It should be. If you don't know what you're talking about, you have your choice of not saying anything or doing some research. I don't think there's any excuse to spread misinformation, even by implication!
My favorite IP is 4.8. I often ping it, just for the joy of, well, pinging 4.8! I can't really describe it. You'll just have to try it to see what I mean.
Actually, Macromedia only created Director, back in 1985 (dates taken from Wikipedia timelines). FutureWave Software created Flash (then called FutureSplash) in 1996, eleven years later, as a competitor. Macromedia got scared, so they bought up Flash. But Macromedia definitely made things confusing after they bought it, as you say!
You'd be surprised if they paid more than a four-figure sum for the domain? Valuable domains sold in the millions in the late 90s, and that was oct 1999, only a few months away from the peak of the dot-com bubble. I can't find data on how much x.com was sold for, but for some examples selling in the millions in '99, look at altavista.com, autos.com, business.com--and I'm only at the start of the alphabet there.
Anyway, this is kind of an unimportant point to make, but the irony of saying someone else has a short memory while completely forgetting how crazy things were in '99 amused me enough to respond;-)
Goddamn! Who are the idiots who keep tagging everything idiocracy? It's pretty annoying. Is it supposed to be clever?
I'm checking "No Karma Bonus" since I'm posting off-topic on purpose. Sorry, but after the last few articles randomly tagged "idiocracy", I couldn't hold it in anymore. Mod me how you will.
Okay, that'd be misleading too--I suppose it'd be more accurate to write "How a few incompetent programmers who built a weapon got people killed because they suck at math". Not very headliney? Okay, how about "Military Moron Makes Murderous Machine, But Beginner's Bug Betrays Billions"? I rounded up from 28 to billions, so it should still be inaccurate enough for Slashdot. As a bonus, you still can't tell what the hell the article is about from the headline:-)
Ah, perhaps I should apologize then, but I was considering the context of my reply to be the parent, and considering the context of your reply to be my post; I usually think that way, rather than thinking in an inherited context, so I didn't even realize it had diverged until you pointed it out.
That's certainly least effort, but hardly a solution. I'm not talking about email spam, obviously, but Usenet spam, which Google contributes to rather than solves. Did you miss the topic of the discussion?
I blocked gmail a couple years ago for this reason. It's annoying though, because there are a lot of legitimate gmail users who I'm blocking, but I'm willing to miss their messages in exchange for blocking a much larger number of spam messages. It sucks, but it's the least effort solution as a reader.
Also, this isn't a new problem, and it's pretty unlikely that it'll go away AFAICT. Google Groups has always been a group that Google's least competent employees work in (again AFAICT; I have no personal knowledge of them, it's just consistently been their worst product) and I'd be pretty surprised if things turned around now.
Huh. Good point. I didn't realize that. I don't really want shutter glasses to catch on, but I hope we have good autostereoscopic displays at a decent price someday, if only for the neat factor.
Right. The article doesn't say anything wrong--it doesn't claim it's the world's first. The *summary* does. I was complaining about whoever wrote + posted the summary apparently not having read the article. The article is fine.
The article links to the Sharp Actius RD3D, a 5-year-old failed 3D laptop. But, the summary calls this new one the "world's first". I suppose the article submitter didn't RTFA, and neither did the poster?
Definitely. Can you think of anything more techie than saying "Okay, now browse to http colon slash slash slash dot dot org dot slash on your Apple slash slash e"? I can't.
You're right, but Sprint does have a tethering plan. I have it, actually. It's called "Phone as Modem", and you can get it added to any plan. Of course, you can tether anyway, but you're not supposed to unless you pay for the plan.
My high school (in the western suburbs of Chicago) didn't cancel for the Blizzard of '99, when all the others in the area did. Few enough people went that they had to make up the day with a snow day at the end of the school year anyway. I was one of the stupid people who went--stupidly obedient, anyway. One of my friends brought a SNES, and we played Tetris Attack for most of the day. So it wasn't a total loss:-) Definitely a waste of a lot of people's time, though.
We weren't hit by the worst of the blizzard, mind you, but it was pretty bad.
Murder is a legal term, with a legal definition. This definition, I believe, excludes animals.
But hey, you're free to make up your own definitions instead. I assume if murder applies to pets, then manslaughter must apply as well. When will you be putting out a dictionary?
Yeah, try using Firefox on one of the systems where it's incredibly, incredibly slow, like a PPC mac. (From which I type this, on Firefox. This is a last gen 1.67GHz G4 powerbook with 2GB of ram, and with noscript and adblock plus and nothing else running, all history booksmarks etc cleared, it's so slow as to be barely usable. Blegh.)
Amusingly, on a similarly specced Intel box, dual booting Windows and Linux, Firefox is slow enough not to seem "instant", but still quite snappy and perfectly usable. By comparison, Firefox 3 is probably the single slowest version they've ever released, when I'm comparing on my Powerbook.
As for why I keep going back for more after such terrible experiences? . . . Uh, I don't know. But there you go;-)
Maybe I'm the only one, but I don't see any useful distinction between "netbook" and "laptop". (I'm not saying other people shouldn't continue to use the terms as they like. I just don't get it, personally.)
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It should be. If you don't know what you're talking about, you have your choice of not saying anything or doing some research. I don't think there's any excuse to spread misinformation, even by implication!
My favorite IP is 4.8. I often ping it, just for the joy of, well, pinging 4.8! I can't really describe it. You'll just have to try it to see what I mean.
Actually, Macromedia only created Director, back in 1985 (dates taken from Wikipedia timelines). FutureWave Software created Flash (then called FutureSplash) in 1996, eleven years later, as a competitor. Macromedia got scared, so they bought up Flash. But Macromedia definitely made things confusing after they bought it, as you say!
You'd be surprised if they paid more than a four-figure sum for the domain? Valuable domains sold in the millions in the late 90s, and that was oct 1999, only a few months away from the peak of the dot-com bubble. I can't find data on how much x.com was sold for, but for some examples selling in the millions in '99, look at altavista.com, autos.com, business.com--and I'm only at the start of the alphabet there.
Anyway, this is kind of an unimportant point to make, but the irony of saying someone else has a short memory while completely forgetting how crazy things were in '99 amused me enough to respond ;-)
Goddamn! Who are the idiots who keep tagging everything idiocracy? It's pretty annoying. Is it supposed to be clever?
I'm checking "No Karma Bonus" since I'm posting off-topic on purpose. Sorry, but after the last few articles randomly tagged "idiocracy", I couldn't hold it in anymore. Mod me how you will.
Slashdot: Why Programmers Suck at Math
Okay, that'd be misleading too--I suppose it'd be more accurate to write "How a few incompetent programmers who built a weapon got people killed because they suck at math". Not very headliney? Okay, how about "Military Moron Makes Murderous Machine, But Beginner's Bug Betrays Billions"? I rounded up from 28 to billions, so it should still be inaccurate enough for Slashdot. As a bonus, you still can't tell what the hell the article is about from the headline :-)
That's odd. I get just one result, from someone named "visualight" on Slashdot!
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Ah, perhaps I should apologize then, but I was considering the context of my reply to be the parent, and considering the context of your reply to be my post; I usually think that way, rather than thinking in an inherited context, so I didn't even realize it had diverged until you pointed it out.
That's certainly least effort, but hardly a solution. I'm not talking about email spam, obviously, but Usenet spam, which Google contributes to rather than solves. Did you miss the topic of the discussion?
I blocked gmail a couple years ago for this reason. It's annoying though, because there are a lot of legitimate gmail users who I'm blocking, but I'm willing to miss their messages in exchange for blocking a much larger number of spam messages. It sucks, but it's the least effort solution as a reader.
Also, this isn't a new problem, and it's pretty unlikely that it'll go away AFAICT. Google Groups has always been a group that Google's least competent employees work in (again AFAICT; I have no personal knowledge of them, it's just consistently been their worst product) and I'd be pretty surprised if things turned around now.
I think you mean "deductibility", not "detectability", though I'll admit to not reading very closely.
Wow, some mod has no sense of humor. Well, I laughed, anyway XD
Huh. Good point. I didn't realize that. I don't really want shutter glasses to catch on, but I hope we have good autostereoscopic displays at a decent price someday, if only for the neat factor.
Right. The article doesn't say anything wrong--it doesn't claim it's the world's first. The *summary* does. I was complaining about whoever wrote + posted the summary apparently not having read the article. The article is fine.
The article links to the Sharp Actius RD3D, a 5-year-old failed 3D laptop. But, the summary calls this new one the "world's first". I suppose the article submitter didn't RTFA, and neither did the poster?
Definitely. Can you think of anything more techie than saying "Okay, now browse to http colon slash slash slash dot dot org dot slash on your Apple slash slash e"? I can't.
Yeah, I hope this technology isn't incompatible with GOOD keyboards. Rubber domes. Meh.
You're right, but Sprint does have a tethering plan. I have it, actually. It's called "Phone as Modem", and you can get it added to any plan. Of course, you can tether anyway, but you're not supposed to unless you pay for the plan.
Hey, don't forget about non-RIAA artists. Refusing to do business with the RIAA doesn't mean giving up music.
My high school (in the western suburbs of Chicago) didn't cancel for the Blizzard of '99, when all the others in the area did. Few enough people went that they had to make up the day with a snow day at the end of the school year anyway. I was one of the stupid people who went--stupidly obedient, anyway. One of my friends brought a SNES, and we played Tetris Attack for most of the day. So it wasn't a total loss :-) Definitely a waste of a lot of people's time, though.
We weren't hit by the worst of the blizzard, mind you, but it was pretty bad.
Murder is a legal term, with a legal definition. This definition, I believe, excludes animals.
But hey, you're free to make up your own definitions instead. I assume if murder applies to pets, then manslaughter must apply as well. When will you be putting out a dictionary?
Ye gods, I wish there was a -1 Caps Lock mod right now.
Yeah, try using Firefox on one of the systems where it's incredibly, incredibly slow, like a PPC mac. (From which I type this, on Firefox. This is a last gen 1.67GHz G4 powerbook with 2GB of ram, and with noscript and adblock plus and nothing else running, all history booksmarks etc cleared, it's so slow as to be barely usable. Blegh.)
Amusingly, on a similarly specced Intel box, dual booting Windows and Linux, Firefox is slow enough not to seem "instant", but still quite snappy and perfectly usable. By comparison, Firefox 3 is probably the single slowest version they've ever released, when I'm comparing on my Powerbook.
As for why I keep going back for more after such terrible experiences? . . . Uh, I don't know. But there you go ;-)
Maybe I'm the only one, but I don't see any useful distinction between "netbook" and "laptop". (I'm not saying other people shouldn't continue to use the terms as they like. I just don't get it, personally.)