Wouldn't the Mozilla project be considered the future of Netscape? If you think funding one of the largest OSS projects is screwing up, then I would disagree with you.
Re:Doesn't it say something about society?
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You obviously are watching the wrong things on television. To think that network sitcoms and dramas are the only thing television offers is closed minded. You should start checking the Indy Films, SCIFI, Discovery, History, A&E, Learning, and HBO channels.
I agree with you if all you are referring to is network television, but if you pay a little extra for cable/sattelite, there *Are* things worth watching. But then if you actually start watching TV, you can't look down your nose at people who actually enjoy the programming.
As far as commercials, I don't find them very entertaining at all. I can't get into anything 30 seconds long. The most a commercial could do is amuse me. Entertain? No.
This is why the launch should be from a remote pacific island near the equator. I'm sure the U.S. owns some territory out there in the middle of the ocean.
Wierd.. why do you think it will be titanic in space?!?!? the fact that there is a love story in the plot, that makes it titanic in space??? Your logic is FUCKED
Ok you do realize that CN airs anime? Bebop, Gundam, Outlaw Star, and all those shows on the new Sat. Adult Swim. You make it sound as if they don't show anime...
OK and here is your list filtered through reality:
1. Waste time on the web searching through a bunch of fanboy pages. 2. Get berated and made fun of because you aren't an anime expert. 3. Spend money 4. Or break the law 5. Ditto 6. See 2
I would rather flip on the TV and watch Adult Swim Action than deal with a bunch of Simpsons Comic Book Guys.
Well that's not right since there are Coke ads all over in the movie... and Coke will last as long as the US government lasts...
Re:This is really great
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Are you kidding? Gnome is fugly as hell! I mean cmon.. mod me down.. but you are telling me Gnome looks nicer than Windows and Mac?! seriously..! KDE maybe.. but Gnome has always looked like it's from 1994 to me..
This made me think of truck drivers, who can have a legit excuse for an automotive PC. I have an uncle who does this for a living, and he can send e-mail on the road. A full PC would be a logical extension from this system. He could listen to MP3s, listen to web sites via TextToVoice applications, transcribe emails, etc while driving. A whole voice control system might not be feasible.. I don't really know how well this technology is. When parked for the night, he could even play games and do anything a computer user at home could do.
I am 19 years old, and I live in the Chicago suburbs. This is my first time voting.
I registered a few months ago at the library, which was a rather easy experience. I've filled out more information to register for some web sites. The only thing special you really need when registering is your social security number. The rest was just basic name/address stuff. I got my voting card in the mail about 2 months later, which was cool. Now I could say I was a "card carrying voter", whatever that means.
The next thing that I did was figure out where my polling place was, which was pretty easy too. I went to my county's homepage and followed a few links to a site that had a list of all the polling places in the area. I found out what ditrict I was in and I picked the closest place to me to go to. The reason you have to go to certain place, is that every registered voter has a piece of paper representing them. They ask your name when you vote and they flip through looking for your piece of paper. You can see that there is no way for them to have the whole state's or country's voters on file. The whole point of voting districts is that they are close to your house and usually you only have to drive a few blocks to get there. Overall the polling place was as easy to get to as the local 7-11. One more note about polling places: if you just can't figure out where to vote, you can always call your county (number in the phone book) and tell them you would like to find out where your polling place is. They will transfer you to the correct extension. Now that I knew my polling place I would have to wait till election day.
Zoom ahead to today. I drove over to the polling place, went in and walked over to the area where the voting was going on. It's not hard to spot, just look for elderly people sitting at tables. Once there, there was a table for my last name group (N thru Z). I went up to the guy there and told him my last name. He flipped through the papers and found my sheet. He asked for my liscence (not my voters card, wierd huh?) and after he verified who I was, he gave me my sheet of paper and my liscence back and told me to go to the next table. I gave my little sheet (which I had to sign) to this woman, and she gave me the ballot and a "ballot secrecy folder". Once I had that I was free to walk up to one of those little privacy booth things and get to business. The ballot was basically a scantron test. I filled in little circles with a felt-tip pen (not a number 2 pencil!) that was in the booth when I got there.
A few things about the actual ballot. First I was glad to see four different third-party candidates already listed on the ballot. There was of course a write in spot also. Also, there are some offices where there are two candidates to be voted in, so make sure you pick two people for those offices. There were also some where there was only one person running, so there was just one circle for the candidate and one circle for a write-in. I just filled in the circle for the guy running. Lastly there were some referendums (called propositions in some places I think). These are like laws (sorta) that you vote on. There were about five on my ballot. They are things like: would you be in support of building a new school if it raises taxes my X amount and stuff. I voted yes for everything except one referendum for something that was to be built partially on a nature preserve. After I finished filling everything in I put my ballot into the folder and walked back to the table with the woman who gave me the ballot. She told me to go to this other woman standing by what looked like an EKG machine from a hospital. Once by the machine, the woman told me to put my ballot into this slot on the top. I slid my ballot out and stuck it into the machine, which proceeded to suck the ballot in quickly. I was glad, I was worried it would spit my ballot out like a dirty dollar bill in a vending machine.
That's it, I voted! The lady handed me a sticker that said "I voted" with a little flag on it. *cue national anthem*
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A bong makers best friend is an empty bic pen tube.
Your .sig is Tres Funky! Actually had me going "WTF?" for a sec.. :)
Well considering N. Korea sold nuclear waste materials to Al-Quaida...
Wouldn't the Mozilla project be considered the future of Netscape? If you think funding one of the largest OSS projects is screwing up, then I would disagree with you.
You obviously are watching the wrong things on television. To think that network sitcoms and dramas are the only thing television offers is closed minded. You should start checking the Indy Films, SCIFI, Discovery, History, A&E, Learning, and HBO channels. I agree with you if all you are referring to is network television, but if you pay a little extra for cable/sattelite, there *Are* things worth watching. But then if you actually start watching TV, you can't look down your nose at people who actually enjoy the programming. As far as commercials, I don't find them very entertaining at all. I can't get into anything 30 seconds long. The most a commercial could do is amuse me. Entertain? No.
Repeat after me,
Slashdot is a plurality.
Slashdot is a plurality.
Slashdot is a plurality.
This is why the launch should be from a remote pacific island near the equator. I'm sure the U.S. owns some territory out there in the middle of the ocean.
Wierd.. why do you think it will be titanic in space?!?!? the fact that there is a love story in the plot, that makes it titanic in space??? Your logic is FUCKED
Ok you do realize that CN airs anime? Bebop, Gundam, Outlaw Star, and all those shows on the new Sat. Adult Swim. You make it sound as if they don't show anime...
OK and here is your list filtered through reality:
1. Waste time on the web searching through a bunch of fanboy pages.
2. Get berated and made fun of because you aren't an anime expert.
3. Spend money
4. Or break the law
5. Ditto
6. See 2
I would rather flip on the TV and watch Adult Swim Action than deal with a bunch of Simpsons Comic Book Guys.
all of the above!
Well that's not right since there are Coke ads all over in the movie... and Coke will last as long as the US government lasts...
Are you kidding? Gnome is fugly as hell! I mean cmon.. mod me down.. but you are telling me Gnome looks nicer than Windows and Mac?! seriously..! KDE maybe.. but Gnome has always looked like it's from 1994 to me..
Using wavelets isn't new...
This made me think of truck drivers, who can have a legit excuse for an automotive PC. I have an uncle who does this for a living, and he can send e-mail on the road. A full PC would be a logical extension from this system. He could listen to MP3s, listen to web sites via TextToVoice applications, transcribe emails, etc while driving. A whole voice control system might not be feasible.. I don't really know how well this technology is. When parked for the night, he could even play games and do anything a computer user at home could do.
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Here is a link to a maker of GUIs (!) for trucks: http://www.diversifiedsoftwareindustries.com/ivis
I have more faith in these companies merging PCs and vehicles than a pc maker just making a computer to fit the stereo form factor.
The Korean public will never adopt Linux unless Starcraft and Fortess(a korean online game) are ported to Linux (hehehe).
:)
And Lineage...
How did you know they were the real lyrics?
Err. You do realize that these ads work in NS 4.76, right? Kind of blows up your whole rant...
add this to the front page!
Hmm so what funny uses can we come up with?
American?
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This has been a public service message.
Speak for yourself, games are probably the primary reason I use my computer at home.
SoLo
One word: HavenCo
Happy Festiva!!
I am 19 years old, and I live in the Chicago suburbs. This is my first time voting.
I registered a few months ago at the library, which was a rather easy experience. I've filled out more information to register for some web sites. The only thing special you really need when registering is your social security number. The rest was just basic name/address stuff. I got my voting card in the mail about 2 months later, which was cool. Now I could say I was a "card carrying voter", whatever that means.
The next thing that I did was figure out where my polling place was, which was pretty easy too. I went to my county's homepage and followed a few links to a site that had a list of all the polling places in the area. I found out what ditrict I was in and I picked the closest place to me to go to. The reason you have to go to certain place, is that every registered voter has a piece of paper representing them. They ask your name when you vote and they flip through looking for your piece of paper. You can see that there is no way for them to have the whole state's or country's voters on file. The whole point of voting districts is that they are close to your house and usually you only have to drive a few blocks to get there. Overall the polling place was as easy to get to as the local 7-11. One more note about polling places: if you just can't figure out where to vote, you can always call your county (number in the phone book) and tell them you would like to find out where your polling place is. They will transfer you to the correct extension. Now that I knew my polling place I would have to wait till election day.
Zoom ahead to today. I drove over to the polling place, went in and walked over to the area where the voting was going on. It's not hard to spot, just look for elderly people sitting at tables. Once there, there was a table for my last name group (N thru Z). I went up to the guy there and told him my last name. He flipped through the papers and found my sheet. He asked for my liscence (not my voters card, wierd huh?) and after he verified who I was, he gave me my sheet of paper and my liscence back and told me to go to the next table. I gave my little sheet (which I had to sign) to this woman, and she gave me the ballot and a "ballot secrecy folder". Once I had that I was free to walk up to one of those little privacy booth things and get to business. The ballot was basically a scantron test. I filled in little circles with a felt-tip pen (not a number 2 pencil!) that was in the booth when I got there.
A few things about the actual ballot. First I was glad to see four different third-party candidates already listed on the ballot. There was of course a write in spot also. Also, there are some offices where there are two candidates to be voted in, so make sure you pick two people for those offices. There were also some where there was only one person running, so there was just one circle for the candidate and one circle for a write-in. I just filled in the circle for the guy running. Lastly there were some referendums (called propositions in some places I think). These are like laws (sorta) that you vote on. There were about five on my ballot. They are things like: would you be in support of building a new school if it raises taxes my X amount and stuff. I voted yes for everything except one referendum for something that was to be built partially on a nature preserve. After I finished filling everything in I put my ballot into the folder and walked back to the table with the woman who gave me the ballot. She told me to go to this other woman standing by what looked like an EKG machine from a hospital. Once by the machine, the woman told me to put my ballot into this slot on the top. I slid my ballot out and stuck it into the machine, which proceeded to suck the ballot in quickly. I was glad, I was worried it would spit my ballot out like a dirty dollar bill in a vending machine.
That's it, I voted! The lady handed me a sticker that said "I voted" with a little flag on it. *cue national anthem*
--SoLo