That sounds a lot like what Paul Graham says in his "Great Hackers" essay. Although I think you could also sub other words for Hacker. (Programmer, Artist, etc)
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from the please-read-your-own-website dept. annoyed_reader writes "The Pete Rose Times has a story about baldass_newbie who was arrested for stealing Slashdot articles via wi-fi signals. Experts believe that there are scores of incidents of stealing slashdot articles. People have used the cloak of wireless to take old slashdot stories and resubmit them. Sometimes they use multiple aliases. The problem, experts say, is that slashdot editors do not take the time or are unsure how to check for duplicate story posts. Slashdot editor Zonk knew what to do. 'But I never did it because I was busy playing The Sims.'"
Slashdot Mirror
That sounds a lot like what Paul Graham says in his "Great Hackers" essay. Although I think you could also sub other words for Hacker. (Programmer, Artist, etc)
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Essay
http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
Audio version read by the author:
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail188.ht
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It's going to be renamed "Duke Nukem Fusion".
The point of the slashdot article is that he publicly stated he supported DRM and then used a tool to bypass DRM.
What about all the people that think AOL is the internet? Are they counted in that (since AOL uses IE)? :-)
I like the headlone The Register used on its article: OS/2: dead again.
a gain/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/15/os2_dead_
My only question is, what's up with the Friday slots? Aren't those slots where shows usually die?
Traditionally, yes. But for me personally, I've always liked Friday night. After a long week, I can come home and relax and watch a little scifi.
SG-1 thru at least season seven (and maybe eight) is available of DVD.
Is it just me or does it seem that IT people tend to play Minesweeper while non-IT people gravitate towards Solitaire?
He's made some good stuff in the past. But here lately, most of the stuff I see with his name attached to it just doesn't seem that good to me.
China is a member of the Security Council. Do you want their censorship-based policies involved in controlling the internet?
Is it just me, or are they running out of good titles for books?
Cringely noted, "With more than half of American homes with Internet access now using broadband"
So when will website designers start to realize that half of us aren't able to get broadband?
It all makes sense now! DNF relies on features in Longhorn! DNF is probably done, they're just waiting for Longhorn to be released!
"Beginning Sept. 6, PBS will make available - exclusively over the Internet - broadcast television's first entirely downloadable series"
So it won't actually be airing on PBS, just on the internet?
Don't run Windows.
Oh, you meant the other kind of cool. Nevermind.
Isn't this a dupe of a dupe? Or is this like one of those stores that are always having going out of business sales (yet stay in business for years) ?
don't worry, you can try to catch them again before the dupe story is posted
A lot of game programmers hang out at flipcode.com They also have tutorials and other resources.
Many people have mentioned SDL. You should also check out Allegro. It's a multiplatform game programming library.
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro
Oh wait, it isn't. Sorry, I just got so used to it :-)
using an objective check through the computer would be the most fair and objective way to do that
So the people who bat away mindlessly at the keyboard get paid more?
from the please-read-your-own-website dept.
annoyed_reader writes "The Pete Rose Times has a story about baldass_newbie who was arrested for stealing Slashdot articles via wi-fi signals. Experts believe that there are scores of incidents of stealing slashdot articles. People have used the cloak of wireless to take old slashdot stories and resubmit them. Sometimes they use multiple aliases. The problem, experts say, is that slashdot editors do not take the time or are unsure how to check for duplicate story posts. Slashdot editor Zonk knew what to do. 'But I never did it because I was busy playing The Sims.'"
"...xperts believe..."
You couldn't even quote the whole word? Or is that the new spelling? Or are we talking about people that used to be perts?
Oh yeah. I know the average Russian is SO rich! I'm going to rush out and get there bank account number!