Where I went to university, the libraries weren't really good hangout places. The ones that got used as hangout places were too loud to think. Plus there was always scum creeping into the library to steal stuff. Given that the average student has a laptop, I'm guessing this is more of a problem. Anyway, books&concentration and hanging out don't really work -- it is good that they are giving students what they want. If they want to make it like Starbucks, perhaps they should consider leasing the library to Starbucks, and having them operate a giant, Texas-sized Starbucks.
I studied in my room, but I went to the library to check out/inspect books.
I'm also wondering how much the computer labs get used these days. When I was in school, computers were expensive, and PCs were only just starting to run BSD. But now you can get a PC and run whatever you want (even Solaris), so there isn't much reason to go to a lab, unless you need to use a bunch of machines. So I'm wondering if students work in computer rooms anymore, or if they just toil at home. If that's true, they might as well convernt the computer rooms into something else too.
I see the word "SNTP" on that page, so I guess it is SNTP.
Doesn't it suck that you can't really find out? You have no way of easily discovering what it does. Contacting MS is useless, you can't look at the source. HAHA.
So awful. And I think this is the tip of the iceberg.
Exactly. I've also come to view GNAA, those nasty high-tech trollers as some sort of nasty performance art group.
The thing is, the worst they can do is make someone look at goatse or Mr Hands -- they aren't going to turn you into grey goo.
At some point hacker/tinkerers will be doing this stuff, and then a bit later, "artists". There will likely be a lot of problems when this happens.
Now you can design PCBs, send off your files and get PCBs in your hand a few days later. I can imagine there will be similar services for customized bacteria.
Some of the characters repeat, and the stuff goes over multiple panels. They were some of the funniest anti-war comics I saw; they captured the spirit of the time, and the cowboy-Americanness of Bush and the neo-Cons.
These were made possible by clip art. After they spread like crazy on the web, the book came out.
Price Discrimination is illegal (in the US) according to the Robinson-Patman act. What Atzmon said sounded like price discrimination to me. Just read up on the Robinson-Patman act if you want more info.
It seems others interpret what the guy said as, "the cost out of your pocket will depend on what insurance you've got," which is pretty silly. When press releases talk prices, it is normally to annouce what something will cost, not to declare that when it is time to buy the thing, you will begin haggling as if in a bazaar.
Dude, WTF does what insurance I have have to do with what price they charge me for something?
If I have insurance, that's between me an my insurer, not me, the insurer and the watchmaker.
Maybe my moms is my insurer, in the sense that she'll bail me out.
It sucks if these watch makers want to charge me more/less just because my mommy is willing to back me up, and your mommy isn't able to, or Rodney Richpigge has gold-plated insurance, so they charge him an arm and a leg.
Of course if you get different services, you pay a different price. I wasn't arguing about that at all.
They say the price will depend on what sort of insurance you have.
Whatever kind of insurance I have (or don't have) has no reasonable relationship to the price they'd charge for the device.
If I got bought a tube of toothpaste (with delivery), where I live would matter (e.g. NYC vs Lagos, NIgeria). But how much my house is worth, how much insurance I have, how much money is in my wallet and the color of my hair wouldn't have any direct relation to the price.
I suggest you read the article again and think about how odious this is.
I'm surprised there wasn't something similar enough already -- it sounds essential.
I find the pricing to be the most curious: "The price will vary, Atzmon says, according to service packages and insurance coverage."
I can understand prices varying with costs. Buy why does the "insurance coverage" matter? Shouldn't the device cost whatever it costs, regardless of what insurance someone has?
The last time I bought something at the store, they didn't say, "oh, hey -- how much insurance do you have -- I need to know that so that I can price the bag of cereal you got."
Sounds like some in-your-face price discrimination.
What were the contributions of the AT&T guys to Unix? I thought it was the BSD guys who pushed it forward. I don't mean to attack AT&T. The initial creation of Unix and the other stuff they've done over the years has been great.
But when it comes to the stuff that gets used, I have a hard time remembering anything that came out of AT&T that I use. Now I would guess the NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD people are the ones doing state-of-the-art stuff, with Unix.
Similarly, the BSD people must have had the same reaction, when they looked at the kernel, realised there were about 6 original AT&T files --- and you know the rest of the story.
Although what the BBC has done seems calculating and self-interested, it doens't seem so unlike the folks that fill up the Wikipedia with the Star wars entries about every single character under the sun(s), and not just the coolest ones.
And now that I think of it, perhaps the Star Wars money-machine has paid fanboys (or fed them info) so that they could go out and write up that stuff. I know I spent hours poring over it.
Regardless, by the time this is over, I think the BBC's name will be "bukkake". Not "mud" -- "Bukkake". For more info on the term, I refer you to the Wikipedia.
Although it gets 250 MPG, that's for the first 20 miles (in the case of Grebman). So he's only getting that killer mileage for short trips, and he's got to recharge in between trips.
It is not as if he's got something that gives him great mpg all the time.
But as the article points out, some have driving patterns like that.
You are so right. It is disgusting to associate the slimeball Spielberg with the genius and penetrating insight of PKD.
PKD was a philosopher. Spielberg makes ones schmalzburger movie after another, pandering to the morons and his Hollywood paymasters, while lining his pockets.
PKD has principles and really suffered. Spielberg just tells the lies that are good for himself and his crowd.
Isn't the way you are supposed to do this is that the camera signs the picture with its secret key? Or it signs the MD5 hash of the picture with its secret key?
I don't get why you'd just use MD5 -- then you'd doctor the photo and recompute the MD5 hash.
My understanding is that they were at Stanford in the early nineties. They probably used Sun/Dec stuff, like I did.
The geeks I knew back then, who wanted to get PC running something useful, were really excited about BSD 4.4 and its derivatives. Yahoo! uses FreeBSD because of this: it was the closest free thing to what they knew.
Perhaps the Stanford/Berkeley rivalry explains it.
Apparently I've gored some sacred cow here: my original question "Why didn't they pick BSD" got ranked "overrated", when it hadn't even been rated.
Thanks moderators.
Here we go again: why didn't they pick BSD? All things being equal, I figure that just due to having more expeirence with BSD, they would have gone with it over Linux.
The fact that it gets distributed primarily over a network (the internet) is immaterial. The point is that the cost is cheap/free, when before you had to own a press and have a way to distribute it.
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What about crack-slangin' intelligence?
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Or 360-behind-the-back-chocolate-thunderdunkin' intelligence.
Pimptelligence?
Here's something attacking EI (Emotional intelligence): http://eqi.org/gole.htm#How%20Goleman%20misled%20
It really does look like a load of b.s. sold to otherwise smart people by a bunch of smart, radical egalitarians.
It sounds like the guy just pulled a bunch of "intelligences" out of his ass so that everyone can be intelligent.
People say the voip stuff is not so featureful. Does google have something up their sleeves? Or is this just a way to tweak M$?
Also, how do you pronounce GMail? gu-male? GM-ail?
You are correct: I think this is the worst article I've ever seen at Slashdot.
If you want to have rumors, you'd think you could get better ones -- better thought out, better argued, and with more circumstantial evidence.
I find good geeky stories via http://www.reddit.com/ these days.
Where I went to university, the libraries weren't really good hangout places. The ones that got used as hangout places were too loud to think. Plus there was always scum creeping into the library to steal stuff. Given that the average student has a laptop, I'm guessing this is more of a problem. Anyway, books&concentration and hanging out don't really work -- it is good that they are giving students what they want. If they want to make it like Starbucks, perhaps they should consider leasing the library to Starbucks, and having them operate a giant, Texas-sized Starbucks.
I studied in my room, but I went to the library to check out/inspect books.
I'm also wondering how much the computer labs get used these days. When I was in school, computers were expensive, and PCs were only just starting to run BSD. But now you can get a PC and run whatever you want (even Solaris), so there isn't much reason to go to a lab, unless you need to use a bunch of machines. So I'm wondering if students work in computer rooms anymore, or if they just toil at home. If that's true, they might as well convernt the computer rooms into something else too.
I see the word "SNTP" on that page, so I guess it is SNTP.
Doesn't it suck that you can't really find out? You have no way of easily discovering what it does. Contacting MS is useless, you can't look at the source. HAHA.
So awful. And I think this is the tip of the iceberg.
Exactly. I've also come to view GNAA, those nasty high-tech trollers as some sort of nasty performance art group.
The thing is, the worst they can do is make someone look at goatse or Mr Hands -- they aren't going to turn you into grey goo.
At some point hacker/tinkerers will be doing this stuff, and then a bit later, "artists". There will likely be a lot of problems when this happens.
Now you can design PCBs, send off your files and get PCBs in your hand a few days later. I can imagine there will be similar services for customized bacteria.
Do these count as comics?
Some of the characters repeat, and the stuff goes over multiple panels. They were some of the funniest anti-war comics I saw; they captured the spirit of the time, and the cowboy-Americanness of Bush and the neo-Cons.
These were made possible by clip art. After they spread like crazy on the web, the book came out.
Yeah, I've bought insurance and read the booklet.
Price Discrimination is illegal (in the US) according to the Robinson-Patman act. What Atzmon said sounded like price discrimination to me. Just read up on the Robinson-Patman act if you want more info.
It seems others interpret what the guy said as, "the cost out of your pocket will depend on what insurance you've got," which is pretty silly. When press releases talk prices, it is normally to annouce what something will cost, not to declare that when it is time to buy the thing, you will begin haggling as if in a bazaar.
Dude, WTF does what insurance I have have to do with what price they charge me for something?
If I have insurance, that's between me an my insurer, not me, the insurer and the watchmaker.
Maybe my moms is my insurer, in the sense that she'll bail me out.
It sucks if these watch makers want to charge me more/less just because my mommy is willing to back me up, and your mommy isn't able to, or Rodney Richpigge has gold-plated insurance, so they charge him an arm and a leg.
Of course if you get different services, you pay a different price. I wasn't arguing about that at all.
They say the price will depend on what sort of insurance you have.
Whatever kind of insurance I have (or don't have) has no reasonable relationship to the price they'd charge for the device.
If I got bought a tube of toothpaste (with delivery), where I live would matter (e.g. NYC vs Lagos, NIgeria). But how much my house is worth, how much insurance I have, how much money is in my wallet and the color of my hair wouldn't have any direct relation to the price.
I suggest you read the article again and think about how odious this is.
I'm surprised there wasn't something similar enough already -- it sounds essential.
I find the pricing to be the most curious: "The price will vary, Atzmon says, according to service packages and insurance coverage."
I can understand prices varying with costs. Buy why does the "insurance coverage" matter? Shouldn't the device cost whatever it costs, regardless of what insurance someone has?
The last time I bought something at the store, they didn't say, "oh, hey -- how much insurance do you have -- I need to know that so that I can price the bag of cereal you got."
Sounds like some in-your-face price discrimination.
Are you sure? The Wikipedia says otherwise.
I'm not saying the wikipedia is necessarily correct -- but what's your source that says Solaris is not based on SunOS (and not based on BSD)?
Thanks in advance.
Hey, look here -- they use "Sun Solaris 10 x86" for the OS.
There is still life in BSD.
What were the contributions of the AT&T guys to Unix? I thought it was the BSD guys who pushed it forward. I don't mean to attack AT&T. The initial creation of Unix and the other stuff they've done over the years has been great.
But when it comes to the stuff that gets used, I have a hard time remembering anything that came out of AT&T that I use. Now I would guess the NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD people are the ones doing state-of-the-art stuff, with Unix.
Similarly, the BSD people must have had the same reaction, when they looked at the kernel, realised there were about 6 original AT&T files --- and you know the rest of the story.
Do you have something that looks better?
You seem so opinionated, I'd hope you'd have examples of procedural shaders that are realistic.
Are they as awful as this?
Although what the BBC has done seems calculating and self-interested, it doens't seem so unlike the folks that fill up the Wikipedia with the Star wars entries about every single character under the sun(s), and not just the coolest ones.
And now that I think of it, perhaps the Star Wars money-machine has paid fanboys (or fed them info) so that they could go out and write up that stuff. I know I spent hours poring over it.
Regardless, by the time this is over, I think the BBC's name will be "bukkake". Not "mud" -- "Bukkake". For more info on the term, I refer you to the Wikipedia.
Although it gets 250 MPG, that's for the first 20 miles (in the case of Grebman). So he's only getting that killer mileage for short trips, and he's got to recharge in between trips.
It is not as if he's got something that gives him great mpg all the time.
But as the article points out, some have driving patterns like that.
You are so right. It is disgusting to associate the slimeball Spielberg with the genius and penetrating insight of PKD.
PKD was a philosopher. Spielberg makes ones schmalzburger movie after another, pandering to the morons and his Hollywood paymasters, while lining his pockets.
PKD has principles and really suffered. Spielberg just tells the lies that are good for himself and his crowd.
Isn't the way you are supposed to do this is that the camera signs the picture with its secret key? Or it signs the MD5 hash of the picture with its secret key?
I don't get why you'd just use MD5 -- then you'd doctor the photo and recompute the MD5 hash.
My understanding is that they were at Stanford in the early nineties. They probably used Sun/Dec stuff, like I did.
The geeks I knew back then, who wanted to get PC running something useful, were really excited about BSD 4.4 and its derivatives. Yahoo! uses FreeBSD because of this: it was the closest free thing to what they knew.
Perhaps the Stanford/Berkeley rivalry explains it.
Apparently I've gored some sacred cow here: my original question "Why didn't they pick BSD" got ranked "overrated", when it hadn't even been rated.
Thanks moderators.
Here we go again: why didn't they pick BSD? All things being equal, I figure that just due to having more expeirence with BSD, they would have gone with it over Linux.
Given their elitist, academic background, they were probably raised on BSD. So why didn't they go with BSD?
I'm thinking it was a bit random at the beginning.
Why these stupid terms "blog" and "blogger"?
Why not just "write" and "writer"?
The fact that it gets distributed primarily over a network (the internet) is immaterial. The point is that the cost is cheap/free, when before you had to own a press and have a way to distribute it.