For those not familiar with Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series of SF books, this appears to be a reference to Mark Vorkosigan, Miles's clone, who had the metabolism of a full-sized adult, making it difficult to keep weight off his surgically shrunken body. His body was altered to duplicate Mile's stunted growth, which had been caused by the poison used in an assassination attempt while he was still in the womb.
This was necessary so Mark could be secretly exchanged for Miles and gain access to and kill Emperor Gregor in revenge for Barrayar's conquest of the planet Komarr.
Geez, why don't I just write the Cliff's Notes for you!
Microsoft made it work, or at least made it work 'satisfactorally'. Windows 95 was painful to use in many ways, but it was still much much better than dos. You can't credit another OS with fulfilling that on PC hardware until Linux came along.
Sure you can. OS/2 was vastly superior to Windows 95 in numerous ways. Microsoft backstabbed IBM, and then outmarketed them, but 95 was nowhere near the OS that OS/2 was.
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IMHO, the best aspect of ROTT was the cheats. One of them changed your point of view when firing rockets, so that your got to see what the head of the rockets sees. It was pretty cool to suddently be flying around corners looking for something warm when using the heat-seeking missiles!
Though gory, it was also pretty funny the way body parts flew when you blew someone up. Even eyeballs would go flying. (Yes, I know this is disturbing.)
Now with his Alienware pC, when inspiration hits him he will be able to make that awesome Neverwinter Nights module he'd been thinking about for days. No matter how cool his Mac is he won't be able to do that...
Which is why, like the original poster said, he'll probably regret it - after he flunks out of college from spending all his time gaming.
If he had the PowerMac, he could flunk out of college after spending all his time ripping DVDs : )
Funny, I feel the same way every time I have to get into Visual Studio. It just doesn't "think" the way I do. For C/C++ programming, I always thought the Borland IDE's seemed much more intuitive, especially C++ Builder.
Several reasonable replies? You got friggin' 35 replies. Maybe you weren't intentionally trolling, but that post was one of the most effective trolls I've seen in a long time.
Somehow it's hard to feel sympathetic when you're so willing to dish out unreasonable moderation. Perhaps the people you mod "troll" feel similarly slighted.
Oh, I rarely waste mod points modding stuff down. I usually try to be positive, and use all my points to mod good posts up. But it's hard to be positive about a post that's so negative.
And I still question your opening line - even you knew the post was coming across as a troll, or else you wouldn't have stated it.
Recall the definition of a troll. A troll posts something intentionally inflamatory to get a rise out of people. You really think that my post had the sole purpose of making people angry?
Pretty much, yeah. But your definition is a bit off. Look up the word "troll" in the dictionary. One of the definitions has to do with fishing - pulling a lure through the water to attract and hook fish. A troll is a post that's fishing for lots of responses, and that's exactly what your post did. It didn't state facts - it stated inflamatory and subjective opinion (often not based on fact).
And I'd say that, since your post elicited dozens of responses (hell, half the topic was filled by your thread), that it was indeed an effective troll.
People have watered down the meaning of "troll" to be "something strongly worded that may be controversial." And that's silly.
Maybe they have, but I haven't. I don't mind strongly worded or controversial, it's the inaccurate that bothers me.
And thanks to the guy who modded me down
as "overrated" because he was too chicken to get meta-moderated.
On Dec 16 of last year, VP Michael Olson purchased 30,000 shares at the rather low price of, um, one-tenth of a cent per share (must be nice to be an executive, eh?), and then turned around 6 months later and sold 6000 shares for about $52,000.
So he made about $51,994 profit on a $6 investment, in 6 months. That's like a 433,000% profit, and we haven't even annualized it yet.
Where do I sign up?
Would I really have to sell my soul to get this deal?
Hmmmm, ethernet standards have always been in terms of total bandwidth, not the speed of a single connection. So that 54 megabit/sec represents the maximum concurrent throughput of multiple connections. In other words, if you took 5 computers on a single wireless segment and started doing file transfers among all of them concurrently, the total throughput would approach 54 mbit/sec. (Since I assume all these wireless standards are still CSMA/CD, in reality once the ethernet starts getting saturated collisions cause effective throughput to start going down)
While I don't doubt that the manufacturers are marketing the speed as if that's the throughput you should expect to get, the standards themselves don't define the throughput, they define the bandwidth.
(for the record, our wired 100Base-T network that all these devices are plugged into is very fast -- we have no problem getting 8 to 11.5 megabytes-per-second of throughput)
There's no way you're getting 11.5 MB / sec. on normal shared 100 Mbit ethernet. Maybe switched full-duplex, which would give you a theoretical maximum of 200 Mbits / sec., could achieve that, but we have that here and on a test I just ran I only got 7.5 MB / sec.
Ok, I'll bite. So what you're saying is that OpenLDAP just blows the doors off of NDS/eDir? It'll be 10 years before OpenLDAP has the reliability, scalability, and portability that eDir has today.
Will Novell (and Microsoft) be irrelevant one day? Probably. I don't doubt that free software will take over for the most part. But calling them irrelevant today is a bit premature.
It sounds like Novell is going to do what IBM should have been doing for the past 3-4 years. There's still a stigma attached to Linux in a lot of organizations - it's still being snuck in the back door. I haven't seen too many (any?) large corporations adopt it on a large scale yet.
Instead of bashing Novell, how about you support them? If Novell can give Linux a little more polish, and inspire a little more confidence in CTOs and IT management, maybe Linux can start being used for more mission critical purposes, rather than just the SMTP server running on an old Pentium/166 sitting over in the corner.
. . . not because of the Slashdot effect, but because of the SurfControl effect - my corporate filtering software is blocking access to the gamers.com domain.
I just don't get it. Isn't it obvious that Wallace and Gromit are work-related?
My favorite thing ever seen at Skycraft was a bright orange environmental suit spotted back when the band Devo first appeared (I'm dating myself and Skycraft here).
So you feel that racial injustice in the past justifies letting murderers go free today?
Justifies? No. Can I empathize? Maybe. Will I ever know what it's like to be black? No. Having never been harassed by police based on my skin color, I'll never know what that could drive someone to.
Apologies to everyone else for this off-topic thread (which *I* didn't start).
Perhaps you are not old enough t remember the OJ Simpson trial.
Or perhaps I'm old enough to remember how bad racism has been in this country.
Johnnie Cochran, called on the jury to "send the message" to the LAPD that the black community did not trust them.
Sending a message to the LAPD not to trust them isn't exactly the same as sending a message that they hate white people, now is it?
Maybe *you* need to read up a little on history. Then maybe you'd realize that this tremendous injustice that occurred with the O.J. Simpson verdict was commonplace thoughout much of American history when the victim was black and the perpetrator was white.
Ever heard of Emmett Till? Here's what happened to him in 1955:
August 24: Emmett joins a group of teenagers, seven boys and one girl, to go to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market for refreshments to cool off after a long day of picking cotton in the hot sun. Bryant's Grocery, owned by a white couple, Roy and Carolyn Bryant, sells supplies and candy to a primarily black clientele of sharecroppers and their children. Emmett goes into the store to buy bubble gum. Some of the kids outside the store will later say they heard Emmett whistle at Carolyn Bryant.
August 28: About 2:30 a.m., Roy Bryant , Carolyn's husband, and his half brother J. W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home. They will later describe brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large metal fan used for ginning cotton to his neck with barbed wire, and pushing the body into the river.
August 29: J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant are arrested on kidnapping charges in LeFlore County in connection with Till's disappearance. They are jailed in Greenwood, Mississippi and held without bond.
August 31: Three days later, Emmett Till's decomposed corpse is pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Moses Wright identifies the body from a ring with the initials L.T.
September 3: Emmett Till's body is taken to Chicago's Roberts Temple Church of God for viewing and funeral services. Emmett's mother decides to have an open casket funeral. Thousands of Chicagoans wait in line to see Emmett's brutally beaten body.
September 6: Emmett Till is buried at Burr Oak Cemetery.
The same day, a grand jury in Mississippi indicts Milam and Bryant for the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. They both plead innocent. They will be held in jail until the start of the trial.
September 19: The kidnapping and murder trial of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant opens in Sumner, Mississippi, the county seat of Tallahatchie County. Jury selection begins and, with blacks and white women banned from serving, an all-white, 12-man jury made up of nine farmers, two carpenters and one insurance agent is selected.
September 23: Milam and Bryant are acquitted of murdering Emmett Till after the jury deliberates only 67 minutes. One juror tells a reporter that they wouldn't have taken so long if they hadn't stopped to drink pop. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam stand before photographers, light up cigars and kiss their wives in celebration of the not guilty verdict.
Kinda sounds familiar, huh? Unfortunately, this kind of thing happened hundreds of times throughout our history, not to mention all the lynchings.
From a LIFE magazine interview with one of the murderers, after the aquittal:
Milam: "Well, what else could we do? He was hopeless. I'm no bully; I never hurt a nigger in my life. I like niggers -- in their place -- I know how to work 'em. But I just decided it was time a few people got put on notice. As long as I live and can do anything about it, niggers are gonna stay in their place. Niggers ain't gonna vote where I live. If they did, they'd control the government. They ain't gonna go to school with my kids. And when a nigger gets close to mentioning sex with a white woman, he's tired o' livin'. I'm likely to kill him. Me and my folks fought for this country, and we got some rights. I stood there in that shed and listened to that nigger throw that poison at me, and I just made up my mind. 'Chicago boy,' I said, 'I'm tired of 'em sending your kind down here to stir up trouble. Goddam you, I'm going to make an example of you -- just so everybody can know how me and my folks stand.'"
Maybe the message the O.J. Jury sent wasn't "we hate white people", maybe it was "so now you know the outrage we've felt for the last 200 years".
No, investing in Corel was just another effort to keep the "competition" alive until the whole anti-trust thing was over. Same reason MS invested in Apple and Borland.
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G5 in an iPod? Man, that sounds like overkill to me. I think a 1 GHz G4 would be sufficient for most users. :)
As what? Anakin's metabolically-challenged clone?
For those not familiar with Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series of SF books, this appears to be a reference to Mark Vorkosigan, Miles's clone, who had the metabolism of a full-sized adult, making it difficult to keep weight off his surgically shrunken body. His body was altered to duplicate Mile's stunted growth, which had been caused by the poison used in an assassination attempt while he was still in the womb.This was necessary so Mark could be secretly exchanged for Miles and gain access to and kill Emperor Gregor in revenge for Barrayar's conquest of the planet Komarr.
Geez, why don't I just write the Cliff's Notes for you!
sure, the kids who uploaded the video are probably assholes, but, well, that's what high school's all about.
. . . does a statement like this get moderated up as "informative".
Microsoft made it work, or at least made it work 'satisfactorally'. Windows 95 was painful to use in many ways, but it was still much much better than dos. You can't credit another OS with fulfilling that on PC hardware until Linux came along.
Sure you can. OS/2 was vastly superior to Windows 95 in numerous ways. Microsoft backstabbed IBM, and then outmarketed them, but 95 was nowhere near the OS that OS/2 was.
How many of you clicked on "Beach or Ocean View"?
And just what were you planning to surveil? : )
IMHO, the best aspect of ROTT was the cheats. One of them changed your point of view when firing rockets, so that your got to see what the head of the rockets sees. It was pretty cool to suddently be flying around corners looking for something warm when using the heat-seeking missiles!
Though gory, it was also pretty funny the way body parts flew when you blew someone up. Even eyeballs would go flying. (Yes, I know this is disturbing.)
Now with his Alienware pC, when inspiration hits him he will be able to make that awesome Neverwinter Nights module he'd been thinking about for days. No matter how cool his Mac is he won't be able to do that...
Which is why, like the original poster said, he'll probably regret it - after he flunks out of college from spending all his time gaming.
If he had the PowerMac, he could flunk out of college after spending all his time ripping DVDs : )
FWIW, I liked yours the best (although I only bothered verifying the "Sl" so I didn't realize about the "ORG").
Funny, I feel the same way every time I have to get into Visual Studio. It just doesn't "think" the way I do. For C/C++ programming, I always thought the Borland IDE's seemed much more intuitive, especially C++ Builder.
How do I convince my boss that the pointy hair guy is not the hero of the strip?
Become self-employed?
Wish I were as horrible. I'd be richer than Tiger Woods.
Several reasonable replies? You got friggin' 35 replies. Maybe you weren't intentionally trolling, but that post was one of the most effective trolls I've seen in a long time.
Somehow it's hard to feel sympathetic when you're so willing to dish out unreasonable moderation. Perhaps the people you mod "troll" feel similarly slighted.
Oh, I rarely waste mod points modding stuff down. I usually try to be positive, and use all my points to mod good posts up. But it's hard to be positive about a post that's so negative.
And I still question your opening line - even you knew the post was coming across as a troll, or else you wouldn't have stated it.
I'm glad that I included the first sentence then . . .
Yeah, that proves it wasn't a troll, just like all the spam that starts with "This is not spam" proves it isn't spam.
Recall the definition of a troll. A troll posts something intentionally inflamatory to get a rise out of people. You really think that my post had the sole purpose of making people angry?
Pretty much, yeah. But your definition is a bit off. Look up the word "troll" in the dictionary. One of the definitions has to do with fishing - pulling a lure through the water to attract and hook fish. A troll is a post that's fishing for lots of responses, and that's exactly what your post did. It didn't state facts - it stated inflamatory and subjective opinion (often not based on fact).
And I'd say that, since your post elicited dozens of responses (hell, half the topic was filled by your thread), that it was indeed an effective troll.
People have watered down the meaning of "troll" to be "something strongly worded that may be controversial." And that's silly.
Maybe they have, but I haven't. I don't mind strongly worded or controversial, it's the inaccurate that bothers me.
And thanks to the guy who modded me down as "overrated" because he was too chicken to get meta-moderated.
This is not a troll.
Coulda fooled me.
On Dec 16 of last year, VP Michael Olson purchased 30,000 shares at the rather low price of, um, one-tenth of a cent per share (must be nice to be an executive, eh?), and then turned around 6 months later and sold 6000 shares for about $52,000.
So he made about $51,994 profit on a $6 investment, in 6 months. That's like a 433,000% profit, and we haven't even annualized it yet.
Where do I sign up?
Would I really have to sell my soul to get this deal?
Hmmmm, ethernet standards have always been in terms of total bandwidth, not the speed of a single connection. So that 54 megabit/sec represents the maximum concurrent throughput of multiple connections. In other words, if you took 5 computers on a single wireless segment and started doing file transfers among all of them concurrently, the total throughput would approach 54 mbit/sec. (Since I assume all these wireless standards are still CSMA/CD, in reality once the ethernet starts getting saturated collisions cause effective throughput to start going down)
While I don't doubt that the manufacturers are marketing the speed as if that's the throughput you should expect to get, the standards themselves don't define the throughput, they define the bandwidth.
(for the record, our wired 100Base-T network that all these devices are plugged into is very fast -- we have no problem getting 8 to 11.5 megabytes-per-second of throughput)
There's no way you're getting 11.5 MB / sec. on normal shared 100 Mbit ethernet. Maybe switched full-duplex, which would give you a theoretical maximum of 200 Mbits / sec., could achieve that, but we have that here and on a test I just ran I only got 7.5 MB / sec.
Nice troll.
Ok, I'll bite. So what you're saying is that OpenLDAP just blows the doors off of NDS/eDir? It'll be 10 years before OpenLDAP has the reliability, scalability, and portability that eDir has today.
Will Novell (and Microsoft) be irrelevant one day? Probably. I don't doubt that free software will take over for the most part. But calling them irrelevant today is a bit premature.
It sounds like Novell is going to do what IBM should have been doing for the past 3-4 years. There's still a stigma attached to Linux in a lot of organizations - it's still being snuck in the back door. I haven't seen too many (any?) large corporations adopt it on a large scale yet.
Instead of bashing Novell, how about you support them? If Novell can give Linux a little more polish, and inspire a little more confidence in CTOs and IT management, maybe Linux can start being used for more mission critical purposes, rather than just the SMTP server running on an old Pentium/166 sitting over in the corner.
. . . not because of the Slashdot effect, but because of the SurfControl effect - my corporate filtering software is blocking access to the gamers.com domain.
I just don't get it. Isn't it obvious that Wallace and Gromit are work-related?
My favorite thing ever seen at Skycraft was a bright orange environmental suit spotted back when the band Devo first appeared (I'm dating myself and Skycraft here).
Almost bought it for Halloween that year.
So you feel that racial injustice in the past justifies letting murderers go free today?
Justifies? No. Can I empathize? Maybe. Will I ever know what it's like to be black? No. Having never been harassed by police based on my skin color, I'll never know what that could drive someone to.
Apologies to everyone else for this off-topic thread (which *I* didn't start).
Perhaps you are not old enough t remember the OJ Simpson trial.
Or perhaps I'm old enough to remember how bad racism has been in this country.
Johnnie Cochran, called on the jury to "send the message" to the LAPD that the black community did not trust them.
Sending a message to the LAPD not to trust them isn't exactly the same as sending a message that they hate white people, now is it?
Maybe *you* need to read up a little on history. Then maybe you'd realize that this tremendous injustice that occurred with the O.J. Simpson verdict was commonplace thoughout much of American history when the victim was black and the perpetrator was white.
Ever heard of Emmett Till? Here's what happened to him in 1955:
August 24: Emmett joins a group of teenagers, seven boys and one girl, to go to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market for refreshments to cool off after a long day of picking cotton in the hot sun. Bryant's Grocery, owned by a white couple, Roy and Carolyn Bryant, sells supplies and candy to a primarily black clientele of sharecroppers and their children. Emmett goes into the store to buy bubble gum. Some of the kids outside the store will later say they heard Emmett whistle at Carolyn Bryant.
August 28: About 2:30 a.m., Roy Bryant , Carolyn's husband, and his half brother J. W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home. They will later describe brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large metal fan used for ginning cotton to his neck with barbed wire, and pushing the body into the river.
August 29: J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant are arrested on kidnapping charges in LeFlore County in connection with Till's disappearance. They are jailed in Greenwood, Mississippi and held without bond.
August 31: Three days later, Emmett Till's decomposed corpse is pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Moses Wright identifies the body from a ring with the initials L.T.
September 3: Emmett Till's body is taken to Chicago's Roberts Temple Church of God for viewing and funeral services. Emmett's mother decides to have an open casket funeral. Thousands of Chicagoans wait in line to see Emmett's brutally beaten body.
September 6: Emmett Till is buried at Burr Oak Cemetery.
The same day, a grand jury in Mississippi indicts Milam and Bryant for the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. They both plead innocent. They will be held in jail until the start of the trial.
September 19: The kidnapping and murder trial of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant opens in Sumner, Mississippi, the county seat of Tallahatchie County. Jury selection begins and, with blacks and white women banned from serving, an all-white, 12-man jury made up of nine farmers, two carpenters and one insurance agent is selected.
September 23: Milam and Bryant are acquitted of murdering Emmett Till after the jury deliberates only 67 minutes. One juror tells a reporter that they wouldn't have taken so long if they hadn't stopped to drink pop. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam stand before photographers, light up cigars and kiss their wives in celebration of the not guilty verdict.
Kinda sounds familiar, huh? Unfortunately, this kind of thing happened hundreds of times throughout our history, not to mention all the lynchings.
From a LIFE magazine interview with one of the murderers, after the aquittal:
Milam: "Well, what else could we do? He was hopeless. I'm no bully; I never hurt a nigger in my life. I like niggers -- in their place -- I know how to work 'em. But I just decided it was time a few people got put on notice. As long as I live and can do anything about it, niggers are gonna stay in their place. Niggers ain't gonna vote where I live. If they did, they'd control the government. They ain't gonna go to school with my kids. And when a nigger gets close to mentioning sex with a white woman, he's tired o' livin'. I'm likely to kill him. Me and my folks fought for this country, and we got some rights. I stood there in that shed and listened to that nigger throw that poison at me, and I just made up my mind. 'Chicago boy,' I said, 'I'm tired of 'em sending your kind down here to stir up trouble. Goddam you, I'm going to make an example of you -- just so everybody can know how me and my folks stand.'"
Maybe the message the O.J. Jury sent wasn't "we hate white people", maybe it was "so now you know the outrage we've felt for the last 200 years".
The overwelmingly black jury was more interested in trying to "send a message" about how much they hated white people . . .
Gee, you're not a racist, are you?
No, investing in Corel was just another effort to keep the "competition" alive until the whole anti-trust thing was over. Same reason MS invested in Apple and Borland.
Luckily I found a job and have been able to turn those wasted hours into time spent on /.
Somebody mod this up. That's one of the funniest lines I've read around here in a long time!