Seriously, the UW has some bragging rights. The 'Cyclotron Shop' in north campus boasts the most powerful electromagnet on the west coast. It's powerful enough that one of the standard physics projects is to watch it levitate frogs in midair.
Ah, a Cougar I figure? Well, if you currently attend or are an alumnus of Washington State I'll forgive you because you're almost certainly drunk right now. I've never seen so much liquor as I saw in Pullman when a bunch of bored veterinarian students saw the shit get kicked out of their [insert any sport] team by us Huskies.
"After pressure from Microsoft and organizations representing parents of impressionable young nerds the bash shell has been rated NC-35 in an attempt to keep anyone from using it until they are a confirmed and lonely bachelor"
It's no accident that wine has come a long for gaming and improved dramatically. Codeweavers is a for-profit, closed-source company but they rely on wine to make their product work and it was their plan all along to improve wine so even non-customers can use the great improvements they've given to it.
I think it's a great model of a closed-source company being an integral part of an open-source movement.
I spent a summer living in Bangkok ivestigating the sex trade as it catered to foreigners. I hear literally hundreds of stories of women who had been either kidnapped from their homes (rare), sold by their parents (not so rare), simply run out of other options (common) and there were one or two who were doing it just for the money.
Without exception the men felt flattered and manly because of the way the women treated them. Also without exception the women hated the men, hated their jobs, felt dirty and cheap, and all they wanted was to get back home/raise their children in peace.
Even if porn isn't so bad for the people viewing it (up for debate), there is some truly evil stuff that's done in order to satisfy the needs of men.
Well, there are families here that go hungry and it's due to systematic injustice (distribution problems) in our economic system, but you're totally right - those are not the kind of people who get hurt by the Sasser worm.
Fully half of the world lives on $2/day but these are not the folks who's computer productivity were hurt by the latest internet worm. I have a hard time believing that somebody should die on account of somebody else who is rich enough to own a sweet computer losing some billable working hours.
I work on both a Windows system with a 2-button mouse and a Linux system with a 5-button mouse. Everytime I have to leave the Linux system I work slower because (Linux does more and) just 2 buttons is a pain in the ass.
My friends who run OSX all have Logitech 5+ button mice. They'll evangelize apple right up until it comes to buttons - then they stop.
I sorta hope that's not the reason I got good mod points. If it is, well, once everyone finds out about that this whole place might get a lot more fun.
It sounds like you want http://www.allofmp3.com/. They're just like iTunes except: 1) They charge by the amount transferred 2) They're ten times cheaper 3) They let you choose what kind of encoding you want 4) They're technically legal (thanks to Russia's "mandatory licensing" laws) 5) If you use it you piss of the RIAA.
If you run Windows they even have a client that's not unlike iTunes. Other OSes will need to use their web interface.
I didn't mention them because I didn't think the original poster would care about the Palestinians. They fall under the category of 'starving foreign dark-skinned people' for most folks.
I happen to think it's a damn tragedy that they've been pushed as far as they have.
There's a difference between real conservatism and modern conservatives.
Bush is considered a conservative. He's liberal with the military, liberal with spending, liberal with tax breaks and corporate advantage, liberal with big government and federal power.
SCJs are required to be conservative in a way that calls for moderation and tact in letting our country make changes.
The two are completely different, they're just both called 'conservative'
I spent $30K and got myself a thorough linguistics degree. I studied at least a little of ten languages while in college and spent my summers in foreign countries.
Then I graduated and pursued my real hobby of IT. Funny isn't it, how the real you can creep out in the strangest of ways.
My (formal) education gave me perspective and a flavor to my life that will always follow me, but it's silly to think that a person's major will have much at all to do with their career. You will either end up doing what you love, or a third of every day of your life will be irrelevant.
I've talked myself out of buying flat screen monitors with less than a 170 degree viewing angle.
Can you imagine a screen where if you readjust yourself just slightly you lose the picture and have to force yourself back into the position you've held for three hours? Sounds like hell.
And from the looks of it, hell's much more expensive than you're average screen.
I think this is ridiculous. In my neck of the woods (downtown Seattle) the only criterion is whether you can get the job done.
I've worn religious-themed t-shirts to work, I had a mullet for three months, I've gone the whole spectrum from yuppie to slacker in my wardrobe - and it's been clear from my, and my colleagues' in different companies, experiences that when you perform better you will get respected more.
It seems to me that companies around here that pay more attention to the professional exterior of an IT person than their ability to meet deadlines with good code soon fall behind.
I mean, it's not like I'm in marketing - I have a real job.
Their Adsense program has pushed their revenue through the roof. They make several hundred million dollars a year from their advertising sector.
It's not really the revenue that makes them worth so much though, it's their profit margins. The way they publish high quality software has made them into a company that only needs a fraction of what it earns. This means huge potential for growth.
I'd say the current ruler of the internet with an outrageous income could easily be worth $80B.
My roommate and I work together developing websites. He runs a powerbook and I've got Gentoo Linux running on a Dell 600m. The main advantage that he has is a reliable PC emulator on which he can test apps for IE. The real tie-breaker though is what KDE provides me in a text editor.
Far from vi, Kate (the editor embedded in most KDE apps) has an unbelievable ability to make work go faster. It has a native understanding of html/css tags way better than Dreamweaver or the like, supports Perl, Javascript, and PHP with inline variable-name completion and auto-syntax. I can't name all the things it does well, but a system running the latest KDE 3.4.1 can take on an OSX system any day in refined web development.
Yes, there are spam blog. There are also kiddies writing about their favorite music. Neither of these are useful to us.
But there's a whole different class. Just as journalists don't need to know (for any reason) how a printing press is built, bloggers don't need to build their own CMS.
Blog platforms are providing a new avenue for journalism and high-quality content-delivery. Blogs that aim at specific markets (niches) and provide authoritative content for that market deserve to be respected as valuable websites.
On Slashdot, when an economist drops their opinion we don't first ask "but are you running on your own custom-compiled *nix kernel?". That's not only elitist, it's ignorant to the fact that other people are highly trained in OTHER things. Like economics or, in the case of bloggers, writing.
The reason blogs are getting big is that more and more writers are finding ways to deliver useful content online - in blogs.
It's all about publishing content with the greatest liberty.
You're completely mistaken. Blogging software, while usually used for personal journals by teens, is actually just an evolution of static websites. A blog enables a writer to produce content quickly without having to worry about editing html.
It's being used to make BOATLOADS of money by such folks as WeblogsInc and others.
For more information about professional blogging, check out the guru himself: Darren Rowse. Darren makes a 6-figure income simply by providing quality, regular information on a number of websites he owns and operates.
What happens is people who waited three days for a Suse disc go hunt down the loser who kept them from getting the sweetest Linux distro around. Most of these folks are people who'd much play around on a new OS than watch Gigli.
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Seriously, the UW has some bragging rights. The 'Cyclotron Shop' in north campus boasts the most powerful electromagnet on the west coast. It's powerful enough that one of the standard physics projects is to watch it levitate frogs in midair.
Glad to see they keep trying new things.
Ah, a Cougar I figure? Well, if you currently attend or are an alumnus of Washington State I'll forgive you because you're almost certainly drunk right now.
I've never seen so much liquor as I saw in Pullman when a bunch of bored veterinarian students saw the shit get kicked out of their [insert any sport] team by us Huskies.
"After pressure from Microsoft and organizations representing parents of impressionable young nerds the bash shell has been rated NC-35 in an attempt to keep anyone from using it until they are a confirmed and lonely bachelor"
It's no accident that wine has come a long for gaming and improved dramatically. Codeweavers is a for-profit, closed-source company but they rely on wine to make their product work and it was their plan all along to improve wine so even non-customers can use the great improvements they've given to it.
I think it's a great model of a closed-source company being an integral part of an open-source movement.
I spent a summer living in Bangkok ivestigating the sex trade as it catered to foreigners. I hear literally hundreds of stories of women who had been either kidnapped from their homes (rare), sold by their parents (not so rare), simply run out of other options (common) and there were one or two who were doing it just for the money.
Without exception the men felt flattered and manly because of the way the women treated them.
Also without exception the women hated the men, hated their jobs, felt dirty and cheap, and all they wanted was to get back home/raise their children in peace.
Even if porn isn't so bad for the people viewing it (up for debate), there is some truly evil stuff that's done in order to satisfy the needs of men.
MOD PARENT UP.
/. post? heh...
Why does this comment sound like it's own
Well, there are families here that go hungry and it's due to systematic injustice (distribution problems) in our economic system, but you're totally right - those are not the kind of people who get hurt by the Sasser worm.
Fully half of the world lives on $2/day but these are not the folks who's computer productivity were hurt by the latest internet worm. I have a hard time believing that somebody should die on account of somebody else who is rich enough to own a sweet computer losing some billable working hours.
I work on both a Windows system with a 2-button mouse and a Linux system with a 5-button mouse. Everytime I have to leave the Linux system I work slower because (Linux does more and) just 2 buttons is a pain in the ass.
My friends who run OSX all have Logitech 5+ button mice. They'll evangelize apple right up until it comes to buttons - then they stop.
MOD PARENT UP - he swore!
I sorta hope that's not the reason I got good mod points. If it is, well, once everyone finds out about that this whole place might get a lot more fun.
It sounds like you want http://www.allofmp3.com/. They're just like iTunes except:
1) They charge by the amount transferred
2) They're ten times cheaper
3) They let you choose what kind of encoding you want
4) They're technically legal (thanks to Russia's "mandatory licensing" laws)
5) If you use it you piss of the RIAA.
If you run Windows they even have a client that's not unlike iTunes. Other OSes will need to use their web interface.
I didn't mention them because I didn't think the original poster would care about the Palestinians. They fall under the category of 'starving foreign dark-skinned people' for most folks.
I happen to think it's a damn tragedy that they've been pushed as far as they have.
It's barbaric when it happens in London, but when it happens constantly in Israel you don't even blink.
Bombs in London are barbaric but rape victims having no legal protection in Saudi Arabia doesn't bother you.
There's a Genocide happening in Sudan - what have you done to stop it?
Read tech news, get smart, get power, and use it all to go do some fucking good in this world.
There's a difference between real conservatism and modern conservatives. Bush is considered a conservative. He's liberal with the military, liberal with spending, liberal with tax breaks and corporate advantage, liberal with big government and federal power. SCJs are required to be conservative in a way that calls for moderation and tact in letting our country make changes. The two are completely different, they're just both called 'conservative'
I spent $30K and got myself a thorough linguistics degree. I studied at least a little of ten languages while in college and spent my summers in foreign countries.
Then I graduated and pursued my real hobby of IT. Funny isn't it, how the real you can creep out in the strangest of ways.
My (formal) education gave me perspective and a flavor to my life that will always follow me, but it's silly to think that a person's major will have much at all to do with their career. You will either end up doing what you love, or a third of every day of your life will be irrelevant.
I've talked myself out of buying flat screen monitors with less than a 170 degree viewing angle.
Can you imagine a screen where if you readjust yourself just slightly you lose the picture and have to force yourself back into the position you've held for three hours? Sounds like hell.
And from the looks of it, hell's much more expensive than you're average screen.
I think this is ridiculous. In my neck of the woods (downtown Seattle) the only criterion is whether you can get the job done.
I've worn religious-themed t-shirts to work, I had a mullet for three months, I've gone the whole spectrum from yuppie to slacker in my wardrobe - and it's been clear from my, and my colleagues' in different companies, experiences that when you perform better you will get respected more.
It seems to me that companies around here that pay more attention to the professional exterior of an IT person than their ability to meet deadlines with good code soon fall behind.
I mean, it's not like I'm in marketing - I have a real job.
When asked what I'm waiting for, I always reply:
I'm waiting for a new wave of freedom. When it comes, I'm gonna run Linux on a toaster, Atari on a Cray, and Windows on my ass.
Their Adsense program has pushed their revenue through the roof. They make several hundred million dollars a year from their advertising sector.
It's not really the revenue that makes them worth so much though, it's their profit margins. The way they publish high quality software has made them into a company that only needs a fraction of what it earns. This means huge potential for growth.
I'd say the current ruler of the internet with an outrageous income could easily be worth $80B.
My roommate and I work together developing websites. He runs a powerbook and I've got Gentoo Linux running on a Dell 600m. The main advantage that he has is a reliable PC emulator on which he can test apps for IE. The real tie-breaker though is what KDE provides me in a text editor.
Far from vi, Kate (the editor embedded in most KDE apps) has an unbelievable ability to make work go faster. It has a native understanding of html/css tags way better than Dreamweaver or the like, supports Perl, Javascript, and PHP with inline variable-name completion and auto-syntax. I can't name all the things it does well, but a system running the latest KDE 3.4.1 can take on an OSX system any day in refined web development.
That's ridiculous.
Yes, there are spam blog. There are also kiddies writing about their favorite music. Neither of these are useful to us.
But there's a whole different class. Just as journalists don't need to know (for any reason) how a printing press is built, bloggers don't need to build their own CMS.
Blog platforms are providing a new avenue for journalism and high-quality content-delivery. Blogs that aim at specific markets (niches) and provide authoritative content for that market deserve to be respected as valuable websites.
On Slashdot, when an economist drops their opinion we don't first ask "but are you running on your own custom-compiled *nix kernel?". That's not only elitist, it's ignorant to the fact that other people are highly trained in OTHER things. Like economics or, in the case of bloggers, writing.
The reason blogs are getting big is that more and more writers are finding ways to deliver useful content online - in blogs.
It's all about publishing content with the greatest liberty.
You're completely mistaken. Blogging software, while usually used for personal journals by teens, is actually just an evolution of static websites. A blog enables a writer to produce content quickly without having to worry about editing html.
It's being used to make BOATLOADS of money by such folks as WeblogsInc and others.
For more information about professional blogging, check out the guru himself: Darren Rowse. Darren makes a 6-figure income simply by providing quality, regular information on a number of websites he owns and operates.
What happens is people who waited three days for a Suse disc go hunt down the loser who kept them from getting the sweetest Linux distro around. Most of these folks are people who'd much play around on a new OS than watch Gigli.
Apparently everyone at slashdot thinks this is funny. Isn't this supposed to be BAD NEWS?
This isn't the cancellation of Star Trek, this is real space travel. And therefore less important.
males ages 9 through 120, who readily associate almost anything they encounter with their own genitals or breasts.
As a male, I admit I spend way too much time associating things with my breasts.
Just like us on /. call ourselves 'Rebels against unfair intellectual property laws' but really we just like downloading bootleg Neil Diamond records.