Participants will still receive full credit for their completed blocks, regardless of their validity. In the near future we will be supplying the stats server with the information it needs to properly discount the effects of any reverification work in the reported percentage.
Right-click on each image that doesn't load, and click "Show Image" or something similar. (That should be the menu item for Netscape, IE, and Opera. I'm 100% sure only about the last.) Load the pages quicker, and save them some bandwidth at the same time.
Not to mention that on page 9 one of the monitors is displaying the frontpage of Slashdot.
You know, I could've sworn that wasn't there before. Anyone else agree?
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JANUARY 08, 2000 -- Today, many geeks filed a lawsuit against someone known only as "Cr0bar" online. A week ago, Cr0bar posted a humorous web page, a parody of the movie The Matrix. Cr0bar is accused by the geeks of purposely posting a web page that caused them to "cough up various beverages onto their keyboards and surroundings," and other damages.
"I was in the server room at the moment," recalls one geek, "and one of my friends told me to go to the page. As soon as I saw some of the pictures, I collapsed on the floor laughing, and caused a lot of damage to some of the servers. We had about three hours of downtime."
The geeks are contending that a warning entrance page should have been posted before the actual pictures, so that the readers could be given a chance to sit down and put down their drinks.
Cr0bar could not be reached for comment.
(I must be dreaming! Slashdot replaced all the zeroes with O's in Cr0bar!)
According to Whatis.com, "Slashdot, the Web site, is named, according to Slashdot originator Jeff "Hemos" Bates, as "a play on how terrible it is to say domain names out loud.""
So, all along, Rob has been bullying Hemos into letting him take the credit! Of course, Whatis.com could be confused, but... let's face it... what are the chances of that happening?
Click on this guy's homepage link, and then click on "Shadowfax" in the left frame on the bottom. I just had to share it. This is the best Lord of the Rings computer/*nix-related spoof I have ever seen.:)
"Three Gigs for the Professors under the sky, Seven for the Grad-students in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Users doomed to vi, One for the Hacker Lord on his dark throne In the Land of UNIX where the Daemons lie. One Kernel to rule them all, One Kernel to find them, One Disk to hold the files and in the Darkness grind them In the Land of UNIX where the Daemons lie."
The Slashdot Effect has been added to the Whatis.com dictionary. According to the page, Hemos, not Rob, is the Slashdot originator. Uh oh, looks like your secret is out, Rob!
JPEG2000 part one will be the plain-vanilla royalty-free version, but part two can include various types of third-party extensions that may or may not involve royalties. "Part one will satisfy 90 percent of the applications developers, but it will be 90 percent more work to engineer that last 10 percent of the job for special purposes in part two," said Barthel.
I also post just about everything at 1, not 2. I do not see anything wrong with this. Besides A and B, there is also C: "If the post is good, it will be moderated up. If it isn't good, it shouldn't be moderated up. Either way, it's not for me to decide."
Aside from not having *physical* contact with anyone, I don't think that one would miss much of the communication you get in the real world. There's always IRC, ICQ, and others. And if he has enough bandwidth, he can even do videoconferencing. Heck... I already live almost like this, especially on the weekends.:)
Why not have some sort of public reconition of the companies that DO open-source closed information - especially important components like video cards, SCSI adapters, network cards, etc.
I guess we just need to give it some time... after all, this is already pretty much true for IDE hard drives, IDE CD-ROMs, floppy drives, some video modes, modems (good ones, anyway), keyboards, mice.
Does anyone know if the newer technologies are headed in the same direction, or have the companies decided that making it all a pain in the ass is the way to go?
Y2K is nearly here! That means we can finally stop guessing about what Y2K is going to do to the world's computers - and get on with our lives. As a precautionary measure, AllAdvantage.com is going to disconnect its servers from the Internet and watch the millennial date change from the sidelines.
We will be disconnected from 23:59 PST (GMT -0800) on December 30 through 12:00 PST (GMT -0800) on January 1.
You will be UNABLE TO ACCRUE PAID SURFING TIME DURING THIS 36-HOUR PERIOD.
We value your privacy and the security of your data, and this temporary suspension of service is designed to protect our community from any unanticipated effects from the date changeover.
I don't think any comments are needed from my end...
Ok. Here is what the problem is. People are expecting others to enjoy learning about computers just as they do. What's this? People don't like learning?
Remember what made you a geek? What kept you coming back to that computer? You like learning, and you enjoy using the computer.
CLUE: Most people don't enjoy that kind of stuff!
They like watching TV, and they like driving their car with the automatic transmission. They like things being done for them. To them, it is absurd to try to figure out how things work. They didn't take apart their toy cars when they were kids. They didn't ask their dad how the TV works.
THEY'RE NOT GEEKS! Stop trying to act like they are.
If Linux wants to succeed on the desktop, it has to appeal to the non-geeks. Corel Linux has the right idea. Pretty icons, right-click help, easy-to-read help, and manuals that don't expect you to know what a file permission setting is. The biggest problem is making it appeal to a non-geek makes a geek hate it, as shown with Windows. Maybe a big switch could be made with "Geek" on one end, and "Not a geek" on the other.:)
I'll agree with that. I just hate missing the Simpsons because of some stupid football game. Especially since football is nothing but a bunch of big guys tackling each other. "A real man's sport!" Bah!
Let's hope we don't have any football-loving moderators...:P
Everyone is singing and rejoicing as if this is incredibly good news. However, in reality, all that happened was that Yahoo! switched from one proprietory and lame protocol to another proprietory and lame protocol. However, this proprietory and lame protocol also has a proprietory and lame player for Linux as well as Windows and the Mac. Is this really good news? Are there no non-proprietory protocols out there that can be used for this?
Well, looks like *someone* didn't do their homework. Obviously, you don't realize that if you run a program under Linux, and you're following the common precautions (like not logging in as root), that program cannot do very much damage to your computer, while on Windows, it has pretty much full access to anything its heart desires.
And IIRC, the worm you're talking about existed long before anyone even thought of the name Microsoft.
Oh, and it's "viruses", not "virii". Or maybe I'm just not up to the 3L33T D00D SP33K.
It's very simple, really. All you have to do is write a fairly long post. Use proper grammar, punctuation, and an sophisticated vocabulary. Use HTML formatting, if appropriate. Some moderators glance at a post like this, or even read it; But they either fail to understand it or don't have the facts to confirm the things stated in the post, and they just moderate it up.
Now, the next moderator will look at that post, make sure that it meets the above criteria, see that someone has already moderated it up, and will moderate it up some more.
The meta-moderators, most of them being pretty lazy, will then overlook this mistake, by automatically marking all fairly long and nice-looking up-moderated posts as "Fair". I will admit to having done so a few times, but upon realizing so, I now read the posts in question, and often even track back to read them in their context.
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Participants will still receive full credit for their completed blocks, regardless of their validity. In the near future we will be supplying the stats server with the information it needs to properly discount the effects of any reverification work in the reported percentage.
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You know, I could've sworn that wasn't there before. Anyone else agree?
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"I was in the server room at the moment," recalls one geek, "and one of my friends told me to go to the page. As soon as I saw some of the pictures, I collapsed on the floor laughing, and caused a lot of damage to some of the servers. We had about three hours of downtime."
The geeks are contending that a warning entrance page should have been posted before the actual pictures, so that the readers could be given a chance to sit down and put down their drinks.
Cr0bar could not be reached for comment.
(I must be dreaming! Slashdot replaced all the zeroes with O's in Cr0bar!)
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URL: http://www.whatis.com/slashdot_effect.htm
So, all along, Rob has been bullying Hemos into letting him take the credit! Of course, Whatis.com could be confused, but... let's face it... what are the chances of that happening?
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"Three Gigs for the Professors under the sky,
Seven for the Grad-students in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Users doomed to vi,
One for the Hacker Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of UNIX where the Daemons lie.
One Kernel to rule them all, One Kernel to find them,
One Disk to hold the files and in the Darkness grind them
In the Land of UNIX where the Daemons lie."
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JPEG2000 part one will be the plain-vanilla royalty-free version, but part two can include various types of third-party extensions that may or may not involve royalties. "Part one will satisfy 90 percent of the applications developers, but it will be 90 percent more work to engineer that last 10 percent of the job for special purposes in part two," said Barthel.
Most of the spec is open!
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http://www.virtualcamera.com/invention 2.html
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Isn't that how hackers are supposed to look like in real life?!
Also, let us not forget the fact that he is a bit stunned by this my-life-isn't-real idea... :)
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I guess we just need to give it some time... after all, this is already pretty much true for IDE hard drives, IDE CD-ROMs, floppy drives, some video modes, modems (good ones, anyway), keyboards, mice.
Does anyone know if the newer technologies are headed in the same direction, or have the companies decided that making it all a pain in the ass is the way to go?
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Y2K is nearly here! That means we can finally stop guessing about what Y2K is going to do to the world's computers - and get on with our lives. As a precautionary measure, AllAdvantage.com is going to disconnect its servers from the Internet and watch the millennial date change from the sidelines.
We will be disconnected from 23:59 PST (GMT -0800) on December 30 through 12:00 PST (GMT -0800) on January 1.
You will be UNABLE TO ACCRUE PAID SURFING TIME DURING THIS 36-HOUR PERIOD.
We value your privacy and the security of your data, and this temporary suspension of service is designed to protect our community from any unanticipated effects from the date changeover.
I don't think any comments are needed from my end...
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Remember what made you a geek? What kept you coming back to that computer? You like learning, and you enjoy using the computer.
CLUE: Most people don't enjoy that kind of stuff!
They like watching TV, and they like driving their car with the automatic transmission. They like things being done for them. To them, it is absurd to try to figure out how things work. They didn't take apart their toy cars when they were kids. They didn't ask their dad how the TV works.
THEY'RE NOT GEEKS! Stop trying to act like they are.
If Linux wants to succeed on the desktop, it has to appeal to the non-geeks. Corel Linux has the right idea. Pretty icons, right-click help, easy-to-read help, and manuals that don't expect you to know what a file permission setting is. The biggest problem is making it appeal to a non-geek makes a geek hate it, as shown with Windows. Maybe a big switch could be made with "Geek" on one end, and "Not a geek" on the other. :)
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Let's hope we don't have any football-loving moderators... :P
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And IIRC, the worm you're talking about existed long before anyone even thought of the name Microsoft.
Oh, and it's "viruses", not "virii". Or maybe I'm just not up to the 3L33T D00D SP33K.
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Now, the next moderator will look at that post, make sure that it meets the above criteria, see that someone has already moderated it up, and will moderate it up some more.
The meta-moderators, most of them being pretty lazy, will then overlook this mistake, by automatically marking all fairly long and nice-looking up-moderated posts as "Fair". I will admit to having done so a few times, but upon realizing so, I now read the posts in question, and often even track back to read them in their context.
Easy enough, right? Now, you try it... :)
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