I feel I should elaborate on this. In the book, the character is first given the name 0. Then every year her parents changed her named to correspond to her age (when she turned 1, she was legally renamed 1). Her parents died when she was 6, and thus she remains with that name.
I couldn't agree more. Also, would you expect to see Bill Gates, George Bush, or Tom Cruise on the bus?
Americans - and Canadians - are very private people compared to the rest of the world. It's not common to strike up a conversation with somebody in a checkout line in America or Canada but go to England or Australia and it's quite the opposite. Americans and Canadians don't like to share. We preach it in our schools but we certainly don't practice it.
For some reason, which I can't really come up with a good explanation about, we like keeping our business to ourselves, moreso than other parts of the world. Anyways, this, in my opinion, is why cars are here to stay. At least in North America.
I could've sworn it was posted earlier than that. I am a bit of a closet Mini-ITX geek and I visit that site at least once a week. I think fitting the PC into a PS2 case is more impressive; those things are tiny and oddly shaped.
A lot of the times on TSS they will just say "Slashdot is reporting that..." At least they're honest when they steal information as opposed to the mainstream news channels such as NBC who put little tags in the corner of the screen saying "AP" because they are required to.
Besides, I like the little photoshopped pictures that accompany the stories.
I've used YaST and Mandrake's version (SetupDrake or InstallDrake or something like that) and I have to say that YaST bugs the hell out of me too. Mandrake's offering is far superior. Although it does sometimes think for itself it doesn't do it as badly as YaST does. YaST is one of those programs that "takes liberties." Blech.
Yeah, the folks down at Wired. Elections are just (a new) part of the game, it's not that the people playing are taking it too seriously. The only people taking it too seriously are the ones at Wired who bothered to write an article on it.
What about us T-Mobile folks? TMobile.com is the German T Mobile (Deutsche Telekom) and T-Mobile.com is the American cell carrier. Would you be bob.jones.us.tmobile.mobile or bob.jones.de.tmobile.mobile? Isn't 8005551212/8005551212@tmomail.net a lot easy to enter?
I live out in the sticks (if you can call Malibu, CA that) where we get 18K dialup or satellite as options. Let me tell you that satellite really really really sucks for internet. Dialup is much less of a problem.
Another issue with satellite is that it's expensive. People simply can't afford it. You have to spend about $1000 for equipment and installation (assuming you don't need things like mounting polls or more than x amount of cabling). Then it's $70/mo. BPL, at $40/mo with very low installation costs, high speed, and low latency is a MUCH better solution than satellite.
I was listening to random radio stations on the 'net and I stumbled on the emergency radio of (I think it was) Detroit and one officer had radioed to another (who was obviously still at the Starbucks) to grab his cell-phone, which he had forgotten on the table. The other officer radioed back saying "yup I found it, you left your jacket here too haha!"
True. Perhaps passport (or whatever service) could charge $5 into your passport account and every time you ran out it would charge another $5 (Hopefully it would ask first). They could also make it an user-specifiable amount of money.
I don't disagree with the idea of paying for content. I mean it's not cheap to keep a site these days and advertising is just annoying.
This is definitely a chance to put Microsoft's Passport system to work. Here's the idea; put your credit card number into passport and then when you go to a news site and want to read an article; $0.10 is deducted from your cc/passport account. I can't wait to see their passport system working for something that is actually useful; as opposed to just using it on their sites (msn/hotmail/microsoft.com).
The only one of those I would have any sympathy for is Military Communications and maybe CB Radio. The military has advanced equipment (they'd better with these tax rates) and they can change to a different frequency. I'm sure CB can be worked around.
Where I live we get no form of broadband and I'm getting 18KBPS connetions on average through EarthLink. I'm very happy that they've chosen to pursue this service and can't wait to sign up.
Something tells me I'm going to get my first flaimbait post:-D
I was up last year and a lot of things have changed, especially since 1999. It feels much... cheaper. I don't think George is as interested in looking after it anymore. Hopefully things will change after Star Wars III.
They shut down the cafeteria at the health club, which is depressing. They used to have some AMAZING stuff. Now your only choice is the main house (which costs an arm and a leg, but yes, the steak is excellent) or the tech building buffet. Pretty much sucks if you're on a long project there and it's not like you can drive down the road to eat elsewhere. The nearest place is about 15 minutes away in all directions.
I can tell you that there is loads of space to put more vines, but from the general opinion of the staff the products of those vines are, well, un-drinkable. Last time I was there, in January 2003, it looked like they removed a lot of the old vines and had planted new ones and were also expanding it.
This photo shows "Lake Ewok" and to the right of it the Technical Building (where Skywalker Sound is). Between the two and down a little is where most of the vines are, and to the right of the tech building there are vines as well. It's an old picture so these changes aren't reflected in it.
And no, we didn't sneak in. In fact I don't think it's possible to sneak in. Anyways, I was there to visit family; doing the sound for a movie at SS.
Websites are not responsible for any user submitted content as long as they do not mdoerate it. If they say that they review and/or moderate (site staff, not users) the content then they are legally liable for everything that is posted. This new system they are planning to implement sounds to me like it would make them liable if something were to slip through the cracks.
Personally, I would put up a disclaimer saying that the management is not responsible for the comments posted and then just leave it alone. HOWEVER, morally what they are doing is right and I am glad they are going to re-do the site. I just hope that they keep a close watch on what is and isn't there. I also hope they talk to a good lawyer with 'net experience.
For the first (and probably last) time I used it to look at gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/. I was mostly curious and found the gopher site through Vivisimo It's pretty cool and works great over dialup. I used Mozilla Firebird 0.7 to access it.
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't know Darl McBride owned a space shuttle...
I'll shutup now.
Max(x) Barry's Syrup has a character named 6.
I'm pretty sure this one ain't an april fools thing. I mean this is what they'd do. Next thing you know, SCO will be using these things.
I couldn't agree more. Also, would you expect to see Bill Gates, George Bush, or Tom Cruise on the bus?
Americans - and Canadians - are very private people compared to the rest of the world. It's not common to strike up a conversation with somebody in a checkout line in America or Canada but go to England or Australia and it's quite the opposite. Americans and Canadians don't like to share. We preach it in our schools but we certainly don't practice it.
For some reason, which I can't really come up with a good explanation about, we like keeping our business to ourselves, moreso than other parts of the world. Anyways, this, in my opinion, is why cars are here to stay. At least in North America.
I could've sworn it was posted earlier than that. I am a bit of a closet Mini-ITX geek and I visit that site at least once a week. I think fitting the PC into a PS2 case is more impressive; those things are tiny and oddly shaped.
I filled it out, searched for "stuff" and the first personalized entry was Slashdot. Kind of scary actually.
Besides, I like the little photoshopped pictures that accompany the stories.
wouldn't nature loving geeks want computers that are not made out of precious trees?
Uh, this is Slashdot: YES!
I've used YaST and Mandrake's version (SetupDrake or InstallDrake or something like that) and I have to say that YaST bugs the hell out of me too. Mandrake's offering is far superior. Although it does sometimes think for itself it doesn't do it as badly as YaST does. YaST is one of those programs that "takes liberties." Blech.
Yeah, the folks down at Wired. Elections are just (a new) part of the game, it's not that the people playing are taking it too seriously. The only people taking it too seriously are the ones at Wired who bothered to write an article on it.
What about us T-Mobile folks? TMobile.com is the German T Mobile (Deutsche Telekom) and T-Mobile.com is the American cell carrier. Would you be bob.jones.us.tmobile.mobile or bob.jones.de.tmobile.mobile? Isn't 8005551212/8005551212@tmomail.net a lot easy to enter?
Another issue with satellite is that it's expensive. People simply can't afford it. You have to spend about $1000 for equipment and installation (assuming you don't need things like mounting polls or more than x amount of cabling). Then it's $70/mo. BPL, at $40/mo with very low installation costs, high speed, and low latency is a MUCH better solution than satellite.
Scary thought.
True. Perhaps passport (or whatever service) could charge $5 into your passport account and every time you ran out it would charge another $5 (Hopefully it would ask first). They could also make it an user-specifiable amount of money.
This is definitely a chance to put Microsoft's Passport system to work. Here's the idea; put your credit card number into passport and then when you go to a news site and want to read an article; $0.10 is deducted from your cc/passport account. I can't wait to see their passport system working for something that is actually useful; as opposed to just using it on their sites (msn/hotmail/microsoft.com).
Where I live we get no form of broadband and I'm getting 18KBPS connetions on average through EarthLink. I'm very happy that they've chosen to pursue this service and can't wait to sign up.
Something tells me I'm going to get my first flaimbait post :-D
Hahahahahahaha! You, of course, make the assumption that music programs in schools exist.
I was up last year and a lot of things have changed, especially since 1999. It feels much... cheaper. I don't think George is as interested in looking after it anymore. Hopefully things will change after Star Wars III.
They shut down the cafeteria at the health club, which is depressing. They used to have some AMAZING stuff. Now your only choice is the main house (which costs an arm and a leg, but yes, the steak is excellent) or the tech building buffet. Pretty much sucks if you're on a long project there and it's not like you can drive down the road to eat elsewhere. The nearest place is about 15 minutes away in all directions.
This photo shows "Lake Ewok" and to the right of it the Technical Building (where Skywalker Sound is). Between the two and down a little is where most of the vines are, and to the right of the tech building there are vines as well. It's an old picture so these changes aren't reflected in it.
And no, we didn't sneak in. In fact I don't think it's possible to sneak in. Anyways, I was there to visit family; doing the sound for a movie at SS.
(note: I'm not a lawyer!)
Websites are not responsible for any user submitted content as long as they do not mdoerate it. If they say that they review and/or moderate (site staff, not users) the content then they are legally liable for everything that is posted. This new system they are planning to implement sounds to me like it would make them liable if something were to slip through the cracks.
Personally, I would put up a disclaimer saying that the management is not responsible for the comments posted and then just leave it alone. HOWEVER, morally what they are doing is right and I am glad they are going to re-do the site. I just hope that they keep a close watch on what is and isn't there. I also hope they talk to a good lawyer with 'net experience.
For the first (and probably last) time I used it to look at gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/. I was mostly curious and found the gopher site through Vivisimo It's pretty cool and works great over dialup. I used Mozilla Firebird 0.7 to access it.
I seem to remember a /. article about modding your cuecat to read standard barcodes, instead of having the cuecat spit out it's cuebar gobbledygook.
/.ed but if I'm not mistaken that means the parent is still apllicable.
Of course my knowledge of barcodes is limited and I can't RTFA because it's
I could very well be wrong and not know what I'm talking about but ohh look a butterfly.