A computer that has run for three years. That's so cute!
Then you would go completely j-pop if you saw my Commodore 64 still doing it's thing as slideshow viewer in a local bowling alley. Only have to re-align the 1541 disk drive head once a year.
why? the US doesn't butt out of other country's domestic politics. in fact, the US is known to stick it's nose into affairs more often outside the country (and I'm not just talking about wars, either. just look at industry and technology) than in it's own backyard, so there is no valid or valuable reason to say "stay out of our business". it's a classic troll-like "pot calling the kettle black" nonsense.
and don't troll back with a silly "but we bring democracy to the world! it's our job!"... that's bullshit in general, plain and simple. besides, the US is an oligarchy, not a democracy.
Hahahaha that's awesome! Heck I might be able to quit my day job if I become a virtual furry stripper! XD
only if you think you can survive on a few dollars a day. at the latest exchange rate, 500 Linden dollars is less than $2.00 US.
and it's not only just swinging around a pole letting an automated/scripted animation do all the work. some places actually require you to 'roleplay' (read: typing out long descriptive paragraphs of your sexy moves) in an effort to entertain the on-lookers into giving you more money. oh and don't forget the club you pole-dance in probably gets a cut of your 'earnings'.
better off going into SL Real Estate- buying server land (called 'sims') and re-selling parcels of land. there are several people I know in SL who actually *do* making a real-world living this way.
for me, SL represents two interests: a 3D chatroom, and a fairly decent 3D CAD/CAM/Animation/Physics engine for designing and developing all sorts of things.
Furries are unusually un-thrifty with their money, it seems.
oh it's not the Furries only (in fact they are a minority in SL still)... when a Linden dollar is just pennies to the US dollar, people throw away their cash at anything that looks novel or mildly interesting. or virtually sexy.
years ago i started with a little mouse avatar, jumped on a pole in an empty sports bar (humans-only sign, no-less), went to make lunch and when i returned i had 500 Lindens. i was still clothed, and had 3 messages from badly tanned, waxy-looking brunettes who thought i looked 'cute'.
and i only like the animal avatars because the human ones just suck badly. why would i want to be stuck in the same species as my real life, when i can be anything i want? (i'm mostly an android of some sort when i'm there)
Email, numerous instant messaging systems, a handful of free forum services. heck even twitter in a pinch. and all without the annoying games and adverts. and for the other comments below the 'grow up' post:
- if people cared, in this day and age, they would make sure new emails get updated and propagated back to those they care about. - email *is* different than a group facebook post: 1) not everyone uses facebook, 2) emails to loved ones do not need to include annoying adverts and silly games, 3) email is typically more reliable and controllable (the spate of FB account info privacy problems, for example). - 'convenient' does not equate to 'better' - as other poster said: "use the right tool for the job." - panic in the form of "waaaaa! i can't post!" does no good. spend your time more wisely by having another means of communication ready at hand, ie: email, IMs, Skype, phone, twitter, forums, *postcards*, etc.
Another reason is weather. US weather has more extremes than Europe. There's a reason that all the early colonists from England died of tropical diseases.
erm.. 'weather extremes' related to 'tropical diseases' = pulling silly connections out your ass without a basis of fact.
Being a former American ex-patriot (I escaped the US in 2000), I've lived and traveled quite a lot in Europe over the last 10 years. Aside from the occassional hurricanes or tornadoes, the US does not have any more 'extreme' weather than Europe does. IF you want extremes, try living in Norway/Finland/Sweden/Russia/Africa/India.
I'm quite happy to live in Denmark now. They have developed a very decent infrastructure for cycling, even for the velomobiles and recumbent trikes that I always ride. Heck the US needs to take a cue from Europe in general, in regards to cycling infrastructure.
Oh no, now the world will...well, continue to not care about Second Life I guess.
It was a fairly neat concept,
and still is. I'm not a furry (although i prefer the furry avatars because the humans ones are just plain boring. I mean, seriously, why would i want to play the same species in an environment where i could be anything i want? Typically i'm a little mouse robot). I do use SL often because it's scripting language is not half bad, and useful for teaching a certain level of object-oriented programming and game design, since you *can* (and there are several good examples) make decent games and immersive environments within SL and see immediate results as you develop. oh and i'm not fat, nor live in my parent's basement. i teach website development and game design at a local tech school in Denmark.
while it is easy to portray SL as some fat-persons paradise, the fact is that many people of all shapes and sizes use SL for good and bad, and from around the world. just like real life. it attempts to provide an environment where you can socialize, create/develop/share work, and (as mentioned earlier about famous architecture in SL) as a way of seeing places and interacting in various environments you might otherwise not be able to see due to lack of money or well-being.
regarding this nonsense about free content being removed. there are always other ways of making that content appear. someone will develop a new resource. problem solved. move along now, nothing more to see here.
...that is the purpose of education, isn't it? To make people learn.
BZZ! Wrong answer! But thanks for playing!
The purpose of education is to *help* people learn, or provide the opportunity to learn, not *make* people learn. That kind of talk leads to the 'nanny state' mentality.
...her solution to this life crisis wasn't to ask someone knowledgeable about computers - it was to call the local news!
Who then, after doing a minimum of research (or *not* doing a minimum of research, depending on how ou look at it), sound completely vapid about the technology as a whole and fail to pronounce 'Ubuntu' correctly.
Seriously people- how hard is it to type "how do you pronounce Ubuntu" in your favorite search engine?
any yuppie with 200K for this car/plane probably has the money for the private pilot lessons i would suspect.
i don't expect this idea to 'take off' very well. it's just not practical to drive all the way to an airport across town just to take off. so until they change the rules about using roads as runways, i'll stick with my helicopter/car, hovercar, or gyrocopter/car dreams.
While it's not perfect either (if the attacker is smart enough he'll just redo his code to include the changed.php extension), I do agree it can be *very* effective. I've set up several webservers where Apache was configured to interpret other extensions as php files. It confuses people at first when they see 'index.jimm' as a php file, for example.
that might have been true 50 years ago, but 95% of the women i interact with (in Denmark and Germany) shave underarms, legs, and everything in between.
They never have been in mainstream use, and never will be. The proof is in the actual usage.
umm.. no, the clunky technology is the proof. That has changed over the last few years dramatically.
... having to raise your hands for an extended period of time (touchscreen) is exhastive and prohibitive, vs. lying them flat (keyboard, mouse) is easy to do for prolonged periods of time...
hello? brainstem? the article refers to *notebooks* or tablet PCs- you know, those things that rest on your lap or on a desk where *gasp* your keyboard rests?
A well-designed multi-touch tablet PC/laptop will be far more ergonomic and intuitive than a mouse and keyboard.
I regularly use an HP tablet PC and an HTC P3300 touchscreen pocket PC/mobile phone - no exhaustion or prohibition to-date!:)
how sad and hilarious, right now i use nothing but open source software on windows, and my footprint is MUCH less than linux to do the same. i tried to install the smallest linux distro i could and still get a usable wine session.. 1gb worth of software later i'm up to the point that xp can do with 250mb.
Huh- never tried DamnSmallLinux apparently. You should be able to do all of the above (including a WINE installation) in a 100MB or less.
As I understand it from watching NASA TV, they *do* normally clip things to keep them from floating away if something gets bumped. But the astronaut was dealing with something leaking inside the larger toobag and forgot to make sure the smaller bag was clipped when she set it outside the bigger bag.
It's just a 'doh!'-moment and earth-bound people do far worse - like how many tools or office supplies have been missplaced over the years? I'm just happy the astronauts are not missplacing larger, more important things, like a station module.
If equipment manufacturers want to move away from windows they will need to provide a distro that looks and feels like windows and I haven't seen any distro that has accomplished this.
I've fooled several people with an old version of PuppyLinux - it used to have a Win98-like desktop.
Good luck driving to Germany (from the US). Or New England to California (or Colorado). Maybe you can go across the ocean by tramp steamer... Very romantic.
Wait a second. Since when was there an ocean between *New* England - New Hampshire/Massachusetts/Maine/etc. - and Colorado???
i briefly read this as 'epileptic cryptography', and wondered how they filtered out noise during a seizure when capturing randomly uttered letters/pass-phrases from the afflicted for use as a one-way hash?
Slashdot Mirror
Quick quiz, how did Saddam Hussein come to power in the first place?
*raises hand frantically* oh oh oh! i know, Mr. Kotter, i know!
The US funded him!
Now where's my cookie?
A computer that has run for three years. That's so cute!
Then you would go completely j-pop if you saw my Commodore 64 still doing it's thing as slideshow viewer in a local bowling alley. Only have to re-align the 1541 disk drive head once a year.
...Please butt out of our domestic politics...
why? the US doesn't butt out of other country's domestic politics. in fact, the US is known to stick it's nose into affairs more often outside the country (and I'm not just talking about wars, either. just look at industry and technology) than in it's own backyard, so there is no valid or valuable reason to say "stay out of our business". it's a classic troll-like "pot calling the kettle black" nonsense.
and don't troll back with a silly "but we bring democracy to the world! it's our job!"... that's bullshit in general, plain and simple. besides, the US is an oligarchy, not a democracy.
Hahahaha that's awesome! Heck I might be able to quit my day job if I become a virtual furry stripper! XD
only if you think you can survive on a few dollars a day. at the latest exchange rate, 500 Linden dollars is less than $2.00 US.
and it's not only just swinging around a pole letting an automated/scripted animation do all the work. some places actually require you to 'roleplay' (read: typing out long descriptive paragraphs of your sexy moves) in an effort to entertain the on-lookers into giving you more money. oh and don't forget the club you pole-dance in probably gets a cut of your 'earnings'.
better off going into SL Real Estate- buying server land (called 'sims') and re-selling parcels of land. there are several people I know in SL who actually *do* making a real-world living this way.
for me, SL represents two interests: a 3D chatroom, and a fairly decent 3D CAD/CAM/Animation/Physics engine for designing and developing all sorts of things.
Furries are unusually un-thrifty with their money, it seems.
oh it's not the Furries only (in fact they are a minority in SL still)... when a Linden dollar is just pennies to the US dollar, people throw away their cash at anything that looks novel or mildly interesting. or virtually sexy.
years ago i started with a little mouse avatar, jumped on a pole in an empty sports bar (humans-only sign, no-less), went to make lunch and when i returned i had 500 Lindens. i was still clothed, and had 3 messages from badly tanned, waxy-looking brunettes who thought i looked 'cute'.
and i only like the animal avatars because the human ones just suck badly. why would i want to be stuck in the same species as my real life, when i can be anything i want? (i'm mostly an android of some sort when i'm there)
Email, numerous instant messaging systems, a handful of free forum services. heck even twitter in a pinch. and all without the annoying games and adverts. and for the other comments below the 'grow up' post:
- if people cared, in this day and age, they would make sure new emails get updated and propagated back to those they care about.
- email *is* different than a group facebook post: 1) not everyone uses facebook, 2) emails to loved ones do not need to include annoying adverts and silly games, 3) email is typically more reliable and controllable (the spate of FB account info privacy problems, for example).
- 'convenient' does not equate to 'better'
- as other poster said: "use the right tool for the job."
- panic in the form of "waaaaa! i can't post!" does no good. spend your time more wisely by having another means of communication ready at hand, ie: email, IMs, Skype, phone, twitter, forums, *postcards*, etc.
Another reason is weather. US weather has more extremes than Europe. There's a reason that all the early colonists from England died of tropical diseases.
erm.. 'weather extremes' related to 'tropical diseases' = pulling silly connections out your ass without a basis of fact.
Being a former American ex-patriot (I escaped the US in 2000), I've lived and traveled quite a lot in Europe over the last 10 years. Aside from the occassional hurricanes or tornadoes, the US does not have any more 'extreme' weather than Europe does. IF you want extremes, try living in Norway/Finland/Sweden/Russia/Africa/India.
I'm quite happy to live in Denmark now. They have developed a very decent infrastructure for cycling, even for the velomobiles and recumbent trikes that I always ride. Heck the US needs to take a cue from Europe in general, in regards to cycling infrastructure.
Oh no, now the world will...well, continue to not care about Second Life I guess.
It was a fairly neat concept,
and still is. I'm not a furry (although i prefer the furry avatars because the humans ones are just plain boring. I mean, seriously, why would i want to play the same species in an environment where i could be anything i want? Typically i'm a little mouse robot). I do use SL often because it's scripting language is not half bad, and useful for teaching a certain level of object-oriented programming and game design, since you *can* (and there are several good examples) make decent games and immersive environments within SL and see immediate results as you develop. oh and i'm not fat, nor live in my parent's basement. i teach website development and game design at a local tech school in Denmark.
while it is easy to portray SL as some fat-persons paradise, the fact is that many people of all shapes and sizes use SL for good and bad, and from around the world. just like real life. it attempts to provide an environment where you can socialize, create/develop/share work, and (as mentioned earlier about famous architecture in SL) as a way of seeing places and interacting in various environments you might otherwise not be able to see due to lack of money or well-being.
regarding this nonsense about free content being removed. there are always other ways of making that content appear. someone will develop a new resource. problem solved. move along now, nothing more to see here.
Certainly nobody in my circles. I've asked - nobody I know uses Second Life. Are we missing the greatest thing since sliced bread? I'd wager a big no.
then you really don't know *that* many people :P
someone has been reading too much bash.org :p
...PHP doesn't even come close in this regard
ah so PEAR doesn't count? http://pear.php.net/
...that is the purpose of education, isn't it? To make people learn.
BZZ! Wrong answer! But thanks for playing!
The purpose of education is to *help* people learn, or provide the opportunity to learn, not *make* people learn. That kind of talk leads to the 'nanny state' mentality.
...her solution to this life crisis wasn't to ask someone knowledgeable about computers - it was to call the local news!
Who then, after doing a minimum of research (or *not* doing a minimum of research, depending on how ou look at it), sound completely vapid about the technology as a whole and fail to pronounce 'Ubuntu' correctly.
Seriously people- how hard is it to type "how do you pronounce Ubuntu" in your favorite search engine?
any yuppie with 200K for this car/plane probably has the money for the private pilot lessons i would suspect.
i don't expect this idea to 'take off' very well. it's just not practical to drive all the way to an airport across town just to take off. so until they change the rules about using roads as runways, i'll stick with my helicopter/car, hovercar, or gyrocopter/car dreams.
Simply renaming the .php files worked 100% for me.
While it's not perfect either (if the attacker is smart enough he'll just redo his code to include the changed .php extension), I do agree it can be *very* effective. I've set up several webservers where Apache was configured to interpret other extensions as php files. It confuses people at first when they see 'index.jimm' as a php file, for example.
Does this include their boyfriends?
possibly! kids these days...
On their armpits, unfortunately.
that might have been true 50 years ago, but 95% of the women i interact with (in Denmark and Germany) shave underarms, legs, and everything in between.
They never have been in mainstream use, and never will be. The proof is in the actual usage.
umm.. no, the clunky technology is the proof. That has changed over the last few years dramatically.
... having to raise your hands for an extended period of time (touchscreen) is exhastive and prohibitive, vs. lying them flat (keyboard, mouse) is easy to do for prolonged periods of time...
hello? brainstem? the article refers to *notebooks* or tablet PCs- you know, those things that rest on your lap or on a desk where *gasp* your keyboard rests?
A well-designed multi-touch tablet PC/laptop will be far more ergonomic and intuitive than a mouse and keyboard.
I regularly use an HP tablet PC and an HTC P3300 touchscreen pocket PC/mobile phone - no exhaustion or prohibition to-date! :)
how sad and hilarious, right now i use nothing but open source software on windows, and my footprint is MUCH less than linux to do the same. i tried to install the smallest linux distro i could and still get a usable wine session.. 1gb worth of software later i'm up to the point that xp can do with 250mb.
Huh- never tried DamnSmallLinux apparently. You should be able to do all of the above (including a WINE installation) in a 100MB or less.
As I understand it from watching NASA TV, they *do* normally clip things to keep them from floating away if something gets bumped. But the astronaut was dealing with something leaking inside the larger toobag and forgot to make sure the smaller bag was clipped when she set it outside the bigger bag.
It's just a 'doh!'-moment and earth-bound people do far worse - like how many tools or office supplies have been missplaced over the years? I'm just happy the astronauts are not missplacing larger, more important things, like a station module.
hopefully the agent isn't a Nigerian scam too!
If equipment manufacturers want to move away from windows they will need to provide a distro that looks and feels like windows and I haven't seen any distro that has accomplished this.
I've fooled several people with an old version of PuppyLinux - it used to have a Win98-like desktop.
Good luck driving to Germany (from the US). Or New England to California (or Colorado). Maybe you can go across the ocean by tramp steamer... Very romantic.
Wait a second. Since when was there an ocean between *New* England - New Hampshire/Massachusetts/Maine/etc. - and Colorado???
...minerals just sitting around between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
i briefly read this as 'epileptic cryptography', and wondered how they filtered out noise during a seizure when capturing randomly uttered letters/pass-phrases from the afflicted for use as a one-way hash?