Whenever I run into an ad online, I'm compelled to view the source, close down my browser session, and tweak my userContent.css/hostperm.1 to block it.
Same here. Personally, my approach is to edit a text file that I have squid using as a banlist. That way, once I see an advertisement, it gets blocked on EVERY browser on the network.
The Problem With Music by Steve Albini excerpted from Baffler No. 5
Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end, holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed.
Nobody can see what's printed on the contract. It's too far away, and besides, the shit stench is making everybody's eyes water. The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunking each other under the shit. Eventually, one of them capitulates, and there's only one contestant left. He reaches for the pen, but the Lackey says, "Actually, I think you need a little more development. Swim it again, please. Backstroke."
People that buy these Sony-things-that-look-just-like-CDs-but-aren't thinking they're CDs have been suckered. DRM is not part of the Red Book standard, so if there's DRM, it isn't a CD.
In the novelization -- FAR better than the movie, btw -- Yoda realises during his battle with Palpatine that not only is he not going to win, but that he and the Jedi are UNABLE to win. Palpatine is just more powerful. Yoda wakes up to the fact that the Sith have been studying the Jedi and plotting and sharpening their skills for thousands of years while the Jedi have pretty much been navel-gazing and getting soft. That's why he flees and goes into hiding. It's pretty much "back to the drawing board".
I don't really see how the government having your DNA is a bad thing. I've given the IRS my fingerprints. How much worse is DNA? What is the potential harm?
No harm. Until...
You get rejected for health cover because you have a gene giving you a predisposition to cancer.
You can't get a drivers licence because you have a gene giving you a predisposition to bad eyesight.
You can't get a job because you have an X chromosome giving you a predisposition to violence.
No, it *is* about the usefulness of Outlook. It's the best and most powerful email client for Windows, and has been since Outlook 98. Even if you're not using Exchange.
Hence the almost-universal adoption of the packet-sniffer WC3banlist. Someone leaves the game just because their kills:deaths is looking bad? Add them to the banlist. Then, if that player ever attempts to join a game with you again, WC3banlist pops up a warning -- to everyone.
For those of you who've never seen or used it, think of it as a Slashdot-moderation system for individual players.
What, healthy that groundbreaking research is being done outside of the USA while the researchers are unable to even enter the country to talk about it?
Sorry to rain on the parade, but why exactly am I supposed to be excited about this?
I remember being excited back in 1981 when Columbia first launched. Oh man. I was an eight-year-old boy, and I sat in awe in front of my TV set as Columbia rose into the sky.
But it's 2005. I'm thirty-three years old. I see grey hair when I look in the mirror. I have a son of my own. Sorry, but I just don't give a toss about Columbia taking off, again, and orbiting the Earth, again.
The whole Universe is out there, and rolling a vehicle built in the 1970s out of the garage and driving it around the block a few times is supposed to be exciting? I'm supposed to call it exploration?
Slashdot Mirror
Whatever your opinion of intelligent design or creationism, it deserves a mention because so many people believe it
That's called "social studies".
"Carbon in the wood is burning, which means the surface is at least 750 degrees F. "
So what's that in units that the rest of the world uses?
So, the upcoming Microsoft Halo movie will be rendered on boxes running Linux?
Whenever I run into an ad online, I'm compelled to view the source, close down my browser session, and tweak my userContent.css/hostperm.1 to block it.
Same here. Personally, my approach is to edit a text file that I have squid using as a banlist. That way, once I see an advertisement, it gets blocked on EVERY browser on the network.
I'm surprised this link hasn't been posted yet (apologies if it has!)
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http://www.arancidamoeba.com/mrr/problemwithmusic
The Problem With Music
by Steve Albini
excerpted from Baffler No. 5
Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end, holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed.
Nobody can see what's printed on the contract. It's too far away, and besides, the shit stench is making everybody's eyes water. The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunking each other under the shit. Eventually, one of them capitulates, and there's only one contestant left. He reaches for the pen, but the Lackey says, "Actually, I think you need a little more development. Swim it again, please. Backstroke."
And he does, of course.
(continued)
Tabbed browsing? I thought Netcaptor came up with that.
OMG, a 24-year old almost straight out of college who knows EVERYTHING! I've never encountered one of those before!
Card really only has one story, and he just keeps churning out in different covers. I shall summarise:
Russians are evil and want to take over the world, but everything will be all right if you just accept Jebus as your savior.
People that buy these Sony-things-that-look-just-like-CDs-but-aren't thinking they're CDs have been suckered. DRM is not part of the Red Book standard, so if there's DRM, it isn't a CD.
In the novelization -- FAR better than the movie, btw -- Yoda realises during his battle with Palpatine that not only is he not going to win, but that he and the Jedi are UNABLE to win. Palpatine is just more powerful. Yoda wakes up to the fact that the Sith have been studying the Jedi and plotting and sharpening their skills for thousands of years while the Jedi have pretty much been navel-gazing and getting soft. That's why he flees and goes into hiding. It's pretty much "back to the drawing board".
I don't really see how the government having your DNA is a bad thing. I've given the IRS my fingerprints. How much worse is DNA? What is the potential harm?
No harm. Until...
You get rejected for health cover because you have a gene giving you a predisposition to cancer.
You can't get a drivers licence because you have a gene giving you a predisposition to bad eyesight.
You can't get a job because you have an X chromosome giving you a predisposition to violence.
Get the drift?
You mean... the [i]backing track[/i] was in great form while the band performed its choreographed routine.
Some people just can't recognise sarcasm. Even when there's a big SARCASM tag in the post.
No, it *is* about the usefulness of Outlook. It's the best and most powerful email client for Windows, and has been since Outlook 98. Even if you're not using Exchange.
(Caveat: its IMAP functionality sucks.)
I did this with Starcraft, with Diablo 2, with Warcraft 3.
Moral? Blizzard makes fantastic games that people want to play.
Burn them!
Hence the almost-universal adoption of the packet-sniffer WC3banlist. Someone leaves the game just because their kills:deaths is looking bad? Add them to the banlist. Then, if that player ever attempts to join a game with you again, WC3banlist pops up a warning -- to everyone.
For those of you who've never seen or used it, think of it as a Slashdot-moderation system for individual players.
Having recently become a father, my observation is that the nipple as an interface has to be learned as well.
How funny. Stories entitled "The Decline of Science and Technology in America" and "College Libraries Without Books" on the front page simultaneously.
What, healthy that groundbreaking research is being done outside of the USA while the researchers are unable to even enter the country to talk about it?
"Fairly respectable"? The guy is one of the greatest vocalists and musicologists of the late twentieth century.
WTF? Parent modded "flamebait"?
Sorry to rain on the parade, but why exactly am I supposed to be excited about this?
I remember being excited back in 1981 when Columbia first launched. Oh man. I was an eight-year-old boy, and I sat in awe in front of my TV set as Columbia rose into the sky.
But it's 2005. I'm thirty-three years old. I see grey hair when I look in the mirror. I have a son of my own. Sorry, but I just don't give a toss about Columbia taking off, again, and orbiting the Earth, again.
The whole Universe is out there, and rolling a vehicle built in the 1970s out of the garage and driving it around the block a few times is supposed to be exciting? I'm supposed to call it exploration?
Pfft. Perfect for rugby.
Only if they grow up in the USA.
Set... in... moratoriums?