weren't you and Root having a nice little discussion about how the each of you are Whoring the hell outta the Karma?
No, actually we were discussing the futility of doing so.. after 300 or so points - honestly, who gives a sh*t? There's no incentive except bragging rights after 30, and now Rob doesn't even have the user pages showing karma anymore.. so even *that* is flaky at best.
No, I threw a few posts out on slashdot over a 2-3 month period to test a theory - that comments will be moderated up if it meets slashdot's dogma, and down if it disagrees. ie: slashdot is a self-fufilling prophecy. The results met expectations - slashdot moderates on the "hidden" attribute of dogma instead of on actual insightfulness and whatnot. I think that's what you're referring to. Karma whoring has never been my business.. some people got jealous, even more so when they figured out I was outclassing their posts as part of an experiment. As if!
There's just one problem - right after the dark ages a few priests got together and patched the kernel code in./modules/sex/sex.c by adding the __PARANOID_PURITAN__ option to the source. They then rebooted the server (thus losing all the state and reinitializing Society). After awhile, Society rebuilt it's database and continued.
Now Society has about 400 years of data in it, and if we patch the goddamn thing again, we'll have to start over. We can't patch sex.c with the system up...
As a member of secret society slashdotoi, I believe memory is.. uh... I forget.. but information wants to be free too. I think this crypto stuff is gonna change the world. Oh wait, e-commerce? Yeah, that sucks, they didn't do it righti. I'm a member of a secret elite community that knows everything, didn'tcha now? Of course not, you don't know everything! blah blah blah, I'll just throw i,e, and X at the end of some words... boy I'm cool... hey look, my server got slashdotted. Dooooh...
-- That was humor, but you already knew that 'cuz you're a member of the slashdoti right?
Well, I have a program - mp3db, that does database stuff. I'm going to just add a clause stating output of my program must be done under the GPL as well - ie: keeping it internal is OK, but if you release it - you do so to everyone at no cost.
I hope RMS updates the GPL to deal with this issue more specifically soon....
Look, it may be old news for the site, but not for slashdot. This is news that I, and I suspect alot of other people, want to hear about. Slashdot doesn't have to be up-to-the-second-or-it's-too-old-timely. Now sit down, be quiet, and let the rest of us enjoy this tidbit.
I loved Ender's Game, if not because in some way it reminded me of myself and alot of my friends. The movie will never be as good as the book, simply because the movie lacks the imagery you create in your mind, it lacks the subtleties in the book.
But, I am looking forward to it nevertheless. I hope it remains true to form. They *must* do the war room properly. Most of the game plot hinges on it. I don't know how they're going to make it look Zero G'ish realistically, but I'd like to see! Either way, I suggest reading the book... it took me 8 hours to wax it off - 6 hours more is very little to pay for books instead of movies. Just my advice...
Sorry, but my step-dad works in a rainbow foods store as a manager and the aisles were, infact, barren of the non-perishables. Bottled water vanished, hamburger helper and noodles were nowhere to be found, and there was plenty of icecream on sale.
Further, I spoke with somebody at a gas station who had run out of the high-octane fuel. Prices here went up *alittle* as a result, but not much.
No, people panic'd over this. They did so at the last minute, and now they're going to sheepishly be drinking all that bottled water they stored up and all that hamburger helper they bought. And, for the next 3 months, nobody will be buying any toilet paper.
Let's face it, people panic'd. They saw the hype, they acted. Now, will the media report their own failure and bias, or quickly "invent" another national story and by next week we will have "forgotten" about y2k?
xmms, the clone that's better than winamp. Supports writing to disk, playing back midi, mp3,.au, wave files, oss direct hw access, eSound, and soon KDE. How much more versatile can you get? Oh yeah, and it has some nice eye candy too - the visualization plugins.
I nominate Enoch Root, the most consistently well-spoken poster on slashdot. He also is fully flame-retardant - something I've had difficulty with. I have his homepage bookmarked here.
igPoster award goes to MEEPT! for obvious reasons. =)
session support, exceptional string handling, basic OOP support, fast fast fast, and has a reliable windoze port (so I can convince the PHBs to use php now, and switch to linux for more speed later after they're satisfied).
I nominate Richard Stallman, simply because when everybody cried "put up or shut up!" he put up. Rather than talking about a community, he made one.
I would also give ESR honorable mention - he's providing a necessary function to the "outside world" by journalling the goings-on inside the community.
Donald Becker's DEC Tulip driver - this driver is used by many, many, linux geeks. It's fast, reliable, sports features most drivers do not, and supports most any card for the digital chipset(s) in it's family. It also does pnp very nicely (read: autoprobe works).
I, for one, do not want to see perl on legos. While the string handling is really great, it's a write-only language. I mean, with the standard legos you can take them apart and reassemble them in chunks... but with perl, once you assembled it the nanobots would come out of the controller box and glue everything together. Write-only legos... oi.
Just ignore the AC - he's just one person trying to sound like twenty.:\ Case in point: calling me a karma whore when I haven't even been moderated yet and that karma is no longer shown on the system. Hit up this and see for yourself.
Ooooh, the new Geezerite processor. sounds like what geologists will find when excavating the Intel prefab plant about 3 millenia from now with nanobots. "Wow, it's unbelievable - they actually used *silicon* to power their computers!"
Windows has embedding down - OLE. Current CORBA implimentations don't come close. Windows has a decent browser. Let's face it, Netscape's age is showing - I prefer the IE5 rendering engine under windows and use Neoplanet (ie5's UI blows). Linux doesn't have full support for MS Office. Whether you like it or not most businesses depend on MS Office - memos, sales charts, most everything depends on Office. For linux to be a competitor, MS must either port it to linux (not bloody likely) or somebody must reverse-engineer it (thousands of developers needed).
Further, linux video performance (under X) is lackluster. Unless you have an accelerated X server, your performance will be between 50-75% of windows performance. I have a Matrox Millenium II PCI / 8mb. It's fast... but it's only about 2/3rds the speed of windows - I had to disable alot of animations under e / gnome to make it render reasonably quickly and without glitches.
Bugs. Gnome 1.0. Need I say more? They've made strides now - but I'm still pissed they called that an initial release when it was still somewhere between alpha and beta. KDE's QT interface has me annoyed because of the patching / licensing issues, but functionally it's stable and reasonably well-featured. Still no embedded support, however... but atleast that Konqueror browser is shaping up to be the next Great Hope for linux.
Need I go on? My list is a mile long... Windows *is* better as a desktop, although I hate to admit that. What I will tell you is that I find my e / gnome combination sufficient for my daily work... namely scripting the backend to my webpages and cranking out code. If I wanted to use linux at work... I'd be in sore shape though.
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The LNE100-TX version 2.0? Yeah.. there's actually three different LNE100-TX models. Been there... done that. :)
No, actually we were discussing the futility of doing so.. after 300 or so points - honestly, who gives a sh*t? There's no incentive except bragging rights after 30, and now Rob doesn't even have the user pages showing karma anymore.. so even *that* is flaky at best.
No, I threw a few posts out on slashdot over a 2-3 month period to test a theory - that comments will be moderated up if it meets slashdot's dogma, and down if it disagrees. ie: slashdot is a self-fufilling prophecy. The results met expectations - slashdot moderates on the "hidden" attribute of dogma instead of on actual insightfulness and whatnot. I think that's what you're referring to. Karma whoring has never been my business.. some people got jealous, even more so when they figured out I was outclassing their posts as part of an experiment. As if!
Hope this clears some stuff up for 'ya..
Now Society has about 400 years of data in it, and if we patch the goddamn thing again, we'll have to start over. We can't patch sex.c with the system up...
As a member of secret society slashdotoi, I believe memory is.. uh... I forget.. but information wants to be free too. I think this crypto stuff is gonna change the world. Oh wait, e-commerce? Yeah, that sucks, they didn't do it righti. I'm a member of a secret elite community that knows everything, didn'tcha now? Of course not, you don't know everything! blah blah blah, I'll just throw i,e, and X at the end of some words... boy I'm cool... hey look, my server got slashdotted. Dooooh...
-- That was humor, but you already knew that 'cuz you're a member of the slashdoti right?
I hope RMS updates the GPL to deal with this issue more specifically soon....
Look, it may be old news for the site, but not for slashdot. This is news that I, and I suspect alot of other people, want to hear about. Slashdot doesn't have to be up-to-the-second-or-it's-too-old-timely. Now sit down, be quiet, and let the rest of us enjoy this tidbit.
But, I am looking forward to it nevertheless. I hope it remains true to form. They *must* do the war room properly. Most of the game plot hinges on it. I don't know how they're going to make it look Zero G'ish realistically, but I'd like to see! Either way, I suggest reading the book... it took me 8 hours to wax it off - 6 hours more is very little to pay for books instead of movies. Just my advice...
Further, I spoke with somebody at a gas station who had run out of the high-octane fuel. Prices here went up *alittle* as a result, but not much.
No, people panic'd over this. They did so at the last minute, and now they're going to sheepishly be drinking all that bottled water they stored up and all that hamburger helper they bought. And, for the next 3 months, nobody will be buying any toilet paper.
Let's face it, people panic'd. They saw the hype, they acted. Now, will the media report their own failure and bias, or quickly "invent" another national story and by next week we will have "forgotten" about y2k?
I nominate nobody then. If nobody's nominated, nobody can win the hemos award! Buwhahahahahaaha!
xmms, the clone that's better than winamp. Supports writing to disk, playing back midi, mp3, .au, wave files, oss direct hw access, eSound, and soon KDE. How much more versatile can you get? Oh yeah, and it has some nice eye candy too - the visualization plugins.
igPoster award goes to MEEPT! for obvious reasons. =)
I nominate xdaliclock for easiest to use interface. All I had to do was *load* it. However, it does have some y2k issues... =)
session support, exceptional string handling, basic OOP support, fast fast fast, and has a reliable windoze port (so I can convince the PHBs to use php now, and switch to linux for more speed later after they're satisfied).
I would also give ESR honorable mention - he's providing a necessary function to the "outside world" by journalling the goings-on inside the community.
Donald Becker's DEC Tulip driver - this driver is used by many, many, linux geeks. It's fast, reliable, sports features most drivers do not, and supports most any card for the digital chipset(s) in it's family. It also does pnp very nicely (read: autoprobe works).
I, for one, do not want to see perl on legos. While the string handling is really great, it's a write-only language. I mean, with the standard legos you can take them apart and reassemble them in chunks... but with perl, once you assembled it the nanobots would come out of the controller box and glue everything together. Write-only legos... oi.
Just ignore the AC - he's just one person trying to sound like twenty. :\ Case in point: calling me a karma whore when I haven't even been moderated yet and that karma is no longer shown on the system. Hit up this and see for yourself.
I just wanna know how Reeves dodged all those bullets from the AI killing machine. I think that could give me a mean edge on Quake Arena. =)
What was that about script kiddies now? =)
Nice try, Bruce. No points for you! =)
Ooooh, the new Geezerite processor. sounds like what geologists will find when excavating the Intel prefab plant about 3 millenia from now with nanobots. "Wow, it's unbelievable - they actually used *silicon* to power their computers!"
This is not haiku
Die? of course you will
From my LART to you!
Further, linux video performance (under X) is lackluster. Unless you have an accelerated X server, your performance will be between 50-75% of windows performance. I have a Matrox Millenium II PCI / 8mb. It's fast... but it's only about 2/3rds the speed of windows - I had to disable alot of animations under e / gnome to make it render reasonably quickly and without glitches.
Bugs. Gnome 1.0. Need I say more? They've made strides now - but I'm still pissed they called that an initial release when it was still somewhere between alpha and beta. KDE's QT interface has me annoyed because of the patching / licensing issues, but functionally it's stable and reasonably well-featured. Still no embedded support, however... but atleast that Konqueror browser is shaping up to be the next Great Hope for linux.
Need I go on? My list is a mile long... Windows *is* better as a desktop, although I hate to admit that. What I will tell you is that I find my e / gnome combination sufficient for my daily work... namely scripting the backend to my webpages and cranking out code. If I wanted to use linux at work... I'd be in sore shape though.