I'm not really that much of an idiot, I just play one in the movies:-)
I meant just count br's, but I forgot about multi-line lines. Of course I knew that a line would be a different size in people's browsers; I just forgot the little detail that trolls would just remove all the line breaks from their posts. w/e. --
how meaningless technical specifications really are. Think about it this way: If we, an enlightened (one would hope) group of tech-heads, fell for this almost completely, imagine an ordinary user's experience when he/she walks into a computer store. "K6-2? Is that better or worse than a Pentium? Is 64 megabytes fast enough, or do I want 600 megahertz instead? This one says 'multimedia ready'. That's good, right? I think I'll choose that one. Does it have the Internet?" Computer companies prey on this with mindless technobabble like "internet ready" or "fully RFC compliant", and customers are the ones that end up being swindled.
You can already do that; there's an option in the user page to set the maximum number of bytes to display before showing "read more". However, I do agree that the maximum number of lines would make more sense. That would also work against the people who post really short lines to get attention. --
I don't know if this is true under freeciv (because the diplomatic model is not fully developed), but "steady progression towards victory" is anything but inevitable in CivII and, to a lesser extent, Civ. It has a _lot_ more depth than freeciv, and other strategies besides ICS (infinite city sleaze) will work much more effectively than in freeciv. And under deity, CivII is _hard_.
As evindenced by his low user number, he could not be _that_ clueless. Maybe he was pointing out the.tgz instead of.tar.gz. Or maybe it was kind of a stretch and nobody got it. w/e. --
Finally! The first real use for the blink tag! Give this guy a prize for being the only person so far to find out a reason for its continued existence.:-)
Now all we have to do is convert the manpages to html or add a blink format tag to groff. --
More likely he doesn't think it's fair to cover their stable releases, since they may contain many holes that have been fixed but not put into stable. He never says that debian is less secure than Red Hat; it's just that Debian out of the box is less stable than Red Hat out of the box because Debian shipped with older packages. --
And that is <b>exactly</b> what is wrong with the current state of genetic engineering. Already, we see on a limited scale the separation between the haves and the have-nots in the world of computing. The white-middle-class-computer-programmer group by far has a huge advantage in life (not that other groups can't succeed; they just have more obstacles). Do we really want a world where those with money are smarter, faster, stronger, and healthier than those without?
IMHO, this is one place where the government <b>must</b> step in and subsidize it when it happens, possibly according to tax bracket or something similar. Gaps between the haves and have-nots are acceptable in computing, but when it comes down to a matter of life, the government has a duty to step in and make it equitable, just as they have a duty to license car drivers.
You see the same thing with science articles. If it's technical enough that most people don't (feel like) understand(ing) it, everyone just either:
(1) Posts what would normally be a troll, but cause it to be moderated up as "funny". Example: "A six-cpu SETI card? I have to say it... imagine a BEOWULF CLUSTER of these!
Note to moderators: I'm not trolling about beowulfs. Don't you get it? It's a _network_ card, so put them in a _network_.:-)"
I have a suspicion that people actually challenge themselves by seeing how close to a troll they can get while still getting moderated up
(2) Just post something funny. Anything. Even if they have to stretch it a bit. A lot. Like my above post:-)
(3) Three items in a list look much better than two
The remote site gives us permission. The remote site provides an RDF file for us to parse (here is our rdf if you want an example). We decide that it belongs on Slashdot. Currently the grand Slashbox poobah is Cowboy Neal. Email him a URL to the RDF, as well as a technical contact, and we'll consider your addition to the roster.
Good idea, though; send e-mail to pater@slashdot.org and hopefully he'll write one. --
I think that you were just trying to get extra karma. I've always thought of doing something like that by "accidentally" putting a broken link into the parent post, just haven't had the guts to do it:-)
Well, yesterday, I was checking my SETI@Home progress, and something odd seemed to be happening. The display started shifting rapidly and the graphical part seemed to be scrambling around instead of updating in chunks like normally. A few seconds later, the imagee swirled and coalesced into a message: "Welcome, Jacob, we've been expecting you." I don't know what happened next, but my power went out. That's when things began to get _really_ weird.
First, the walls started glowing blue, even though the power lines were dead. Then, I saw two shimmering images in front of my eyes. At first, they were just swirls of dust, glimmering blue from the light. But that dust soon formed into two blue creatures with three arms and three eyes. Apparently the standard theory about the green face, large eyes, and pointy chins was wrong. I didn't have a chance to speculate more because at that point I was knocked out by a strange device held by one alien. I do not know when I awoke because the clocks stopped when the power went out, but when I awoke, they were gone and in their place was a message: "There are exactly seven hours until the destruction of the human race. Do not attempt any communication with the outside world and you will be saved."
Well, I wasn't going to listen to them. I now have exactly seven minutes left on my battery. I plea for you to listen and heed my call, even though it may already be too late. Even more than I fear my detection, I fear for the human race. They will come for me any minute now; it is up to you to stop them. I saw their critical weakness right before being knocked unconscious. It is-- --
I organize a group of people and we put the signal/noise ratio so high that slashdot becomes worse than alt.rec.social.misc
At least one person (Error 808) thinks that's what you're already doing. You bought the Enoch Root account and posted as much as you could to gain moderator tokens. Then you used those tokens to moderate up your Sig11 account. Enoch Root has enough karma that it doesn't matter if you lose a little bit due to just posting mindless drivel; after all, as long as the karma stays above 0, you can still get moderation tokens. Error 808 put forth as evidence your sig quotes: "There are some things money just can't buy. For everything else, there's karma." Enoch's quote (paraphrased): "Well, I guess there isn't much that money can't buy". He finished by calling you and Enoch the Karma mafia.
Crazy, but it's just crazy enough that it might be true... or not.:-) --
I think what you want is CrystalSpace. It's a 3d rendering engine that supports dynamic lighting, terrain, particles, sprites, everything. So go ahead and write your Quake clone for it.
What?
Oh, I see. You want a game where you can go out and frag people, not some dinky little walktest. Well, you have the source. Go out and write one.
Well? Go and write one already!
Still here?
Ah ha, too difficult for you? You just wanna frag? Well go play with your little closed source Quake3.
Rant, Flame = Off, Off (tuple packing and unpacking! Gotta love python!:-) )
Seriously though, the open-source business model is not suffieciently developed for Id to make any sort of money off of Quake3 if they open-source it. After all, they couldn't exactly sell very much support. But people are already working on open versions. Not just fraggers, but also RPGs and more. Check out the Crystal Space projects page for more info. And instead of complaining about commercial companies doing what comes naturally to them, go and write something better.
The author seemed to be lauding the features, such as scheduling, of Outlook + Exchange. Sure, those features are nice, but they reduce choice. To synchronize many people across a project using MS Lookout, it is necessary to be running Exchange server with it. Similarly, all users must be using Outlook as their mail client to schedule projects together. So what happens to those people that wish to use a different e-mail client? They get left out of the loop. And what happens to those offices that wish not to use Exchange, either due to its broken imap implementations, to its inability to function with non-outlook clients, or to its reliance on NT servers? These businesses cannot use Outlook's scheduling features. This is yet another example of how bundling unlike components (mail, schedule) together inherently leads to lack of choice.
Although that's an important security hole in its own right, it's not the one we're talking about in the article. The article involves a buffer overflow in the date field, not an oops when executing ActiveX objects that are databases.
It's quite obvious. A charisma engine is any large marketing department, anywhere. Integrated TLC means it comes with a free CD or R&B music. Pixel Tapestrectomy is a type of surgery. And dotproduction is the latest byproduct of the e-wave of @ttaching "dot" to dotanything. Dot's @all, e-folks!
Actually, not really. Since gasoline engines have to take their power plant with them, they run at only 15%-60% efficiency, depending on whom you ask. OTOH, power plants can be large and heavy because they don't have to roll. Therefore, they can use more advanced techniques that are much more efficient than the best gasoline engines.
If you're tired of using www10, go one step further by messing with their marketing statistics!
Username: marketingdies Password: cypherpunk
It seems that someone already had the cypherpunk account, but the normal password "cypherpunk" didn't seem to work. So I did this for your viewing pleasure and their marketing hell.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not really that much of an idiot, I just play one in the movies :-)
I meant just count br's, but I forgot about multi-line lines. Of course I knew that a line would be a different size in people's browsers; I just forgot the little detail that trolls would just remove all the line breaks from their posts. w/e.
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how meaningless technical specifications really are. Think about it this way: If we, an enlightened (one would hope) group of tech-heads, fell for this almost completely, imagine an ordinary user's experience when he/she walks into a computer store. "K6-2? Is that better or worse than a Pentium? Is 64 megabytes fast enough, or do I want 600 megahertz instead? This one says 'multimedia ready'. That's good, right? I think I'll choose that one. Does it have the Internet?" Computer companies prey on this with mindless technobabble like "internet ready" or "fully RFC compliant", and customers are the ones that end up being swindled.
--
You can already do that; there's an option in the user page to set the maximum number of bytes to display before showing "read more". However, I do agree that the maximum number of lines would make more sense. That would also work against the people who post really short lines to get attention.
--
I don't know if this is true under freeciv (because the diplomatic model is not fully developed), but "steady progression towards victory" is anything but inevitable in CivII and, to a lesser extent, Civ. It has a _lot_ more depth than freeciv, and other strategies besides ICS (infinite city sleaze) will work much more effectively than in freeciv. And under deity, CivII is _hard_.
--
As evindenced by his low user number, he could not be _that_ clueless. Maybe he was pointing out the .tgz instead of .tar.gz. Or maybe it was kind of a stretch and nobody got it. w/e.
--
The first thing that should pop into anybody's head as soon as they hear this is:
"Who would want to emulate Windows CE's interface?"
--
Finally! The first real use for the blink tag! Give this guy a prize for being the only person so far to find out a reason for its continued existence. :-)
Now all we have to do is convert the manpages to html or add a blink format tag to groff.
--
More likely he doesn't think it's fair to cover their stable releases, since they may contain many holes that have been fixed but not put into stable. He never says that debian is less secure than Red Hat; it's just that Debian out of the box is less stable than Red Hat out of the box because Debian shipped with older packages.
--
That might even be worth saving up for
And that is <b>exactly</b> what is wrong with the current state of genetic engineering. Already, we see on a limited scale the separation between the haves and the have-nots in the world of computing. The white-middle-class-computer-programmer group by far has a huge advantage in life (not that other groups can't succeed; they just have more obstacles). Do we really want a world where those with money are smarter, faster, stronger, and healthier than those without?
IMHO, this is one place where the government <b>must</b> step in and subsidize it when it happens, possibly according to tax bracket or something similar. Gaps between the haves and have-nots are acceptable in computing, but when it comes down to a matter of life, the government has a duty to step in and make it equitable, just as they have a duty to license car drivers.
--
Hahahahaha
:-)"
:-)
You see the same thing with science articles. If it's technical enough that most people don't (feel like) understand(ing) it, everyone just either:
(1) Posts what would normally be a troll, but cause it to be moderated up as "funny". Example:
"A six-cpu SETI card? I have to say it... imagine a BEOWULF CLUSTER of these!
Note to moderators: I'm not trolling about beowulfs. Don't you get it? It's a _network_ card, so put them in a _network_.
I have a suspicion that people actually challenge themselves by seeing how close to a troll they can get while still getting moderated up
(2) Just post something funny. Anything. Even if they have to stretch it a bit. A lot. Like my above post
(3) Three items in a list look much better than two
--
From the FAQ:
I want a Slashbox that does X
The policy for Slashboxes is as follows:
The remote site gives us permission.
The remote site provides an RDF file for us to parse (here is our rdf if you want an example).
We decide that it belongs on Slashdot.
Currently the grand Slashbox poobah is Cowboy Neal. Email him a URL to the RDF, as well as a technical contact, and we'll consider your addition to the roster.
Good idea, though; send e-mail to pater@slashdot.org and hopefully he'll write one.
--
I think that you were just trying to get extra karma. I've always thought of doing something like that by "accidentally" putting a broken link into the parent post, just haven't had the guts to do it :-)
Note to moderators: I'm joking.
--
Well, yesterday, I was checking my SETI@Home progress, and something odd seemed to be happening. The display started shifting rapidly and the graphical part seemed to be scrambling around instead of updating in chunks like normally. A few seconds later, the imagee swirled and coalesced into a message: "Welcome, Jacob, we've been expecting you." I don't know what happened next, but my power went out. That's when things began to get _really_ weird.
First, the walls started glowing blue, even though the power lines were dead. Then, I saw two shimmering images in front of my eyes. At first, they were just swirls of dust, glimmering blue from the light. But that dust soon formed into two blue creatures with three arms and three eyes. Apparently the standard theory about the green face, large eyes, and pointy chins was wrong. I didn't have a chance to speculate more because at that point I was knocked out by a strange device held by one alien. I do not know when I awoke because the clocks stopped when the power went out, but when I awoke, they were gone and in their place was a message: "There are exactly seven hours until the destruction of the human race. Do not attempt any communication with the outside world and you will be saved."
Well, I wasn't going to listen to them. I now have exactly seven minutes left on my battery. I plea for you to listen and heed my call, even though it may already be too late. Even more than I fear my detection, I fear for the human race. They will come for me any minute now; it is up to you to stop them. I saw their critical weakness right before being knocked unconscious. It is--
--
I organize a group of people and we put the signal/noise ratio so high that slashdot becomes worse than alt.rec.social.misc
:-)
At least one person (Error 808) thinks that's what you're already doing. You bought the Enoch Root account and posted as much as you could to gain moderator tokens. Then you used those tokens to moderate up your Sig11 account. Enoch Root has enough karma that it doesn't matter if you lose a little bit due to just posting mindless drivel; after all, as long as the karma stays above 0, you can still get moderation tokens. Error 808 put forth as evidence your sig quotes: "There are some things money just can't buy. For everything else, there's karma." Enoch's quote (paraphrased): "Well, I guess there isn't much that money can't buy". He finished by calling you and Enoch the Karma mafia.
Crazy, but it's just crazy enough that it might be true... or not.
--
I think what you want is CrystalSpace. It's a 3d rendering engine that supports dynamic lighting, terrain, particles, sprites, everything. So go ahead and write your Quake clone for it.
:-) )
What?
Oh, I see. You want a game where you can go out and frag people, not some dinky little walktest. Well, you have the source. Go out and write one.
Well? Go and write one already!
Still here?
Ah ha, too difficult for you? You just wanna frag? Well go play with your little closed source Quake3.
Rant, Flame = Off, Off (tuple packing and unpacking! Gotta love python!
Seriously though, the open-source business model is not suffieciently developed for Id to make any sort of money off of Quake3 if they open-source it. After all, they couldn't exactly sell very much support. But people are already working on open versions. Not just fraggers, but also RPGs and more. Check out the Crystal Space projects page for more info. And instead of complaining about commercial companies doing what comes naturally to them, go and write something better.
--
The author seemed to be lauding the features, such as scheduling, of Outlook + Exchange. Sure, those features are nice, but they reduce choice. To synchronize many people across a project using MS Lookout, it is necessary to be running Exchange server with it. Similarly, all users must be using Outlook as their mail client to schedule projects together. So what happens to those people that wish to use a different e-mail client? They get left out of the loop. And what happens to those offices that wish not to use Exchange, either due to its broken imap implementations, to its inability to function with non-outlook clients, or to its reliance on NT servers? These businesses cannot use Outlook's scheduling features. This is yet another example of how bundling unlike components (mail, schedule) together inherently leads to lack of choice.
--
Although that's an important security hole in its own right, it's not the one we're talking about in the article. The article involves a buffer overflow in the date field, not an oops when executing ActiveX objects that are databases.
BTW, what happened to those funny characters after your nick? This is the first time I've been able to see your user info...
OMFG. I knew that. I'm even taking latin in school... >:-(
/.
The only thing worse than making a mistake like that is posting it at +2 on
Then it could either be "Mac OS Nine" (numerical), "Mac OS Zee" (phonetic), or "Mac Os Chi" (Chinese transliteration :-) )
It's quite obvious. A charisma engine is any large marketing department, anywhere. Integrated TLC means it comes with a free CD or R&B music. Pixel Tapestrectomy is a type of surgery. And dotproduction is the latest byproduct of the e-wave of @ttaching "dot" to dotanything. Dot's @all, e-folks!
Actually, not really. Since gasoline engines have to take their power plant with them, they run at only 15%-60% efficiency, depending on whom you ask. OTOH, power plants can be large and heavy because they don't have to roll. Therefore, they can use more advanced techniques that are much more efficient than the best gasoline engines.
This is kind of OT[*], but can aleph_aleph exist?
[*] So maybe the original thing was offtopic too. Sue me.
If you're tired of using www10, go one step further by messing with their marketing statistics!
Username: marketingdies
Password: cypherpunk
It seems that someone already had the cypherpunk account, but the normal password "cypherpunk" didn't seem to work. So I did this for your viewing pleasure and their marketing hell.
Nine-hundred-seventeenth! Hahahaha, I'm farther off than both of you combined. ph3@r m3 sux0rs!!! ;)