"Jupiter-sized blobs of hot gas embedded in streams of material ejected from hyperactive galaxies known as blazars."
While this provokes beautifuly imagry, how about turning it into a sentence and possibly relating it to the rest of the paragraph.
they're unmasked, they have a website proudly proclaiming their goals, but not enough people care and too many people agree with them, or think they agree with them, or don't realize what they're actually agreeing with.
I suspect most of the programmers working 80+ hours a week spend at least half of it not actively writing a line of code, be it meetings, waiting for some script to finish or reading slashdot.
If it works that transparently, great. Imagine if they called the internet "the grid"... things that a truely new usually have new names.. I've found that the opposite usually indicates a very high ratio of fluff to content and is the a telltale sign that there's a marketing department behind it, and that's almost always not a plus.
You're right of course, this seems more common, posting old stuff.. but it is bearable when it is something kind of funny or interesting. This is some techinical spec-type that the author surely knows the date of and I suspect is pushing it for some ulterior motive.
For a minute there I didn't believe a single word of your post and I tried to form a counter-argument, but your "truth be tolds" made the whole thing impenetrable.
Yeah, but if you don't start making useless claims about doubling times and whatnot, you don't get your name immortalized in the useless 'laws' that might get named after you.
Cost me about $1200, bought offline. Looks like you may be able to get it cheaper now. I've had mine for almost a year. 100+ operating hours. Playing XBox, Dreamcast and DVDs. Hooked up my laptop a few times and for some reason, it worked above 800x600 resolution. I believe my laptop is set to 1024x768. Why it still worked I have no idea, but it looked great.
I may have spent too much - maybe I could have gone with one of these $300 projectors. I didn't know there were $300 projectors at the time.
I keep my projector about 8-10 feet from a wall, used paper from an artstore to line the wall. You could guess I'm not an A/V nut. I used an old pair of powered computer speakers w/ subwoof that is plenty good enough for me. I have no idea what the ratings are, and the speakers are placed behind me when I watch movies - which one person found a little strange. I have the speakers facing at the back wall, and it doesn't bother me one bit that the sound doesn't come from the wall - either I don't notice it, or it does end up coming from the screen-wall enough that I don't care. My cats consantly knock over the speakers and I don't even bother to pick them up.. so my advice on audio should be taken with a grain of salt; though I am a musician, if that means anything.
At 8-10 feet the image is about 8' diagonally. Wide screen, full screen, computer screen, whatever - doesn't matter it looks good. I would work off of it as a desktop to work with apps - but I loaded Warcraft 3 on the laptop and it looked great. Actually - I think Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast looks better than Soul Calibur 2 on XBox, on the projector.
Maybe the novelty hasn't worn off yet - but I think this is one of the best purchases I've made. It turns every crappy game and crappy movie into something decent - because hey - it's freakin huge!
You're right... though people weren't as entrenched as they are now. It will be difficult for Microsoft to force anyone to use their search engine - especially with all the scrutiniy they'll get based on prior dealings with IE and WMP.. It's possible they make something good - but I'm not losing sleep over it. They started challenging the word processor and spreadsheet market in a time when people were still using typewriters and many offices had more filing cabinets than computers. There are a lot of things Microsoft didn't even try to take over, and I wonder why - like Adobe-PDF style stuff. Was RTF their attempt? What else seems like it was within their grasp at one time or another...? - tax software.. they have quicken like stuff, but they haven't dominated that arena like Office has with word processing and spreadsheets. 3d rendering stuff like Maya? probably a little beyond their scope and business plan, though a MS competitor to Photoshop wouldn't have surprised me, still wouldn't actually - Photoshop is good, but it could do with some dumbing down and they could probably do some intergration with Office that people might use (other people, not me =)).
That reminds me... what ever happened to that billion dollars IBM was supposed to be spending on Linux (and free software initiatives?). They had that big IBM with a penguin PR campaign awhile back - anything come of that? Did they really spend a billion?
You're a bit looney. I sympathize with your feelings, but as many people have stated here, you are blaming the tool. It's ridiculous. If you really want to make a difference, and do it involving Linux, something you probably know an awful lot about, consider going to Iraq to help start that Linux Users Group. If you can find your footing in reality, just a little bit, again - I have no doubt you could do great things there - help promote free software in a developing country. As much as a sniper's dream Fallouja is, I imagine that to be a dream for someone like you. When Microsoft moves in to give free copies of Windows XP Home Edition to everyone there, you could have already strengthened the linux support base in Baghdad.
I notice you don't mention what other projects are more worthy of your time now or will help promote your ideals. Care to share them?
Even if your reasons of leaving the users group had any shred of sanity, it's too little too late. We've killed most of the Iraqis we're going to kill. Considering all the world's problems, you leaving your little user group is probably going to do worse.
I'm trying to see it from your point of view, and sure it's overwhelming - it's clear you feel that way in Linux being 'corrupted'. Even if I agreed with you, you still have to be able to recognize that it is a tool for freedom of speech if people choose to use it that way - and you are in a great position to help ensure that. Sure, the US may be funding the new television and newspapers in Iraq. But they will have to do a lot to quiet the voices of online Iraqis, which in 5-10 years or so may be considerable. It will be easier to quiet them, even if a little bit, if they don't have access to free software, or don't know enough to use it You could be there to help promote that... instead of accomplishing absolutely nothing, or worse, by abandoning something you've obviously dedicated a large potion of your life to and allowing your anger of the situation to ruin it.
[i] So you are that boring bastard that no one talks to at the Christmas party[/i]
He's just the dude that doesn't work for a company whose venture capital, mistated profits or over-valuation funded your company's Christmas party for the last 10 years.
'Specialist technicians need advanced reading, problem-solving, and basic electronics skills.... The best people to find are those who have worked in the IT [information technology] industry.'
Maybe they're the best in that they won't find or push for a real solution to the problem. I see the fit now - what other profession is as good at making sure the things they work on is hard to fix?
Microsoft is also coming to the party, and everyone's a little bit nervous to see what it's bringing.
Oh yeah real nervous. They're getting on the bandwagon late; too late to monopolize this particular free (as in shut the fuck up) service. If by some miracle they produce something 'threatening', it will be because it's good or because the others have slacked off.
Some doctors sign their initials in marker next to the stitches after a surgery. That happened to me once and I was a little annoyed seeing it months later after removing my cast. I'd have been even more pissed if they signed "Ownt j00".
How do we know they were 'cool' scripts. If he was such a great scripter, why was he let go.. or is simple web crawler enough to pass for 'cool' these days. Perhaps they were among some of the most inefficient scripts of all time, rivaling those found in the Hall of Terrible Programming.
Slashdot Mirror
rule #1, never criticize slashdot. the website sounds like a bunch of bullshit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_War This entry is longer than entries for, you know, real wars.
you'll ruin many a slashdotter's midnight snacks
"Jupiter-sized blobs of hot gas embedded in streams of material ejected from hyperactive galaxies known as blazars." While this provokes beautifuly imagry, how about turning it into a sentence and possibly relating it to the rest of the paragraph.
they're unmasked, they have a website proudly proclaiming their goals, but not enough people care and too many people agree with them, or think they agree with them, or don't realize what they're actually agreeing with.
I suspect most of the programmers working 80+ hours a week spend at least half of it not actively writing a line of code, be it meetings, waiting for some script to finish or reading slashdot.
And you're a dick
If it works that transparently, great. Imagine if they called the internet "the grid"... things that a truely new usually have new names.. I've found that the opposite usually indicates a very high ratio of fluff to content and is the a telltale sign that there's a marketing department behind it, and that's almost always not a plus.
You're right of course, this seems more common, posting old stuff.. but it is bearable when it is something kind of funny or interesting. This is some techinical spec-type that the author surely knows the date of and I suspect is pushing it for some ulterior motive.
The linked article is written in May 2003 yet it's new now?
The result? Show the proof first fuckbag.
For a minute there I didn't believe a single word of your post and I tried to form a counter-argument, but your "truth be tolds" made the whole thing impenetrable.
Yeah, but if you don't start making useless claims about doubling times and whatnot, you don't get your name immortalized in the useless 'laws' that might get named after you.
Moore's Law... it's barely Moore's Observation.
Work on smaller, less critical sites.
Oh right, but it's less money. Can't buy as many Ipods per year.
Cost me about $1200, bought offline. Looks like you may be able to get it cheaper now. I've had mine for almost a year. 100+ operating hours. Playing XBox, Dreamcast and DVDs. Hooked up my laptop a few times and for some reason, it worked above 800x600 resolution. I believe my laptop is set to 1024x768. Why it still worked I have no idea, but it looked great.
I may have spent too much - maybe I could have gone with one of these $300 projectors. I didn't know there were $300 projectors at the time.
I keep my projector about 8-10 feet from a wall, used paper from an artstore to line the wall. You could guess I'm not an A/V nut. I used an old pair of powered computer speakers w/ subwoof that is plenty good enough for me. I have no idea what the ratings are, and the speakers are placed behind me when I watch movies - which one person found a little strange. I have the speakers facing at the back wall, and it doesn't bother me one bit that the sound doesn't come from the wall - either I don't notice it, or it does end up coming from the screen-wall enough that I don't care. My cats consantly knock over the speakers and I don't even bother to pick them up.. so my advice on audio should be taken with a grain of salt; though I am a musician, if that means anything.
At 8-10 feet the image is about 8' diagonally. Wide screen, full screen, computer screen, whatever - doesn't matter it looks good. I would work off of it as a desktop to work with apps - but I loaded Warcraft 3 on the laptop and it looked great. Actually - I think Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast looks better than Soul Calibur 2 on XBox, on the projector.
Maybe the novelty hasn't worn off yet - but I think this is one of the best purchases I've made. It turns every crappy game and crappy movie into something decent - because hey - it's freakin huge!
Yeah, there wasn't enough room in the story body for extra information either.
You're right... though people weren't as entrenched as they are now. It will be difficult for Microsoft to force anyone to use their search engine - especially with all the scrutiniy they'll get based on prior dealings with IE and WMP.. It's possible they make something good - but I'm not losing sleep over it. They started challenging the word processor and spreadsheet market in a time when people were still using typewriters and many offices had more filing cabinets than computers. There are a lot of things Microsoft didn't even try to take over, and I wonder why - like Adobe-PDF style stuff. Was RTF their attempt? What else seems like it was within their grasp at one time or another...? - tax software.. they have quicken like stuff, but they haven't dominated that arena like Office has with word processing and spreadsheets. 3d rendering stuff like Maya? probably a little beyond their scope and business plan, though a MS competitor to Photoshop wouldn't have surprised me, still wouldn't actually - Photoshop is good, but it could do with some dumbing down and they could probably do some intergration with Office that people might use (other people, not me =)).
That reminds me... what ever happened to that billion dollars IBM was supposed to be spending on Linux (and free software initiatives?). They had that big IBM with a penguin PR campaign awhile back - anything come of that? Did they really spend a billion?
You're a bit looney. I sympathize with your feelings, but as many people have stated here, you are blaming the tool. It's ridiculous. If you really want to make a difference, and do it involving Linux, something you probably know an awful lot about, consider going to Iraq to help start that Linux Users Group. If you can find your footing in reality, just a little bit, again - I have no doubt you could do great things there - help promote free software in a developing country. As much as a sniper's dream Fallouja is, I imagine that to be a dream for someone like you. When Microsoft moves in to give free copies of Windows XP Home Edition to everyone there, you could have already strengthened the linux support base in Baghdad.
I notice you don't mention what other projects are more worthy of your time now or will help promote your ideals. Care to share them? Even if your reasons of leaving the users group had any shred of sanity, it's too little too late. We've killed most of the Iraqis we're going to kill. Considering all the world's problems, you leaving your little user group is probably going to do worse.
I'm trying to see it from your point of view, and sure it's overwhelming - it's clear you feel that way in Linux being 'corrupted'. Even if I agreed with you, you still have to be able to recognize that it is a tool for freedom of speech if people choose to use it that way - and you are in a great position to help ensure that. Sure, the US may be funding the new television and newspapers in Iraq. But they will have to do a lot to quiet the voices of online Iraqis, which in 5-10 years or so may be considerable. It will be easier to quiet them, even if a little bit, if they don't have access to free software, or don't know enough to use it You could be there to help promote that... instead of accomplishing absolutely nothing, or worse, by abandoning something you've obviously dedicated a large potion of your life to and allowing your anger of the situation to ruin it.
Good Luck
[i] So you are that boring bastard that no one talks to at the Christmas party[/i] He's just the dude that doesn't work for a company whose venture capital, mistated profits or over-valuation funded your company's Christmas party for the last 10 years.
'Specialist technicians need advanced reading, problem-solving, and basic electronics skills.... The best people to find are those who have worked in the IT [information technology] industry.'
Maybe they're the best in that they won't find or push for a real solution to the problem. I see the fit now - what other profession is as good at making sure the things they work on is hard to fix?
Still difficult to tell.. I suspect many people who refer to 'their team' are not the students from their team.
Microsoft is also coming to the party, and everyone's a little bit nervous to see what it's bringing.
Oh yeah real nervous. They're getting on the bandwagon late; too late to monopolize this particular free (as in shut the fuck up) service. If by some miracle they produce something 'threatening', it will be because it's good or because the others have slacked off.
Some doctors sign their initials in marker next to the stitches after a surgery. That happened to me once and I was a little annoyed seeing it months later after removing my cast. I'd have been even more pissed if they signed "Ownt j00".
How do we know they were 'cool' scripts. If he was such a great scripter, why was he let go.. or is simple web crawler enough to pass for 'cool' these days. Perhaps they were among some of the most inefficient scripts of all time, rivaling those found in the Hall of Terrible Programming.