Until now, Netscape has relied partly on its open-source development organization, Mozilla.org, to speed development of its Communicator browser, with volunteers and paid developers refining the product. But despite Mozilla's efforts, AOL has acknowledged that it has been late in updating its browser technology.
Skipping from the version 4 to version 6 makes some sense to me, because the Mozilla.org version would be version 5 if we follow normal open source procedure, right? Perhaps the odd numbers are the "pre-release" versions, and the even numbered are the officially released ones.
Besides, it's just a company doing to Micro$oft what MS did to Corel with Word 6.0, right? Didn't it go from Word 2 to 6???
Quick, Honey! Cover the skylight before your parents find out about this company!:-)
Actually the resolution of 1m is not too invasive, but you might be able to track vehicle movements, etc. Remember when that Yacht was lost in the race around the south pole? I'll bet this satellite could have helped in the search.
I agree that making a machine gun out of legos is pretty cool, but it's also a bit morbid. When I was a kid we made spaceships, and little towns with little people in them. Machine guns didn't really cross my mind.
Perhaps just the idea of making a toy weapon out of legos is a bit much for me... Why couldn't you make a water gun or something?
By this statement you imply that all bigots are female.
Or perhaps by this statement I was trying to show how ridiculous it is when authors of feminist literature try to undo the wrongs of the past by doing the opposite wrongs in the present. There is actually a lot of debate over what to use in this context, since proper grammar requires that you use "him or her", but that sounds cumbersome now that we are used to using just "him". Some suggest to alternate between using "him" or "her" in your writing to be fair (as I did previously) but that ends up being quite obvious, especially when used in a context like "If a pilot was flying east in her fighter jet, would she..."
Personally I'd like to use "it", especially when talking about bigots, but again, proper grammar will not let me.:( At any rate, please take what I said with a wry smirk, and file it under one-of-those-things-to-think-about-later.
The US has become so introverted recently with the Monica thing, and various high profile trials, that they've ignored the rest of the world. Believe it or not, if I had to choose between China or USA making it to Mars first, my money would be on China.
Of course, neither will be the first - that honour will go to Canada!:-P
I never would have gone looking for hate sites on the web, but if they're going to have a global conference on the subject, I really should look up what's out there...
Actually I won't, because I believe the best way to combat a screaming bigot is to ignore her. There's really no hate crime that can be commited on the internet, is there? Maybe if a neo-Nazi cracker wiped out a Jewish person's hard drive, but I think that's stretching it. To me, if the USA is allowing KKK members to congregate, hold meetings, etc, and turn a blind eye to it, why go after the hate mongers on the internet? Shouldn't we put a stop to it in the real world first?
Hey, I'm in Canada, and I don't give two hoots about your stupid US laws. For some reason we've been able to avoid most of the strange stuff you guys have gone through... thank goodness.
Just to show you how dumb this all is, let's do a little mind experiment >> you're in the US and you buy a DVD (legal). You bring it here (Canada) or Thailand, or wherever, and your friend makes a copy of the DVD for you. (legal). Now you take that DVD back to the US -- there's no deCSS software on the disk, and since you own the DVD, you're allowed to have a copy of it (legal) in case the original gets destroyed.
However... downloading a copy of the software to burn it yourself and save yourself the trip to Canada or Thailand... that's illegal.
I think I'll set up a little mail-order DVD burning service for you US folks... mail me a DVD, and I mail you back two... and maybe keep a copy for myself, on your behalf, of course!:-p
This seems all a bit convoluted to me. Just because it's possible that life originated on Mars and then travelled to Earth doesn't mean it did, or that it really even matters.
Current thought on the matter leads us to believe that life will begin given the proper conditions. (i.e. hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, etc... with a little electricity too).
With this in mind, why couldn't life have originated on both planets, perhaps many times on each planet? If, given enough time, and the right conditions, life will start, then why do we insist on saying that life started with a single cell that then started all of life? There could have been many, many original cells.
I think Jon Katz is just as guilty in this article as the media. This blurb is trying to fight hearsay with hearsay. If you did studies, where are your numbers?
Look, I don't want to say you're wrong, because I happen to agree with you, but ranting doesn't do anything about it...
Instead, why don't you publish some of those 'planes falling on your heads' statistics?
Well, as far as American news, I'd say the people who made the biggest impact on news this year were those two kids who shot up Columbine High School.
Actually, once the press realized that there was more to this story than a couple kids 'going postal', they turned a blind eye. I would have liked to see more press coverage of the in depth issues, like 'why does our society persecute smart people?' The press conveniently reported how terrible it was they they killed these fine young athletes, but neglected to report what happened to other innocent kids in retrobution for the act in Colorado. The press really botched an opportunity to make those kids' deaths really mean something. Unfortunately, until we all deal with these issues, we're going to see more and more of this type of violence.:(
Actually, my university astronomy prof sent me the email. It's scary how quickly just about anybody will believe a rumour. I believed it - if you can't believe your astro prof when it comes to astronomy, who can you believe?:-)
In that same morally ambiguous way, the members of L0pht see what they do as neither good nor bad. More akin to Robin Hood, whose merry band of outlaws used unorthodox ways to help.
Hey! I resent that!
Did anyone else notice that they used the word 'crack' a couple of times, rather than 'hack'? Are things looking up?
This sounds like a great idea! I hope that all American troops get this implant before 2010 when we (the Canadians) launch our invasion. That way, we don't even have to aim - just get one of those receiver doo-hickies, and our ammunition can home right in on the targets.:^)
I expect that within 2 years, we will have computers more powerful than we know what to do with
Personally, I think we've long since surpassed the amount of computing power that we would know what to do with. Why else would we have screen savers?:-)
Every day I ask myself what is really worth doing with a computer? Games are fun. Email is just a way to circumvent the post office. We are truly stuck on this constant search for a cool application of computers, but we have a harder and harder time trying to do it.
Personally, the times when I first saw Wolfenstein, civilization (I), and scorched Earth, I got a lot more excited about computers than I ever do now. Now I just take ever expanding resources for granted - almost in a fatalist way. I refrain from buying new hardware now, knowing that hardware is just going to go obsolete long before I can get my money's worth out of it.
The fact is, 95% of the computers out there are far overpowered for what any of their owners use them for. E-mail is not a CPU intensive task!
Every time a bigger hard drive appears, M$ must be thankful, since the size of their OS's are rising so fast that storage technology has a hard time keeping up. Will the new win2000 install disk have to be a DVD rather than a CD?
Who would have realized that bugs and blue screens take up so much room?:p
It's all about choice. The last group that should be able to choose what we watch is the media. If the show was made, shouldn't we have the ability to decide if we want to watch it? How about putting more information with the program so parents can make informed decisions? I honestly cannot believe that the networks have our best interests in mind.
Please be aware that many people read your column on slashdot, and I think you owe them the courtesy of having someone proofread your article first. There were just too many typos to be excused.
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Until now, Netscape has relied partly on its open-source development organization, Mozilla.org, to speed development of its Communicator browser, with volunteers and paid developers refining the product. But despite Mozilla's efforts, AOL has acknowledged that it has been late in updating its browser technology.
Skipping from the version 4 to version 6 makes some sense to me, because the Mozilla.org version would be version 5 if we follow normal open source procedure, right? Perhaps the odd numbers are the "pre-release" versions, and the even numbered are the officially released ones.
Besides, it's just a company doing to Micro$oft what MS did to Corel with Word 6.0, right? Didn't it go from Word 2 to 6???
Quick, Honey! Cover the skylight before your parents find out about this company! :-)
Actually the resolution of 1m is not too invasive, but you might be able to track vehicle movements, etc. Remember when that Yacht was lost in the race around the south pole? I'll bet this satellite could have helped in the search.
I agree that making a machine gun out of legos is pretty cool, but it's also a bit morbid. When I was a kid we made spaceships, and little towns with little people in them. Machine guns didn't really cross my mind.
Perhaps just the idea of making a toy weapon out of legos is a bit much for me... Why couldn't you make a water gun or something?
There go my childhood memories...
By this statement you imply that all bigots are female.
Or perhaps by this statement I was trying to show how ridiculous it is when authors of feminist literature try to undo the wrongs of the past by doing the opposite wrongs in the present. There is actually a lot of debate over what to use in this context, since proper grammar requires that you use "him or her", but that sounds cumbersome now that we are used to using just "him". Some suggest to alternate between using "him" or "her" in your writing to be fair (as I did previously) but that ends up being quite obvious, especially when used in a context like "If a pilot was flying east in her fighter jet, would she..."
Personally I'd like to use "it", especially when talking about bigots, but again, proper grammar will not let me. :( At any rate, please take what I said with a wry smirk, and file it under one-of-those-things-to-think-about-later.
The US has become so introverted recently with the Monica thing, and various high profile trials, that they've ignored the rest of the world. Believe it or not, if I had to choose between China or USA making it to Mars first, my money would be on China.
Of course, neither will be the first - that honour will go to Canada! :-P
I wonder if this qualifies as irony...
I never would have gone looking for hate sites on the web, but if they're going to have a global conference on the subject, I really should look up what's out there...
Actually I won't, because I believe the best way to combat a screaming bigot is to ignore her. There's really no hate crime that can be commited on the internet, is there? Maybe if a neo-Nazi cracker wiped out a Jewish person's hard drive, but I think that's stretching it. To me, if the USA is allowing KKK members to congregate, hold meetings, etc, and turn a blind eye to it, why go after the hate mongers on the internet? Shouldn't we put a stop to it in the real world first?
You're right. If I gave you instructions on how to cut meat with a knife, does that mean if you go an butcher your neighbour it's my fault?
Hey, I'm in Canada, and I don't give two hoots about your stupid US laws. For some reason we've been able to avoid most of the strange stuff you guys have gone through... thank goodness.
Just to show you how dumb this all is, let's do a little mind experiment >> you're in the US and you buy a DVD (legal). You bring it here (Canada) or Thailand, or wherever, and your friend makes a copy of the DVD for you. (legal). Now you take that DVD back to the US -- there's no deCSS software on the disk, and since you own the DVD, you're allowed to have a copy of it (legal) in case the original gets destroyed.
However... downloading a copy of the software to burn it yourself and save yourself the trip to Canada or Thailand... that's illegal.
I think I'll set up a little mail-order DVD burning service for you US folks... mail me a DVD, and I mail you back two... and maybe keep a copy for myself, on your behalf, of course! :-p
Just jokin'...
True,
I just saw an NBC report, and it was quite extensive, but it said nothing about her being an inventor. This is very sad.
This seems all a bit convoluted to me. Just because it's possible that life originated on Mars and then travelled to Earth doesn't mean it did, or that it really even matters.
Current thought on the matter leads us to believe that life will begin given the proper conditions. (i.e. hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, etc... with a little electricity too).
With this in mind, why couldn't life have originated on both planets, perhaps many times on each planet? If, given enough time, and the right conditions, life will start, then why do we insist on saying that life started with a single cell that then started all of life? There could have been many, many original cells.
To tell you the truth, the skin doesn't impress me that much. :) I don't know what all the fuss is about...
I think Jon Katz is just as guilty in this article as the media. This blurb is trying to fight hearsay with hearsay. If you did studies, where are your numbers?
Look, I don't want to say you're wrong, because I happen to agree with you, but ranting doesn't do anything about it...
Instead, why don't you publish some of those 'planes falling on your heads' statistics?
Well, as far as American news, I'd say the people who made the biggest impact on news this year were those two kids who shot up Columbine High School.
Actually, once the press realized that there was more to this story than a couple kids 'going postal', they turned a blind eye. I would have liked to see more press coverage of the in depth issues, like 'why does our society persecute smart people?' The press conveniently reported how terrible it was they they killed these fine young athletes, but neglected to report what happened to other innocent kids in retrobution for the act in Colorado. The press really botched an opportunity to make those kids' deaths really mean something. Unfortunately, until we all deal with these issues, we're going to see more and more of this type of violence. :(
you're a typical slashdotter...a dumb fuck. i hate you and your kind and I'm actively working on a solution.
Dear Bill Gates,You really should watch your language, we all know it's you. :^)
I, for one, would like a little more information about the book. I checked the ThinkGeek page, but I'm still confused.
Is the book about CmdrTaco and Hemos? Or is it just dedicated to them?
Please don't flame me, I just really don't know enough history of the subject.
Actually, my university astronomy prof sent me the email. It's scary how quickly just about anybody will believe a rumour. I believed it - if you can't believe your astro prof when it comes to astronomy, who can you believe? :-)
Hey! I resent that!
Did anyone else notice that they used the word 'crack' a couple of times, rather than 'hack'? Are things looking up?
Being not much for seafood, I'd much rather have the hot dog. Or the Salisbury Steak. :^)
Under the link to the crew is a list of what they're having to eat. It seems that Curtis Brown is having Rehydratable Shrimp Cocktails for both lunch and dinner today! Must be nice. :)
After reading these menus, I'm pretty hungry... I think I'll go grab a donut. :^)
This sounds like a great idea! I hope that all American troops get this implant before 2010 when we (the Canadians) launch our invasion. That way, we don't even have to aim - just get one of those receiver doo-hickies, and our ammunition can home right in on the targets. :^)
This is even funnier than the Brits painting targets on their airplanes in WWI and WWII.
I expect that within 2 years, we will have computers more powerful than we know what to do with
:-)
Personally, I think we've long since surpassed the amount of computing power that we would know what to do with. Why else would we have screen savers?
Every day I ask myself what is really worth doing with a computer? Games are fun. Email is just a way to circumvent the post office. We are truly stuck on this constant search for a cool application of computers, but we have a harder and harder time trying to do it.
Personally, the times when I first saw Wolfenstein, civilization (I), and scorched Earth, I got a lot more excited about computers than I ever do now. Now I just take ever expanding resources for granted - almost in a fatalist way. I refrain from buying new hardware now, knowing that hardware is just going to go obsolete long before I can get my money's worth out of it.
The fact is, 95% of the computers out there are far overpowered for what any of their owners use them for. E-mail is not a CPU intensive task!
Which brings us to SETI@home - go team Slashdot!
Every time a bigger hard drive appears, M$ must be thankful, since the size of their OS's are rising so fast that storage technology has a hard time keeping up. Will the new win2000 install disk have to be a DVD rather than a CD?
Who would have realized that bugs and blue screens take up so much room?
It's all about choice. The last group that should be able to choose what we watch is the media. If the show was made, shouldn't we have the ability to decide if we want to watch it? How about putting more information with the program so parents can make informed decisions? I honestly cannot believe that the networks have our best interests in mind.
That being said, I'm in Canada, so ha!
Mr. Katz,
Please be aware that many people read your column on slashdot, and I think you owe them the courtesy of having someone proofread your article first. There were just too many typos to be excused.
Sorry,
RH