Ahh, but if your neighbor's house happened to be a public museum, it's not quite the same as if it was mere private property.
If you didn't notice, yankees.com is a website. It's a server. Seriously, if you walked into the men's room right after someone sprayed graffiti all over its walls, intending to look at the graffiti, see if the paint's still wet, et cetera... does that give the police a right to jail you indefinitely because you "might be related to the crime in question"?
If you put up a poster, as part of a public display, and somebody paints "YOU SUCK" on it... would you persecute everyone who was curious about what the "YOU SUCK" was doing there, if it was actually painted on to the poster, or maybe just painted on to a transparent sheet put over the poster...
Now what would be smart is if the guy put a EULA on his hard drive - "By examining the contents of this drive, you hereby acknowledge that this property forever remains mine and cannot be removed from the premises for more than 72 hours."
Think that's ludicrous? Try buying a computer with WinME pre-installed. You can't use the computer without agreeing to the license. If you don't agree, it won't boot up. I'm just glad I happened to have a bootable Slackware CD lying around... because I couldn't even get to a DOS prompt to make bootdisks without agreeing to Microsoft's "License."
Funny, they don't make you sign anything to use the display model at the store. Maybe they should...
See, this is what punk rock is for.
Suicidal Tendencies and MxPx get me up in the morning, NOFX and Vision keep me working fast and hard, and Rancid helps me relax and fall asleep.
If nearly everyone used Linux in their childhood, and all distributions had various tests in the ~/.*shrc files which determined the user's gender and called fortune -o for females and fortune for males... do you think females would be inherently cruder and speak more vulgarly and explicitly later in life?
Personally, I don't think one gene whose chief responsibility is to determine what's in your crotch bears a heavy influence on mental talents, thoughts, and tendencies...
does anyone else see the problem with this?
many non-english languages have characters that aren't part of 7-bit ascii....
and isn't mandarin based on a huge array of symbols? since obviously this isn't gonna happen via raw text, it really becomes another language entirely when transcribed with phonetics... and where does the inflexion go? how can we be sure what we think the word is is really what the author intended?
true, english does have this problem to an extent, but in a language where a half dozen unrelated words are pronounced exactly the same other than the tone of your voice....
correct me if i'm wrong, but i haven't seen a standard system for writing inflexions with text.
what will happen to mulder's knack for his assumptions always magically being right so the plot either fits in 1, 2, or 3 one-hour episodes? will t-1k become the new character with the perfect 'gut-feeling' all the time? or what? maybe scully will be the new person with the "trust no one" motto... she seems to become less skeptical every episodes (or maybe this is just the fact that's so sexy in that fbi uniform distorting my perception:-)
"They are well within their rights to cancel your account whenever they get the urge (even over something as dumb as this)." many people don't realize ICQ is *not* legally obligated to continue providing their service; you've never paid them! there's really no room to complain if you've never given them money to provide their services... if they choose to provide their services for free, they can choose who (not) to provide them to. just because you invited a few friends over to your house for dinner, doesn't mean you have to let your entire neighborhood come in. "one's rights end where infringing upon other's rights begin" -- however, if you're infrining upon somebody's *priveleges*, it's a different issue altogether. although this whole age thing is rather silly, you have to admit... --theorangesquid "where are all the stupid people from, and how'd they get to be so dumb? bred on purple mountain range, feed amber waves of grain to lesser human beings" -nofx, 'the decline'
It used to be, a "computer" was a very large, oversized, bulky piece of machinery which sprawled several racks, had numerous I/O devices, and was rather cryptic in its use' its operators had to be very skilled.
As Microsoft has become synonymous with computer, people now picture a computer as a toy... this box which entertains them, like an interactive television.
If I'm not mistaken, the last time I treated my parents' microwave as a toy, I got in lots of trouble.
Computers are *tools* and shouldn't be played with... not to say you can't experiment with them, but mere 'playing' is solely for entertainment, whereas experimentation is designed to further knowledge.
Being tools, computers should have interfaces which also give tools a very prominent place. Windows is the worst possible way to make a computer a tool, and encourages a lack of seriousness in environments. Do you picture someone writing their doctorate thesis with Paperclip Man in the corner of their screen?
UNIX, in addition to having a far better way to show off the 'tool' power of computers, has countless years of experience with programmers. Advanced programmers can be *very* picky about what the OS and compiler do, and have been known to halt work on a project to write a new OS or compiler because the one they were using was annoying them.
And do you want your machine crashing while you're concentrating on coding? UNIX systems rarely, if ever, go down on you unless you're doing something really stupid with the kernel, RAM, primary disk, or swap files/partitions.
I do all my development under Linux and IRIX... I used to develop under Windows, but after having switched, I don't regret the change at all.
If he says what it's like in the future, then that might cause a paradox... what he tells us could change what 2020 is actually like, meaning he'd tell us something different, which would change what 2020 is actually like, meaning he'd tell us something different, which would change what 2020 is actually like,meaning he'd tell us something different, which would change what 2020 is actually like,.....
Well, he could force you to retract your post by making slashdot remove it or suffer under penalty of law, or he could pursue a copyright violation case, fining you for breaking copyright law. (I think... don't quote me on that)
I agree... I love printed manuals... I used to just sit and read them in the summer... same with encyclopedias and dictionaries... even if man pages and grep'able HOWTO/FAQ texts/HTML documents are convenient, sometimes it's just far easier to glance quickly through a book when you're looking for something you're not quite sure what to call...
'hobbled'? lol If a programmer understands the environment he's programming in, he shouldn't be hobbled by anything... Pointers don't cause any problems if you're careful, experienced, and well-planned. And nobody would want any haphazard, inexperienced, or poorly-planned programmers anyway...
I use amp 0.7.6 by tomislav uzelac (search freshmeat.net/appindex) -- seems to work fine for me... If I have a lot of stuff going in the background, I often do: nice -n-20 amp "[artist] song.mp3"
Yeah, I have this problem... but it's not my periphereal vision, it's the fact that I can feel the car moving. Yes, I know that humans can only sense acceleration and deceleration, not constant velocity, but I can feel the vibration from the engine and that is associated with movement in my mind. Now, I can read without discomfort on a bumpy road, since the book will shake - I will not only feel motion, I will see it; my senses will agree, and my head will be happy. But on a smooth road.... ugh.... *(insert spewing onamatopoeia (sp?) here)*
Wow, this AC reminds me a lot of Homer... I doubt many others would spend nearly as much time replying to their own comments. I think the AC's a bit smarter though, Homer probably couldn't have gotten all the way through the whole alphabet;-)
--- Oh no! This is an _illegal_ sig! It has three dashes instead of two!
I (stupidly) installed a copy on my parents' Windoze machine, since they still use AOL (thru tcp/ip) even though we have a better ISP now... Everything worked fine after having to reconfigure my LAN and routing settings (I dialup via a linux box with IP masquerading)
Several months later, my linux box needs to go on vacation... so I move the modem to the windows box, set it up to access our ISP, and reboot (since network changes require that)
There really wasn't much to the change... the LAN was still there, it just wasnt handling the internet access.. so i got rid of the router, changed the hostname, and installed ppp... you'd think everything would work fine...
However, I discover AOL 5.0 installed a number of windows 98 network files over my previous windows 95 files. It actually overwrote _all_ of the old network DLL's and VXD's, so even though the two sets of files arent compatible, the system still worked.... until I installed Win95 PPP....
Needless to say, I ended up re-installing windows. I vow I'll never install AOL 5 again unless I'm being tortured by a foreign government, in which case I'll tell them that I'll install AOL 5.0 in exchanged for them to stop torturing -- and of course, after I install it, their LAN won't work, and they'll be screwed! Muahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
You know what bothers me about this article? The author is using one stereotype to attack another. It's true that many advertisements, games, and gaming magazines are focused at the male gaming population, but the author reiterates numerous times how much puzzle games, etc. would be appreciated as the focus of gaming magazines. This is another stereotype -- that girls prefer puzzle games to action games. This is in no way true, I know a number of girls that would much rather play something graphic and violent than play some puzzle game anyday. The author also seems convinced that even non-sexist gaming magazines that focus on violent games are aimed at males. I disagree with this -- the only violent game _I_ play is Quake II, everything else is some sort of puzzle game (but I'd much rather hack complicated C routines than play games anyday!;-) Some of the information in this article is legit, but some of it is heavily opinianted -- it's true that the advertisements are very biased, and this definitely needs fixing, but some of the other things the author points out are based, again, on stereotypes, so they might only be worth about as much as the advertisements she was bashing/flaming/trolling (not sure which one to use, I always get the three mixed up...) in the first place. Just my $0.02... "I'm not a trendy asshole, do what I want, do what I feel like / I'm not a trendy asshole, don't give a fuck if it's good enough for you" --the offspring
I have an SGI Indy, and supposedly the bus is capable of 2.3 Gb/s (on a 32-bit system, this would be like a 616 mhz bus i think)... the system is only 1/6 the speed of my intel box (in terms of processor speed in MIPS), yet the two machines often run neck-in-neck. The only thing particularly slow I notice on the Indy is heavy disk access, but that's probably just my hard drive;-)
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Ahh, but if your neighbor's house happened to be a public museum, it's not quite the same as if it was mere private property.
If you didn't notice, yankees.com is a website. It's a server. Seriously, if you walked into the men's room right after someone sprayed graffiti all over its walls, intending to look at the graffiti, see if the paint's still wet, et cetera... does that give the police a right to jail you indefinitely because you "might be related to the crime in question"?
If you put up a poster, as part of a public display, and somebody paints "YOU SUCK" on it... would you persecute everyone who was curious about what the "YOU SUCK" was doing there, if it was actually painted on to the poster, or maybe just painted on to a transparent sheet put over the poster...
Now what would be smart is if the guy put a EULA on his hard drive - "By examining the contents of this drive, you hereby acknowledge that this property forever remains mine and cannot be removed from the premises for more than 72 hours."
Think that's ludicrous? Try buying a computer with WinME pre-installed. You can't use the computer without agreeing to the license. If you don't agree, it won't boot up. I'm just glad I happened to have a bootable Slackware CD lying around... because I couldn't even get to a DOS prompt to make bootdisks without agreeing to Microsoft's "License."
Funny, they don't make you sign anything to use the display model at the store. Maybe they should...
Maybe this will be an inspiration for Microsoft.. after all, they've already kind of gone open source anyway :-)
See, this is what punk rock is for.
Suicidal Tendencies and MxPx get me up in the morning, NOFX and Vision keep me working fast and hard, and Rancid helps me relax and fall asleep.
So one wonders... does Mattell run society?
If nearly everyone used Linux in their childhood, and all distributions had various tests in the ~/.*shrc files which determined the user's gender and called fortune -o for females and fortune for males... do you think females would be inherently cruder and speak more vulgarly and explicitly later in life?
Personally, I don't think one gene whose chief responsibility is to determine what's in your crotch bears a heavy influence on mental talents, thoughts, and tendencies...
--theorangesquid
does anyone else see the problem with this?
many non-english languages have characters that aren't part of 7-bit ascii....
and isn't mandarin based on a huge array of symbols? since obviously this isn't gonna happen via raw text, it really becomes another language entirely when transcribed with phonetics... and where does the inflexion go? how can we be sure what we think the word is is really what the author intended?
true, english does have this problem to an extent, but in a language where a half dozen unrelated words are pronounced exactly the same other than the tone of your voice....
correct me if i'm wrong, but i haven't seen a standard system for writing inflexions with text.
what will happen to mulder's knack for his assumptions always magically being right so the plot either fits in 1, 2, or 3 one-hour episodes? :-)
will t-1k become the new character with the perfect 'gut-feeling' all the time? or what?
maybe scully will be the new person with the "trust no one" motto... she seems to become less skeptical every episodes (or maybe this is just the fact that's so sexy in that fbi uniform distorting my perception
"They are well within
their rights to cancel your account whenever they get the urge (even over something as dumb as this)."
many people don't realize ICQ is *not* legally obligated to continue providing their service; you've never paid them!
there's really no room to complain if you've never given them money to provide their services... if they choose to provide their services for free, they can choose who (not) to provide them to.
just because you invited a few friends over to your house for dinner, doesn't mean you have to let your entire neighborhood come in.
"one's rights end where infringing upon other's rights begin" -- however, if you're infrining upon somebody's *priveleges*, it's a different issue altogether.
although this whole age thing is rather silly, you have to admit...
--theorangesquid
"where are all the stupid people from, and how'd they get to be so dumb? bred on purple mountain range, feed amber waves of grain to lesser human beings" -nofx, 'the decline'
The answer is easy... It was a mouse named Bob.
It used to be, a "computer" was a very large, oversized, bulky piece of machinery which sprawled several racks, had numerous I/O devices, and was rather cryptic in its use' its operators had to be very skilled.
As Microsoft has become synonymous with computer, people now picture a computer as a toy... this box which entertains them, like an interactive television.
If I'm not mistaken, the last time I treated my parents' microwave as a toy, I got in lots of trouble.
Computers are *tools* and shouldn't be played with... not to say you can't experiment with them, but mere 'playing' is solely for entertainment, whereas experimentation is designed to further knowledge.
Being tools, computers should have interfaces which also give tools a very prominent place. Windows is the worst possible way to make a computer a tool, and encourages a lack of seriousness in environments. Do you picture someone writing their doctorate thesis with Paperclip Man in the corner of their screen?
UNIX, in addition to having a far better way to show off the 'tool' power of computers, has countless years of experience with programmers. Advanced programmers can be *very* picky about what the OS and compiler do, and have been known to halt work on a project to write a new OS or compiler because the one they were using was annoying them.
And do you want your machine crashing while you're concentrating on coding? UNIX systems rarely, if ever, go down on you unless you're doing something really stupid with the kernel, RAM, primary disk, or swap files/partitions.
I do all my development under Linux and IRIX... I used to develop under Windows, but after having switched, I don't regret the change at all.
If he says what it's like in the future, then that might cause a paradox... what he tells us could change what 2020 is actually like, meaning he'd tell us something different, which would change what 2020 is actually like, meaning he'd tell us something different, which would change what 2020 is actually like,meaning he'd tell us something different, which would change what 2020 is actually like,.....
Well, he could force you to retract your post by making slashdot remove it or suffer under penalty of law, or he could pursue a copyright violation case, fining you for breaking copyright law.
(I think... don't quote me on that)
But I flip through my computer screen!
I agree... I love printed manuals... I used to just sit and read them in the summer... same with encyclopedias and dictionaries... even if man pages and grep'able HOWTO/FAQ texts/HTML documents are convenient, sometimes it's just far easier to glance quickly through a book when you're looking for something you're not quite sure what to call...
But of course you can't forget one of the largest molecules known to man, the SearsTowerene!
YEah, I have a slack 3.0 disk set of about 120 disks sitting around here somewhere ;-)
So does your beard get drunk?
Does the beer climb up the hair and enter the bloodstream through facial pores?
Now what would be neat is if I could get the entire last year's slashdot headlines in the palm of my hand... with all comments ;-)
A whole bunch of info on Tesla is also available at www.amasci.com
'hobbled'? lol
If a programmer understands the environment he's programming in, he shouldn't be hobbled by anything...
Pointers don't cause any problems if you're careful, experienced, and well-planned.
And nobody would want any haphazard, inexperienced, or poorly-planned programmers anyway...
I use amp 0.7.6 by tomislav uzelac (search freshmeat.net/appindex) -- seems to work fine for me...
If I have a lot of stuff going in the background, I often do:
nice -n-20 amp "[artist] song.mp3"
Yeah, I have this problem... but it's not my periphereal vision, it's the fact that I can feel the car moving. Yes, I know that humans can only sense acceleration and deceleration, not constant velocity, but I can feel the vibration from the engine and that is associated with movement in my mind. Now, I can read without discomfort on a bumpy road, since the book will shake - I will not only feel motion, I will see it; my senses will agree, and my head will be happy. But on a smooth road.... ugh.... *(insert spewing onamatopoeia (sp?) here)*
Wow, this AC reminds me a lot of Homer... I doubt many others would spend nearly as much time replying to their own comments. I think the AC's a bit smarter though, Homer probably couldn't have gotten all the way through the whole alphabet ;-)
---
Oh no! This is an _illegal_ sig! It has three dashes instead of two!
Perhaps you are using Winblows 98, which seems to work better at these sorts of things?
Here's my experience with AOL 5.....
I (stupidly) installed a copy on my parents' Windoze machine, since they still use AOL (thru tcp/ip) even though we have a better ISP now... Everything worked fine after having to reconfigure my LAN and routing settings (I dialup via a linux box with IP masquerading)
Several months later, my linux box needs to go on vacation... so I move the modem to the windows box, set it up to access our ISP, and reboot (since network changes require that)
There really wasn't much to the change... the LAN was still there, it just wasnt handling the internet access.. so i got rid of the router, changed the hostname, and installed ppp... you'd think everything would work fine...
However, I discover AOL 5.0 installed a number of windows 98 network files over my previous windows 95 files. It actually overwrote _all_ of the old network DLL's and VXD's, so even though the two sets of files arent compatible, the system still worked.... until I installed Win95 PPP....
Needless to say, I ended up re-installing windows. I vow I'll never install AOL 5 again unless I'm being tortured by a foreign government, in which case I'll tell them that I'll install AOL 5.0 in exchanged for them to stop torturing -- and of course, after I install it, their LAN won't work, and they'll be screwed! Muahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
You know what bothers me about this article? The author is using one stereotype to attack another. It's true that many advertisements, games, and gaming magazines are focused at the male gaming population, but the author reiterates numerous times how much puzzle games, etc. would be appreciated as the focus of gaming magazines. This is another stereotype -- that girls prefer puzzle games to action games. This is in no way true, I know a number of girls that would much rather play something graphic and violent than play some puzzle game anyday. The author also seems convinced that even non-sexist gaming magazines that focus on violent games are aimed at males. I disagree with this -- the only violent game _I_ play is Quake II, everything else is some sort of puzzle game (but I'd much rather hack complicated C routines than play games anyday! ;-)
Some of the information in this article is legit, but some of it is heavily opinianted -- it's true that the advertisements are very biased, and this definitely needs fixing, but some of the other things the author points out are based, again, on stereotypes, so they might only be worth about as much as the advertisements she was bashing/flaming/trolling (not sure which one to use, I always get the three mixed up...) in the first place.
Just my $0.02...
"I'm not a trendy asshole, do what I want, do what I feel like / I'm not a trendy asshole, don't give a fuck if it's good enough for you" --the offspring
I have an SGI Indy, and supposedly the bus is capable of 2.3 Gb/s (on a 32-bit system, this would be like a 616 mhz bus i think) ... the system is only 1/6 the speed of my intel box (in terms of processor speed in MIPS), yet the two machines often run neck-in-neck. The only thing particularly slow I notice on the Indy is heavy disk access, but that's probably just my hard drive ;-)