Uh, I think the transcription error occurred after Bill Gates saying it when the transcriber monkey typed it incorrectly. Since transcriber monkey probably only makes $10 per hour, he could care less if it's VSD, BSD or LSD. Or maybe they are using that crappy Microsoft Research speech recognizer...
Even if the music companies are lying about everything else music sales are down and the actual reasons people are giving is that they download their music for "free" now instead of buying it. Yes, I've seen the survey results from the inside. Was "Because the music you industry slimeballs publish sucks ass" one of the survey options?
Serving HTML (particularily the ad free Google content) is much less costly in terms of front end servers than processing SOAP requests which require parsing XML (usually to DOM), doing the search query and then building an XML document. Parsing some URI parameters and spitting out HTML (even whizzy HTML) is always going to be cheaper. Also, SOAP is pretty verbose so the HTML may even be smaller.
Great idea. Even better, slashdot (which needs the money) could charge the sites for this service. The conversation might go like this:
Hapless Victim: Hello? Cmdr Taco: Hey, I about to post a link to your site which will cause it to get blitzed, causing your ISP to charge you big bucks for bandwidth usage. Howz about you pay me to cache it instead...
Historically, people came to America as immigrants.
Kind of a redundant statement. Like it or not, H1 visa sponsorship is the defacto way of becoming an immigrant. Green card lottery + people who have relatives who sponsor them is the minority. Direct employer sponsorship for a green card of someone who is not here is a joke. I agree fixing this would probably improve the situation for all involved but you have to live in the real world here...
While both I and naturalized citizens have our families and dependants here in America (where the cost of living is incredibly high compared to most of Asia), the H1 worker has their dependants in countries like India or Pakistan.
Huh? So this is your problem with H1's? Their families live in cheap countries? How about you send your family to live in Pakistan then? Problem solved! What about people who don't have families to support (citizens or otherwise)... got a problem with them too?
When you blame your problems on others and "the others" are immigrants that's xenophobia. And just because the people are not citizens does NOT make it OK. I just wish it wasn't all so damn predictable. Every recession has been marked with people complaining about protecting the rights of "real" americans. I'm just waiting for the story about programming jobs moving off-shore to india / china. No doubt you'll have a problem with those people too...
The American dream is not "make money in America and use it to support a family back in another country where the cost of living is pennies on the dollar". In fact, it has a lot to do with things other than economics, but what the hell, right?
I submit that if you delve back into the history of most americans, they "make money in America and use it to support a family back in another country where the cost of living is pennies on the dollar" but you were born here so what the hell, right?
And don't say that you're a native american because according to the original poster, "prefix americans" don't count.
The american dream used to be "Work hard and you'll succeed". Now it's "The big gravy boat". And the last thing you want on a gravy boat is more people.
In summary, I hope you lose your job to a needy American. It's our country. Deal with it. Once we get stable again, you're welcome to come back.
Nice sentiment but I don't see it playing out that way. Your setting yourself up to be the steelworker of the 21st century...
You may have noticed that supermarkets are phasing out the frequent user cards (Albertsons here in the Bay Area). Have they suddenly decided it's a bad idea? Nope. So many people pay by debit card that they just use that as the dbKey.
Before you start comparing yourself to Thomas Paine, back it up. I merely suggested that Kuro5hin is a better forum for substantive conversations like the rejected ones (and that those stories had been featured on K5). Slashdot does tend to go with articles which have a mass appeal. Look at the number of comments on the stories some time and see what the trend is. So you can either do something about it (i.e. vote with your feet and read something else like K5) or be just like everyone else: complain and then read it anyway. Nice analogies BTW! Why not compare me to hitler and call it a day?
If email viruses are causing all these untold millions of damages, how bout just banishing outlook and make everyone read plain old email. Problem solved, doesn't really cost a dime. Oh wait, I can't sell a new crappy firewall / email screener with that plan now can I?
News is by definition New. This story is two days old and was on all of the news linking sights then. No doubt a bunch of people submitted the story when it happened so why does it take 2 days for it to show up on slashdot?
If Katz will stop spouting off with this jibberish (or preferrably just keep his pie hole shut) then we'll stop bitching about it. Until that happy day, let the flaming begin...
Google could do exactly the same thing as AOL on the server side. What's the difference? We "like" google but "hate" AOL/Netscape. This week. But it doesn't really matter right? Google could get bought by AOL next week and then where are you?
Just get Mozilla anyway... why anyone would use Netscape rather than Mozilla (oh wait, there's all those facinating "free" offers from AOL...) is beyond me.
I reckon there's more information about the film from the "Buy it now" page at Amazon than this "article". What's the point of writing a review if it's only going to be a few hundred lines long. Why not just write "It rocks!" and leave it at that?
It's been the United States of America Inc for a long time. Wouldn't be the first time that policy (foreign and domestic) has been used to advance corporate objectives *cough* Gulf War *cough*.
The secret service asked the guy some questions after he described how he would infect the Vice President with airbourne diseases. It was more likely a tip from someone to the Secret Service than the Secret Service dilegently reading K5 (although, after that, I bet they read it now!). Unfortunately, the Open source method works better against windbags on K5 than it does against read terrorists...
You might want to check out Kuro5hin although you'll have to do with "Linux 2.4.2.2... release" and "First Post"
And what's the deal with Slashdot only allowing a "select" # of articles / day. What difference does it make? If alot of stuff happens, shouldn't you have more stories anyway?
Slashdot Mirror
Uh, I think the transcription error occurred after Bill Gates saying it when the transcriber monkey typed it incorrectly. Since transcriber monkey probably only makes $10 per hour, he could care less if it's VSD, BSD or LSD. Or maybe they are using that crappy Microsoft Research speech recognizer...
Even if the music companies are lying about everything else music sales are down and the actual reasons people are giving is that they download their music for "free" now instead of buying it. Yes, I've seen the survey results from the inside.
Was "Because the music you industry slimeballs publish sucks ass" one of the survey options?
Just asking...
Serving HTML (particularily the ad free Google content) is much less costly in terms of front end servers than processing SOAP requests which require parsing XML (usually to DOM), doing the search query and then building an XML document. Parsing some URI parameters and spitting out HTML (even whizzy HTML) is always going to be cheaper. Also, SOAP is pretty verbose so the HTML may even be smaller.
Great idea. Even better, slashdot (which needs the money) could charge the sites for this service. The conversation might go like this:
Hapless Victim: Hello?
Cmdr Taco: Hey, I about to post a link to your site which will cause it to get blitzed, causing your ISP to charge you big bucks for bandwidth usage. Howz about you pay me to cache it instead...
Ya get the idea...
According to a U.S. Department of Statistics survey, 70% of all statistics are made up on the spot to prove a point.
You can use statistics to prove anything. 13% of all people know that...
Sigh.
I did do my own research and I dug up this. Please stop filling the world with crap.
What will you do when you come back tomorrow and it's all still crap...
Slashdot is useless the other 364 days of the year. April fools has the most on-topic stories I've seen in months!
I'm playing the cards you've dealt.
Historically, people came to America as immigrants.
Kind of a redundant statement. Like it or not, H1 visa sponsorship is the defacto way of becoming an immigrant. Green card lottery + people who have relatives who sponsor them is the minority. Direct employer sponsorship for a green card of someone who is not here is a joke. I agree fixing this would probably improve the situation for all involved but you have to live in the real world here...
While both I and naturalized citizens have our families and dependants here in America (where the cost of living is incredibly high compared to most of Asia), the H1 worker has their dependants in countries like India or Pakistan.
Huh? So this is your problem with H1's? Their families live in cheap countries? How about you send your family to live in Pakistan then? Problem solved! What about people who don't have families to support (citizens or otherwise)... got a problem with them too?
When you blame your problems on others and "the others" are immigrants that's xenophobia. And just because the people are not citizens does NOT make it OK. I just wish it wasn't all so damn predictable. Every recession has been marked with people complaining about protecting the rights of "real" americans. I'm just waiting for the story about programming jobs moving off-shore to india / china. No doubt you'll have a problem with those people too...
The American dream is not "make money in America and use it to support a family back in another country where the cost of living is pennies on the dollar". In fact, it has a lot to do with things other than economics, but what the hell, right?
I submit that if you delve back into the history of most americans, they "make money in America and use it to support a family back in another country where the cost of living is pennies on the dollar" but you were born here so what the hell, right?
And don't say that you're a native american because according to the original poster, "prefix americans" don't count.
The american dream used to be "Work hard and you'll succeed". Now it's "The big gravy boat". And the last thing you want on a gravy boat is more people.
In summary, I hope you lose your job to a needy American. It's our country. Deal with it. Once we get stable again, you're welcome to come back.
Nice sentiment but I don't see it playing out that way. Your setting yourself up to be the steelworker of the 21st century...
You may have noticed that supermarkets are phasing out the frequent user cards (Albertsons here in the Bay Area). Have they suddenly decided it's a bad idea? Nope. So many people pay by debit card that they just use that as the dbKey.
Before you start comparing yourself to Thomas Paine, back it up. I merely suggested that Kuro5hin is a better forum for substantive conversations like the rejected ones (and that those stories had been featured on K5). Slashdot does tend to go with articles which have a mass appeal. Look at the number of comments on the stories some time and see what the trend is. So you can either do something about it (i.e. vote with your feet and read something else like K5) or be just like everyone else: complain and then read it anyway. Nice analogies BTW! Why not compare me to hitler and call it a day?
Try reading kuro5hin then and let the masses have their cheeseburgers and 500 channel "TV"...
If email viruses are causing all these untold millions of damages, how bout just banishing outlook and make everyone read plain old email. Problem solved, doesn't really cost a dime. Oh wait, I can't sell a new crappy firewall / email screener with that plan now can I?
Never mind...
News is by definition New. This story is two days old and was on all of the news linking sights then. No doubt a bunch of people submitted the story when it happened so why does it take 2 days for it to show up on slashdot?
If Katz will stop spouting off with this jibberish (or preferrably just keep his pie hole shut) then we'll stop bitching about it. Until that happy day, let the flaming begin...
Google could do exactly the same thing as AOL on the server side. What's the difference? We "like" google but "hate" AOL/Netscape. This week. But it doesn't really matter right? Google could get bought by AOL next week and then where are you?
Just get Mozilla anyway... why anyone would use Netscape rather than Mozilla (oh wait, there's all those facinating "free" offers from AOL...) is beyond me.
I reckon there's more information about the film from the "Buy it now" page at Amazon than this "article". What's the point of writing a review if it's only going to be a few hundred lines long. Why not just write "It rocks!" and leave it at that?
ps. I think I did hear one person boo... I'm sure he/she got to enjoy the remainder of the grammays outside. :/
Huh?
Enjoy the Grammies? I think not..
Just imagine how slow things are going to be when the other 90% of the planet is slash dotting things...
It's been the United States of America Inc for a long time. Wouldn't be the first time that policy (foreign and domestic) has been used to advance corporate objectives *cough* Gulf War *cough*.
The secret service asked the guy some questions after he described how he would infect the Vice President with airbourne diseases. It was more likely a tip from someone to the Secret Service than the Secret Service dilegently reading K5 (although, after that, I bet they read it now!). Unfortunately, the Open source method works better against windbags on K5 than it does against read terrorists...
Man, I'd love to travel back in time five years and tell a bunch of Mac advocates...
If you told them that they would still be using pretty much the same OS from 1984 for another 5 years, do you think they would hold out for it?
You might want to check out Kuro5hin although you'll have to do with "Linux 2.4.2.2... release" and "First Post"
And what's the deal with Slashdot only allowing a "select" # of articles / day. What difference does it make? If alot of stuff happens, shouldn't you have more stories anyway?