Internet Explorer 6.0 (Really impossible to tell since they required the use of the 500k Installer app that downloads the components, but I believe for IE6 + Service Pack 1 (!!!) it's around 18 megs on a win2k box.)
I'm sure if you looked at cnn.com's traffic logs for 2001-09-11 it would be pretty similar to what you'd see on something like an earthquake. Actually, I would really like to see that in graph format, or even Slashdot's traffic logs for that day.
Apparently, nowadays printing the back of the box where the specs are gleefully bullet pointed counts as a review.
The submitter's name links to the site as well, which usually implies that the guy runs the site. So basically this is a guy writing a pseudo article and submitting it to Slashdot as a way to drive tons of traffic to his site to drive up ad revenue. This is an increasing trend - new sites writing up a shitty bunch of text and using Slashdot as their PR center. Sometimes I wonder if these are really just paid Slashvertisements for the sites in question.
Thank you for being one of the very, very few people who realize that the word data is in fact plural! I am so tired of seeing "This data is..." and "the data shows..."
datum is singluar. data is plural. Data is a Soong-type android.
Clear Channel (owner of every radio station in America)
While I realize this is an exaggeration, it should be noted that Clear Channel doesn't really own every radio station in America. Viacom/Infinity owns quite a few, as well as Disney/ABC. There are also at least a few independent stations still out there.
Tabbed browsing is a horrible idea anyway. It harkens to the Windows UI idea of having document windows within the program window. Each window is supposed to be a single document. Each page open in a separate window is a much better UI paradigm.
So when you have 20 (or more) webpages open, as I frequently do, you would like to have 20 different windows? This is one of the worst UI nightmares I can imagine. I don't really care about which "paradigm" is better, I care what works better. Not everything has to be in its own window. Why do you think so many people LOVE tabbed browsing? Just because you don't like it doesn't make it 'a horrible idea' any more than having 30 open windows is a horrible idea (though that fact is nearly indisuptible).
-Assuming Picard's clone-guy is at least 25 or so, that means they had to start cloning Picard back when he was just some random captain of a random ship (Stargazer?) Why'd they pick him?
They advanced the clone's age, he was born while Picard was captain of the Enterprise. His advanced aging was why he was getting sick, I believe.
They had a chance to do something really cool and original. Instead, they chose to do "Evil guy wants to blow up Earth, the crew must stop him at all costs!" They basically took the whole Romulan/Reman aspect of the movie and flushed it down the toilet. This is evident in that you could pretty much s/Romulan/RandomAlien/g and get the same exact movie. The movie would have even been better if it had been anything other than Enterprise Vs. Badguy - a full scale war would have been nice, though kind of tight in a 2 hour movie. Not to mention that I don't see how Earth is such a great target; I mean sure it has Federation HQ but I imagine if earth was destroyed it wouldn't be the end of the federation, there are trillions of people in the Federation, and wiping out a planet with a population of maybe 9 billion (in Star Trek land) isn't going to be as catastrophic as they always imply. The whole "blow up earth" thing is really old and dumb now, IMO.
Also, I found Data's death to be a pathetic ripoff of Khan and also to be rather pointless. And what happened to Data's emotion chip? When did that get written out of the Star Trek world?
Anyhow, stupid, tired plot, stealing blatantly from previous movies in this very series, and the age of the actors are all reasons for the tanking of Nemesis. The age thing mostly applies to Data, mostly because they seemed to be making him supposedly ageless, whereas if they simply had Data say "I want to look like I'm aging" and age relative to Brent Spiner's actual age then the makeup could have accommodated it better. Anyway, it was very disappointing.
I don't know when Bust-A-Move came out, but I played Snood freshman year in college (1997) on my Mac. Supposedly it had been quite popular on campus for years before that.
Throughout this tirade, the author uses the word "You" a lot, as in "you become addicted to the game." While I realize he was using the word in place of "one," I think it would have been more appropriate for him to use the word "I", since nobody I know has become "addicted" to EQ. If the author has a problem in which he is addicted to a game world, then that's his problem, but "you" and I probably won't have that problem. It's a game, I play it for entertainment. Once "you" realize that it's no longer fun, "you" should either change the way you play, or stop playing. After all, your months of work are just bits on Sony's hard drive. If you take it too seriously, you have real problems, and they are probably not related to the game.
Basically, I'm looking to minimize the risk of me being ripped off, and second, eliminate problems caused by miscommunication due to the lack of a written agreement.
I don't know anything about contract work, but I don't see why you can't have a written agreement. If it's something that worries you, just have them fedex you a contract, you sign it, save a copy, and send it back.
You can't argue that you shouldn't have to follow a countries laws while you are in that country. The origional issue was that a Russian citizen in Russia, working for a Russian company, shouldn't have to worry about US law.
Then you also shouldn't try selling your software in the US. And if you sell it in the US, and it's illegal to sell it (under US law) in the US, and then you're fool enough to set foot on US soil, you deserve what you get. Sorry. And that's exactly what happened - it was being sold in the US. And the reason *he* was arrested is because it said something like "Copyright Dmitri Sklyarov" instead of "Copyright Elcomsoft".
Network traffic has been doubling every two years or so, this means that 90-95% dark fiber would last you about 6-8 years.
The statistic that caused this boom in the laying of fiber was 1000% network growth per year, or doubling every 3 months. This has proven to be a wildly exaggerated figure, and IMHO, one pushed by those who stood to to profit from skyrocketing telecom stock prices (e.g. Jack Grubman) despite knowing it to be false.
Ok, let's put it in plain English, since you "pro-violencers" can apparently only comprehend monosyllabic words:
Because we need a well regulated militia, the people need the right to bear arms.
Stop me if I've lost you. Ok, the second clause is valid only if the first is true. You know, "If today is Tuesday, I will go to the Gym." If we know that today is in fact Tuesday, then we can infer that I will go to the gym. This is 9th grade logic. So, if it is true that we need a well regulated militia, then it is also true that we need to bear arms. If we know that it is not Tuesday, then we really cannot draw any conclusions from the statement. We know that we no longer need "a well regulated militia," so where does that leave us with the right to bear arms? Well, it's sort of nebulous, but basically it leaves us in the position of weighing the pros and cons of the 2nd amendment as if it were being proposed today.
Since the justification for such a heinous clause in the Constitution is no longer applicable, the clause itself is no longer applicable, and the 2nd Amendment is obsolete. If it were proposed today it would likely (hopefully) be shot down in flames (NPI).
So it is evident that guns are of negligible -- if any -- value to the modern populace, and have led to countless senseless deaths over the past century. Why the pro-murder people maintain their love of guns "for sport" or whatnot is truly something I shall never understand.
As for your comment about the college: really, 9th grade. You should look into it.
Slashdot Mirror
I love hearing about standardized web code on Slashdot, which is so embarrassed about its HTML that it blocks the validator.
Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.
How considerate of Slashdot to link to a site that explicitly doesn't want them to link to them, and then tell people how to get around the block!
I'm sure if you looked at cnn.com's traffic logs for 2001-09-11 it would be pretty similar to what you'd see on something like an earthquake. Actually, I would really like to see that in graph format, or even Slashdot's traffic logs for that day.
Apparently, nowadays printing the back of the box where the specs are gleefully bullet pointed counts as a review.
The submitter's name links to the site as well, which usually implies that the guy runs the site. So basically this is a guy writing a pseudo article and submitting it to Slashdot as a way to drive tons of traffic to his site to drive up ad revenue. This is an increasing trend - new sites writing up a shitty bunch of text and using Slashdot as their PR center. Sometimes I wonder if these are really just paid Slashvertisements for the sites in question.
The data are supposed...
Thank you for being one of the very, very few people who realize that the word data is in fact plural! I am so tired of seeing "This data is..." and "the data shows..."
datum is singluar.
data is plural.
Data is a Soong-type android.
Thanks.
Clear Channel (owner of every radio station in America)
While I realize this is an exaggeration, it should be noted that Clear Channel doesn't really own every radio station in America. Viacom/Infinity owns quite a few, as well as Disney/ABC. There are also at least a few independent stations still out there.
I would pay an annual subscription fee for ... maybe even /.
Hrm. Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?
Tabbed browsing is a horrible idea anyway. It harkens to the Windows UI idea of having document windows within the program window. Each window is supposed to be a single document. Each page open in a separate window is a much better UI paradigm.
So when you have 20 (or more) webpages open, as I frequently do, you would like to have 20 different windows? This is one of the worst UI nightmares I can imagine. I don't really care about which "paradigm" is better, I care what works better. Not everything has to be in its own window. Why do you think so many people LOVE tabbed browsing? Just because you don't like it doesn't make it 'a horrible idea' any more than having 30 open windows is a horrible idea (though that fact is nearly indisuptible).
I agree with you about Lore and Wil.
They had a chance to do something really cool and original. Instead, they chose to do "Evil guy wants to blow up Earth, the crew must stop him at all costs!" They basically took the whole Romulan/Reman aspect of the movie and flushed it down the toilet. This is evident in that you could pretty much s/Romulan/RandomAlien/g and get the same exact movie. The movie would have even been better if it had been anything other than Enterprise Vs. Badguy - a full scale war would have been nice, though kind of tight in a 2 hour movie. Not to mention that I don't see how Earth is such a great target; I mean sure it has Federation HQ but I imagine if earth was destroyed it wouldn't be the end of the federation, there are trillions of people in the Federation, and wiping out a planet with a population of maybe 9 billion (in Star Trek land) isn't going to be as catastrophic as they always imply. The whole "blow up earth" thing is really old and dumb now, IMO.
Also, I found Data's death to be a pathetic ripoff of Khan and also to be rather pointless. And what happened to Data's emotion chip? When did that get written out of the Star Trek world?
Anyhow, stupid, tired plot, stealing blatantly from previous movies in this very series, and the age of the actors are all reasons for the tanking of Nemesis. The age thing mostly applies to Data, mostly because they seemed to be making him supposedly ageless, whereas if they simply had Data say "I want to look like I'm aging" and age relative to Brent Spiner's actual age then the makeup could have accommodated it better. Anyway, it was very disappointing.
Oh yeah, and "ramming speed" was indeed dumb.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think Slashdot has found a sustainable business model!
When's the 2nd IPO?
DHM info page
I don't know when Bust-A-Move came out, but I played Snood freshman year in college (1997) on my Mac. Supposedly it had been quite popular on campus for years before that.
Nice try, but "pop" goes the weasel. You drink soda and/or coke. Pepsi is neither soda, pop, nor coke, but more along the line of "crap."
What the hell is pop? I think you mean soda, or maybe coke, but certainly not pop.
Obligatory link: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/
Throughout this tirade, the author uses the word "You" a lot, as in "you become addicted to the game." While I realize he was using the word in place of "one," I think it would have been more appropriate for him to use the word "I", since nobody I know has become "addicted" to EQ. If the author has a problem in which he is addicted to a game world, then that's his problem, but "you" and I probably won't have that problem. It's a game, I play it for entertainment. Once "you" realize that it's no longer fun, "you" should either change the way you play, or stop playing. After all, your months of work are just bits on Sony's hard drive. If you take it too seriously, you have real problems, and they are probably not related to the game.
And there you have, in a nutshell, the primary reason NOT to subscribe to, or otherwise support, Slashdot.
Viacom: US$75.62 B
AOL Time Warner: US$60.44 B
Disney: US$34.77 B
I am sure a few others top Disney; why would anyone think Disney was the largest media company?
Basically, I'm looking to minimize the risk of me being ripped off, and second, eliminate problems caused by miscommunication due to the lack of a written agreement.
I don't know anything about contract work, but I don't see why you can't have a written agreement. If it's something that worries you, just have them fedex you a contract, you sign it, save a copy, and send it back.
You can't argue that you shouldn't have to follow a countries laws while you are in that country. The origional issue was that a Russian citizen in Russia, working for a Russian company, shouldn't have to worry about US law.
Then you also shouldn't try selling your software in the US. And if you sell it in the US, and it's illegal to sell it (under US law) in the US, and then you're fool enough to set foot on US soil, you deserve what you get. Sorry. And that's exactly what happened - it was being sold in the US. And the reason *he* was arrested is because it said something like "Copyright Dmitri Sklyarov" instead of "Copyright Elcomsoft".
Network traffic has been doubling every two years or so, this means that 90-95% dark fiber would last you about 6-8 years.
The statistic that caused this boom in the laying of fiber was 1000% network growth per year, or doubling every 3 months. This has proven to be a wildly exaggerated figure, and IMHO, one pushed by those who stood to to profit from skyrocketing telecom stock prices (e.g. Jack Grubman) despite knowing it to be false.
Wildly optimistic data drove telecoms to build fiber glut - Wall Street Journal, Sept. 26 2002
Ok, let's put it in plain English, since you "pro-violencers" can apparently only comprehend monosyllabic words:
Because we need a well regulated militia, the people need the right to bear arms.
Stop me if I've lost you. Ok, the second clause is valid only if the first is true. You know, "If today is Tuesday, I will go to the Gym." If we know that today is in fact Tuesday, then we can infer that I will go to the gym. This is 9th grade logic. So, if it is true that we need a well regulated militia, then it is also true that we need to bear arms. If we know that it is not Tuesday, then we really cannot draw any conclusions from the statement. We know that we no longer need "a well regulated militia," so where does that leave us with the right to bear arms? Well, it's sort of nebulous, but basically it leaves us in the position of weighing the pros and cons of the 2nd amendment as if it were being proposed today.
Since the justification for such a heinous clause in the Constitution is no longer applicable, the clause itself is no longer applicable, and the 2nd Amendment is obsolete. If it were proposed today it would likely (hopefully) be shot down in flames (NPI).
And just to quell the arguments of those who claim that having guns in a home somehow deters crime or makes you safer, let's look at Texas, where "everybody" has a gun: "Texas' current incarceration rate is 80 percent higher than New York's, yet Texas' crime rate is 30 percent higher; in 1998, the murder rate was 25 percent higher." [bolding mine] So they have a 25% higher murder rate in Texas, where "Everybody" has a gun, than in NY, supposedly the haven of murder and rape.
So it is evident that guns are of negligible -- if any -- value to the modern populace, and have led to countless senseless deaths over the past century. Why the pro-murder people maintain their love of guns "for sport" or whatnot is truly something I shall never understand.
As for your comment about the college: really, 9th grade. You should look into it.
Yeah, don't let logic get in the way of your zealotry.
The point is that the second part is predicated upon the first, and since the first is no longer true, the second no longer applies.