Comment No. (Score 0) 794
Undergraduates should be taught programming principles that should easily carry over to different language paradaigms. Direcly learning Fortran in an undergraduate cirriculum is unneccessary.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 250
Seriously pal, quit masturbating every night and move out of your parent's basement already. Your paranoid-driven angst is almost painful to read.
Family Guy was never originally good with the ratings. Fox's schedule shuffling was an attempt to keep it alive (not purposely kill it like you think) by finding an audience that could compete share-wise with their other programming. Re-airing on Adult Swim saved it because it allowed it to gradually build a fan base at a pace that bigger networks (which compete with other bigger networks) can't afford. I too, originally, didn't like it but now I'm a huge fan and I'm glad it came back.
As far as why Cleveland, why not? Who are you to say what the writers feel they have more potential with? Are you a successful animation creator?
This reminds me of the time I fucked your fat mother (insert family guyish non-sequitur here).
Family Guy was never originally good with the ratings. Fox's schedule shuffling was an attempt to keep it alive (not purposely kill it like you think) by finding an audience that could compete share-wise with their other programming. Re-airing on Adult Swim saved it because it allowed it to gradually build a fan base at a pace that bigger networks (which compete with other bigger networks) can't afford. I too, originally, didn't like it but now I'm a huge fan and I'm glad it came back.
As far as why Cleveland, why not? Who are you to say what the writers feel they have more potential with? Are you a successful animation creator?
This reminds me of the time I fucked your fat mother (insert family guyish non-sequitur here).
Comment Re:Compatibility (Score 2, Funny) 492
- If we're not coming up with something new and innovative we're stuck making outlook clones. People don't like writing software like that.
What are you talking about?? Writing clones of commercial software is the prime directive of open source! I'm going to go out on a limb and say that actually there are quite a lot of people who like nothing more than doing exactly that.
Submission + - Which ISPs Are Spying on You? (wired.com)
firesquirt writes: In an article from WIRED
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/20 07/05/isp_privacy
The few souls that attempt to read and understand website privacy policies know they are almost universally unintelligible and shot through with clever loopholes. But one of the most important policies to know is your internet service provider's — the company that ferries all your traffic to and from the internet, from search queries to BitTorrent uploads, flirty IMs to porn.
Time Warner Cable Implements Packet Shaping 492
RFC writes "In a move that may be indicative of modern ISP customer service, Time Warner has announced the introduction of packet shaping technology to its network. 'Packet shaping technology has been implemented for newsgroup applications, regardless of the provider, and all peer-to-peer networks and certain other high bandwidth applications not necessarily limited to audio, video, and voice over IP telephony.' As the poster observes, this essentially renders premium service useless. The company is already warning users that attempts to circumvent these measures is a violation of their Terms of Service."
Journal Journal: [Z80] No more problems!
I did the last thing I needed to do, that was - test the CTC. It seems to be working - at least doing a quick sniff test with one of the counters.
The only other thing I did with the board is set the real time clock (I have a combined SRAM and timekeeper - saves board space over having a separate timekeeper, and it makes main memory nonvolatile as a little bonus).
Submission + - ReactOS 0.3.1 Release
fireballrus writes: This is release 0.3.1 of ReactOS, an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003).
Mainly, the work focused on rewriting certain parts of the ReactOS Core (kernel, HAL, bootloader, etc). Read through the changelog, and you will see the amount of changes in this release!
Please don't forget this is an alpha-stage operating system, which means it is not suitable to replace your main OS. Also, this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators (like QEmu, VMWare, Parallels, etc): because of the big amount of changes, our development team was not able to test/fix all problems which arise when running ReactOS on real hardware.
Press-release: http://www.reactos.org/en/news_page_34.html
Changelog: http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ChangeLog-0. 3.1
Download packages are here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=6553&package_id=6629&release_id=492696
ReactOS website: http://www.reactos.org/
Mainly, the work focused on rewriting certain parts of the ReactOS Core (kernel, HAL, bootloader, etc). Read through the changelog, and you will see the amount of changes in this release!
Please don't forget this is an alpha-stage operating system, which means it is not suitable to replace your main OS. Also, this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators (like QEmu, VMWare, Parallels, etc): because of the big amount of changes, our development team was not able to test/fix all problems which arise when running ReactOS on real hardware.
Press-release: http://www.reactos.org/en/news_page_34.html
Changelog: http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ChangeLog-0
Download packages are here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?grou
ReactOS website: http://www.reactos.org/
Bookmark Avoid Using Cell Speakerphones To Save Battery Energy (4400-battery-cell-lg-phone.info)
Comment good (Score 0, Offtopic) 107
When my friend Helen Keller read this she screamed and jumped up and down for joy.
ahref=http://www.bburr.com/rel=url2html-18208http: //www.bburr.com/> .: Adventures of a 20 year old Entrepreneur. :.
Comment big shocker indeed (Score 0) 330
WTF, how is this news for nerds and how does this matter?????
and another thing that pissed me off as i visited /. today (its been my homepage since 1998) i found some
kind of hover ad that was ontop of the fucking content!!!! I MEAN wtf. I remeber when /. didn't have any ads
at all!
and another thing that pissed me off as i visited
kind of hover ad that was ontop of the fucking content!!!! I MEAN wtf. I remeber when
at all!
Fraud in Internet Dating Prompting Regulation 371
anaesthetica writes "According to the Washington Post, an increasing tide of fraud in internet dating is prompting lawyers and lawmakers to examine possible regulations and consumer protections. Wire fraud scamming, plane ticket ripoffs, fraud perpetrated to fund trysts, fake "date bait" messages -- these are just a few of the issues the courts are beginning to deal with. Dating websites were immunized from lawsuits over false statements by the recent Communications Decency Act. Other attempts to regulate internet dating, such as the 2005 'mail-order bride' legislation, are already being challenged in court, but an increasing number of states are sponsoring their own legislation."
Comment Re:Utter Bullshit. (Score -1, Troll) 82
wow, you're a complete and udder chode. when was the last time that you put your penis into someone's vagina??? let me give a free gay nigger tip: less attention to your mac or whatever the fuck you have and more attention to your dong. Are you sure it hasn't just gotten up a left on you. Do yourself a favor today and at least jack off to non manga whatever the fuck its jap anime porn with furries. I know you think it's the hottest thing since a flock of seagulls came out with their first cd; but c'mon man! if you're not going to do it for yourself at least do it for all the gay niggers out there who last their dongs in iraq slapping saddam in the face having them bitten off by rabid iraq penis parrots. LOL, INTERNET.
Pepper Pad, an Open Alternative to MS Origami 188
SilentBob4 writes to tell us that MadPenguin has a look at an open alternative to Microsoft's Origami, the Pepper Pad. From the article: "The Pepper Pad, like Origami, is a mid-point form factor PC that is bigger and more powerful than a PDA, but smaller and less optimized for traditional desktop PC tasks than a notebook computer or a desktop PC. The Pepper Pad is a good buy for people who would like to have a light-weight, dirt-simple, point-and-click open source device for watching videos, listening to music, reading e-books, and doing simple web surfing with a view screen that is actually easy to read. If you want do more than that, you are really better off getting a small Linux notebook, unless you are willing to get under the hood (which you can do with the Pepper Pad!) and start compiling for yourself."
When Free Speech and Foreign IP Law Collide 217
segphault writes "Ars Technica has an interesting look at a recent intellectual property case where foreign copyright law conflicts with American freedom of speech rights. In this particular case, Sarl Louis Feraud International v. Viewfinder Inc., American enforcement of the French court's judgement on the basis of comity could establish a dangerous legal precedent that could lead to extensive censorship of the Internet. The article includes analysis of a relevant friend of the court brief filed by the EFF."
Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk 282
dtjohnson writes "A new Swedish
study has
found that heavy users of cell phones had a 240 percent increase in
brain tumors on the side of their head that the phone was used
on. The study defined 'heavy' use as more than 2,000 total hours,
or approximately one hour of use per workday for 10 years. An
earlier British
study was previously discussed
here that didn't find an increased risk, although that study
covered fewer subjects and only followed one type of brain tumor for a
shorter period of time. Or course, the biggest epidemiological
study of all is the one we are all participating in whenever we use our
cell phone. The results from that study won't be available for a
while."
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