...they come back from the grave and haunt on the front page, no matter how hard you hit them on the head with the "dupe" tag - I think Max Brooks should update his Zombie Survival Guide to include dealing with undead Slashdot stories...
Journalists (not all of them, sure, but way too many) like to misquote on purpose, quote selectively, out-of-context or in any way otherwise changing the intended meaning of the quoted statement, after which the quoted (quotees? Is that even a word?) are left for the public to tear apart for something they didn't mean but the journalist wanted to put in their mouth - with no real way to correct what has already been printed, save for a few rich enough to take a legal action or just so rich to not give a crap about that.
Such a system gives a way for corrections like that to be made public instantly and directly. Maybe that has even happend already, I don't know - but I think that's the most interesting and possibly useful outcome of this.
Pardon me being slightly off-topic, but this question is bothering me since quite a long ago...
What's up with you Americans that you Capitalize some more or less random Words in your writing, both nouns - for which I can see a reason sometimes, but it's still quite awkard - and verbs or adjectives - which is outright weird for me?
The question is, what is the airspeed of an unladen giraffe of each species?
Considering the old engineers' saying that even pigs can fly given enough thrust, we should assume equal initial thrust, then calculate the air drag given the aerodynamic properities of a giraffe of each species. That, in turn, allows us to determine the giraffe's velocity after the time t, which, after a simple integration, yelds an average airspeed value. Moreover, it would be preferable to confirm the findings experimentally, as an excercise for the reader.
There were jokes about Chuck Norris' kick, Chuck Norris' hair, Chuck Norris' tears, Chuck Norris'... Er, whatever. And now - jokes about Chuck Norris' lawsuits! Who's the first to try?
If you're more interested in XHTML V1.1 than HTML V4, looking for an elegant approach to create documents accessible from multiple devices, you are likely to appreciate the advantages of XHTML V2. If you only use XHTML V1 because of its XML compliance but you prefer the new features in HTML V5, you might appreciate XHTML V5 (HTML V5 rewritten as an XML dialect).
And what if I'm interested in creating elegant, accessible documents incorporating the new features? I guess I'm screwed by the idiots at W3C, then? That's not a matter of allowing those poor, repressed amateur web designers to express themselves. It's their problem that they cannot comprehend something as easy as XML and it's a pity that Web authoring tools don't work like a good, old hammer - if you don't know how to use it, you hit your fingers and know better next time to be careful because it hurts. 1997 is over, tag soup is becoming a horror of the past - what's up with those people trying to keep it?
Of course I could, but that's a significant cost for the shool administration to cover, and the administration is, obviously, glacially slow when it comes to accounting and finances. Eventually it will be done, but not anytime soon...
Right, but the OP sounded as if he wanted to use consumer devices for everything - which certainly isn't the brightest idea. Anyway, cheap routers and switches can as well fail under their normal working conditions, been there, seen that, always keeping a spare just in case. I'm currently in charge of an improvised dorm network (about 80 computers, 30Mbit/s connection to the outside world, almost saturated all the time), with a 30-port industrial-grade Cisco switch just by the router and dozens of crappy consumer switches acting as repeaters scattered troughout the rooms, as the building is too large to lay cables directly. Long story short, there is a failure about every two weeks somewhere. Usually a switch just dies, I throw it away and put a new one in there, but sometimes those little bastards look just fine, blink their lights happily - and wreak havoc in the network, sending half a packet here, half a packet there and even more random crap somewhere else, clogging other switches that are just too dumb to ignore a broken packet, so they reboot every couple of seconds. Not much fun, trust me.
Ever seen a commodity router under a FULL 100Mbit/s load, let alone gigabit? They drop packets, mangle packets, route wrong packets... That is, until they hit a buffer overrun, overheat or just reboot repeatedly for no clear reason. They're not meant for serious use. They're designed to be actually capable of handling whatever Joe Average can do with his home network and nothing more. Because they're commodity hardware. Cheap crap, that is. Period. People buy those expensive, rackable switches and routers because they want something *reliable* for *serious* use that absolutely requires reliability.
A story can be in a duped or non-duped state at the same time, as we can't be sure if a yesterday's story is there again under a new title until we open the Slashdot main page, making the state collapse into either extreme with a roughly equal distribution.
This time, the cat is de... Er, the story is duped. Well, OK, not really an exact dupe, but looks like it references the same information, just from different sources...
"Physical security and IT security are stating to come together," says Julie Donahue, vice president of security and privacy services with IBM. "A lot of the guys I'm meeting on the IT side are just starting to get involved on the physical side.""
That sounds as if she meant that IT staff started going to the gym - surely this recent datacenter break-in would look different then, just imagine the wrestler-looking sysadmin throwing office chairs and rack servers at the thieves...
Crap, as always, I forgot about the linebreaks. Corrected:
Such a stance reminds me of this old Polish joke (for some reason, we've got quite a lot jokes about a shepherd):
The police enters shepherd's house and finds moonshine-making equipment.
- Well, shepherd, we're going to charge you with illegal moonshine production!
- But I'm not making it!
- But you have the equipment.
- Well, then, charge me with rape as well.
- Why, did you rape someone?
- No, but I've got the equipment!
Such a stance reminds me of this old Polish joke (for some reason, we've got quite a lot jokes about a shepherd):
The police enters shepherd's house and finds moonshine-making equipment.
- Well, shepherd, we're going to charge you with illegal moonshine production!
- But I'm not making it!
- But you have the equipment.
- Well, then, charge me with rape as well.
- Why, did you rape someone?
- No, but I've got the equipment!
Actually, it was some six times I've been asked to configure a second video output under Windows. Every time it was another laptop with ATI display chip, being used to show some presentation with a digital projector hooked up to it. Guess what? It never worked by itself and each time the laptop owner, usually a typical Windows XP user, tried to make it work for 5-10 minutes, struggling with the display configuration manager, to finally give up. The problems ranged from extending the desktop in some stragne direction and refusing to enter the "clone" mode, to limiting the external display to 8-bit colour, to cloning everything but the video overlay, and so on. Every time I managed to fix the display, despite never really using Windows since 98 SE, but the required amount of jumping trough loops and trying to guess what the heck this thing is expecting me to do and in which order, was comparable to configuring sendmail, really - just that it was clicking buttons, not writing a configuration file, doesn't make it any better. Once I just tried to guess what the driver was doing with the hardware, based on what I knew about it, and trick it into changing its state using a sequence of separate configuration changes - it worked, but, well... You see the problem...
Benefits of SP1 for administrators include the ability to use BitLocker Drive Encryption to encrypt extra local volumes besides just the C drive. Disk DeFragmenter has been enhanced to allow administrators the ability to control which volume the program defragments.
The first "enhancement" is hardly one, rather a fix for a serious flaw, but that has been poited out by others. The second one, however. is really interesting - if I recall correctly, it was possible to select individual volumes for defragmentation since Windows 95 or so - is that their new marketing technique? Omit something ridiculously obvious, that has been there for ages, in the first version - just to claim having done more and more "enhancements" in the Service Packs?
Yes, my copy of Windows 98 is legitimate, I hold it in my hand this very moment, there's the CD key and all. And I'm not going to like anyone taking my GPL code (not much of it exists, but still...) and using it that way. With my full, legal and moral alike, rights to not like that. Then, again, who were you talking to? Your dear, invisible friend, or who? I hope he doesn't mind generalising him in a very rude and childish way...
I'm not sure if that was intended to be something funny - but it isn't anyway - or a flamebait - a quite lousy one, that is - but I'd have doubts about you signature...
Do you get an on-site warranty with any MacBook? No, it's not a rhetoric question, I just want to know - because that's something ThinkPads have with minimal price increase and I'd NEVER send in my laptop for any kind of servicing. In fact, when my previous one broke twice well in the warranty period, I repaired it myself (once buying a differently broken one for a part transplant, once getting it to a local radio repair shop with proper SMT soldering equipment), just because it took me a day and a half in the first case and some two hours in the second, with costs next to nothing compared to what would cost me to not have my laptop for a month or so.
Can't be? Well, I've just finished the Age of Mythology campaign - in case you don't know, this is a Microsoft game, a close relative of the Age of Empires series, uses DirectX exclusively and works perfectly, including playing over DirectPlay with copies running natively on Windows.
The only reason some games still don't work is that their programmers were trying to be too smart and invented things that work by chance alone even on Windows, due to some hard-to-mimic memory allocation behaviours, undocumented "features" that allowed them to get away with programming mistakes and such things. Sure, the implementation of Direct3D in Wine isn't complete, but every well-written game either works or gives a very clear indication of the lacking 3D features, as it would under Windows with bad video drivers.
Actually, this name, while used in those famous public surveys, is needlessly redundant. Hydrogen monoxide is enough and correct, yet still no one would have any more clue. Even hydrogen oxide would do, as in being precise, but English chemical nomenclature seems to still favor those prefixes in particular places in compound names, however redundant they are - in Polish, those were dropped altogether, we just add the valence number only, as in sulfur (II) oxide, instead of sulfur monoxide, in English it seems to be sometimes that way, sometimes the other...
Read this paragraph once again. It states that the helium/oxygen mixture is a substitute of ambient air to be mixed with the hydrogen. There's 40% oxygen in it and helium is probably just a filler, it's mostly inert even in high temperatures so it serves well as one. It's probably safer that way, than hauling a pure oxygen tank next to a pure hydrogen tank, or easier to mix while keeping proper oxygen/hydrogen ratios, or whatever. That's pretty clear even for me, a non-native English speaker.
Slashdot Mirror
...they come back from the grave and haunt on the front page, no matter how hard you hit them on the head with the "dupe" tag - I think Max Brooks should update his Zombie Survival Guide to include dealing with undead Slashdot stories...
Did I, by any chance, say anything about quoting recently? Oh. Well, crap.
*Starts writing "happened" 100 times to get it better next time*
Journalists (not all of them, sure, but way too many) like to misquote on purpose, quote selectively, out-of-context or in any way otherwise changing the intended meaning of the quoted statement, after which the quoted (quotees? Is that even a word?) are left for the public to tear apart for something they didn't mean but the journalist wanted to put in their mouth - with no real way to correct what has already been printed, save for a few rich enough to take a legal action or just so rich to not give a crap about that.
Such a system gives a way for corrections like that to be made public instantly and directly. Maybe that has even happend already, I don't know - but I think that's the most interesting and possibly useful outcome of this.
Pardon me being slightly off-topic, but this question is bothering me since quite a long ago...
What's up with you Americans that you Capitalize some more or less random Words in your writing, both nouns - for which I can see a reason sometimes, but it's still quite awkard - and verbs or adjectives - which is outright weird for me?
The question is, what is the airspeed of an unladen giraffe of each species?
Considering the old engineers' saying that even pigs can fly given enough thrust, we should assume equal initial thrust, then calculate the air drag given the aerodynamic properities of a giraffe of each species. That, in turn, allows us to determine the giraffe's velocity after the time t, which, after a simple integration, yelds an average airspeed value. Moreover, it would be preferable to confirm the findings experimentally, as an excercise for the reader.
There were jokes about Chuck Norris' kick, Chuck Norris' hair, Chuck Norris' tears, Chuck Norris'... Er, whatever. And now - jokes about Chuck Norris' lawsuits! Who's the first to try?
And what if I'm interested in creating elegant, accessible documents incorporating the new features? I guess I'm screwed by the idiots at W3C, then?
That's not a matter of allowing those poor, repressed amateur web designers to express themselves. It's their problem that they cannot comprehend something as easy as XML and it's a pity that Web authoring tools don't work like a good, old hammer - if you don't know how to use it, you hit your fingers and know better next time to be careful because it hurts. 1997 is over, tag soup is becoming a horror of the past - what's up with those people trying to keep it?
Of course I could, but that's a significant cost for the shool administration to cover, and the administration is, obviously, glacially slow when it comes to accounting and finances. Eventually it will be done, but not anytime soon...
Right, but the OP sounded as if he wanted to use consumer devices for everything - which certainly isn't the brightest idea. Anyway, cheap routers and switches can as well fail under their normal working conditions, been there, seen that, always keeping a spare just in case. I'm currently in charge of an improvised dorm network (about 80 computers, 30Mbit/s connection to the outside world, almost saturated all the time), with a 30-port industrial-grade Cisco switch just by the router and dozens of crappy consumer switches acting as repeaters scattered troughout the rooms, as the building is too large to lay cables directly. Long story short, there is a failure about every two weeks somewhere. Usually a switch just dies, I throw it away and put a new one in there, but sometimes those little bastards look just fine, blink their lights happily - and wreak havoc in the network, sending half a packet here, half a packet there and even more random crap somewhere else, clogging other switches that are just too dumb to ignore a broken packet, so they reboot every couple of seconds. Not much fun, trust me.
Ever seen a commodity router under a FULL 100Mbit/s load, let alone gigabit? They drop packets, mangle packets, route wrong packets... That is, until they hit a buffer overrun, overheat or just reboot repeatedly for no clear reason. They're not meant for serious use. They're designed to be actually capable of handling whatever Joe Average can do with his home network and nothing more. Because they're commodity hardware. Cheap crap, that is. Period.
People buy those expensive, rackable switches and routers because they want something *reliable* for *serious* use that absolutely requires reliability.
A story can be in a duped or non-duped state at the same time, as we can't be sure if a yesterday's story is there again under a new title until we open the Slashdot main page, making the state collapse into either extreme with a roughly equal distribution.
This time, the cat is de... Er, the story is duped. Well, OK, not really an exact dupe, but looks like it references the same information, just from different sources...
...the new ToiToi portable toilets fature violas at the bottom of the tank, supposedly to cheer up anyone who happens to fall inside.
The question is, does this make any difference?
Crap, as always, I forgot about the linebreaks. Corrected:
Such a stance reminds me of this old Polish joke (for some reason, we've got quite a lot jokes about a shepherd):
The police enters shepherd's house and finds moonshine-making equipment.
- Well, shepherd, we're going to charge you with illegal moonshine production!
- But I'm not making it!
- But you have the equipment.
- Well, then, charge me with rape as well.
- Why, did you rape someone?
- No, but I've got the equipment!
Such a stance reminds me of this old Polish joke (for some reason, we've got quite a lot jokes about a shepherd): The police enters shepherd's house and finds moonshine-making equipment. - Well, shepherd, we're going to charge you with illegal moonshine production! - But I'm not making it! - But you have the equipment. - Well, then, charge me with rape as well. - Why, did you rape someone? - No, but I've got the equipment!
...this: http://spe.atdmt.com/ds/NMMRTUMISITP/mrs06256_news_336x280.jpg?spd=90&atdmt=?spd=90 Actually, I'd like to know why exactly this Paul Campbell is a *former* director... BTW, who let that in there at all?
Actually, it was some six times I've been asked to configure a second video output under Windows. Every time it was another laptop with ATI display chip, being used to show some presentation with a digital projector hooked up to it. Guess what? It never worked by itself and each time the laptop owner, usually a typical Windows XP user, tried to make it work for 5-10 minutes, struggling with the display configuration manager, to finally give up. The problems ranged from extending the desktop in some stragne direction and refusing to enter the "clone" mode, to limiting the external display to 8-bit colour, to cloning everything but the video overlay, and so on. Every time I managed to fix the display, despite never really using Windows since 98 SE, but the required amount of jumping trough loops and trying to guess what the heck this thing is expecting me to do and in which order, was comparable to configuring sendmail, really - just that it was clicking buttons, not writing a configuration file, doesn't make it any better. Once I just tried to guess what the driver was doing with the hardware, based on what I knew about it, and trick it into changing its state using a sequence of separate configuration changes - it worked, but, well... You see the problem...
The first "enhancement" is hardly one, rather a fix for a serious flaw, but that has been poited out by others. The second one, however. is really interesting - if I recall correctly, it was possible to select individual volumes for defragmentation since Windows 95 or so - is that their new marketing technique? Omit something ridiculously obvious, that has been there for ages, in the first version - just to claim having done more and more "enhancements" in the Service Packs?
Yes, my copy of Windows 98 is legitimate, I hold it in my hand this very moment, there's the CD key and all. And I'm not going to like anyone taking my GPL code (not much of it exists, but still...) and using it that way. With my full, legal and moral alike, rights to not like that. Then, again, who were you talking to? Your dear, invisible friend, or who? I hope he doesn't mind generalising him in a very rude and childish way...
I'm not sure if that was intended to be something funny - but it isn't anyway - or a flamebait - a quite lousy one, that is - but I'd have doubts about you signature...
Do you get an on-site warranty with any MacBook? No, it's not a rhetoric question, I just want to know - because that's something ThinkPads have with minimal price increase and I'd NEVER send in my laptop for any kind of servicing. In fact, when my previous one broke twice well in the warranty period, I repaired it myself (once buying a differently broken one for a part transplant, once getting it to a local radio repair shop with proper SMT soldering equipment), just because it took me a day and a half in the first case and some two hours in the second, with costs next to nothing compared to what would cost me to not have my laptop for a month or so.
Can't be? Well, I've just finished the Age of Mythology campaign - in case you don't know, this is a Microsoft game, a close relative of the Age of Empires series, uses DirectX exclusively and works perfectly, including playing over DirectPlay with copies running natively on Windows. The only reason some games still don't work is that their programmers were trying to be too smart and invented things that work by chance alone even on Windows, due to some hard-to-mimic memory allocation behaviours, undocumented "features" that allowed them to get away with programming mistakes and such things. Sure, the implementation of Direct3D in Wine isn't complete, but every well-written game either works or gives a very clear indication of the lacking 3D features, as it would under Windows with bad video drivers.
And what if Microsoft made cars? Soon we will see...
I think this AC was referring to that weird Japanese game with coloured circles on the ground, trying to be funny or just having no clue at all.
Actually, this name, while used in those famous public surveys, is needlessly redundant. Hydrogen monoxide is enough and correct, yet still no one would have any more clue. Even hydrogen oxide would do, as in being precise, but English chemical nomenclature seems to still favor those prefixes in particular places in compound names, however redundant they are - in Polish, those were dropped altogether, we just add the valence number only, as in sulfur (II) oxide, instead of sulfur monoxide, in English it seems to be sometimes that way, sometimes the other...
Read this paragraph once again. It states that the helium/oxygen mixture is a substitute of ambient air to be mixed with the hydrogen. There's 40% oxygen in it and helium is probably just a filler, it's mostly inert even in high temperatures so it serves well as one. It's probably safer that way, than hauling a pure oxygen tank next to a pure hydrogen tank, or easier to mix while keeping proper oxygen/hydrogen ratios, or whatever. That's pretty clear even for me, a non-native English speaker.