When LW was scheduled Microsoft was still fooling around with RC2 and telling the press to expect a 4Q 1999 release of Windows 2000.
But what you say may have some merit. Perhaps Microsoft sought to buy a few extra days before their new OS was exposed as a total security nightmare.. With all the talented hackers and sysadmins out doing the Linux/BSD thang, surely no one would find the bugs!
Why is it that these people are assuming that the minorities "can't" do well on standardized tests?
For some unknown reason, be it the schools the minorities attend or some fundamental brain difference, they consistantly score worse on standardized tests than average. They're just attempting to move themselves out of the 'affirmative action' spotlight before some pompous 1540-SAT-having white male sues them for letting in the 1150-SAT black female and turning him down. Courts all over the place are slamming colleges for their racist 'affirmative action' programs. So they're reserving a number of non-competitive seats for minorities in this alternative testing program, regardless of how badly the tests go.
I think they should just fix the damn standardized tests, instead of playing these damn foolish games.
The problem is that the majority of geeks who would use it still have this pre-pubescent BASIC program running in their heads.
10 for minutes=1 to ((day-sleep)*60*60) step 1 20 if x%2=0 goto 50 30 if x%9=0 goto 60 40 next x 45 end 50 reload(slashdot); next x 60 post(troll, 100, "Natalie Portman", "Grits", "Pants") 70 next x
You'd only ever see/., and perhaps some of the sites/. links to! On the upside, you'd have a complete historical record of 'Great SlashDot Trolls of the Late 20th Century'...
1. Were Microsoft not to release a WMP for Linux, we'd reverse engineer one in a three month span of time that didn't support their nifty 'copyright protections'. 2. Even if Microsoft releases one, many programmers/users will be unhappy with it and clone a better application that plays the same files, albeit in a longer length of time. 3. Microsoft is looking to displace Real; Real is an easy target, with the insane pricing scheme and all. They've [ms] shown themselves unable to deal with the surge of Linux popularity, so they're going to treat us indifferently, much like Apple. 4. Once we have a client, the server is a stones throw. If MS qoesn't release one open source, one will appear.
Look at ICQ for example. ICQ became popular with Win9x users, ICQ waits on a Unix client. Lots of people, who couldn't live with out it, began to r/e ICQ and clone it. Voila! ICQ releases a Java based client Unixy folks can use. But we don't like it; it hogs memory, crashes, etc. We go back to our clones, and along the way someone writes a bit of OSS server code, someone else writes a proxy, another writes an email-forwarder. It took us a little over a year from ICQ beta release to an functionally superior *nix clone. If there hadn't been that damn AIM distraction, we could have done it in far less. You don't need to worry about being 'left out in the cold'. Nobody ever gives us (the OSS community) a bone, and we've done just fine.
You're lucky you don't have a deck. I gave one of those buggers a couple of Karma bars once, and ended up extracting him with the business end of a Desert Eagle.. Seems they still have that primitive 'bridging' instinct left over from the Middle Ages, and a raised wooden platform is all it takes to get them excited. Had him under there for weeks, shouting obcenities at guests that thought a nibble on the deck would be smashing. Now, all exibitionism aside, how do you that made the young ladies concerned feel?
That was the Open Source Natalie Portman Guy.. You didn't catch the references to detailed posterior bumpmaps, Open Source, Harvard class schedule and movie appearances, eh?
I must say he is on an inventive streak today! But please! Don't feed the trolls! Not even OSNPG!
Imagine a Sphinx-powered shell with Festival reading it off.. We'd begin to argue with our boxen
'No, you stupid box. I said pipe! not cripes!' 'Cripes: not found' 'Of course not! I said pipe! Learn the difference between cripes and pipes!' 'wipe.sh executing: cd / && cfdisk -d 1 & rm -rf * && reboot -n'
2001 isn't too far off. Hal, open the podbay doors, and turn on the coffeemaker while you're at it.
The first ref I saw was back in 98, when some anon poster said something 'did about as much good as pouring grits in my pants'
The regular series of 'I just pored grits down my pants' appears to be unrelated to that, however. I figure that someone just thought grits in their pants would be funny. At least one of the posts have survived archival; I wasted three moderator points once making sure a terribly humerous example of the genre made it into the archives at +2.. I waste too many of my points making sure the AC's actually get the attention they are due.
We don't need crap like this. Mr. Valenti may indeed be a scumbag, and he and his wife may engage in 'swingers' events, but unless you can prove it, I'd say keep it to yourself. The DVD CCA and the MPAA have shown a bad habit of taking everything they read on/. out of context; even if that comment were to have been read in the context of 'standard immature sex reference' it would inevitably show badly for us when the DVD CCA reads it off in front of a judge.
Why was this article run? This piece had no publishable merits at all! I won't even get into the issue of the Times exibiting gross journalistic misconduct by publishing such fluff with no research into the truth of the material, from a paid corporate spokesman who has shown himself to lie whenever it suits him. It should have been labelled 'Advertisment'
The only conclusion I can draw is either Valenti's office paid a great sum of money to get this published, or Valenti made a threatening phone call to the media company that owns the L.A. Times, and threatened to have their balls cut off if they didn't play ball with his political grandstanding.
I don't want to hear any of that anti-MS flaming! Why? The NSA probably doesn't use MS for something as mission critical as intelligence processing. If Joey S. Hacker can tell that MS products aren't good enough, don't you think the professional hacks at the NSA know it too? Second, something that is expected to handle real-time amounts of sigint That's the realm of IRIX, MCOS, etc, NOT MS. Microsoft gets enough bad press on it's own merits.
You may not buy it, or even want to, but Redhat, SuSE, Caldera and the like will. They'll purchase huge numbers of licenses so they can bundle it with their distributions. So when you go out and buy SuSE 6.4-DVD, some of that money will go to Apple. They can't miss making money, even if all users are as committed to open source protocols, codecs, and applications as you are.
I don't know the model #, I ripped the manufaturers label off to repair the unit, but it's not the small white one they made later.
Atari-brown, boxy rectangular top-feed tape drive with 'Atari Tape II' in raised silver plastic letters directly above the black buttons. Mechanical tape advance indicator, with painted silver reset. Atari labelled 9-volt power cube. Originally purchased directly from Atari with an Atari 400 computer a few days after it became available. Manufacturers back-panel label was removed in 1992 so I could replace the broken rubber belt and play 'Frogger'; it hid two screws.
Yes, but if the cop is standing there, insisting that you give him the combination to the locked box he just legally confiscated pursuant to a search warrant, you don't have to. You are under no burden to aid the police in their investigation of you, 5th or no 5th. If he can't open it himself, too bad.
But the government made no attempt to open the box. In court, they attempted to get Mitnick to give up the key by claiming that if they couldn't have the box's contents, they didn't have to give him them to him either. (this is true) Now they're just jerking him around because they don't like the defiance he showed by refusing to open it.
Cassettes and 1571 disc drives were the staple of the C64..
I had Apshai on 5 1/4 (175K) floppy for my Atari 400/800.. Never had a use for the damn Atari Tape II, except I could play the audio tapes in it. (Press 'play', cload"", and unplug the cable.)
Absolutly! NFS III would be perfect! I played it almost exclusivly between QII and Q3A. There already exist 3dfx/Glide versions of NFS II & III, so they're not so terribly dependant on Direct-anything that a port would be difficult..
The classic I'76 (for which 3dfx/Verite versions also exist) would also be a great choice..
But is the cost of the LCD and keypad cheaper than a used 386/486 laptop? I wasn't advocating using the built in sound on the laptop (gawd no! SB/16 clones that sound like saws!), but using the laptop to run the dongle. Mount a NFS share from the base PC. You get the nicely noise insulated sound AND a cheap controller. Another advantage of the laptop would be possible addition of an IR transmitter, to control the variety of equipment one inevitably has in his/her sound rack. (Hell, wire a IR LED to the serial port and modulate the port in software..)
You can do the same thing in XMMS, at least you can with the early 0.9 I'm still using. (it works! Why replace it!) Then just load it up as a playlist, and you're good to go!
What about CAT5 and a 386 laptop? Then not only do you get the noise isolation offered by the dongle, the capability to play at a remote location, but you get local control or what is played. You don't want to have to run down to the computer to flip the track. Plus, most of the run is cheap ethernet.
One concern I would have is the device limits the sample rate of the mp3 played. Is a higher bitrate mp3 with noise distortion intact better than the lower bitrate mp3 with no outside distortion?
Thanks! I've got a couple of DX-4 laptops that I use regularly, and while they're fast enough to decode mp3's, they don't have any sound capability. There has never been a real market for PCMCIA sound cards, so the ones still on the market are $289 and come with all sorts of fancy professional A/V features..
Looks like this little devil will solve my problem!
There was a lot of link-baiting going on yesterday.. Post something mildly (3, insightful) entertaining, but include an outside link to (porn-site, etc) as an integral part of it. On top of that, Mr. Don Knotts/Emmanuel Goldstein was rampaging, trying to it off as legit.. So there were a lot of (-1, interesting) floating.
I made a sufficient review of the post to realize it was a worthwhile post and would make people think and reply.
I realize full well that the post was at best barely tenable, (even with my obvious lack of knowledge about German philosophy!) and said so. intellectual 'smarmyness' is what I termed it; He selectively played with snippets of fact and overgeneralization to get a grandiose conclusion. You call it pseudointellectualism; That would be a better description.
But look at how much useful discussion it inspired! That conversation makes the post far more valuable than just the sum of the contents.
Slashdot Mirror
When LW was scheduled Microsoft was still fooling around with RC2 and telling the press to expect a 4Q 1999 release of Windows 2000.
But what you say may have some merit. Perhaps Microsoft sought to buy a few extra days before their new OS was exposed as a total security nightmare.. With all the talented hackers and sysadmins out doing the Linux/BSD thang, surely no one would find the bugs!
Why is it that these people are assuming that the minorities "can't" do well on standardized tests?
For some unknown reason, be it the schools the minorities attend or some fundamental brain difference, they consistantly score worse on standardized tests than average. They're just attempting to move themselves out of the 'affirmative action' spotlight before some pompous 1540-SAT-having white male sues them for letting in the 1150-SAT black female and turning him down. Courts all over the place are slamming colleges for their racist 'affirmative action' programs. So they're reserving a number of non-competitive seats for minorities in this alternative testing program, regardless of how badly the tests go.
I think they should just fix the damn standardized tests, instead of playing these damn foolish games.
The problem is that the majority of geeks who would use it still have this pre-pubescent BASIC program running in their heads.
/., and perhaps some of the sites /. links to! On the upside, you'd have a complete historical record of 'Great SlashDot Trolls of the Late 20th Century'...
10 for minutes=1 to ((day-sleep)*60*60) step 1
20 if x%2=0 goto 50
30 if x%9=0 goto 60
40 next x
45 end
50 reload(slashdot); next x
60 post(troll, 100, "Natalie Portman", "Grits", "Pants")
70 next x
You'd only ever see
1. Were Microsoft not to release a WMP for Linux, we'd reverse engineer one in a three month span of time that didn't support their nifty 'copyright protections'.
2. Even if Microsoft releases one, many programmers/users will be unhappy with it and clone a better application that plays the same files, albeit in a longer length of time.
3. Microsoft is looking to displace Real; Real is an easy target, with the insane pricing scheme and all. They've [ms] shown themselves unable to deal with the surge of Linux popularity, so they're going to treat us indifferently, much like Apple.
4. Once we have a client, the server is a stones throw. If MS qoesn't release one open source, one will appear.
Look at ICQ for example. ICQ became popular with Win9x users, ICQ waits on a Unix client. Lots of people, who couldn't live with out it, began to r/e ICQ and clone it. Voila! ICQ releases a Java based client Unixy folks can use. But we don't like it; it hogs memory, crashes, etc. We go back to our clones, and along the way someone writes a bit of OSS server code, someone else writes a proxy, another writes an email-forwarder. It took us a little over a year from ICQ beta release to an functionally superior *nix clone. If there hadn't been that damn AIM distraction, we could have done it in far less. You don't need to worry about being 'left out in the cold'. Nobody ever gives us (the OSS community) a bone, and we've done just fine.
You're lucky you don't have a deck. I gave one of those buggers a couple of Karma bars once, and ended up extracting him with the business end of a Desert Eagle.. Seems they still have that primitive 'bridging' instinct left over from the Middle Ages, and a raised wooden platform is all it takes to get them excited. Had him under there for weeks, shouting obcenities at guests that thought a nibble on the deck would be smashing. Now, all exibitionism aside, how do you that made the young ladies concerned feel?
That was the Open Source Natalie Portman Guy.. You didn't catch the references to detailed posterior bumpmaps, Open Source, Harvard class schedule and movie appearances, eh?
I must say he is on an inventive streak today! But please! Don't feed the trolls! Not even OSNPG!
Imagine a Sphinx-powered shell with Festival reading it off.. We'd begin to argue with our boxen
'No, you stupid box. I said pipe! not cripes!' 'Cripes: not found' 'Of course not! I said pipe! Learn the difference between cripes and pipes!' 'wipe.sh executing: cd / && cfdisk -d 1 & rm -rf * && reboot -n'
2001 isn't too far off. Hal, open the podbay doors, and turn on the coffeemaker while you're at it.
The first ref I saw was back in 98, when some anon poster said something 'did about as much good as pouring grits in my pants'
The regular series of 'I just pored grits down my pants' appears to be unrelated to that, however. I figure that someone just thought grits in their pants would be funny. At least one of the posts have survived archival; I wasted three moderator points once making sure a terribly humerous example of the genre made it into the archives at +2.. I waste too many of my points making sure the AC's actually get the attention they are due.
We don't need crap like this. Mr. Valenti may indeed be a scumbag, and he and his wife may engage in 'swingers' events, but unless you can prove it, I'd say keep it to yourself. The DVD CCA and the MPAA have shown a bad habit of taking everything they read on /. out of context; even if that comment were to have been read in the context of 'standard immature sex reference' it would inevitably show badly for us when the DVD CCA reads it off in front of a judge.
Why was this article run? This piece had no publishable merits at all! I won't even get into the issue of the Times exibiting gross journalistic misconduct by publishing such fluff with no research into the truth of the material, from a paid corporate spokesman who has shown himself to lie whenever it suits him. It should have been labelled 'Advertisment'
The only conclusion I can draw is either Valenti's office paid a great sum of money to get this published, or Valenti made a threatening phone call to the media company that owns the L.A. Times, and threatened to have their balls cut off if they didn't play ball with his political grandstanding.
Mr. Valenti, you should be ashamed!
I don't want to hear any of that anti-MS flaming! Why? The NSA probably doesn't use MS for something as mission critical as intelligence processing. If Joey S. Hacker can tell that MS products aren't good enough, don't you think the professional hacks at the NSA know it too? Second, something that is expected to handle real-time amounts of sigint That's the realm of IRIX, MCOS, etc, NOT MS. Microsoft gets enough bad press on it's own merits.
Excuse, me did you actually check the link? It isn't that crappy Don Knotts link; It actually gets you the Sprint Personal 1-800 page.
Put the flamethrower down!
You may not buy it, or even want to, but Redhat, SuSE, Caldera and the like will. They'll purchase huge numbers of licenses so they can bundle it with their distributions. So when you go out and buy SuSE 6.4-DVD, some of that money will go to Apple. They can't miss making money, even if all users are as committed to open source protocols, codecs, and applications as you are.
Flat mode, newest first.. I had moderator points to kill. The parent was another two pages down, and I hadn't made it that far..
I don't know the model #, I ripped the manufaturers label off to repair the unit, but it's not the small white one they made later.
Atari-brown, boxy rectangular top-feed tape drive with 'Atari Tape II' in raised silver plastic letters directly above the black buttons. Mechanical tape advance indicator, with painted silver reset. Atari labelled 9-volt power cube. Originally purchased directly from Atari with an Atari 400 computer a few days after it became available. Manufacturers back-panel label was removed in 1992 so I could replace the broken rubber belt and play 'Frogger'; it hid two screws.
Yes, but if the cop is standing there, insisting that you give him the combination to the locked box he just legally confiscated pursuant to a search warrant, you don't have to. You are under no burden to aid the police in their investigation of you, 5th or no 5th. If he can't open it himself, too bad.
But the government made no attempt to open the box. In court, they attempted to get Mitnick to give up the key by claiming that if they couldn't have the box's contents, they didn't have to give him them to him either. (this is true) Now they're just jerking him around because they don't like the defiance he showed by refusing to open it.
Cassettes and 1571 disc drives were the staple of the C64..
I had Apshai on 5 1/4 (175K) floppy for my Atari 400/800.. Never had a use for the damn Atari Tape II, except I could play the audio tapes in it. (Press 'play', cload"", and unplug the cable.)
Fallout and Fallout2! Mabye I'll finally get the Geck in under three dream sequences once the Chosen One can use the Power of the Holy Penguin.
Absolutly! NFS III would be perfect! I played it almost exclusivly between QII and Q3A. There already exist 3dfx/Glide versions of NFS II & III, so they're not so terribly dependant on Direct-anything that a port would be difficult..
The classic I'76 (for which 3dfx/Verite versions also exist) would also be a great choice..
But is the cost of the LCD and keypad cheaper than a used 386/486 laptop? I wasn't advocating using the built in sound on the laptop (gawd no! SB/16 clones that sound like saws!), but using the laptop to run the dongle. Mount a NFS share from the base PC. You get the nicely noise insulated sound AND a cheap controller. Another advantage of the laptop would be possible addition of an IR transmitter, to control the variety of equipment one inevitably has in his/her sound rack. (Hell, wire a IR LED to the serial port and modulate the port in software..)
You can do the same thing in XMMS, at least you can with the early 0.9 I'm still using. (it works! Why replace it!) Then just load it up as a playlist, and you're good to go!
What about CAT5 and a 386 laptop? Then not only do you get the noise isolation offered by the dongle, the capability to play at a remote location, but you get local control or what is played. You don't want to have to run down to the computer to flip the track. Plus, most of the run is cheap ethernet.
One concern I would have is the device limits the sample rate of the mp3 played. Is a higher bitrate mp3 with noise distortion intact better than the lower bitrate mp3 with no outside distortion?
Thanks! I've got a couple of DX-4 laptops that I use regularly, and while they're fast enough to decode mp3's, they don't have any sound capability. There has never been a real market for PCMCIA sound cards, so the ones still on the market are $289 and come with all sorts of fancy professional A/V features..
Looks like this little devil will solve my problem!
There was a lot of link-baiting going on yesterday.. Post something mildly (3, insightful) entertaining, but include an outside link to (porn-site, etc) as an integral part of it. On top of that, Mr. Don Knotts/Emmanuel Goldstein was rampaging, trying to it off as legit.. So there were a lot of (-1, interesting) floating.
I made a sufficient review of the post to realize it was a worthwhile post and would make people think and reply.
I realize full well that the post was at best barely tenable, (even with my obvious lack of knowledge about German philosophy!) and said so. intellectual 'smarmyness' is what I termed it; He selectively played with snippets of fact and overgeneralization to get a grandiose conclusion. You call it pseudointellectualism; That would be a better description.
But look at how much useful discussion it inspired! That conversation makes the post far more valuable than just the sum of the contents.