I've seen a few comments that link this interview with BeOS. As far as I can tell from a cursory look at the homepage BeOpen has nothing to do with BeOS. They just have similar names. Recall from an earlier slashdot article that BeOpen is the place that the python folks moved to. Hope this clears up the confusion I had when I first saw the story and thought "What's Hans Reiser have to do with BeOS?"
Last time I tried an exploit, it was a real mess. People screaming, parents covering their kids' eyes, the embarassing arrest by the cops.... Wait, I'm thinking 'exhibition'. Nevermind.
You know, Loki's a gaming company I can really respect. I've bought Heroes III and Railroad Tycoon II from them, and am planning on getting Heavy Gear II as well. I've never had a problem with their games. Even better, in my opinion, is their attitude towards open source. While they can't open-source the games they port (for obvious reasons), they've opensourced the library they use to develop their games (SDL), the bug-tracking system (Fenris), and their setup installer. Those who develop programs with SDL and use the mailing list or newsgroup can easily get in touch with Sam Lantiga, the man who started SDL development. Here's to hoping that other game companies follow Loki's example. It's nice having a corporation that you can actually respect.
Really, though - that's what this is. The two operating systems are, at this point, not really comparable. It's comparing Apples to Oranges. I like oranges better.
Hmm, that's not as hard as a lot of people make it out to be....
I'd always wondered why it was that the people at the computer store told me not to open my computer myself.... I mean, if my IO port is this hazardous, what's my Voodo 3 going to be like?
I use to report spams to spamcop.net, but now with that feature, not anymore
That's what bothers me most about the bulk-mail filters. I've got a yahoo account and a hotmail account - yahoo has an excellent bulk mail filter (only a few get by it, and only rarely) which I use, but I don't use the one that Hotmail provides, for reasons that other posters in this thread pointed out. The result is that I report all the spam that gets delivered to my hotmail address, but not the spam that gets sent to my yahoo address (as I just clear out the bulk mail folder). I love the convienience factor of automatically ridding myself of spam, but it seems to me that until everyone has a filter like this, spammers are going to find it easier to do their dirty work, since nobody will report them.
For a summary of every comment that would otherwise have been posted in this thread, read the feature again.
Not that I mind seeing Slashdot becoming the web's answer to 20/20 style investigative reporting, but it doesn't seem like there's much left to discuss.
It's been a pleasure to post with all of you. It's a shame that I'm not going to get to, anymore. Why?
...for 'On-Line Interactive System and Method for Providing Content and Advertising Information to a Targeted Set of Viewers.'
Hmm, there are ads here (and even if there weren't, we've still got "Advertising informaiton" in the form of reviews & individual posts), and Slashdot is definitely targeting a certain set of viewers. You know what this means? No more Slashdot! Or Freshmeat, for that matter! Or CNN, or Fatbrain, or Microsoft home page.... Then again, maybe the patent's not that bad....
For the people who weren't at the geek pride festival, they had a band there (called 'Everyone', IIRC) which played video game music. It was, in fact, the only band that went on twice. They played the nostalgic tunes (Some Mega Man, some DragonWarrior) as well as some more recent music (Chrono Trigger, and the ever-present Final Fantasy series). Very enjoyable stuff!
This is a definite good thing - it shows that there actually/is/ a company that gets it:) After the whole Sony/Connectix deal a while back, it's good to see that someone does. Regardless of the pricing scheme of it, it's a good thing that they're embracing it at all. Somebody needs to get the contact information for Sega, and send it to the RIAA.:) Perhaps some clue could be transferred that way.
Barcodes? Ha! I've got this neat little chip implanted in my hand - it tells me, via a color-coded display embedded in my palm, exactly how long I have to live! Hmm, it seems to be blinking red. That's not right! I have more time! No, not yet! Wait!!!!
This is on topic, but it's going to take me a bit to get to it. Moderators, have faith:) One of the reasons that the government thinks it'd be a good thing to break Microsoft up the way they want to, is that without having an OS division, MS-Apps would do things like port Office to Linux. Red Hat, among others, sees this as a good thing, since the #1 reason they get for people not wanting to switch over to linux is "I can't use my (.DOC |.XLS |.PPT) files" I think about the porting of Office to Linux and see many others adopting Linux as a result. I then see clueless newbies who run as root all the time opening.DOC attachments in their mail, and having a macro virus attack them. And if MS-Apps ports Office over, why not Outlook? Right now, most folks think it's fairly rare to see a virus on Linux. If Microsoft ports Office/Outlook over, and clueless newbies/managers get ahold of it, the scarcity of viruses for Linux will vanish. I can see the headlines now: "Melissa ported to Linux!" I think I'll stick to Pine:)
As another poster said, I couldn't agree more. I got an e-mail about it this morning, and had to look to make sure it had come from a real source (it had) rather than some clueless person paranoid about "viruses" Back when Melissa was big, I had a co-worker who got an e-mail from his sister warning about how bad Melissa was, and not to open attachments with whatever subject line Melissa had. Upon further inspection, his sister had mailed not only him, but everyone in her address book. In other words, out of ignorance or lack of wanting to even think about what she was doing, my co-worker's sister had done the exact same thing as the virus would have. I think some more education is in order, when people warning about viruses become more annoying than the viruses themselves.
I work the same way, actually. If I know that my code's going to be maintained by someone else later, I make sure it's readable (that way they don't bug me to explain things) -- if it's just for me and I likely won't need to maintain it (a quick perl script, for example), then I tend to just be messy about it.
When I write code others will have to read (which I've done a few times, badly) everything needs to be much more clear.... And with OSS, there may not be a more experienced developer around to badger me into doing it right
I'm currently working on a game which, when it's playable, I intend to release under the GPL (I know, 'release early, release often', but still, I don't like releasing a nonfinished product) -- I find the idea that literally the entire community of linux users could be looking at my source code is an enormous incentive to make it clean. I guess the same force that motivates me to clean up the living room when people come over also motivates me to clean up my code when people are going to look at it. It's enough that they'll see how naieve a coder I am, I don't want them to think I'm a bad coder too. Which reminds me, I have to go do the dishes....
Okay, okay, nobody panic! I know things don't look good. I know we're close to the point of no return. In but a few scant hours, we'll all be dead, or wish we were. But goddamit, we're going to die proudly! Come on, Slashdot! Let's show the rest of the world that we're truly superior people, and die with dignity. Now is the time to forgive old wounds, to make amends for past wrongs. It's now that we come to terms with everything that life has dealt to us, and with humanity's final end! Goodbye, Slashdot! Of all the people I could spend my last living moments with, I'm glad I spent it with all of you.
Wait, the article said that the asteroid was 62 miles from the sattelite?
That's a great idea, too many people are confusing Red Hat with the totality of linux. Along those lines, I think other sites like this should be opened up. Just a few could be:
AOL is not the internet
Your Computer programmer friends are not tech support And, of course:
MP3 player for my car? Sign me up - the only reason I got a CD player for the car was that I couldn't get an MP3 player. (I wonder if those little cassette-adaptor things work for mp3 players, too?) Voice activated, on the other hand, I'd have to pass on. Other posters have brought up the point - what if I'm having a conversation with someone? What if I'm muttering to myself? What if I'm singing along to that wonderful hit, "Halt and Catch Fire"? Don't get me wrong, I like the concept of voice commands, there just needs to be a good way for the reciever to tell the difference between a command to it and regular speech. I'm reminded of the radio in one of the Hitchhiker's guide books - the one where you had to sit absolutely still while listening to it, otherwise you'd end up changing the station:)
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It may be a bit off-topic, but I figure an "ask slashdot" wouldn't be quite appropriate, so I just threw the question into a comment: Does anyone else have problems running this game? There's a page on the EA support website for my problem. "Sims crashed with a page fault in module " meaning, basically, I can run it for about five minutes, and then it crashes. Their solutions are to kill all the other programs, and to make sure your drivers are up-to-date. I've contacted EA support, and while they've suggested numerous solutions to the problem, none have worked. Is anyone else getting this? I see good reviews and (mostly) positive comments on this game everywhere, but almost no mention of my problem. If anyone had this problem, and has fixed it, I'd really appreciate hearing how!
I think news about this has been out for a while yet (I seem to remember hearing about it, but maybe it wasn't the official release) -- regardless, it's still good news. Especially for new folks. A roomate I had tried to install linux - Red Hat wouldn't let him create a boot partition. Why? Because his windows (which he was going to dual boot into) was taking up space above the limit. At the time, I didn't even know about the limitation. We had to break out FIPS and get to work. The book that came with his distro (not official Red Hat, I think it came with the 'for dummies' book) only brieftly mentioned the limitation, and did not mention workarounds. I don't know if my roomate even uses linux anymore, so traumatic did the install seem:/ Another friend was installing linux. I remember mentioning this problem and trying to explain for an hour and a half exactly what the problem was. My friend's not stupid, but the vaugaries of the hard drive are not for the weak of heart. She installed fine (she's got a linux-only system right now) but I was worried the warning would scare her off. To make a long story short (too late) I look forward to not having to warn people about this anymore. I'll be able to reccommend Linux to many more people, now:)
Other posters have commented that this seems a bit paranoid, what with the evidence and all. 2600 is claiming that the FBI doesn't have the real Mafiaboy. Well, I claim that they're not the real 2600! We've been paying attention to a fake! Through subtle manipulation over an extended period of time, "2600" has usurped the rightful entity behind the name! The true 2600 is, and always has been, here
Because, you know, if you're going to wipe out humanity with a massive nuclear strike, you're going to want to be able to get in a few rounds of the next Tekken while you do so!
After eBay and other online aution places got popular, a large group of 'helper' programs were created. Ones that would let you know when you'd been outbid, or others that would help you snipe off auctions. With this, I predict we'll see the same sort of helper applications emerging. By far the most used, however, will be: The Auto-Lawsuit Tracker! With all the lawsuits over patent infringements, how will you know who to sue when you get a new patent? Was Barnes and Noble infringing on that brand new invention you bought, or was it Netpliance? The Auto Lawsuit Tracker (patent pending) will keep track of the shifting patent battlefield for you! The Auto-Lawsuit Tracker - available at computer stores everywhere! Also: Auto-Lawsuit Tracker deluxe edition - the deluxe edition will automatically send official cease-and-desist letters to people who appear to be violating your patent, whether or not they are actually doing any wrong! Auto-Lawsuit Tracker deluxe - it's not just the only way to punish the little guy, it's the best way!
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I've seen a few comments that link this interview with BeOS. As far as I can tell from a cursory look at the homepage BeOpen has nothing to do with BeOS. They just have similar names.
Recall from an earlier slashdot article that BeOpen is the place that the python folks moved to.
Hope this clears up the confusion I had when I first saw the story and thought "What's Hans Reiser have to do with BeOS?"
Last time I tried an exploit, it was a real mess. People screaming, parents covering their kids' eyes, the embarassing arrest by the cops....
Wait, I'm thinking 'exhibition'. Nevermind.
With all the corporate representation, I think ICANN should make it's official motto "ICANN: The 'com' in .com"
You know, Loki's a gaming company I can really respect. I've bought Heroes III and Railroad Tycoon II from them, and am planning on getting Heavy Gear II as well. I've never had a problem with their games.
Even better, in my opinion, is their attitude towards open source. While they can't open-source the games they port (for obvious reasons), they've opensourced the library they use to develop their games (SDL), the bug-tracking system (Fenris), and their setup installer. Those who develop programs with SDL and use the mailing list or newsgroup can easily get in touch with Sam Lantiga, the man who started SDL development.
Here's to hoping that other game companies follow Loki's example. It's nice having a corporation that you can actually respect.
Really, though - that's what this is. The two operating systems are, at this point, not really comparable.
It's comparing Apples to Oranges.
I like oranges better.
Hmm, that's not as hard as a lot of people make it out to be....
I'd always wondered why it was that the people at the computer store told me not to open my computer myself.... I mean, if my IO port is this hazardous, what's my Voodo 3 going to be like?
I've got a yahoo account and a hotmail account - yahoo has an excellent bulk mail filter (only a few get by it, and only rarely) which I use, but I don't use the one that Hotmail provides, for reasons that other posters in this thread pointed out.
The result is that I report all the spam that gets delivered to my hotmail address, but not the spam that gets sent to my yahoo address (as I just clear out the bulk mail folder).
I love the convienience factor of automatically ridding myself of spam, but it seems to me that until everyone has a filter like this, spammers are going to find it easier to do their dirty work, since nobody will report them.
For a summary of every comment that would otherwise have been posted in this thread, read the feature again.
Not that I mind seeing Slashdot becoming the web's answer to 20/20 style investigative reporting, but it doesn't seem like there's much left to discuss.
Hmm, there are ads here (and even if there weren't, we've still got "Advertising informaiton" in the form of reviews & individual posts), and Slashdot is definitely targeting a certain set of viewers. You know what this means? No more Slashdot! Or Freshmeat, for that matter! Or CNN, or Fatbrain, or Microsoft home page....
Then again, maybe the patent's not that bad....
Patented package management? I believe the first thought to come to my mind was:
Think of the tarballs! Won't somebody please think of the tarballs!
For the people who weren't at the geek pride festival, they had a band there (called 'Everyone', IIRC) which played video game music. It was, in fact, the only band that went on twice. They played the nostalgic tunes (Some Mega Man, some DragonWarrior) as well as some more recent music (Chrono Trigger, and the ever-present Final Fantasy series). Very enjoyable stuff!
This is a definite good thing - it shows that there actually /is/ a company that gets it :) After the whole Sony/Connectix deal a while back, it's good to see that someone does. Regardless of the pricing scheme of it, it's a good thing that they're embracing it at all. :) Perhaps some clue could be transferred that way.
Somebody needs to get the contact information for Sega, and send it to the RIAA.
Barcodes? Ha! I've got this neat little chip implanted in my hand - it tells me, via a color-coded display embedded in my palm, exactly how long I have to live!
Hmm, it seems to be blinking red. That's not right! I have more time! No, not yet! Wait!!!!
This is on topic, but it's going to take me a bit to get to it. Moderators, have faith :) .XLS | .PPT) files" .DOC attachments in their mail, and having a macro virus attack them. :)
One of the reasons that the government thinks it'd be a good thing to break Microsoft up the way they want to, is that without having an OS division, MS-Apps would do things like port Office to Linux.
Red Hat, among others, sees this as a good thing, since the #1 reason they get for people not wanting to switch over to linux is "I can't use my (.DOC |
I think about the porting of Office to Linux and see many others adopting Linux as a result. I then see clueless newbies who run as root all the time opening
And if MS-Apps ports Office over, why not Outlook? Right now, most folks think it's fairly rare to see a virus on Linux. If Microsoft ports Office/Outlook over, and clueless newbies/managers get ahold of it, the scarcity of viruses for Linux will vanish.
I can see the headlines now: "Melissa ported to Linux!"
I think I'll stick to Pine
As another poster said, I couldn't agree more. I got an e-mail about it this morning, and had to look to make sure it had come from a real source (it had) rather than some clueless person paranoid about "viruses"
Back when Melissa was big, I had a co-worker who got an e-mail from his sister warning about how bad Melissa was, and not to open attachments with whatever subject line Melissa had.
Upon further inspection, his sister had mailed not only him, but everyone in her address book.
In other words, out of ignorance or lack of wanting to even think about what she was doing, my co-worker's sister had done the exact same thing as the virus would have.
I think some more education is in order, when people warning about viruses become more annoying than the viruses themselves.
I'm currently working on a game which, when it's playable, I intend to release under the GPL (I know, 'release early, release often', but still, I don't like releasing a nonfinished product) -- I find the idea that literally the entire community of linux users could be looking at my source code is an enormous incentive to make it clean.
I guess the same force that motivates me to clean up the living room when people come over also motivates me to clean up my code when people are going to look at it. It's enough that they'll see how naieve a coder I am, I don't want them to think I'm a bad coder too.
Which reminds me, I have to go do the dishes....
Okay, okay, nobody panic!
I know things don't look good. I know we're close to the point of no return. In but a few scant hours, we'll all be dead, or wish we were. But goddamit, we're going to die proudly! Come on, Slashdot! Let's show the rest of the world that we're truly superior people, and die with dignity.
Now is the time to forgive old wounds, to make amends for past wrongs. It's now that we come to terms with everything that life has dealt to us, and with humanity's final end!
Goodbye, Slashdot! Of all the people I could spend my last living moments with, I'm glad I spent it with all of you.
Wait, the article said that the asteroid was 62 miles from the sattelite ?
Oh.
And, of course:
MP3 player for my car? Sign me up - the only reason I got a CD player for the car was that I couldn't get an MP3 player. :)
(I wonder if those little cassette-adaptor things work for mp3 players, too?)
Voice activated, on the other hand, I'd have to pass on. Other posters have brought up the point - what if I'm having a conversation with someone? What if I'm muttering to myself? What if I'm singing along to that wonderful hit, "Halt and Catch Fire"?
Don't get me wrong, I like the concept of voice commands, there just needs to be a good way for the reciever to tell the difference between a command to it and regular speech. I'm reminded of the radio in one of the Hitchhiker's guide books - the one where you had to sit absolutely still while listening to it, otherwise you'd end up changing the station
It may be a bit off-topic, but I figure an "ask slashdot" wouldn't be quite appropriate, so I just threw the question into a comment:
Does anyone else have problems running this game?
There's a page on the EA support website for my problem. "Sims crashed with a page fault in module " meaning, basically, I can run it for about five minutes, and then it crashes.
Their solutions are to kill all the other programs, and to make sure your drivers are up-to-date.
I've contacted EA support, and while they've suggested numerous solutions to the problem, none have worked.
Is anyone else getting this? I see good reviews and (mostly) positive comments on this game everywhere, but almost no mention of my problem.
If anyone had this problem, and has fixed it, I'd really appreciate hearing how!
I think news about this has been out for a while yet (I seem to remember hearing about it, but maybe it wasn't the official release) -- regardless, it's still good news. :/ :)
Especially for new folks. A roomate I had tried to install linux - Red Hat wouldn't let him create a boot partition. Why? Because his windows (which he was going to dual boot into) was taking up space above the limit. At the time, I didn't even know about the limitation. We had to break out FIPS and get to work.
The book that came with his distro (not official Red Hat, I think it came with the 'for dummies' book) only brieftly mentioned the limitation, and did not mention workarounds. I don't know if my roomate even uses linux anymore, so traumatic did the install seem
Another friend was installing linux. I remember mentioning this problem and trying to explain for an hour and a half exactly what the problem was. My friend's not stupid, but the vaugaries of the hard drive are not for the weak of heart. She installed fine (she's got a linux-only system right now) but I was worried the warning would scare her off.
To make a long story short (too late) I look forward to not having to warn people about this anymore. I'll be able to reccommend Linux to many more people, now
Other posters have commented that this seems a bit paranoid, what with the evidence and all. 2600 is claiming that the FBI doesn't have the real Mafiaboy.
Well, I claim that they're not the real 2600! We've been paying attention to a fake! Through subtle manipulation over an extended period of time, "2600" has usurped the rightful entity behind the name!
The true 2600 is, and always has been, here
Because, you know, if you're going to wipe out humanity with a massive nuclear strike, you're going to want to be able to get in a few rounds of the next Tekken while you do so!
After eBay and other online aution places got popular, a large group of 'helper' programs were created. Ones that would let you know when you'd been outbid, or others that would help you snipe off auctions.
With this, I predict we'll see the same sort of helper applications emerging. By far the most used, however, will be:
The Auto-Lawsuit Tracker!
With all the lawsuits over patent infringements, how will you know who to sue when you get a new patent? Was Barnes and Noble infringing on that brand new invention you bought, or was it Netpliance? The Auto Lawsuit Tracker (patent pending) will keep track of the shifting patent battlefield for you!
The Auto-Lawsuit Tracker - available at computer stores everywhere!
Also:
Auto-Lawsuit Tracker deluxe edition - the deluxe edition will automatically send official cease-and-desist letters to people who appear to be violating your patent, whether or not they are actually doing any wrong! Auto-Lawsuit Tracker deluxe - it's not just the only way to punish the little guy, it's the best way!