Well, *SHIT*! I can't make toast on my top-notch PC, and here I was thinking it was the dog's fucken bollocks, but it's clearly lacking some functionality I hadn't thought of.
Just noticed my brand new DVD player can't play Gamecube games either! What a waste of money!
Hint: GAMECUBE - it's a CUBE that plays GAMES!!!
I'd bet good money you have a CD player and a DVD player already, at least in your PC. Why would anyone want their game console to play anything but games?
According to this post, it appears that the new iMacs lack a manual release hole for the cd-rom drive and the disk has to be released by 'manually winding the cogs' or returning the machine for professional repair.
The article states that the EP was released in 1999, and the face hasn't been announced by James or his record company. That hardly sounds like a publicity stunt to me.
Aphex Twin isn't exactly everyone's cup of tea, I think you either buy this stuff or not, you're not going to be swayed to buy it because you can see a freaky face when you run it through certain software.
I really should have added a smiley to my post, as I was just gently joshing you rather than trying to make a massive point.
The Leonidas site now opens on a basic html page with a 'view our flash site' link in the center, the flash looked ugly and clunky, and doesn't do them any favours.
Guideroutier doesn't seem to have any flash at all, though...
But still, there are some wonderful flash sites out there that are a thousand miles away from what can be done in html. They are more like a work of art than a webpage. I admit that they are not particularly 'useful', but then how much of the web is useful? I don't consider Slashdot to be of much use to anyone (except the askers of Ask Slashdots, presumably). Here's another example of a fairly good looking html website that I don't think is particularly useful.;)
Last time this whole flash/anti-flash argument raged on/. someone posted a link to a hotel booking scheme that ran in flash and made it a much more natural experience than messing with forms and such. It was a very intuitive interface that I don't think could be done anywhere near as well in html. Wish I had the bookmark, but I cleared it out a while ago.
I thought this sounded familiar... seems there are many groups working in this worthwhile way. Google directory links a few here.
If you don't live in the Oakland area there may be a group near you who you can either volunteer to help, or donate those old PCs gathering dust in the attic.
If you can't find anyone near you, why not go it alone? I installed Linux on an old box and gave it to the neighbours kid, with a bashed up old 15" monitor from the local tip.
Go to some Chinese/Japanese/French/Whatever site and try using it. Almost impossible (without the fish)
Do you really find that? Occasionally google will point me to a page in French, or German, or even Chinese (esp. if looking for GBA roms) and it's not hard to find your way around. If you're looking for a file, it's even easier. I regularly used to pick up Voodoo drivers from German sites (who seemed to be right on the ball for some reason) and, like I said, GBA Roms from Chinese and Japanese sites where I can't even understand the symbols.
I admit I have a smattering of French and Spanish, but no other languages ('cept for English, natch), but I can usually make an educated guess as to what a web page is getting at.
The fact that these kids are generally totally illiterate makes their achievement a lot more interesting. Also they had no (initial) idea how to navigate from page to page, why the arrow changed to a finger sometimes, what underlined phrases meant. I can't read the site right now (/.ed) but I'd expect they prefer sites with high graphic content (like stileproject perhaps?), and those that were low on text. Like most kids, probably.
More likely the lack of cheap broadband in the UK, its complete unavailability in some parts and the decline and fall of the companies providing it, like NTL. Having just put up with 12 months of crappy digital TV from NTL, I certainly wouldn't want to be signing a 12 month contract for cable internet from them.
Plus, if these guys are talking $20 for a CD (£16?) then we can get them cheaper anyway (£10 at Tesco stores and online stores).
Lol... well there's this which although wasn't exactly what I was thinking of as "driving" is obviously a factor. (I thought that article was a send-up on first reading).
I think what I was getting at is that the online porn industry has driven many innovations, such as pop-ups (I didn't say you had to like it). Here's another article supporting my claim. This one points out some ways in which the online porn business model was adopted by the e-commerce pioneers.
It's said that the pr0n industry drove the internet and more noteably the WWW to the position it's in today. It seems likely that e-paper would be a useful addition to the pr0nographer's trade. Moving and changeable erm... articles with the added advantage of being easy to hide and, of course, wipe-clean.
Paperless? No - but only by preference
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My office is practically paperless. My inbox is my intray. All my work comes by way of email, electronic change requests or electronic problem reports. Meeting minutes are online. My reference material is all available on the intranet and internet. The documentation for our system is all kept and maintained on a shared drive. Communication is done via email or Instant Message (or vocal of course).
The only stuff I have on paper is a couple of O'Reilly's and some stuff I look at so often it's more practical to have it in a drawer - and that is just printed copies of what's available online.
If I wanted to I could go through my working life here without a single slip of dead tree on my desk.
I hate to admit it, but it's probably that way because of Lotus Notes.
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There may have been better First Contact movies, but I can't think of any offhand.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I still think it's a beautiful movie, and one of Spielburg's best.
Well, *SHIT*! I can't make toast on my top-notch PC, and here I was thinking it was the dog's fucken bollocks, but it's clearly lacking some functionality I hadn't thought of.
Just noticed my brand new DVD player can't play Gamecube games either! What a waste of money!
Hint: GAMECUBE - it's a CUBE that plays GAMES!!!
I'd bet good money you have a CD player and a DVD player already, at least in your PC. Why would anyone want their game console to play anything but games?
According to this post, it appears that the new iMacs lack a manual release hole for the cd-rom drive and the disk has to be released by 'manually winding the cogs' or returning the machine for professional repair.
The article states that the EP was released in 1999, and the face hasn't been announced by James or his record company. That hardly sounds like a publicity stunt to me.
Aphex Twin isn't exactly everyone's cup of tea, I think you either buy this stuff or not, you're not going to be swayed to buy it because you can see a freaky face when you run it through certain software.
I would, however, recommend Selected Ambient Works 85-92 as a gentler introduction to the man's work.
So if I tell you that Russ has got me a ticket for 12.01 Thursday morning, you won't be mad? ;-)
I didn't ask him to by the way.
If Taco can propose on here, I can damn well break *this* news here...
I'll still go see it again with you guys, though.
(also there's still tickets for UCI on Thursday morning, dood)
Every decent scam has a half-life that's a function of popularity.
Except Fastrack p2p.
How do you render the received file harmless?
I had great fun stripping the first X bytes (forgot now) out of Sircam attachments and reading the contents.
Oh good, then Slashdot will also soon be reporting on other 'Stuff That Matters' such as:
Israeli troops laying seige to the chuch of the Nativity in Bethlehem and
The elections in France and
Governmental censorship in Iran and so on?
Don't lecture me on what's important or not. I was surprised to see this on Slashdot is all.
...How, exactly?
Thank you.
And from there to specifically what I was looking for: i-Hotelier
Very very nice flash interface.
I really should have added a smiley to my post, as I was just gently joshing you rather than trying to make a massive point.
;)
/. someone posted a link to a hotel booking scheme that ran in flash and made it a much more natural experience than messing with forms and such. It was a very intuitive interface that I don't think could be done anywhere near as well in html. Wish I had the bookmark, but I cleared it out a while ago.
The Leonidas site now opens on a basic html page with a 'view our flash site' link in the center, the flash looked ugly and clunky, and doesn't do them any favours.
Guideroutier doesn't seem to have any flash at all, though...
But still, there are some wonderful flash sites out there that are a thousand miles away from what can be done in html. They are more like a work of art than a webpage. I admit that they are not particularly 'useful', but then how much of the web is useful? I don't consider Slashdot to be of much use to anyone (except the askers of Ask Slashdots, presumably). Here's another example of a fairly good looking html website that I don't think is particularly useful.
Last time this whole flash/anti-flash argument raged on
But, apart from all that stuff, it's rubbish, eh?
You sound like that Monty Python sketch... "What have the Romans ever done for us?"
Here is the co-organisers (Planetary Society) website (deeplinked to avoid crappy flash front page). It's done in conjunction with Cosmos Studios.
There is much more in-depth information and some pictures on both of those sites.
... I'd still buy my beautiful Seiko Kinetic Arctura. Words fail me, I love my watch.
I thought this sounded familiar... seems there are many groups working in this worthwhile way. Google directory links a few here.
If you don't live in the Oakland area there may be a group near you who you can either volunteer to help, or donate those old PCs gathering dust in the attic.
If you can't find anyone near you, why not go it alone? I installed Linux on an old box and gave it to the neighbours kid, with a bashed up old 15" monitor from the local tip.
Out of all the rumoured names for this chip: Forton; Metaron; Multeon; Vanton; and Opteron I like Opteron best of all, but not by much.
I suppose as we hear it more and more it will become more palatable, just like Athlon and Duron.
Go to some Chinese/Japanese/French/Whatever site and try using it. Almost impossible (without the fish)
Do you really find that? Occasionally google will point me to a page in French, or German, or even Chinese (esp. if looking for GBA roms) and it's not hard to find your way around. If you're looking for a file, it's even easier. I regularly used to pick up Voodoo drivers from German sites (who seemed to be right on the ball for some reason) and, like I said, GBA Roms from Chinese and Japanese sites where I can't even understand the symbols.
I admit I have a smattering of French and Spanish, but no other languages ('cept for English, natch), but I can usually make an educated guess as to what a web page is getting at.
The fact that these kids are generally totally illiterate makes their achievement a lot more interesting. Also they had no (initial) idea how to navigate from page to page, why the arrow changed to a finger sometimes, what underlined phrases meant. I can't read the site right now (/.ed) but I'd expect they prefer sites with high graphic content (like stileproject perhaps?), and those that were low on text. Like most kids, probably.
It will have an effect on the stats gathered, but it wouldn't inflate the stats on IE6.0 because it can't identify it'self as IE6.0, only IE5.0.
Still, it'd be interesting to know what percentage of the MSIE5.0 and Netscape and Others were attributable to Opera.
More likely the lack of cheap broadband in the UK, its complete unavailability in some parts and the decline and fall of the companies providing it, like NTL. Having just put up with 12 months of crappy digital TV from NTL, I certainly wouldn't want to be signing a 12 month contract for cable internet from them.
Plus, if these guys are talking $20 for a CD (£16?) then we can get them cheaper anyway (£10 at Tesco stores and online stores).
The baby Jesus wasn't resurrected at Easter. Jesus (supposedly) died a man, aged IIRC in his late 30's.
Never fight naked, unless your in prison...
So is yours... that should be "unless you're in prison.
In my version of the set, the books are numbered:
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E
and the Appendices are in book 'N'
Lol... well there's this which although wasn't exactly what I was thinking of as "driving" is obviously a factor. (I thought that article was a send-up on first reading).
I think what I was getting at is that the online porn industry has driven many innovations, such as pop-ups (I didn't say you had to like it). Here's another article supporting my claim. This one points out some ways in which the online porn business model was adopted by the e-commerce pioneers.
It's said that the pr0n industry drove the internet and more noteably the WWW to the position it's in today. It seems likely that e-paper would be a useful addition to the pr0nographer's trade. Moving and changeable erm... articles with the added advantage of being easy to hide and, of course, wipe-clean.
My office is practically paperless. My inbox is my intray. All my work comes by way of email, electronic change requests or electronic problem reports. Meeting minutes are online. My reference material is all available on the intranet and internet. The documentation for our system is all kept and maintained on a shared drive. Communication is done via email or Instant Message (or vocal of course).
The only stuff I have on paper is a couple of O'Reilly's and some stuff I look at so often it's more practical to have it in a drawer - and that is just printed copies of what's available online.
If I wanted to I could go through my working life here without a single slip of dead tree on my desk.
I hate to admit it, but it's probably that way because of Lotus Notes.