Hmm... well, this is what a Win16 or Win32 app, as opposed to a DOS, executable is SUPPOSED to do! It's documented!
I know! That was my point! (Though no one seems to have noticed that). Natedog's argument was that this constitutes a predatory practice. It doesn't, it's necessary. Like I said, Not that I blame them, if the API needed to run the app isn't there, it isn't there.--and needing the Windows API makes it a Windows program by definition. What I was trying to say (but apparently failed) is that he would be better off drawing a parallel closer to the situation at hand--like a DoohickySoft program looking for another program by DookickySoft, and not because it has required DLLs (which doesn't even make sense in this situation), but because DoohickySoft wants you to have both programs and not just one.
Well, I for one agree with the current method of promoting longer posts--they usually have better content IMHO. I've thought of suggesting it before, but Rob seems to have beat me to it. Yay! (Though the fact that so many would like the other way around probably means that there should be a choice between the opposites--radio button time obviously)
Though I like the system, it'd be nice if I can tell where it kicked in. Maybe you could change it so the point totals showed up like: "(2+1: Interesting)" or "(3: Interesting, Long Comment Bonus)" or somesuch. Maybe it's just me, but I'd prefer to know when somebody else liked (my) post and when it was just my preferences.
If you look in your preferences, you'll see two new options to customise. These are the +/- Rob was talking about. Basically, it's a per-user option, not a global thing, so don't worry.
Those that write windows programs don't intentionally insert code to make sure their programs work only on Windows.
Wrong. They do exactly that. Not that I blame them, if the API needed to run the app isn't there, it isn't there. If you've ever tried to run a windows program from the DOS command line, you'd see that it says "Requires Windows" or similar and then halts. It sure didn't do that by accident.
If the server containing he data had crashed, he would have had multiple backups of the information--that was done automatically. The problem here is that those backups are/have been/soon will be destroyed. Yes, he should have had a personal backup, but your scenario simply doesn't hold up. After all, multiple backups sounds sufficiently redundant to me.
Here's my helpful hint: Look around before you jump to comment--I wrote my post about 10 hours before you did, so you really have no excuse for missing it. If you are having trouble seeing everbody's comments because you can't tell what is relevant or not, use nested mode instead of threaded...it's higher bandwidth perhaps, but you never risk missing something b/c you didn't click on something relevant--it's less work too. YMMV.
Perhaps we should just admit that NT is, for the momment, a better high performance web/file server
If you read the article (which I can't tell from your post), you would see that we don't have to accept that NT is better than Linux "for now." They aren't--except in that one case (I agree, it sounds like MS researched the one weakness they could find).
Coding is more productive than benchmark anyway.
Benchmarks lead to better code because it shows where the code is ineffient and can be better. I think that all this hubub (especially C't's benchmark) did a lot of good--it shows all the fL4m3rZ that Linux isn't perfect (and let the kernel hackers start fixing) and it shows the MS people that Linux performs better for most everything else. Furthermore, the order of disclosure shows that the Linux community can maturely accept problems with its beloved OS, once it is accepted that the benchmark is legit. This final benchmark simply proves a lot of people's gut feelings on the matter ("That can't be right...") and gives Linux the redemption it deserves.
I'd rather they not fragment slashdot at ALL. What would be the point/purpose? The glory of the web/Internet is that it is global. We are just one big, happy, global community. We've already got regional news to an extent: USA, Australian stuff, etc. Why do we need to break it up any more than that? (Besides, things would be a lot less fun if we Americans couldn't protest the censorship in Australia, etc.) I'll agree to the point (made elsewhere) that we probably need more European/Asian/etc posters, but not that we need/should have any fragmentation of Slashdot itself.
If you are having trouble downloading it all, then lower your maxcomments in your preferences--oh, that's right...you're an AC. Get an account!
How much relation does this development have to E-Ink (the stuff that was made in MIT)? It sounds like almost the same product, but E-Ink, IIRC, is only an output medium. However, this "new" development from Xerox sounds like it is an input medium as well as output (see the last line concerning "wands" and printers). Are these the same product or not? Anybody know?
FWIW, I think it only really makes sense as an output medium...not for input--pen tablets seem to be plenty good enough thus far (or just plain old-fashioned paper).
I mean, really. If I were serious would I be so blatant? I used the word fornicate fer christ sake - this was obviously satire
Would you be so blatant? Definately. At NCSU, we have a preacher (we call him the brickyard preacher) who has made it his mission to preach to all us ungodly college students--and the language you used exactly mimics his. He uses the term "fornicate," etc. Furthermore, his preaching is equally bad--"women should go around bare-foot and pregnant", "God gave men the right to beat their wives, it says so right here in the bible!", etc. He is there every single day we have class, preaching away in ernest. That's more scary than anything else (albeit somewhat funny).
Now that I reread your post in light of your intended humor, I see the satire. But how am I to know that was a joke when you could well be my very own brickyard preacher come online? I'm glad you aren't, but it was genuinely possible that you were completely serious. I mean, hey! Look at your nick! [g]
I personally don't find it all that hard to have an account. For each machine I browse slashdot on, I only have to log in once (assuming I allow the cookie). After that, I can forget it quite easily and always be logged in. And people generally pay more attention to users than ACs. You can also get some responses to questions/comments off-site if your email is available (I've only gotten one--positive at that--so don't worry too much...).
Ok. Let us say they don't. What has changed? There is still a maximum amount that the library is willing to pay for bandwidth--that's how budgets are made. In the extreme case that they go over budget, they cut the connection. So either way, there is a maximum to the bandwidth transferred.
This might be a sore point, but I think your post would be a lot stronger if you would actually tell us what pr0n has done to (your?) kids. You've got me begging to know...especially since you went through all that trouble to not only boldface it, but also to type that pesky shift key with every letter of that sentence. (That's screaming in my ear, btw). So I would really appreaciate if you would expand upon that.
That isn't always possible. Where I work, they disable customization for the browser so people won't try to bypass the proxy/firewall--so I can't disable JavaScript (ok, I can hack the prefs.js file in Netscape, but some versions of Netscape allow the admins to lock the preferences too...so I'm back to square one). And yes, we could talk to the admins, but MMV depending on a lot of things: the beauracracy (sp), the tradeoffs that were made when they chose the settings, etc.
Don't be so quick to assume that everybody's life is just like yours.
[Retches at the utter intolerance] Um...if she's an agent of the person you call "Jesus Christ" then I want no part of her. Thanks for pointing this out to me Dante--though perhaps you didn't influence me in the way you had hoped.
May this be a lesson to you on the value of your preaching.
I have to admit that when I first read this I thought "Oh no!" but now that I've read your comments, I have to agree with everyone else here. It sounds like you guys put a lot of thought into this and your decision sounds very sound. Congratulations on your freedom--this site is really really cool--and you guys deserve to reap the benefits (financially) of this.
(However, I have to agree with the other poster who said this: only one ad, please!)
Probably 90% of NNTP traffic today consists of people stripping attachments (pornography and warez) out of the.BINARY newsgroups. There are commercial applications for that express purpose these days (i.e. NewsBin, Pluckitt.) Hint: those programs IGNORE the text part of the message.
Forgive my cluelessness. How does this violate netiquette? [sigh] I wasn't even aware it was a netiquette issue not to post emails...anybody care to point me to a good FAQ, then? I've read up on netiquette, but nobody has mentioned this until now:-( (Boy do I feel dumb)
From what I've seen so far, many of the Slashdot comments aren't much more impressive. It seems that no matter what the topic of the day is, talk of M$ gets into it. What does M$ have anything to do with nanomachines?!!? Nothing. But, some AC flamed about them anyway. But when somebody pointed that out, he--and not the original poster--was moderated down for being off-topic (since then, that has been corrected). Furthermore, dattaway said "Could it be there really is a problem with Microsoft? Nah...couldn't be!" is still at +2--apparently his default post level (thus a "respected member of the community). How is this going to impress anyone?! When we can police ourselves, we often don't! Yes, it has been fixed now (somewhat) but comments are a work in progress--do you really expect people to keep checking back to see if we moderated people down? The point remains--at one point the AC protesting the M$ bashing was moderated down and the original AC was not (you'll have to talk to CmdrTaco for proof of that). Therefore, this is something that affects even us, and not from "a few poor misinformed people that just don't know better." This is commonplace! Iambe encountered it in #Linux (see userfriendly, it should be in the archives) as well, and she's a devout Linuxer! It doesn't matter how much you are provoked or how stupid you think somebody is! If you respond with nothing more than childish four letter words, you aren't going to be respected!
I remember reading on USENET about somebody who posted to both the Linux and NT advocacy forums a question about the merits of the 2 OS's handling of multitasking. He said that he got flames from both the NT and Linux sides on the matter--but far more Linux flames. Furthermore, he got more substance out of the NT people. For saying that, he got far more flamage concerning how he shouldn't have posted to advocacy forums if he didn't want flames (?!?) and that he was lying because he wouldn't show them the offending emails. You can't win against this sort of thing!! And that is going to turn people off about Linux faster than anything else!
People who say that we don't need to care and that flaming is ok as long as it's pro-Linux are sadly mistaken, I'd say. In business, it's PR and not merit that often wins the day because people don't have much patience to sit down and learn all the merits of one system over another. It is terrifying to think that there are people out there that are looking for valueable information in a non-confrontational way and get flamed to death for not being born with the knowledge! That, plain and simple, is unacceptable, IMHO.
I don't pretend to have solutions, but one idea I've seen floating around that I really like is that we take responsibility for this--like the adults we are. We should form some sort of advocacy group, very public, that won't flame and give us all a bad image. Anytime we need a statement to be made, they will make it in a professional well-thought manner. And what they say should be recognised as basically the final word--no need for flames, etc (we might hope). I fear that there may be a lot of people that could represent Linux well, but don't choose too. We need more people taking an active role that would also be a positive influence.
If this gets marked down, so be it--it'll only prove my point. Please! Prove me wrong.
I don't think letters are covered in that. Copyright protects creative works. The law doesn't define creative as just taking effort of any amount not matter how little, but requiring a unique effort put forth that somehow advances human knowledge, etc IIRC. So letters--especially these letters--wouldn't apply under copyright law.
I may be incorrect in that assessment, it's been a while since I read up on copyright law, but that is what I remember.
In Moonwar by Ben Bova, the people on the moon use nanotechnology to survive on the moon. This causes them to be at odds with the people of Earth, who all fear nanotechnology and have banned it. Anyway, at one point, it gets revealed that they designed the nanobots to deactivate in the presence of UV light. This prevents them from going completely out of control without a viable means to stop them on a macroscopic scale. They also mentioned that they weren't required to do it this way, but they preferred to (they didn't like the idea of nanobots running amok any more than you or me).
So basically, anybody dabbling in nanotechnology is going to have to be very careful to build an emergency shutoff switch into any nanobots they make--or learn how to do it as soon as possible. Of course, if the person is malignant...well what can we do? I can do good or bad things with guns and knives. Do we need to ban guns or knives? or gun and knife research?
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I know! That was my point! (Though no one seems to have noticed that). Natedog's argument was that this constitutes a predatory practice. It doesn't, it's necessary. Like I said, Not that I blame them, if the API needed to run the app isn't there, it isn't there.--and needing the Windows API makes it a Windows program by definition. What I was trying to say (but apparently failed) is that he would be better off drawing a parallel closer to the situation at hand--like a DoohickySoft program looking for another program by DookickySoft, and not because it has required DLLs (which doesn't even make sense in this situation), but because DoohickySoft wants you to have both programs and not just one.
I hope that cleared things up.
Though I like the system, it'd be nice if I can tell where it kicked in. Maybe you could change it so the point totals showed up like: "(2+1: Interesting)" or "(3: Interesting, Long Comment Bonus)" or somesuch. Maybe it's just me, but I'd prefer to know when somebody else liked (my) post and when it was just my preferences.
If you look in your preferences, you'll see two new options to customise. These are the +/- Rob was talking about. Basically, it's a per-user option, not a global thing, so don't worry.
Wrong. They do exactly that. Not that I blame them, if the API needed to run the app isn't there, it isn't there. If you've ever tried to run a windows program from the DOS command line, you'd see that it says "Requires Windows" or similar and then halts. It sure didn't do that by accident.
This may not correct the problem, but it'll getcha closer.
This is strange...I've tried to look up here at work and I get "Bad IP Address." However, I did make it to their web site once. What's going on?
If the server containing he data had crashed, he would have had multiple backups of the information--that was done automatically. The problem here is that those backups are/have been/soon will be destroyed. Yes, he should have had a personal backup, but your scenario simply doesn't hold up. After all, multiple backups sounds sufficiently redundant to me.
Maybe paranoia has some benefits, after all... :-(
Here's my helpful hint: Look around before you jump to comment--I wrote my post about 10 hours before you did, so you really have no excuse for missing it. If you are having trouble seeing everbody's comments because you can't tell what is relevant or not, use nested mode instead of threaded...it's higher bandwidth perhaps, but you never risk missing something b/c you didn't click on something relevant--it's less work too. YMMV.
If you read the article (which I can't tell from your post), you would see that we don't have to accept that NT is better than Linux "for now." They aren't--except in that one case (I agree, it sounds like MS researched the one weakness they could find).
Coding is more productive than benchmark anyway.
Benchmarks lead to better code because it shows where the code is ineffient and can be better. I think that all this hubub (especially C't's benchmark) did a lot of good--it shows all the fL4m3rZ that Linux isn't perfect (and let the kernel hackers start fixing) and it shows the MS people that Linux performs better for most everything else. Furthermore, the order of disclosure shows that the Linux community can maturely accept problems with its beloved OS, once it is accepted that the benchmark is legit. This final benchmark simply proves a lot of people's gut feelings on the matter ("That can't be right...") and gives Linux the redemption it deserves.
If you are having trouble downloading it all, then lower your maxcomments in your preferences--oh, that's right...you're an AC. Get an account!
FWIW, I think it only really makes sense as an output medium...not for input--pen tablets seem to be plenty good enough thus far (or just plain old-fashioned paper).
Hemos has explained this several times. Nothing. The contract has to be obeyed no matter who owns the site.
Would you be so blatant? Definately. At NCSU, we have a preacher (we call him the brickyard preacher) who has made it his mission to preach to all us ungodly college students--and the language you used exactly mimics his. He uses the term "fornicate," etc. Furthermore, his preaching is equally bad--"women should go around bare-foot and pregnant", "God gave men the right to beat their wives, it says so right here in the bible!", etc. He is there every single day we have class, preaching away in ernest. That's more scary than anything else (albeit somewhat funny).
Now that I reread your post in light of your intended humor, I see the satire. But how am I to know that was a joke when you could well be my very own brickyard preacher come online? I'm glad you aren't, but it was genuinely possible that you were completely serious. I mean, hey! Look at your nick! [g]
I personally don't find it all that hard to have an account. For each machine I browse slashdot on, I only have to log in once (assuming I allow the cookie). After that, I can forget it quite easily and always be logged in. And people generally pay more attention to users than ACs. You can also get some responses to questions/comments off-site if your email is available (I've only gotten one--positive at that--so don't worry too much...).
At least that way you have the option.
Ok. Let us say they don't. What has changed? There is still a maximum amount that the library is willing to pay for bandwidth--that's how budgets are made. In the extreme case that they go over budget, they cut the connection. So either way, there is a maximum to the bandwidth transferred.
Thanks.
Don't be so quick to assume that everybody's life is just like yours.
May this be a lesson to you on the value of your preaching.
(However, I have to agree with the other poster who said this: only one ad, please!)
[cough] I'm not sure if you realize it, but that was part of the point...they (flamers) can't (or don't) spell.
Forgive my cluelessness. How does this violate netiquette? [sigh] I wasn't even aware it was a netiquette issue not to post emails...anybody care to point me to a good FAQ, then? I've read up on netiquette, but nobody has mentioned this until now :-( (Boy do I feel dumb)
I remember reading on USENET about somebody who posted to both the Linux and NT advocacy forums a question about the merits of the 2 OS's handling of multitasking. He said that he got flames from both the NT and Linux sides on the matter--but far more Linux flames. Furthermore, he got more substance out of the NT people. For saying that, he got far more flamage concerning how he shouldn't have posted to advocacy forums if he didn't want flames (?!?) and that he was lying because he wouldn't show them the offending emails. You can't win against this sort of thing!! And that is going to turn people off about Linux faster than anything else!
People who say that we don't need to care and that flaming is ok as long as it's pro-Linux are sadly mistaken, I'd say. In business, it's PR and not merit that often wins the day because people don't have much patience to sit down and learn all the merits of one system over another. It is terrifying to think that there are people out there that are looking for valueable information in a non-confrontational way and get flamed to death for not being born with the knowledge! That, plain and simple, is unacceptable, IMHO.
I don't pretend to have solutions, but one idea I've seen floating around that I really like is that we take responsibility for this--like the adults we are. We should form some sort of advocacy group, very public, that won't flame and give us all a bad image. Anytime we need a statement to be made, they will make it in a professional well-thought manner. And what they say should be recognised as basically the final word--no need for flames, etc (we might hope). I fear that there may be a lot of people that could represent Linux well, but don't choose too. We need more people taking an active role that would also be a positive influence.
If this gets marked down, so be it--it'll only prove my point. Please! Prove me wrong.
I may be incorrect in that assessment, it's been a while since I read up on copyright law, but that is what I remember.
So basically, anybody dabbling in nanotechnology is going to have to be very careful to build an emergency shutoff switch into any nanobots they make--or learn how to do it as soon as possible. Of course, if the person is malignant...well what can we do? I can do good or bad things with guns and knives. Do we need to ban guns or knives? or gun and knife research?
Power is Neutral. Its use is what is good or evil.
You need to go to your stats page and at the very very very bottom it has a link with "Email me my password." That's how you get your password. Then use that email and password to log in and change your team affiliation