Heck, I remember when everyone (at least here on/.) went ballistic when pop-under ads were first created, X10 bought in in a big way and found themselves boycotted into irrelevance. Now who's the biggest popunder offender I see? Netflix! Do we see people boycotting Netflix over their ads? WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?????
Yeah, well, I've got the original CLIQ, which is just getting the long-awaited upgrade from 1.5 to 2.1, with very few hopes of getting an official bump to 2.2. I wonder if they can backport the WebKit fix from 2.2 into 2.1 without breaking everything in sight.
From what I've seen, part of it was when high school kids who got accepted to college got their.edu email addresses early; that allowed them to register for Facebok and join the community of their new school. This led to a stratification where Facebook became the place where the college-bound kids hung out and Myspace was left to the people who weren't going to college. I've read that this extended to the military in Iraq, where Myspace, largely used by the enlisted men, was blocked at the firewall but Facebook, used by the college-educated officers, wasn't. FB then was able to build up a lot of buzz about itself behind it's.edu-only wall while Myspace received very little in the way of investment, and once FB opened itself up to everyone then Myspace became deserted.
Hell, I prefer "Baby Busters" to "Generation X". The X thing never made much sense to me. (Also, AFAIK the official end of the Baby Boom generation in terms of the tail end of the birth rate bubble was 1964, so 1965 and later is the Baby Bust or Gen X.)
As to when it ended, I think that if you don't clearly remember where you were when the Challenger exploded, you're too young for Gen X.
I actually live in Portland, Maine, and I am dead set against this charter amendment. First, it's very likely illegal under state law, which is just going to push the city into spending a bunch of money to defend itself against a challenge which it will probably lose (IANAL, but if you had heard the Charter Commission debate this you would have heard two Ivy League lawyers on it, one of whom said "neither election statute allows non-citizens to vote" and the other coming up with what sounded like a fairly convoluted legal theory as to how it might be legal).
Second, I distrust the motivations of those who proposed it (chiefly the outgoing state Green Party chair). Smells like a way to build a political machine to me; keep in mind that many of the "legal residents" they are referring to are actually Somali refugees.
Third, Portland previously declared itself to be a "sanctuary city," so how can you determine they are here legally if the officials aren't supposed to ask?
Fourth, "taxation without representation" is a canard. City councilors and school committee members represent everyone in their districts whether they voted or not; TWR was a reference to the fact that the Colonies had no representation in Westminster at all.
Fifth, no. Just, no. Take the oath, forswear all allegiance to any other country, and then you can step in our ballot box.
Not to mention "hits the wall near Pesky's Pole and before the fielder can react it's scuttled like a rat all the way to the bullpen." Inside-the-park home run in that case if you're a decent runner.
So, what is the common thread between the M1 and this car? That's right... MOPAR! I wonder how much of the research they put into this engine fed into the M1's development.
I now know which of Jay Leno's cars I want to ride in if ever given an opportunity to pick.
Money doesn't just magically appear on the market : if you gain money through your stocks , it's because someone else is losing money.
That's actively ludicrous. If I gain money on my stocks, it's because I sold them to a willing buyer for more than I paid for them. If I don't sell them, then the daily price fluctuations are simply figures on paper. Nobody is losing money, although the person to whom I sell is certainly spending money. If your argument is that my gain is potential money lost by the person from whom I originally purchased the stocks, then I submit that my gain is my just reward for assuming a risk that the original owner didn't wish to take on.
What's still out there for programming on C- (and maybe Ku-?) band? I know that way back when home dishes first started, you could get the network backhauls from LA-NY (see what Johnny and Ed were chatting about during the commercial breaks!) and other "not intended for general consumption' programming, but I believe most if not all of those were eventually scrambled. So, what's available on the big systems, and is there anything particularly cool that's not also available on the newer DBS providers (Dish, DirecTV)?
To me, the main thing that made Wave... well, useless.... is that I didn't have anything near a useful mass of fellow users to Wave with, and I wasn't going to open up an additional, slow website just to talk to my brother. Most of the collaborative stuff would have been more useful to me at work... but no way was my company (or any company with a reasonable concern about confidentiality) going to turn over our internal communications to Google. Maybe if there were a way to self-host Wave it would have flown.
Maine too... it's ugly as sin and intensely manual, but it works. I've been using the online version of TaxAct and Maine's online program for years and not paid a dime for e-filing or anything. The only worry is that TaxAct has my financial data on their servers, but my solution to that is to maintain a horrific credit score.
The problem is that the voters don't really want smaller government. They want lower taxes paid for by cutting things they don't care about; the problem is that everything the government does is ultimately cared about by somebody, so the only thing that ever gets cut is taxes.
Okay, it's good for organizing parties. That's it, as far as I can see.
That's almost what it was for in the first place, wasn't it? Actually, I think it was so you could find a photo of the girl whose number you were too drunk to write down legibly at the party the night before.
Yes, losing his contract with radio's largest syndicator (WW1... is there anyone else left?) didn't help. When I was in high school (early 80's), the good Doctor was largely on AOR stations (at least where I was), typically late Sunday nights.
Dr. Demento and Larry Glick... never thought I'd hear those two in the same sentence:)
I think Kip Addotta has a site where he sells his old albums. I emailed him a couple of years ago, but alas I haven't followed through to buy the album yet.
If several of the larger states in America had proportional voting with the electoral college, America would also have to be worrying about coalition governments or in that case a coalition president taking over the White House.
How so? As you allude to later in your post, anything short of an Electoral College majority throws the election of President to the House (with the vote to be taken by states), and the election of Vice-President to the Senate. But, once elected, the President isn't subject to Congress (impeachment excepted) any more than the Congress is subject to the President. So, I am unclear as to what your "coalition" idea would mean.
I really do not want to live in a world where a company like Apple... exerts such a high level of control over the primary communication medium of the general public.
From where I sit, the iPhone is very, very far from being the "primary communication medium of the general public". That title would probably fall to straight voice on non-smart cellphones, if not actual landlines. Most of the people I know have no desire to pay for either the more-expensive phones or the monthly data rates.
Thanks for bringing up NonStop. AFAIAC, all this announcement means is that HP won't be tempted to move the Tandem architecture to Windows Datacenter Server.
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Heck, I remember when everyone (at least here on /.) went ballistic when pop-under ads were first created, X10 bought in in a big way and found themselves boycotted into irrelevance. Now who's the biggest popunder offender I see? Netflix! Do we see people boycotting Netflix over their ads? WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?????
Yeah, well, I've got the original CLIQ, which is just getting the long-awaited upgrade from 1.5 to 2.1, with very few hopes of getting an official bump to 2.2. I wonder if they can backport the WebKit fix from 2.2 into 2.1 without breaking everything in sight.
No, no one on Slashdot thinks CmdrTaco is clever.
It was the missing link between "Steal underpants" and "PROFIT!!!"
From what I've seen, part of it was when high school kids who got accepted to college got their .edu email addresses early; that allowed them to register for Facebok and join the community of their new school. This led to a stratification where Facebook became the place where the college-bound kids hung out and Myspace was left to the people who weren't going to college. I've read that this extended to the military in Iraq, where Myspace, largely used by the enlisted men, was blocked at the firewall but Facebook, used by the college-educated officers, wasn't. FB then was able to build up a lot of buzz about itself behind it's .edu-only wall while Myspace received very little in the way of investment, and once FB opened itself up to everyone then Myspace became deserted.
Hell, I prefer "Baby Busters" to "Generation X". The X thing never made much sense to me. (Also, AFAIK the official end of the Baby Boom generation in terms of the tail end of the birth rate bubble was 1964, so 1965 and later is the Baby Bust or Gen X.)
As to when it ended, I think that if you don't clearly remember where you were when the Challenger exploded, you're too young for Gen X.
I actually live in Portland, Maine, and I am dead set against this charter amendment. First, it's very likely illegal under state law, which is just going to push the city into spending a bunch of money to defend itself against a challenge which it will probably lose (IANAL, but if you had heard the Charter Commission debate this you would have heard two Ivy League lawyers on it, one of whom said "neither election statute allows non-citizens to vote" and the other coming up with what sounded like a fairly convoluted legal theory as to how it might be legal).
Second, I distrust the motivations of those who proposed it (chiefly the outgoing state Green Party chair). Smells like a way to build a political machine to me; keep in mind that many of the "legal residents" they are referring to are actually Somali refugees.
Third, Portland previously declared itself to be a "sanctuary city," so how can you determine they are here legally if the officials aren't supposed to ask?
Fourth, "taxation without representation" is a canard. City councilors and school committee members represent everyone in their districts whether they voted or not; TWR was a reference to the fact that the Colonies had no representation in Westminster at all.
Fifth, no. Just, no. Take the oath, forswear all allegiance to any other country, and then you can step in our ballot box.
Not to mention "hits the wall near Pesky's Pole and before the fielder can react it's scuttled like a rat all the way to the bullpen." Inside-the-park home run in that case if you're a decent runner.
I don't believe that there is any possible frame of reference that contains an intersection of "being discrete" and "take the Delorean."
So in other words, hydrogen is a clingy drama queen.
So, what is the common thread between the M1 and this car? That's right... MOPAR! I wonder how much of the research they put into this engine fed into the M1's development.
I now know which of Jay Leno's cars I want to ride in if ever given an opportunity to pick.
That's actively ludicrous. If I gain money on my stocks, it's because I sold them to a willing buyer for more than I paid for them. If I don't sell them, then the daily price fluctuations are simply figures on paper. Nobody is losing money, although the person to whom I sell is certainly spending money. If your argument is that my gain is potential money lost by the person from whom I originally purchased the stocks, then I submit that my gain is my just reward for assuming a risk that the original owner didn't wish to take on.
What's still out there for programming on C- (and maybe Ku-?) band? I know that way back when home dishes first started, you could get the network backhauls from LA-NY (see what Johnny and Ed were chatting about during the commercial breaks!) and other "not intended for general consumption' programming, but I believe most if not all of those were eventually scrambled. So, what's available on the big systems, and is there anything particularly cool that's not also available on the newer DBS providers (Dish, DirecTV)?
To me, the main thing that made Wave... well, useless.... is that I didn't have anything near a useful mass of fellow users to Wave with, and I wasn't going to open up an additional, slow website just to talk to my brother. Most of the collaborative stuff would have been more useful to me at work... but no way was my company (or any company with a reasonable concern about confidentiality) going to turn over our internal communications to Google. Maybe if there were a way to self-host Wave it would have flown.
Maine too... it's ugly as sin and intensely manual, but it works. I've been using the online version of TaxAct and Maine's online program for years and not paid a dime for e-filing or anything. The only worry is that TaxAct has my financial data on their servers, but my solution to that is to maintain a horrific credit score.
The problem is that the voters don't really want smaller government. They want lower taxes paid for by cutting things they don't care about; the problem is that everything the government does is ultimately cared about by somebody, so the only thing that ever gets cut is taxes.
You don't actually read the articles, do you?
Or maybe you're quoting from some proposal CmdrTaco and Hemos wrote when they were still in college?
Chocomize!
Perhaps, but Jill was hot so I didn't notice.
That's almost what it was for in the first place, wasn't it? Actually, I think it was so you could find a photo of the girl whose number you were too drunk to write down legibly at the party the night before.
Yes, losing his contract with radio's largest syndicator (WW1... is there anyone else left?) didn't help. When I was in high school (early 80's), the good Doctor was largely on AOR stations (at least where I was), typically late Sunday nights.
Dr. Demento and Larry Glick... never thought I'd hear those two in the same sentence :)
I think Kip Addotta has a site where he sells his old albums. I emailed him a couple of years ago, but alas I haven't followed through to buy the album yet.
How so? As you allude to later in your post, anything short of an Electoral College majority throws the election of President to the House (with the vote to be taken by states), and the election of Vice-President to the Senate. But, once elected, the President isn't subject to Congress (impeachment excepted) any more than the Congress is subject to the President. So, I am unclear as to what your "coalition" idea would mean.
Flash 7 years ago was just beginning to perform data access; most Flash apps back then were static animations like fancy mouseovers.
Back in the here-and-now, I ask this: can you duplicate MLB Gameday with HTML 5?
From where I sit, the iPhone is very, very far from being the "primary communication medium of the general public". That title would probably fall to straight voice on non-smart cellphones, if not actual landlines. Most of the people I know have no desire to pay for either the more-expensive phones or the monthly data rates.
Thanks for bringing up NonStop. AFAIAC, all this announcement means is that HP won't be tempted to move the Tandem architecture to Windows Datacenter Server.