You are damn right about that... if only i could convince my younger sis about the same. She plainly refuses to sample any music written/performed by dead artists... whatever happened to cult music !! Its like most of the kids now have the same bland taste in music (i said most), they prolly are impressed more by what they see than hear too. And each generation seems to give its own definition of wat rock is !! Or maybe i am getting old. "Rock is dead" anyway.
The only kinda pr0n u can get from this is subatomic pr0n... protons, electrons, neutrons (my knowledge of subatomics ends here) randomly crashing into each other (or mebbe not) and the creation of a few queer quarks...ok bad joke.
How about other non-free IDE's like intellij IDEA ? I used it at work about a year back and it was awesome. Much better than eclipse in performance but kinda lacking in plugin diversity. I have since shifted to writing c++ in vi and eclipse with CDT:-).. and i think i am lovin it(vi) more than an IDE. There is nothing like vi(or mebbe emacs) for keyboard addicts, with the combination of ctags and minibufexplorer. Except debuggin, but thats okay since this is a different language.
I hope this helps put winamp/nullsoft back on track... and make it the most popular media player. Mebbe they will hire justin frankel back... and then mebbe he would release a new p2p network, thats a BT killer... and gives a new life to file sharing. Even now no other media player has been able to give a visualization plugin as awesome as avs... its really unfortunate no more major development is being done on it. The king is dead, long live the king.
I hope this helps put winamp/nullsoft back on track... and make it the most popular media player. Mebbe they will hire justin frankel back... and then mebbe he would release a new p2p network, thats a BT killer... and gives a new life to file sharing. Even now no other media player has been able to give a visualization plugin as awesome as avs... its really unfortunate no more development is being done on it. The king is dead, long live the king.
what are all the slashdotters doing here ? i am already camped at a friends place who lives close to release venue... discussing tactics and strategies. considering the partly-limited release the 360 should fetch a good price on ebay !!
Exactly... fearlessness doesnt imply superiority. Think of the guy who was not afraid of sticking his finger in the power socket. Especially with their small brain sizes.. a single mouse can do nothing, ofcourse if we had a beowulf cluster of laser mice...
yep.. u r rite about that. But the present is much different in case of revolution vs. ps3 (not going into portables). Since Nintendo is also expected to go for a customized multi powerPC based system.
Well, they have awfully more complicated/non-standard/novel hardware. And the cell-cpu is touted to be more a software+hardware combo kind of arch (i think).
And their marketing can take good care of the xmas issue... like driving the point of.. waiting for a better console ?
And if they can make the cell work for this, we could be in for a revolution.
Damn !! and the website is still working so goddamn smooth... not that its a problem. I wonder if we would ever be able to slashdot google, though slashdot can be googled anyday!!
One problem with this is that you cant share a location map with someone else using a URL... or mebbe i am missing something (hope someone corrects me)
NOTE: well this is going to be mostly offtopic to the parent but relevant to the post in question. sorry for that.
I found it a little weird that a post on solar sailing appears on slashdot and no one mentions arthur c. clarke in the entire discussion. (although i am not sure about whether he originally proposed the solar sailing idea.. perhaps twas Kepler)
I remember first reading about this in school in this book. One of the short stories is about some this space sailing race in which sailing boats have to complete a round around the moon and then return to earth.
I also heard that he just managed to survive the tsunami.
Cheers to a great mind.
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infact this reminds me.... just a few days ago i came across this page on wikipedia, when browsing for the apple Newton portable.
atleast they learn from their mistakes unlike other wellknown companies.
its pretty aptly titled.. could have made a better post than this one (which has anyway been slashdotted so i havent seen it yet).
btw how well does wikipedia take to slashdotting ?
Does the Lyra support the seek to xx:xx time function ? Otherwise high speed ffw is not a very frequently used function... in winamp eg. i would directly click at the approx position from where i would like the play to continue instead of ffwding. but as someone has already posted it depends on the codec also.
hey !! is it possible to vote for new features in firefox 1.0 final release. There are quite a few still left that should be carried on from mozilla, like the ctrl-enter in the address bar to open links in a new tab... and the search integrated with the address bar... to name a few.
oh yeah..... Man AGAINST Nature... The same nature that is been responsible for our miseries right ?? shucks... come on we dont really need to go against ! It could be better put like.... Man in his desire to know more about nature and learn from its genius.
Or put another way: so it is expensive and dangerous. So. Bloody. What? human progress is built on blood, tears and insatiable curiosity. If we can do it now (and we can) why not do it now, while we still have chance.
I just hope thats why we/they are doing it.
Perhaps instead the propaganda is working.
Public opinion, u see.
Alternate Scene 2:
Phd 1: hey you know i really love all these alpha beta releases from the uranium
Phd 2: i know dude they are totally cool.
Phd 1: yeah... and if i can get a critical mass of purified U-235 together a chain reaction could start... we could solve the entire worlds energy problem
Phd 2: hey but isnt it dangerous.. we could even end up blowing up the world.
Mr. iSuck Politician: did some one say blow job the world.. ?
there goes hiroshima... nagasaki.
Evolution and Adventure are not community Phenomenon. They are individual struggles. In this case.... ??
I totally agree...
Seen from a returns point of view the same amount of money invested in earthly(or earth orbital) projects should give better returns. There are tons of more immediate problems here waiting to be solved. Then on top of it there is the question of manned missions to mars... I am not saying that these missions are absurd but only this that more importance should be given to the more deserving projects.
Perhaps instead we should try to improve the way to launch satellites, find newer techniques of space propulsion, utilise space better from an communication and remote sensing point of view.
Lets clean the mess we have made in our backyard instead of looking for newer places to colonize. We have even trashed mt. everest.
Although locating another more technologically advanced race during the mars/moon expedition wouldnt really hurt...;) unless its the good old world domination story again.
Yes... i agree. but keeping the planets hundreds of miles apart kindoff defeats the purpose... then children and newbies(to space) cant really imagine the whole setup at one time. besides a static model leaves out a lot of details like revolution, rotation eclipses...etc..
perhaps the creation of a cybernetic solar system could help... wear you VR goggles and get ready to explore the planets... maybe inside roadside information kiosks... where you can drive from planet to planet in your own turbo charged space car.
also interaction makes things more interesting than reading info from concrete plate... besides who knows what the kids nowadays like...
Slashdot Mirror
I was reminded of this interesting post I had found on an mit email archive a few months back... http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/archives/old/gsb -archive/gsb2001-06-29.html
Its the Itanic... she sinkin n draggin everyone with her. So much for the MIPS.
You are damn right about that... if only i could convince my younger sis about the same. She plainly refuses to sample any music written/performed by dead artists... whatever happened to cult music !!
Its like most of the kids now have the same bland taste in music (i said most), they prolly are impressed more by what they see than hear too. And each generation seems to give its own definition of wat rock is !! Or maybe i am getting old. "Rock is dead" anyway.
The only kinda pr0n u can get from this is subatomic pr0n... protons, electrons, neutrons (my knowledge of subatomics ends here) randomly crashing into each other (or mebbe not) and the creation of a few queer quarks ...ok bad joke.
How about other non-free IDE's like intellij IDEA ? :-).. and i think i am lovin it(vi) more than an IDE. There is nothing like vi(or mebbe emacs) for keyboard addicts, with the combination of ctags and minibufexplorer. Except debuggin, but thats okay since this is a different language.
I used it at work about a year back and it was awesome. Much better than eclipse in performance but kinda lacking in plugin diversity.
I have since shifted to writing c++ in vi and eclipse with CDT
I hope this helps put winamp/nullsoft back on track... and make it the most popular media player.
Mebbe they will hire justin frankel back... and then mebbe he would release a new p2p network, thats a BT killer... and gives a new life to file sharing. Even now no other media player has been able to give a visualization plugin as awesome as avs... its really unfortunate no more major development is being done on it. The king is dead, long live the king.
I hope this helps put winamp/nullsoft back on track... and make it the most popular media player.
Mebbe they will hire justin frankel back... and then mebbe he would release a new p2p network, thats a BT killer... and gives a new life to file sharing. Even now no other media player has been able to give a visualization plugin as awesome as avs... its really unfortunate no more development is being done on it. The king is dead, long live the king.
what are all the slashdotters doing here ? i am already camped at a friends place who lives close to release venue... discussing tactics and strategies.
considering the partly-limited release the 360 should fetch a good price on ebay !!
Exactly... fearlessness doesnt imply superiority.
Think of the guy who was not afraid of sticking his finger in the power socket.
Especially with their small brain sizes.. a single mouse can do nothing, ofcourse if we had a beowulf cluster of laser mice...
next they would sue gawd for making polycarbonate scratchable. That would definitely be an outta court settlement.
yep.. u r rite about that.
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But the present is much different in case of revolution vs. ps3 (not going into portables).
Since Nintendo is also expected to go for a customized multi powerPC based system.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/16/nintendo_
Somewhat like MS... i think.
Well, they have awfully more complicated/non-standard/novel hardware. And the cell-cpu is touted to be more a software+hardware combo kind of arch (i think).
And their marketing can take good care of the xmas issue... like driving the point of.. waiting for a better console ?
And if they can make the cell work for this, we could be in for a revolution.
MS/Nintendo cannot really match the Sony hardware. Lets hope the Sony SDK is also good enough. Then they are royally screwd !!
and since booble is still in beta.... ;-)
FREE PRON FOR THE MASSES !!
searching for pron shall never be the same again.
Damn !! and the website is still working so goddamn smooth... not that its a problem.
1 8/
I wonder if we would ever be able to slashdot google, though slashdot can be googled anyday!!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/05/00192
One problem with this is that you cant share a location map with someone else using a URL... or mebbe i am missing something (hope someone corrects me)
I found it a little weird that a post on solar sailing appears on slashdot and no one mentions arthur c. clarke in the entire discussion. (although i am not sure about whether he originally proposed the solar sailing idea.. perhaps twas Kepler)
I remember first reading about this in school in this book. One of the short stories is about some this space sailing race in which sailing boats have to complete a round around the moon and then return to earth.
I also heard that he just managed to survive the tsunami.
Cheers to a great mind.
Failed_Apple_initiatives
atleast they learn from their mistakes unlike other wellknown companies.
its pretty aptly titled.. could have made a better post than this one (which has anyway been slashdotted so i havent seen it yet).
btw how well does wikipedia take to slashdotting ?
vik
Now imagine what a beowulf cluster of mac-mini's could accomplish.
yea i know... someone always brings this up.
vik
maybe if you have heard/know of how the windows OS began its life... this wouldnt be too much of a surprise. ;)
Does the Lyra support the seek to xx:xx time function ?
Otherwise high speed ffw is not a very frequently used function... in winamp eg. i would directly click at the approx position from where i would like the play to continue instead of ffwding.
but as someone has already posted it depends on the codec also.
vik
hey !! is it possible to vote for new features in firefox 1.0 final release.
There are quite a few still left that should be carried on from mozilla, like the ctrl-enter in the address bar to open links in a new tab... and the search integrated with the address bar... to name a few.
wow.. no shit ! it actually took just 3 seconds..
I wonder what IE can do about this...
The windows update site takes a hell of a time to load and then scan @ a snails pace.
And live feeds are simply amazing... thats how i check slashdot now, and cot this post.
great work guys.
oh yeah..... Man AGAINST Nature...
The same nature that is been responsible for our miseries right ??
shucks... come on we dont really need to go against ! It could be better put like.... Man in his desire to know more about nature and learn from its genius.
This is just one hell of a debate.
Or put another way: so it is expensive and dangerous. So. Bloody. What? human progress is built on blood, tears and insatiable curiosity. If we can do it now (and we can) why not do it now, while we still have chance.
I just hope thats why we/they are doing it. Perhaps instead the propaganda is working. Public opinion, u see.
Alternate Scene 2:
Phd 1: hey you know i really love all these alpha beta releases from the uranium
Phd 2: i know dude they are totally cool.
Phd 1: yeah... and if i can get a critical mass of purified U-235 together a chain reaction could start... we could solve the entire worlds energy problem
Phd 2: hey but isnt it dangerous.. we could even end up blowing up the world.
Mr. iSuck Politician: did some one say blow job the world.. ?
there goes hiroshima... nagasaki.
Evolution and Adventure are not community Phenomenon. They are individual struggles. In this case.... ??
correct me if i am wrong....I totally agree...
Seen from a returns point of view the same amount of money invested in earthly(or earth orbital) projects should give better returns. There are tons of more immediate problems here waiting to be solved. Then on top of it there is the question of manned missions to mars... I am not saying that these missions are absurd but only this that more importance should be given to the more deserving projects.
Perhaps instead we should try to improve the way to launch satellites, find newer techniques of space propulsion, utilise space better from an communication and remote sensing point of view.
Lets clean the mess we have made in our backyard instead of looking for newer places to colonize. We have even trashed mt. everest.
Although locating another more technologically advanced race during the mars/moon expedition wouldnt really hurt... ;) unless its the good old world domination story again.
Yes... i agree. ...etc..
but keeping the planets hundreds of miles apart kindoff defeats the purpose... then children and newbies(to space) cant really imagine the whole setup at one time. besides a static model leaves out a lot of details like revolution, rotation eclipses
perhaps the creation of a cybernetic solar system could help... wear you VR goggles and get ready to explore the planets... maybe inside roadside information kiosks... where you can drive from planet to planet in your own turbo charged space car.
also interaction makes things more interesting than reading info from concrete plate... besides who knows what the kids nowadays like...