Yeah, I'm happy when they are under $1 per CD. I don't use them so often that that hurts my budget.
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I would have to say, as both an avid web-user and a web-developer that IE 5.0 is/was the pinnacle of browsing. Maybe it wasn't any more standards-compliant than the other browsers (probably less so), but it is a MAJOR improvement over the version 4 browsers (Both IE and NN) in terms of speed, stability, and how easy it is to make things work the way you want. Trying to maintain cross-browser compliance is the bane of web development, in my opinion.
I think IE has started going downhill with IE5.5. It crashes more and 5.0 sites have to tweak lots of things to look right in 5.5. I haven't tried 6.0 preview yet, though, maybe it's better?
Netscape Navigator 4 is pathetic in terms of DHTML capabilities, and web-application development. Sure, server-side transforms are fine and dandy, but if you want responsiveness, it has to be done client-side. And you just can't really do it (without crazy layers that take more time to debug than writing the whole app in IE) in NN4.
And I won't install Mozilla until they fix it for multi-user systems. That's just unacceptable. Why should I have to run it setuid/setgid?!?
This was kind of the philosophy that they talked about in "Rendezvous with Rama"... they had run out of all the Greek and Roman gods, and had moved onto Hindu gods at that point. Rama is Hindu, I guess, though I know very little about Hinduism, so I could be off by a religion or two.
These days we seem to name things XP3850203. I think they now name planets after StarCraft CD Keys.
I live on the border of Sunnyvale and Cupertino... I can walk to Apple's RnD building, and a huge HP complex just across the street. I live 18,000 feet from the switching station, and am paying $114 a month for 144 SDSL.
At school, I lived in Berkeley, very close to the switching station, and the best we could do was 768/384 for $80 a month. PacBell is cheaper, but it's PacBell, so I try to avoid them. And their coverage is considerably worse than Covad or others. As far as I know, nothing is offered over 1.5 Mbps around here.
I prefer DSL to cable as I can get multiple IPs very easily, and access my computers from work or a friend's house, or wherever.
I don't really understand why I live in the lap of computer technology and I can't get a decent net connection... even my 56k modem connects at 28.8 from my house. Bleah.
I think the problem you encountered there was that someone gave HR the description of the job, and they had no idea what the technologies were, but knew they wanted to fill a senior position.
These job descriptions are not that important once you get to the engineers who interview you.
I just graduated from Berkeley, and there were a lot of females in my computer classes. The thing was, there were very few American Native Girls in my classes. I don't mean the people that lived in America before stole their land and raped their families - I don't even mean people that are not WASPs. I mean people that were just born here. 2-nd generation immigrants on up. All the girls were from Russia, Taiwan, Vietnam, etc... Only a few that I could tell were born here. And, even then, I remember only a couple girls in any of my classes whose families were likely to have been here for several generations.
So, what does this mean? I have no idea. Just thought I'd mention it. Perhaps it's purely american culture that discourages Geek Girls.
I recently bought a USB mouse, the MouseMan Wheel, because I wanted to a) have a wheel everyone's been talking about, b) move my current mouse to my full-time linux box (as opposed to my linux/win98 timeshare box), and c) because I like the idea of a USB and want to support it, and I think the connectors are really cool, and, yes, serial and ps/2 suck and I don't like them.
Well, the mouse was auto-detected properly and all sorts of cool stuff, but then it would run for a bit, and then freeze my computer. Not just the mouse, but the whole computer. I upgraded the drivers, various things like that, but it still kept doing it, so I just plugged it into the ps/2 adapter and so now I have a ps/2 mouse. I don't know if it's my USB (motherboard and/or drivers) or my mouse drivers or what. I sure am glad Logitech provides all the different forms of connectors, though. So, yeah, that's my little story, my only experience with USB, I hope you all liked it.
I presume posting about that alleged "pardoy" is one of those 10e12 better ways to spend your time?
Of course, I'm here posting about you posting about that alleged "parody." I wonder how that ranks. It's a good thing I'm not that organized, or I'd probably be productive.
This is entirely off topic, but I agree entirely... I was trying to figure out why your message was marked Flamebait. If posts that aren't popular or that someone doesn't agree with are moderated down, then that's essentially censorship, which, as we all know, is bad (in general). Luckily, we have the option of reading ALL the posts, and ignoring the moderation, which I do. I do my own personal moderation by not reading the posts that I don't want to.
Well, I don't HAVE to go watch his movie, I can find a pirated copy from hong kong or something stupid like that. I didn't have to watch the re-realeases in the theatres... he's rich and famous because of ME, and all his other fans. Granted, his work was amazing, and he deserved what he got, but he still has a responsibility to his fans and his reputation, not matter what his or our rights are.
Sure he can do whatever he wants. But he has the responsibilty of doing service to the ART, not his already-full pocketbook. Most people don't live up to their responsibilities in life.
It's one thing to give people what they want, that seems to be a noble goal to me. It's another thing to give people what the think they want, solely in order to make a bunch of money. That, to me, is selling out. Sure, artists need to live, too, but when they are already multi-millionares, it is disgraceful not to focus back on the art, and doing the best job you can.
I won't say Lucas didn't, I haven't seen PM yet. If it doesn't live up to my standards, I'll be upset, and rightly so. I have every right to resent Lucas for not putting his heart, soul, and everything into this. If I were in his position, that's what I'd do.
I agree... I have no sympathy for people who are offended by the naked body, or the act of sex. You are naked underneath your clothes, people! We are born naked! I hate overboard puritanical conservatives... You ruin things for everyone else.
AND, this particular item was not pornography, it was art (there's already a fuzzy line). Can you imagine someone masturbating to this picture? Unless someone really likes Lara Croft, but, even so, there are better, clearer pictures of her to be had... Is the statue of David pornography? You can see his THING!
Here in the Bay Area, you can get 384k/128k for 80 a month, but only with 1 IP address, and you have to go through pacbell. if you want more IPs, or more bandwidth, the price shoots up to at least 200 or so... That's what we pay. I think I'm getting bled, but I'd rather not IP masquerade...
becuase the number of gamers who use Linux vs. Win32 is so trivial its probably not worth your time.
When I talked to NVIDIA, they said that most of their sales comes from OEM, which are all W9x sytems (though even THAT is changing now), so they don't care about the rest of their customers. That was the basic gist of what the guy said at GDC, but that was several weeks ago, seems they changed their mind, but not soon enough.
If I were a hardware vendor, I'd make linux drivers even if it WASN'T worth my time, just to be nice, because how much would it really cost for a company like nvidia....?
The really SCARY thing about this whole debacle is that kids are having their rights revoked for non-offenses. A teacher making a comment about a student being a source of trouble is not and SHOULD not be illegal. She has the right to say that. She has the responsibility to keep it to herself in front of other students, but the administration should be savvy enough to deal with it, not legislation or the police.
Blanket policy is ALWAYS a bad idea. Mandatory sentences just don't make any sense. Each situation is different, and we always need to determine the proper course of action based on the individual situation, and laws that PREVENT us from doing that are misguided at best.
Kids fight... they argue... they say things they don't mean. They are a bundle of hormones, and it's not that easy to behave the way you want them to. Hell, I am a bundle of hormones, and it's not easy to behave the way I want me to. Killing people is an EXTREME... most kids are not about to actually murder people, even if they say they will or want to. It's an expression of anger, not an actual intent to kill.
Ultimately, the REAL flaw with your idea, regardless of how immoral it seems to me, is that it addresses a problem after it's already started. The problem is that teachers/administration are hired that think like this, and students are brought up to be cliquey and treat people that aren't like them poorly. And, if we go back into the development of student personalities to where the problem actually forms, it comes down to something we can't solve with new laws: child-rearing. The only real way to solve the problem of significant peer abuse is by educating... Educating parents who, in turn, educate their children, at a young age. Making it clear to people that it's OK to be smart, and to excel in class, and to be bad at sports, if that's who they are and want to be, and if that's who others are and want to be.
Your authoritarian tactics will just harbor resentment and make everyone feel oppressed, failing to solve anything. I think The Problem is that the administrations in charge of these schools are rather uninspired and think exactly like you do.
A company is not a democracy. Just because something can get you fired doesn't mean it should get you jailed. There's a difference between a company looking out for it's best interests, and legislating common sense.
You can't apply the same rules to a school, because the school is for the student's benefit, not the people who run the school.
Your taste has nothing to do with anyone else's taste. People found it funny, thus it contributes to the article. It's more interesting than commants that repeat the same thing that someone's already written several times, and those tend to stay at 1. So this should be at least 2. Remember, "focus on moderating up, not down"...
As a CS major at UC Berkeley, I still feel that people here are shallow and materialistic just like everywhere else. I left high school, wishing that I would find intellectuals, people like me... And while there are a LOT of people here, I don't know that I've found too many real intellectuals... Perhaps I just can't see them.
I've met lots of college students that have bad reactions to me being a CS major. Mostly girls, by some random coincidence. "What's your major." "Um, actually, Computer Science." "Oh, how fun..."
But it is better, I'm not HATED for being who I am, I'm just not particularly liked. I guess I don't really fit into the CS/Engineering crowd, here, either. There are people that LIVE in the labs, and I'd much rather live at home. I DO wear a trenchcoat, but I also comb my hair (unless I have to get up and go straight to the lab).
So, even among geek culture, there are misfits and outsiders. Not that I'm about to slaughter anyone, but... I look pretty silly with my trenchcoat in the summertime.
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Yeah, I'm happy when they are under $1 per CD. I don't use them so often that that hurts my budget.
I would have to say, as both an avid web-user and a web-developer that IE 5.0 is/was the pinnacle of browsing. Maybe it wasn't any more standards-compliant than the other browsers (probably less so), but it is a MAJOR improvement over the version 4 browsers (Both IE and NN) in terms of speed, stability, and how easy it is to make things work the way you want. Trying to maintain cross-browser compliance is the bane of web development, in my opinion.
I think IE has started going downhill with IE5.5. It crashes more and 5.0 sites have to tweak lots of things to look right in 5.5. I haven't tried 6.0 preview yet, though, maybe it's better?
Netscape Navigator 4 is pathetic in terms of DHTML capabilities, and web-application development. Sure, server-side transforms are fine and dandy, but if you want responsiveness, it has to be done client-side. And you just can't really do it (without crazy layers that take more time to debug than writing the whole app in IE) in NN4.
And I won't install Mozilla until they fix it for multi-user systems. That's just unacceptable. Why should I have to run it setuid/setgid?!?
This was kind of the philosophy that they talked about in "Rendezvous with Rama"... they had run out of all the Greek and Roman gods, and had moved onto Hindu gods at that point. Rama is Hindu, I guess, though I know very little about Hinduism, so I could be off by a religion or two.
These days we seem to name things XP3850203. I think they now name planets after StarCraft CD Keys.
I live on the border of Sunnyvale and Cupertino... I can walk to Apple's RnD building, and a huge HP complex just across the street. I live 18,000 feet from the switching station, and am paying $114 a month for 144 SDSL.
At school, I lived in Berkeley, very close to the switching station, and the best we could do was 768/384 for $80 a month. PacBell is cheaper, but it's PacBell, so I try to avoid them. And their coverage is considerably worse than Covad or others. As far as I know, nothing is offered over 1.5 Mbps around here.
I prefer DSL to cable as I can get multiple IPs very easily, and access my computers from work or a friend's house, or wherever.
I don't really understand why I live in the lap of computer technology and I can't get a decent net connection... even my 56k modem connects at 28.8 from my house. Bleah.
-David
I think the problem you encountered there was that someone gave HR the description of the job, and they had no idea what the technologies were, but knew they wanted to fill a senior position.
These job descriptions are not that important once you get to the engineers who interview you.
-Iffy
I just graduated from Berkeley, and there were a lot of females in my computer classes. The thing was, there were very few American Native Girls in my classes. I don't mean the people that lived in America before stole their land and raped their families - I don't even mean people that are not WASPs. I mean people that were just born here. 2-nd generation immigrants on up. All the girls were from Russia, Taiwan, Vietnam, etc... Only a few that I could tell were born here. And, even then, I remember only a couple girls in any of my classes whose families were likely to have been here for several generations.
So, what does this mean? I have no idea. Just thought I'd mention it. Perhaps it's purely american culture that discourages Geek Girls.
I recently bought a USB mouse, the MouseMan Wheel, because I wanted to a) have a wheel everyone's been talking about, b) move my current mouse to my full-time linux box (as opposed to my linux/win98 timeshare box), and c) because I like the idea of a USB and want to support it, and I think the connectors are really cool, and, yes, serial and ps/2 suck and I don't like them.
Well, the mouse was auto-detected properly and all sorts of cool stuff, but then it would run for a bit, and then freeze my computer. Not just the mouse, but the whole computer. I upgraded the drivers, various things like that, but it still kept doing it, so I just plugged it into the ps/2 adapter and so now I have a ps/2 mouse. I don't know if it's my USB (motherboard and/or drivers) or my mouse drivers or what. I sure am glad Logitech provides all the different forms of connectors, though. So, yeah, that's my little story, my only experience with USB, I hope you all liked it.
I presume posting about that alleged "pardoy" is one of those 10e12 better ways to spend your time?
Of course, I'm here posting about you posting about that alleged "parody." I wonder how that ranks. It's a good thing I'm not that organized, or I'd probably be productive.
This is entirely off topic, but I agree entirely... I was trying to figure out why your message was marked Flamebait. If posts that aren't popular or that someone doesn't agree with are moderated down, then that's essentially censorship, which, as we all know, is bad (in general). Luckily, we have the option of reading ALL the posts, and ignoring the moderation, which I do. I do my own personal moderation by not reading the posts that I don't want to.
Well, I don't HAVE to go watch his movie, I can find a pirated copy from hong kong or something stupid like that. I didn't have to watch the re-realeases in the theatres... he's rich and famous because of ME, and all his other fans. Granted, his work was amazing, and he deserved what he got, but he still has a responsibility to his fans and his reputation, not matter what his or our rights are.
Sure he can do whatever he wants. But he has the responsibilty of doing service to the ART, not his already-full pocketbook. Most people don't live up to their responsibilities in life.
It's one thing to give people what they want, that seems to be a noble goal to me. It's another thing to give people what the think they want, solely in order to make a bunch of money. That, to me, is selling out. Sure, artists need to live, too, but when they are already multi-millionares, it is disgraceful not to focus back on the art, and doing the best job you can.
I won't say Lucas didn't, I haven't seen PM yet. If it doesn't live up to my standards, I'll be upset, and rightly so. I have every right to resent Lucas for not putting his heart, soul, and everything into this. If I were in his position, that's what I'd do.
I accidentally moderated this down instead of up.
Wait... let me get this straight... So gratuitous wars against France would be a bad thing?
I don't trust anything that has as badly designed a web site as that one. It hurt my soul to look at it.
Why not just get some normal-ass every-day run-of-the-mill speakers?!? Is there NO GOD?!
I agree... I have no sympathy for people who are offended by the naked body, or the act of sex. You are naked underneath your clothes, people! We are born naked! I hate overboard puritanical conservatives... You ruin things for everyone else.
AND, this particular item was not pornography, it was art (there's already a fuzzy line). Can you imagine someone masturbating to this picture? Unless someone really likes Lara Croft, but, even so, there are better, clearer pictures of her to be had... Is the statue of David pornography? You can see his THING !
Here in the Bay Area, you can get 384k/128k for 80 a month, but only with 1 IP address, and you have to go through pacbell. if you want more IPs, or more bandwidth, the price shoots up to at least 200 or so... That's what we pay. I think I'm getting bled, but I'd rather not IP masquerade...
becuase the number of gamers who use Linux vs. Win32 is so trivial its probably not worth your time.
When I talked to NVIDIA, they said that most of their sales comes from OEM, which are all W9x sytems (though even THAT is changing now), so they don't care about the rest of their customers. That was the basic gist of what the guy said at GDC, but that was several weeks ago, seems they changed their mind, but not soon enough.
If I were a hardware vendor, I'd make linux drivers even if it WASN'T worth my time, just to be nice, because how much would it really cost for a company like nvidia....?
Wow, this is a really bad idea.
The really SCARY thing about this whole debacle is that kids are having their rights revoked for non-offenses. A teacher making a comment about a student being a source of trouble is not and SHOULD not be illegal. She has the right to say that. She has the responsibility to keep it to herself in front of other students, but the administration should be savvy enough to deal with it, not legislation or the police.
Blanket policy is ALWAYS a bad idea. Mandatory sentences just don't make any sense. Each situation is different, and we always need to determine the proper course of action based on the individual situation, and laws that PREVENT us from doing that are misguided at best.
Kids fight... they argue... they say things they don't mean. They are a bundle of hormones, and it's not that easy to behave the way you want them to. Hell, I am a bundle of hormones, and it's not easy to behave the way I want me to. Killing people is an EXTREME... most kids are not about to actually murder people, even if they say they will or want to. It's an expression of anger, not an actual intent to kill.
Ultimately, the REAL flaw with your idea, regardless of how immoral it seems to me, is that it addresses a problem after it's already started. The problem is that teachers/administration are hired that think like this, and students are brought up to be cliquey and treat people that aren't like them poorly. And, if we go back into the development of student personalities to where the problem actually forms, it comes down to something we can't solve with new laws: child-rearing. The only real way to solve the problem of significant peer abuse is by educating... Educating parents who, in turn, educate their children, at a young age. Making it clear to people that it's OK to be smart, and to excel in class, and to be bad at sports, if that's who they are and want to be, and if that's who others are and want to be.
Your authoritarian tactics will just harbor resentment and make everyone feel oppressed, failing to solve anything. I think The Problem is that the administrations in charge of these schools are rather uninspired and think exactly like you do.
A company is not a democracy. Just because something can get you fired doesn't mean it should get you jailed. There's a difference between a company looking out for it's best interests, and legislating common sense.
You can't apply the same rules to a school, because the school is for the student's benefit, not the people who run the school.
Your taste has nothing to do with anyone else's taste. People found it funny, thus it contributes to the article. It's more interesting than commants that repeat the same thing that someone's already written several times, and those tend to stay at 1. So this should be at least 2. Remember, "focus on moderating up, not down"...
"this is in really bad taste, regardless of your perspective on the issue..."
Bad taste is removing (or scoring down) a comment that you feel is in bad taste.
I thought it was pretty damn funny.
Death is funny. Accept what you cannot change, or something.
As a CS major at UC Berkeley, I still feel that people here are shallow and materialistic just like everywhere else. I left high school, wishing that I would find intellectuals, people like me... And while there are a LOT of people here, I don't know that I've found too many real intellectuals... Perhaps I just can't see them.
I've met lots of college students that have bad reactions to me being a CS major. Mostly girls, by some random coincidence. "What's your major." "Um, actually, Computer Science." "Oh, how fun..."
But it is better, I'm not HATED for being who I am, I'm just not particularly liked. I guess I don't really fit into the CS/Engineering crowd, here, either. There are people that LIVE in the labs, and I'd much rather live at home. I DO wear a trenchcoat, but I also comb my hair (unless I have to get up and go straight to the lab).
So, even among geek culture, there are misfits and outsiders. Not that I'm about to slaughter anyone, but... I look pretty silly with my trenchcoat in the summertime.
Oops, you are right... I suck...
You forgot Ravi Sethi... The poor guy never gets a fair break.