Trust slashdot to put the lights out! Someone should build a mirror array.
You know, people like you who keep reminding us of the "slashdot effect" always get modded up since it flatters the slashdot readers that theya re part of something big, the colective power of which can bring a server down.
Truth is the slashdot effect is nothing like what it used to be when blog had decent articles (versus unchecked factas, duped, misinformation etc. in massive quantities).
And second, you can bring a small server, or a site on a shared server relatively easily with couple of hundred people visiting at once. The key is they visit at once, since if they didn't, the same server would take easily a 50-100k people during the span of a day.
Actually I'm designing a site from the ground up. Trying to do everything* right. Semantic markup, accesibility, proper source ordering, user customizable/specifiable everything...AND trying to accomodate most all browsers or degrade nicely.
If your masin goal for a site is to have proper semantic markup and proper source ordering better give up. What makes or breaks sites is the idea and content behind them. Everything else helps, but you can't build a site upon it and expect wonders.
I do everything that savvy web devs consider "good web coding practises", yet amazes me how much those practises are overvalued compared to simply creating a good usable site content, that reaches your audience.
Data retention is a way to catch the stupid offenders, blame innocent people and also abuse the data for other purposes. If I was to commit a crim over the Internet, I'd encrypt any data transmission I'd use.
Then all they have is the ip/domain I talked to. It's not quite a crime to talk to someone.
We'd be nowhere technologically without math. That's everything... to the signal processing needed for you to post on slashdot
Do you honestly believe I can't post to slashdot unless I have perfect understanding of the math used to design the computer I use? What kind of math did you do to post your message?
And this is why math is overrated. Yes, math is used everywhere around us, but fortunately we can use most of everything around us, and even do a good job, and even make good money, and even have a great life, without being mathematicians.
Why might that be? Math is critical to functioning in today's world -- from figuring out whether you have enough cash in your bank account to both pay the rent AND buy that new shiny iPod to determining how to modify your recipe to accommodate the unexpected arrival of 5 more dinner guests to averaging the scores of your english students to... you name it.
Oh I see, you're from those that think that our kids are forced to learn 12 years of adding two numbers together and the multiplication table. All needed stuff, no less.
Or? How often you do compute volume of irregular 3D objects, or do matrix determinants or solve system of equations of third power so you can meet the month budget?
It's a fact: 95% of everything you learn in school is useless to you, and you'll soon have it forgotten. It's hard to interest someone in a science, when you strip all practical usage out of it and just force theory on his poor head, while also repeating "it's useful for you" without ever teaching him how exactly to apply this in the real world.
I'm sure they thought about all of the potential "down-sides" of this innovative technology and found that the concerns are not valid. These people are professionals. They get paid to develop these ideas for a living.
Hahah, dude.. those are frigging dongles, can you imagine your PC with 4 of those sticking out its back so you can use the software you paid for?
These people are dongle producers, and this is just their desparate attempt to cash in on the piracy craze, to survive a little longer.
Being a "professional" is not something that protects you from being stupid like hell. The Sony rootkits should've taught you something.
It's a sad state of affairs when a video game is more appealing than real life. It says something about their lives and about how there's not much interesting out there for these people.
Ooooh, that's so sad you know! If you know someone being a sorcerer battling with dragons, vampires and hell forces in his real life, you're welcome to share with us.
If there's something the Matrix taught it, our definition of "real" is really not that good.
In this funky Universe we live in, things awfully frequently are not what they seem to be. Who knows, maybe the ultimate purpose of life is to play kewl games?
Of course you can settle with the usual routine of working your ass off to support a wife, two kids and die unappreciated in a home for seniors. Ahhh.. that's more like it!
Dude, you really shouldn't post when you're so stoned. Yes, I know, you thought it was all insightful, but truthfully, it was just stupid and waste of time for us to read.
Some experiments with DVD (then CD) drives from my younger years:
1. put on top stickers of pokemons you obtained from chewing gums
2. crack a disk and see if it plays
3. stuff two disks at once
4. have you noticed small cd/dvd-s are more expensive than full size ones !? what's with that. chop pieces of a large CD/DVD to create a home made small cd/dvd and record stuff on it
Now,... those seem stupid right.. Why do stupid shit and waste your drive. Well, look at this and tell me if you feel safe putting it in your drive.
Folks, this is some pretty big news in biotech.... It's worthy of a front page.
You know, the linked article is spam. It's not even a genuine news article and contains 20 or so paragraphs, each beginning with "JANUVIA does this and that".
If this is worthy of front page on Slashdot, well that's pretty sad for Slashdot I think.
"Internet broadcast" would be too broad. Animations would include flash animations and banner ads, so too broad again.. Animated photos? Again too broad.
If they do, then do I need license if I embed someone else's video on my page? What if I only link to my video, but on YouTube? What if the videos are anonymous? Would YouTube require your license number to create an account?
It's the internet: the multimedia experience is well integrated with the web as an inseparable part of it. Attempts to bring old models and force them on us, even if for "the good of the kids" or "world peace" or whatever you could think of, simply will fall so flat on its face, it's imbelievable.
Apple is selling ipods with a virus on them and they're taking it as an opportunity to bash Microsoft??
I'm sorry, but that just seems ass backwards to me. This one is not Microsoft's fault, and I hope people realize that.
Apple's behaviour is a book example of compensatory reaction against Microsoft.
For decades now they are screaming out loud how "Microsoft practically delivered Mac OS on PC-s" (starting with Windows 1.0) and at the same time saying how worse their products are, anyway.
Steve Jobs thinks this is spreading awareness among people and making Apple seem cool. 2% bought the hype. 98% didn't.
PostgreSQL is a *far* superior database, and unfortunately despite various kinds of database abstraction layers for the popular programming languages out there, people still insist on writing open source apps that are soley tied to MySQL.
You know superios can be context specific. Of the two, MySQL is faster. This matters a lot when you just don't need the "functional superiority" of PostgreSQL.
And one thing.. PostgreSQL with its incredibleness, doesn't support something as basic as full text indexing. In MySQL creating searchable text is trivial. In PostgreSQL you need to extract keywords, create index tables, mix and match etc etc to end up with the same feature.
Ummmm, they didn't go to court and they have not accepted anything, Spamhaus are demonstrating their view that the court does not have jurisdiction, Spamhaus seem to have a clue what they are talking about but the judge isn't listening since they refused to recognise the court by showing up. And if push really did come to shove then Spamhaus would probably just "reboot the company" in a different country.
I hope it's like you say, because in the media it came more like this:
Spammer: I'll sue you!
Spamhaus: Sue me!
Spammer: I sue you and I sued you! Your domain is goin' away!
Spamhaus: Oh no we give up, omg world prepare for e-mailmageddon! Fair well, fair well!
ICANN: We can't take your domain, Spamhaus.
Spamhaus: Oh what tragedy is before us, pitty us and you and... ICANN, you can't? Hmmm (damn it)
Spammer: I continue suing you and will win anyway!
Spamhaus: Oh no, world see how unfair the world is prepare for spamornado, spamunami, we're all doomed! Oh I pitty my sad fate! Oooh... Noo! Oh oh...
Random Observer: Dude stop making ass of yourself, you need neither the domain, neither you're the only solution for filtering spam out there. Take it like a man and maybe start respecting the court.
Spamhaus: Shut up observer, you're interrupting my dramatic routine.
CD-quality should imply a real and quantifiable level of quality . . . not "it sounds like a CD to the casual listener (that doesn't know that analog FM radio music is typically compressed in dynamic range and frequency and that radio broadcasts are already equalized for cheap car stereos and boomboxes)."
You know, I'm getting deadly tired of people bragging about they mp3 compression kung-fu knowledge.
YES, WE REALIZE IT'S COMPRESSED.
Geez.. and yea, it's CD quality to the casual listener and in fact just THAT is what it's supposed to mean. If you wanna see how much people care about marginal improvements in quality, see where DVD-Audio went, and you can witness where HD DVD and Blue Ray will go (hint: nowhere... I know, I know).
People whining about professionally encoded (encoder matters a lot) mp3 streams of 128kbps and more having terrible quality really amaze me. It'd a damn radio after all. It's not like you recover critical encrypted messages hidden in the audio and you need 1:1 correspondence of each sample, or your kidnapped wife is dead in 24 hours.
In a nutshell, you can take your mp3 l33t skills and your 64-bit audio 256kHz 15+1 surround system and shove it up your audio output socket.
Whereas "Post Eolas Internet Explorer" is perfectly clear English.
This is targeted to people who'd know what it means. The rest need pay no attention. That said I'm gonnas dumb this sig for something more commonly understood pretty soon.
I read the title then the little blurb.......this whole summary reads like something a spammer would stick to the end of an email to try and get past a filter.
FTFA:...Those pronouncements and the antagonism of the Linux aficionados has raised the various lawsuits above prosaic tedium......the imbroglio will Novell which seems to indicate that they do not even own the code which they assert some Linux may infringe upon...
Nope, I think paragraph long sentences and stuffing yout text with rare words in inappropriate locations is a very good way to get your message accross.
unfortunately, the concentration isn't on functionality, it's on fooling the humans the robot interacts with
That's the whole point of those robots. They are neither especially smart or revolutionary. They are very high tech puppies with latex skin, designed to explore our perceptions of what is real and what is not.
Slashdot Mirror
It is animated and scrolls text or any 6x6 animation; see the video on the link.
:) and as such, it's quite cool already.
As you see in the video is pretty hard at times to follow a scrolling text on a 6x6 display. Now make it 12x6 or 10x6 and it might work.
Of course, this is not meant to be useful, it's meant to be cool
Trust slashdot to put the lights out! Someone should build a mirror array.
You know, people like you who keep reminding us of the "slashdot effect" always get modded up since it flatters the slashdot readers that theya re part of something big, the colective power of which can bring a server down.
Truth is the slashdot effect is nothing like what it used to be when blog had decent articles (versus unchecked factas, duped, misinformation etc. in massive quantities).
And second, you can bring a small server, or a site on a shared server relatively easily with couple of hundred people visiting at once. The key is they visit at once, since if they didn't, the same server would take easily a 50-100k people during the span of a day.
It's not like you're going to save your most frequently used documents to this section of the drive.
Yup, it defies any logic: why save your most frequently used files there? In that area for most frequently used files?
So you can load them faster?
Instead, you'll put there files you totally don't need, and no more worries about read/write cycles.
I'm sold.
As a physicist, everyday. ;)
Sit down, and relax. This may be shocking at first, but I'm sure you'll see the logic behind it.
Mike, I'm *not* a physicist.
In fact a lot of people aren't.
Actually I'm designing a site from the ground up. Trying to do everything* right. Semantic markup, accesibility, proper source ordering, user customizable/specifiable everything...AND trying to accomodate most all browsers or degrade nicely.
If your masin goal for a site is to have proper semantic markup and proper source ordering better give up. What makes or breaks sites is the idea and content behind them. Everything else helps, but you can't build a site upon it and expect wonders.
I do everything that savvy web devs consider "good web coding practises", yet amazes me how much those practises are overvalued compared to simply creating a good usable site content, that reaches your audience.
Data retention is a way to catch the stupid offenders, blame innocent people and also abuse the data for other purposes.
If I was to commit a crim over the Internet, I'd encrypt any data transmission I'd use.
Then all they have is the ip/domain I talked to. It's not quite a crime to talk to someone.
We'd be nowhere technologically without math. That's everything... to the signal processing needed for you to post on slashdot
Do you honestly believe I can't post to slashdot unless I have perfect understanding of the math used to design the computer I use?
What kind of math did you do to post your message?
And this is why math is overrated. Yes, math is used everywhere around us, but fortunately we can use most of everything around us, and even do a good job, and even make good money, and even have a great life, without being mathematicians.
Why might that be? Math is critical to functioning in today's world -- from figuring out whether you have enough cash in your bank account to both pay the rent AND buy that new shiny iPod to determining how to modify your recipe to accommodate the unexpected arrival of 5 more dinner guests to averaging the scores of your english students to... you name it.
Oh I see, you're from those that think that our kids are forced to learn 12 years of adding two numbers together and the multiplication table. All needed stuff, no less.
Or? How often you do compute volume of irregular 3D objects, or do matrix determinants or solve system of equations of third power so you can meet the month budget?
It's a fact: 95% of everything you learn in school is useless to you, and you'll soon have it forgotten. It's hard to interest someone in a science, when you strip all practical usage out of it and just force theory on his poor head, while also repeating "it's useful for you" without ever teaching him how exactly to apply this in the real world.
This "study" is so ridiculous, that I'm even tired to bring you multiple reasons and example to prove it wrong.
Instead, I leave it up to you, to do the math and come up with the conclusions.
I'm sure they thought about all of the potential "down-sides" of this innovative technology and found that the concerns are not valid. These people are professionals. They get paid to develop these ideas for a living.
Hahah, dude.. those are frigging dongles, can you imagine your PC with 4 of those sticking out its back so you can use the software you paid for?
These people are dongle producers, and this is just their desparate attempt to cash in on the piracy craze, to survive a little longer.
Being a "professional" is not something that protects you from being stupid like hell. The Sony rootkits should've taught you something.
It's a sad state of affairs when a video game is more appealing than real life. It says something about their lives and about how there's not much interesting out there for these people.
Ooooh, that's so sad you know! If you know someone being a sorcerer battling with dragons, vampires and hell forces in his real life, you're welcome to share with us.
If there's something the Matrix taught it, our definition of "real" is really not that good.
In this funky Universe we live in, things awfully frequently are not what they seem to be. Who knows, maybe the ultimate purpose of life is to play kewl games?
Of course you can settle with the usual routine of working your ass off to support a wife, two kids and die unappreciated in a home for seniors. Ahhh.. that's more like it!
Dude, you really shouldn't post when you're so stoned. Yes, I know, you thought it was all insightful, but truthfully, it was just stupid and waste of time for us to read.
No, really.
I hate you.
Some experiments with DVD (then CD) drives from my younger years:
... those seem stupid right.. Why do stupid shit and waste your drive. Well, look at this and tell me if you feel safe putting it in your drive.
1. put on top stickers of pokemons you obtained from chewing gums
2. crack a disk and see if it plays
3. stuff two disks at once
4. have you noticed small cd/dvd-s are more expensive than full size ones !? what's with that. chop pieces of a large CD/DVD to create a home made small cd/dvd and record stuff on it
Now,
But I bet kids will love playing with it.
4.
Folks, this is some pretty big news in biotech. ... It's worthy of a front page.
You know, the linked article is spam. It's not even a genuine news article and contains 20 or so paragraphs, each beginning with "JANUVIA does this and that".
If this is worthy of front page on Slashdot, well that's pretty sad for Slashdot I think.
I hate americans, I hate mexicans, chinese, and koreans. And europeans, and russians.
I *hate* igloos, they freak me out.
I hate rebublicans, democrats, and those that don't vote.
I hate the white, I hate the black.
I hate the yellow, and red.
In fact I hate the whole Pantone range. But I hate grayscale too!
I hate conservatives, but hate even more liberals.
I hate those hate and those that don't hate!
I hate you all!
And so this was my hate speech. Completely without video. Because I hate video too.
[applause]
Thank you, thank you...
[applause]
"Internet broadcast" would be too broad. Animations would include flash animations and banner ads, so too broad again..
Animated photos? Again too broad.
If they do, then do I need license if I embed someone else's video on my page?
What if I only link to my video, but on YouTube?
What if the videos are anonymous? Would YouTube require your license number to create an account?
It's the internet: the multimedia experience is well integrated with the web as an inseparable part of it. Attempts to bring old models and force them on us, even if for "the good of the kids" or "world peace" or whatever you could think of, simply will fall so flat on its face, it's imbelievable.
Apple is selling ipods with a virus on them and they're taking it as an opportunity to bash Microsoft??
I'm sorry, but that just seems ass backwards to me. This one is not Microsoft's fault, and I hope people realize that.
Apple's behaviour is a book example of compensatory reaction against Microsoft.
For decades now they are screaming out loud how "Microsoft practically delivered Mac OS on PC-s" (starting with Windows 1.0) and at the same time saying how worse their products are, anyway.
Steve Jobs thinks this is spreading awareness among people and making Apple seem cool. 2% bought the hype. 98% didn't.
If it can make cancer cells vibrate and the rest not.. can a vibration strong enough kill them?
There was an allegedly "quack" treatment of cancer and bacteria revolving around this technique several decades ago.
Now it suddenly resurfaces... You can't stop science with misinformation and lawyers can you...
PostgreSQL is a *far* superior database, and unfortunately despite various kinds of database abstraction layers for the popular programming languages out there, people still insist on writing open source apps that are soley tied to MySQL.
You know superios can be context specific. Of the two, MySQL is faster. This matters a lot when you just don't need the "functional superiority" of PostgreSQL.
And one thing.. PostgreSQL with its incredibleness, doesn't support something as basic as full text indexing. In MySQL creating searchable text is trivial. In PostgreSQL you need to extract keywords, create index tables, mix and match etc etc to end up with the same feature.
I hope it's like you say, because in the media it came more like this:
Spammer: I'll sue you!
Spamhaus: Sue me!
Spammer: I sue you and I sued you! Your domain is goin' away!
Spamhaus: Oh no we give up, omg world prepare for e-mailmageddon! Fair well, fair well!
ICANN: We can't take your domain, Spamhaus.
Spamhaus: Oh what tragedy is before us, pitty us and you and... ICANN, you can't? Hmmm (damn it)
Spammer: I continue suing you and will win anyway!
Spamhaus: Oh no, world see how unfair the world is prepare for spamornado, spamunami, we're all doomed! Oh I pitty my sad fate! Oooh... Noo! Oh oh...
Random Observer: Dude stop making ass of yourself, you need neither the domain, neither you're the only solution for filtering spam out there. Take it like a man and maybe start respecting the court.
Spamhaus: Shut up observer, you're interrupting my dramatic routine.
You know, I'm getting deadly tired of people bragging about they mp3 compression kung-fu knowledge.
YES, WE REALIZE IT'S COMPRESSED.
Geez.. and yea, it's CD quality to the casual listener and in fact just THAT is what it's supposed to mean. If you wanna see how much people care about marginal improvements in quality, see where DVD-Audio went, and you can witness where HD DVD and Blue Ray will go (hint: nowhere... I know, I know).
People whining about professionally encoded (encoder matters a lot) mp3 streams of 128kbps and more having terrible quality really amaze me. It'd a damn radio after all. It's not like you recover critical encrypted messages hidden in the audio and you need 1:1 correspondence of each sample, or your kidnapped wife is dead in 24 hours.
In a nutshell, you can take your mp3 l33t skills and your 64-bit audio 256kHz 15+1 surround system and shove it up your audio output socket.
Whereas "Post Eolas Internet Explorer" is perfectly clear English.
This is targeted to people who'd know what it means. The rest need pay no attention. That said I'm gonnas dumb this sig for something more commonly understood pretty soon.
FTFA:
Nope, I think paragraph long sentences and stuffing yout text with rare words in inappropriate locations is a very good way to get your message accross.
puppies
Nice, this will spoon a bunch of replies laughing at me for taping the wrong world.
unfortunately, the concentration isn't on functionality, it's on fooling the humans the robot interacts with
That's the whole point of those robots. They are neither especially smart or revolutionary. They are very high tech puppies with latex skin, designed to explore our perceptions of what is real and what is not.