And, for the record, I have nothing but respect for you personally. I just don't have a problem with disabling the ads here and bypassing part [most?] of your revenue stream.
If Slashdot moves to a subscripton only method, the community (or at least me) will happily move on to kuro5hin or some similar site.
I'm not going to pay $5 a month or whatever for every 2 bit web log written by people who don't even care enough to check spelling or make sure the same story doesn't get posted multiple times (each with unique, glaring errors). When I'm literally paying per page view, I don't want to waste page views on things I've seen.
If Slashdot goes under because I didn't pay to view contect created by someone else, I won't shed a tear. I have no vested interest in making sure their business model succeeds, just like the US government shouldn't be making laws solely to preserve the income of a single powerful industry.
You shouldn't care either, unless you have some financial or friendship bond to VA or the editors Slashdot employs. I have better things to do with my life than watch after the revenue stream of a web site.
I know there are others, but I can't seem to find them at the moment. It's certainly my underestanding that there have been water cooled laptops in production for quite a while.
Not so. The three would each be off by 1/3 of a period.
Just like three phase power... three sine waves 120 degrees apart. Sum them and you have a constant 0.
I've no idea if that would actually happen in that setup, but my guess would be that yes, they would cancel each other out in total antiphase this way.
Wal Mart's very *existence* in a community destroys "mom and pop" retailers. It's for a REASON: Wal Mart sells more things at lower prices than the mom and pop retailer. I'd certainly rather that.
And censorship at Wal Mart? Do they have Playboy and Hustler (or even Maxim) on the magazine rack? Does Wal Mart have an "Adult" DVD section?
I think Wal Mart's "censorship" (read: not selling CD's that require warning labels) is perfectly reasonable and consistent. Don't sell any obscene media. You can still go buy your rap cd's full of cursing at Wherehouse or CDNow, just like you can buy your Maxim or softcore porn movies at another local retailer or through the internet.
Wal Mart censoring? Get the fuck over it, it's a family store, and I wouldn't want going to the store with my children to be an uncomfortable experience.
Any sufficiently large business will create a huge amount of opposition, no matter what they do. I buy things cheaply at Wal Mart. I'm very happy with their "censorship" of music, magazines, and video. The stores create tons of jobs, don't treat their employees any worse than most major retailers (or fast food joints). Take your preaching about censorship elsewhere and *pull your head out your ass*. Would you rather do your shopping with your kids at three different corner stores, each of which has obscene music and porn mags on the racks?
If you want to check out the movies that have had the most Oscar nominations, check out this list for summaries by film.
The nominations record is held by Titanic and All About Eve (1950) at 14, and the most wins award is shared between Titanic and Ben Hur (1959, 12 nominations) at 11. Titanic is the only of these three to have won Best Picture. It's kindy funny that of 12 nominations for Ben Hur, the only it didn't win was Best Picture. Damn, what's it take?;)
I'm not sure, but I'd also imagine there are more categories now than in 1950, so those numbers might not be all *that* meaningful.
Titanic had 14 nominations, and it won 11 of them.
13 is a hell of a lot for one movie..well done, epic, mainstream movies with decent to excellent acting are the movies that make those huge Oscar sweeps, simply because so much work goes into them. Makeup, effects, costuming, editing, sound, cinematography...that's where these movies get those huge numbers;)
Quake didn't have those degrees of freedom. You couldn't have overlapping passages, for instance. There was no true vertical dimension in the engine, it was only simulated.
Think about this...in Q3A or UT, you have to point upward to shoot at someone standing on a platform. In Quake, you pointed towards the platform and the shots automatically went "up" to where the person was standing.
No corkscrew shaped tunnels in Quake, the 3D part was really just polygonal characters and walls instead of Doom's sprites, not a true 3D engine.
A lot of people seem to be under the impression that the client he was running was SETI@home and was therefore innoculous.
Well, he was running some distrubuted.net-type decryption client where he would have WON MONEY had he been the one to find a key.
Not so humanitarian and innoculous now, is it?
Years in prison and a $400,000 fine are extremely way beyond reason, but I can see how this was a crime as he stole company resources for personal gain.
The $2100 fine does seem reasonable as I think he would have won $2000.
It wasn't SETI@home, it was something like distributed.net (may have actually been), and he WOULD have won a financial prize had he been the one to find the key.
Jupiter probably has a rocky core of 10-15 earth masses, according to NASA. Therefore, it is not simply a gas giant.
Secondly, it has 1/12th the mass necessary to become a brown dwarf, which can sustain true convection and deuterium fission (according to a couple other posts).
Liquid hydrogen at it's core? No.
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That, and the fact that it says "booting up" when you turn it on.
I really don't think that Microsoft discontinuing support for old versions of Windows will make anyone switch to Linux.
When was the last time you called up MS for tech support for Windows? Most people just don't care, or are even aware MS will provide any tech support at all.
I don't anticipate a large exodus to Linux when MS stops providing support. There's no reason at all to think that people will move to and learn a new *operating system* that doesn't provide them anything new over Windows 98 with no official support.
Everyone has been predicting that Linux will explode any minute now for *years*. This won't make it happen any sooner. Fact is, Linux doesn't provide anything over Windows for the vast majority of people, and MS has massive marketing muscle. Linux isn't poised to overcome that at all. Linux will need a ton of marketing money, and do something WINDOWS DOESN'T.
As much as people make fun of MS never innovating anything, everything I see in Linux development is meant to bring its functionality in line with Windows. If I see anything in Linux that enables me to do more than Windows, and do it with more stability (sorry, in my experience, Linux with X gives a much more unstable environment than 2k or XP), I'll give it another try.
For the moment, for me, it's XP on me desktop, 2k on my laptop, and OpenBSD on my server.
That's absurd. Imagine paying $10/month for each of GNOME, the kernel, your office suite, etc etc.
As another poster mentioned, that's $10 ($30, $40..) more than MS is asking for per month for automatic updates.
I'd actually think about paying $10/month for fast auto updates for the entirety of my distribution...it'd be nice to go to *one* site, make three clicks, wait for the download, and have my entire system up to date with the latest patches. Even better if it were done automatically.
But paying $10/month for one [albeit large] component of my system just invites others to charge for other components.
So much for avoiding the MS license if that happens, right?
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You obviously haven't experienced ClearType first hand.
MS has a checkbox on a website that enables ClearType instantly.
The difference on my CRT is nothing short of amazing.
Touchee ;)
And, for the record, I have nothing but respect for you personally. I just don't have a problem with disabling the ads here and bypassing part [most?] of your revenue stream.
If Slashdot moves to a subscripton only method, the community (or at least me) will happily move on to kuro5hin or some similar site.
I'm not going to pay $5 a month or whatever for every 2 bit web log written by people who don't even care enough to check spelling or make sure the same story doesn't get posted multiple times (each with unique, glaring errors). When I'm literally paying per page view, I don't want to waste page views on things I've seen.
If Slashdot goes under because I didn't pay to view contect created by someone else, I won't shed a tear. I have no vested interest in making sure their business model succeeds, just like the US government shouldn't be making laws solely to preserve the income of a single powerful industry.
You shouldn't care either, unless you have some financial or friendship bond to VA or the editors Slashdot employs. I have better things to do with my life than watch after the revenue stream of a web site.
Windows users who aren't using junkbuster or some other ad filter can put the following in their hosts (xp: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)
:)
127.0.0.1 images.slashdot.org/cgi-bin
to disable the big ugly ads
Water cooled laptops are nothing new at all. Check out these water cooling laptop articles, produced from a quick google search:
Toshiba
IBM
I know there are others, but I can't seem to find them at the moment. It's certainly my underestanding that there have been water cooled laptops in production for quite a while.
I've... never seen that, actually, but I do a lot of whitewater kayaking, and most of the sport is based on surfing our kayaks in waves on rivers ;)
Not so. The three would each be off by 1/3 of a period.
Just like three phase power... three sine waves 120 degrees apart. Sum them and you have a constant 0.
I've no idea if that would actually happen in that setup, but my guess would be that yes, they would cancel each other out in total antiphase this way.
Wal Mart's very *existence* in a community destroys "mom and pop" retailers. It's for a REASON: Wal Mart sells more things at lower prices than the mom and pop retailer. I'd certainly rather that.
And censorship at Wal Mart? Do they have Playboy and Hustler (or even Maxim) on the magazine rack? Does Wal Mart have an "Adult" DVD section?
I think Wal Mart's "censorship" (read: not selling CD's that require warning labels) is perfectly reasonable and consistent. Don't sell any obscene media. You can still go buy your rap cd's full of cursing at Wherehouse or CDNow, just like you can buy your Maxim or softcore porn movies at another local retailer or through the internet.
Wal Mart censoring? Get the fuck over it, it's a family store, and I wouldn't want going to the store with my children to be an uncomfortable experience.
Any sufficiently large business will create a huge amount of opposition, no matter what they do. I buy things cheaply at Wal Mart. I'm very happy with their "censorship" of music, magazines, and video. The stores create tons of jobs, don't treat their employees any worse than most major retailers (or fast food joints). Take your preaching about censorship elsewhere and *pull your head out your ass*. Would you rather do your shopping with your kids at three different corner stores, each of which has obscene music and porn mags on the racks?
Didn't think so.
I believe he meant no Mircosoft products on his own computer, so he could follow the link without fear.
Sounds like a porn flick to me ;)
If you want to check out the movies that have had the most Oscar nominations, check out this list for summaries by film.
;)
The nominations record is held by Titanic and All About Eve (1950) at 14, and the most wins award is shared between Titanic and Ben Hur (1959, 12 nominations) at 11. Titanic is the only of these three to have won Best Picture. It's kindy funny that of 12 nominations for Ben Hur, the only it didn't win was Best Picture. Damn, what's it take?
I'm not sure, but I'd also imagine there are more categories now than in 1950, so those numbers might not be all *that* meaningful.
Titanic had 14 nominations, and it won 11 of them. ;)
13 is a hell of a lot for one movie..well done, epic, mainstream movies with decent to excellent acting are the movies that make those huge Oscar sweeps, simply because so much work goes into them. Makeup, effects, costuming, editing, sound, cinematography...that's where these movies get those huge numbers
A gramme is better than a damn!
Quake didn't have those degrees of freedom. You couldn't have overlapping passages, for instance. There was no true vertical dimension in the engine, it was only simulated.
Think about this...in Q3A or UT, you have to point upward to shoot at someone standing on a platform. In Quake, you pointed towards the platform and the shots automatically went "up" to where the person was standing.
No corkscrew shaped tunnels in Quake, the 3D part was really just polygonal characters and walls instead of Doom's sprites, not a true 3D engine.
A lot of people seem to be under the impression that the client he was running was SETI@home and was therefore innoculous.
Well, he was running some distrubuted.net-type decryption client where he would have WON MONEY had he been the one to find a key.
Not so humanitarian and innoculous now, is it?
Years in prison and a $400,000 fine are extremely way beyond reason, but I can see how this was a crime as he stole company resources for personal gain.
The $2100 fine does seem reasonable as I think he would have won $2000.
It wasn't SETI@home, it was something like distributed.net (may have actually been), and he WOULD have won a financial prize had he been the one to find the key.
Jupiter probably has a rocky core of 10-15 earth masses, according to NASA. Therefore, it is not simply a gas giant.
Secondly, it has 1/12th the mass necessary to become a brown dwarf, which can sustain true convection and deuterium fission (according to a couple other posts).
Liquid hydrogen at it's core? No.
That, and the fact that it says "booting up" when you turn it on.
I've been using the nipple long enough to be *very* precise with it. It feels like second nature.
The BIGGEST plus, however, is that I don't have to move my hands from the keyboard position and back again to go from typing to pointing.
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I really don't think that Microsoft discontinuing support for old versions of Windows will make anyone switch to Linux.
When was the last time you called up MS for tech support for Windows? Most people just don't care, or are even aware MS will provide any tech support at all.
I don't anticipate a large exodus to Linux when MS stops providing support. There's no reason at all to think that people will move to and learn a new *operating system* that doesn't provide them anything new over Windows 98 with no official support.
Everyone has been predicting that Linux will explode any minute now for *years*. This won't make it happen any sooner. Fact is, Linux doesn't provide anything over Windows for the vast majority of people, and MS has massive marketing muscle. Linux isn't poised to overcome that at all. Linux will need a ton of marketing money, and do something WINDOWS DOESN'T.
As much as people make fun of MS never innovating anything, everything I see in Linux development is meant to bring its functionality in line with Windows. If I see anything in Linux that enables me to do more than Windows, and do it with more stability (sorry, in my experience, Linux with X gives a much more unstable environment than 2k or XP), I'll give it another try.
For the moment, for me, it's XP on me desktop, 2k on my laptop, and OpenBSD on my server.
My United Devices disributed agent (kinda like SETI@home for cancer research) rates the P4 1.5 GHz as 100%, and my Athlon XP at 1400 MHz as 133% :D
The VAIOs have always felt cheap and flimsy to me..compared to Thinkpads at least.
;)
I have a Thinkpad 600E and it is the most solid feeling laptop I've ever used.
Oh, I refuse to buy a laptop with a touchpad, and that rules out the VAIO line for me
At least spell "candidate" correctly.
$10/month for Ximian.
Hmm.
That's absurd. Imagine paying $10/month for each of GNOME, the kernel, your office suite, etc etc.
As another poster mentioned, that's $10 ($30, $40..) more than MS is asking for per month for automatic updates.
I'd actually think about paying $10/month for fast auto updates for the entirety of my distribution...it'd be nice to go to *one* site, make three clicks, wait for the download, and have my entire system up to date with the latest patches. Even better if it were done automatically.
But paying $10/month for one [albeit large] component of my system just invites others to charge for other components.
So much for avoiding the MS license if that happens, right?
TWICE the capacity, HALF the price.