sorry, like most people on slashdot the article isn't nearly as amusing as the comments so i didn't bother to read it, White Castle is a chain of hamburger stores that was around before McDonalds, it's still around, it just didn't grow to the enormous size McDonalds did, it's usually attributed to being the first modern "burger joint"
I don't need them, but NAT breaks some parts of IPv4 and makes other parts annoying to deal with, if I want an internal machine's port 22 available to the outside world I either have to translate it from another port, say 20022 on the outward facing IP or do tunneling through an established connection with my firewall machine, since my firewall itself already is using port 22, it's a dirty ugly hack that I would rather not deal with. Quite a number of games also don't like NATs tho that could be more DirectX's fault.
At the very least I have a lot more interest in seeing IPv6 than in seeing HURD.
IPv6 would allow me to have real IP's on all my devices behind my firewall, and I wouldn't be breaking a good chunk of it like I do IPv4 just because I wouldn't have to NAT.
Multicast in IPv6 would revolutionize streaming media and software distribution, if five of your friends want to download a copy of RandomLinux ISO from you you only upload it once, not 5 times.
If that's true than good, the Metric system takes everythign we know about number theory and throws it out the window in favor of something that only has one saving grace, it's easy to move up or down in scale.
In response to number 2, one of the biggest problems with doing that in the US is the multiple networks for cell phones, well do have some GSM providers, but unlike Europe that's not all there is, we also do PCS and CDMS and TDMA.
PCS is proprietary so there's no switching phones from or to that service.
I had GSM service with Voicestream and now AT&T is rolling out/has rolled out GSM service so I should have been able to switch to them if I still had a cell phone by simply swapping my SIM card.
And analog is still the only option available in large parts of the wilderness which Voicestream didn't support when I was a customer because they're digital only.
Well they have rare ones and common ones, a spiderman figure with a slow speed might be a bit more common than a spiderman with a fast speed, of course the faster one is more desirable in playing the game and for the fact that it's rarer
They're collectable in the same way Magic: the Gathering cards are, but not collectable in the way baseball cards are.
I haven't seen it in a monitor yet, but I've noticed many ATM LCD screens are burned.
I've also seen some newer ATMs have screen saver thingies that flash around the banks promos and options which I assume is to reduce burn, but could just be intended to be cheap advertising.
i think you mised up the stones and phish in your closing paragraph there, i had hoped to go my whole life without ever hearing a phish tune, damn simpsons ruined it for me
Or maybe he's honest and buys a copy for each of his machines and for some reason has extra Win98 licenses, maybe his company was throwing them away and sold them to him cheap.
I don't want my taxes going towards the subsidizing of any companies or products, tarriffs, while stupid, put the cost on the consumers of tarriffed merchandise rather than putting it on people who may have nothing to do with it.
Why should some mid west wheat farmer pay taxes to subsidize your chip use.
if you hate them because their music just plain sucks now, no matter how much they "get it" and go gung ho on the internet, their music will still suck and they won't be getting those people back, their new album is worse than the last two, or three, or four, depending on how you count live albums and whatever garage days was
Which isn't a problem for MS because most of the people here making statements like 1. Microsoft has yet to pull anything off to my satisfaction. or 2. This is probably just an excuse to break with NTFS as the kernel developers are nearing compatibility. I suspect WinFS will be completely closed "for security reasons" and anyone using it will be prohibited from writing Linux code as well. have no intention of ever choosing MS products in the first place.
the united states locked up thousands of their own citizens to "protect" them from their neighbors, ruined their livelihoods by forcing them to sell off their businesses and possesions at pennies on the dollar
world war 2 was an atrocity brought about by the victors of the previous war demanding reparations from countries that had just been bombed to the stone age and then not doing anything about germany's illegal re-armament, considering the us is accorss an ocean most of the blame goes on france and england for making continuous concessions
you mean the 3 decades it took them to aprove a birth control pill while viagra took only 6 months
better overall moral strucure?
you mean the baatan death march and just as much rape, human experimentation and genocidal acts as the germans during world war 2 yet got away with a slap on the wrist
people are always bringing up the united states's sins of the father so why not japan's, oh because they're the poor defensless country we dropped nuclear weapons on to stop a war they started
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OK, how about this, I propose boycotting Blizzard because they no longer produce anything worth buying or even pirating.
An exceptionally liberal license would be MIT or BSD style.
hmm flamebait
sorry, like most people on slashdot the article isn't nearly as amusing as the comments so i didn't bother to read it, White Castle is a chain of hamburger stores that was around before McDonalds, it's still around, it just didn't grow to the enormous size McDonalds did, it's usually attributed to being the first modern "burger joint"
They also made the award winning Microsoft Services for Unix 3, that's right, Microsoft won a LinuxWorld award.
Not to rain poop on your comparison, but White Castle was before McDonald's.
I don't need them, but NAT breaks some parts of IPv4 and makes other parts annoying to deal with, if I want an internal machine's port 22 available to the outside world I either have to translate it from another port, say 20022 on the outward facing IP or do tunneling through an established connection with my firewall machine, since my firewall itself already is using port 22, it's a dirty ugly hack that I would rather not deal with. Quite a number of games also don't like NATs tho that could be more DirectX's fault.
At the very least I have a lot more interest in seeing IPv6 than in seeing HURD.
IPv6 would allow me to have real IP's on all my devices behind my firewall, and I wouldn't be breaking a good chunk of it like I do IPv4 just because I wouldn't have to NAT.
Multicast in IPv6 would revolutionize streaming media and software distribution, if five of your friends want to download a copy of RandomLinux ISO from you you only upload it once, not 5 times.
Not really, IPv6 is actually useful.
If that's true than good, the Metric system takes everythign we know about number theory and throws it out the window in favor of something that only has one saving grace, it's easy to move up or down in scale.
An essay on the Metric system puts it much better than I could.
If Metric is so great why isn't time based on divisions of 10? or trigonometry? They're both 12 based which is a good thing.
/. is owned by VA Linux.
Make you own conspiracy theorist backed conclusions.
In response to number 2, one of the biggest problems with doing that in the US is the multiple networks for cell phones, well do have some GSM providers, but unlike Europe that's not all there is, we also do PCS and CDMS and TDMA.
PCS is proprietary so there's no switching phones from or to that service.
I had GSM service with Voicestream and now AT&T is rolling out/has rolled out GSM service so I should have been able to switch to them if I still had a cell phone by simply swapping my SIM card.
And analog is still the only option available in large parts of the wilderness which Voicestream didn't support when I was a customer because they're digital only.
Well they have rare ones and common ones, a spiderman figure with a slow speed might be a bit more common than a spiderman with a fast speed, of course the faster one is more desirable in playing the game and for the fact that it's rarer
They're collectable in the same way Magic: the Gathering cards are, but not collectable in the way baseball cards are.
I haven't seen it in a monitor yet, but I've noticed many ATM LCD screens are burned.
I've also seen some newer ATMs have screen saver thingies that flash around the banks promos and options which I assume is to reduce burn, but could just be intended to be cheap advertising.
it also goes to pay to "discover" britney spears and nsync and any number of other bands i could very easily do without
i think you mised up the stones and phish in your closing paragraph there, i had hoped to go my whole life without ever hearing a phish tune, damn simpsons ruined it for me
Or maybe he's honest and buys a copy for each of his machines and for some reason has extra Win98 licenses, maybe his company was throwing them away and sold them to him cheap.
2k$ is a drop in the bucket, sell 2000 copies and charge an extra dollar each, or 20000 copies and charge a whole dime more
Both the gimp and photoshop suck from many points of view
I don't want my taxes going towards the subsidizing of any companies or products, tarriffs, while stupid, put the cost on the consumers of tarriffed merchandise rather than putting it on people who may have nothing to do with it.
Why should some mid west wheat farmer pay taxes to subsidize your chip use.
if you hate them because their music just plain sucks now, no matter how much they "get it" and go gung ho on the internet, their music will still suck and they won't be getting those people back, their new album is worse than the last two, or three, or four, depending on how you count live albums and whatever garage days was
I've actually created one.
How is the parent informative, it's the same link the submitter mentioned.
Which isn't a problem for MS because most of the people here making statements like 1. Microsoft has yet to pull anything off to my satisfaction. or 2. This is probably just an excuse to break with NTFS as the kernel developers are nearing compatibility. I suspect WinFS will be completely closed "for security reasons" and anyone using it will be prohibited from writing Linux code as well. have no intention of ever choosing MS products in the first place.
oops, i meant during world war 2, the japanese internment camps, sorry i wasn't more clear
oh come on, this isn't insightful, it's flamebait
the united states locked up thousands of their own citizens to "protect" them from their neighbors, ruined their livelihoods by forcing them to sell off their businesses and possesions at pennies on the dollar
world war 2 was an atrocity brought about by the victors of the previous war demanding reparations from countries that had just been bombed to the stone age and then not doing anything about germany's illegal re-armament, considering the us is accorss an ocean most of the blame goes on france and england for making continuous concessions
better moral structure when it coems to sex?
you mean the 3 decades it took them to aprove a birth control pill while viagra took only 6 months
better overall moral strucure?
you mean the baatan death march and just as much rape, human experimentation and genocidal acts as the germans during world war 2 yet got away with a slap on the wrist
people are always bringing up the united states's sins of the father so why not japan's, oh because they're the poor defensless country we dropped nuclear weapons on to stop a war they started