And since most people will have a very hard time finding out whether a given site is topologically close to them, but no problem with geographically close asking them to pick a geographically close one helps.
This might be true in general, but here in the US, our knowledge of geography pretty much sucks...
...'Video Game Player of the Century' Bobby Mitchell, who scored 3,333,360 points in Pac Man.
I remember a really old copy of Electronic Games magazine (I think it was EG, probably sometime in the mid 80's) that had an article about the first person to score a billion points in a coin-op. I can't remember the name of the game, but I think the guy played for 2 1/2 days straight. Anyone else remember this?
Having used Opera heavily for the past few months, I have to say that I now definitely prefer it. Especially now that Opera 4.0 has a (optional) "taskbar". Plus this taskbar displays which pages have finished loading-- try that, IE!
Also, doesn't an MDI take up less memory or something? Which means more sites open at one time! Yay!
Just give it a try-- it's fast, (fairly) stable, and the most standards-compliant released browser out there. (Well, I've heard good things about iCab, but I don't really know it)
Here here! I used to use IE 5 for my 98 machine, but now I swear by Opera. For those of you with smaller-footprint machines (mine is 233Mhx, 48 MB RAM), Opera runs circles around IE rendering times, especially if you have more than 3 sites open.
Additionally Opera's tech support is wonderful. Email questions are answered in a day or two! And that when I've explained that I'm still evaluating the product without paying yet! Has anyone ever received any email from Micrsoft that wasn't a subscribed automated response (or a cease-and-decist letter).
Most of us that have been around a long time (me, I started in Applesoft Basic and then to assembly, then Pascal, then C) didn't care about how clean or consistent a language was. We were curious about how the damn things worked, how programs were written, and how we could do the same. Just get them started on something, and just like us, they'll probably figure out what they like when they get older.
Same goes for anything kids do - expose them to everything and let them decide as they grow.
how many times is someone going to bitch about having install over the internet, and how many times is someone going to have to point out this URL... http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/support/
You can skip the forms and go directly to the downloads.
So if, at any time, Network Solutions or it's political constituants disagree with the position that you are taking on your website under their domain name, then they have the right to withdraw that domain name from you?
Hmm. I might just waste the money and register networksolutions-sucks.org with NSI and see how long I could leave a web page up there. Would anyone else have any good (bad) anecdotes about NSI for this sort of site?
I recommend Register.com currently, as you aren't tied up for two years, and it is really easy to manage your domain via they're web page. Register.com doesn't seem to me to have some of the problems Network Solutions has.
Absolutely. I used NSI to register a domain three years ago, and they still don't have a way for me to transfer ownership of the domain without using snail mail. Ugh. I've used Register.com for my last three domains. The best part about Register is ease of registering other domains after you've already registered one.
> I know.. but it's still +4 funny. If you > don't like the joke, look at it this way - > the really amusing thing is that the > moderators thought it was funny.
So it's meta-funny: we laugh at the people who laugh at the joke. Reminds me of Beavis and Butthead...
I have an old SE/30 that I used to use as a doorstop. I've been trying to figure out what to do with this sucker (short of making an aquarium). I can't find an MP3 player that runs on the old 68030, so maybe I'll turn it into a web server!
> They are breaking the law, but instead of doing something, we're just giving them a slap on the wrist.
> Huh? We are? How so? I don't see us doing anything at all!
That's because no one wants to test the GPL in court. It's either
(a) Too expensive (b) Afraid we'll lose
There were previous posts stating the opinion that the test of GPL in court should wait for a large corporation, with lots of money, who violated the license knowingly. Why should the license only be enforced* (bad choice of words?) under these conditions? Why can't the license be enforced for these so-called minor violations?
I, personally, think the GPL would not win in a court case. Jurors are people, and most people don't care or don't understand the concept of free software. They understand creating an idea and selling it for money. It wouldn't matter if a good lawyer argued the case for the enforcement of the GPL. Most people are clueless about this sort of thing...
And I spent this last weekend with my sister's kids. She doesn't let them watch TV. They are the nicest kids (of course I'm totally unbiased..) and the best part was when I took them to Toys 'R Us and they ran by all the Pokeman crap without a second thought.:-)
How does your sister do it? My son is 5, and he never watches TV (except for carefully supervised nature shows on Discovery), and he still knows about all that Pokémon crap from his friends!
It is a software problem. The software was not written well. Shouldn't the software be design to not work unless a new password is issued first? Shouldn't the documentation say that "the module [blah] will not work unless a new password is entered"? I've had lots of accounts that required me to change the password upon first usage. Why should this be any different?
Slashdot Mirror
And since most people will have a very hard time finding out whether a given site is topologically close to them, but no problem with geographically close asking them to pick a geographically close one helps.
This might be true in general, but here in the US, our knowledge of geography pretty much sucks...
I remember a really old copy of Electronic Games magazine (I think it was EG, probably sometime in the mid 80's) that had an article about the first person to score a billion points in a coin-op. I can't remember the name of the game, but I think the guy played for 2 1/2 days straight. Anyone else remember this?
Having used Opera heavily for the past few months, I have to say that I now definitely prefer it. Especially now that Opera 4.0 has a (optional) "taskbar". Plus this taskbar displays which pages have finished loading-- try that, IE!
Also, doesn't an MDI take up less memory or something? Which means more sites open at one time! Yay!
Just give it a try-- it's fast, (fairly) stable, and the most standards-compliant released browser out there. (Well, I've heard good things about iCab, but I don't really know it)
Here here! I used to use IE 5 for my 98 machine, but now I swear by Opera. For those of you with smaller-footprint machines (mine is 233Mhx, 48 MB RAM), Opera runs circles around IE rendering times, especially if you have more than 3 sites open.
Additionally Opera's tech support is wonderful. Email questions are answered in a day or two! And that when I've explained that I'm still evaluating the product without paying yet! Has anyone ever received any email from Micrsoft that wasn't a subscribed automated response (or a cease-and-decist letter).
Same goes for anything kids do - expose them to everything and let them decide as they grow.
Huh?
http://www.google.com/search?q=ssh+Macintosh+ Macintosh
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&q=ssh
Would the US simply tax the hell out of Bill's products if he were to move his company overseas?
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/support
You can skip the forms and go directly to the downloads.
http://down load.info.apple.com/private/qt/us/win/QuickTimeIns taller.zip /download.info.apple.com/private/qt/us/mac/QuickTi me_Installer.smi.bin
http:/
Hmm. I might just waste the money and register networksolutions-sucks.org with NSI and see how long I could leave a web page up there. Would anyone else have any good (bad) anecdotes about NSI for this sort of site?
Absolutely. I used NSI to register a domain three years ago, and they still don't have a way for me to transfer ownership of the domain without using snail mail. Ugh. I've used Register.com for my last three domains. The best part about Register is ease of registering other domains after you've already registered one.
http://www.wired.com/news/b usiness/0,1367,36313,00.html
Goddamn Microsoft. For those of your forced to run Windows, here's the fix.
http://www.microsof t.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-017.asp
> I know.. but it's still +4 funny. If you
> don't like the joke, look at it this way -
> the really amusing thing is that the
> moderators thought it was funny.
So it's meta-funny: we laugh at the people who laugh at the joke. Reminds me of Beavis and Butthead...
Thanks for the idea.
> Huh? We are? How so? I don't see us doing anything at all!
That's because no one wants to test the GPL in court. It's either
(a) Too expensive
(b) Afraid we'll lose
There were previous posts stating the opinion that the test of GPL in court should wait for a large corporation, with lots of money, who violated the license knowingly. Why should the license only be enforced* (bad choice of words?) under these conditions? Why can't the license be enforced for these so-called minor violations?
I, personally, think the GPL would not win in a court case. Jurors are people, and most people don't care or don't understand the concept of free software. They understand creating an idea and selling it for money. It wouldn't matter if a good lawyer argued the case for the enforcement of the GPL. Most people are clueless about this sort of thing...
Try selling beer without a liquor license.
> God, some people are so stupid.
Hmmm...
How does your sister do it? My son is 5, and he never watches TV (except for carefully supervised nature shows on Discovery), and he still knows about all that Pokémon crap from his friends!
It is a software problem. The software was not written well. Shouldn't the software be design to not work unless a new password is issued first? Shouldn't the documentation say that "the module [blah] will not work unless a new password is entered"? I've had lots of accounts that required me to change the password upon first usage. Why should this be any different?