"has a fascinating article revealing the history and development of the humble, ubiquitous Post-It Note."
Anything small yellow and square can't be humble. Just ask SpongeBob SquarePants.
An intriguing tale of a dedicated visionary working the system to bring an innovative product to life in a monolithic, tradition-bound organization."
We are talking about Post-It Notes, right?
From the article: "Two and a half decades later, as the little yellow notes celebrate their silver anniversary, it's easy to forget what a recent innovation they are.
I suppose so, if you are generation X. Everyone else knows they are modern. Why doesn't liquid paper get the same accolades? It's been around longer. Whatever happened to liquid paper anyway?
Thanks to their material simplicity, they seem more closely related to workplace antiquities like the stapler and the hole-punch than integrated chips.
Again what about liquid paper? Workplace antiquities? A scrivener's tools are workplace antiquities: blotters, quills, inkwells, candles, etc.
Instead, they're an exemplary product of their time. Foreshadowing the web,
Ooh, puh-lease! No it didn't.
they offered an easy way to link one piece of information to another in a precisely contextual way.
What the fuck are you talking about? Post-It notes are about as contextual as writing on a cocktail napkin.
Foreshadowing email, they made informal, asynchronous communication with your co-workers a major part of modern office life."
Foreshadowing email my ass. Email existed before Post-It's. Asynchronous? Do you even know what that means?
Who the fuck used Post-It Notes to communicate to other people? I just used them as reminders for myself. And if other people saw them at my desk any communication was unintentional.
It's about time Al Gore gets the recognition he deserves. After all Al Gore is known as the
inspiration to American's who suffer from Dutch Elm disease. And he reminded us there was
no controlling legal authority in the White House while he made calls asking for contributions. And if he'd won in 2000, we wouldn't be able to enjoy the
Bush or chimp pictures.
I never saw much blood or bleeding caused by lightsabres in the previous five movies. If a light sabre is pure light encased in a force field, wouldn't it, like a laser, cauterize any wounds? And with the Sith shooting lightning bolts out of their fingertips wouldn't it be more of a cookout?
I grew up on classic Trek and all good things must come to an end. All I can say about Enteprise to paraphrase
Korax "I didn't mean to say that Enterprise should be showing garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away AS garbage."
I thought it kind of odd that cities would get into offering wireless broadband, but I know what's going to happen is providers want that wireless as a source of revenue and will make it illegal for cities to offer it. I hope I'm wrong.
I think some form of PGP signing would be a good idea. There is an open source PGP. You could probably use a similar process for signing that you do for signing other peoples keys. Level of trust, ect. See PGP results at Google and take your pick.
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon.
In response to Mr. Gates' comments, General Motors issued the following press release (by Mr. Welch himself, the GM CEO).
If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would just die on the motorway for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats.
5. Amiga would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only run on five percent of the roads.
6. Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars which would make their cars go much slower.
7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many years.
9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas and all auto fluids but the packaging would be superb.
10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
11. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
12. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
13. They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 16 cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford parts on it.
14. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be slower on most existing roads.
15. Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes. Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff.
16. Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own any roads, all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free, including IBM!
17. If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11), then you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive much faster, and on more roads!
18. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends, and then copy it.
19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganise the ignition for a few days before it worked.
20. You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a motorway next to each other.
Hey, if the Republicans can hire bloggers to promote their agenda, then Microsoft can hire them to promote their products. Besides fake bloggers are cheaper to hire than real journalists.
bet this gets modded to troll. everytime I bash M$ I get modded down. so mod me down you bastards!
FM Radio didn't make AM go away, why should digital TV make analog go away? The FCC plans to take that spectrum freed up by analog TV for other commercial uses. I think they should set a minimum price for that spectrum that will cover buying a new HDTV for everyone who has to replace their analog TV.
First we had the Homestead Act, then we had the GI Bill, and now we should have the Great Couch Potato Giveaway!
Too many brain dead republicans with moderation points on slashdot...
I have the same thing with brain dead Microsofties. I'll get modded to Troll if I bash them. As for Bush some suspect he is actually a
Pakled as seen on ST:TNG. They have poor verbal skills and thus appear challenged, but are dangerous and warlike.
Pakled: We look for things.
Riker: What kind of things?
Paklend: Things that make us go.
Riker: I see.
Parkinson's Disease, an inherited genetic condition that causes rapid breakdown of motor control and speech production.
It is not an inherited genetic condition. There may be genetic factors. Nor does it cause rapid breakdown. The disease is a slow breakdown over many years. And a person can have a normal lifespan. It is treatable. My grandfather had Parkinson's. He lived to be 90. He had a shuffle walk and didn't have serious tremors like other sufferers.
If you think Mr. Clippy is annoying now in Word, wait until you install the 64-bit version of Microsoft Office. But of of course you'll need a minimum of 640GB if RAM and a.5 Terabyte drivespace.
All he has to do is get on a cruise ship with a swimming pool that is going from Norway to the USA. And he can swim in it 24x7. So technically he is swimming from there to here. That way he doesn't have to worry about things like hypothermia, sharks, giant squid, icebergs, polar bears, or being attacked by a creche of killer penguins.
I'm game. If Sony is going to sell virtual property, I'm more than willing to pay in virtual money. The only question is what denomination do they take? Centauri Ducats, Federation Credits, Quatloos, Altairian Dollars, or
Triganic Pu's?
colleagues calculated what it would take to produce the levels of methane observed on Mars.
Three cows.
I see. So now we know what happened to the cow that jumped over the Moon. It's trajectory was altered and somehow ended up on Mars. This didn't happen once but three times. Thats one small step for a bovine, er three bovines. One giant leap for bovinity!
All but three of the Jedi die: Obi Wan, Yoda, and Anakin (and becomes Darth Vader). But before he becomes Darth he knocks up Princess Amidala with twins. Oh and R2D2 and C3PIO survive.
Since there will be no more Star Wars movies, though there could be endless revisions, Lucas can do whatever he wants. So long as the movie covers the what leads up to Episode IV it'll do it's job.
The only surprise here is who is the new major annoying character going to be in Episode III? He/she/it will be in the company of Jar Jar Binks, young Anakin Skywalker, C3PIO, young Luke Skywalker, that stupid creature that Jabba the Hut had, and, of course, the entire Ewok race.
Amazon should go it alone. I know Amazon UK rents DVD's online but I don't know if it's partnered with anyone. Partnering with Blockbuster would be a bad idea. I currently subscribe to it. I thought I'd give them a try first because if they sucked I could always switch to Netflix. Which is what I'll probably do here soon.
Over half the movies in my queue are short wait. I have about 40 in it. Yes I can only have 3 out at a time, but there are some movies I've been waiting months for. And Netflix does have a better selection. If Amazon partners with Blockbuster then my movies will all go to long wait.
At least when Hubble dies and falls into the ocean, we don't have to worry about having a space toilet hit someone and kill them like Mir did in Dead Like Me. But Hubble is going the way of all good TV shows. Cancelled: Firefly, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, and Enterprise. OK, strike that last one. Enterprise sucked. Oh well
Boom Boom Ba.
no one agrees anymore about what it really means to watch television
Huh? There is nothing deep about watching television. It is a physical activity, albeit minimal, that requires little in the way of user interaction. Now you can ask yourself do cats and dogs watch television? And if they do, what are they really seeing? So the original question would be valid for a dog or cat but not a couch potato.
PG-13? Darn. No Princess Amidala shower scenes. The trailer for Episode III looks awesome, but so did the trailers for I & II. I'll go see it of course. Oh well. The final battle scene will probably be reminiscent of the final battle scene of all five previous Star Wars movies.
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Everything about that blurb annoys me:
"has a fascinating article revealing the history and development of the humble, ubiquitous Post-It Note."
Anything small yellow and square can't be humble. Just ask SpongeBob SquarePants.
An intriguing tale of a dedicated visionary working the system to bring an innovative product to life in a monolithic, tradition-bound organization."
We are talking about Post-It Notes, right?
From the article: "Two and a half decades later, as the little yellow notes celebrate their silver anniversary, it's easy to forget what a recent innovation they are.
I suppose so, if you are generation X. Everyone else knows they are modern. Why doesn't liquid paper get the same accolades? It's been around longer. Whatever happened to liquid paper anyway?
Thanks to their material simplicity, they seem more closely related to workplace antiquities like the stapler and the hole-punch than integrated chips.
Again what about liquid paper? Workplace antiquities? A scrivener's tools are workplace antiquities: blotters, quills, inkwells, candles, etc.
Instead, they're an exemplary product of their time. Foreshadowing the web,
Ooh, puh-lease! No it didn't.
they offered an easy way to link one piece of information to another in a precisely contextual way.
What the fuck are you talking about? Post-It notes are about as contextual as writing on a cocktail napkin.
Foreshadowing email, they made informal, asynchronous communication with your co-workers a major part of modern office life."
Foreshadowing email my ass. Email existed before Post-It's. Asynchronous? Do you even know what that means? Who the fuck used Post-It Notes to communicate to other people? I just used them as reminders for myself. And if other people saw them at my desk any communication was unintentional.
"Anti-evolutionists have made classrooms in Kansas a key battleground in America's culture war. Again."
I saw Thomas Frank, author of What's The Matter With Kansas? on that paragon on fake news The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . And basically he said the Kansans used to be normal but they are all whacked out now on Jesus Juice.
It's about time Al Gore gets the recognition he deserves. After all Al Gore is known as the inspiration to American's who suffer from Dutch Elm disease. And he reminded us there was no controlling legal authority in the White House while he made calls asking for contributions. And if he'd won in 2000, we wouldn't be able to enjoy the Bush or chimp pictures.
I never saw much blood or bleeding caused by lightsabres in the previous five movies. If a light sabre is pure light encased in a force field, wouldn't it, like a laser, cauterize any wounds? And with the Sith shooting lightning bolts out of their fingertips wouldn't it be more of a cookout?
Q: What's for dinner?
A: Roast Jedi in a light Sith sauce.
Mars Express spacecraft team is ready to deploy a radar antenna to search for traces of water and ice beneath the Martian surface.
I can see the story now: Microwave beams from MARSIS radar melts ice causing chain reaction, releasing frozen atmosphere and water.
"Quaid...Quaid...Start the reactor." .
I grew up on classic Trek and all good things must come to an end. All I can say about Enteprise to paraphrase Korax "I didn't mean to say that Enterprise should be showing garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away AS garbage."
I thought it kind of odd that cities would get into offering wireless broadband, but I know what's going to happen is providers want that wireless as a source of revenue and will make it illegal for cities to offer it. I hope I'm wrong.
I think some form of PGP signing would be a good idea. There is an open source PGP. You could probably use a similar process for signing that you do for signing other peoples keys. Level of trust, ect. See PGP results at Google and take your pick.
Bill must have a short memory:
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon.
In response to Mr. Gates' comments, General Motors issued the following press release (by Mr. Welch himself, the GM CEO). If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would just die on the motorway for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats.
5. Amiga would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only run on five percent of the roads.
6. Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars which would make their cars go much slower.
7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many years.
9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas and all auto fluids but the packaging would be superb.
10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
11. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
12. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
13. They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 16 cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford parts on it.
14. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be slower on most existing roads.
15. Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes. Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff.
16. Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own any roads, all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free, including IBM!
17. If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11), then you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive much faster, and on more roads!
18. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends, and then copy it.
19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganise the ignition for a few days before it worked.
20. You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a motorway next to each other.
Thankfully, with the ascent of Fox News and the passing of the stalwart network news anchors this is no longer the case.
That's a news channel! Oh my God! I thought Fox was a parody! And who said I liked liberals? They are bunch of loser crybabies. Conservatives on the other hand are loving, wise, peaceful, benevolent, brave, and trustworthy.
Hey, if the Republicans can hire bloggers to promote their agenda, then Microsoft can hire them to promote their products. Besides fake bloggers are cheaper to hire than real journalists.
bet this gets modded to troll. everytime I bash M$ I get modded down. so mod me down you bastards!
Well as long as the sheep don't start saying "Daa-a-a-addy" then chimeras might be OK.
Q:Why do Scotsmen wear kilts?
A:Sheep can hear zippers.
FM Radio didn't make AM go away, why should digital TV make analog go away? The FCC plans to take that spectrum freed up by analog TV for other commercial uses. I think they should set a minimum price for that spectrum that will cover buying a new HDTV for everyone who has to replace their analog TV.
First we had the Homestead Act, then we had the GI Bill, and now we should have the Great Couch Potato Giveaway!
Too many brain dead republicans with moderation points on slashdot...
I have the same thing with brain dead Microsofties. I'll get modded to Troll if I bash them. As for Bush some suspect he is actually a Pakled as seen on ST:TNG. They have poor verbal skills and thus appear challenged, but are dangerous and warlike.
Pakled: We look for things.
Riker: What kind of things?
Paklend: Things that make us go.
Riker: I see.
Parkinson's Disease, an inherited genetic condition that causes rapid breakdown of motor control and speech production.
It is not an inherited genetic condition. There may be genetic factors. Nor does it cause rapid breakdown. The disease is a slow breakdown over many years. And a person can have a normal lifespan. It is treatable. My grandfather had Parkinson's. He lived to be 90. He had a shuffle walk and didn't have serious tremors like other sufferers.
If you think Mr. Clippy is annoying now in Word, wait until you install the 64-bit version of Microsoft Office. But of of course you'll need a minimum of 640GB if RAM and a .5 Terabyte drivespace.
All he has to do is get on a cruise ship with a swimming pool that is going from Norway to the USA. And he can swim in it 24x7. So technically he is swimming from there to here. That way he doesn't have to worry about things like hypothermia, sharks, giant squid, icebergs, polar bears, or being attacked by a creche of killer penguins.
Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia?
I'll answer that question with an analogy.
Q: Why do dogs lick their balls?
A: Because they can.
I'm game. If Sony is going to sell virtual property, I'm more than willing to pay in virtual money. The only question is what denomination do they take? Centauri Ducats, Federation Credits, Quatloos, Altairian Dollars, or Triganic Pu's?
colleagues calculated what it would take to produce the levels of methane observed on Mars.
Three cows.
I see. So now we know what happened to the cow that jumped over the Moon. It's trajectory was altered and somehow ended up on Mars. This didn't happen once but three times. Thats one small step for a bovine, er three bovines. One giant leap for bovinity!
***MAJOR SPOILER***
All but three of the Jedi die: Obi Wan, Yoda, and Anakin (and becomes Darth Vader). But before he becomes Darth he knocks up Princess Amidala with twins. Oh and R2D2 and C3PIO survive.
Since there will be no more Star Wars movies, though there could be endless revisions, Lucas can do whatever he wants. So long as the movie covers the what leads up to Episode IV it'll do it's job.
The only surprise here is who is the new major annoying character going to be in Episode III? He/she/it will be in the company of Jar Jar Binks, young Anakin Skywalker, C3PIO, young Luke Skywalker, that stupid creature that Jabba the Hut had, and, of course, the entire Ewok race.
Amazon should go it alone. I know Amazon UK rents DVD's online but I don't know if it's partnered with anyone. Partnering with Blockbuster would be a bad idea. I currently subscribe to it. I thought I'd give them a try first because if they sucked I could always switch to Netflix. Which is what I'll probably do here soon.
Over half the movies in my queue are short wait. I have about 40 in it. Yes I can only have 3 out at a time, but there are some movies I've been waiting months for. And Netflix does have a better selection. If Amazon partners with Blockbuster then my movies will all go to long wait.
At least when Hubble dies and falls into the ocean, we don't have to worry about having a space toilet hit someone and kill them like Mir did in Dead Like Me. But Hubble is going the way of all good TV shows. Cancelled: Firefly, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, and Enterprise. OK, strike that last one. Enterprise sucked. Oh well Boom Boom Ba.
no one agrees anymore about what it really means to watch television
Huh? There is nothing deep about watching television. It is a physical activity, albeit minimal, that requires little in the way of user interaction. Now you can ask yourself do cats and dogs watch television? And if they do, what are they really seeing? So the original question would be valid for a dog or cat but not a couch potato.
PG-13? Darn. No Princess Amidala shower scenes. The trailer for Episode III looks awesome, but so did the trailers for I & II. I'll go see it of course. Oh well. The final battle scene will probably be reminiscent of the final battle scene of all five previous Star Wars movies.