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I also use MS Office 2004 on my Mac due to how bad OpenOffice and NeoOffice/J are, but why do you think MS Office on OS X is bad? It's interface is so much nicer than any version released for Windows. I've never encountered an issue with it, everything works as it should. No crashes, either.

I love the formatting pallet, it makes things much easier to deal with. Just take a look.

It's this guy who caused all the fuss

Correction, this is the digg.com homepage before it went offline: http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s66/xavi3l/owne d-1.jpg

Check the front page before ir went down! http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s66/xavi3l/owne d-2.jpg

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t194/spydermann /free_speech.png

Somebody make the SVG of this, please, I did it with MS Paint in a hurry :(

Here's a good retaliatory pic:

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h195/mjbw99/DIGG _HD_DVD_KEY.jpg

Actual pictures are quite difficult to find, but... here you are.

I could see it selling to the furry market...

...this is the outcome.

Let's get Slashdot to change the logo it has for Google. They have Bill in a Borg get up for Microsoft. How about something like this: http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/usa1mac/?act ion=view&current=Evil_Google.jpg

The Microsoft graphic logo is Bill in a Borg get up. Can we change the Google logo to something evil too?

Maybe something like this: http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/usa1mac/?act ion=view&current=Evil_Google.jpg

It seems appropriate as continues to gain more power and influence. Any company that has a motto or "Do not evil", just has to be evil.

Gordon's PDA

and his ugly mug

Gordon's corpse has some nice loot on it. Oh uh *^*^*^*^*^*SPOILERS*^*^*^*^*^*
...too late? Anyway, he's found dead in the game.

Gordon's PDA

and his ugly mug

Gordon's corpse has some nice loot on it. Oh uh *^*^*^*^*^*SPOILERS*^*^*^*^*^*
...too late? Anyway, he's found dead in the game.

Jefferson was pro Greek not Ottoman. See here for an example of correspondence of Jefferson to Adamantios Korais:

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u94/NikephorosP hokas/31JeffersonKorais.jpg

That is from the book: "Founded on Freedom and Virtue" Documents Illustrating the Impact in the United States of the Greek War of Independence, 1821-1829
Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou, editor

Basically Jefferson who knew ancient Greek was corresponding with Adamantios Korais, a modern Greek living France who was a great scholar of ancient Greek publishing with learned commentaries ancient Greek works. Jefferson even wrote that he wished a modern Greek dictionary(probably katherevousa at the time) so he could read the addresses Korais wrote to his countrymen. Korais was also an important architect of modern Greek nationalism and sought to through his writings produce the conditions necessary for modern Greeks to be ready for their independence from the Ottoman yoke. Jefferson supported the Greek revolution, because Greeks were Christian, they were a source of civilization inspiration for Americans and the whole world; while he felt muslims were an example of the wrong direction. So if Jefferson were alive today he would probably be disgusted at the high place of Turkey in American foreign policy that is a detriment to modern Greece. Back in his time the USA had a much more respectable foreign policy based on values and non-interventionism abroad.

So today Jefferson most likely would not only have disavowal for this kind of Turkish legislation, he simply would not support modern Turkey at all in the way the modern State Department supports Turkey. Let alone supporting the Turkish entry to the EU like the State Department pushes for.

I can only think of one car company that has scaled down the size of their cars (albeit slightly), and that is Honda with their Civic (6th-7th gen)

Huh? The latest Civic is huge! No, Honda did exactly the same thing as Toyota (and Nissan (Sentra->Versa), and Chevrolet(Cavalier->Aveo), etc.): increased the size of the Civic and brought in a new model (the Fit) below it.

You know what the really funny thing is? The Fit is probably bigger than even an old Accord!

Here's a screenshot of my multi-head 3d accelerated desktop:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b316/handsome-b/ screen.jpg (big image warning)

D00dd itz 4 rl, Im stealin ur megahurtz.

"Slashdot works PERFECTLY in Firefox."

Oh, really? Then explain this. http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u204/DZaidle/?a ction=view&current=Slashdoterror.jpg

Uhm, Julianne is born in 1960 - Gillian in 1968 - which makes Gillian thirty-nine this August. Not that big a difference. It's not like Julianne is 50 and Gillian 30.

Also you haven't seen a recent picture of Gillian, have you?

Why?

Because there are very few out there. I haunt SuperiorPics.com and you almost NEVER see Gillian any more. As it happens I do have some - see below.

Her career is as dead as Bush's next plan to "win in Iraq'.

As to looks, I don't see any significant difference between this woman and this woman. They're both freckled redheads getting long in the tooth (but not so long in the tooth that I wouldn't do either of them.)

OTOH, I'm beginning to wonder about Julianne's career - this is the second time she's picked up a high-profile role from another actress (the first being Clarice Starling from Jodie Foster.)

Uhm, Julianne is born in 1960 - Gillian in 1968 - which makes Gillian thirty-nine this August. Not that big a difference. It's not like Julianne is 50 and Gillian 30.

Also you haven't seen a recent picture of Gillian, have you?

Why?

Because there are very few out there. I haunt SuperiorPics.com and you almost NEVER see Gillian any more. As it happens I do have some - see below.

Her career is as dead as Bush's next plan to "win in Iraq'.

As to looks, I don't see any significant difference between this woman and this woman. They're both freckled redheads getting long in the tooth (but not so long in the tooth that I wouldn't do either of them.)

OTOH, I'm beginning to wonder about Julianne's career - this is the second time she's picked up a high-profile role from another actress (the first being Clarice Starling from Jodie Foster.)

rj

Now scientists have come up with the first evidence of burrowing dinosaurs. They speculate that underground dens might explain how some dinosaurs got through long, dark winters at high latitudes, too.

I believe this proves it beyond a doubt.

Nice processor. (MPC8343E) I should see if one of my associates can handle a Bit Torrent client. (Less powerful Cirrus EP9302, but stand-alone. And yes, IRL.)

Totally offtopic but wtf is this?

Making money is fine. Selling out with ads is fine. But putting a bright orangish yellow bar on the homepage of your site is just not friendly to the eye. We provide your content, Slashdot. Users first or you won't need to worry about your income, you won't have any content.

Always remember to bring a towel. You boys wanna get high?

As it was, he walked away with nothing but a concussion from a metal CD case that we kept in the car. It hit him in the forehead. He was otherwise sore but completely fine.

As it was, he walked away with nothing but a concussion from a metal CD case that we kept in the car. It hit him in the forehead. He was otherwise sore but completely fine.

That gives me the urge to haul my QVT-102 out of the basement and hook it to my 4x4" ARM9 Linux card. Mind you, I'd have to tweak one of the serial ports to slow down to 19200 bps and use handshaking or it'll overrun. And I'd have to replace Busybox which doesn't support curses and termcaps with something larger. (Except that the termcaps always sucked for the QVT102 and my own tweaked version is lost in the mists of time.)

Yeah, I could get used to 80x24 green characters (in a nice sans serif font--that's one thing that's been lost) and play the old games like TREK73, Zork, Nethack (if the curses are working), maybe even STTR1... Or I could just telnet in.

I've been somebody who, for many years, has loved web design from both the visual and technical sides of things. How well a website works is obviously important, but just as important is how it looks. There are many people out there who disagree, and say that usefulness is key and how "pretty" a page is isn't important, but they're completely wrong. (In my opinion, of course.)

The reason they're wrong is that web design isn't either/or, no matter what some may say. There are obvious examples of design over use - countless, countless examples - but that doesn't mean that making a website visually attractive kills the chance to also make it work like a charm.

For me personally, one of my favorite projects web design wise has been my personal forums, where I've put just as much important on how they look as well as how they work. Forum design is, to put it bluntly, god-awful across the internet. If message forums don't just stick with the defaul theme, they slightly modify it to make it look average AND ugly.

Message forums are about reading the posts presented there, but they're also about the community, so the design of the forums should reflect that. Here's a screenshot of the new theme I have in progress - it's far, far from done, but gives an idea of my kind of sense of forum style. First off, avatars are 600x150; a bit larger than the previous 600x120 avatars we were running. Some see that kind of thing as a waste, but our large avatars were one of the things that made our forums stand out, be remembered, and the way the board was coded, you could turn off avatars and still have the forum work perfectly and look very nice. Users will be able to select their own background color for their posts; it makes things more colorful, and personal, but it also then lets a user quickly scan a thread and find their own posts, due to knowing what color they're looking for. Items such as thread title, page navigation, and search box will be part of a bottom-of-the-window-pinned navigation bar, extending on the previous navigaion bar we had; this helps to reduce the clutter in layouts, and give the forum another unique visual aspect, but it also presents important navigation and UI items in one consistant, always available on-screen location, instead of scrolling up and down the page to hunt them down every time.

Not that I'm trying to toot my own horn here - my point is that with just a bit of thought, web design can be both visually appealing and enhance the user experience, but that idea seems to be lost on people far too often. And, obviously, the same design elements and planning I'm using for my new forum skin wouldn't work for other types of websites, but we need to better understand what each type of website needs and requires, and work from there. Nobody would make sense in saying that every type of website needs to be visually stunning, but those saying that sites don't need to be fancy or appealing are just as wrong. A website being visually unique, pleasing to look at, providing quality design at the same time it presents quality UI, those are all important factors that too often go overlooked.

Every ten minutes? I've got Gmail open in its own tab. The moment I get an email, I know.

I've been described as the guy who "turns email into an instant-messaging system." I just wish Slashdot comment reply notification emails were sent out as they happened, instead of in batches every five minutes.

My school also blocks all free hosts, along with other useful pages. Many of the technology teachers hate the filtering system, because it stops them from doing certain lesson plans ex: the Web teacher used to have a project where the students would make a site, then upload it to a free host, and maintain it, updating it, etc. Now he can't. The Computer Art teacher used to have her AP Computer Art students look up tutorials and get ideas for projects by going to sites like Tutorialized, which is now blocked. Google images was blocked, putting a halt to many photoshop projects. All e-mail systems were blocked, stopping the students from being able to transfer work to and from home (The USB ports were on the back of the computers, where student's couldn't get to) My school used to use a site called "Turn-it-in.com", but that is now blocked, as an unintended side effect of the filter blocking email. Some of the restrictions have been fixed now, thanks to the Computer Art teacher. She set up a script to attempt to access certain pages she wanted unblocked, and if it got the "Access denied" message, it would send an email to the district administrator, demanding to have the site unblocked. It would check once every minuet. She had it change which address it used to send the message, as well, so he couldn't block her emails easily. It worked a lot better than the older method of submitting complaints. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/PrvtCaboose/Ce nsorship-1.jpg is a little thing I made to show what it's like.

I was surprised too, until I saw pictures of the Boston bomb squad.

Would you like a free personality test?

The sun's energy output varies, it is in an orbit that wobbles, goes thru dust clouds over the eons. Earth's orbit too wobbles and as we all know the temps change thruout he year and always has. The moon was much closer to the earth at one point that our day was just 18hrs and the moon did one orbit in 20 days. It has been moving away since. Earth's land masses moving around opened to let the seas we know today be created funneling the warm and cold water around the earth that affects temps.

Volcanos exploding putting out all types of gasses. 1991's eruption of Mount Pinatubo lowered temperatures by about 32 degress F in some locales and Tambora eruption in 1815 lowered temps worldwide. The following summer was known as the year without a summer and millions died of starvation around the world. Bigger super volcanoes are around such as Yellowstone and in Siberia that makes these volcanoes look like pop guns.

Richard Branson truly believes that man is at fault then he can start by grounding his airline and he and Al Gore can start walking instead of flying around by private jet and being chauffered around in limos but we all know that won't happen because they are making money thru tax shelters like Al's movie and the write off's for Branson's business. Carbon credit is yet another scam.

Man is nothing compared to the planets and the sun http://ixpats.com/bestoftheweb/wp-uploads/earth_pl anets_size_comparison.jpg http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c238/emerson24/p lanets3.jpg http://rofl.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Sun%20vs%20Earth.j pg

The death was not too quick or easy.

I know you can't see this, but I'm doing this harder than I've ever done it before.

I, on the other hand, have no need for the sheer horsepower of a Mac Pro. So when I dumped my Windows machines a couple of months ago, I got Mac Mini for my desktop and a Macbook for my laptop. Couldn't be happier.

I, on the other hand, have no need for the sheer horsepower of a Mac Pro. So when I dumped my Windows machines a couple of months ago, I got Mac Mini for my desktop and a Macbook for my laptop. Couldn't be happier.

It's there.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j113/ffutahw/gue st_house.jpg

Look! a 3 foot tall house!

Every time you use ext3 Reiser kills a woman.

Please think of the women.

It works for me. Here's a screenshot for proof (Opera, Linux).

while. I'd always post the latest Hubble image as my desktop wallpaper. I'm sure many other people did this too.

You mean this one?

They have the Vista Home Premium version available for $120 or $100 with some other FAR(Free After Rebate) computer case, powers supply and some other toys with it at CC, CompUSA, FRY's. I am gonna get my money's use out of this system unlike last time where I had to buy XP a little late after pirating it for so long and wanting to get my updates seamlessly without the annoying(?) WGA bugging me about my illegal copy.

Vista is very stable and has run flawlessly on my AMD 2.4 w/ X800GTO 256 and 2 GB ram; I am a gamer and notice every hiccup and FPS that goes wrong. I can tell you that there is no performance hit while doing other activities and using it fine like I did with XP but a little more organized in some areas.

The premium is the one to get as it includes the Windows Media Center and I know I will have a use for that in the future; also all the other little gimmicks which the novelty will wear off on some but for others might find useful such as the speech recognition.

Agreed for us power users it is a must to see what is going on during defragging and having a solid bar that doesn't even give you a time estimate of when it will be finished or how sloppy your partition is right now is not very welcoming.
I hear that it auto-defrags by itself while running the system but with the amount of file swapping I have going my network home here it does get scattered. Maybe a third party will step up with a nice program or get smart to add something for more detail.

Just to backup the guys claim about CPU usage here is another screenshot. In fact it runs better than my XP machine and networking now works a lot more seamlessly when transferring stuff.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n24/spongaweb/c puusage.jpg

from the it-cannot-slice-tomatoes dept.

I guess an ARM9 version waaay back of line?

That's moot for my Linux ARM9--unless someone does a Flash to ASCII graphics version for my terminal--but I'm sure there are a number of hand-held ARM9-based devices that could use a Flash player. (/me not willing to convert my Palm TX to Linux just yet, even if browsing Flash sites is a pain.)

You said "numbers from NPD, and it is now quite clear that you are full of shit and never had access to the (for pay only) NPD report. Microsoft did indeed lower their estimates from 3 million to 2.5 million, and then they missed their shipment estimates by more than half anyway.

There is a graph of the actual NPD data here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/fotox/us-la unch-sales.png.

Enjoy.

Am I the only one to think that Jack Thompson looks an awful lot like Jon Stewart in 20 years?

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b123/wobindwonde rdog/sd/images.jpg

This is how they kept it secret:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y243/johnnylocust /secretiPhone.jpg