I hope you mean AGL (Above Ground Level), not MSL (Mean Sea Level). If membership in the mile-high club were based on sea level, the folks in Denver would be able to mess around on the ramp and gain membership.
Rather than trying to look at how to fix web browsers to be able to look at certain sites, I would say that a better area of concentration would be in educating web designers in browser independence. We run a stock market simulation contest. People with Netscape or IE or whatever the latest browser is would consider it a cool, professional-looking site. However, it will run just as well on Netscape 2, MSIE 2, Lynx, Mosaic, Opera, etc. My point? That sites that look cool and professional-looking don't have to be MSIE-only. (Actually, Slashdot is another example). So shouldn't more of an effort be made to teach webmasters and web designers how to not make their sites rely on the latest technology? - Drew
My prediction is that this story will be followed up by several "I hate Microsoft because it's cool to do so. Anything that Microsoft has ever done is evil, and all commercial software, for that matter, is evil. Any free software is automatically better than its commercial counterparts. I hope Microsoft die die die die die die die." posts.
Or perhaps I've misread the political atmosphere of Slashdot?
Well, I guess that's why I forgot my cel phone in the glove compartment of my rental car in San Jose, CA. Of course, now that I no longer have my cel phone, I remember exactly where I put it.
Am I the only person in the universe who thought that Matrix was way overrated? All it was was a shoot-em-up. Anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves. It had a thin plot and an even thinner message.
People have argued me on this fact, saying that it had a "deep, philosophical message". What message is that? That the universe as we know it might not exist? Oh, yeah, what a new message. I've never seen anything like that before. Uh-huh.
If you liked matrix for the things going fast and blowing up, great. But don't try to tell me that it had good acting, good plot, a good message, or anything else that makes a *truly* classic movie -- I won't buy it.
That Yahoo has the courage to remove illegal and otherwise misleading posts from their message boards, especially in a country of free-speech zealots who don't really understand what the First Amendment is for, raises my opinion of them.
For as long as I can remember, people have been using the Yahoo message boards in order to attempt to manipulate stock prices through rumours and libel. Yahoo is finally doing something about this, despite the certain threat of outcry from free-speech activists.
The first 5 words in the First Amendment are "congress shall pass no law...". It's in there to prevent people from getting tossed in jail for speaking out against the government. It is *not* supposed to guarantee that privately-held companies should be forced to allow anyone to post anything using their systems. Why is this so hard for people to understand? Why do I, as a Canadian, understand more about the First Amendment than most Americans do?
Just as I've always said that I wouldn't want to fly a 747 because I'd miss the "real flying" feeling, and instead just be pushing buttons, I wouldn't want to live in a 747, because I'd miss the "real living in an aircraft" feeling. If I were going to live in an aircraft, I'd choose the 4-seater Cessna 172. The rear bench seat would make a fine bed, front passenger seat would make a fine kitchen, and the pilot's seat would be my living room with my TV and computer. The price would be cheap -- only $30,000, which would give you a fully-flyable house. Why pay hundreds of thousands for something which can't fly, and even if it could, could only fly into major international airports? With the Cessna 172 House, you can land on any little grass strip you want.
I've got a friend who just had the surgery done -- cost him $500 per eye, and his vision is better than 20/20 already, and it was only a month or so ago that he got it done.
So why can't I have the surgery? Because I fly airplanes and I would be ineligible to fly for at least 6 months.
So, although I'd love the surgery, I'll stick with contacts for now.
We're a mid-sized internet company and there's one reason we use Dell instead of Compaq... Dell can get our servers out to us 2 weeks after order; Compaq takes 6 weeks. In our business, we can't order servers that far in advance; if we order something, we need it in 2 weeks. Compaq simply can't deliver.
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just trim for level flight above 5280 MSL
I hope you mean AGL (Above Ground Level), not MSL (Mean Sea Level). If membership in the mile-high club were based on sea level, the folks in Denver would be able to mess around on the ramp and gain membership.
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Or perhaps I've misread the political atmosphere of Slashdot?
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People have argued me on this fact, saying that it had a "deep, philosophical message". What message is that? That the universe as we know it might not exist? Oh, yeah, what a new message. I've never seen anything like that before. Uh-huh.
If you liked matrix for the things going fast and blowing up, great. But don't try to tell me that it had good acting, good plot, a good message, or anything else that makes a *truly* classic movie -- I won't buy it.
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For as long as I can remember, people have been using the Yahoo message boards in order to attempt to manipulate stock prices through rumours and libel. Yahoo is finally doing something about this, despite the certain threat of outcry from free-speech activists.
The first 5 words in the First Amendment are "congress shall pass no law...". It's in there to prevent people from getting tossed in jail for speaking out against the government. It is *not* supposed to guarantee that privately-held companies should be forced to allow anyone to post anything using their systems. Why is this so hard for people to understand? Why do I, as a Canadian, understand more about the First Amendment than most Americans do?
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As any pilot knows, one of the participants isn't piloting the aircraft, he doesn't gain admission to the mile-high club.
(Sick of all these idiots who think they've joined the mile-high club just because they've found alternate uses for the washrooms in an airliner)
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So why can't I have the surgery? Because I fly airplanes and I would be ineligible to fly for at least 6 months.
So, although I'd love the surgery, I'll stick with contacts for now.
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