Next after what? If you mean "the next one after fisher" then ->
ncftp/pub/redhat/beta > ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 21 07:18 wolverine
It's been around for a couple[1] of days or so.
If you mean "the next one after wolverine" then I suspect that there won't be one, look for -final RSN[2].
-Mith
[1] for large values of 'couple'
[2] Real Soon Now --
DSL is inappropriate for a business. So is cable. This, I think, is a very good illustration of why.
There are a lot of caveats, including location (we're not national), but we've got a 7-day lead time for circuits up to 5Mbps. It amuses us daily that CLECs move so slowly, and that customers accept it. Er, well, I should stop speaking badly of the competition.
#include<disclaim.h> --
They're not paying the employees any owed vacation over 25 hours, but the CEO (Fetter) got a $45,000 bonus.
Expect more of this, DSL is a failing business model. I enjoy the DSLreports.com Company Death Watch over coffee every morning. --
A patent and a trademark aren't the same thing.
Blizzard has the trademark.
How many times does this type of post have to appear on slashdot before people gain a grasp on the differences between Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks? --
Blizzard's claim should pretty much be tossed out as baseless, because you can't trademark movie titles.
C 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: ENTERTAINMENT IN THE NATURE OF AN ONGOING TELEVISION PROGRAM IN THE NATURE OF ACTION ADVENTURE FANTASY, AND PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MOTION PICTURES
Point 1: trademark is not the same as copyright is not the same as patent.
(this particular slashdot trend is getting annoying)
Point 2: Blizzard's trademark on Diablo covers, among other things:
Video Games
Motion Pictures
Television Shows
Pajamas
Lunch Boxes and Insulated Beverage Containers
Freud USA owns the trademark on Diablo for circular saws.
Internation Tanning Products owns Diablo as used in conjunction with sun tan oil
And Jason R. Messina owns "The Diablo Project" for use in sound recordings.
Trademarks can be simple, common words, but must be highly specific. --
Not much of a judgement call when you see that Blizzard's trademark on Diablo (tm) mentions *specifically* motions pictures and television shows.
s/judgement call/open and shut case/ --
Actually, both my cable modem [home] and my OC3 [work] have lots and lots of bandwidth. They're also both pretty fast. So you see, Virginia, it can be a measure of speed.
What does annoy me is the slapping of the word "broadband" onto things which are not.
Would you rather the phrase be "dude, I've got lots of kbps!"? --
Um, no. Hate to ask the oft-repeated request on slashdot to read the fucking article, but...
If you do, you'll note that this is a dissertation on why apt-get is the One True Way Unto Happiness, and only mentions rpm in passing as a dependency check loop. A real comparison would have included similar utilities like rpmfind and Ximian's new Red Carpet and the pros and cons of each. Can we, in the future, label pieces extolling the virtues of $foo as such, and avoid extrapolating a salient comparison from the mere mention of $bar?
</rant>
(replace rpm with vi and apt-get with emacs, and read the article again.) --
I think maybe one of those cool 'fire missile button' covers that the guys in movies always smash before it can slide aside would be much cooler:)
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) :
molly-guard/mol'ee-gard/ n. [University of Illinois] A shield
to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands.
Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an
IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it
twice in one day. Later generalized to covers over stop/reset switches
on disk drives and networking equipment. In hardware catalogues, you'll
see the much less interesting description "guarded button".
Something like that?
Actually, I've more often bumped the case and had the rear of the desk hit the PSU's switch. I want a mollyguard for that badly.
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Odd that you should mention Bioware.
Most feel that their games are NOT a butchery of AD&D (Let's count Game Of The Year awards, starting with Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment, shall we?). Also interesting is that you bring up NWN, which is the FIRST BlackIsle/Bioware D&D-based game that is NOT turn-based. All of the Infinity engine games were a mixture of both real-time and turn-based elements. The user selected the level of turn-based-ness(?), and could pause at will.
I only mention it because Infinity Engine games, with the ability to play in turn-based mode are MUCH closer to PnP D&D than NWN will be. (though the presence of a judge/DM is a great addition), and yet you praise moving D&D into real-time as "redeeming themselves".
One has to chuckle. --
802.11 describes ethernet over RF at 2Mbps, freq. hopping, and DS/SS[1]. 802.11b describes ethernet over RF at 11, 5.5, and 2 Mbps over DS/SS. Freq. Hopping may have been recently added (I'm not certain), but I don't know if it was incorporated into 802.11b or if it is its own standard -- it was not, however, part of the original 802.11b.
I (and my Netadmin and RF Engineer) are of the belief that WEP was part of 802.11b, but not 802.11. We haven't read the specs in awhile, so don't quote us.
The point of my original reply was to kindly state that, while you seem more evolved than that kind of amoeba, you couldn't, in this case, insult without resorting to calling it "a gay."
I completely understand your frustration, and your desire to bitch-smack that idiot. My only hope is that, in the future, you can do it without perpetuating the use of that phrase as an insult.
In other words, what about being gay leads one to be a non-thinking, unevolved, bacterium?
There are most certainly idiots in the gay community, but no more than in any other group. Personally, I place this kind of comment in the same category as, for example: "He Jewed me out of $bignum dollars on the deal."
The rest of your flames have been well thought and well spoken. Most have also been quite funny.
But I have to wonder:
How can someone with such eloquence in flames, suddenly find no better way to call someone stupid than "you're a gay". It's unfortunate, I honestly did enjoy your other posts. --
The three laws of Thermodynamics, made easy:
1) You can't get anything done without working for it.
2) The most you can accomplish by working is to break even.
3) You can only break even at absolute zero.
-Mith
PS
(From the original story) "growed"? Is that a word? --
But didn't you taste the irony of HiQ's use of "Xerox" in a Mac thread in which their "innovative" GUI is discussed?
Or did you forget that their "innovation" was to use Xerox's PARC UI?
Slashdot Mirror
Next after what? If you mean "the next one after fisher" then -> /pub/redhat/beta > ls -l
ncftp
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 21 07:18 wolverine
It's been around for a couple[1] of days or so.
If you mean "the next one after wolverine" then I suspect that there won't be one, look for -final RSN[2].
-Mith
[1] for large values of 'couple'
[2] Real Soon Now
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Ahh, s/45/250/ my mistake.
disgusting.
Thanks for the ammuni^H^H^H^H^H^Hinformation though.
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DSL is inappropriate for a business. So is cable. This, I think, is a very good illustration of why.
There are a lot of caveats, including location (we're not national), but we've got a 7-day lead time for circuits up to 5Mbps. It amuses us daily that CLECs move so slowly, and that customers accept it. Er, well, I should stop speaking badly of the competition.
#include<disclaim.h>
--
They're not paying the employees any owed vacation over 25 hours, but the CEO (Fetter) got a $45,000 bonus. Expect more of this, DSL is a failing business model.
I enjoy the DSLreports.com Company Death Watch over coffee every morning.
--
A double reference, nicely played :)
--
My phone syncs with Outhouse and it doesn't run WinCE.
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A patent and a trademark aren't the same thing. Blizzard has the trademark. How many times does this type of post have to appear on slashdot before people gain a grasp on the differences between Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks?
--
You can't?
--
Point 1: trademark is not the same as copyright is not the same as patent.
(this particular slashdot trend is getting annoying)
Point 2: Blizzard's trademark on Diablo covers, among other things:
Video Games
Motion Pictures
Television Shows
Pajamas
Lunch Boxes and Insulated Beverage Containers
Freud USA owns the trademark on Diablo for circular saws.
Internation Tanning Products owns Diablo as used in conjunction with sun tan oil
And Jason R. Messina owns "The Diablo Project" for use in sound recordings.
Trademarks can be simple, common words, but must be highly specific.
--
Not much of a judgement call when you see that Blizzard's trademark on Diablo (tm) mentions *specifically* motions pictures and television shows.
s/judgement call/open and shut case/
--
Actually, both my cable modem [home] and my OC3 [work] have lots and lots of bandwidth. They're also both pretty fast. So you see, Virginia, it can be a measure of speed.
What does annoy me is the slapping of the word "broadband" onto things which are not.
Would you rather the phrase be "dude, I've got lots of kbps!"?
--
Um, no. Hate to ask the oft-repeated request on slashdot to read the fucking article, but ...
If you do, you'll note that this is a dissertation on why apt-get is the One True Way Unto Happiness, and only mentions rpm in passing as a dependency check loop. A real comparison would have included similar utilities like rpmfind and Ximian's new Red Carpet and the pros and cons of each. Can we, in the future, label pieces extolling the virtues of $foo as such, and avoid extrapolating a salient comparison from the mere mention of $bar?
</rant>
(replace rpm with vi and apt-get with emacs, and read the article again.)
--
Something like that?
Actually, I've more often bumped the case and had the rear of the desk hit the PSU's switch. I want a mollyguard for that badly.
--
Odd that you should mention Bioware.
Most feel that their games are NOT a butchery of AD&D (Let's count Game Of The Year awards, starting with Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment, shall we?). Also interesting is that you bring up NWN, which is the FIRST BlackIsle/Bioware D&D-based game that is NOT turn-based. All of the Infinity engine games were a mixture of both real-time and turn-based elements. The user selected the level of turn-based-ness(?), and could pause at will.
I only mention it because Infinity Engine games, with the ability to play in turn-based mode are MUCH closer to PnP D&D than NWN will be. (though the presence of a judge/DM is a great addition), and yet you praise moving D&D into real-time as "redeeming themselves".
One has to chuckle.
--
No.
See the hotly disputed GIF patent discussions.
Yes
ibid.
--
802.11 describes ethernet over RF at 2Mbps, freq. hopping, and DS/SS[1]. 802.11b describes ethernet over RF at 11, 5.5, and 2 Mbps over DS/SS. Freq. Hopping may have been recently added (I'm not certain), but I don't know if it was incorporated into 802.11b or if it is its own standard -- it was not, however, part of the original 802.11b.
I (and my Netadmin and RF Engineer) are of the belief that WEP was part of 802.11b, but not 802.11. We haven't read the specs in awhile, so don't quote us.
-Mith
[1] Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
--
ITYM a student loan and the sale of his entire (very impressive) comic collection. This explains themes from his later movies as well.
--
The point of my original reply was to kindly state that, while you seem more evolved than that kind of amoeba, you couldn't, in this case, insult without resorting to calling it "a gay."
I completely understand your frustration, and your desire to bitch-smack that idiot. My only hope is that, in the future, you can do it without perpetuating the use of that phrase as an insult.
In other words, what about being gay leads one to be a non-thinking, unevolved, bacterium?
There are most certainly idiots in the gay community, but no more than in any other group. Personally, I place this kind of comment in the same category as, for example: "He Jewed me out of $bignum dollars on the deal."
--
You are really, really, REALLY fucking stupid, aren't you?
Hint: it *tells* you it's sarcasm.
Hint: Sarcasm means it's a joke.
wow.
But, feel free to let the world know that you're an idiot by putting anti-Dispair Inc. grafiti on your web site.
--
The rest of your flames have been well thought and well spoken. Most have also been quite funny.
But I have to wonder:
How can someone with such eloquence in flames, suddenly find no better way to call someone stupid than "you're a gay". It's unfortunate, I honestly did enjoy your other posts.
--
Screw Home Depot?
They use Linux!
--
The three laws of Thermodynamics, made easy:
1) You can't get anything done without working for it.
2) The most you can accomplish by working is to break even.
3) You can only break even at absolute zero.
-Mith
PS
(From the original story) "growed"? Is that a word?
--
s/French/Latin/
--
But didn't you taste the irony of HiQ's use of "Xerox" in a Mac thread in which their "innovative" GUI is discussed?
Or did you forget that their "innovation" was to use Xerox's PARC UI?
--
Mith
--
Phone lines are powered by the local phone CO and is DC current (48v IIRC), not AC from the power folks.
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