The lack of rebuttal, and use the word "warns" (which implies a notification of a real threat) rather than a more correct one such as "claims" or "asserts", gives undeserved credibility to this shibboleth.
As a journalist, one should never use such words as "claims" or "asserts". Why? Because both words inject the idea that the JOURNALIST doubts this. Microsoft "warns" is clearly attributed to the MICROSOFT. (To be a real stickler, it should be says/said) Further, the use of PAINT should certainly be enough for you. It implies that this is microsoft's "deliberate attempt to take certain materials and make them look like IT wants them to look". Don't require the writer to be biased towards your side. Especially when you're right;-).
not really bots. Mellon is into robotic machines. Things that like to big REALLY BIG HOLES for example. Farm equipment, military equipment.. So it wants 600 acres of land it can tear to shreds and nobody says UNCLE!
actually.. my own personal opinion is they just need a bigger place to party
Article:A quick field test wasn't able to confirm that the substance was petroleum-based, said Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Fred Mumford.
Slashdot: It's roofing tar
Obligatory simpsons reference: Lisa: I don't understand professor, why didn't your tests show that the skeleton was a fake. Dr. Gould: I'm going to be honest with you Lisa, I never did the tests.
[Dr. Gould walks away]
I can't believe these "surveyors" are that bad. I mean it's not as if the states aren't all different colors! I live in central PA so it's all green. New Jersey, as we all know, is orange! Perhaps we should get some non-color blind folks out there to define the borders!
First I must say I respect anyone not willing to enter garbage but I think you're not really considering the situation.
NY Times says it will not sell your e-mail. The Times takes it's reputation pretty darn seriously, so if you catch them doing it, they will be quite embarresed. Also many of their registered users are SUBSCRIBERS. You don't want to piss them off.
The site does not even ASK for your real address (just zip) or any specific information that can identify you.
Also, it promises to tell you if there is a true change in the policy via e-mail. (As, no doubt, slashdot will too)
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Fact: My company held off from pop-ups/flash until only recently
Fact: My company has spent and continues to lose millions
Fact: Numbers still continue to grow.
Fact: Pop ups don't drive readers away. Or the very least, drive away fewer than the pop ups are worth. We hate them as much as the average user. NO we hate them more. (I WORK on a website which displays pop ups. Think about it.) Preview: Popup. Copy edit: Popup. Check out other departments work: Pop up. Pop up. Pop up.
It's not the web sites that need to change. It's the advertisers. Popups=revenues as long as advertisers think they do.
meanwhile. Just the other day on cbs.marketwatch I ran across a REAL VIDEO Ad. Wow.
Note that they're not making money from banner ads, but from classified ads.
The question though. Are they happy about it?
What do I mean? Classifieds are THE most profitable part of dead-tree newspapers. A major reason newspapers WENT online is because they feared their classified business would be stolen by web sites. Hopefully--and I say this because I READ newspapers and Web sites--the demand for classifieds can support both.
[Disclaimer: Newspaper Association of America Slashdotted so I didn't read the article]
I have a question: how practical is this, really? The article tells us that you get two four-second shots, spaced four seconds apart, and the laser then needs 30 seconds to cool down. This is hardly what I'd call a practical battlefield weapon, especially given the modern war methodology of one well-coordinated, completely overwhelming attack. Why use a laser with such poor fire times?
These are rechargable missiles. Not the dogfighting lasers you're thinking of from Star Wars. And two two-second bursts is plenty...you only need one hit. Also... laser go faster than missiles and gun fire. Hence, less chance for a reaction from the competition--meaning more accuracy than anything else available.
netscape.com.com. Netscape "makes" browsers. It's doesn't report it. CNN is owned by AOL Time Warner which ownes CNN. CNN's content (probably just a wire story anyway) is probably on netscape.com.com. Sheesh how could you get confused. I mean it's just a $multi-billion media company!
I (who never read to books. Bad Geek!) felt they could take out 20 minutes of walking and put in 20 more minutes of other things. Every walking shot had to have a close up, medium range, and a long distance "ooo look at the pretty mountains" shot.
In related news. Sony announces it will immediatley begin selling these disks to consumers.
Optware Spokesman: "We were thinking it would take 10 years the technology to be needed, but bad jokes about our hardware's "12 inch vs. 12 cm" capabilities, beowulf of them, and how much prOn one could store on it completly overwhelmed previous storage technologies";-)
Damn before college I was pretty stinkin' smart! PII 400 Mhz 100 Front Bus 64 Megs of ram. Boy did that put a hole in the ole' wallet. Now, despite 4-years of work and the $100,000 towards tuition I must have a brain the size of a peanut!
Well at least I'm not smart enough to realize what I'm missing!
Create a button that will send an "error rendered on http://web.address.here" to mozilla. Also put a space to provide the webmaster's e-mail. (Time spent 5-20 seconds. Someone at Moz will check out the most popular links and find out if it's moz's problems or html problems. Moz will then politely send an e-mail. (X,000 of our users have e-mailed us concerning using our browser on your web page. We have verified that our browser was functioning correctly.) You can verify that your page is not compliant HERE.
Especially in recent nightlies I have seen some render errors. This is expectable, but makes me wary to send in invalid HTML complaints. (And downloading moz 1.0 to check if it works there and then the most recent nightly to see if it works there is a lot of work on my 28.8!) I imagine webmasters also get pissed when they get complaints about build 2002893405209345802853.b, but it seems to be working on 2002893405209345802853.ba.;-)
Digital is really taking off in the world of fine art photography. (At least at my school--which I consider somewhat technologically backwards). With a quality printer (We use epson 2000P) we can print real nice, large color prints. They're also archival.
Having just completed a course in (excruitiatingly difficult) Color Printmaking (the real/not digital stuff) and seeing full 11x14 prints coming off our G4 lab left me quite interested.
I'll probably never be able to get into a color printmaking lab, but spening $1500 for a good scanner and printer could allow me to keep myself in color photography.
Why do we jump to have the government certify our electronic devices, standards, and protocols? Why can't we merely rely on the private sector to develop sound products?
Just because you don't trust the government doesn't mean we should trust the private sector. That's all I'm saying.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think they'll be able to live down the stigma associated with their company name.
I don't know. I like there gum. I havn't tried any of their other products, but it couldn't have been that bad
The lack of rebuttal, and use the word "warns" (which implies a notification of a real threat) rather than a more correct one such as "claims" or "asserts", gives undeserved credibility to this shibboleth.
;-).
As a journalist, one should never use such words as "claims" or "asserts". Why? Because both words inject the idea that the JOURNALIST doubts this. Microsoft "warns" is clearly attributed to the MICROSOFT. (To be a real stickler, it should be says/said) Further, the use of PAINT should certainly be enough for you. It implies that this is microsoft's "deliberate attempt to take certain materials and make them look like IT wants them to look". Don't require the writer to be biased towards your side. Especially when you're right
not really bots. Mellon is into robotic machines. Things that like to big REALLY BIG HOLES for example. Farm equipment, military equipment.. So it wants 600 acres of land it can tear to shreds and nobody says UNCLE!
actually.. my own personal opinion is they just need a bigger place to party
Those phone numbers are 17 years old. You could prank them if you want, but a white pages would be just as good.
Sure, but if I'm thinking this, so are 1000 other people. We could slashdot the phone system for a little fun.
hehe. Yes evil thoughts.
Article: A quick field test wasn't able to confirm that the substance was petroleum-based, said Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Fred Mumford.
Slashdot: It's roofing tar
Obligatory simpsons reference:
Lisa: I don't understand professor, why didn't your tests show that the skeleton was a fake.
Dr. Gould: I'm going to be honest with you Lisa, I never did the tests.
[Dr. Gould walks away]
I mean...it's Camden
I don't know whether to to gaze into the beauty of the formated and edited messages or make prank calls to the phone numbers listed beneath them.
;-)
Ahh the conflicted mind
I can't believe these "surveyors" are that bad. I mean it's not as if the states aren't all different colors! I live in central PA so it's all green. New Jersey, as we all know, is orange! Perhaps we should get some non-color blind folks out there to define the borders!
Hint: Black line=new state!
First I must say I respect anyone not willing to enter garbage but I think you're not really considering the situation.
NY Times says it will not sell your e-mail. The Times takes it's reputation pretty darn seriously, so if you catch them doing it, they will be quite embarresed. Also many of their registered users are SUBSCRIBERS. You don't want to piss them off.
The site does not even ASK for your real address (just zip) or any specific information that can identify you.
Also, it promises to tell you if there is a true change in the policy via e-mail. (As, no doubt, slashdot will too)
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Fact: I work at a MAJOR news web site
Fact: My company held off from pop-ups/flash until only recently
Fact: My company has spent and continues to lose millions
Fact: Numbers still continue to grow.
Fact: Pop ups don't drive readers away. Or the very least, drive away fewer than the pop ups are worth.
We hate them as much as the average user. NO we hate them more. (I WORK on a website which displays pop ups. Think about it.) Preview: Popup. Copy edit: Popup. Check out other departments work: Pop up. Pop up. Pop up.
It's not the web sites that need to change. It's the advertisers. Popups=revenues as long as advertisers think they do.
meanwhile. Just the other day on cbs.marketwatch I ran across a REAL VIDEO Ad. Wow.
What is this? A competition to build the most boring database in the world?
hehe
Don't totally waste a question ;-)
ibiblio is a nonprofit internet collaborative supported through the generous
and enthusiastic contributions of the following partners...
http://ibiblio.org/partners/
Note that they're not making money from banner ads, but from classified ads.
The question though. Are they happy about it?
What do I mean? Classifieds are THE most profitable part of dead-tree newspapers. A major reason newspapers WENT online is because they feared their classified business would be stolen by web sites. Hopefully--and I say this because I READ newspapers and Web sites--the demand for classifieds can support both.
[Disclaimer: Newspaper Association of America Slashdotted so I didn't read the article]
I have a question: how practical is this, really? The article tells us that you get two four-second shots, spaced four seconds apart, and the laser then needs 30 seconds to cool down. This is hardly what I'd call a practical battlefield weapon, especially given the modern war methodology of one well-coordinated, completely overwhelming attack. Why use a laser with such poor fire times?
These are rechargable missiles. Not the dogfighting lasers you're thinking of from Star Wars. And two two-second bursts is plenty...you only need one hit. Also... laser go faster than missiles and gun fire. Hence, less chance for a reaction from the competition--meaning more accuracy than anything else available.
- Locate a quarter
- Purchase scotch tape
- Tape quarter to phone
When you need to make a phone call, but it's dead. Just remove quarter.netscape.com.com. Netscape "makes" browsers. It's doesn't report it. CNN is owned by AOL Time Warner which ownes CNN. CNN's content (probably just a wire story anyway) is probably on netscape.com.com. Sheesh how could you get confused. I mean it's just a $multi-billion media company!
Ingenious!If it doesn't go... you can't get hurt!
Gotta give some credit to those volvo engineers
Damn. Yo, it's a joke, yall. ;-)
Moderation Totals: Flamebait=1, Funny=4, Overrated=4, Underrated=1, Total=10.
I (who never read to books. Bad Geek!) felt they could take out 20 minutes of walking and put in 20 more minutes of other things. Every walking shot had to have a close up, medium range, and a long distance "ooo look at the pretty mountains" shot.
Overall, I did enjoy the movie though.
In related news. Sony announces it will immediatley begin selling these disks to consumers.
;-)
Optware Spokesman:
"We were thinking it would take 10 years the technology to be needed, but bad jokes about our hardware's "12 inch vs. 12 cm" capabilities, beowulf of them, and how much prOn one could store on it completly overwhelmed previous storage technologies"
Will they have more minute-long shots of them walking? I really don't think their was enough in the original version.
Damn before college I was pretty stinkin' smart! PII 400 Mhz 100 Front Bus 64 Megs of ram. Boy did that put a hole in the ole' wallet. Now, despite 4-years of work and the $100,000 towards tuition I must have a brain the size of a peanut!
Well at least I'm not smart enough to realize what I'm missing!
CNET has a story on the 17inchers too.
I just put all this work into growing my featherless chickens and damnit now it turns out that features are worth something!
Possible Moz Feature:
;-)
Create a button that will send an "error rendered on http://web.address.here" to mozilla. Also put a space to provide the webmaster's e-mail. (Time spent 5-20 seconds. Someone at Moz will check out the most popular links and find out if it's moz's problems or html problems. Moz will then politely send an e-mail. (X,000 of our users have e-mailed us concerning using our browser on your web page. We have verified that our browser was functioning correctly.) You can verify that your page is not compliant HERE.
Especially in recent nightlies I have seen some render errors. This is expectable, but makes me wary to send in invalid HTML complaints. (And downloading moz 1.0 to check if it works there and then the most recent nightly to see if it works there is a lot of work on my 28.8!) I imagine webmasters also get pissed when they get complaints about build 2002893405209345802853.b, but it seems to be working on 2002893405209345802853.ba.
Digital is really taking off in the world of fine art photography. (At least at my school--which I consider somewhat technologically backwards). With a quality printer (We use epson 2000P) we can print real nice, large color prints. They're also archival.
Having just completed a course in (excruitiatingly difficult) Color Printmaking (the real/not digital stuff) and seeing full 11x14 prints coming off our G4 lab left me quite interested.
I'll probably never be able to get into a color printmaking lab, but spening $1500 for a good scanner and printer could allow me to keep myself in color photography.
Why do we jump to have the government certify our electronic devices, standards, and protocols? Why can't we merely rely on the private sector to develop sound products?
Just because you don't trust the government doesn't mean we should trust the private sector.
That's all I'm saying.
Arthur Andersen
Enron
IM Clone
Worldcom
Xerox
And just because this is Slashdot:
MS Windows