOT censorship.
When you upload a video to Google, you pick the countries it is viewable in. The reason Google has this in place is because Google Video was originally meant to be a video store and not just another YourTube. When selling video, it's sometimes important that only certain regions are allowed to view the video, as the rights to distribution in other regions might not be yours.
This is not Google censoring anything, the person who uploaded the video just indicated that it should not be viewable in the USA.
You are confused, I thought they were fighting revealing the Internet...
Don't you think the accuracy really depends on if it's Jesus that has no pants, or the person on the street corner.
PBX - Private Branch eXchange. Sometimes also called Postbox exchange, or Private Business Exchange. I'm not sure what the 'official' meaning is.
Basically it's a voicemail/call routing system. Almost every company that handles more than one incoming line has a PBX. It's the internal phone system. Extensions, voicemail boxes, hold music, voice menus, etc. are all run by your companies PBX.
Asterix is an open source PBX designed to be run off any system that can run Linux. It's fairly extensible and because it runs on commodity hardware, very popular. Normal PBX systems can cost in the $10k amounts to do half of what a $5k Asterix system can. Plus, if you are truly a geek, you can setup your own home PBX off normal phone lines.
Another reason Asterix is becoming popular is that it can handle Voice Over IP (VOIP) calls. This means you can setup a small home machine (many times people hook it into their router, PC or embedded) to work with a VOIP account such as Vontage and let you have more control with it.
Thermonuclear warheads also seem to have an impact, and are much more fun. Anyone know if the DoD keeps their Windows machines uptodate?
I'm not a paid subscriber to Slashdot. I've never had a story accepted. I don't use the jiffy 'advanced' features of Slashdot such as journals.
I moderate, and even meta-moderate, but I browse the site primarily from work and don't often have the time or opportunity to do so.
I come here to read news, stories, and articles which relate to things that I'm interested in. I could care less the intentions or motivations of the person submitting that story to Slashdot, as long as the story itself meets my standards. And overwhelmingly they do.
The people who complain that an article is a 'slashad', quite frankly, need to put up or shut up. If they have better news to share, then share it. If they can present an article in a better manner than the people who are currently presenting it, then do it. Otherwise STFU. I'm constantly amazed that anyone from the culture that made Open Source and GPL so popular could honestly sit back on their ass and whine rather than come up with a better, competing solution.
We live in a world of commercialism and that is neither inherently horrible nor evil. If you want to live in a commune, go live in one. If you want to live in this world, then you need to grow a thicker skin and stop being so offended that someone bringing you something for free would ever think to include an ad in the content they provide.
Let the moderators downmod the complaints till they are six feet under and leave it at that. There is no need to setup complicated policies just to please the vocal few, who honestly seem to find fault wherever they are and whatever they are given.
Obviously you haven't really read the title of the company. It's "Take TWO", they don't make originals.
I agree that's something to be aware of, and I'm assuming you are using Windows given the description of the hardware discovery routine, however why don't you simply setup your powermanagment to switch the monitor to standby after a certain number of minutes of idle time?
I have my Windows machine setup to go to screensaver after 5 min, and to shut the monitor off after 20 min.
Even if this isn't a Windows machine, I have a hard time believing that Linux doesn't have SOMETHING that could do that for you.