Remember at school when your mom bought you that T-shirt you thought was so cool, but nobody looked at you in the playground, then you started to say "hey look at my new T-shirt, ain't that cool, hey hey ?? hey ?" and they all ended up avoiding you after you told them 5 times ?
Well, telemarketting is the same : if you had cool products, you wouldn't need to call people to sell them and annoy the living shit out of everybody.
The 12-digit bar code that's used across the United States was introduced in the 1970s, and the retail industry is close to running out of new combinations.
UPC-A barcodes are 12 digit long. There are many many other types of barcodes, including 2D barcodes that can hold up to 1K of data on them. They just have to pick another type of barcode, like CODE128, for consumer products and declare it the new standard. No need for revolutionary changes here.
Look in the SUPPORTED_BARCODES file in the cuecat driver archive to see how many 1D barcode types already exist.
This guy thought about writing an article on the great Internet, stopped xmule for a moment to do a tcpdump and discovered with horror that hundreds of unknown machines are trying to connect to his on unknown ports ? Oh the humanity!
Quite the contrary, I find more reason to be pessimistic and believe that this background noise will become a Niagara-like roar that drowns the usability of the Internet.
Between viruses and spammers and just plain old bad code, the net is now subject to a heavy, and increasing level of background packet radiation.
Okay, so unlike the universe's background radiation which tends to get more and more diluted, does this mean the innurnet is in a big crunch phase? that it'll collapse back to a infinitely massive singularity located in the DARPA building it was born in? My God it's TERRIFYING !!!
Oh and by the way, the innurnet won't die as long as there's vested interests in it. It'll evolve, governments will step in to stop the crap, a new protocol will appear with signed packets... whatever, but as long as there's money in out and around it, it's here to stay. No worries...
Apparently RIAA has obtained some technical experts in their prosecution of file swappers. Currently they are tracking traded mp3 files from the Napster network by matching MD5 hashes
After all, in these dot-bust days, it's still possible to get a nice highly paid job and be called an expert by putting the right spin to strcmp() in your resume...
Oh, Mozilla runs great once it's started, and it even does okay after the disk reads are cached in memory, but it's the initial startup time that sucks. My guess is that it's just bloated code and/or it loads too much stuff for what it does.
Well, how about you buy ne the raisin wheats then, if it's so cheap?
I'll tell you what : Microsoft and hardware vendors have managed to convince people that computers have a finite lifetime because there's a universal intangible rule that says software gets more and more bloated. And Linux people, in true I-copy-Microsoft, are doing exactly the same thing. It's pathetic.
I'd like that big projects like Moz or KDE be modular in terms of speed vs. functionalities : if I have a powerful machine, I'll want the super 3D web-o-matic, and if I run it on an old machine, I have an option to do without and I can stay at a level of niceties and support corresponding to the speed of the machine. Is that unreasonable? It should be easier to downgrade than the reverse.
You wouldn't accept it if gas stations used a new gasoline for cars every 5 years and you had to buy a new car and junk the previous one for nothing, I don't see why you mock the same thing with software. if you have money to throw in new machines every 3 to 5 years, I prefer using my investment for as long as I can.
... which is booting in less than a century on my PII-266 / 96M of ram.
I don't want to spit in the soup, I think Moz rocks the boat, but apart from the oh-so-welcome stability issues, it's more or less functionally equivalent to Netscape Communicator 4.7 to me (yes I know about popup blocking and cookie control, but I did that with Junkbuster before and it worked just fine too).
Unfortunately, Mozilla is one of the two key software pieces I use (the other one being KDE) that contribute to making my otherwise perfectly working laptop more and more unusable as they mature. Too bad...
Well, I meant the network interfaces with the coax cable and BNCs we used to stick a paperclip in to screw the entire LAN and have a good excuse to not do our assignments in college. It's not yesterday, I couldn't quite remember the name of it;-)
Computer networks would be taxed at that percent on either annual lease payments or depreciation.
Hey Florida engineers : I have a whole lot of 2BaseT networking equipment for sale, so you can get a tax break! Man, I never thought I'd be able to do something with that crap.
Florida sure knows how to promote the concept of *old*...
... because the pieces he exhibits aren't funny or weird, they are just pathetic examples of badly written documentation, and those have existed since electronic devices have grown more complex than kitchen appliances, and their docs started to be written in japanglish.
And quite frankly, the "kind of dirty" ones wouldn't even be half-dirty for women in a covent.
The only interest of those technical docs is (1) to learn how to not write them like that, and (2) to witness the birth of early mangas.
I won't have to bring up X to edit photos in the Gimp!
Even better : use a TTS with that and you've got gimp for the blind: Tool-Eraser-Star-Transparency-Minus-Minus-Minus- Pl us-Minus-Minus-Minus-PipeSign-ColorRed-ColorRed-Co lorRed-ColorRed-ColorRed-ColorRed-ColorRed-ColorRe d...
I realize this is all about geekiness factor, but how do they handle these:
- Widget alignments when whatever widgets you align don't fall exactly on their equivalent ascii places?
- GDK pixmaps : do they use AAlib to render them?
Alright, I'm off to recompile X-Chat. If it actually turns out good in ascii, nobody will be able to give me crap on IRC because I don't use 1337 BitchX:-)
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I've d/led movies and when I play them, it says "this movie has been illegally copied. You must purchase the original movie at your local store.". Damn Hollywood studios, we didn't get that marketting crap with bootleg VHS tapes in the ole days...
No no, I'm talking about the dual-licensing thing. The GPL/QPL is a bait-and-switch scheme : the more people use it under GPL, the more it'll become standard, and the more people who want to make commercial products will be compelled to use Qt as a de-facto standard and be forced to pay the Trolltech tax.
Don't get me wrong, I like Qt and I think TT's market grabbing scheme is pretty slick and fair, from a company out to make money, but I've paid for and had to endure enough non-free (free as in beer) software to be wary of them. Too bad I find Gnome so ugly, otherwise I wouldn't use KDE for that very reason.
Qt is great (well, if you like C++ and you don't mind the QPL), but there's really one thing I'd like: when will it ever have a font scheme that allows me to use AA fonts together with non-truetype X11 core fonts?
... the majority of people who want to pay less for the same computers. Whenever a new super-duper computer comes up, a minority fringe with too much money (that I was once part of) blows ungodly amounts of money to get it, driving down the cost of perfectly serviceable, good, fast, but older computers for the rest of us.
So I say go AMD64 and go KIA, so I can buy those Athlons 2000+ based-machines I need even cheaper.
Here's a modest proposal: Microsoft should use some of its $49 billion hoard to mail an update CD to anybody who wants one. At $3 a pop (a liberal estimate), it could ship a disc to every human being on Earth -- and still have $30 billion in the bank.
Please Microsoft, use CD-RWs. I already have a wall covered with silver AOL CDs...
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Actually, lava lamps are cool from a scientific point of view too : they are considered a very good source of randomness for RNGs.
...
Very shaggadelic
Remember at school when your mom bought you that T-shirt you thought was so cool, but nobody looked at you in the playground, then you started to say "hey look at my new T-shirt, ain't that cool, hey hey ?? hey ?" and they all ended up avoiding you after you told them 5 times ?
Well, telemarketting is the same : if you had cool products, you wouldn't need to call people to sell them and annoy the living shit out of everybody.
The government has managed in a surprisingly small amount of time to compile a database linking phone numbers and email addresses with 41M entries.
I'm sure it'll be used only for opt-in telemarketting. I mean, what else could be done with such a database?
The 12-digit bar code that's used across the United States was introduced in the 1970s, and the retail industry is close to running out of new combinations.
UPC-A barcodes are 12 digit long. There are many many other types of barcodes, including 2D barcodes that can hold up to 1K of data on them. They just have to pick another type of barcode, like CODE128, for consumer products and declare it the new standard. No need for revolutionary changes here.
Look in the SUPPORTED_BARCODES file in the cuecat driver archive to see how many 1D barcode types already exist.
Slashdot is not, however, even though some have requested it be taken down for the day...
Yes, and here's the reason why : since the protest is about European software patents, Slashdot doesn't give a toss.
In true Slashdot tradition, we're taking the issue and throwing it out to you
and in true Slashdot tradition, the result of this will likely be in-soviet-russia, 123-profit, sco-sucks or imagine-a-beowulf-cluster-of-these.
here : now you don't even need the net anymore.
24 hours in order to allow us to clean it
Only 24 hours to clean the net ?? Man you're fast, or you have a million monkeys at your disposal.
This guy thought about writing an article on the great Internet, stopped xmule for a moment to do a tcpdump and discovered with horror that hundreds of unknown machines are trying to connect to his on unknown ports ? Oh the humanity!
Quite the contrary, I find more reason to be pessimistic and believe that this background noise will become a Niagara-like roar that drowns the usability of the Internet.
... whatever, but as long as there's money in out and around it, it's here to stay. No worries ...
Between viruses and spammers and just plain old bad code, the net is now subject to a heavy, and increasing level of background packet radiation.
Okay, so unlike the universe's background radiation which tends to get more and more diluted, does this mean the innurnet is in a big crunch phase? that it'll collapse back to a infinitely massive singularity located in the DARPA building it was born in? My God it's TERRIFYING !!!
Oh and by the way, the innurnet won't die as long as there's vested interests in it. It'll evolve, governments will step in to stop the crap, a new protocol will appear with signed packets
Apparently RIAA has obtained some technical experts in their prosecution of file swappers. Currently they are tracking traded mp3 files from the Napster network by matching MD5 hashes
...
After all, in these dot-bust days, it's still possible to get a nice highly paid job and be called an expert by putting the right spin to strcmp() in your resume
Oh, Mozilla runs great once it's started, and it even does okay after the disk reads are cached in memory, but it's the initial startup time that sucks. My guess is that it's just bloated code and/or it loads too much stuff for what it does.
Well, how about you buy ne the raisin wheats then, if it's so cheap?
I'll tell you what : Microsoft and hardware vendors have managed to convince people that computers have a finite lifetime because there's a universal intangible rule that says software gets more and more bloated. And Linux people, in true I-copy-Microsoft, are doing exactly the same thing. It's pathetic.
I'd like that big projects like Moz or KDE be modular in terms of speed vs. functionalities : if I have a powerful machine, I'll want the super 3D web-o-matic, and if I run it on an old machine, I have an option to do without and I can stay at a level of niceties and support corresponding to the speed of the machine. Is that unreasonable? It should be easier to downgrade than the reverse.
You wouldn't accept it if gas stations used a new gasoline for cars every 5 years and you had to buy a new car and junk the previous one for nothing, I don't see why you mock the same thing with software. if you have money to throw in new machines every 3 to 5 years, I prefer using my investment for as long as I can.
... which is booting in less than a century on my PII-266 / 96M of ram.
...
I don't want to spit in the soup, I think Moz rocks the boat, but apart from the oh-so-welcome stability issues, it's more or less functionally equivalent to Netscape Communicator 4.7 to me (yes I know about popup blocking and cookie control, but I did that with Junkbuster before and it worked just fine too).
Unfortunately, Mozilla is one of the two key software pieces I use (the other one being KDE) that contribute to making my otherwise perfectly working laptop more and more unusable as they mature. Too bad
Ah yes, you're right.
;-)
Well, I meant the network interfaces with the coax cable and BNCs we used to stick a paperclip in to screw the entire LAN and have a good excuse to not do our assignments in college. It's not yesterday, I couldn't quite remember the name of it
Computer networks would be taxed at that percent on either annual lease payments or depreciation.
...
Hey Florida engineers : I have a whole lot of 2BaseT networking equipment for sale, so you can get a tax break! Man, I never thought I'd be able to do something with that crap.
Florida sure knows how to promote the concept of *old*
... because the pieces he exhibits aren't funny or weird, they are just pathetic examples of badly written documentation, and those have existed since electronic devices have grown more complex than kitchen appliances, and their docs started to be written in japanglish.
And quite frankly, the "kind of dirty" ones wouldn't even be half-dirty for women in a covent.
The only interest of those technical docs is (1) to learn how to not write them like that, and (2) to witness the birth of early mangas.
Hey you're back, it's been a while :)
I won't have to bring up X to edit photos in the Gimp!
:
- Pl us-Minus-Minus-Minus-PipeSign-ColorRed-ColorRed-Co lorRed-ColorRed-ColorRed-ColorRed-ColorRed-ColorRe d...
Even better : use a TTS with that and you've got gimp for the blind
Tool-Eraser-Star-Transparency-Minus-Minus-Minus
I realize this is all about geekiness factor, but how do they handle these :
:-)
- Widget alignments when whatever widgets you align don't fall exactly on their equivalent ascii places?
- GDK pixmaps : do they use AAlib to render them?
Alright, I'm off to recompile X-Chat. If it actually turns out good in ascii, nobody will be able to give me crap on IRC because I don't use 1337 BitchX
I've d/led movies and when I play them, it says "this movie has been illegally copied. You must purchase the original movie at your local store.". Damn Hollywood studios, we didn't get that marketting crap with bootleg VHS tapes in the ole days ...
No no, I'm talking about the dual-licensing thing. The GPL/QPL is a bait-and-switch scheme : the more people use it under GPL, the more it'll become standard, and the more people who want to make commercial products will be compelled to use Qt as a de-facto standard and be forced to pay the Trolltech tax.
Don't get me wrong, I like Qt and I think TT's market grabbing scheme is pretty slick and fair, from a company out to make money, but I've paid for and had to endure enough non-free (free as in beer) software to be wary of them. Too bad I find Gnome so ugly, otherwise I wouldn't use KDE for that very reason.
Qt is great (well, if you like C++ and you don't mind the QPL), but there's really one thing I'd like: when will it ever have a font scheme that allows me to use AA fonts together with non-truetype X11 core fonts?
... the majority of people who want to pay less for the same computers. Whenever a new super-duper computer comes up, a minority fringe with too much money (that I was once part of) blows ungodly amounts of money to get it, driving down the cost of perfectly serviceable, good, fast, but older computers for the rest of us.
So I say go AMD64 and go KIA, so I can buy those Athlons 2000+ based-machines I need even cheaper.
Here's a modest proposal: Microsoft should use some of its $49 billion hoard to mail an update CD to anybody who wants one. At $3 a pop (a liberal estimate), it could ship a disc to every human being on Earth -- and still have $30 billion in the bank.
...
Please Microsoft, use CD-RWs. I already have a wall covered with silver AOL CDs