Yes... it's just a coincidence... yeah... you just keep telling yourself that... and when the sun gets blotted out and the alien ships land and turn you into food for their pets... yeah...
They picked up bad habits learning those 12 years of Java - that's why they're having problems. Although I gotta wonder why it took 12 years to figure out what takes most people six months (and then another year trying to bury the painful memories..). Maybe they're really slow? Let's hope the system they built is faster than they are.. or it'll take about an eon to compile the kernel...
E-mailed our tech department, and the one universal answer (and none other) is that nobody will be voting for Gore. =)
Now, onto the second point... I don't want a candidate.com because they want to www.regulate.it.to.us. I just want to recompile politician with -DNOREGULATE -O-12 (make system grossly unoptimized). Why? Because an efficient system is a tyranny. 'nuff said. *stepping down off the soap box*
Reminds me of a sci fi flick where this guy discovers a cure for cancer but doesn't want to try it on humans. But then one of his friends tells him he only has 3 months to live and is gonna die. So the scientist pumps him up with these nanites and they work great... with one minor glitch, they don't fix *just* the cancer problem. Infact, he starts growing gills, and then a third eye in the back of his head, gets some super-tough skin... the problem seems to be due to a bug in the programming they can't tell the nanites to turn off!
Well, that was a real bummer 'cuz they finally had to kill him with about 300kV across the chest and then blow up the lab he was in. Moral of the story: if you build something so small you can't see, build an off switch into them that can't fail!
Nanites bring up an interesting privacy concern too... since you can't see them, who's to say your employer wouldn't drop a few hundred thousand of the buggers in your office, they'd attach to your shoe, and tell you how long you were out to lunch, in the bathroom, listen in to all your phone calls, etc.? It's perfectly legal to do that now... and what are we gonna do - scan our workplace with a microscope whenever we get to work? How about computer security? Just drop a few nanites outside SuperMega Corp and in a few days they get inside all the servers and attach to the memory, modify a few POPs and PUSHes and viola, instant security breach.
OH MY GOD, somebody's trying to steal a trademark! LYNCH HIM!!!!! Eat hot rockets scum bag!
So let me get this straight... geeks in general don't like lawyers, the legal system, ad nauseum, preferring to code instead. But while most NORMAL people could care less about another trademark battle, the geeks are out on jihad because somebody in a country I never even heard of is trying to trademark an operating system that the average person still doesn't even know about! I think the more obscure it is, the more geeks like to talk about it... =)
Could you please use the P tag in html because otherwise you make this really long paragraph that is difficult to read and also enforces the super-long-sentence syndrome that is very irritating to watch and I think that anyone who writes in that style should be taken out behind slashdot and beat soundly about the head and shoulders with a copy of the closest webster dictionary (or optionally a Heritage if you do not have a websters) for the simple reason that doing so will likely jar the brainwax loose and allow them to think clearly; So please, if you're gonna write super-long run-on sentences could you please shoot yourself first and save us the trouble of doing so and having to clean our shoes afterwords?
NASA, NASA, NASA... converting from meters/feet caused the last problem.. now what? Trouble converting to radians? =)
If they really need scientific data I'd like to offer them to put my car on the shuttle and launch it towards Mars. I'm sure it would make a much more visible impact than a mere spacecraft. This is AMERICAN IRON afterall. Also, if they miss, no harm done... it just goes into the sun.
Gee, I thought MS was bad "Where do you want to go today?"... but now China went and one-up'd them with Red Flag Linux: "You will go here today or we'll kill you and your family!"
They/cannot/ open source it all. They're just trying to cash in on the linux hype - and they need it too! MacOS X is a solid platform, but it's expensive and not well-known. How many admins would really run their server under a *macintosh*?! Not many, that's for sure. But they have first class hardware.. hardware I suspect would rival the best Athlon or Intel systems on the market right now.
So, it's marketing, and it is a good move for/them/. It's not so hot that they're gonna piss off the developers they may be trying to recruit to help them out.
Sorry, but although I'm not a stellar programmer, I have wrote a few programs (> 1000 lines, yes), and atleast *I* am not like that. I have friends who are, and some who aren't. Point is, geeks come in all shapes, sizes, and dispositions. The best general article seems to be from Appendix B of the Hacker dictionary (Portrait of J Random Hacker, as doubtless cited by other posters).
Keep in mind that generalizations are just that - generalizations. They apply to groups, not individuals. Many people, reporters not excempt, make broad generalizations or extrapolate from a select few people a label or stereotype for the entire group... hence many misconceptions of what geeks are.
Playstation II: It's alive, it's on the stock market, and it wants revenge. Plug it into the internet and watch the fun. =)
Anyone else think that marketing slogan "it's alive" is kinda silly? As/if/. Does it impliment genetic algos? No. Does it find patterns in things? Nope. Uhhh... can it reproduce? Well, kindof... if you consider the save game cartridges to be "passing it's genes on"...
If anything, it confirms the fact that no small number of computer hackers would detest the politics and philosphy that is prerequisite to being considered a member of the intelligentsia.
Your post seemed to imply that people who are members of this "intelligentsia" wouldn't waste their time on things like programming. I thought that was a) arrogant and b) false, hence the reply. As to myself replying to others... this should provide ample proof to the contrary. Sometimes I don't feel it necessary to respond - posting in a public forum doesn't mean you gotta defend your position against/every single post/ made. That's optional.
First off, only about 7% of the slashdot readership have +2 right now (I'm quoting this stat directly from the sid=moderation thread courtesy Rob Malda), that is... more than 25 points. Doubling that would effectively eliminate the bonus altogether. Why would you want to do that?
Second, did it ever occur to you to stop pointing fingers at the person, and instead listen to him as he explains the problem? Don't kill the messenger! The moderation system is horribly flawed. I think I proved that several times over. Hating me accomplishes nothing (and yes, you're obviously irate about my karma like about 50 other people on/.).
How about instead we talk about *why* the system doesn't work, *how* to fix it so that high karma really/is/ an indicator of insightful comments... instead of being the "dogma points" they are now?
Like I said, don't kill the messenger. I got your attention, now go do something about the problem I highlighted. Or perhaps blaming would be easier. Your choice.
Enoch Root has more karma than me. Just alittle informative tidbit. And I'm not divulging my karma anymore because it raised too many problems and is hardly an indicator of worth (of any sort).
Hey, coming from a guy who has never worked Tech Support, I think anyone claiming that making fun of customers is "not okay" is either my boss or dilusional. People are stupid. Then they call us.
I've had the cupholder call. I've had people in the middle of domestic disputes. I've... had it all. And I need, nay, ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE a sense of humor lest I go insane and become more evil than I already am.
Look, Scott's over there, with his viewpoint, and I'm over here. All I'm saying is that I worked tech support and he didn't. You be the judge.
In related news, the NSI captured the Enterprise (NCC-1701D), flagship for the Federation of Planets. This move comes shortly after the intergalactic DNS conference at Kitamir. Apparently, the use of lawyers was outlawed... however NSI simply decloaked and shot the sh*t out of the Enterprise claiming it was not respecting it's authority.. oh yeah, and there was some mention of a trademark violation...
Remember that the true test of a rule or legislation is not what good it could do if properly implimented, but what damage it could do if improperly exploited or implimented!
NSI has 2 "good" rules here, 1 "okay" one, and a elastic #4 of which they might as well have sent up a flare to the critics of their system as it so blatantly screams "Hey look, we've changed! We just rewrote the rules to keep doing what we're doing!"
I have the name of the most intelligent man alive.... it's in this envelope right here.. that I'm opening right now...
Nobody
Huh?! Intelligent? There must be somebody who can take the title of "most intelligent person"!!! Non sequiter!! Nope... sorry... nobody is the "most" anything. This is true at any point in time.
Why? For one, intelligence doesn't mean anything. Would Einstein have been widely regarded as the "most intelligent" man if he had not invented all those theories and discovered all those pesky laws of physics? Probably not. Would Steven Hawking be anyone but a "cripple in a wheelchair" putting even/more/ drain on the welfare system if he hadn't done alittle of that thing called "science". No... intelligence is often equated with accomplishments. That Jeff Bozo guy at amazon.com - many suits think he's a genius. Is he, or was he just in the right place at the right time and did what should have been obvious to even the most clueless bastard?
I don't know... but until you can solve the problem of my reality / experiences being different from your own, we really can't answer the question, can we? Just think about it... you can't judge someone until you can get inside their head... and dammit, mine's already too full - you stay out!
Oh yeah.. and I'm a software engineer. I guess I wasted all that time programming instead of thinking about things like the mind/body problem. Gee, all that time... *wasted* doing "nothing worthwhile".... bummer. Check out the Hacker Dictionary, Appendix B, portrait of J Random Hacker... be enlightened. Realize that the more you know about one field, the more you gain insight into others... unrelated though they may be.
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They picked up bad habits learning those 12 years of Java - that's why they're having problems. Although I gotta wonder why it took 12 years to figure out what takes most people six months (and then another year trying to bury the painful memories..). Maybe they're really slow? Let's hope the system they built is faster than they are.. or it'll take about an eon to compile the kernel...
Now, onto the second point...
I don't want a candidate.com because they want to www.regulate.it.to.us. I just want to recompile politician with -DNOREGULATE -O-12 (make system grossly unoptimized). Why? Because an efficient system is a tyranny. 'nuff said. *stepping down off the soap box*
Well, that was a real bummer 'cuz they finally had to kill him with about 300kV across the chest and then blow up the lab he was in. Moral of the story: if you build something so small you can't see, build an off switch into them that can't fail!
Nanites bring up an interesting privacy concern too... since you can't see them, who's to say your employer wouldn't drop a few hundred thousand of the buggers in your office, they'd attach to your shoe, and tell you how long you were out to lunch, in the bathroom, listen in to all your phone calls, etc.? It's perfectly legal to do that now... and what are we gonna do - scan our workplace with a microscope whenever we get to work? How about computer security? Just drop a few nanites outside SuperMega Corp and in a few days they get inside all the servers and attach to the memory, modify a few POPs and PUSHes and viola, instant security breach.
It's funny, laugh, dammit. =)
So let me get this straight... geeks in general don't like lawyers, the legal system, ad nauseum, preferring to code instead. But while most NORMAL people could care less about another trademark battle, the geeks are out on jihad because somebody in a country I never even heard of is trying to trademark an operating system that the average person still doesn't even know about! I think the more obscure it is, the more geeks like to talk about it... =)
Could you please use the P tag in html because otherwise you make this really long paragraph that is difficult to read and also enforces the super-long-sentence syndrome that is very irritating to watch and I think that anyone who writes in that style should be taken out behind slashdot and beat soundly about the head and shoulders with a copy of the closest webster dictionary (or optionally a Heritage if you do not have a websters) for the simple reason that doing so will likely jar the brainwax loose and allow them to think clearly; So please, if you're gonna write super-long run-on sentences could you please shoot yourself first and save us the trouble of doing so and having to clean our shoes afterwords?
TETRIS
Replace your venerable QUAKE programming aid with TETRIS today!
Perhaps they'll be selling "Red, white, and Blue Flag Linux"?
Too bad the world would come to an end if we executed them, hmm? :)
If they really need scientific data I'd like to offer them to put my car on the shuttle and launch it towards Mars. I'm sure it would make a much more visible impact than a mere spacecraft. This is AMERICAN IRON afterall. Also, if they miss, no harm done... it just goes into the sun.
So, it's marketing, and it is a good move for /them/. It's not so hot that they're gonna piss off the developers they may be trying to recruit to help them out.
Keep in mind that generalizations are just that - generalizations. They apply to groups, not individuals. Many people, reporters not excempt, make broad generalizations or extrapolate from a select few people a label or stereotype for the entire group... hence many misconceptions of what geeks are.
Anyone else think that marketing slogan "it's alive" is kinda silly? As /if/. Does it impliment genetic algos? No. Does it find patterns in things? Nope. Uhhh... can it reproduce? Well, kindof... if you consider the save game cartridges to be "passing it's genes on"...
Okay, I'm done ranting now..
That's why we'd have a low-rent district... you know... on the 7-1/2 floor....
Your post seemed to imply that people who are members of this "intelligentsia" wouldn't waste their time on things like programming. I thought that was a) arrogant and b) false, hence the reply. As to myself replying to others... this should provide ample proof to the contrary. Sometimes I don't feel it necessary to respond - posting in a public forum doesn't mean you gotta defend your position against /every single post/ made. That's optional.
Second, did it ever occur to you to stop pointing fingers at the person, and instead listen to him as he explains the problem? Don't kill the messenger! The moderation system is horribly flawed. I think I proved that several times over. Hating me accomplishes nothing (and yes, you're obviously irate about my karma like about 50 other people on /.).
How about instead we talk about *why* the system doesn't work, *how* to fix it so that high karma really /is/ an indicator of insightful comments... instead of being the "dogma points" they are now?
Like I said, don't kill the messenger. I got your attention, now go do something about the problem I highlighted. Or perhaps blaming would be easier. Your choice.
Enoch Root has more karma than me. Just alittle informative tidbit. And I'm not divulging my karma anymore because it raised too many problems and is hardly an indicator of worth (of any sort).
UK finds out about Echelon... uses it to catch speeders. How ironic.
I've had the cupholder call. I've had people in the middle of domestic disputes. I've... had it all. And I need, nay, ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE a sense of humor lest I go insane and become more evil than I already am.
Look, Scott's over there, with his viewpoint, and I'm over here. All I'm saying is that I worked tech support and he didn't. You be the judge.
In related news, the NSI captured the Enterprise (NCC-1701D), flagship for the Federation of Planets. This move comes shortly after the intergalactic DNS conference at Kitamir. Apparently, the use of lawyers was outlawed... however NSI simply decloaked and shot the sh*t out of the Enterprise claiming it was not respecting it's authority.. oh yeah, and there was some mention of a trademark violation...
NSI has 2 "good" rules here, 1 "okay" one, and a elastic #4 of which they might as well have sent up a flare to the critics of their system as it so blatantly screams "Hey look, we've changed! We just rewrote the rules to keep doing what we're doing!"
Sorry.. but I gotta say it just to peeve the same trolls that will reply to *this* post. =)
Nobody
Huh?! Intelligent? There must be somebody who can take the title of "most intelligent person"!!! Non sequiter!! Nope... sorry... nobody is the "most" anything. This is true at any point in time.
Why? For one, intelligence doesn't mean anything. Would Einstein have been widely regarded as the "most intelligent" man if he had not invented all those theories and discovered all those pesky laws of physics? Probably not. Would Steven Hawking be anyone but a "cripple in a wheelchair" putting even /more/ drain on the welfare system if he hadn't done alittle of that thing called "science". No... intelligence is often equated with accomplishments. That Jeff Bozo guy at amazon.com - many suits think he's a genius. Is he, or was he just in the right place at the right time and did what should have been obvious to even the most clueless bastard?
I don't know... but until you can solve the problem of my reality / experiences being different from your own, we really can't answer the question, can we? Just think about it... you can't judge someone until you can get inside their head... and dammit, mine's already too full - you stay out!
Oh yeah.. and I'm a software engineer. I guess I wasted all that time programming instead of thinking about things like the mind/body problem. Gee, all that time... *wasted* doing "nothing worthwhile".... bummer. Check out the Hacker Dictionary, Appendix B, portrait of J Random Hacker... be enlightened. Realize that the more you know about one field, the more you gain insight into others... unrelated though they may be.