Agreed. 30% of the time I get the slashdot logo up top and nothing else. Its almost embarassing. Only embarassing because slashdot should be at the pinnacle of smart web design, considering its standing in the geek community.
I really hate all of these new services that are trying to exploit gmail. So far gmail is incredible. It doens't harass you logging in on your local computer every time, its fast, there are no adds, and it feels fairly free. Not monitarily free but more meaning there aren't a lot of hoops to jump though.
People keep abusing this fact, and google will have to respond - forcing people to log in with unique character-recognition phrases each time... I know its really cool from a geek perspective but from a non-moron perspective its really putting the best free email site on the net at great risk of being ruined.
I like my gmail account - I wish people would stop threatening to destroy what is right now a Really Good Thing.
Its amazing how many people are complaining about bittorrent simply becasue they can't set up their torrent client to run properly.... and this on a "Nerd" website! I use torrents a fair bit, and due to my firewall and upload filtering rules, I usually get Maximum bandwidth on torrents (and yeah there are a LOT of legal torrents). I have a 4 megabit line to my house, and am Perpetually pushing ~500kps thanks to torrents and their near-magical ability to blast large files at me faster than any other program i've used before (and i've been on the net about as long as anyone else posting here so I'm not speaking out of inexprience).
The analogy I hear is seeing a bunch of 1700s aristocrats sweating and complaining about how slow the modern indy car they are pushing down the road is compared to the marvellous horse and buggy they know how to use. If someone showed them how to use this incredible machine they had in front of them, their opinions would quickly change.
For the record, I downloaded SP2 via torrent, and got, as usual, ~500Kps
i know - i looked at this error in dread after i posted. I was thinking "well jeeze - i hope everyone knows exactly what i mean even though what i'm saying makes absolutely no sense".
yeah. Command line is bad. Sometimes (Don't flame me, I'm a unix admin). If i'm sitting on my bed with a wireless mouse, and want to toss on some mp3s, I want at least the option ot just double click on a playlist. If a friend who has never sat at my computer before wants to load up a movie, I'd rather have them be able to click on an icon rather than try to figure out whatever cryptic command-line method there would be to do the same thing.
The fact is, for a lot of things, GUI is better. And a desktop, in most cases, is one of these things. I really love a GUI, but at the same time, i really Need to be able to slip under the GUI into a command line mode when i feel the urge.
+5 insightful? more like "-1, cleverly disguised flamebait" I'm sure you already understand the use of a good GUI. Meanwhile, chances are that you're composing this from windows XP.
Wow.. I have an ipod...but for nostalia purposes alone, I'd use the Pet - back in early public school, monochromo monitors and all, I remember pets. We had two pets. Tape drives... and Games. I'd stay in from recess and develop my video game addiction on these things... Buying a pet will be like paying tribute to my first teacher in the school of geek.
Heck, if the iPod could input calandar and contact info, I definitely wouldn't need a PDA.
I have a 40 gig model, and mine has clock and calendar built in, as well as notes, contacts, and games... I'm not sure how long these features have been there, but - they are there.
But for one, working in a factory, worrying over machine malfunctions that could eat your arm while worrying about not making enough to provide for you and yours could prove to be pretty damn stressful. I get pretty stressed when driving... my friend who drives a truck for a living is at his most relaxed when driving. Its all a matter of figuring out what stresses you out. I'm relaxed even when the servers explode and management start throwing knives... its my job to be around when these things happen, and fix them... and I'm pretty good at it - so why should it stress me out?
If you find web design and php stressful, its probably not for you - find something you really enjoy, and put your soul in to it... it will turn out to be its own reward, and stress will be an empty word.
Toronto uses them. I'm not sure if they use a backup power source as well (I guess they must) But if you live in TO, take a look on top of one of he master nodes (where you put in cash/CC and get a ticket for your card, and you will notice the whole top is a solar panel.
I have no idea how much (if any) money this saves, but I think its really cool... and got way too excited about it the first time I noticed it.
In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with this. Its not like it was broadcasting this data - its only looked at in the case of an accident. If it can make these swine fry, all the better.
This guy killed someone my being a stupid jackass. He was going over 100km/h over the limit in a populated area. Rechless and/or drunk drivers deserve no pity. The defense is trying to appeal his sentence, but i think the only way he should be let out of jail is to make sure he'll never get behind a wheel again - not ever. He lost that right when he took it away from someone else.
its just amazing to see someone so selfish to take a life in such a stupid way, and then even consider arguing about getting jail time.
If only they could add sniper rifles to these night vision scopes, and take care of the annoying kids that always sit directly behind me and won't stfu for the whole film.
see more info without leaving the page (works in IE but not Firefox)
Its weird- i was checking it out, thinking it looked pretty cool (but the fact that all of the colours on the page are of a % faded, its harder to read is annoying). Anyway, I was looking around, liking most of what I saw, then I read this post that certain things don't work in Mozilla - I know this is silly but I can't bring myself to use it. It has me so frustrated that I think I'll send the a9 people a letter.
Ironically, isn't it amazon that made a mozilla-based xml parser for their database to browse from any Mozilla-based browser? Such a cool, strong move they made there... Its strange they are leaving something out that would be incredibly easy to do (metafilter does it with mozilla-based browsers).
Maybe this is why its in beta, and these qualms of mine will work themselves out in time.
What a Linsipid name. In my opnion it sounds like the name of a cheesy fly by night telemarketing company.. or a group that sell motivational self-help tapes to desperate and simple-minded middle management types.
Not that I could do any better, I'm sure... but Linspire really sounds boring.
"Twenty years ago today, a pair of Arizona... marketing software program that forever changed the Internet... Perl script... flooded... advertising services."
Wow what a great idea - has anyone tried it since?
Heh heh, kidding of course - Well, thinking that its only 10 years old - and hated more than a lot of diseases, hopefully there will be a cure soon enough.
1. First of all, there are a couple things about the D&D ruleset that trouble me - example: last time I played, there was nothing about size of an enemy effecting chance to hit. Throwing a knife at an enemy 12 feet side should be notably more likely to hit than an enemy 4 inches wide. Unfortunately, its not... according to D&D rules. I think games should concentrate more on Logical game rules incorporating whatever rulesets seem fit that also support a logical view of a gaming universe. There is no reason to religiously attach ourselves to a ruleset that may be imperfect, just as ancient astronomers tried to attach themselves to a view of the universe that rotated around the earth. Imperfect concepts Must be improved upon. Its evolution.
2.In D&D, a DungeonMaster had at least a little room to embellish. A newbie who isn't a jerk and isn't incredibly stupid probably won't be instantly killed if a good DM is hosting the game. Their gameplay will lead them further in to the game, teaching them and immersing them in the action, like how a teacher of Go will open a students eyes through a game on the board. Computers aren't there yet, even Neverwinter Nights, which was supposed to send pen&paper to obscelence, somehow missed. There is an empathetic human nature with proper D&D that hasn't been replicated with video games yet - and it may still take a while to happen.
The K5 article makes a good point about people being able to exploit a game, but can't exploit a DM for too long. I'm not sure if a game could ever become smart enough to sense when its rulesets are being tampered with and then adjust accordingly... but if it could, it would be a massive step forward out of the cookie-cutter solutions we find in so many games today.
I thought that cricket had the highest geek quotient out of all the sports, since you need some kind of technical degree to understand WTF is going on in the game.
Its interesting where you talk of unfit computers being used to attack others - this happens in the insect world too - ants often kidnap other ant eggs to work for them, unknowning thier whole life that they are working for the enemy. Virus' go a stop further and actually jack right in to genetic code, convincing the host to stop using all of its energy on self replication and start replicating more viruses.
I'm a big genetics freak, so this parallel you draw my attention to is really interesting. I started my genetics quest on "the selfish gene" by Richard Dawkins - great reading.
The pont you make about the manditory at the end - though I'm not sure if it will ever get there, it made me fairly exciting just thinking about it. I double it will be microsoft that make something that beautiful first.
yeah you may be right - i think i misread part of it - my apologies... thought it may be a good idea - I'd like to know the difference of power generated via either downward force of wings to the standard propeller style
I heard the secondary articles too, and it seems that this device uses down downward force exerted on the "wings" to power a turbine of some sort.
It seems pretty logical, and it makes me think - Most of the water generators I've read about seem to be tide based - where this is more using the force of the incomng water laterally. I wonder how practical it would be to set up these devices inside of the oceans currents, or fast flowing channels. Using these 'wings' to generate force that way seems to me like it could be pretty effective. Of course - IANAPhysicist - I'm just a network geek... but it seems pretty practical to me.
Well, my method has become something like this... Hit up rottentomatos.com for a quick glance at the tomatometer (but I don't even read the reviews), and then the meter for the 'creme of the crop' on the site, and if its fairly high, I'll pretty much trust it - sometimes I'll discard it and just go on instict, but most of the time that tomatometer is pretty damn effective. If my friends try to tell me about the movie I get them to shut up as quickly as possible, but take note that my friends are ranting about a particular film.
Since I've stopped watching trailers, it seems I've actually been seeing more good films and less bad ones - So i'm starting to wonder what was the use of trailers for me in the first place.
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed. 30% of the time I get the slashdot logo up top and nothing else. Its almost embarassing. Only embarassing because slashdot should be at the pinnacle of smart web design, considering its standing in the geek community.
I really hate all of these new services that are trying to exploit gmail. So far gmail is incredible. It doens't harass you logging in on your local computer every time, its fast, there are no adds, and it feels fairly free. Not monitarily free but more meaning there aren't a lot of hoops to jump though.
People keep abusing this fact, and google will have to respond - forcing people to log in with unique character-recognition phrases each time... I know its really cool from a geek perspective but from a non-moron perspective its really putting the best free email site on the net at great risk of being ruined.
I like my gmail account - I wish people would stop threatening to destroy what is right now a Really Good Thing.
Its amazing how many people are complaining about bittorrent simply becasue they can't set up their torrent client to run properly.... and this on a "Nerd" website! I use torrents a fair bit, and due to my firewall and upload filtering rules, I usually get Maximum bandwidth on torrents (and yeah there are a LOT of legal torrents). I have a 4 megabit line to my house, and am Perpetually pushing ~500kps thanks to torrents and their near-magical ability to blast large files at me faster than any other program i've used before (and i've been on the net about as long as anyone else posting here so I'm not speaking out of inexprience).
The analogy I hear is seeing a bunch of 1700s aristocrats sweating and complaining about how slow the modern indy car they are pushing down the road is compared to the marvellous horse and buggy they know how to use. If someone showed them how to use this incredible machine they had in front of them, their opinions would quickly change.
For the record, I downloaded SP2 via torrent, and got, as usual, ~500Kps
i know - i looked at this error in dread after i posted. I was thinking "well jeeze - i hope everyone knows exactly what i mean even though what i'm saying makes absolutely no sense".
:/
Looks like someone noticed
You forgot sysadmin stress levels. Oh yeah, and server temperatures.
yeah. Command line is bad. Sometimes (Don't flame me, I'm a unix admin). If i'm sitting on my bed with a wireless mouse, and want to toss on some mp3s, I want at least the option ot just double click on a playlist. If a friend who has never sat at my computer before wants to load up a movie, I'd rather have them be able to click on an icon rather than try to figure out whatever cryptic command-line method there would be to do the same thing.
The fact is, for a lot of things, GUI is better. And a desktop, in most cases, is one of these things. I really love a GUI, but at the same time, i really Need to be able to slip under the GUI into a command line mode when i feel the urge.
+5 insightful? more like "-1, cleverly disguised flamebait" I'm sure you already understand the use of a good GUI. Meanwhile, chances are that you're composing this from windows XP.
Wow.. I have an ipod.. .but for nostalia purposes alone, I'd use the Pet - back in early public school, monochromo monitors and all, I remember pets. We had two pets. Tape drives... and Games. I'd stay in from recess and develop my video game addiction on these things... Buying a pet will be like paying tribute to my first teacher in the school of geek.
Heck, if the iPod could input calandar and contact info, I definitely wouldn't need a PDA.
I have a 40 gig model, and mine has clock and calendar built in, as well as notes, contacts, and games... I'm not sure how long these features have been there, but - they are there.
Firste Poste!"
heh - and it couple almost be true.... in that case.
Tap in to the matrix and suddenly "I know Kung-Fu
Yeah, that would be nice.
But for one, working in a factory, worrying over machine malfunctions that could eat your arm while worrying about not making enough to provide for you and yours could prove to be pretty damn stressful. I get pretty stressed when driving... my friend who drives a truck for a living is at his most relaxed when driving. Its all a matter of figuring out what stresses you out. I'm relaxed even when the servers explode and management start throwing knives... its my job to be around when these things happen, and fix them... and I'm pretty good at it - so why should it stress me out?
If you find web design and php stressful, its probably not for you - find something you really enjoy, and put your soul in to it... it will turn out to be its own reward, and stress will be an empty word.
Toronto uses them. I'm not sure if they use a backup power source as well (I guess they must) But if you live in TO, take a look on top of one of he master nodes (where you put in cash/CC and get a ticket for your card, and you will notice the whole top is a solar panel.
I have no idea how much (if any) money this saves, but I think its really cool... and got way too excited about it the first time I noticed it.
In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with this. Its not like it was broadcasting this data - its only looked at in the case of an accident. If it can make these swine fry, all the better.
This guy killed someone my being a stupid jackass. He was going over 100km/h over the limit in a populated area. Rechless and/or drunk drivers deserve no pity. The defense is trying to appeal his sentence, but i think the only way he should be let out of jail is to make sure he'll never get behind a wheel again - not ever. He lost that right when he took it away from someone else.
its just amazing to see someone so selfish to take a life in such a stupid way, and then even consider arguing about getting jail time.
If only they could add sniper rifles to these night vision scopes, and take care of the annoying kids that always sit directly behind me and won't stfu for the whole film.
see more info without leaving the page (works in IE but not Firefox)
Its weird- i was checking it out, thinking it looked pretty cool (but the fact that all of the colours on the page are of a % faded, its harder to read is annoying). Anyway, I was looking around, liking most of what I saw, then I read this post that certain things don't work in Mozilla - I know this is silly but I can't bring myself to use it. It has me so frustrated that I think I'll send the a9 people a letter.
Ironically, isn't it amazon that made a mozilla-based xml parser for their database to browse from any Mozilla-based browser? Such a cool, strong move they made there... Its strange they are leaving something out that would be incredibly easy to do (metafilter does it with mozilla-based browsers).
Maybe this is why its in beta, and these qualms of mine will work themselves out in time.
What a Linsipid name. In my opnion it sounds like the name of a cheesy fly by night telemarketing company.. or a group that sell motivational self-help tapes to desperate and simple-minded middle management types.
Not that I could do any better, I'm sure... but Linspire really sounds boring.
"Twenty years ago today, a pair of Arizona
Wow what a great idea - has anyone tried it since?
Heh heh, kidding of course - Well, thinking that its only 10 years old - and hated more than a lot of diseases, hopefully there will be a cure soon enough.
My hats off to Anybody who can find a way to score a +5 Funny off of this article.
I have have a couple of thoughts on this:
1. First of all, there are a couple things about the D&D ruleset that trouble me - example: last time I played, there was nothing about size of an enemy effecting chance to hit. Throwing a knife at an enemy 12 feet side should be notably more likely to hit than an enemy 4 inches wide. Unfortunately, its not... according to D&D rules. I think games should concentrate more on Logical game rules incorporating whatever rulesets seem fit that also support a logical view of a gaming universe. There is no reason to religiously attach ourselves to a ruleset that may be imperfect, just as ancient astronomers tried to attach themselves to a view of the universe that rotated around the earth. Imperfect concepts Must be improved upon. Its evolution.
2.In D&D, a DungeonMaster had at least a little room to embellish. A newbie who isn't a jerk and isn't incredibly stupid probably won't be instantly killed if a good DM is hosting the game. Their gameplay will lead them further in to the game, teaching them and immersing them in the action, like how a teacher of Go will open a students eyes through a game on the board. Computers aren't there yet, even Neverwinter Nights, which was supposed to send pen&paper to obscelence, somehow missed. There is an empathetic human nature with proper D&D that hasn't been replicated with video games yet - and it may still take a while to happen.
The K5 article makes a good point about people being able to exploit a game, but can't exploit a DM for too long. I'm not sure if a game could ever become smart enough to sense when its rulesets are being tampered with and then adjust accordingly... but if it could, it would be a massive step forward out of the cookie-cutter solutions we find in so many games today.
I thought that cricket had the highest geek quotient out of all the sports, since you need some kind of technical degree to understand WTF is going on in the game.
Its interesting where you talk of unfit computers being used to attack others - this happens in the insect world too - ants often kidnap other ant eggs to work for them, unknowning thier whole life that they are working for the enemy. Virus' go a stop further and actually jack right in to genetic code, convincing the host to stop using all of its energy on self replication and start replicating more viruses.
I'm a big genetics freak, so this parallel you draw my attention to is really interesting. I started my genetics quest on "the selfish gene" by Richard Dawkins - great reading.
The pont you make about the manditory at the end - though I'm not sure if it will ever get there, it made me fairly exciting just thinking about it. I double it will be microsoft that make something that beautiful first.
yeah you may be right - i think i misread part of it - my apologies... thought it may be a good idea - I'd like to know the difference of power generated via either downward force of wings to the standard propeller style
I heard the secondary articles too, and it seems that this device uses down downward force exerted on the "wings" to power a turbine of some sort.
It seems pretty logical, and it makes me think - Most of the water generators I've read about seem to be tide based - where this is more using the force of the incomng water laterally. I wonder how practical it would be to set up these devices inside of the oceans currents, or fast flowing channels. Using these 'wings' to generate force that way seems to me like it could be pretty effective. Of course - IANAPhysicist - I'm just a network geek... but it seems pretty practical to me.
Wow - 30 tonne sea snail. mmmmmmm /humour
Does anyone have about 30 tonnes of herbed butter to go with that?
Well, my method has become something like this... Hit up rottentomatos.com for a quick glance at the tomatometer (but I don't even read the reviews), and then the meter for the 'creme of the crop' on the site, and if its fairly high, I'll pretty much trust it - sometimes I'll discard it and just go on instict, but most of the time that tomatometer is pretty damn effective. If my friends try to tell me about the movie I get them to shut up as quickly as possible, but take note that my friends are ranting about a particular film.
Since I've stopped watching trailers, it seems I've actually been seeing more good films and less bad ones - So i'm starting to wonder what was the use of trailers for me in the first place.