As long as there is traffic, there will also be advertising. Running ads benefits both the site and the advertisers, after all. They'll just switch to another method.
I'm personally a big supporter of using cash. I use it at every opportunity, even if that means going out of my way to go to an ATM.
I havn't heard a convincing argument for cashless yet. Cashless isn't anonymous, requires both parties to use special devices or services,, and ties us into the banking system and thus gives an already overinfluential sector more power than it deserves.
Here in the UK, banks and credit card companies charge a percentage to the retailer for using a card machine, which of course customers end up footing the bill for. Why support banks any more after all the destruction they've wrought?
Sounds like a prime example of whyt government should not interfere with the free market's natural processes (except basic workers' rights protections).
Because one overreaching umbrella way of doing things obviously works for practically everything. Sigh.
I've got karma to burn, so here's a postscript. Fuck the free market. Enjoy cheering and waving the banner for the ideology which is hammering away at your living standards.
Unleashed capitalism is just as gross and obscene as any other ideology that is mistakenly viewed as gospel.
I think Soulskill might be looking for a word like uncompetitive. Just a thought.
Pedantry aside, what does being competitive have to do with anything? The big pull of Linux is that you can roll your own. Why does open source have to meet this arbitrary yardstick set by large for-profit companies? Surely the point is that you develop whatever suits your needs, and then share it. It doesn't matter whether it's competitive. Everyone's needs are different after all. Hell, even Window Maker is still around and kicking. Is that a bad thing?
Why is this what Slashdot has become? How is this "news for nerds"? This looks much more like "bait for hot-headed middle-aged guys".
Exactly.
As much as reactionaries like to think it, there's nothing inherently worse about the younger generation, or our kids. Tromping through the woods doesn't make you a better person. It certainly doesn't make you a leader.
I live in a city with a river through it. I really don't know why they aren't doing cooling via air-to-water heat pumps. It's really absurd to blow fans all day when the river could carry away 100X the heat without too many ill effects.
When you sign up for these services, you're already tendering your personal information. The agreement is "you let me use this service, and I'll provide you with X information." Yes, it isn't an explicit agreement, but we all know how this works now.
Like any commodity, your price is set by demand. Saying you want to sell your information for cash is fine, but when the price is already set by the fact there are millions of others signing up to the service for free then your bargaining posture is pretty weak.
For me, Linux or BSD is about performance. If I wanted an integrated desktop experience with bells and whistles, frankly I'd stick with Windows XP or maybe go for XFCE.
Personally, I use Openbox. It's fast as hell and exceptionally customisable. I've ran it on machines ranging from modernish laptops to a creaking old 233MHz Thinkpad 600 and I cannot fault it. For me there is nothing missing that cannot be added (i combine mine with LXpanel and PCManFM).
Openbox doesn't get in the way or chew up system resources, and IMO that is the whole point of a window manager. I'm glad KDE exists, but it simply doesn't interest me.
It'll never get anywhere. Yes, it's awful that someone even thought of it, but the whole thing is so ludicrous and impractical (never mind the 1st amendment issue) that it'll never go much further than this stage.
Sometimes it pays to remember that politicians are often monumentally stupid.
Part of the reason that ISP's advertise speed as "up to" is because of the way ADSL actually works. Conditions play an enormous part in the connection speed and line quality, and the majority of these are (here in the UK, at least) completely out of the remit of the ISP itself. Distance from the telephone exchange, quality of wiring both internal and external, ratios of how many users on particular line, even type of telephone exchange. These factors can all make big differences. Case in point; in one property a stones throw from the exchange I got 6mbps, when I moved house a mile further away from the same exchange I got 500kbps with the awful wiring the landlord had hacked together, and 3mbps afterwards.
The first thing I always recommend to anyone getting unsatisfactory speeds is rewire your telephone sockets and place the modem as close to the master socket as possible. Also use decent quality sockets. Running a modem from a 10 metre telephone extension cable attached to a junky POS extension socket isn't going to do you any favours.
Is this what passes for Ask Slashdot submissions these days?
Buy a cheapo TFT new or second hand and mount it on the wall if you want. Buy a $10 webcam, do likewise. If you can't manage that, what the hell are you even doing here?
Come on, it doesn't even look real. Anyone can relay back browser information. Look at the language. "Arrested for fraud", "damaged the future of the music industry". Official notices don't look like this. They don't go off on stupid tangents about destroying the music industry.
There's some corporate shilling going on here, almost certainly.
Slashdot Mirror
They had very similar performance reviews at Enron
As long as there is traffic, there will also be advertising. Running ads benefits both the site and the advertisers, after all. They'll just switch to another method.
"Is this the beginning of the end for Android?"
Don't be so fucking stupid.
I'm personally a big supporter of using cash. I use it at every opportunity, even if that means going out of my way to go to an ATM.
I havn't heard a convincing argument for cashless yet. Cashless isn't anonymous, requires both parties to use special devices or services,, and ties us into the banking system and thus gives an already overinfluential sector more power than it deserves.
Here in the UK, banks and credit card companies charge a percentage to the retailer for using a card machine, which of course customers end up footing the bill for. Why support banks any more after all the destruction they've wrought?
Sounds like a prime example of whyt government should not interfere with the free market's natural processes (except basic workers' rights protections).
Because one overreaching umbrella way of doing things obviously works for practically everything. Sigh.
I've got karma to burn, so here's a postscript. Fuck the free market. Enjoy cheering and waving the banner for the ideology which is hammering away at your living standards.
Unleashed capitalism is just as gross and obscene as any other ideology that is mistakenly viewed as gospel.
Q: What is a chat bot?
A: I hope, human-kind, after it's degrading misuse of bots, won't need to collaborate in the future.
Another day, another hopeless chatbot.
I think Soulskill might be looking for a word like uncompetitive. Just a thought.
Pedantry aside, what does being competitive have to do with anything? The big pull of Linux is that you can roll your own. Why does open source have to meet this arbitrary yardstick set by large for-profit companies? Surely the point is that you develop whatever suits your needs, and then share it. It doesn't matter whether it's competitive. Everyone's needs are different after all. Hell, even Window Maker is still around and kicking. Is that a bad thing?
Why is this what Slashdot has become? How is this "news for nerds"? This looks much more like "bait for hot-headed middle-aged guys".
Exactly.
As much as reactionaries like to think it, there's nothing inherently worse about the younger generation, or our kids. Tromping through the woods doesn't make you a better person. It certainly doesn't make you a leader.
Threats to cabinet-level officials aren't overblown... a nuclear bomb hidden in a suitcase detonated in Washington could leave a headless government.
No, not overblown in the slightest.
I really liked the Jedi Academy or Rogue Squadron series of books when I was a kid. That said, I discovered it myself. Your mileage may vary :)
I live in a city with a river through it. I really don't know why they aren't doing cooling via air-to-water heat pumps. It's really absurd to blow fans all day when the river could carry away 100X the heat without too many ill effects.
Except for maybe killing most the marine life :P
When you sign up for these services, you're already tendering your personal information. The agreement is "you let me use this service, and I'll provide you with X information." Yes, it isn't an explicit agreement, but we all know how this works now.
Like any commodity, your price is set by demand. Saying you want to sell your information for cash is fine, but when the price is already set by the fact there are millions of others signing up to the service for free then your bargaining posture is pretty weak.
When you're done with your setup. Post a story on Slashdot linking to your website, that's a fairly good stress test.
Not so much these days. Seeing a site get Slashdotted has been quite a rare thing recently.
For me, Linux or BSD is about performance. If I wanted an integrated desktop experience with bells and whistles, frankly I'd stick with Windows XP or maybe go for XFCE.
Personally, I use Openbox. It's fast as hell and exceptionally customisable. I've ran it on machines ranging from modernish laptops to a creaking old 233MHz Thinkpad 600 and I cannot fault it. For me there is nothing missing that cannot be added (i combine mine with LXpanel and PCManFM).
Openbox doesn't get in the way or chew up system resources, and IMO that is the whole point of a window manager. I'm glad KDE exists, but it simply doesn't interest me.
free without caveat
only being able to use the free version for 30 minutes at a time is a pretty fucking large caveat.
This is nothing more than thinly veiled lifestyle snobbery. Why is it even on /.?
I grill my food using a Prescott P4 with the heatsink off.
One reason is because in many cases your system is only as good as your administrator. Bad linux admins are worse than competent Windows ones.
It'll never get anywhere. Yes, it's awful that someone even thought of it, but the whole thing is so ludicrous and impractical (never mind the 1st amendment issue) that it'll never go much further than this stage.
Sometimes it pays to remember that politicians are often monumentally stupid.
Part of the reason that ISP's advertise speed as "up to" is because of the way ADSL actually works. Conditions play an enormous part in the connection speed and line quality, and the majority of these are (here in the UK, at least) completely out of the remit of the ISP itself. Distance from the telephone exchange, quality of wiring both internal and external, ratios of how many users on particular line, even type of telephone exchange. These factors can all make big differences. Case in point; in one property a stones throw from the exchange I got 6mbps, when I moved house a mile further away from the same exchange I got 500kbps with the awful wiring the landlord had hacked together, and 3mbps afterwards.
The first thing I always recommend to anyone getting unsatisfactory speeds is rewire your telephone sockets and place the modem as close to the master socket as possible. Also use decent quality sockets. Running a modem from a 10 metre telephone extension cable attached to a junky POS extension socket isn't going to do you any favours.
Is this what passes for Ask Slashdot submissions these days?
Buy a cheapo TFT new or second hand and mount it on the wall if you want. Buy a $10 webcam, do likewise. If you can't manage that, what the hell are you even doing here?
I just hope it isn't encoded in WMV or something, or we'll all end up paying royalties for the images in our heads.
Until someone makes a copy of the Timber Wolf / Madcat.
Best. Mech. Ever.
Come on, it doesn't even look real. Anyone can relay back browser information. Look at the language. "Arrested for fraud", "damaged the future of the music industry". Official notices don't look like this. They don't go off on stupid tangents about destroying the music industry.
There's some corporate shilling going on here, almost certainly.
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You mean cocaine? I'd pay a premium for that.