There's a lot of really good stuff out there (and another 90+% of horrible crap, but the good stuff is enough to keep you busy for a while):
Naver has been betting strong on infinite-canvas style, both eastern translated works and english-original ones (check the page out, there's A LOT of webcomics there, a bit of everything for everyone)
uhm, I'm a bit busy at the moment so I'll just list a bunch of webcomics I liked below, if you look at what the authors of each of those recommend you'll find lots more, and these cover a fairly wide range of styles, themes and tones:
Funny that you mentions biometric scanning... I was there, RMS spoke about biometric databases and how they're evil, etc. etc. etc.
Also, we are aware of the security issues, someone was watching his stuff. The thief was just that good, and he chose a very specific moment to steal the bag. As I said before on various places, we need honeypots and go medieval on the ass of whoever is caught.
We need a honeypot and some rope. When we catch someone we just strip the thief and hang him/her naked on the entrance of the building. This time of the year (winter, pretty cold compared to usual) that'll be a treat:-D
Any sugestions on how to build a laptop stealer honeypot?
What is it with Argentinians and stealing shit? First they try to steal an island, then they steal a Spanish oil company, and now Richard Stallman's passport? It just gets worse and worse.
our nation was funded by people who didn't want to pay taxes to the spanish crown, what do you expect?
Anyway, Repsol failed to fulfill their obligations regarding investment on infrastructure... which THIS government let them do, and then took away YPF's assets using that as an excuse - I have no excuse for the argentinian government, they are a bunch of stealing little shits.
The malvinas/falklands issue goes waaaaaay back, centuries back. Before it was an issue of naval strategy, nowadays it's an issue of claiming antartica (as far as I understand, at least). But anyway, why does england claim a couple of islands on the other fucking side of the world and nobody thinks that's strange?
It's all right if you want to manage a couple of pictures with gimp, but try 100. or 300. For professional of serious amateur work, you need a GUI that can manage that with decent performance.
I do photography for free software related events, and when I have the 300-something RAWs for postprocessing I need something that can let me work with sets of images, not individual images. Currently I use Lightroom because it's the only thing that gets the job done in relaistic time, because of GUI issues. I used RawTherapee before but, despite being the best I could find, it wasn't there yet (I'm talking about 2.3, more or less). With the changes announced for 3.0 I think it may be usable again for that kind of work.
I used digikam before, but with JPEGs, with RAWs it was impossible.
When I read the word "darwinism" I think about "social darwinism", which was the bullshit interpretation nazis used to justify their bloody stupid actions. It was survival of the fittest all right, they just had a really screwed up idea of what "fit" means... same with "survival", and I think they just skipped the "natural" part of "natural selection".
(note: according to wikipedia, "social darwinism" is an abiguous term which has many interpretations, I just took one of them in this case)
Also, first time I hear the term "darwinism" applied to the actual ideas of darwin. Where I live the words used are "natural selection" or "evolution", and there aren't any asshats meddling in that part of education, you just get taught that if the individuals of a species can't reproduce, the species doesn't survive, period. Is it really that hard to understand?!?!?
Then again, maybe playing with pringles cans and "legit" wireless networking, we can interface with our neighbors. Something has to work, or am I just a kook?
note: I'm stealing descriptions from the wikipedia articles.
Girl Genius [wp]- Girl Genius is a steampunk tale; "a gaslamp fantasy with adventure, romance and mad science", set in an alternate history "where the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war" due to the appearance of "Sparks" -- highly charismatic mad scientists with supernormal abilities in one or more sciences.
Gunnerkrigg Court [wp] - The comic details the strange events that surround protagonist Antimony Carver as she begins life at the foreboding, factory-like school complex of Gunnerkrigg Court.
Lackadaisy [wp] - Lackadaisy (also known as Lackadaisy Cats) is a webcomic created by artist Tracy J. Butler, set in a Prohibition-era 1927 St. Louis inhabited by anthropomorphic cats. The plot chronicles the fortunes of the Lackadaisy Speakeasy after its founder is murdered.
Dresden Codak [wp] - Described by the author as a "celebration of science, death and human folly," each comic generally focuses on a concept or theory from modern and postmodern philosophy, psychology, or science (particularly quantum physics)
ok, got tired of copy-pasting URL's and descriptions. just google theese, most of them have rss feed:
XKCD, Perry Bible Fellowship, Girl Genious, Gunnerkrigg Court, Templar, Arizona, Sinfest, Lackadaisy, The Broken Mirror, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Dinosaur Comics, Copper, Alpha Shade, Dresden Codak, The Curious Adventures of Aldus Maycombe, Inverloch, VGCats, Ctrl-Alt-Del, Questionable Content, Shortpacked!, Penny Arcade, The Book of Biff, Bunny, Contemplating Reiko, No Rest for the Wicked, The Devil's Panties, Girly, Penny and Aggie, Cool Cat Studio, The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Johnny Saturn, 8 bit theatre, Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life, Zap! (zap in space), Mad About U, Ozy & Millie, Jack, Chugworth Academy, Marilith, Slightly Damned, The Awakened, Vampirates, Aether, Pinky TA, Orneryboy, Reman Mythology, Count Your Sheep, Errant Story, PowerPuff Girls Doujinshi (the one by bleedman), Everafter, Grim Tales from Down Below, Sugar Bits, Demonology 101, Zombies Calling, Ice, Brat-halla, The Phoenix Requiem, Last Blood, Flipside, Marry Me, No Pink Ponies, Shadowgirls, Purgatory Tower, El Goonish Shive, Badass Muthas!, Exiern, Xylia, A Girl and Her Fed, The BMovie Comic, Gone With the Blastwave, Candi, Flaky Pastry, Sorcery 101, Minus, Looking for group, North World, Nothing Better, Striptease, Handrawn Zoo, Rob and Elliot, Marsh Rocket, General Protection Fault, Rip and Teri, Maxwell the demon, Paradigm Shift, Fantasy Realms, Edwitch, The Unstuffed, Wayfarer's Moon, Undertow, Poultry Arisen!, God Mode, Kung Fool, Kill Harry, Pup
I can't guarantee you'll like them all, but I've read them all (most of them in all their extension) and I can assure that none of them make the eyes bleed (most of them are really good, in fact).
Also, an interesting indication of quality is the WCCA.
I think that's the ideal for a torrent index. index + merge duplicates. How can the idea be improved over that? maybe a better site design, I don't know.
Finally, everyone should be aware that all of these boxes are hackable. If you know why Ethereal/Wireshark was kicked out of OpenBSD, you understand what's going on. The development environments common in this industry are also prevalent here. Harried developers don't care about buffer overflows. That's a total afterthought with minimal risk in the commercial space. could someone care to explain that further, please?
Tell the kids to use linux, so they won't have to look for cracks in pages like astalavista, cracks.(insert foreign country domain here), etc.
Or pass a law that forces every browser to have text-only mode by default
Or make all the media free, since some torrent sites have very work-unsafe advertising
just my $0.02 (actually, it would be two thirds of a US cent, since I live in argentina (you fucking imperialist pigs))
How do you compare the Harry Potter and the Discworld books?
I'm genuinely interested in your opinion. (And more book recommendations.)
I don't think it makes sense to compare harry potter and discworld, the two series are too different. Their public is too different, the worlds are... worlds apart, almost literaly speaking.
Take the "bad guys", for example. The closest you get to HP style of bad guys in DW are the noble, who don't concern themselves with commonfolk in a "we are better so they diserve to die" way. The really bad guys are otherwordly creatures who don't care or don't even know what caring is, or just bloody stupid people (nobles again), or mad people.
For a fair comparison, let's take deathly hallows vs. night watch. both books talk about very dark matters, have very traumatic scenes (for the characters, and for very imaginative and sensible readers). When I finished reading night watch I felt like starting a revolution, which is something that never happened to me with a HP book =P (as a matter of fact I do prefer DW over HP, I suppose that it may be because I've grown over the years and the suspension of disbelief has changed for me in that time)
By the way, I've read that there's some friction between rowling and pratchett... I think one acoused the other of not bringing nothing new (it would be laughable, but even more if the accusation came from rowling).
If you ever come across a book or better yet, a series that draws you in and makes you wish you were a part of it, maybe you'll understand the allure here. Not everyone has that much imagination, and not everyone can stand being jeered at by people who are "better" than that, but you don't have to be a completely nutty fan to enjoy a good book. (emphasis mine)
There's Dicworld, that series does have the mentioned effect. I also prefer it over harry potter... anyone who read it would understand why ^_^
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld
What exactly is the difference between LPAR and virtualization? Other than allocating specific CPUs or chunks of CPUs, what does VMWare offer that the LPARs of an iSeries do not?
I would say it's the other way round: LPAR offers more than VM's. maybe VM's are more flexible (like LVM is to RAID), but then again LPAR has a better performance (again, like RAID and LVM being RAID the hardware way and LVM the software way). the comparison is for mere ilustration of my point, I do know that the situation with LVM/RAID is pretty different than the one with VM/LPAR.
LPAR - Logical partitioning, mostly done at hardware level and with very little software overhead, giver better speed and hardware isolation, security and safety.
I agree, my low cost "mainframe" is a quad core packed with RAM and running a bunch of VMware.
Mainframes have been running VMs for years.
With more powerful PCs, virtualization is now possible with PCs.
I tend to enjoy virtualization, it saves a bunch of money in deployment, management, maintenance, backup procedures, etc., etc. compared to having 12 physical servers to maintain when you can all run it on one piece of hardware (depending on your use case of course).
I would rather prefer LPAR if I had the posibility, but for the moment I'll have to be happy with virtualization. (on x86/x64 hardware)
I will freely admit that I don't use Skype at all. But the internet radio stations I have heard that have interviewed celebrities over the Internet convince me that this way of communicating is not even ready for voice only, much less voice and video. At times it was nigh impossible to understand what the interviewee was saying. And this was people who are supposed to know how Internet communication works (and who had technicians on both ends of the conversation).
Also, considering that the best speech recognition software still can only reach about 95% accuracy (which means that every 20th word would be wrong, 98% is considered the lowest limit for practical use) and the state of automatic translation technology today, we're looking at many years of development before software will be ready to make on the fly translations of conversations over the Internet.
Have you tried sticking a babelfish in your ear? (I'm surprised nobody has sugested this so far, cosidering how near we are to the towel day...)
Slashdot Mirror
You have a cubicle? You lucky bastard...
There's a lot of really good stuff out there (and another 90+% of horrible crap, but the good stuff is enough to keep you busy for a while):
Naver has been betting strong on infinite-canvas style, both eastern translated works and english-original ones (check the page out, there's A LOT of webcomics there, a bit of everything for everyone)
Girl Genius got most of the Hugo awards for graphic story in the first years of the category
uhm, I'm a bit busy at the moment so I'll just list a bunch of webcomics I liked below, if you look at what the authors of each of those recommend you'll find lots more, and these cover a fairly wide range of styles, themes and tones:
http://www.samandfuzzy.com/new...
http://www.johnnywander.com/
http://www.egscomics.com/
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/
http://flipside.keenspot.com/
http://www.somethingpositive.n...
http://oglaf.com/latest/
http://www.happletea.com/
http://www.errantstory.com/
Funny that you mentions biometric scanning... I was there, RMS spoke about biometric databases and how they're evil, etc. etc. etc.
Also, we are aware of the security issues, someone was watching his stuff. The thief was just that good, and he chose a very specific moment to steal the bag. As I said before on various places, we need honeypots and go medieval on the ass of whoever is caught.
We need a honeypot and some rope. When we catch someone we just strip the thief and hang him/her naked on the entrance of the building. This time of the year (winter, pretty cold compared to usual) that'll be a treat :-D
Any sugestions on how to build a laptop stealer honeypot?
What is it with Argentinians and stealing shit? First they try to steal an island, then they steal a Spanish oil company, and now Richard Stallman's passport? It just gets worse and worse.
our nation was funded by people who didn't want to pay taxes to the spanish crown, what do you expect?
Anyway, Repsol failed to fulfill their obligations regarding investment on infrastructure... which THIS government let them do, and then took away YPF's assets using that as an excuse - I have no excuse for the argentinian government, they are a bunch of stealing little shits.
The malvinas/falklands issue goes waaaaaay back, centuries back. Before it was an issue of naval strategy, nowadays it's an issue of claiming antartica (as far as I understand, at least). But anyway, why does england claim a couple of islands on the other fucking side of the world and nobody thinks that's strange?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_community_network You might want to check that.
It's all right if you want to manage a couple of pictures with gimp, but try 100. or 300. For professional of serious amateur work, you need a GUI that can manage that with decent performance.
I wasn't really clear in that sentence.
I do photography for free software related events, and when I have the 300-something RAWs for postprocessing I need something that can let me work with sets of images, not individual images. Currently I use Lightroom because it's the only thing that gets the job done in relaistic time, because of GUI issues. I used RawTherapee before but, despite being the best I could find, it wasn't there yet (I'm talking about 2.3, more or less). With the changes announced for 3.0 I think it may be usable again for that kind of work.
I used digikam before, but with JPEGs, with RAWs it was impossible.
No, I called it the only one, thinking I was right (when I wrote that)
Seems to me this can help you: http://blag.xkcd.com/2009/02/25/kindle-2/ . Munroe was looking for a portable (as in not heavy), hi-res display laptop. Found two that met his criteria, the Vaio P and the ThinkPad X200s. Original request for help here: http://blag.xkcd.com/2009/02/11/a-math-problem/
But if what you're looking for is a phisically bigger screen, then go desktop.
When I read the word "darwinism" I think about "social darwinism", which was the bullshit interpretation nazis used to justify their bloody stupid actions. It was survival of the fittest all right, they just had a really screwed up idea of what "fit" means... same with "survival", and I think they just skipped the "natural" part of "natural selection".
(note: according to wikipedia, "social darwinism" is an abiguous term which has many interpretations, I just took one of them in this case)
Also, first time I hear the term "darwinism" applied to the actual ideas of darwin. Where I live the words used are "natural selection" or "evolution", and there aren't any asshats meddling in that part of education, you just get taught that if the individuals of a species can't reproduce, the species doesn't survive, period. Is it really that hard to understand?!?!?
Then again, maybe playing with pringles cans and "legit" wireless networking, we can interface with our neighbors. Something has to work, or am I just a kook?
Being there, doing that. There are others too.
You must be new here
Next time check his /. ID first ;)
Then he must be new in the new here
note: I'm stealing descriptions from the wikipedia articles.
ok, got tired of copy-pasting URL's and descriptions. just google theese, most of them have rss feed:
XKCD, Perry Bible Fellowship, Girl Genious, Gunnerkrigg Court, Templar, Arizona, Sinfest, Lackadaisy, The Broken Mirror, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Dinosaur Comics, Copper, Alpha Shade, Dresden Codak, The Curious Adventures of Aldus Maycombe, Inverloch, VGCats, Ctrl-Alt-Del, Questionable Content, Shortpacked!, Penny Arcade, The Book of Biff, Bunny, Contemplating Reiko, No Rest for the Wicked, The Devil's Panties, Girly, Penny and Aggie, Cool Cat Studio, The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Johnny Saturn, 8 bit theatre, Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life, Zap! (zap in space), Mad About U, Ozy & Millie, Jack, Chugworth Academy, Marilith, Slightly Damned, The Awakened, Vampirates, Aether, Pinky TA, Orneryboy, Reman Mythology, Count Your Sheep, Errant Story, PowerPuff Girls Doujinshi (the one by bleedman), Everafter, Grim Tales from Down Below, Sugar Bits, Demonology 101, Zombies Calling, Ice, Brat-halla, The Phoenix Requiem, Last Blood, Flipside, Marry Me, No Pink Ponies, Shadowgirls, Purgatory Tower, El Goonish Shive, Badass Muthas!, Exiern, Xylia, A Girl and Her Fed, The BMovie Comic, Gone With the Blastwave, Candi, Flaky Pastry, Sorcery 101, Minus, Looking for group, North World, Nothing Better, Striptease, Handrawn Zoo, Rob and Elliot, Marsh Rocket, General Protection Fault, Rip and Teri, Maxwell the demon, Paradigm Shift, Fantasy Realms, Edwitch, The Unstuffed, Wayfarer's Moon, Undertow, Poultry Arisen!, God Mode, Kung Fool, Kill Harry, Pup
I can't guarantee you'll like them all, but I've read them all (most of them in all their extension) and I can assure that none of them make the eyes bleed (most of them are really good, in fact).
Also, an interesting indication of quality is the WCCA.
1) widnows-only
2) can I see the source code, please?
somebody else pointed that out
note that wetriffs.com exists now
rj
I, Robot the book is a collection of short stories, not a novel.
I think that's the ideal for a torrent index. index + merge duplicates. How can the idea be improved over that? maybe a better site design, I don't know.
could someone care to explain that further, please?
Tell the kids to use linux, so they won't have to look for cracks in pages like astalavista, cracks.(insert foreign country domain here), etc.
Or pass a law that forces every browser to have text-only mode by default
Or make all the media free, since some torrent sites have very work-unsafe advertising
just my $0.02 (actually, it would be two thirds of a US cent, since I live in argentina (you fucking imperialist pigs))
I'm genuinely interested in your opinion. (And more book recommendations.)
I don't think it makes sense to compare harry potter and discworld, the two series are too different. Their public is too different, the worlds are... worlds apart, almost literaly speaking.
Take the "bad guys", for example. The closest you get to HP style of bad guys in DW are the noble, who don't concern themselves with commonfolk in a "we are better so they diserve to die" way. The really bad guys are otherwordly creatures who don't care or don't even know what caring is, or just bloody stupid people (nobles again), or mad people.
For a fair comparison, let's take deathly hallows vs. night watch. both books talk about very dark matters, have very traumatic scenes (for the characters, and for very imaginative and sensible readers). When I finished reading night watch I felt like starting a revolution, which is something that never happened to me with a HP book =P (as a matter of fact I do prefer DW over HP, I suppose that it may be because I've grown over the years and the suspension of disbelief has changed for me in that time)
By the way, I've read that there's some friction between rowling and pratchett... I think one acoused the other of not bringing nothing new (it would be laughable, but even more if the accusation came from rowling).
There's Dicworld, that series does have the mentioned effect. I also prefer it over harry potter... anyone who read it would understand why ^_^
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld
I would say it's the other way round: LPAR offers more than VM's. maybe VM's are more flexible (like LVM is to RAID), but then again LPAR has a better performance (again, like RAID and LVM being RAID the hardware way and LVM the software way). the comparison is for mere ilustration of my point, I do know that the situation with LVM/RAID is pretty different than the one with VM/LPAR.
LPAR - Logical partitioning, mostly done at hardware level and with very little software overhead, giver better speed and hardware isolation, security and safety.I agree, my low cost "mainframe" is a quad core packed with RAM and running a bunch of VMware.
Mainframes have been running VMs for years.
With more powerful PCs, virtualization is now possible with PCs.
I tend to enjoy virtualization, it saves a bunch of money in deployment, management, maintenance, backup procedures, etc., etc. compared to having 12 physical servers to maintain when you can all run it on one piece of hardware (depending on your use case of course).
I would rather prefer LPAR if I had the posibility, but for the moment I'll have to be happy with virtualization. (on x86/x64 hardware)Have you tried sticking a babelfish in your ear? (I'm surprised nobody has sugested this so far, cosidering how near we are to the towel day...)