There was no backspace key, and you didn't see what command you typed in until AFTER you hit the enter key. So to keep things easy, you end up with 2 to 4 letter commands. ls, ed, df, dd, etc...
How is this funny? I read the Original Question twice, and I didn't see any spelling errors, so HOW does it look like he's learning a foreign language? Or is it just funny as in jackass style funny. I had assumed that./ people were a little bit more refined than to stoop to that level for entertainment.
You are comparing apples to oranges, Evolution != Origin of the Universe
Evolution is what has happened to species over time. Even the Catholic church will admit that, but what you evolutionist keep doing is equating evolution with how things began in the first place, and of that, other than the evidence of the big bang you have nothing.
Going backward in time evolutionists believe : Humans --> Apes --> One celled organisims --> Primordial Stew -- > Big Bang
Where as many intelligent christians believe: Humans --> Apes --> One celled organisims --> Primordial Stew --> Big Bang --> Let there be light.
In a way I agree here, Computer time shouldn't be limmited but ONLINE and Game Playing time should.
Get some programming software and such and let them play with that as much as they want, and show interest in the "cool" programs and stuff they come up with. Come up with different "challenges" for them to program a solution for.
Have a ghost image of the PC standing by when they accidentally wipe out a file. The "Play" PC should not have anything important on it and if they do accidentally wipe something out, let them explore how to fix it and let them help with restoring it.
Limiting their online time is what you really need to do, and it's easy if you have a router or a gatway, just disable the port that that PC is on except for the times you want to allow them on the net, and keep the router in a separate room, or locked up somehow. And when they are on the net, never be where you can't see the screen and when you are done supervising their internet time, disable the port again.
Computers of them selves are nothing but tools, they can be good for kids. Look how well most of us slashdotters turned out.:)
In all seriousness, it's not the time on the computer that needs to be limited, it's the time spent at different activities on the computer that needs to be monitored.
I dunno about where you live, but the grocery stores around here are awfully crowded if all these people are buying groceries online
I don't think that grocery shopping online will ever truly come to be lucrative. People might go to a restaurant and buy cooked food, but they still get to send it back if it's not done right, I highly doubt people are going to leave the choosing actual ingredients up to some idiot who just fills orders. Also , shopping is still a remnant of hunter gatherer days, and I don't think sitting at home and ordering online will ever replace it. It hasn't even replaced it for general merchandise yet.
Grocery shopping in person will be around for a long time to come.
I live in Ohio, and voted using the old paper method. Don't know which cities/municipalities used the electronic stuff. From what I can remember Ohio only tested them but never put them into use.
As for Bush winning Ohio, it was because he was voted for. When the democrats stop putting up these morons who can't make up their minds and actually stand for what the majority of the people in this country stand for maybe they'll win, but right now they are so far out of touch with reality, I don't see them standing a chance for at least 20 years.
Narrator: "The Neuros Audio music master l33t 3k was made by these people."
Scene: Dark basement room, pizza boxes and empty pop cans strewn around, At a desk in the corner sits a glasses wearing hacker complete with dirty T-shirt, pale skin and acne, which mother yelling downstairs at him as he furiously types his computer keyboad.
Scene switches: Well lit office environment, professional looking people scurrying about, there is background chatter about stability, audio quality, usability, etc..
Narrator: "Apple Ipod was programmed by these people, who are you going to trust your downloaded music to?
Aplle Ipod, programmed by professionals."
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Don't get me wrong. I am all for open source etc... but I am just thinking that Apple will use this to their advantage somehow.
One of the many ways MS infects their own stuff. heheh
This story was rejected by/. in under 3 minutes.
Newest MS Critical Update protects XP from own users.
news.com is reporting that a new Microsoft Critical update that was "released Tuesday to fix four Windows flaws, including one that experts predict will be exploited by a worm in the coming days", may also inadverntly protect PC's from their own users.
According to the article: " Installing the patch can cause serious problems, Microsoft said in an advisory posted to its Web site Friday. The patch could lock users out of their PC, prevent the Windows Firewall from starting, block certain applications from running or installing, and empty the network connections folder, among other things, the software maker said."
But there is assurance in the article: "Even if users experience PC trouble after installing the patch, they will still be protected against any attack exploiting the Windows flaw". What they fail to tell you that your PC is now also protected from you being able to log in. If this is the result of stuff they know about, how reliable are their predictions about upcoming worms? (Maybe they are the ones releasing the worm)
This type of protection is much easier to to in linux, nothing to install, just log in as root and type rm -rf /
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I still can't figure out how/. picks their stories. Maybe they looked at it and rejected it because, it has proper grammar and spelling, is timely, and is not a dupe. Maybe I should start submitting stories in l33t sp34k.
This is an old one but I will tell you YOU ARE WRONG!
The "barely break even" only happens to the promoters and venues, the Bands themselves are ALWAYS guaranteed their money.
When a promoter sets up an event, they talk to the band, or the bands manager, and set a price that the band will get. The band will get that money no matter what, it is the promoter that is at risk for loss, NOT the band. When the band gets their money, they of course have to pay their manager his/her percentage which is right now around 15%, so if the band agrees to play a large venue for say, $50,000, the promoter, no matter if only 2 people show up will have to pay the band $50,000 of which the manager of the band will keep his 15% or 7,500. The band keeps all the rest.
It is the promoters responsibility for advertising, for paying the venue (stadium, colliseum etc.) for printing of tickets, flyers posters etc..
The only thing the band has to pay for is the expense of travelling there.
I am an IT professional, but I spent a year driving truck until I could find a decent job. If your state really wants to be a reciever of federal funds,I'd say that you all need to get off your butts and put some on your governor to stop vetoing the bills that would get rid of the split speed limit. The Federal government holds back federal funds from stated that have the split speed limit. (That is let's say 65mph for cars and 55mph for trucks).
Split speed limits cause more accidents and traffic fatalities, also statistically trucks have fewer accidents per mile than cars do, so the split speed limit makes no sense at all.
Oh and it you want to get the reality check, getting hit by a truck going at 55 is going to do just as much damage as if that truck was going 65.
First off, if they want to rebuild New Orleans where it sat before then the people who lived there need to do it out of their own pockets. No FEMA money, No Insurance money, if you want to rebuild, fine, but don't do it on the backs of the rest of the country.
FEMA has regulations, that if you live in an area prone to flooding, or other natural disasters and you are wiped out and they pay you money, you CANNOT rebuild there. There are thousands of acres along the Mississipi where people are not allowed to build on after the floods back in the 90's.
In a little town called Falmouth Kentucky, there was flooding, FEMA forbid the rebuilding of any structures, and now what is there is a big open field in the middle of town.
It seems to me that if they want to rebuild NOLA, that the laws would need to be changed, and if they change the laws for NOLA then they should be retroactive for people who still own land and can no longer build on it.
The government needs to put it's foot down and just move New Orleans to higher ground. New Orleans should not be rebuilt where it was.
You are correct. The Record companies keep the lion's share from CD sales, the artists get diddly squat. I think the current rate depending on the band is anyone from $.02 - $.13 per CD sold. A band, group, artists real income comes from concerts and merchanising.
Is there a way to prove that the web page you are looking at is actually being served by a PsP? It could be a hoax, how can one truly tell? To me it's a web page. I could stick it on an Apache server and claim it's running on a gameboy.
It's amazing, grandma johnson down the street can design her own webpages and yet this question gets deemed worthy enough for ask slashdot, where as a question I have asked a couple times about a way to tie SSHD into an sql database for user authentication for a running a "shell" instead of having to give 10,000 people user accounts on a machine gets constantly rejected.
It used to be that one would read slashdot for iformation from highly intelligent peers, anymore tho it feel like I should be taking off my shoes and socks as if I am going for a drive through Alabama instead.
A list of tools for publishing.... for cryin out loud, what's next? "Ask Slasgdot: What tools are available that sit up off the floor, maybe has wheels and I can place my butt on it while using the computer?"
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..2MB of full speed, on-die L2 cache dedicated to each core, for a whopping 4MB of total L2 cache
;)
2 x 2 = 4 ??
Holy crap that is news!!.
Be sure to calibrate your sarcasmeter.
omg, and here I thought all slashdotters were geeks to some extent.
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The *nix operating system was developed when the input/output device was a teletype. ( http://www.virtualaltair.com/virtualaltair.com/va
There was no backspace key, and you didn't see what command you typed in until AFTER you hit the enter key. So to keep things easy, you end up with 2 to 4 letter commands. ls, ed, df, dd, etc...
How is this funny? I read the Original Question twice, and I didn't see any spelling errors, so HOW does it look like he's learning a foreign language? Or is it just funny as in jackass style funny. I had assumed that ./ people were a little bit more refined than to stoop to that level for entertainment.
You are comparing apples to oranges, Evolution != Origin of the Universe
Evolution is what has happened to species over time. Even the Catholic church will admit that, but what you evolutionist keep doing is equating evolution with how things began in the first place, and of that, other than the evidence of the big bang you have nothing.
Going backward in time evolutionists believe : Humans --> Apes --> One celled organisims --> Primordial Stew -- > Big Bang
Where as many intelligent christians believe: Humans --> Apes --> One celled organisims --> Primordial Stew --> Big Bang --> Let there be light.
What data do you see on an audio CD?
In a way I agree here, Computer time shouldn't be limmited but ONLINE and Game Playing time should.
:)
Get some programming software and such and let them play with that as much as they want, and show interest in the "cool" programs and stuff they come up with. Come up with different "challenges" for them to program a solution for.
Have a ghost image of the PC standing by when they accidentally wipe out a file. The "Play" PC should not have anything important on it and if they do accidentally wipe something out, let them explore how to fix it and let them help with restoring it.
Limiting their online time is what you really need to do, and it's easy if you have a router or a gatway, just disable the port that that PC is on except for the times you want to allow them on the net, and keep the router in a separate room, or locked up somehow. And when they are on the net, never be where you can't see the screen and when you are done supervising their internet time, disable the port again.
Computers of them selves are nothing but tools, they can be good for kids. Look how well most of us slashdotters turned out.
In all seriousness, it's not the time on the computer that needs to be limited, it's the time spent at different activities on the computer that needs to be monitored.
I dunno about where you live, but the grocery stores around here are awfully crowded if all these people are buying groceries online
I don't think that grocery shopping online will ever truly come to be lucrative. People might go to a restaurant and buy cooked food, but they still get to send it back if it's not done right, I highly doubt people are going to leave the choosing actual ingredients up to some idiot who just fills orders. Also , shopping is still a remnant of hunter gatherer days, and I don't think sitting at home and ordering online will ever replace it. It hasn't even replaced it for general merchandise yet.
Grocery shopping in person will be around for a long time to come.
I live in Ohio, and voted using the old paper method. Don't know which cities/municipalities used the electronic stuff. From what I can remember Ohio only tested them but never put them into use. As for Bush winning Ohio, it was because he was voted for. When the democrats stop putting up these morons who can't make up their minds and actually stand for what the majority of the people in this country stand for maybe they'll win, but right now they are so far out of touch with reality, I don't see them standing a chance for at least 20 years.
that google releases virus protection on World AIDS Day.
This would be like the cable company accepting money from LifeTime to make HGTV have a snowy picture.
Or
The Phone company accepting money from Dominoes to make Pizza Huts phone line have a bunch of static on it.
Or
Mechanics accepting money from Chevy to make Fords only go 40 miles per hour.
sheesh
The Canadian Government agreed to provied 4000 army troops, a squadron of jets and a naval fleet to the U.S. in it's war on terror.
After the exchange rates, it came out to 4 canoes, 3 flying squirrels, and a 2 Canadian mounties.
http://www.beertravelers.com/micros/wolftongue.htm l
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4073075.stm
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/01/03/espressostout/
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Speciality_Beer_5140781_4
I can see the adverisement now,
Narrator: "The Neuros Audio music master l33t 3k was made by these people."
Scene: Dark basement room, pizza boxes and empty pop cans strewn around, At a desk in the corner sits a glasses wearing hacker complete with dirty T-shirt, pale skin and acne, which mother yelling downstairs at him as he furiously types his computer keyboad.
Scene switches: Well lit office environment, professional looking people scurrying about, there is background chatter about stability, audio quality, usability, etc..
Narrator: "Apple Ipod was programmed by these people, who are you going to trust your downloaded music to? Aplle Ipod, programmed by professionals."
------
Don't get me wrong. I am all for open source etc... but I am just thinking that Apple will use this to their advantage somehow.
Well no matter what, at least I have enough guts to post under my username.
One of the many ways MS infects their own stuff. heheh
/. in under 3 minutes.
/. picks their stories.
This story was rejected by
Newest MS Critical Update protects XP from own users.
news.com is reporting that a new Microsoft Critical update that was "released Tuesday to fix four Windows flaws, including one that experts predict will be exploited by a worm in the coming days", may also inadverntly protect PC's from their own users.
According to the article: " Installing the patch can cause serious problems, Microsoft said in an advisory posted to its Web site Friday. The patch could lock users out of their PC, prevent the Windows Firewall from starting, block certain applications from running or installing, and empty the network connections folder, among other things, the software maker said."
But there is assurance in the article: "Even if users experience PC trouble after installing the patch, they will still be protected against any attack exploiting the Windows flaw". What they fail to tell you that your PC is now also protected from you being able to log in. If this is the result of stuff they know about, how reliable are their predictions about upcoming worms? (Maybe they are the ones releasing the worm)
This type of protection is much easier to to in linux, nothing to install, just log in as root and type rm -rf /
----
I still can't figure out how
Maybe they looked at it and rejected it because, it has proper grammar and spelling, is timely, and is not a dupe. Maybe I should start submitting stories in l33t sp34k.
This is an old one but I will tell you YOU ARE WRONG!
The "barely break even" only happens to the promoters and venues, the Bands themselves are ALWAYS guaranteed their money.
When a promoter sets up an event, they talk to the band, or the bands manager, and set a price that the band will get. The band will get that money no matter what, it is the promoter that is at risk for loss, NOT the band. When the band gets their money, they of course have to pay their manager his/her percentage which is right now around 15%, so if the band agrees to play a large venue for say, $50,000, the promoter, no matter if only 2 people show up will have to pay the band $50,000 of which the manager of the band will keep his 15% or 7,500. The band keeps all the rest.
It is the promoters responsibility for advertising, for paying the venue (stadium, colliseum etc.) for printing of tickets, flyers posters etc..
The only thing the band has to pay for is the expense of travelling there.
I am an IT professional, but I spent a year driving truck until I could find a decent job. If your state really wants to be a reciever of federal funds,I'd say that you all need to get off your butts and put some on your governor to stop vetoing the bills that would get rid of the split speed limit. The Federal government holds back federal funds from stated that have the split speed limit. (That is let's say 65mph for cars and 55mph for trucks) .
Split speed limits cause more accidents and traffic fatalities, also statistically trucks have fewer accidents per mile than cars do, so the split speed limit makes no sense at all.
Oh and it you want to get the reality check, getting hit by a truck going at 55 is going to do just as much damage as if that truck was going 65.
First off, if they want to rebuild New Orleans where it sat before then the people who lived there need to do it out of their own pockets. No FEMA money, No Insurance money, if you want to rebuild, fine, but don't do it on the backs of the rest of the country.
FEMA has regulations, that if you live in an area prone to flooding, or other natural disasters and you are wiped out and they pay you money, you CANNOT rebuild there. There are thousands of acres along the Mississipi where people are not allowed to build on after the floods back in the 90's.
In a little town called Falmouth Kentucky, there was flooding, FEMA forbid the rebuilding of any structures, and now what is there is a big open field in the middle of town.
It seems to me that if they want to rebuild NOLA, that the laws would need to be changed, and if they change the laws for NOLA then they should be retroactive for people who still own land and can no longer build on it.
The government needs to put it's foot down and just move New Orleans to higher ground. New Orleans should not be rebuilt where it was.
You are correct. The Record companies keep the lion's share from CD sales, the artists get diddly squat. I think the current rate depending on the band is anyone from $.02 - $.13 per CD sold. A band, group, artists real income comes from concerts and merchanising.
What's next nano-deabolt locks from Yale?
It covers several major news items at one.
ISS Falling from sky: check
Upcoming Disney Movie: check
Avian Flu: check
Surely a hat trick like this deserves to be modded up more than just a 3.
I still think Gene Rodenberry was actually from the future and gave us a glimpse of what is to come.
Is there a way to prove that the web page you are looking at is actually being served by a PsP? It could be a hoax, how can one truly tell? To me it's a web page. I could stick it on an Apache server and claim it's running on a gameboy.
I agree, the grammar in the title is very confusing.
It's amazing, grandma johnson down the street can design her own webpages and yet this question gets deemed worthy enough for ask slashdot, where as a question I have asked a couple times about a way to tie SSHD into an sql database for user authentication for a running a "shell" instead of having to give 10,000 people user accounts on a machine gets constantly rejected.
It used to be that one would read slashdot for iformation from highly intelligent peers, anymore tho it feel like I should be taking off my shoes and socks as if I am going for a drive through Alabama instead.
A list of tools for publishing.... for cryin out loud, what's next? "Ask Slasgdot: What tools are available that sit up off the floor, maybe has wheels and I can place my butt on it while using the computer?"