(Instead of)/(In addition to) just linking to Yahoo's condensed summaries -- how hard can it be for the editors to provide links to the original release from Corel or the even more exciting release from Inprise regarding the exchange ratio involved in the proposed merger... ?
Checking the cnet story against the release posted at AOL's corporate site, seems that other aspects of this agreement weren't covered by cnet:
"...AOL will promote a number of VeriSign services across its business channel."
"The AOL/NSI co-branded sites will also provide access to a variety of services tailored to small-to-medium sized businesses. This will include the opportunity to register for free listings in the Netscape Business Directory, which will include data from NSI. The Business Directory is designed to help users quickly locate, research and do business with companies on the Web."
"NSI will also distribute a co-branded version of Netscape Instant Messenger, enabling businesses and consumers to initiate online, real-time communications with business colleagues, friends and family."
The same (unedited) press release is available at NSI's corporate site.
Might as well get all the information, no matter how trivial.
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Deep linking (where appropriate) is far better than dumping visitors to your site off on the front page / outer shell / whatever of another site in the hopes that they find their own way(s) in to related content.
Appropriate hyperlinking permits one to jump to a particular / [well-]defined resource -- if, as a designer, I think that reference to an external resource fits within the context of my own site, you had better believe that I want to target specific content and not just external sites as wholes.
Would there be any harm done if Mr. Katz would trim back on his comments (or not, his option) and occasionally join the rest of us "in thread"?
Seems to me that this mini-article could easily have been merged with the pre-existing Oscars headline today. Over in that thread (I'm already straddling the two headlines), I commented to the effect that Slashdot was "too late" to report on the Oscars given the flood of Oscar-related news in advance of the actual ceremony. Now, to echo some sentiments in the *other* Oscar thread, is Slashdot giving us "too much" on the backend, as well?
Sometimes, perhaps, Mr. Katz need not stand out from the crowd, is all I wish to say.
Scratch that. I also want to say that the theme of this piece seems like a rehash of his earlier piece on interactive books. I'm sure others will come heap on the criticism later.
Sometimes I cannot put two and two together... other times I cannot remember the past.
If Kubrick died last March 7th, odds are that his memorial was *last year*... and the more I think about it, I seem to recall a long segment covering Kubrick on last year's Oscar ceremony.
I should personally be scored -1 (stupid) for posting time of death but not doing anything with that information in my original post in my haste to pay homage to Rory Calhoun.
And he died on 7 Mar 1999, according to the bio on IMDB... perhaps he was not a member in good standing of the Academy or whatever organization one must belong to in order to qualify for the memoriam. It probably was in poor taste not to mention something regarding Kubrick, given that a number of his films were sampled -- 2001 during the "history at the movies" piece introduced by Morgan Freeman, "Dr. Strangelove" during George C. Scott's memoriam piece...
Good news, though, that Rory Calhoun was remembered...
Burns: There you are...there you go, little fellow...and you.
[one of the puppies stands on its hind legs]
[gasps] Smithers, look: he's standing up. I've never seen anything so adorable! Do you know who it reminds me of?
Smithers: Benji? Burns: No. Smithers: Lassie? Burns: No, no, no, a person. You know who I mean. Smithers: Snoop Doggy Dogg? Bob Barker? David Brenner? Burns: No, no! The person who's always standing and walking. Smithers: Rory Calhoun? Burns: That's it!
Why can't Slashdot take PRE tags for HTML formatting?
Was I the only one who walked over to his (or her) computer to check up on Slashdot after Mr. Williams's rendition of "Blame Canada"? I would have thought that, given the number of Slashdot headlines about the song *prior* to the Oscars, some enterprising newshandler here would post a tidbit about how things turned out *afterwards*. Sadly, it was not to be. And no wrap-up on the Oscars here after it concluding early Monday morning -- was I also the only one to make it all the way through to the other side this year? But to wait until late this morning to post a story about the Oscars... inexcusable for a site that (over)hyped the Oscars in advance, IMHO. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Oscar awarded to "One Day in September", the speech delivered by its maker (did the Academy buy this guy off?), the deserved multiple awards for "Topsy Turvy", Russel Crowe's brooding throughout the ceremony, the numerous close-ups of the Cruise/Kidman combo, etc. etc. After midnight, when it became clear that "American Beauty" was walking away with the remaining hardware, I had more fun watching "Rocky" on TCM... I just don't think they make them like they used to. Interpret that as you will. Just my two cents.
<h1 ALIGN=CENTER>EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH - 11-1-99</blink></H1>
Improperly nested, opening tag MIA, yadda yadda yadda... probably won't show up in the post, so go look between the H1 tags in the source if you really care to catch this most sublime form of parody:P
Although the earlier response of "retard" is pretty close to the mark, one may want to read the article series, The THX Factor, that was posted a while back at dvdfile.com...
NB: This is a three-parter, so look for the embedded links to get to the remaining two-thirds of the article series!
Slashdot Mirror
(Instead of)/(In addition to) just linking to Yahoo's condensed summaries -- how hard can it be for the editors to provide links to the original release from Corel or the even more exciting release from Inprise regarding the exchange ratio involved in the proposed merger ... ?
Flamebait or an honest plea -- you decide.
If I were to play the causality game, I would hazard a guess that the fall in valuation has more to do with yesterday's news:
Somewhat interesting read, mentions andover.net, too, and how it might have factored into Red Hat's decision.
Checking the cnet story against the release posted at AOL's corporate site, seems that other aspects of this agreement weren't covered by cnet:
The same (unedited) press release is available at NSI's corporate site.
Might as well get all the information, no matter how trivial.
At least, I thought so:
Apparently, the moderators do not ... I'm always on the lookout for obscure references in the forums that seem to pass others by ...
Why is this scored "2, Interesting"?
Is this not a reference to Falling Down and thus more deserving of "2, Funny"...
Actually, I thought Creative's dxr3 did decoding in software ... the dxr2 does decoding in hardware, though.
As others have mentioned, see the Creative open source page for info on linux driver development of the dxr2-series card.
Deep linking (where appropriate) is far better than dumping visitors to your site off on the front page / outer shell / whatever of another site in the hopes that they find their own way(s) in to related content.
Appropriate hyperlinking permits one to jump to a particular / [well-]defined resource -- if, as a designer, I think that reference to an external resource fits within the context of my own site, you had better believe that I want to target specific content and not just external sites as wholes .
Would there be any harm done if Mr. Katz would trim back on his comments (or not, his option) and occasionally join the rest of us "in thread"?
Seems to me that this mini-article could easily have been merged with the pre-existing Oscars headline today. Over in that thread (I'm already straddling the two headlines), I commented to the effect that Slashdot was "too late" to report on the Oscars given the flood of Oscar-related news in advance of the actual ceremony. Now, to echo some sentiments in the *other* Oscar thread, is Slashdot giving us "too much" on the backend, as well?
Sometimes, perhaps, Mr. Katz need not stand out from the crowd, is all I wish to say.
Scratch that. I also want to say that the theme of this piece seems like a rehash of his earlier piece on interactive books. I'm sure others will come heap on the criticism later.
Sometimes I cannot put two and two together ... other times I cannot remember the past.
... and the more I think about it, I seem to recall a long segment covering Kubrick on last year's Oscar ceremony.
If Kubrick died last March 7th, odds are that his memorial was *last year*
I should personally be scored -1 (stupid) for posting time of death but not doing anything with that information in my original post in my haste to pay homage to Rory Calhoun.
He wasn't -- or at least, not that I saw.
And he died on 7 Mar 1999, according to the bio on IMDB ... perhaps he was not a member in good standing of the Academy or whatever organization one must belong to in order to qualify for the memoriam. It probably was in poor taste not to mention something regarding Kubrick, given that a number of his films were sampled -- 2001 during the "history at the movies" piece introduced by Morgan Freeman, "Dr. Strangelove" during George C. Scott's memoriam piece ...
Good news, though, that Rory Calhoun was remembered ...
Burns: There you are...there you go, little fellow...and you.[one of the puppies stands on its hind legs]
[gasps] Smithers, look: he's standing up. I've never seen anything so adorable! Do you know who it reminds me of?
Smithers: Benji?
Burns: No.
Smithers: Lassie?
Burns: No, no, no, a person. You know who I mean.
Smithers: Snoop Doggy Dogg? Bob Barker? David Brenner?
Burns: No, no! The person who's always standing and walking.
Smithers: Rory Calhoun?
Burns: That's it!
Why can't Slashdot take PRE tags for HTML formatting?
Was I the only one who walked over to his (or her) computer to check up on Slashdot after Mr. Williams's rendition of "Blame Canada"? I would have thought that, given the number of Slashdot headlines about the song *prior* to the Oscars, some enterprising newshandler here would post a tidbit about how things turned out *afterwards*. Sadly, it was not to be. And no wrap-up on the Oscars here after it concluding early Monday morning -- was I also the only one to make it all the way through to the other side this year? But to wait until late this morning to post a story about the Oscars ... inexcusable for a site that (over)hyped the Oscars in advance, IMHO. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Oscar awarded to "One Day in September", the speech delivered by its maker (did the Academy buy this guy off?), the deserved multiple awards for "Topsy Turvy", Russel Crowe's brooding throughout the ceremony, the numerous close-ups of the Cruise/Kidman combo, etc. etc. After midnight, when it became clear that "American Beauty" was walking away with the remaining hardware, I had more fun watching "Rocky" on TCM ... I just don't think they make them like they used to. Interpret that as you will. Just my two cents.
Wasn't it just last night that I overheard the following exchange on the Simpsons?
From the sourcefile for employee.htm:
... probably won't show up in the post, so go look between the H1 tags in the source if you really care to catch this most sublime form of parody :P
<h1 ALIGN=CENTER>EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH - 11-1-99</blink></H1>
Improperly nested, opening tag MIA, yadda yadda yadda
Registrant:
Michael Lerperger (LINUXONE-DOM)
Kutschkergasse 4/7
Vienna, Vienna A-1180
AUSTRIA
Domain Name: LINUXONE.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Lerperger, Michael (ML9820) mlerp@POBOX.COM
+43 (1) 402 8089 (FAX) +43 (1) 402 8089
Billing Contact:
Lerperger, Michael (ML9820) mlerp@POBOX.COM
+43 (1) 402 8089 (FAX) +43 (1) 402 8089
Record last updated on 14-Nov-1999.
Record created on 15-Nov-1998.
Database last updated on 23-Dec-1999 14:08:21 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS3.MLERP.COM 208.231.31.21
NS4.MLERP.COM 208.231.31.22
fnord.
Is it just me, or does the logo for BLP look a lot like the AOL logo ???
Although the earlier response of "retard" is pretty close to the mark, one may want to read the article series, The THX Factor, that was posted a while back at dvdfile.com ...