...only on Slashdot (& it's Newsforge affiliates) do we see nerds enough to TRY AND GET A VIRUS! I fear for the rest of the world, and lead them in saying that, I, for one, welcome our new nerd overlords!
But what exactly is the speed of light? If I stand here and shine a laser, sure, it has a speed, but think about it: This planet is hurtling through space at breakneck speeds. Now add the speed of light from my laser to the speed the Earth is moving, and voila! You have a speed faster than the speed of light. Of course, you then have to take into account that the speed of the Earth is relative also. (To the other celestial bodies) When you really think about it, speed doesn't exist. So if speed doesn't really exist, then it should be easy to go however fast we want to go! Say hello to spacial folding and the Matrix! (As well as a headache from thinking too hard!)
Wait a minute here, lemme get this straight. We have a redneck buffoon as our commander in chief, which means he's the one controlling the robots with guns!?
Excuse me while I scream in terror and flee to another galaxy.
Could this be a potential practical use for something like Bittorrent? You could load balance all the data, so both transactions and shear data ammount wouldn't overwhelm servers. In the words of Mythbusters: Possible, Plausible, Busted?
XML is good if you want the data to be read and/or modified by a human, or if you want to exchange data between 2 different programs that would otherwise have no common language. This is what XML should stay as. I've seen applications that use XML to store proprietary data that no human would ever need to read! This is a completely wrong use of it, as it just wastes the programmers time, and the processors time parsing the XML. People need to learn how to use things for what they are meant for, and not force stuff to work for applications they weren't designed for.
No one said the EU system was worse. No one said the US system was better. The simple matter of the fact is that we here in the US are too wrapped up in beurocratic nonsense to be able to figure out anything that simple. If it doesn't require us to fill out 42 forms, all in triplicate, then it must not work!
Shit... now instead of getting Windows infected with every virus known to man (including polio) within 10 minutes of connecting to the intraweb, we can get it infected within 10 minutes of turning it on!
I've worked for Google before with absolutely NO interview/aptitude test/screening/anything! Now, mind you, I was working with a production company doing one of thier big IPO parties, but ultimatly I was getting my money from Google!;-P
(Mmmmm... IPO parties. Google splurged on the one I worked at. They even had a sandcastle built that said "Google" in the sand!)
Oh, there are legal uses for sure. The question is, how many people will actually buy this stuff for it's legal uses?
I work in production, and this would be great for quickly changing the look of a set. However, I know that if I were ever to rob a bank, this would be my #1 tool. Put on 2 different layers before you rob the place, drive up, rob it, drive off and hide in an alley before the cops show up, strip it off and drive off normaly, find a more secure location and take off the second layer, drive further off. Last step - NEVER return! (Not that I WOULD, but I do have it all planned out!;-P )
Is that warning intended for hordes of Slashdotters with Cable/DSL, or for the webserver hosting the file? Or perhaps its a warning that the hordes of Slashdotters with Cable/DSL won't be able to access it anymore?
...President Bush and his International coalition (of which the next largest nation is contributing half of what we are) has just added Mother Nature to his axis of evil, saying that she is helping terrorists, as well as committing terrorist acts herself. Bush has given Mother Nature an ultimatum, telling her to leave this planet within the next 24 hours or we will declare war on her. It is expected that Mother Nature will stay and fight, but looks as if this will be another victory by the Bush administration.
If I own it, I should be able to do whatever the f*ck I want with it, as long as it doesn't interfere with other people doing whatever the f*ck they want with the stuff they own.
I feel like the Allies the first time they saw the ME-262 with a turbofan in it! WTF!? Where did this "SkyOS" come from anyways!? It looks pretty dang good, so how did this single guy do it on his own? Why hasn't Linux had a nice jump like this at all? WTF mate!?
I will now be taking bets on how much it will cost the "average Joe" consumer to break this copy protection. ie: 99cent sharpie and draw around the outside.
For those of us who haven't read the book "Earthsea", is it worth reading? I hear it's good, but the mini-series kinda killed it for me. I liked the premise, but I think it was horribly executed.
How much money is the system costing? Too much. How is it justified? It isn't.
The missle defense system is just a toy for Bush. It's like he's a little kid who see's candy in the checkout lane and whines until he gets it. The missle defense system has never been proven to work. In tests, half the time the missle was successfully shot down when we knew the EXACT trajectory of the missle beforehand. When we didn't know the trajectory we had a 0% success rate. Now a normal person would have waited at least until we had a 10% success rate, but Bush decided to DEPLOY the system as-is! This is truely a new level in dumbassness.
I wouldn't suggest FIRST. First of all (no pun intended, really!) FIRST bots are remote controlled, which means they require NO programming skills. Second, the teams have "mentors" which are industry professionals. While this may seem like a good thing, I have heard too many stories about the students doing nothing while the professionals do everything. (Heck, I would!)
Botball is much better, as it is 100% student work (teachers/mentors aren't even allowed in the work area during the competition), requires programming (the bots are fully autanamous), and is easy enough for beginners, yet provides a challenge for the more advanced teams.
Slashdot Mirror
...only on Slashdot (& it's Newsforge affiliates) do we see nerds enough to TRY AND GET A VIRUS! I fear for the rest of the world, and lead them in saying that, I, for one, welcome our new nerd overlords!
But what exactly is the speed of light? If I stand here and shine a laser, sure, it has a speed, but think about it: This planet is hurtling through space at breakneck speeds. Now add the speed of light from my laser to the speed the Earth is moving, and voila! You have a speed faster than the speed of light. Of course, you then have to take into account that the speed of the Earth is relative also. (To the other celestial bodies) When you really think about it, speed doesn't exist. So if speed doesn't really exist, then it should be easy to go however fast we want to go! Say hello to spacial folding and the Matrix! (As well as a headache from thinking too hard!)
Don't you read Slashdot!? They already did!
Pentagon To Send Robot Soldiers to Iraq
Wait a minute here, lemme get this straight. We have a redneck buffoon as our commander in chief, which means he's the one controlling the robots with guns!?
Excuse me while I scream in terror and flee to another galaxy.
Could this be a potential practical use for something like Bittorrent? You could load balance all the data, so both transactions and shear data ammount wouldn't overwhelm servers. In the words of Mythbusters: Possible, Plausible, Busted?
Read as MiniMac. Don't blame me! I'm a lighting guy!
XML is good if you want the data to be read and/or modified by a human, or if you want to exchange data between 2 different programs that would otherwise have no common language. This is what XML should stay as. I've seen applications that use XML to store proprietary data that no human would ever need to read! This is a completely wrong use of it, as it just wastes the programmers time, and the processors time parsing the XML. People need to learn how to use things for what they are meant for, and not force stuff to work for applications they weren't designed for.
*cough*Magnatune*cough*
No one said the EU system was worse.
No one said the US system was better.
The simple matter of the fact is that we here in the US are too wrapped up in beurocratic nonsense to be able to figure out anything that simple. If it doesn't require us to fill out 42 forms, all in triplicate, then it must not work!
Shit... now instead of getting Windows infected with every virus known to man (including polio) within 10 minutes of connecting to the intraweb, we can get it infected within 10 minutes of turning it on!
I've worked for Google before with absolutely NO interview/aptitude test/screening/anything! Now, mind you, I was working with a production company doing one of thier big IPO parties, but ultimatly I was getting my money from Google! ;-P
(Mmmmm... IPO parties. Google splurged on the one I worked at. They even had a sandcastle built that said "Google" in the sand!)
Oh, there are legal uses for sure. The question is, how many people will actually buy this stuff for it's legal uses?
;-P )
I work in production, and this would be great for quickly changing the look of a set. However, I know that if I were ever to rob a bank, this would be my #1 tool. Put on 2 different layers before you rob the place, drive up, rob it, drive off and hide in an alley before the cops show up, strip it off and drive off normaly, find a more secure location and take off the second layer, drive further off. Last step - NEVER return!
(Not that I WOULD, but I do have it all planned out!
With these cables how are they going to fly the kite from the ground?
Here, grab this end of the wire. Now, run REALLY fast....
Is that warning intended for hordes of Slashdotters with Cable/DSL, or for the webserver hosting the file? Or perhaps its a warning that the hordes of Slashdotters with Cable/DSL won't be able to access it anymore?
...President Bush and his International coalition (of which the next largest nation is contributing half of what we are) has just added Mother Nature to his axis of evil, saying that she is helping terrorists, as well as committing terrorist acts herself. Bush has given Mother Nature an ultimatum, telling her to leave this planet within the next 24 hours or we will declare war on her. It is expected that Mother Nature will stay and fight, but looks as if this will be another victory by the Bush administration.
Anything works with Linux, as long as you have drivers for it. Therein lies the problem....
If I own it, I should be able to do whatever the f*ck I want with it, as long as it doesn't interfere with other people doing whatever the f*ck they want with the stuff they own.
"You've got ma...."
WOOHOO! No more voices in my computer!
(Hopefully they don't know how to embed sounds into web pages....)
I feel like the Allies the first time they saw the ME-262 with a turbofan in it! WTF!? Where did this "SkyOS" come from anyways!? It looks pretty dang good, so how did this single guy do it on his own? Why hasn't Linux had a nice jump like this at all? WTF mate!?
I will now be taking bets on how much it will cost the "average Joe" consumer to break this copy protection. ie: 99cent sharpie and draw around the outside.
*gets off elevator*
"...Now I know my apartment is around here somewhere, just give me a minute to find where it's at right now...."
No, Bush didn't rent that, he bought it, and it was a good investment seeing as how often he probably uses it.
For those of us who haven't read the book "Earthsea", is it worth reading? I hear it's good, but the mini-series kinda killed it for me. I liked the premise, but I think it was horribly executed.
How much money is the system costing? Too much. How is it justified? It isn't.
The missle defense system is just a toy for Bush. It's like he's a little kid who see's candy in the checkout lane and whines until he gets it. The missle defense system has never been proven to work. In tests, half the time the missle was successfully shot down when we knew the EXACT trajectory of the missle beforehand. When we didn't know the trajectory we had a 0% success rate. Now a normal person would have waited at least until we had a 10% success rate, but Bush decided to DEPLOY the system as-is! This is truely a new level in dumbassness.
I wouldn't suggest FIRST. First of all (no pun intended, really!) FIRST bots are remote controlled, which means they require NO programming skills. Second, the teams have "mentors" which are industry professionals. While this may seem like a good thing, I have heard too many stories about the students doing nothing while the professionals do everything. (Heck, I would!)
Botball is much better, as it is 100% student work (teachers/mentors aren't even allowed in the work area during the competition), requires programming (the bots are fully autanamous), and is easy enough for beginners, yet provides a challenge for the more advanced teams.