Oh, that I had mod points. This is probably the most insightful post I've read in a long time (possibly ever) on Slashdot.
It's amazing to me how many people (especially those *in* the US) can't see this coming. How many people think that the US is, and always will be, indestructable. Sure, we can make great speeches and pull together for terrorism, but our government ``for the people'' is being run for the advancement of large corporations instead. I've always wondered what was going to befall this country, and government corruption seems like it will top the list.
I contacted Richard M. Stallman about this issue, but unfortunately I can not do much about it, except for the fact that they are removing/changing copyright strings which they should not.
If they are changing or removing copyright strings, doesn't that mean there is a lot he can do about it?
I'm pretty sure that someone would notice a dreamcast system sitting on their server rack. However, if you hide it behind a wall, it could sit there for years!
While this is a very cool technology, and quite the advancement, I wonder how practical it is. Like large aircraft, it has many limitations on movement: forward or... forward. Take his football kickoff example: it would follow the kickoff, and then would loose the ball in the time it takes to circle around the other way.
Wouldn't this have been more useful if it were based off a more maneuverable platform such as a helicopter?
I would release them at the same time. Just as now, with 2.4 and 2.5, there are people who are very good at stabilizing current code, and people very good at developing new code. Some folks can't stand working on new things when the old need work, and vice versa.
I see this as having two benifits. First, it will help with the ``Most things work pretty well---let's go ahead and release it.'' attitude. The 2.4 series has only recently gotten stable enough to reliably use in a production environment, and not everyone agrees on that even.
Second, it will allow people to focus on what they are good at. The 2.6 series will mature much faster without adding new features in every release. Sure, there are bound to be a few gotchas, but if the focus is on stabilizing the code, they will be out by the 2.6.3 or 2.6.4 release. At the same time, people will be adding to 2.7, which should mean that there is much less time between stable kernel series releases.
I spent many hours mucking about with POV back in the day. Course CPUs are a little faster now, so I guess is those render times don't suck as bad.
Not necessarily. I've been using POV-Ray for years, and while the machines have gotten faster, the scenes have gotten more complex with regards to reflection and such, and I'm using more anti-aliasing right along with it. Offhand, I'd say my render times are roughly about the same as they were nearly 10 years ago.
I think many folks aren't looking at the big picture. Being divided as we are on our own planet is one thing, but if we run into another intelligent species out there, we aren't going to be Americans or Germans or Japanese---we're going to be Earthlings. We need to figure out how to act as such.
If you do a set -o vi in bash or ksh you get the vi mode. Then you can hit <Esc>/^scp<Enter> to get the last command that started with `scp', and then hit n for next, as in vi. You can also do most of the rest of your vi commands.
Actually, there's a version out for Linux now called DuhDraw:
DuhDraw is a program which almost perfectly simulates TheDraw for DOS. Back in the good old BBSing days, TheDraw was a program used by a SysOp in order to draw ANSI screens, the only graphics available on BBSes for quite a while. However, for a long time, nobody considered Linux, as Linux BBSes were uncommon. Other applications of the software include login screens, and mud screens. I always thought it ironic that MUDs were mostly run off of Unix machines, and yet they used DOS editors to generate the ANSI screens.
If they have to run my head through the same machine they use to get credit card imprints for receipts, I'm not looking forward to it.
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When AOL used to fit on a floppy (wow---that was quite a while ago...) and people generally had 30 of them just laying around the house, I would send the AOL floppies back to any company I got junk mail from in their own postage-paid return envelopes.
While the folks at Lunar did indeed fork, and take half of the SGL users along with them, Sorcerer Linux still lives on even without Kyle's leadership. Indeed, in the past week, it has undergone massive changes in management when Kyle tried to remove the distro all together, and many of us stepped up to the plate to keep the project going.
While we are still growing into the project, we have accomplished a great deal in a week, and are planning great things for Sorcerer. It is a great distro, and we are fighting to keep it as such.
LRP has been superceded by the LEAF project at
http://leaf.sourceforge.net. I'm running a current LEAF
distro (Oxygen) and it's rock solid. There are
quite a few different flavors, depending on your
needs and experience level.
From the LEAF site:
An easy to use embedded Linux network appliance for use in small office, home office, and home automation environments. Although it can be used in other ways, it's primarily used as a gateway/router/firewall for Internet leaf sites.
I really wish this whole phase of everyone sueing everybody over stupid sh*t would be over and done with --- and this includes lawyers that found something in their records from the late 1800's that sounds kind of like something that we're doing on the internet now, and thinking that they can make a few million dollars off of it. I think it all started with that stupid woman who sued McDonalds because their coffee was hot, and she was dumb enough to spill it all over herself. Every since then, cases like this have been coming out of the woodworks left and right.
It's about time someone told these folks to shut their collective traps and start trying to make money the old-fashioned way: earn it!
This reminds me of my Air Force days, when I heard many stories of how the Data Center admins would bring in a large bag of chad and dump it on the table in front of the new guy. They would make him sort it into Classified and Unclassified piles, with the Classified chad being anything with a marking on it. After several hours of tedious work, someone would run by and the breeze would mix it all back together on the table, making the poor Airman do it all over...
I was told that very few realized that they could just treat it *all* as Classified, and burn it. Heh.
He needs to build a full Silo out of Legos. Something 6 feet in diameter that will hold several thousand DAT tapes. I wonder just how many bricks that would take...
This is particularly true when the software and hardware exist to do this on your own PC. I'll spend my own $150 on nearly the same specs (or, more probable, pull them out of my closet) and create my own recorder.
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What? These robots are going to be carrying Palm Pilots around?
Oh, that I had mod points. This is probably the most insightful post I've read in a long time (possibly ever) on Slashdot.
It's amazing to me how many people (especially those *in* the US) can't see this coming. How many people think that the US is, and always will be, indestructable. Sure, we can make great speeches and pull together for terrorism, but our government ``for the people'' is being run for the advancement of large corporations instead. I've always wondered what was going to befall this country, and government corruption seems like it will top the list.
We had a Trident card in the first 486 (SX33!) we had, and I remember thinking that I could probably get a faster display using Trident Gum...
Hope they've changed things a bit.
I'm pretty sure that someone would notice a dreamcast system sitting on their server rack. However, if you hide it behind a wall, it could sit there for years!
Wyatt
While this is a very cool technology, and quite the advancement, I wonder how practical it is. Like large aircraft, it has many limitations on movement: forward or... forward. Take his football kickoff example: it would follow the kickoff, and then would loose the ball in the time it takes to circle around the other way.
Wouldn't this have been more useful if it were based off a more maneuverable platform such as a helicopter?
Why, the Moxi Pad of course!
I would release them at the same time. Just as now, with 2.4 and 2.5, there are people who are very good at stabilizing current code, and people very good at developing new code. Some folks can't stand working on new things when the old need work, and vice versa.
I see this as having two benifits. First, it will help with the ``Most things work pretty well---let's go ahead and release it.'' attitude. The 2.4 series has only recently gotten stable enough to reliably use in a production environment, and not everyone agrees on that even.
Second, it will allow people to focus on what they are good at. The 2.6 series will mature much faster without adding new features in every release. Sure, there are bound to be a few gotchas, but if the focus is on stabilizing the code, they will be out by the 2.6.3 or 2.6.4 release. At the same time, people will be adding to 2.7, which should mean that there is much less time between stable kernel series releases.
I'm all for it!
--Wyatt
...one Nation, under your choice of a single diety, a pantheon of dieties, or no dieties at all, indivisible...
I think many folks aren't looking at the big picture. Being divided as we are on our own planet is one thing, but if we run into another intelligent species out there, we aren't going to be Americans or Germans or Japanese---we're going to be Earthlings. We need to figure out how to act as such.
If you do a set -o vi in bash or ksh you get the vi mode. Then you can hit <Esc>/^scp<Enter> to get the last command that started with `scp', and then hit n for next, as in vi. You can also do most of the rest of your vi commands.
Actually, there's a version out for Linux now called DuhDraw:
http://www.wwco.com/~wls/opensource/duhdraw.php
And here I've been wishing I could use a *standard* keyboard on my PCs for the same reason. I'll be damned if <Caps Lock>-C interrupts *anything*.
If they have to run my head through the same machine they use to get credit card imprints for receipts, I'm not looking forward to it.
When AOL used to fit on a floppy (wow---that was quite a while ago...) and people generally had 30 of them just laying around the house, I would send the AOL floppies back to any company I got junk mail from in their own postage-paid return envelopes.
To bad the CDs don't fit as well.
While the folks at Lunar did indeed fork, and take half of the SGL users along with them, Sorcerer Linux still lives on even without Kyle's leadership. Indeed, in the past week, it has undergone massive changes in management when Kyle tried to remove the distro all together, and many of us stepped up to the plate to keep the project going.
While we are still growing into the project, we have accomplished a great deal in a week, and are planning great things for Sorcerer. It is a great distro, and we are fighting to keep it as such.
Wyatt DraggooLRP has been superceded by the LEAF project at http://leaf.sourceforge.net. I'm running a current LEAF distro (Oxygen) and it's rock solid. There are quite a few different flavors, depending on your needs and experience level.
From the LEAF site:
Last Oxygen release was about 2 weeks ago.I think I've seen this before:
OS/2 = I can run all of my old Windows apps + all of the multithreaded OS/2 apps
Windows = I can only run Windows apps
Look who won that battle...
I really wish this whole phase of everyone sueing everybody over stupid sh*t would be over and done with --- and this includes lawyers that found something in their records from the late 1800's that sounds kind of like something that we're doing on the internet now, and thinking that they can make a few million dollars off of it. I think it all started with that stupid woman who sued McDonalds because their coffee was hot, and she was dumb enough to spill it all over herself. Every since then, cases like this have been coming out of the woodworks left and right.
It's about time someone told these folks to shut their collective traps and start trying to make money the old-fashioned way: earn it!
I always wondered who was willing to pay $75 a week for my plasma. At least I know it was going to a good use!
This reminds me of my Air Force days, when I heard many stories of how the Data Center admins would bring in a large bag of chad and dump it on the table in front of the new guy. They would make him sort it into Classified and Unclassified piles, with the Classified chad being anything with a marking on it. After several hours of tedious work, someone would run by and the breeze would mix it all back together on the table, making the poor Airman do it all over...
I was told that very few realized that they could just treat it *all* as Classified, and burn it. Heh.
He needs to build a full Silo out of Legos. Something 6 feet in diameter that will hold several thousand DAT tapes. I wonder just how many bricks that would take...
This is particularly true when the software and hardware exist to do this on your own PC. I'll spend my own $150 on nearly the same specs (or, more probable, pull them out of my closet) and create my own recorder.