Too far, that's it, overload is how to loose eyeballs.
I don't read the NYT much anymore. Two years ago, the site had it right. When they started putting too much junk on it, I turned off the images and java. This sped things up for a while, and I was happy enough to read their articles and put up with the few logos that made it through. When they started sneaking in AP garbage articles, I was annoyed. I can get a beter AP filter at my local paper, and I don't. When they got so greedy as to break up the articles into many pages each with it's own set of adverts, I quit reading it. Yes, they screwed the pootch.
Publishers that do not get this will perish. No one NEEDS that.
Hey! who hates everything from Redmond? I just hate MS, people who forward cutsie flash adverts to ALL their friends, aquantances and other random email addresses, and other people who don't give a shit about anyone or listen to what they say. No one, not beta testers, users grade school children has ever said they liked Clippy. Clippy has been hated since it was make because it sucks your time away....
Your keyboard freezes. After ten seconds of wirring, an animated paper clip spends another fifteen seconds blinking at you.
It looks like you are writing a rant! May I suggest you mail it to all of your frinds with Outlook?
Two minutes pass as outlook opens, spams your friends, contacts Bill Gates to download your porn collection, and blue screen of death.
The problem for the public began when Bill Gates started to expand the idea of intellectual property. The most oppresive legislation and misguided beliefs all come from that man's efforts to control the world's computers by expanding copyright "protections".
The MS people will win if they can control who has access to the internet. Beware restrictions on ISPs, and all forms of censorship.
No, it's worse than that. If enough people believe this is possible, it will be possible. Convince people that they should pay per play of their own popular culture and they will. Convince them that their computers will not work unless they pay a yearly fee to a large company, and some large company will make lots of money. What a great demonstration of the power of propaganda.
Our product is the best, it's new and improved.
Oceana is at war with East Asia and always has been.
Client, Active, Visual, Object Oriented and Modular are some nice words to throw out. Imagine telling the PHB:
While working on that crufty old component, I decided that the easiest fix would be to add the extra functionality on the client side. A few active modules downloaded from the web would fix this in short order. The result would be an easy to use and maintain object oreinted visual client.
If he buys this, start drinking lots of beer and send out resumes. You won't want to be around to maintain the results any more than anyone at your company has stuck around for the past 12 years.
Your country just doesn't contribute anything man. You lost all that so-called technical excellence in the 50's. But the majority of you are so fucking stupid that you can't see it. More power to me.
So, just what did you post that drivel with? Right!
YES! The reason is that a group of self agrandizing "scientists" would rather think of means to stop the "military idustrial complex" that is equivalent to "fascism" to them. Edward Teller, on the other hand, proposed a scheme much like yours. You are about to experience one millionth of the hate he has endured (yet Sacarov is thought of warmly?!).
How can anyone take a 100 year prediction seriously? It should fall on it's own, but it's nice to read your comment on past IPCC indiscressions.
This is the sort of thing that keeps me awake at night.
You would be better off reading a few more books instead.
As many people trying to enter the US from Shanghi will tell you, wealth is good. It supports students like yourself and professors who might come up with answers. It's also responsible for the millions of TV's, computers and newspapers that will trumpet that will trumpet this Commie propaganda at us all. Ha! The statue of liberty that burned in Tienamen Square shows that such propaganda does not even work at at the source.
Conserving resources is good. People are good, and will seek this out on their own. You might even do something useful. Work to help others prosper, and advocate reasonable consumption.
State planning, and other tyranical schemes are bad. They have no respect for people, and typically canibalize wealth to support their own power and privalidge. Beware those who urge moderation and economy while enjoying all the benifits of modern wealth at your expense!
One person's definition of excess does not fit all. I aplaud your efforts to conserve resources, but don't get all righteous and resrict others.
Without their studies we would never have known! Oh yeah, without Stanford, MIT, GA Tech, and 50 other great State University systems, no one would ever find a soloution. USA, unparalled techincal excellence!
Those of you who really don't like it can see how long they can do without US wheat, rice, soybeans etc. Those of you who do, are welcome to join us and help everyone fix things.
Thank you for reading this on your Intel, Motorola, AMD, Sun, SGI, or other US design inspired computer.
More bread and circus, but really we have much less circus than others have enjoyed. This canned shit is no substitute for live performances and crowd interaction.
All the same, the means of creating canned entertianment are becoming cheaper and more impressive. Digitial cameras, DVD and the internet are much cheaper than older film bassed equipment. This new box may play a part in making such tools mainstream.
Ha! see there, even a troll like Lover's Arrival can be pulled back on topic.
A classmate of mine showed me a very clever gadget he had to help him with his English. It spelled alright, but it's pronounciation was so bad I could not understand it.
This is great for forms and checklists. A form can be printed that lies over the pad. As it's filled in, the fields are put in the appropriate database. When the task is done, both a traditional paper document and a database exist. The paper can easily be inspected and approved then filed for as long as needed by other inspectors. The electronic copy can be researched easily by those who need to know what happened.
I've been waiting for something like this. Nice work, IBM!
Most of this commercial stuff (refered to as "proffesional" above) is a plauge. I hate the thought that my reasearch might get slowed down by some dumb ass listening to Britany Spears, or looking at some Ford advert. Oh well, they will learn.
What you need to learn is that some people think that non revenue seeking sites have the most useful content. Those sites will continue to provide. You don't need revenue to share.
If ATT would change their stupid no serve allowed liscence, I'd have a few things to share and would not have to go beg Geo Cities for disk space. Apatche is easy to set up, but right now I can only serve myself. Yep, I'm paying for bandwith right now, but commercial interests would rather keep me from sharing with it. Why? Because they think it's worth add revenue. They can go to hell.
It would be moral theft to use Slashdot's hardware and programming without allowing them a chance at financial returns
I own a programable machine and I'm going to use it. I surf with images and java turned off. I'm not going to use a browser (like MSIE) that does not give me control of what I download. Advertisers are just going to have to use alternate obnoxions to reach me (hint, they don't work either).
There's nothing immoral about it, because there is no force involved. The world knows what it's paying for and the price will fall in line. I do resent ignorant people clogging the net with trash that's better suited to broadcast, but they will learn.
Reclaim your neighborhood. Wrap the nearest steel billboard in magnesium strips and let her burn!
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Bradbury imagined free drugs for everyone! No wonder they enjoyed it jingles. That is fucked up.
On a more depressing note, the present and future might be worse if no one were to sing at all. When's the last time you and your frinds acutally sang something? Do you know more than a few lines to a few stupid top 40 payolla tunes? Why bother to sing when you've got canned crap right?
To enjoy browsing more, turn off images and java.
To enjoy life more, turn off the browser, the computer, the TV, the radio, get outside and do something.
The article is bassed on the notion that "we have a pretty good idea of what the web is all about and what it can offer." What horse shit! The vast majority of people have no clue that they too have the ability and right to publish. Instead they are being herded into vast farms to be milked, even as they pay for transport.
The web will have it's peak when we are all free to do what we want with our hard IP connections. When the broad band providers drop their stupid restrictions on serving, and people understand that they too can contribute we will see an outpouring of content that will dwarf the current commercial offerings.
As it was in the begining is as it is and will be. Kill the lawyers.
Cardwhore seems to have been making a double snub. See articles above on clueless Corel and search for flame wars Debian vrs Red Hat, then laugh. No, it's not that funny but it beats another 12 hours of work.
Win2k is a very good product. It has lots of future potential. Win9x crashed so much its a joke. Win2k and its siblings are proving to be a decent platform for a lot of things. Its the first Microsoft product that is fundamentally able to made stable (belive me, i have a copy
of internal report from MS that would make you crap your pants - results of kernel stress tests and analysis).
I remember something like this five years ago. I'll paraphrase you so it looks more familiar.
Win95 is a very good product. It has lots of future potential. Win3.1 crashed so much its a joke. Win95 and its siblings are proving to be a decent platform for a lot of things. Its the first Microsoft product that is fundamentally able to made stable (belive me, i have a copy of internal report from MS that would make you crap your pants - results of kernel stress tests and analysis).
Or another way.
That last OS we sold you was crap. This new one is so much better.
The author's underlying assumption is that Windows is dead. He's right. A decade of anti-competitive practices has left Windows a bloated basket case. Instead of adopting useful improvements they've been bussy adding junk that breaks other people's code. Now they have the world's largest, most complicated and most often rebooted piece of software. Their apps have followed in the same path. Oh yeah, I work for a big fat MS using company and they have noticed. "Look, Bob, it's bigger, fatter and slower than it was fiver years ago and it seems to do even less."
A clean start may be the only thing they have left. Will it save them? I donno. Never underestimate the power of PHB.
Are you saying that because ATT provides ISP over cable as competition to local phone that they should be the only company to offer ISP over cable? Does this mean that SF should charge such a rate for it's cable franchise that no one can enter but a giant like ATT? Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Clinton administration?
I'm not happy to know that two less regulated former Bell companies will be my only providers of cable and phone. I'd much rather see more than one cable company, and more than one set of wires competing with wirless and local phone service. The more the merrier.
Don't give me that "not economically feasible" bunk about the market not being able to support more than one provider. The market was unable to support the first company!
Slashdot Mirror
Computer, 50g
900g, heat sink.
This might be wearable north of the arctic circle, yuck-yuck.
I don't read the NYT much anymore. Two years ago, the site had it right. When they started putting too much junk on it, I turned off the images and java. This sped things up for a while, and I was happy enough to read their articles and put up with the few logos that made it through. When they started sneaking in AP garbage articles, I was annoyed. I can get a beter AP filter at my local paper, and I don't. When they got so greedy as to break up the articles into many pages each with it's own set of adverts, I quit reading it. Yes, they screwed the pootch.
Publishers that do not get this will perish. No one NEEDS that.
Dude, where have you been? The answer is a black rocket or Microsoft Enterprise ASP software.
Your keyboard freezes. After ten seconds of wirring, an animated paper clip spends another fifteen seconds blinking at you.
It looks like you are writing a rant! May I suggest you mail it to all of your frinds with Outlook?
Two minutes pass as outlook opens, spams your friends, contacts Bill Gates to download your porn collection, and blue screen of death.
The MS people will win if they can control who has access to the internet. Beware restrictions on ISPs, and all forms of censorship.
Our product is the best, it's new and improved.
Oceana is at war with East Asia and always has been.
While working on that crufty old component, I decided that the easiest fix would be to add the extra functionality on the client side. A few active modules downloaded from the web would fix this in short order. The result would be an easy to use and maintain object oreinted visual client.
If he buys this, start drinking lots of beer and send out resumes. You won't want to be around to maintain the results any more than anyone at your company has stuck around for the past 12 years.
So, just what did you post that drivel with? Right!
How can anyone take a 100 year prediction seriously? It should fall on it's own, but it's nice to read your comment on past IPCC indiscressions.
There is always a solution.
You would be better off reading a few more books instead.
As many people trying to enter the US from Shanghi will tell you, wealth is good. It supports students like yourself and professors who might come up with answers. It's also responsible for the millions of TV's, computers and newspapers that will trumpet that will trumpet this Commie propaganda at us all. Ha! The statue of liberty that burned in Tienamen Square shows that such propaganda does not even work at at the source.
Conserving resources is good. People are good, and will seek this out on their own. You might even do something useful. Work to help others prosper, and advocate reasonable consumption.
State planning, and other tyranical schemes are bad. They have no respect for people, and typically canibalize wealth to support their own power and privalidge. Beware those who urge moderation and economy while enjoying all the benifits of modern wealth at your expense!
One person's definition of excess does not fit all. I aplaud your efforts to conserve resources, but don't get all righteous and resrict others.
Those of you who really don't like it can see how long they can do without US wheat, rice, soybeans etc. Those of you who do, are welcome to join us and help everyone fix things.
Thank you for reading this on your Intel, Motorola, AMD, Sun, SGI, or other US design inspired computer.
All the same, the means of creating canned entertianment are becoming cheaper and more impressive. Digitial cameras, DVD and the internet are much cheaper than older film bassed equipment. This new box may play a part in making such tools mainstream.
Ha! see there, even a troll like Lover's Arrival can be pulled back on topic.
A classmate of mine showed me a very clever gadget he had to help him with his English. It spelled alright, but it's pronounciation was so bad I could not understand it.
I've been waiting for something like this. Nice work, IBM!
50,000 fools per hour!
Brass, mostly. Ommm, pa pa.
Make your friends sing with you!
What you need to learn is that some people think that non revenue seeking sites have the most useful content. Those sites will continue to provide. You don't need revenue to share.
If ATT would change their stupid no serve allowed liscence, I'd have a few things to share and would not have to go beg Geo Cities for disk space. Apatche is easy to set up, but right now I can only serve myself. Yep, I'm paying for bandwith right now, but commercial interests would rather keep me from sharing with it. Why? Because they think it's worth add revenue. They can go to hell.
I own a programable machine and I'm going to use it. I surf with images and java turned off. I'm not going to use a browser (like MSIE) that does not give me control of what I download. Advertisers are just going to have to use alternate obnoxions to reach me (hint, they don't work either).
There's nothing immoral about it, because there is no force involved. The world knows what it's paying for and the price will fall in line. I do resent ignorant people clogging the net with trash that's better suited to broadcast, but they will learn.
Reclaim your neighborhood. Wrap the nearest steel billboard in magnesium strips and let her burn!
This comment provided free of charge. I like bashing trolls.
On a more depressing note, the present and future might be worse if no one were to sing at all. When's the last time you and your frinds acutally sang something? Do you know more than a few lines to a few stupid top 40 payolla tunes? Why bother to sing when you've got canned crap right?
To enjoy browsing more, turn off images and java.
To enjoy life more, turn off the browser, the computer, the TV, the radio, get outside and do something.
The web will have it's peak when we are all free to do what we want with our hard IP connections. When the broad band providers drop their stupid restrictions on serving, and people understand that they too can contribute we will see an outpouring of content that will dwarf the current commercial offerings.
As it was in the begining is as it is and will be. Kill the lawyers.
Cardwhore seems to have been making a double snub. See articles above on clueless Corel and search for flame wars Debian vrs Red Hat, then laugh. No, it's not that funny but it beats another 12 hours of work.
I remember something like this five years ago. I'll paraphrase you so it looks more familiar.
Win95 is a very good product. It has lots of future potential. Win3.1 crashed so much its a joke. Win95 and its siblings are proving to be a decent platform for a lot of things. Its the first Microsoft product that is fundamentally able to made stable (belive me, i have a copy of internal report from MS that would make you crap your pants - results of kernel stress tests and analysis).
Or another way.
That last OS we sold you was crap. This new one is so much better.
Rrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!
A clean start may be the only thing they have left. Will it save them? I donno. Never underestimate the power of PHB.
I'm not happy to know that two less regulated former Bell companies will be my only providers of cable and phone. I'd much rather see more than one cable company, and more than one set of wires competing with wirless and local phone service. The more the merrier.
Don't give me that "not economically feasible" bunk about the market not being able to support more than one provider. The market was unable to support the first company!