aslvstr - Slashdot User

Comment Oh no, not again. (Score 1) 2

by aslvstr on Monday December 30, 2013 @06:01PM (#45822575) Attached to: If UNIX Were a Religion

This is just rehashing Umberto Eco's 1994 article "The Holy War: Mac vs. DOS" with a UNIX bent.
http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_mac_vs_pc.html

Why pick MULTICS as Judaism? Why not Greco/Roman Mythology?

Comment Read "Ready Player One". (Score 2) 285

by aslvstr on Friday December 27, 2013 @05:00PM (#45799927) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Will You Start Your Kids On Classic Games Or Newer Games?

Read "Ready Player One".
Ponder the world that book portrays, and think that's the world your gaming children will live in if everybody plays games.
Then ask your question again.

Comment How long is a nanosecond (Score 1) 157

by aslvstr on Monday December 09, 2013 @03:36PM (#45642305) Attached to: Google Doodle Remembers Computing Pioneer Grace Hopper

I attended a talk she gave in the early 80's. She was quite an entertaining speaker. She was able to describe some concepts in an easy way to undersand way. Like how long is a millisecond or a nanosecond? She handed out nanoseconds at the end. I still have that little 11.8 inch piece of wire.

Comment Toastmasters (Score 1) 361

by aslvstr on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @03:32PM (#45404207) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers?

Best way to learn to speak better is Toastmasters www.toastmasters.org
Learn to give speeches and you will learn to communicate better in all aspects of your business and personal life. Earn the "Competent Communicator" award and your boss will not be able to use that line on you anymore.

Comment credit card? (Score 1) 293

by aslvstr on Thursday November 29, 2012 @08:00PM (#42136463) Attached to: NASA: Curiosity Has Found Plastic On Mars

After all the hype we find out someone left their credit card on Mars!

Comment HD 10180 Nearby? (Score 2) 102

by aslvstr on Friday April 06, 2012 @06:35PM (#39602741) Attached to: Nearby Star May Have More Planets Than Our Solar System

When did 130 ly become nearby? Did someone invent a FTL drive while I wasn't paying attention?

Comment We just migrated to XP! (Score 2) 879

by aslvstr on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @04:58PM (#38576820) Attached to: What's Keeping You On XP?

My company just migrated to XP in '07, we still haven't seen XP's useful life! We should be migrating to Windows 7 about the time Win8's SP3 comes out!

The IT department claims that it costs too much to roll out a new OS and rebuild all the remote management tools, train the Neytwork staff in the new OS (but not any end users), and pay for upgrades for 2000+ PCs...

Comment Sucessful Economy Prediction (Score 1) 676

by aslvstr on Thursday October 27, 2011 @03:41PM (#37860310) Attached to: Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong

The only person to successfuly predict an economy was Hari Seldon.

Comment Cobol Rocks! (Score 1) 178

by aslvstr on Thursday December 16, 2010 @09:12PM (#34582718) Attached to: Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL

Object-Oriented Cobol Rocks^2!

Or should I say: COMPUTE Object-Oriented-COBOL = Rocks * Rocks.

P.S. The code would have been ALL CAPS, but the Slashdot filter wouldn't allow me to put in the code PROPERLY! LOL!

Submission + - AU Gov censor own website

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 25, 2010 @08:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Australian Minister for Communications and the Digital Economy has had his own website censored :http://www.news.com.au/technology/conroys-website-removes-references-to-filter/comments-e6frfro0-1225834474153. The tag cloud generation script has been modified client side to remove references to "ISP Filtering" which is truly ironic given the Minister is pushing for a ISP censorship system to be installed, yet welcomes open discussion of policy.

Submission + - In 3 weeks iPhone has 1% market, Motorola down 2% (emediawire.com)

Submitted by

pete.com

on Friday August 03, 2007 @01:13PM

pete.com writes: "The latest ChangeWave consumer cell phone survey — completed July 20, 2007 — shows a virtual upheaval occurring among cell phone manufacturers and service providers as a result of Apple's (AAPL) entry into the space. Although iPhone sales are still in their nascent stages, the effects on cell phone manufacturers are already beginning to take shape — and no company is bearing the brunt of this more than Motorola (MOT). While it still leads all other manufacturers in terms of current market share (31%), Motorola has dropped 2-percentage points since a previous ChangeWave survey in April to its lowest level in more than a year. http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/8/emw54418 5.htm"

In Australia, An Ebay Sale is a Sale 267

Posted by Zonk on Friday August 03, 2007 @10:53AM from the almost-by-definition dept.

syousef writes "An eBay sale is a sale says an Australian New South Wales State Judge in a case where a man tried to reneg on the Ebay sale of a 1946 World War II Wirraway aircraft. The seller tried to weasel out of the deal because he'd received a separate offer $100,000 greater than the Ebay sale price. The buyer who had bid the reserve price of $150,000 at the last minute took him to court. 'It follows that, in my view, a binding contract was formed between the plaintiff and the defendant and that it should be specifically enforced,' Justice Rein said in his decision." I haven't found anything like this in previous discussions; have there been similar decisions like this handed down in the US, Canada, or Europe?

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