Speaking as someone who used Yahoo constantly in the past, and as someone who formerly recommended it to a lot of people, I've become sorely disappointed. Yahoo used to turn up great results. Now, though, when you search (for anything) you get 58 business "categories," one for each state plus 8 foreign countries, and then when you finally get to the end of the garbage search result, you get the option to search "web page matches." That simply does a Google search. Almost every time I've searched Yahoo in the last half year I end up going to web page matches. Eventually I just switched over to Google and removed Yahoo from my bookmarks.
Maps.yahoo.com used to be good too, but now I'm finding more and more errors in the Navigation Technologies (NavTech) database. Maybe that's just in New Jersey, though.
Games.yahoo.com was pretty fun. Then it got swamped with users. They haven't upgraded resources enough, and it isn't reliable anymore. It sucks when your game gets cancelled because their server farm vomited.
Etcetera, etcetera. Yahoo used to be good. Now it's dog meat. Move on to the next thing.
Let's examine your logic. First, the English study was not as sound as others. This is most likely true, since European scientists don't regard methodologies, such as double-blind studies, as important as their American counterparts do. Does that automatically mean that their conclusion was unsound? Of course not. Second, there was an American study that denied a link with brain cancer. All right, fine. Brain cancer is not caused by cell phones. Now, for the normative evaluation: it's better to have eye cancer (or "eyeball cancer" as you informally refer to it) than brain cancer (or glioma, or meningioma, as you clinically refer to it). I'm not a doctor, and I don't play one on television, but yes, I do think brain cancer would be much worse than eye cancer. After all, with eye cancer, you can usually can remove the eye. Brain cancer is more serious. If you get brain cancer, you've gotta be counting your days. Brain cancer is nasty. Umm wait. Did we miss something? Hmmm. What would that be? Oh yeah. It's not Hobson's choice. We don't have to pick eye cancer or brain cancer. In fact, we really have little choice in the matter. You might even say that cancer chooses us, but let's not anthropomorphize it. Our choice is whether to use a cellular phone. According to the horrible British study, cell phones triple incidences of eye cancer. That's a lot of business for the glass eye manufacturers, but otherwise it kind of sucks. So, at least you won't get brain cancer. I mean, brain cancer would *completely* suck. What a relief that you won't get brain cancer. So go ahead, and use cell phones! They're healthy. Party on.
These vanity presses are not a good idea. Bookstores and libraries know who the vanity presses are, and they won't stock your book because of it. The vanity presses don't spend anything on marketing their books. OTOH, self-publishing is an option that opens up more doors. Once you have the book written, you take it to a local printer and find out how much it would cost them to print it and bind it. You would put your own publishing imprint on it. For example, "John Doe Books." Then, it's your responsibility to market it. You might call up your local Barnes and Noble. Or advertise in a magazine that appeals to your potential readers. Self-publishing is a good option for writers because it gives them full control, and lets them get published when the big publishing houses won't look at it. Stephen King's "The Vine" (on the Internet), "The Christmas Box" (dead trees), and many others have been very successful self-publishing options. The only thing you have to do with self-publishing is keep control over the actual publishing. You still keep all the rights, etcetera. At best, you may eventually have the big publishing houses coming to you, asking to let them publish the book. At worst, your book got published.
I don't know much about Slackware, but if you've used it for 6 years, then you may have a lot of extra, unneeded files on your disc drive. In light of reports that compiling does work on the latest versions of Slackware, I'd suggest backing up your data, wiping your disc drive clean, and installing the latest version afresh. In any case, good luck.
A Dyson sphere. I was just thinking the same thing. If present science is right, and that thing is too big to be a planet, then it can't be a planet. It has to be something else. Maybe it's artificially constructed. On the other hand, the article indicates that the thing's mass is 17 times Jupiter's, while it is within 10% of Jupiter's diameter. It probably can't be a Dyson Sphere.
If you think there is a gun in somebody's desk, then maybe you should call the cops. Or, if you want to handle it yourselves, then go over there and look in the desk. What is the employee going to say? "Hey, it doesn't say you can do that in the privacy policy. Don't do it, or I'll sue." Don't be such a management wimp. You think you need a written policy for everything? Ha ha ha.
Question: What is a fair privacy policy?
Deliberation: Hmmmmmm.
Answer: If it successfully protects privacy, then it's fair. Otherwise, it's not.
God, I love the bourgeoisie. You just don't get it, do you?
I thought they were going to ditch Cassini into Jupiter's atmosphere. Or on Io. Or Europa. All of a sudden they're using Jupiter as a gravity slingshot to get Cassini to Saturn. What happened?
For me, there's no going back from the mostly ad-free existence on the web. If any site implements anything like this, I will alias that site to 127.0.0.1. Even if they switch back, they have lost my reading eyes for good.
(If you don't know what that means, suffice to say that I won't be going to that site.)
The point is that if the OS source is available, it might attract more developers. As for Gobe, I said _high quality_ word processor and spreadsheet. I don't need those apps to write a two page office memo. I need them to write a 100+ page document. That's something I can do with WordPerfect or Star Office (maybe), but not Gobe.
BeOS may be better on the desktop than Linux, but it won't beat any operating system anywhere unless it has useful apps. I'm thinking a high-quality word processor, a spreadsheet, and a good, Java enabled web browser. Maybe a GPL BeOS release would spur development in these areas, but what would draw *developers* to BeOS and away from Linux? Probably nothing.
I agree that maps.yahoo.com is very useful. They are another expression of the killer app that is the web. But a lot of times, like when you're in San Francisco, the little electronic maps don't give you enough information: which streets are one-ways, and which way do they go, for instance.
Wouldn't you agree that there aren't going to be any new truly innovative applications for the Internet now that e-mail and the web are popularized, unless and until a truly new idea comes along?
If the Internet has peaked, what comes next? That's easy. After the ideo-mythological age of the Internet has passed, new opportunities arise to seek out new ideas and goals. Let's try to think bigger than DSL, people. How do we take a steaming, unsorted pile of inforubbish and make something useful? That is the essence of life isn't it? Making something out of nothing? Out of entropy, rises order, no? It's like Ben Hogan said. The answers are in the dirt.
I haven't seen the movie, but it seems like it would be hard to make a movie that honors the tradition of the game which still comes off as realistically as you can considering the medieval-fantasy genre. I'd bet a lot of the pissed off gamers panning the movie here on/. for not being true to the game were the same ones who used to decry the lack of realism in D&D.
Backstab damage? Everyone knows a stab is the same whether it's in the front or back. _Magic_ missle? Whatever. Find traps? Dimension Door?
Okay, I haven't seen the movie yet. I'm sure it sucks. I'm just saying that it must be a tough movie to make.
Suggestions to directors of future D&D movies: (1) Don't call it "D&D"; and (2) use one of Gary Gygax's Gord stories. The Gord stories are not perfect examples of literary form, but they are cinematic and memorable.
I have no idea why the DOD would care about this if there wasn't an Echelon angle to it. What I mean is that each, or many, of the Iridium satellites are probably intercepting electronic communications for Echelon.
How about a new Cabal? It would consist of a secret society of members sworn to silence and the following act of subterfuge: members would resubmit archived Slashdot articles to the submission queue! But, aarrgh! We must act quickly, for Others have already begun our Task. Alack!
Hushmail, at www.hushmail.com, has 128 bit SSL uploads and downloads of both text and MIME parts. The Hushmail computers are located in Canada and the company is based in Trinidad, I believe, so they would be far less susceptible to an FBI search than Yahoo would. When you send e-mail to another Hushmail account, it is kept in encrypted form. It's really pretty slick. If you want to try it out, send me e-mail at beulah@hushmail.com, preferably from another hushmail account.
Slashdot Mirror
Maps.yahoo.com used to be good too, but now I'm finding more and more errors in the Navigation Technologies (NavTech) database. Maybe that's just in New Jersey, though.
Games.yahoo.com was pretty fun. Then it got swamped with users. They haven't upgraded resources enough, and it isn't reliable anymore. It sucks when your game gets cancelled because their server farm vomited.
Etcetera, etcetera. Yahoo used to be good. Now it's dog meat. Move on to the next thing.
BTW, the whois entry for Microsoft ends in this:
Domain servers in listed order: DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.11 DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.12 DNS6.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.20 DNS7.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.21
Would you trust your ASP if they had all of their DNS servers on the same subnet? What does Microsoft take us to be, a pack of idiots?
Let's examine your logic. First, the English study was not as sound as others. This is most likely true, since European scientists don't regard methodologies, such as double-blind studies, as important as their American counterparts do. Does that automatically mean that their conclusion was unsound? Of course not. Second, there was an American study that denied a link with brain cancer. All right, fine. Brain cancer is not caused by cell phones. Now, for the normative evaluation: it's better to have eye cancer (or "eyeball cancer" as you informally refer to it) than brain cancer (or glioma, or meningioma, as you clinically refer to it). I'm not a doctor, and I don't play one on television, but yes, I do think brain cancer would be much worse than eye cancer. After all, with eye cancer, you can usually can remove the eye. Brain cancer is more serious. If you get brain cancer, you've gotta be counting your days. Brain cancer is nasty. Umm wait. Did we miss something? Hmmm. What would that be? Oh yeah. It's not Hobson's choice. We don't have to pick eye cancer or brain cancer. In fact, we really have little choice in the matter. You might even say that cancer chooses us, but let's not anthropomorphize it. Our choice is whether to use a cellular phone. According to the horrible British study, cell phones triple incidences of eye cancer. That's a lot of business for the glass eye manufacturers, but otherwise it kind of sucks. So, at least you won't get brain cancer. I mean, brain cancer would *completely* suck. What a relief that you won't get brain cancer. So go ahead, and use cell phones! They're healthy. Party on.
These vanity presses are not a good idea. Bookstores and libraries know who the vanity presses are, and they won't stock your book because of it. The vanity presses don't spend anything on marketing their books. OTOH, self-publishing is an option that opens up more doors. Once you have the book written, you take it to a local printer and find out how much it would cost them to print it and bind it. You would put your own publishing imprint on it. For example, "John Doe Books." Then, it's your responsibility to market it. You might call up your local Barnes and Noble. Or advertise in a magazine that appeals to your potential readers. Self-publishing is a good option for writers because it gives them full control, and lets them get published when the big publishing houses won't look at it. Stephen King's "The Vine" (on the Internet), "The Christmas Box" (dead trees), and many others have been very successful self-publishing options. The only thing you have to do with self-publishing is keep control over the actual publishing. You still keep all the rights, etcetera. At best, you may eventually have the big publishing houses coming to you, asking to let them publish the book. At worst, your book got published.
IMHO, racism is a crutch for weakminded angry people.
Your attempt to falsely link racism to anonymous posts is transparent and futile.
I don't know much about Slackware, but if you've used it for 6 years, then you may have a lot of extra, unneeded files on your disc drive. In light of reports that compiling does work on the latest versions of Slackware, I'd suggest backing up your data, wiping your disc drive clean, and installing the latest version afresh. In any case, good luck.
A Dyson sphere. I was just thinking the same thing. If present science is right, and that thing is too big to be a planet, then it can't be a planet. It has to be something else. Maybe it's artificially constructed. On the other hand, the article indicates that the thing's mass is 17 times Jupiter's, while it is within 10% of Jupiter's diameter. It probably can't be a Dyson Sphere.
Oh, sarcasm. Sorry.
Question: What is a fair privacy policy?
Deliberation: Hmmmmmm.
Answer: If it successfully protects privacy, then it's fair. Otherwise, it's not.
God, I love the bourgeoisie. You just don't get it, do you?
Please honor the picket line.
I thought they were going to ditch Cassini into Jupiter's atmosphere. Or on Io. Or Europa. All of a sudden they're using Jupiter as a gravity slingshot to get Cassini to Saturn. What happened?
Try linuxhq.com.
(If you don't know what that means, suffice to say that I won't be going to that site.)
Do not teach the kid BASIC! That will ruin him for life as a programmer! Teach him a real language first, like Pascal.
The point is that if the OS source is available, it might attract more developers. As for Gobe, I said _high quality_ word processor and spreadsheet. I don't need those apps to write a two page office memo. I need them to write a 100+ page document. That's something I can do with WordPerfect or Star Office (maybe), but not Gobe.
BeOS may be better on the desktop than Linux, but it won't beat any operating system anywhere unless it has useful apps. I'm thinking a high-quality word processor, a spreadsheet, and a good, Java enabled web browser. Maybe a GPL BeOS release would spur development in these areas, but what would draw *developers* to BeOS and away from Linux? Probably nothing.
Wouldn't you agree that there aren't going to be any new truly innovative applications for the Internet now that e-mail and the web are popularized, unless and until a truly new idea comes along?
If the Internet has peaked, what comes next? That's easy. After the ideo-mythological age of the Internet has passed, new opportunities arise to seek out new ideas and goals. Let's try to think bigger than DSL, people. How do we take a steaming, unsorted pile of inforubbish and make something useful? That is the essence of life isn't it? Making something out of nothing? Out of entropy, rises order, no? It's like Ben Hogan said. The answers are in the dirt.
Backstab damage? Everyone knows a stab is the same whether it's in the front or back. _Magic_ missle? Whatever. Find traps? Dimension Door?
Okay, I haven't seen the movie yet. I'm sure it sucks. I'm just saying that it must be a tough movie to make.
Suggestions to directors of future D&D movies: (1) Don't call it "D&D"; and (2) use one of Gary Gygax's Gord stories. The Gord stories are not perfect examples of literary form, but they are cinematic and memorable.
I have no idea why the DOD would care about this if there wasn't an Echelon angle to it. What I mean is that each, or many, of the Iridium satellites are probably intercepting electronic communications for Echelon.
How about a new Cabal? It would consist of a secret society of members sworn to silence and the following act of subterfuge: members would resubmit archived Slashdot articles to the submission queue! But, aarrgh! We must act quickly, for Others have already begun our Task. Alack!
Maybe what they meant was that a 1980 Ford was hit by another car, a Ford Meteor. See http://www.ford.ca/english/LearnAbout/Heritage/pre warfords/MeteorPhase1/Default.asp, for example. Hmmm.
Hushmail, at www.hushmail.com, has 128 bit SSL uploads and downloads of both text and MIME parts. The Hushmail computers are located in Canada and the company is based in Trinidad, I believe, so they would be far less susceptible to an FBI search than Yahoo would. When you send e-mail to another Hushmail account, it is kept in encrypted form. It's really pretty slick. If you want to try it out, send me e-mail at beulah@hushmail.com, preferably from another hushmail account.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. We could put little Mozilla all the way through college!