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You're right, both BT and ed2k download the data in random order. However, this is mostly a client-side policy. A customized client could try to download a file sequentially.
This won't work in the initial phase a file is distributed first, though, if the seed chooses to hide parts from downloaders (super-seed in BT, jumpstart in ed2k)

What history class did you sit through? It took about 60 days for the pilgrims to get to America. Imagine 102 people on a 90 foot boat with no shower facilities, rampant seasickness, scurvy and dysentery, and the only toilet facilities being the open sea. And when they get to where they're going, they have to start by building their friggin' houses so they don't freeze to death.

Now imagine walking 2,000 miles across harsh wilderness populated by people who will kill you as soon as trade with you, knowing that 10% of your party will die along the way. Surely nobody will want to go, right?

As for food, any long-term space trip will involve growing food, particularly a Mars mission. You *do* know that we grow food out of the dirt. It doesn't just appear on supermarket shelves. People will have to learn how to grow their food or they will *die.*

Also, any human presence in space will require that all people have a working knowledge of almost every system as well as how to make tools from local materials.

So, yeah, people now are lazy pigs who want to sit around all day and complain. But I, and I'm sure many other people, are willing to go and face the hardships. Some want to get away from people, others want religious freedom.

Sidenote: I don't think Al Qaeda would be trying to kill people if they had a way to move away from the influences they dislike.

Most car crashes cause only property damage. There is probably a fair comparison in the waste from computer insecurity to the damage from those crashes. Yet we have decades of car safety laws (which lowered fatalities to today's accepted level), lots of technology and investment to increase quality, and only a veneer of computer security institutions. The apathy probably thrives more because there's not been a publication yet like Nader's _Unsafe At Any Speed_, which was published after almost a half-century of unsafe cars. Since companies like Microsoft are also in the publishing business, their counterpropaganda will probably inhibit the public response.

I really am sick of sites that require flash to get actual information. It should be part of the usability guidelines of the web that information be required to be in at least format.

Take these two sites for example. I work in the healthcare profession and we don't run our machines as administrators, and flash isn't installed default on Win2k. When you go to Ochsner's Health Plan website, you can't do anything unless we, as administrators, log in and install flash for them from the activex control, just to log in as a provider.

Also, Houston RoadRunner is the exact same.

I hate flash, a lot, and It annoys me because you can't manipulate fonts, you can't use scroll wheel most of the time, all the control is taken AWAY from the user. I love flash when used for hilarious web cartoons, but using it for content is ridiculous.

Chris

Don't be fooled. They'll turn over your name and address as soon as the RIAA comes with their subpoena.

At least RoadRunner is nice enough to tell you where they're scanning from so that you can block them. Thanks iptables :)

Chris

This isn't flamebait

Firefox is slower and heaver than IE

I can run Office, IE and Outlook together SMOOTHLY on a WinXP box with 128M RAM

Otherwise we'd have the speed advantage, and Linux's flagship products wouldn't be heavier and slower than Microsoft's.

With WinXP, you are limited to one crappy desktop (explorer.exe) that locks just about every file it touches (requiring you to kill and restart it in task manager) and crashes on me about 5 times a week (WinXP does not crash on me, but explorer.exe certainly does). With Linux, I can use full-featured desktops like KDE/Gnome or a ligher desktop like XFCE4 which still has greate features. For a system with 128MB or less memory, there are desktops like fluxbox, blackbox, wiamea and others.

And we do not have the world's greatest broadband. Here in Houston, the country's 5th largest city, you can get 1M down, 250K up for the grand sum of $32/month.

Actually, as a Houstonite, I know that it is the U.S.A's fourth largest city. Plus your pricing is rediculus, because I personally get 3mb down for less than 50 bucks a month.

there is no such thing as "altruistic capitalism". That is an oxymoron. Look around you and realize that most companies participate in open source only when it helps their bottom line or image. No one gives away true, advantageous IP to open source in VFX or any industry.

Well, editing a text file is indeed lightweight. But rendering is a different story...and if you have a slow computer, you can't render as many times to tweak everything just right.

For example, this takes quite a while to render on a 1.2GHz machine, even though those are just speckle shells and not individual hairs. This wasn't too bad, I think 10 hours on a 233MHz laptop. Likewise with this one. But this one took a couple days on a 1.2GHz machine due to all the internal reflections and focal blurring. Also, this Megatokyo fanart took a day or so to render. Nothing really complex as far as the actual objects go, just a lot of light and atmospherics.

I also kind of like it for roughing out mechanical parts, though of course it's no AutoCAD. This was part of something I was trying to put together with rollerblade wheels. And here was the furniture set I modeled while planning out a dorm layout one year in college.

None of this stuff involved modelers at all, just typed in, using macros and recursion where possible. You start with a simple sphere statement, and then it gets addictive.

Well, editing a text file is indeed lightweight. But rendering is a different story...and if you have a slow computer, you can't render as many times to tweak everything just right.

For example, this takes quite a while to render on a 1.2GHz machine, even though those are just speckle shells and not individual hairs. This wasn't too bad, I think 10 hours on a 233MHz laptop. Likewise with this one. But this one took a couple days on a 1.2GHz machine due to all the internal reflections and focal blurring. Also, this Megatokyo fanart took a day or so to render. Nothing really complex as far as the actual objects go, just a lot of light and atmospherics.

I also kind of like it for roughing out mechanical parts, though of course it's no AutoCAD. This was part of something I was trying to put together with rollerblade wheels. And here was the furniture set I modeled while planning out a dorm layout one year in college.

None of this stuff involved modelers at all, just typed in, using macros and recursion where possible. You start with a simple sphere statement, and then it gets addictive.

Well, editing a text file is indeed lightweight. But rendering is a different story...and if you have a slow computer, you can't render as many times to tweak everything just right.

For example, this takes quite a while to render on a 1.2GHz machine, even though those are just speckle shells and not individual hairs. This wasn't too bad, I think 10 hours on a 233MHz laptop. Likewise with this one. But this one took a couple days on a 1.2GHz machine due to all the internal reflections and focal blurring. Also, this Megatokyo fanart took a day or so to render. Nothing really complex as far as the actual objects go, just a lot of light and atmospherics.

I also kind of like it for roughing out mechanical parts, though of course it's no AutoCAD. This was part of something I was trying to put together with rollerblade wheels. And here was the furniture set I modeled while planning out a dorm layout one year in college.

None of this stuff involved modelers at all, just typed in, using macros and recursion where possible. You start with a simple sphere statement, and then it gets addictive.

Well, editing a text file is indeed lightweight. But rendering is a different story...and if you have a slow computer, you can't render as many times to tweak everything just right.

For example, this takes quite a while to render on a 1.2GHz machine, even though those are just speckle shells and not individual hairs. This wasn't too bad, I think 10 hours on a 233MHz laptop. Likewise with this one. But this one took a couple days on a 1.2GHz machine due to all the internal reflections and focal blurring. Also, this Megatokyo fanart took a day or so to render. Nothing really complex as far as the actual objects go, just a lot of light and atmospherics.

I also kind of like it for roughing out mechanical parts, though of course it's no AutoCAD. This was part of something I was trying to put together with rollerblade wheels. And here was the furniture set I modeled while planning out a dorm layout one year in college.

None of this stuff involved modelers at all, just typed in, using macros and recursion where possible. You start with a simple sphere statement, and then it gets addictive.

Well, editing a text file is indeed lightweight. But rendering is a different story...and if you have a slow computer, you can't render as many times to tweak everything just right.

For example, this takes quite a while to render on a 1.2GHz machine, even though those are just speckle shells and not individual hairs. This wasn't too bad, I think 10 hours on a 233MHz laptop. Likewise with this one. But this one took a couple days on a 1.2GHz machine due to all the internal reflections and focal blurring. Also, this Megatokyo fanart took a day or so to render. Nothing really complex as far as the actual objects go, just a lot of light and atmospherics.

I also kind of like it for roughing out mechanical parts, though of course it's no AutoCAD. This was part of something I was trying to put together with rollerblade wheels. And here was the furniture set I modeled while planning out a dorm layout one year in college.

None of this stuff involved modelers at all, just typed in, using macros and recursion where possible. You start with a simple sphere statement, and then it gets addictive.

Well, editing a text file is indeed lightweight. But rendering is a different story...and if you have a slow computer, you can't render as many times to tweak everything just right.

For example, this takes quite a while to render on a 1.2GHz machine, even though those are just speckle shells and not individual hairs. This wasn't too bad, I think 10 hours on a 233MHz laptop. Likewise with this one. But this one took a couple days on a 1.2GHz machine due to all the internal reflections and focal blurring. Also, this Megatokyo fanart took a day or so to render. Nothing really complex as far as the actual objects go, just a lot of light and atmospherics.

I also kind of like it for roughing out mechanical parts, though of course it's no AutoCAD. This was part of something I was trying to put together with rollerblade wheels. And here was the furniture set I modeled while planning out a dorm layout one year in college.

None of this stuff involved modelers at all, just typed in, using macros and recursion where possible. You start with a simple sphere statement, and then it gets addictive.

Well, editing a text file is indeed lightweight. But rendering is a different story...and if you have a slow computer, you can't render as many times to tweak everything just right.

For example, this takes quite a while to render on a 1.2GHz machine, even though those are just speckle shells and not individual hairs. This wasn't too bad, I think 10 hours on a 233MHz laptop. Likewise with this one. But this one took a couple days on a 1.2GHz machine due to all the internal reflections and focal blurring. Also, this Megatokyo fanart took a day or so to render. Nothing really complex as far as the actual objects go, just a lot of light and atmospherics.

I also kind of like it for roughing out mechanical parts, though of course it's no AutoCAD. This was part of something I was trying to put together with rollerblade wheels. And here was the furniture set I modeled while planning out a dorm layout one year in college.

None of this stuff involved modelers at all, just typed in, using macros and recursion where possible. You start with a simple sphere statement, and then it gets addictive.

Are you an example of this?

That "Mormony Goodness" you lament led me to a deeper understanding of Satan.

I am hoping that the God-worshipping Cylons will similarly enrich my devotion to Satan .

You know what the best convenience device is? TP. That's right, Toilet Paper. I'm sure glad I've never had to wipe my ass with corn cobs, rocks, or the Sears catalog.

No Derek Smart thread can be complete without the classic Taco Supreme Commander thread.

This could be an addition to the usual humorous fortune cookie suffixes. It's well known that most fortune cookies are much improved by adding the words "in bed" onto the end; most Unix nerds (but absolutely no one else ever anywhere) will also find adding "using Emacs" to work, and now that you mention it, "in Japan" should work as well. Consider these fortune enhancements, which are all based on actual fortune cookies cataloged at this site:

• You will receive a fortune (cookie).
  You will receive a fortune (cookie) in bed. / You will receive a fortune (cookie) using Emacs. / You will receive a fortune (cookie) in Japan.

• You love Chinese Food.
  You love Chinese Food in bed. / You love Chinese Food using Emacs. / You love Chinese Food in Japan.

• Someone will invite you to a Karaoke party.
  Someone will invite you to a Karaoke party in bed. / Someone will invite you to a Karaoke party using Emacs. / Someone will invite you to a Karaoke party in Japan.

• Don't forget, you are always on our minds.
  Don't forget, you are always on our minds in bed. / Don't forget, you are always on our minds using Emacs. / Don't forget, you are always on our minds in Japan.

• You are filled with life's most precious treasuere ... Hope!
  You are filled with life's most precious treasuere ... Hope in bed! / You are filled with life's most precious treasuere ... Hope using Emacs! / You are filled with life's most precious treasuere ... Hope in Japan!

• Don't ask, don't say. Everything lies in silence.
  Don't ask, don't say. Everything lies in silence in bed. / Don't ask, don't say. Everything lies in silence using Emacs. / Don't ask, don't say. Everything lies in silence in Japan.

• You long to see the great pyramids in Egypt.
  You long to see the great pyramids in Egypt in bed. / You long to see the great pyramids in Egypt using Emacs. / You long to see the great pyramids in Egypt in Japan.

• Trust your intuition. The universe is guiding your life.
  Trust your intuition. The universe is guiding your life in bed. / Trust your intuition. The universe is guiding your life using Emacs. / Trust your intuition. The universe is guiding your life in Japan.

• Everything is not yet lost.
  Everything is not yet lost in bed. / Everything is not yet lost using Emacs. / Everything is not yet lost in Japan.

• Buy many dream boxes. Ask a friend to select one.
  Buy many dream boxes. Ask a friend to select one in bed. / Buy many dream boxes. Ask a friend to select one using Emacs. / Buy many dream boxes. Ask a friend to select one in Japan.

• Alas! The onion you are eating is someone else's water lily.
  Alas! The onion you are eating is someone else's water lily in bed. / Alas! The onion you are eating is someone else's water lily using Emacs. / Alas! The onion you are eating is someone else's water lily in Japan.

• Suppose you can get what you want....
  Suppose you can get what you want... in bed. / Suppose you can get what you want... using Emacs. / Suppose you can get what you want... in Japan.

• What you left behind is more mellow than wine.
  What you left behind is more mellow than wine in bed. / What you left behind is more mellow than wine using Emacs. / What you left behind is more mellow than wine in Japan.

• A starship ride has been promised to you by the galactic wizzard.
  A starship ride has been promised to you by the galactic wizzard in bed. / A starship ride has been promised to you by the galactic wizzard using Emacs. / A starship ride has been promised to you by the galactic wizzard in Japan.

• Never wear your best pants when you go to fight for freedom.
  Never wear your best pants when you go to fight for freedom in bed. / Never we

It appears from this photo of the install screen that the current system requirements for Tiger are:

G3, G4 or G5 processor
a DVD Drive
builtin Firewire
128 MB Ram
2 GB disk space

The point remains: The slashdot main pages renders correctly in all browsers except the Mozilla family.

hernan43: Michigan, 100Mbit

JustinS: 100Mbit, Rochester NY

While computer emulators may satisfy most people, the renewed interest in retro gaming has sparked a new market since many people prefer to play their games on an arcade cabinet just like the old days at the arcades. The Arcade Emulator PC Game Cabinet is and example of this opening market.

Homemade Radio-Controlled Lawn Mowers

Hybrid Remote Control Lawn Mower

Radio Control Lawnmower

Robo-Mower

You can still use the Web Mail server (https://webmail.yourcitycode.rr.com) to send mail if you go over the limit. Another alternative is Dial Access. You can use the free dialup service to send additional e-mail through the SMTP server.

Additional information

You can still use the Web Mail server (https://webmail.yourcitycode.rr.com) to send mail if you go over the limit. Another alternative is Dial Access. You can use the free dialup service to send additional e-mail through the SMTP server.

Additional information

You can still use the Web Mail server (https://webmail.yourcitycode.rr.com) to send mail if you go over the limit. Another alternative is Dial Access. You can use the free dialup service to send additional e-mail through the SMTP server.

Additional information

You can still use the Web Mail server (https://webmail.yourcitycode.rr.com) to send mail if you go over the limit. Another alternative is Dial Access. You can use the free dialup service to send additional e-mail through the SMTP server.

Additional information

Sanitarium (a difficult to find game, but a fantastic gem). Old, so 8-bit graphics, but it doesn't use a Lucasarts look.

Syberia.

The Myst series (sans that recent MMORPG disaster -- I have no idea why they did that, as they had few concerns about pirating due to size anyway -- and without the antipiracy concerns, MMORPGs lose a lot of their publisher appeal).

Yeah, I thought that too. Like the late Jim Morrison or Che. I was always thinking he looks like an old fat man, but this makes him look like an old, cool man. The Jediphrase fits quite too, lets recast him for Star Wars Episode III already. ;-)

a true geek uable to defend himself against the outside world would already have built one of these.

personally i have always found openly carrying a knife dripping in blood seems to help.

These statistics indicate people are significantly safer in states that have the right to carry concealed.

Copied here:

CARRYING CONCEALED FIREARMS (CCW) STATISTICS

Violent crime rates are highest overall in states with laws severely limiting or prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms for self-defense. (FBI Uniform Crime Reports, 1992) -

The total Violent Crime Rate is 26% higher in the restrictive states (798.3 per 100,000 pop.) than in the less restrictive states (631.6 per 100,000).

The Homicide Rate is 49% higher in the restrictive states (10.1 per 100,000) than in the states with less restrictive CCW laws (6.8 per 100,000).

The Robbery Rate is 58% higher in the restrictive states (289.7 per 100,000) than in the less restrictive states (183.1 per 100,000).

The Aggravated Assault Rate is 15% higher in the restrictive states (455.9 per 100,000) than in the less restrictive states (398.3 per 100,000). Using the most recent FBI data (1992), homicide trends in the 17 states with less restrictive CCW laws compare favorably against national trends, and almost all CCW permittees are law-abiding.

Since adopting CCW (1987), Florida's homicide rate has fallen 21% while the U.S. rate has risen 12%. From start-up 10/1/87 2/28/94 (over 6 yrs.) Florida issued 204,108 permits; only 17 (0.008%) were revoked because permittees later committed crimes (not necessarily violent) in which guns were present (not necessarily used).

Of 14,000 CCW licensees in Oregon, only 4 (0.03%) were convicted of the criminal (not necessarily violent) use or possession of a firearm. Americans use firearms for self-defense more than 2.1 million times annually.

By contrast, there are about 579,000 violent crimes committed annually with firearms of all types. Seventy percent of violent crimes are committed by 7% of criminals, including repeat offenders, many of whom the courts place on probation after conviction, and felons that are paroled before serving their full time behind bars.

Two-thirds of self-protective firearms uses are with handguns.

99.9% of self-defense firearms uses do not result in fatal shootings of criminals, an important factor ignored in certain "studies" that are used to claim that guns are more often misused than used for self-protection. Of incarcerated felons surveyed by the Department of Justice, 34% have been driven away, wounded, or captured by armed citizens; 40% have decided against committing crimes for fear their would-be victims were armed.

OTHER CCW FACTS

With adoption of CCW by Arizona, Tennessee and Wyoming in early 1994, 19 states have CCW laws requiring the issuance of permits to carry concealed firearms for self-defense to citizens who meet fair and reasonable state standards. Vermont, which ranks near the bottom in violent crime rates year-in and year-out, allows firearms to be carried concealed without a permit.

In recent years NRA successfully fought for the adoption of favorable CCW laws now on the books in Florida (1987), Idaho (1990, amended 1991), Mississippi (1990), Montana (1991), and Oregon (1990). In recent legislative sessions, proposals for similar CCW laws have progressed in Alaska, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.

Anti-gun forces oppose CCW with a variety of arguments, ranging from deliberate misrepresentations of commonly available crime data to "studies" pretending to show that private ownership of firearms leads to death and injury rather than providing protection to the owner.

1. Firearms ownership opponents claim that "violent crime" went up in Florida since that state enacted CCW legislation in 1987, a misleading statement for multiple reasons:

Florida's homicide rate has declined 21% since adopting CCW in1987.

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When will I be able to watch a movie on my sleeve?!

You mean like this? ;)
Check out some of these pictures! Awesome!
Theres also a mobile phone with support for receiving tv, here, cool huh?

Or, for Windows, any window can be translucent with Ghost It!.

Personally, I use a lower-tech approach and still have good results.

Israel, unlike its arab dictator neighbors, allows for freedom of speech, freedom of expression, of religion, etc...


Yep, just ask Mr. Vanunu, eh?

...or the Mossad-educated "interrogators" assigned to Abu Ghraib and the JIDC in Baghdad during the June '03 to January '04 time-frame?

...or shall we discuss the past of your present Prime Minister's "indirect responsibility", or the attack by Israeli warplanes and motor-torpedo boats on the USS LIBERTY (GTR-5) a ship of an erstwhile ally, which found out about Israeli nuclear secrets in international waters and was attacked?

...or shall we discuss what should be even more painful facts to Israeli citizens, such as the use of Sarin and other nerve gasses against Palestinian citizens in what even Israelis term as "the Occupied Territories"?

Israel is a military-theocratic quasi-democracy with a LIMITED freedom of speech, religion and assembly, currently engaged in the military occupation of land that they seized and continue to illegally hold, thanks to their theocratic mythology and the terms of their pseudo-democracy, and supported by Zionists and Zionist Christians in the US, for their own reasons. Because of the support from the US propping up their economy and VERY favorable terms under the World Bank and IMF, they enjoy an almost European-level pseudo-capitalist oligarchy and are still quite Socialist in their benefits policies. I find it ironic that Israeli citizens have better health-care laws and rates, supported by my tax money, than my parents do.

Additionally, Israel is a country that violates the terms of EVERY no-proliferation treaty on the books today. The ONLY place there was WMD in the Middle East in Feb-Apr '03 was Israel...should I detail where they are? Iraq was "liberated" and put under an Israeli-style occupation by the US for Israeli, not US strategic interests, just as the original Desert Storm was fought for the same reasons. All the US is experieincing in Iraq today is a less-controlled, wider-range intifadah in a different country than The Occupied Territories.

As noted elsewhere, you're wrong about the widgets, and you CAN cut and paste text (not images) from Flash unless they turn that off. But I just wanted to show you this link:
http://rr.com

Portals and other sites/apps benefit greatly from Flash due to the way the widgets and/or sections are able to pull data without causing the other widgets/sections (or the entire page) to refresh. In HTML, this would be possible via iFrames and/or DHTML, but your bookmarks issue is just as relevant in that case and the whole "cross browser/cross platform" benefit is lost.

90% of Flash is for your viewing pleasure and nothing else, but there are cases where Flash has real benefits. Crossbrowser, crossplatform data-driven thin client/smart client/Rich Internet Applications (or whatever you wanna call them) can not be done as easily, safely , or efficiently by any other method that I know of.

Also, you may want to check out http://www.laszlosystems.com/

Are you running gimp 2.0? Here is a screen shot of Gimp 2.0 running under MS Windows XP, the Linux version has the same UI.

Just a note: a reference on the GFDL that has been publically posted is available here.

Daniel

MADWIFI is indeed for Atheros based cards, but the Atheros chipset is for 802.11g - the DWL-520 is an 802.11b card.

Which chipset he needs depends on the exact revision, I know they used both Prism2 and acx100 chipset in that line. Also found this link which is for the Rev. E specifically which may be of some help.

HTH.

I noticed recently while trying to diagnose an email problem that Time Warner Cable now limits its "unlimited service" to 1,000 emails sent per day. Obviously, you'll hit your limit well before that CPU-hour, so you'll never make more than $365/year and eliminate your ability to send any personal email.

You'd make more money hanging out at the street corner holding cardboard sign that says, "Will compute for food."

CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access. Here the entire allowed frequency spectrum is used (actually a band) by every user. The idea (in simple terms) is to send out signals that are coded with each user's individual (and unique) code so that only that user can decode it to get meaningful information, everyone else sees that information as noise. You don't need different frequencies in adjacent cells as in traditional cellphone technology (TDMA).

GSM: Global System for Mobile communications - an advanced technology based on TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access). Here you need different frequencies in adjacent cells. Usually a cluster of cells is used with each cell operating at a different frequency.

Some more info

In SA I was only getting near 300KB/S same here in Austin. on RR.

yes you capitalize the b for god's sake..

if you got 300 Kbps I would laugh at you

B = byte, b = bit

Anyways, the point is that I think RR is one of the best cable internet companies, they actually give the speeds they quote.

Due to an awsome rent agreementI jsut signed I'm thinking of upgrading to homebusiness clas RR, 3-4 mbps!!!! w00t and 768 up, awsome.

Using the rr speed tests here

SATX RR speed tests (anyone can use these tests, try out your speed.

HIGHER TEST

Your line speed:

3185 Kbps

390.3 K bytes/sec

but that is purely inside the RR network, on the net im only getting near 300

LOWER TEST

Roadrunner Bandwidth Results
Loaded 1858812 bytes in 5.344 seconds.
Your throughput is:
2783 Kb/s (kiloBITS per second)
348 KB/s (kiloBYTES per second)

also here is another. bandwidthplace speed test

My results from there

Speed
2.6 megabits per second

Communications 2.6 megabits per second
Storage 321.6 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.2 seconds
Subjective rating Great

Info
Date & time Friday, April 2, 5:06PM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Cable
Region Texas
Data size 605KB
IP address 24.243.***.** :-p
Provider ROADRUNNER-SOUTHWEST

try a palm pilot, the palm portable keyboard, and something like pedit. seriously, for under $200 USD you can have a very functional word processing environment, and a whole lot more.

i used the palm keyboard for a while and was constantly amazed at both how portable it was (folding up to roughly the size of the palm pilot itself) and how much like a real keyboard it felt like.

I'd never heard this before so I researched it briefly (Google is still the king) to see what the scoop was. This is an interesting website with the backstory on this little known factoid of history.

Learn something new every day. Welcome to my friends list :)

I currently live in Winter Park, Florida, but I'm moving back to Detroit soon. That's about all I'll say here, but I'm not going to give you the rest of my address unless you actually intend to show up. Then we can fight =)

That is all.

I haven't laughed so hard on Slashdot since I joined, as when I read your last rebuttal.

Sure, you are funny, suggesting I cut my c--- off, and in reading the thread here, you appear to have some serious emotional side issues, which would explain your shrill and irrational Apple advocacy.

Consider reading this thoroughly as I'm sure that you've broken a couple important rules already, what with your lewd suggestions and all. I might even be a minor, for all you know, complicating your case, should you pursue your written adventures on the Slashdot nickel. Anyway, they just love axing accounts of people like you, and dude, you couldn't get a tin can to the Internet after they put you on record with other ISPs.

I know you said "that is all" but I must point out, you've really missed the point of contributing to an online community. Sorry the world of paste thing didn't work out.

Why buy a VW beetle when you can buy a Hummer, equip it with as many extra gallons of gas as you want (it's cheap these days), and do infinitely more things with it beyond just driving around, such as get lost in a forest or parachute into desert combat?

The apostrophe crack I liked, it was funny, but I must respectively take issue with your accusation.

Gratuitous? Perhaps I could see your point if my submission was littered with links to my own website -- which is completely unrelated to the submission -- then I might agree with you. As it is, though, I merely linked to my pops' site because it is, at least somewhat, related to the submission and gives a bit of background as to why he would have run across a link such as this.

Furthermore, last time I checked (i.e. just before I clicked submit - "Check those URLs!), my dad wasn't charging for his photos. Although if you were so inclined I'm sure he'd gladly make an exception and accept a monetary donation.

;)

They use their personality as birth control.

Seriously, when you edit you have to forget that those shots are probably taken by your friends- you put aside all of it and look at the photos.

And when you look at image after image and see crap, either due to the idiot (in this case photographer) not focusing, not composing, or just plain missing the timing, you get irritated fast. Because seeing 200 shots with the ball too far back, or faces blocked, or a big fuzzy wuzzy can really piss you off, fast.

The hardest part about editing (to people learning to shoot) is to realize that your trashcan is never big enough. Don't delete or destroy, but keep them- the image might grow on you later.... and to not get offended if someone says the image is crap (even if you like it) because, it could very well be.

For instance:
http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrsheep/Ftp/bex_30a_f _r.jpg
http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrsheep/Ftp/washingto n_2000_2.jpg
and finally (football)
http://home.rochester.rr.com/mrsheep/Ftp/colletto. jpg

No one that judged the 1st image liked it, but I personally *love* the image more than the other two.