Christmas 1979 my brother and I (well, just me -- I 'm older and wouldn't let him touch it) received an Apple ][+. I was 12 and wanted a bike. It was just the box, without monitor (it used an RF Modulator to plug into a cheap TV) without Disk ][ drives (cassette tape storage and retrieval - yum!), and without printer (got an Epson MX-80 later). It cost $3,500. (This was the time that Apples sold for more than list price.)
In 1984 I wanted a Mac for Christmas. I got a bike.
This March I bought my first Mac - PowerBook Titanium G4 550: $2299.
Patent law may help the scourge of Pop-ads, but there's a Better Way.
Since I've been using Mozilla pretty much exclusively on OS X (except for this post, ironicly -- I sometime use IE 5.1.4 because Fleet Bank doesn't work with any other browser in the universe than IE something; I could have taken a job with Fleet's web application department but they found out my parents were married) I've all but forgotten about Pop (Up|Under) ads. By going to
Mozilla->Preferences->Advanced->Scripts & Windows
and de-selecting "Open unrequested windows" as an allowed thing for a webpage to do, I miss out on all the offensive ads without running extra software, setting up fake proxies, etc.
Thanks, Mozilla!
Postscript: is it only me who thinks of the song "Pop goes the Weasel" when an ad Pops up/under? Funny how the description "Weasel" fits companies employing such burrowing behavior...
Web designers/developers: do us all a favor -- if one of your clients or your boss requests a Pop ad, just say, 'Pop goes the Weasel.' The life you save may be your own.
Not only was it fixed in M1.0RC2, the item causing the vulnerability (HTTPRequest or something -- hey it's late and i don't wanna look it up) was broken in M1.0RC1.
I was all settled into my overstuffed leather chair ready to read about a hacking conspiracy in Las Vegas and -- BAM! -- out of the blue I'm broadsided with reference to über Hacker Kevin Mitnick.
Can't a guy get a break? Surely there's a hacking story out there that doesn't mention Kevin Mitnick. Isn't there?
Anyway, did the cretins who run these prostitution rings ever think that just perhaps word got out that their girls were all used up? Why is it that a business people are more apt to blame a WILD-EYED CONSPIRACY THEORY instead of accepting the market's decision to cut them out of the loop? It's like die-hard Catholics blaming the Devil for all the slander against their holy priests and other dwellers of the demonic branches of the tree of deformity (see Matt 13 for a description of the annual herb that becomes a perennial roosting place for the demons). Pure self-delusion.
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Good grief, give it a rest. We already see that the backward muslim countries are war-like religious zealots. Stop pretending these 9th Century throwbacks are civilized as the West. It's just NOT TRUE.
Besides, Islam is a bastard religion -- one without a legitimate Father, but rather invented out of Judaic-Christian traditions. Islam has done ZIP to bring peace to any part of the world it has reached. Zip. At least in the West you can find Christian conscientious objectors.
(Perhaps a sentient post lies beneath the banal attempts at humor in the first threads, but my stomach churned so I gave up.)
I used to work with a programmer from India who now is a principal in a firm that hooks up Indian programmers with US project teams. They act as an extension of your team and are quite effective (and cheap). If you'd like I'll send you his contact information and he can at least give you some perspective on what you may be getting yourself into. Just email me.
Also, another personal friend has a Russian-based development team for large scale Java Application Server (Webshpere, etc) projects, for example. Again, email me if you want more his contact info.
I believe many developers in the US are afraid of the potential for global development teams cutting into their lifestyle. But, its inevitable, what with the Internet and all. The time is now to find out how to be a part of it, not marginalize it with xenophobic vitrol.
Please relinquish your Slashdot account, step away from the computer with your hands where we can see them. You are not a Nerd and cannot participate in the Nerdly festivities called Slashdot.
I mean, heck, anyone in a fraternity in college doesn't qualify to be a Nerd. Especially one that was successful at getting girls to show up wrapped in towels.
with your assertion that these people who have so much money (and almost lost a little due to natural disaster) deserve news coverage. I am working in the office (in foot hill ranch) of one of those 'wealth-generators' please do not mistake personal gain for wealth generation -- they are making millions by selling made-in-sweatshop-crap that people don't really need at prices 10 times what they paid for it. the wealth generators are those who made the product and get fucked up the ass every time they get paid (way less than minimum wage for an american and barely living wage in thier own country).
Why would you work for such a sleaze? I blame you for enabling the scum.
Every one since the 1989 quake has been just a tiny little rumbling.
To Northern CA'ians, I guess that's true. But to us in sunny Southern CA, 1992 Landers quake(s; there were 2 strong jolts) was very intense, and let us not forget the building collapsing, death causing 1994 Northridge quake.
What's really condemning of Oregonian toughness (there ain't none) is that they won't let you pump your own gas at the filling station. Not sure if it's a liability issue or full-employment measure for the "well-trained" workforce (*ahem*). Almost as dumb as a Californian ban on smoking in bars...(don't get me wrong: I enjoy not being around cigarettes at restaurants but I can't imagine a bar without putrid smoke -- and how are mother's to know their sons/daughters are bar hopping without the olfactory evidence on the morning wash?)
BTW, why does a non-event like a tiny earthrumble in SF get a frontpage story when the South Orange County fire, a mile from my house, gets no mention? Do you realize the wealth concentrated in the 5 miles surrounding this fire? There are a few areas within CA that are home to the wealth-generators making California one of the world's great economies...South Orange County has to be considered one of these areas. Yes, parts of SF area are also in this category. Perhaps SF/LA/OC news events should receive greater attention on/., considering the impact such events can have on the world of technology...and pr0n, of course. Am I rambling? There is a little bird at my window... "Hi, little bird. Join me for breakfast? I'm having an omelette. Oops."
They find the line distant up to two centimeters from the outside edge. Draw now with the pin a tangential line, which covers the dividing line accurately, into which outside range project, but does not affect the last audio TRACK. A sticking tire helps as ruler.
Try the result out. If it did not fold, the line covers either the dividing line not completely or lies over the last audio trace - here geht's around tenths of a millimeter. Then you wipe away to the pro copying bars with a damp speed and correct after.
I followed these directions and my Celine Dion disk is now stuck in a tire heading east on I-10 at about 75 mph. I feel better already.
It's not paying for the product that gets most client's ire it's arbitrary licensing schemes. A company I worked for (mid 90's) was pursuing developing a distributed version of its main application using Citrix on Windows NT. The costs of licensing fees alone for the server and each remote client (Windows + Citrix fees) would equal the target pricing we needed to remain price-competitive. So, goodbye Window NT/Citrix/Terminal Server! Instead we moved everything to RedHat Linux (5.x something, I guess) and developed a distributed ncurses application, with connection abstration to allow re-connecting to dropped sessions and authorized session shadowing. This worked well. Later, we moved to a full Web interface, to give a modern GUI look and feel.
The company didn't choose Open Source tools out of zealotry, but rather self-preservation. It was the better choice.
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Karma whore? I thought it was funny, too. But not a karma whore.
Ok, move on, there's nothing to see here...
In 1984 I wanted a Mac for Christmas. I got a bike.
This March I bought my first Mac - PowerBook Titanium G4 550: $2299.
Since I've been using Mozilla pretty much exclusively on OS X (except for this post, ironicly -- I sometime use IE 5.1.4 because Fleet Bank doesn't work with any other browser in the universe than IE something; I could have taken a job with Fleet's web application department but they found out my parents were married) I've all but forgotten about Pop (Up|Under) ads. By going to
- Mozilla->Preferences->Advanced->Scripts & Windows
and de-selecting "Open unrequested windows" as an allowed thing for a webpage to do, I miss out on all the offensive ads without running extra software, setting up fake proxies, etc.Thanks, Mozilla!
Postscript: is it only me who thinks of the song "Pop goes the Weasel" when an ad Pops up/under? Funny how the description "Weasel" fits companies employing such burrowing behavior...
Web designers/developers: do us all a favor -- if one of your clients or your boss requests a Pop ad, just say, 'Pop goes the Weasel.' The life you save may be your own.
Not only was it fixed in M1.0RC2, the item causing the vulnerability (HTTPRequest or something -- hey it's late and i don't wanna look it up) was broken in M1.0RC1.
Can't a guy get a break? Surely there's a hacking story out there that doesn't mention Kevin Mitnick. Isn't there?
Anyway, did the cretins who run these prostitution rings ever think that just perhaps word got out that their girls were all used up? Why is it that a business people are more apt to blame a WILD-EYED CONSPIRACY THEORY instead of accepting the market's decision to cut them out of the loop? It's like die-hard Catholics blaming the Devil for all the slander against their holy priests and other dwellers of the demonic branches of the tree of deformity (see Matt 13 for a description of the annual herb that becomes a perennial roosting place for the demons). Pure self-delusion.
Good grief, give it a rest. We already see that the backward muslim countries are war-like religious zealots. Stop pretending these 9th Century throwbacks are civilized as the West. It's just NOT TRUE.
Besides, Islam is a bastard religion -- one without a legitimate Father, but rather invented out of Judaic-Christian traditions. Islam has done ZIP to bring peace to any part of the world it has reached. Zip. At least in the West you can find Christian conscientious objectors.
What do you do? Drop me an email.
The sad thing is you actually spent a good amount of time writing this.
An apt name change, considering the overwhelming majority of potential users under this plan.
Luke.
I used to work with a programmer from India who now is a principal in a firm that hooks up Indian programmers with US project teams. They act as an extension of your team and are quite effective (and cheap). If you'd like I'll send you his contact information and he can at least give you some perspective on what you may be getting yourself into. Just email me.
Also, another personal friend has a Russian-based development team for large scale Java Application Server (Webshpere, etc) projects, for example. Again, email me if you want more his contact info.
I believe many developers in the US are afraid of the potential for global development teams cutting into their lifestyle. But, its inevitable, what with the Internet and all. The time is now to find out how to be a part of it, not marginalize it with xenophobic vitrol.
- As a Lynx owner myself, I can reccomend The GOAT (Games Of All Types) Store [goatstore.com].
The only way I'd touch a link to "Goatstore" on Slashdot would be with lynx from the command line...I mean, heck, anyone in a fraternity in college doesn't qualify to be a Nerd. Especially one that was successful at getting girls to show up wrapped in towels.
Nerds everywhere are drooling...
Why would you work for such a sleaze? I blame you for enabling the scum.
This announcement explains Pixar's move to OS X. How else could a render farm on OS X be space-effective?
To Northern CA'ians, I guess that's true. But to us in sunny Southern CA, 1992 Landers quake(s; there were 2 strong jolts) was very intense, and let us not forget the building collapsing, death causing 1994 Northridge quake.
Earthquakes, fires, mud slides, riots, traffic snarls, and liberal legislation. Yep, it's hard to live in California.
What's really condemning of Oregonian toughness (there ain't none) is that they won't let you pump your own gas at the filling station. Not sure if it's a liability issue or full-employment measure for the "well-trained" workforce (*ahem*). Almost as dumb as a Californian ban on smoking in bars...(don't get me wrong: I enjoy not being around cigarettes at restaurants but I can't imagine a bar without putrid smoke -- and how are mother's to know their sons/daughters are bar hopping without the olfactory evidence on the morning wash?)
BTW, why does a non-event like a tiny earthrumble in SF get a frontpage story when the South Orange County fire, a mile from my house, gets no mention? Do you realize the wealth concentrated in the 5 miles surrounding this fire? There are a few areas within CA that are home to the wealth-generators making California one of the world's great economies...South Orange County has to be considered one of these areas. Yes, parts of SF area are also in this category. Perhaps SF/LA/OC news events should receive greater attention on /., considering the impact such events can have on the world of technology...and pr0n, of course. Am I rambling? There is a little bird at my window... "Hi, little bird. Join me for breakfast? I'm having an omelette. Oops."
I feel dirty just reading you post...
I just wanna know HOW THE HECK YOU GOT SO MANY ALL-CAPITAL LETTERS through the LAME-LAMENESS FILTER, ALRIGHT?
- They find the line distant up to two centimeters from the outside edge. Draw now with the pin a tangential line, which covers the dividing line accurately, into which outside range project, but does not affect the last audio TRACK. A sticking tire helps as ruler.
I followed these directions and my Celine Dion disk is now stuck in a tire heading east on I-10 at about 75 mph. I feel better already.Try the result out. If it did not fold, the line covers either the dividing line not completely or lies over the last audio trace - here geht's around tenths of a millimeter. Then you wipe away to the pro copying bars with a damp speed and correct after.
The three requirements for public exhibition of ignorance.
That "stripping away" was the firing, not his leaving.
The company didn't choose Open Source tools out of zealotry, but rather self-preservation. It was the better choice.