i always wanted a monkey to roll joints for me.....sad thing is i picked up on the monkey aspect in the comments(only read the article summary) then promptly forget about three seconds later doh
i nkow everyone is pulling the "but what about way back when" point, but does anyone remember a post on slashdot earlier this week i believe that showed that kids brought up in care had a "loneliness" gene? so we are learning that our genetic make-up can be changed in our own lifetime, let alone over centuries off easier and easier living
so i don't find this that hard to believe
i hope they didn't have a percentage of the test group who were hopeless stoners and skewed the results....too much wee d can turn a normal person into a very lazy person (not always, but mnore often than not). i should hope any future studies had drug tests with the promise of confidentiality if at all possible.
if you are going to try and convert your friends to firefox, don't show them the 1.5 version yet. pretty as it is, it is the one with more of the memory hogging bugs that all you slashdotters talk about, and being the crowd that you are i'm assuming you are all using the beta. in my recent experience though, the 1.0.8 or whatever the latest one is is fairly stable and doesn't eat up memory/CPU cycles as much. wait until 1.5 is released proper....it has quite an xp feel to it, even on a linux box. maybe when you upgrade them to that it will be another stepping stone to linux when you can show them an xp feeling app on it...
looks like the next generation of the bilderberg group/illuminati/freemasons/real underground rulers of earth - will be immortal, thus not needing to pass down the lineage of the family line. maybe the great dark lord will end up like krang from the turtles
reminds of the old joke about engineers
"yesterday i couldn't even spell engineer, now i are one"
seriously though, i can understand the engineers being as highly prized as the coders, what with the whole google infrastructure and all those miles of cable being bought up, but the sales staff? well, i guess they are a business.
linux is free. Even if they have "sold" more server OS's (a ridiculous thing to say in comparison with a free product) everyone knows that apache runs about 70% of the web. this is just FUD that microsoft lovers will lap up.
And would anybody really want to place control of entire TLDs in the hands of one private company?"
i sure hope not. that would be like having one country^W^W^W^W^W^W^W company controling the nameservers of the entire internet.
not entirely sure, but the one of the guys in the band used to be in an old band waaay back called cabaret voltaire so he knows a little about the business. i would imagine they agreed to it all via email then sent them the music with artwork over the wire. that is pure specualtion though, maybe they sent a cd in or something
although they may have drm at least they don't have rootkits. record company shot itself in the foot there. looks like the slow and drawn out death of the record companies is inevitable
i have a friend whose band is on itunes, they are called yonni. they have no record deal at the moment, but recorded the songs in a studio themselves. maybe in the future companies like apple will replace traditional record companmies entirely. would be nice, no dirty executives and slimy contracts, just the musician and the record store, how it should be. watch record company executives everywhere get worried...
whee, it's flubber! i bet those scientists had lots of fun. that is a long time for somehing to bounce, but i would imagine in a vacuum with no air resistance any bouncy ball would go on for a long time
oh yeah, of course. hey, advertising is their main revenue source. still pretty cool to put a free service where there are a lot of bored people though. I also doubt they will lose those cutting edge type services, they like their cutting edge stuff and have enough cash for now
I always have my browser set to delete google cookies at the end of a session.
As for how usefull this data is, it's probably usefull to better determine how peoples web viewing habits are, which would be usefull for advertising research (after all advertising is their main revenue source).
Sounds like a free focus group for them. It's a win win situation.
It's ideas like this that make people not mind when google wants a lot of information about you. All those people who will cry "If this was microsoft you would hate it" - microsoft collates it's data surrepticiously, every webpage you visit or email you write.
offereing a free web cafe and saying "but we will watch you" in public no less, is a good thing.
I can hardly see anyone looking up anything they wouldn't want anybody to know about anyway at a public terminal
I bet in part it is due to some admins sneakily switching over the companies network/web/whatever server over and not telling the boss because they don't need to know and it saves hassle
first the search engine on bram cohens torrent client, now this. just like they took down supernova. i wish they would just wise up and provide a decent enough alternative, although marks for effectiveness. wonder what the next big craze will be. maybe just a different torrent client with a good search in it.
i run a webserver on my home box but i still want to be able to play quake 2 without taking down apache. linux users arenm't the same breed of windows users so used to reboots
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"Linux will be used to *test* the system not run it."
oh yeah, as soon as they get down to the real work it'll be straight onto windows server 2003
ok you have probably been given normal speech by your administrator
1 Respect the privacy of others
2 With great power comes great responsability
3 Don't push the big red button!
lets just hope they don't set passwd as p455w0rd
i always wanted a monkey to roll joints for me.....sad thing is i picked up on the monkey aspect in the comments(only read the article summary) then promptly forget about three seconds later
doh
i nkow everyone is pulling the "but what about way back when" point, but does anyone remember a post on slashdot earlier this week i believe that showed that kids brought up in care had a "loneliness" gene? so we are learning that our genetic make-up can be changed in our own lifetime, let alone over centuries off easier and easier living
so i don't find this that hard to believe
i hope they didn't have a percentage of the test group who were hopeless stoners and skewed the results....too much wee d can turn a normal person into a very lazy person (not always, but mnore often than not). i should hope any future studies had drug tests with the promise of confidentiality if at all possible.
i think i have couch lay-in-bed-all-day-in-front-of-the-computer genes
if you are going to try and convert your friends to firefox, don't show them the 1.5 version yet. pretty as it is, it is the one with more of the memory hogging bugs that all you slashdotters talk about, and being the crowd that you are i'm assuming you are all using the beta. in my recent experience though, the 1.0.8 or whatever the latest one is is fairly stable and doesn't eat up memory/CPU cycles as much.
wait until 1.5 is released proper....it has quite an xp feel to it, even on a linux box. maybe when you upgrade them to that it will be another stepping stone to linux when you can show them an xp feeling app on it...
looks like the next generation of the bilderberg group/illuminati/freemasons/real underground rulers of earth - will be immortal, thus not needing to pass down the lineage of the family line. maybe the great dark lord will end up like krang from the turtles
reminds of the old joke about engineers "yesterday i couldn't even spell engineer, now i are one"
seriously though, i can understand the engineers being as highly prized as the coders, what with the whole google infrastructure and all those miles of cable being bought up, but the sales staff? well, i guess they are a business.
linux is free. Even if they have "sold" more server OS's (a ridiculous thing to say in comparison with a free product) everyone knows that apache runs about 70% of the web. this is just FUD that microsoft lovers will lap up.
the sad thing about closed source is there is no way to tell what info is being sent back to the manufacturer, a la microsoft.
richard branson is going to be pissed off
And would anybody really want to place control of entire TLDs in the hands of one private company?"
i sure hope not. that would be like having one country^W^W^W^W^W^W^W company controling the nameservers of the entire internet.
not entirely sure, but the one of the guys in the band used to be in an old band waaay back called cabaret voltaire so he knows a little about the business. i would imagine they agreed to it all via email then sent them the music with artwork over the wire. that is pure specualtion though, maybe they sent a cd in or something
although they may have drm at least they don't have rootkits. record company shot itself in the foot there. looks like the slow and drawn out death of the record companies is inevitable
i have a friend whose band is on itunes, they are called yonni. they have no record deal at the moment, but recorded the songs in a studio themselves. maybe in the future companies like apple will replace traditional record companmies entirely. would be nice, no dirty executives and slimy contracts, just the musician and the record store, how it should be. watch record company executives everywhere get worried...
whee, it's flubber! i bet those scientists had lots of fun. that is a long time for somehing to bounce, but i would imagine in a vacuum with no air resistance any bouncy ball would go on for a long time
oh yeah, of course. hey, advertising is their main revenue source. still pretty cool to put a free service where there are a lot of bored people though. I also doubt they will lose those cutting edge type services, they like their cutting edge stuff and have enough cash for now
I always have my browser set to delete google cookies at the end of a session. As for how usefull this data is, it's probably usefull to better determine how peoples web viewing habits are, which would be usefull for advertising research (after all advertising is their main revenue source). Sounds like a free focus group for them. It's a win win situation.
It's ideas like this that make people not mind when google wants a lot of information about you. All those people who will cry "If this was microsoft you would hate it" - microsoft collates it's data surrepticiously, every webpage you visit or email you write. offereing a free web cafe and saying "but we will watch you" in public no less, is a good thing. I can hardly see anyone looking up anything they wouldn't want anybody to know about anyway at a public terminal
i heard of someone who downloaded over twenty ebooks on programming c and c++. what a scoundrel, knowledge wasn't meant to be free
nothing to see here, please move along
I bet in part it is due to some admins sneakily switching over the companies network/web/whatever server over and not telling the boss because they don't need to know and it saves hassle
first the search engine on bram cohens torrent client, now this. just like they took down supernova. i wish they would just wise up and provide a decent enough alternative, although marks for effectiveness. wonder what the next big craze will be. maybe just a different torrent client with a good search in it.
i run a webserver on my home box but i still want to be able to play quake 2 without taking down apache. linux users arenm't the same breed of windows users so used to reboots