I would be interested in a good computer magazine which is about the computing industry in general.
With articles about new companies and financial issues as well as technical breakthroughs etc. Aimed towards people who are interested in reading about what all the major players are doing to shape the industry without dumbing it down or filling it with advertising
For anybody who didn't know, They Might Be Giants recently released an mp3 only album. In addition they started their own streaming mp3 radio station and are starting to develop a strong partnership with Emusic
Check out the album, Long Tall Weekend, and radio station at:
They just seem to be announcing another portable mp3 player except with this one you have to convert all your music to their proprietery format first....
Anyone have a clue how much storage space one of these might be able to support?
Well, as I recall hearing several months back on Slashdot, they have quite a few investors. Here is a snip from their about Google page:Google, which is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., was founded in 1998 by two Stanford Ph.D. students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who now serve as chief executive officer and president, respectively. The privately held company announced in June 1999 that it had secured $25 million in equity funding led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Other investors include Stanford University; Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and current vice president at Cisco Systems; and Ram Shriram, who has held the positions of president of Junglee and vice president of Business Development at Amazon.com.
So, I think they can keep the uncluttered look, at least till the $25 million runs out!:)
I think the ideas you laid out are very good Rob... certainly would help.
However, why only give benefits to people who post tons of good comments and penalties to those who have already posted tons of band ones. Wouldn't it make more sense to be some sort of ratio system?
If somebody makes 5 posts and all of them get moderated up by an average of 3 points give them the benefit. I know that I don't post very often at all but when I do I try to make them intelligent and to the point...
Also, conversely, when somebody only has posted a couple times but the posts are -2 on average nail them right away. Don't let them cheat the system at all for their personal pleasure...
But anyway you do it, I think it is a good idea for making the community more comfortable for all!
From what I can see, although not particularly fair to initiate without asking domain owners, this is pretty harmless.
There is no information about specific users or specific things purchased by specific users... it is just an aggregate collection. It is essentially the same as saying what the best selling items are on their site, except this is broken down into meaningful catagories...
I don't know about Slashdotters but I have a hard time leaving the net for days at a time. I have a lot of online friends on IRC and it really makes me lonely and bored to leave...
I don't know... just think its not something to really joke about. It may be pathetic but some people really rely on the net for their happiness...
Yea, I know this is not an appropriate post... but there aren't that many posts anyway.
So the Team Slashdot is doing great on the SETI @home thing. In fact, so great that some of those members could join a smaller team that needs some help;)
If you are a fan of the band They Might Be Giants check out our Team TMBG SETI group at http://seti.tmbg.net/
I know we all love the idea of a company like Red Hat offering stock. It is an opportunity to support people we love and show that linux has a future.
However, sit back and think a little. Red Hat is still available for free download. The strength of the company as a money making entity is quite questionable.
If you read their S-1 filing you will see that they went from losing over $100,000 a year... to making a few thousand a year in 1998, to LOSING $91,000 a year in 1999 (year ending Februrary 28)
Now a lot of companies that lose money are still good investments. Amazon.com being the clear example. And if you believe that Red Hat has a way to increase profits in the future then go for it. But in terms of money making potential, and potential growth of the stock I would be wary about jumping in with a lot of money right away
I believed that current DVD packages such as the Creative Labs DVD encore 6x did the decoding in hardware anyway?
I know that kit for example comes with the fancy dxr3 decoder board. So why is this story being billed as something new? Am I somehow unclear on how current DVD decoding works?
After looking at the picture on this homepage a big question comes to mind...
What is the difference between this and a personal airplane or jet?
This just looks like a less expensive oddly shaped personal jet airplane. You are going to need a pilot's license to use one and I am guessing you would have to take off and land and airports... I seem to be missing the "car" part of this whole thing... any thoughts?
Well I don't even know what you are reading because that is not what I was saying....
I was stating that I think that a lot of the responses to TPM have been stupid. I am not saying any of you are stupid, I am merely saying that in my opinion the reasoning behind a lot of the posts are.
You seem to want to believe that I was calling you all morons but I was not so I think you are the one who should try actually reading the words in my post
How can you post saying that you have a right to post your opinions and in the same post say that "I don't DARE say the rest of us somehow..." etc...
The point is that we all have our opinions and my opinion is that the majority of posters on here are attacking Leonardo DiCaprio and the movies in general for really inconsequential reasons.
If I want to state this belief and criticize what I see as being a lack of maturity of a group of posters then I have every right to do so and I assumed people would realize that I was stating my *opinion* just as you did...
I like reading the stories on slashdot, but in the last couple weeks I have become totally disgusted with the users of slashdot.
You fit all the immature whiny nerd images I can think of. You start off cool by liking something as brilliant as the Star Wars trilogy and then don't have the maturity or intelligence to handle the new films at all. 95% of the discussion on Jar Jar and Anakin et al has been whiny crap from people complaining that certain parts of these movies aren't how THEY would have planned them.
What happened to your faith in George Lucas and the story itself? You loved what he did with the other movies and now when he is inspired to continue the saga you rip him to shreads. I think you should all take a step back and realize you aren't the only ones in the world and that your little nitpicks are stupid, selfish, and annoying to the rest of us.
In terms of Leonardo DiCaprio. Before Titanic he was regarded as one of the premiere young actors. Films such as "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and "The Basketball Diaries" being two of his critically acclaimed roles. Even Woody Allen casted him in his last movie because he was a good ACTOR, not to get girls to see the film.
I think this rumor is probably not true but if he was cast he would probably be one of the better actual actors to be in a Star Wars film. You people should like this especially because of some of your whining about Jake Lloyd's Anakin in TPM. And in terms of him tainting the role? I mean come on... Titanic was one movie... unfortunately it gave him a reputation and became something horrible in terms of what it did to our countries movie industry. However, for you people to turn against the possibility of this casting just based on this one movie is shortsighted, ignorant, and again immature.
I know some people here are not like the majority of posters but I just really wanted to get this out because a lot of the people here need to grow the hell up
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds nice but isn't the bigger concern for something like that the amount of bandwidth it would use to catalog all those pages?
Sure it will run on a PII but does it need a T3 to run efficiently?
Josh
I would be interested in a good computer magazine which is about the computing industry in general.
With articles about new companies and financial issues as well as technical breakthroughs etc. Aimed towards people who are interested in reading about what all the major players are doing to shape the industry without dumbing it down or filling it with advertising
Josh
Check out the album, Long Tall Weekend, and radio station at:
TMBG on emusic.com
No mention of capacity? Features?
They just seem to be announcing another portable mp3 player except with this one you have to convert all your music to their proprietery format first....
Anyone have a clue how much storage space one of these might be able to support?
Josh
I miss them too...
Maybe we should write to Google and see if they can be an option?
Josh
Well, as I recall hearing several months back on Slashdot, they have quite a few investors. Here is a snip from their about Google page:Google, which is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., was founded in 1998 by two Stanford Ph.D. students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who now serve as chief executive officer and president, respectively. The privately held company announced in June 1999 that it had secured $25 million in equity funding led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Other investors include Stanford University; Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and current vice president at Cisco Systems; and Ram Shriram, who has held the positions of president of Junglee and vice president of Business Development at Amazon.com.
:)
So, I think they can keep the uncluttered look, at least till the $25 million runs out!
Josh
Subject matter is interesting...
And, despite the knee-jerk reactions to the contrary, Spielberg has made some good movies...
Considering that Kubrick himself was considering letting him direct it this may be quite interesting.
Josh
I think the ideas you laid out are very good Rob... certainly would help.
However, why only give benefits to people who post tons of good comments and penalties to those who have already posted tons of band ones. Wouldn't it make more sense to be some sort of ratio system?
If somebody makes 5 posts and all of them get moderated up by an average of 3 points give them the benefit. I know that I don't post very often at all but when I do I try to make them intelligent and to the point...
Also, conversely, when somebody only has posted a couple times but the posts are -2 on average nail them right away. Don't let them cheat the system at all for their personal pleasure...
But anyway you do it, I think it is a good idea for making the community more comfortable for all!
The review on this tweak3d mirror
Josh
Just curious if there are any decent lynx ports for Windows or any specifically written text browswers for Windows and if anybody uses them?
Josh
From what I can see, although not particularly fair to initiate without asking domain owners, this is pretty harmless.
There is no information about specific users or specific things purchased by specific users... it is just an aggregate collection. It is essentially the same as saying what the best selling items are on their site, except this is broken down into meaningful catagories...
I don't see why there is a big fuss over it
Josh
I don't know about Slashdotters but I have a hard time leaving the net for days at a time. I have a lot of online friends on IRC and it really makes me lonely and bored to leave...
I don't know... just think its not something to really joke about. It may be pathetic but some people really rely on the net for their happiness...
Josh
Yea, I know this is not an appropriate post... but there aren't that many posts anyway.
;)
So the Team Slashdot is doing great on the SETI @home thing. In fact, so great that some of those members could join a smaller team that needs some help
If you are a fan of the band They Might Be Giants check out our Team TMBG SETI group at http://seti.tmbg.net/
Josh
I know we all love the idea of a company like Red Hat offering stock. It is an opportunity to support people we love and show that linux has a future.
However, sit back and think a little. Red Hat is still available for free download. The strength of the company as a money making entity is quite questionable.
If you read their S-1 filing you will see that they went from losing over $100,000 a year... to making a few thousand a year in 1998, to LOSING $91,000 a year in 1999 (year ending Februrary 28)
Now a lot of companies that lose money are still good investments. Amazon.com being the clear example. And if you believe that Red Hat has a way to increase profits in the future then go for it. But in terms of money making potential, and potential growth of the stock I would be wary about jumping in with a lot of money right away
Josh
I believed that current DVD packages such as the Creative Labs DVD encore 6x did the decoding in hardware anyway?
I know that kit for example comes with the fancy dxr3 decoder board. So why is this story being billed as something new? Am I somehow unclear on how current DVD decoding works?
Josh
After looking at the picture on this homepage a big question comes to mind...
What is the difference between this and a personal airplane or jet?
This just looks like a less expensive oddly shaped personal jet airplane. You are going to need a pilot's license to use one and I am guessing you would have to take off and land and airports... I seem to be missing the "car" part of this whole thing... any thoughts?
Josh
Well I don't even know what you are reading because that is not what I was saying....
I was stating that I think that a lot of the responses to TPM have been stupid. I am not saying any of you are stupid, I am merely saying that in my opinion the reasoning behind a lot of the posts are.
You seem to want to believe that I was calling you all morons but I was not so I think you are the one who should try actually reading the words in my post
How can you post saying that you have a right to post your opinions and in the same post say that "I don't DARE say the rest of us somehow..." etc...
The point is that we all have our opinions and my opinion is that the majority of posters on here are attacking Leonardo DiCaprio and the movies in general for really inconsequential reasons.
If I want to state this belief and criticize what I see as being a lack of maturity of a group of posters then I have every right to do so and I assumed people would realize that I was stating my *opinion* just as you did...
I like reading the stories on slashdot, but in the last couple weeks I have become totally disgusted with the users of slashdot.
You fit all the immature whiny nerd images I can think of. You start off cool by liking something as brilliant as the Star Wars trilogy and then don't have the maturity or intelligence to handle the new films at all. 95% of the discussion on Jar Jar and Anakin et al has been whiny crap from people complaining that certain parts of these movies aren't how THEY would have planned them.
What happened to your faith in George Lucas and the story itself? You loved what he did with the other movies and now when he is inspired to continue the saga you rip him to shreads. I think you should all take a step back and realize you aren't the only ones in the world and that your little nitpicks are stupid, selfish, and annoying to the rest of us.
In terms of Leonardo DiCaprio. Before Titanic he was regarded as one of the premiere young actors. Films such as "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and "The Basketball Diaries" being two of his critically acclaimed roles. Even Woody Allen casted him in his last movie because he was a good ACTOR, not to get girls to see the film.
I think this rumor is probably not true but if he was cast he would probably be one of the better actual actors to be in a Star Wars film. You people should like this especially because of some of your whining about Jake Lloyd's Anakin in TPM. And in terms of him tainting the role? I mean come on... Titanic was one movie... unfortunately it gave him a reputation and became something horrible in terms of what it did to our countries movie industry. However, for you people to turn against the possibility of this casting just based on this one movie is shortsighted, ignorant, and again immature.
I know some people here are not like the majority of posters but I just really wanted to get this out because a lot of the people here need to grow the hell up
Josh