Auto-self-destructive DVDs will never be useful for commercial products like movies, games, etc., so this story is a waste of time. What we should be spending our time talking about are the idiots developing this technology in hopes of huge commercial profits... Hey, the profits may come, but only if governments can find a way to spend our tax dollars on it for some hidden purpose.
But you won't find me buying any stock in this crap.
This is why I just want a phone that sends and receives calls, checks voicemail, and stores numbers. Keeping time is optional as long as I know when any voicemails were left. My cell phone is for direct personal communication. Anything else, and I'm not interested. (Of course, I wasn't interested in cell phones until just last December.)
That's barely 16.5 times per day. New "top 40" songs are played more than once per hour on many top 40 stations around the country, and this isn't counting promos and ads either. The rating system that determines top 40 songs is based on -- you guessed it -- airplay! So songs that are played a lot earn a higher rating in the top 40 and, well, they get played a lot.
I agree. Eventually they'll have to ease up on the contracts, because some new carrier is going to come along that flaunts customer freedom like it's the American way, and people are going to flock to it. With money flowing in, they'll be able to afford high-quality service and hardware, and suddenly the rest of the companies will be forced to join in the fun...
The resistance to this will be the buraucratic side -- not the higher-ups, but the middle management who oversee all the interns handling the paperwork and database maintenance. But IT solutions for keeping track of changes are nothing new, and if wireless technology can be improved, then so can the wireless companies' ability to serve the customer the way the customer should be served.
...is staying on the line with people who have crappy phones or phone service. My six months with Verizon Wireless have been pretty much flawless.
There was this glitch in the billing the first month; in our shared minutes plan, we had asked for 800, but the rep we dealt with didn't effect the change, and so we ran up about 700 minutes while still on a 400 minute limit -- oops. But that could have been our fault as much as theirs, and even if it was their fault, it was only one person -- not the company. Either way, we decided if it only happened once, we could bite the bullet. So we did.
The media just report the facts (insert joke here), and the fact -- in this case -- is that someone claims to have made an extraordinary mathematical discovery. Therefore, in this case, we are the fact-checkers. Or, rather, anyone who understands enough math to sift through 124 pages of an alleged proof (to prove the proof?) are the fact-checkers.
Or 0.89a (0.89b, 0.89c) if the idea is that it's gearing up for 0.9. Or, better still, every release after 0.8 should be incremented by.01... that is, to 0.81, 0.82, 0.83, etc. until they make the jump to 0.9.
Or how about I just don't care, as long as the final version (the only one I ever install) is stable and better than the last.
Now that games like Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and [insert your favorite N64 title here], even 64-bit games could be considered "retro" in the right setting. Then again, since some 32-bit and 64-bit titles helped to kick off the 3D gaming era, I don't think I'd call them retro just yet... maybe throwback games to yesteryear.
"Retro" is still limited to 2D, although it is no longer restricted to the early classics like Pong, Pacman, and Galaga. Now it can include NES, SNES, and Genesis titles like Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog... or insert your favorite 8-to-16-bit titles here.:-)
The Transit of Venus is a phenomena witnessed very seldomly -- in fact, next Tuesday's transit will be the first witnessable from Earth since 1882. (Google News points to hundreds of stories.) The transit of a planet occurs when it passes between another and the sun, thus only transits of Mercury and Venus are possible from Earth. It will begin at 05:13 Universal Time, which is 9:13pm July 7 on the US West Coast (more info), and it will last several hours. NASA has a map that shows when and where it will be viewable (more maps here), some safety tips for properly viewing the sun, and a Sun-Earth Day 2004 web site with lots more, including where to find webcasts. This Transit of Venus FAQ should answer many of your questions, including why transits of Venus follow a regular pattern of recurrence at intervals of 8, 121.5, 8, and 105.5 years. FYI, The event won't be visible in North American sky until the sun rises, and by then it will be almost over. If you miss this one, you'll have one more chance at it on June 6, 2012, when the transit will be most visible the Pacific.
(I submitted this to Slashdot several days ago; I was rejected.)
Forgive and cure my ignorance: how does KHTML compare to other, similar technologies? I've read a couple of simple definitions, but I believe a few intelligent slashdotters can humanize the jargon in such a way that it can be more easily digested.
More to the point, web standards are developer defined. Users who simply use the end product don't care much about the process going in as long as the result is effective. We developers, on the other hand, are quite interested in sanitizing the web we have woven...
FYI, I'm using the term developer to include any user who happens to develop a web page. And I'm not talking about using one of those convenient page builders (the old type being Geocities and Xoom, the new type being LiveJournal and Blogspot). I'm talking about hard coding web developers who make web pages, even if the most advanced "language" they ever use is HTML.
That was a very clever use of words: Web and browser developers are managing "language saturation as never before" -- that just seems brilliant, yet it was such a simple and clear statement. You deserve a medal.:-)
On a lighter note, though, I share your sentiment. The saturation of various acronymic technologies is turning the WWW into an eyechart.
ESPN and CNN were both listed in the list of top pop-up/under ad users, and I visit both of those sites many times each day, and I never see a pop-up from either of them. In fact, I almost never see a pop-up ad from anyone... unless I disable my blockers.
I use two blockers, one by accident. I downloaded Google's toolbar because it helps me find anything anywhere on the net in about three seconds, rather than navigating to the Google home page in an additional two seconds. Time is money!
The other blocker I use is Ad-Watch, included with LavaSoft's Ad-Aware if you get the Plus or Premium version. Any pop-ups that the Google toolbar doesn't catch are caught by Ad-Watch, and I almost never see any at all. (The only time I do see them is when Ad-Watch is temporarily disabled or when I'm doing so much that my CPU can't keep up with me.)
This leaves one breed of ads that still annoy me, and I'm not talking about static banner ads, because tend to stay out of my way. I'm talking about the dynamic or floating banner ads, which are horrible because they cover up the content of the site I'm trying to view either for a few seconds or sometimes for an indefinite amount of time (until I find the tiny "close" button). I actually think some of these are blocked on occasion, but I know that they're what I see most these days (especially on ESPN and IGN), and I'd really like to see them go. So if anyone has any clue how to get rid of them, feel free to clue me in!
So Microsoft would become the software version of the RIAA, and half of America's college population can be slapped with exorbitant fines and perhaps even criminal records (depending on what other pirated software is found)? I think I'll pass.
I ran into my first virus problem in over three years this last week. I wasn't concerned enough to actually get the name of it, but it wasn't anything I've seen making any headlines. All I remember is Norton found it and eradicated it (apparently) before it did anything.
But it was enough to get my attention when my box screamed "virus alert!" at me in the middle of listening to music. Oh well, no worries.
...or is the headline associated with this Slashdot article essentially meaningless?
"Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD Burning" -- that has been true for several years now. Why not give us a headline that refers to some of the new information in the article(s)?
I was talking about software developed without the intention of being paid for it in anyway -- that's what freeware is. And as I said, individuals who develop freeware on the own time without being paid have no measure for the value of their work except the work they put into it and the utility they (and others) find in the finished product.
Public ownership and state ownership are not the same. Socialism means the people own it as a collective, and there is no higher authority to control it. Communism means the people own nothing and the state owns everything. The end result is ideally the same -- everyone works equally and is compensated equally.
The difference is that socialists trust the public to be intelligent enough to manage their own assets; communists do not trust the public, and therefore require the government bureaucrats to manage the public's assets. Or something to that effect.
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Auto-self-destructive DVDs will never be useful for commercial products like movies, games, etc., so this story is a waste of time. What we should be spending our time talking about are the idiots developing this technology in hopes of huge commercial profits... Hey, the profits may come, but only if governments can find a way to spend our tax dollars on it for some hidden purpose.
But you won't find me buying any stock in this crap.
This is why I just want a phone that sends and receives calls, checks voicemail, and stores numbers. Keeping time is optional as long as I know when any voicemails were left. My cell phone is for direct personal communication. Anything else, and I'm not interested. (Of course, I wasn't interested in cell phones until just last December.)
It's about time the 128-bit gaming market picked this up. I can't wait to see it on my television screen!
That is all.
That's barely 16.5 times per day. New "top 40" songs are played more than once per hour on many top 40 stations around the country, and this isn't counting promos and ads either. The rating system that determines top 40 songs is based on -- you guessed it -- airplay! So songs that are played a lot earn a higher rating in the top 40 and, well, they get played a lot.
You can see how this can get to be a nuisance.
I agree. Eventually they'll have to ease up on the contracts, because some new carrier is going to come along that flaunts customer freedom like it's the American way, and people are going to flock to it. With money flowing in, they'll be able to afford high-quality service and hardware, and suddenly the rest of the companies will be forced to join in the fun...
The resistance to this will be the buraucratic side -- not the higher-ups, but the middle management who oversee all the interns handling the paperwork and database maintenance. But IT solutions for keeping track of changes are nothing new, and if wireless technology can be improved, then so can the wireless companies' ability to serve the customer the way the customer should be served.
...is staying on the line with people who have crappy phones or phone service. My six months with Verizon Wireless have been pretty much flawless.
There was this glitch in the billing the first month; in our shared minutes plan, we had asked for 800, but the rep we dealt with didn't effect the change, and so we ran up about 700 minutes while still on a 400 minute limit -- oops. But that could have been our fault as much as theirs, and even if it was their fault, it was only one person -- not the company. Either way, we decided if it only happened once, we could bite the bullet. So we did.
Double. You. Tee. Eff.
The media just report the facts (insert joke here), and the fact -- in this case -- is that someone claims to have made an extraordinary mathematical discovery. Therefore, in this case, we are the fact-checkers. Or, rather, anyone who understands enough math to sift through 124 pages of an alleged proof (to prove the proof?) are the fact-checkers.
Or 0.89a (0.89b, 0.89c) if the idea is that it's gearing up for 0.9. Or, better still, every release after 0.8 should be incremented by .01... that is, to 0.81, 0.82, 0.83, etc. until they make the jump to 0.9.
Or how about I just don't care, as long as the final version (the only one I ever install) is stable and better than the last.
127.0.0.1 is a local loopback address and wastes computer resources. Set it to 0.0.0.0 instead, since that address simply doesn't exist.
Also... no web site can prevent you from viewing its source if you simply disable javascript for a few seconds (or use another browser).
Somewhere, a Google employee is reading this Slashdot article thinking, "Oh shit. So much for next week's vacation."
Now that games like Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and [insert your favorite N64 title here], even 64-bit games could be considered "retro" in the right setting. Then again, since some 32-bit and 64-bit titles helped to kick off the 3D gaming era, I don't think I'd call them retro just yet... maybe throwback games to yesteryear.
:-)
"Retro" is still limited to 2D, although it is no longer restricted to the early classics like Pong, Pacman, and Galaga. Now it can include NES, SNES, and Genesis titles like Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog... or insert your favorite 8-to-16-bit titles here.
The Transit of Venus is a phenomena witnessed very seldomly -- in fact, next Tuesday's transit will be the first witnessable from Earth since 1882. (Google News points to hundreds of stories.) The transit of a planet occurs when it passes between another and the sun, thus only transits of Mercury and Venus are possible from Earth. It will begin at 05:13 Universal Time, which is 9:13pm July 7 on the US West Coast (more info), and it will last several hours. NASA has a map that shows when and where it will be viewable (more maps here), some safety tips for properly viewing the sun, and a Sun-Earth Day 2004 web site with lots more, including where to find webcasts. This Transit of Venus FAQ should answer many of your questions, including why transits of Venus follow a regular pattern of recurrence at intervals of 8, 121.5, 8, and 105.5 years. FYI, The event won't be visible in North American sky until the sun rises, and by then it will be almost over. If you miss this one, you'll have one more chance at it on June 6, 2012, when the transit will be most visible the Pacific.
(I submitted this to Slashdot several days ago; I was rejected.)
Forgive and cure my ignorance: how does KHTML compare to other, similar technologies? I've read a couple of simple definitions, but I believe a few intelligent slashdotters can humanize the jargon in such a way that it can be more easily digested.
More to the point, web standards are developer defined. Users who simply use the end product don't care much about the process going in as long as the result is effective. We developers, on the other hand, are quite interested in sanitizing the web we have woven...
FYI, I'm using the term developer to include any user who happens to develop a web page. And I'm not talking about using one of those convenient page builders (the old type being Geocities and Xoom, the new type being LiveJournal and Blogspot). I'm talking about hard coding web developers who make web pages, even if the most advanced "language" they ever use is HTML.
That was a very clever use of words: Web and browser developers are managing "language saturation as never before" -- that just seems brilliant, yet it was such a simple and clear statement. You deserve a medal. :-)
On a lighter note, though, I share your sentiment. The saturation of various acronymic technologies is turning the WWW into an eyechart.
ESPN and CNN were both listed in the list of top pop-up/under ad users, and I visit both of those sites many times each day, and I never see a pop-up from either of them. In fact, I almost never see a pop-up ad from anyone... unless I disable my blockers.
I use two blockers, one by accident. I downloaded Google's toolbar because it helps me find anything anywhere on the net in about three seconds, rather than navigating to the Google home page in an additional two seconds. Time is money!
The other blocker I use is Ad-Watch, included with LavaSoft's Ad-Aware if you get the Plus or Premium version. Any pop-ups that the Google toolbar doesn't catch are caught by Ad-Watch, and I almost never see any at all. (The only time I do see them is when Ad-Watch is temporarily disabled or when I'm doing so much that my CPU can't keep up with me.)
This leaves one breed of ads that still annoy me, and I'm not talking about static banner ads, because tend to stay out of my way. I'm talking about the dynamic or floating banner ads, which are horrible because they cover up the content of the site I'm trying to view either for a few seconds or sometimes for an indefinite amount of time (until I find the tiny "close" button). I actually think some of these are blocked on occasion, but I know that they're what I see most these days (especially on ESPN and IGN), and I'd really like to see them go. So if anyone has any clue how to get rid of them, feel free to clue me in!
So Microsoft would become the software version of the RIAA, and half of America's college population can be slapped with exorbitant fines and perhaps even criminal records (depending on what other pirated software is found)? I think I'll pass.
A clever idea, but I'll pass.
...as opposed to coincidentally or ironically...
I ran into my first virus problem in over three years this last week. I wasn't concerned enough to actually get the name of it, but it wasn't anything I've seen making any headlines. All I remember is Norton found it and eradicated it (apparently) before it did anything.
But it was enough to get my attention when my box screamed "virus alert!" at me in the middle of listening to music. Oh well, no worries.
...or is the headline associated with this Slashdot article essentially meaningless?
"Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD Burning" -- that has been true for several years now. Why not give us a headline that refers to some of the new information in the article(s)?
I was talking about software developed without the intention of being paid for it in anyway -- that's what freeware is. And as I said, individuals who develop freeware on the own time without being paid have no measure for the value of their work except the work they put into it and the utility they (and others) find in the finished product.
1. I thought the conversation was about freeware developed on personal time, not for wages. If this isn't the case, my mistake.
2. True, but most people have no idea what any of that means.
3. Okay, okay. I didn't see the word "marginal", or at least I didn't process it. My mistake.
Because we're paid so much for the freeware we develop on our own time at home...
After fumbling through the links on your home page, I found the blog and added it to my favorites. I'll peruse it later.
Public ownership and state ownership are not the same. Socialism means the people own it as a collective, and there is no higher authority to control it. Communism means the people own nothing and the state owns everything. The end result is ideally the same -- everyone works equally and is compensated equally.
The difference is that socialists trust the public to be intelligent enough to manage their own assets; communists do not trust the public, and therefore require the government bureaucrats to manage the public's assets. Or something to that effect.