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SVG 1.1 Becomes W3C Proposed Recomendation
openbear writes "From the w3c web site... W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 20 December. SVG delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them into two profiles optimized for cellphones and pocket computers."
The Bitter Old Man has first post! Suck on his shriveled testicles.
weeee!
Almost first post!
good thing: better quality picture of Pikachu doing the nasty with Snoopy on my cell phone. bad thing: Having pictures to go with annoying rings might increase the popularity of the really really god damn annoying rings. I swear to god, if i hear another cell phone imitating "its a hard knock life" i will kill. Oh, and since when do cellphone batteries hold enough juice to support more than 2 seconds of signifigant bandwith?
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
Indian city pays tribute to Microsoft chairman for his contributions in fight against AIDS.
November 14, 2002: 6:10 AM EST
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - An eight-foot tall condom greeted Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Thursday during a visit to an Indian city, a tribute to mark his generosity in fighting AIDS.
The world's richest man smiled when he saw the giant air-filled condom in India's rising technology hub of Hyderabad, where his company has opened its first software development center outside the United States.
The billionaire inaugurated his four-day visit to India on Monday by announcing $100 million in contributions from his charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to spread awareness on AIDS.
India has four million people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, making it the second largest number in the world after South Africa.
Thank god. I am so sick of switching between KDE and Gnome because one or the other doesn't like a certain app too much. (bugs in linux?!?! *GASP*)
maybe next we'll get a standardized installation system (rpm is almost there...), and if we're REALLY GOD DAMN LUCKY, all software will have an alternate installer for it that includes all of its dependancies.
While im on the subject of this, how mnay people do you hear complain about wasted space in W2k because of all programs having their own copy of previously(in other MS os's) shared DLLs and such? For christ's sake, include commonly used libs in the install, and include miscelaneous ones in software RPMs. If i've installed every fucking file from my 3 cd install set, i shouldn't have to search around the web for a whole fucking lot.
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
that is all.
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AMHERST, MA--The filthy, disorganized apartment shared by three members of the Amherst College Marxist Society is a microcosm of why the social and economic utopia described in the writings of Karl Marx will never come to fruition, sources reported Monday.
"The history of society is the inexorable history of class struggle," said sixth-year undergraduate Kirk Dorff, 23, resting his feet on a coffee table cluttered with unpaid bills, crusted cereal bowls, and bongwater-stained socialist pamphlets. "The stage is set for the final struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, the true productive class. We're well aware of that here at 514 W. Elm Street, unlike other apartments on this supposedly intellectual campus."
Upon moving in together at the beginning of the fall 2001 semester, Dorff, Josh Foyle, and Tom Eaves sat down and devised an egalitarian system for harmonious living. Each individual roommate would be assigned a task, which he would be required to carry out on a predetermined day of the week. A bulletin board in the kitchen was chosen as the spot for household announcements, and to track reimbursements for common goods like toothpaste and toilet paper.
"We were creating an exciting new model for living," said Dorff, stubbing his cigarette into an ashtray that had not been emptied in six days. "It was like we were dismantling the apparatus of the state right within our own living space."
Despite the roommates' optimism, the system began to break down soon after its establishment. To settle disputes, the roommates held weekly meetings of the "Committee of Three."
"I brought up that I thought it was total bullshit that I'm, like, the only one who ever cooks around here, yet I have to do the dishes, too," said Foyle, unaware of just how much the apartment underscores the infeasibility of scientific socialism as outlined in Das Kapital. "So we decided that if I cook, someone else has to do the dishes. We were going to rotate bathroom-cleaning duty, but then Kirk kept skipping his week, so we had to give him the duty of taking out the garbage instead. But now he has a class on Tuesday nights, so we switched that with the mopping."
After weeks of complaining that he was the only one who knew how to clean "halfway decent," Foyle began scaling back his efforts, mirroring the sort of production problems experienced in the USSR and other Soviet bloc nations.
At an Oct. 7 meeting of the Committee of Three, more duties and a point system were added. Two months later, however, the duty chart is all but forgotten and the shopping list is several pages long.
Above: Dishes and seminal Marxist tracts pile up in the kitchen sink.
The roommates have also tried to implement a food-sharing system, with similarly poor results. The dream of equal distribution of shared goods quickly gave way to pilferage, misallocation, and hoarding.
"I bought the peanut butter the first four times, and this Organic Farms shit isn't cheap," Eaves said. "So ever since, I've been keeping it in my dresser drawer. If Kirk wants to make himself a sandwich, he can run to the corner store and buy some Jif."
Another failed experiment involves the cigarettes bought collectively. Disagreements constantly arose over who smoked more than his fair share of the group's supply of American Spirit Blues, and the roommates now hide individually purchased packs from each other--especially late at night when shortages are frequent.
The situation is familiar to Donald Browning, author of Das Kouch: A History Of College Marxism, 1970-1998.
"When workers willfully become less productive, the economy of the household suffers," Browning said. "But in a society where a range of ability naturally exists, someone is bound to object to picking up the slack for others and end up getting all pissy, like Josh does."
According to Browning, the group's lack of productivity pervades their lives, with roommates encouraging each other to skip class or work to sit on the couch smoking pot and talking politics.
"A spirit of free-market competition in the house would likely result in better incomes or better grades," Browning said. "Then, instead of being hated and ostracized by the world at large as socialist countries usually are, they could maintain effective diplomacy with their landlord, their parents, and Kirk's boss who cut back his hours at Shaman Drum Books."
The lack of funds and the resulting scarcity breeds not only discontent but also corruption. Although collectivism only works when all parties contribute to the fullest extent, Foyle hid the existence of a $245 paycheck from roommates so he would not have to pay his back rent, in essence refusing to participate in the forced voluntary taxation that is key to socialism. Even worse, Dorff, who is entrusted with bill collection and payment, recently pocketed $30, a theft he claimed was "for the heating bill" but was put toward buying drinks later that night.
"As is human nature, power tends to corrupt even the noblest of men," Browning said. "The more power the collective has over the lives of the individuals, as is the case in this household, the more he who is in charge of distribution has to gain by being unscrupulous. These Marxists will soon realize they overestimated how much control they would like 514 W. Elm as an entity to have."
Last week, I left my 2 Windows XP CDs on my dashboard in plain view.
Someone broke into my car and left 2 more.
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
Wow, very interesting. But is the <circle color="bright-red"> tag conformant to the published Dtd?
It is conformant to the Dtd, but the bright-red color is not a correct color specification. He should have written color="#931f1f". That particular shade of red does not have a normalized name, you have to indicate as its RGB components.
Indeed. You'll remove your eyes with a spoon!
Usually they only get 5 points at once, not 14.