Re:At least make the navbar black.
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I'm looking at it on a small monitor right now, and the gray bar looks so dark it might as well be black. i'd have to squint to reqd 'ODSN', etc. much less even notice the X. Guess it's fittingly somber for a site that wants to penalize humor.
We're well known for stretching every vowel into several syllables. "Well" comes out "way-uhl" and a long "I" sounds like "ah." Every time one referred to oneself, the TV or CD would start skipping around.
"Way-uhl, Ah doan know wut Ah'm gonna do. Mah CD keeps skippin'. Wut are y'all gonna do?"
Here we are at the peak of the greatest technological revolution the world has ever known, and this guy wants us to go back to communicating with grunts and moans.
You are so right. After my grandfather died earlier this year at age 87, my grandmother found among his effects a love letter he had written in 1942. They had just been married in California three days before his unit was shipped out to the South Pacific. She had riddden the train out there by herself from her home in the Southeast U.S., a big undertaking in those days. The letter was rejected by military censors because it described the traditional merrymaking and ceremonies when the ship crossed the Equator. (No one was supposed to reveal their location; in fact, they were headed to New Caldedonia.)In the letter he talked about how much he loved her and that he was glad they were married, and how nothing, not even death, could ever separate them. Finding this letter after his death was a powerful comfort to her. (They had burned all their other love letters after the war to preserve their privacy) I don't think an ephemeral email could ever have topped this.
... to fly around the house and pick up all those little Lego(s)left lying around on the floor, the ones she's always stepping on in the dark when checking on the kids at night.
My last job, I had a big editor's monitor, one at work and one for my home, both about 21", and at first it was great bcs I could have all kinds of documents, graphics, etc. open at the same time. But after a while, I started getting a persistent "crick" in my neck from craning my neck to see the stuff at the top of the screen. It even hurt to sit on the couch and watch TV on a big-screen across the room. I couldn't just crank my desk chair up a little higher, because I am somewhat small in stature, and have to crank it low enough to keep my feet on the ground. Post-Tech Wreck, I started a new but similar job and was a little disappointed with the 17" monitor that came with it. But I'm getting just as much done, and my neck doesn't hurt all the time. So I think there may be an optimum size, perhaps related to user dimensions.
They've had this on MSNBC for awhile. If you click on the news categories on the lefT nav bar instead of mousing over and choosing a story, you get a big ad blocking your screen, and you have t go up to the top nav to actually get to that category. There's no free lunch anywhere. I guess if I didn't want to be annoyed, I could just read a book.
There was supposedly a whole system of signals guiding African-American slaves to escape to the north. The signals were hidden in quilts, which could be left out in the open. It's written up in Hidden in Plain View, and you can see some of the symbols here. This was very low-tech, and the end-users didn't even have to be literate. Haven't you seen spy movies where signals were passed according to whether a curtain was open or shut, the color of a shirt hanging on a clothesline, etc.? This kind of low-tech signal would leave much less footprint than anything composed or transmitted via machine.
Re:Actually, it's /exactly/ what we need.
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Consensus is derived by compromise. Can you imagine where the middle would be today without zealous idiots on either end of it?
Well put. I'm thinking about embroidering a sampler with those words on it.
We have every stripe of political opinion on this page. thus let it ever be! The day/. became a lobbying organization, it would lose its unique position as a forum where all voices can be heard (even if some get modded down)
Need i say more? We've already got E-Z Pass, Acme Rent-A-Car's GPS systems and every "CRM" system devised in the last 5 years tracking our movements and purchases. I used to think people who claimed the government had implanted a chip in their brains to monitor their movements were crazy; maybe they were just prescient. This would be an instant challenge to hack. We already live in a country where the Pres' teenage daughters can drink on a fake ID, so there would be a big demand for faking these IDs.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Kodiak is an island about 87 miles off the mainland coast of Alaska, and while it has plenty of coastline, it isn't exactly "on the Alaskan coast," although I suppose you could argue that as an island Kodiak has plenty of coastline. It was the capital of the Russian settlement in Alaska from 1783 to 1799, long before U.S. westward expansion into the Oregon territory and California.
If you take a picture of the launch, will it be a Kodiak Moment?
As the late Trader Vic once said, "Why anyone would want a drink made with Blue Curacao is beyond me."
Here's an Easter special. It isn't purple, it's pink, it's the Jellybean Cocktail:
Put some ice in a tall glass. Add about two fingers of Ouzo. Pour in some grapefruit juice. Add a little Grenadine to give it some color. Stir and sip. (You could add an olive, but I would skip it.)
In most of the world, there's no such thing as a doggie bag -- Prof. Kelly Brownell
Maybe he could find an old set of Pirate and Traveler? It combined elements of geography, adventure and risks, although the references to whale trade, seal skins, polar bear fur and cannibals might not be politically incorrect.
You're correct. I'm left-handed, mouse right-handed and use the mousewheel instead of the scrollbar whenever possible. I can be jotting down notes or checking items off a list with a pen in my left hand while I wheel/scroll with the right hand. The only thing that's hard for me to do with the mouse in my right hand is freehand drawing. I think most left-handed people develop some degree of ambidexterity.
The best thing about being left-handed is that you're always in your right mind.
What is Aimster? "Aimster allows you to Find New Buddies and Share With Buddies." Now there's a mission statement worth leaving a great school like RPI to pursue. Still, if you hadn't done it, you would have missed the experience. It would be like missing out on Woodstock. It may have been muddy and crowded and inconvenient, and there was bad purple acid and stuff, but those who went could brag about it for the rest of their lives. Have fun in school and pay attention in economics class.
Beware of enterprises that require new software - Didn't Benjamin Franklin say that?
Blockbuster and cereal boxes, too
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Channelware (now called NetActive) used to rent games through a deal with Blockbuster. They also distributed games inside cereal boxes that you could only play for a limited time. If you liked the game, you could rent the software online to "re-charge" the CD the games came on.
In addition to his wonderful fiction, Tolkien was a linguist and an expert on Anglo-Saxon languages. A collection of his lectures, aptly entitled The Monsters and the Critics, reviewed here includes one "On Translating Beowulf."
And no collection of Tolkiena would be complete without Letters from Father Christmas, a collection of letters Tolkien wrote to his kids over the years beginning in the 1930s. They were painstakingly illustrated, down to the North Pole postage stamps. You can see his style develop over the years, from straightforward tales of mishaps at the North Pole, often including a clumsy polar bear, to escalating wars between armies of trolls and dwarves.
...used to have teams of programmers, including a team in Siberia, working tag-team shifts around the globe to get rush projects finished. (I wonder if they were among the 30,000 that got laid off?)
The part I liked about this release was seeing his email address linked in the press release - how many "big cheese departs" press releases have that on them?
Maybe this practice will become more common, in case someone has a job offer for one of these cheeses.
Don't think of it as supporting their economy. Think of it as burning their crops - Kinky Friedman on Cuban cigars.
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I'm looking at it on a small monitor right now, and the gray bar looks so dark it might as well be black. i'd have to squint to reqd 'ODSN', etc. much less even notice the X. Guess it's fittingly somber for a site that wants to penalize humor.
What would Rain-in-the-Face do?
We're well known for stretching every vowel into several syllables. "Well" comes out "way-uhl" and a long "I" sounds like "ah." Every time one referred to oneself, the TV or CD would start skipping around.
"Way-uhl, Ah doan know wut Ah'm gonna do. Mah CD keeps skippin'. Wut are y'all gonna do?"
Here we are at the peak of the greatest technological revolution the world has ever known, and this guy wants us to go back to communicating with grunts and moans.
What would Rain-in-the-Face do?
It's American as apple pie. So is that other American institution -- Suing the B*stards.
What would Rain-in-the-Face do?
You are so right. After my grandfather died earlier this year at age 87, my grandmother found among his effects a love letter he had written in 1942. They had just been married in California three days before his unit was shipped out to the South Pacific. She had riddden the train out there by herself from her home in the Southeast U.S., a big undertaking in those days. The letter was rejected by military censors because it described the traditional merrymaking and ceremonies when the ship crossed the Equator. (No one was supposed to reveal their location; in fact, they were headed to New Caldedonia.)In the letter he talked about how much he loved her and that he was glad they were married, and how nothing, not even death, could ever separate them. Finding this letter after his death was a powerful comfort to her. (They had burned all their other love letters after the war to preserve their privacy) I don't think an ephemeral email could ever have topped this.
... to fly around the house and pick up all those little Lego(s)left lying around on the floor, the ones she's always stepping on in the dark when checking on the kids at night.
My last job, I had a big editor's monitor, one at work and one for my home, both about 21", and at first it was great bcs I could have all kinds of documents, graphics, etc. open at the same time. But after a while, I started getting a persistent "crick" in my neck from craning my neck to see the stuff at the top of the screen. It even hurt to sit on the couch and watch TV on a big-screen across the room. I couldn't just crank my desk chair up a little higher, because I am somewhat small in stature, and have to crank it low enough to keep my feet on the ground. Post-Tech Wreck, I started a new but similar job and was a little disappointed with the 17" monitor that came with it. But I'm getting just as much done, and my neck doesn't hurt all the time. So I think there may be an optimum size, perhaps related to user dimensions.
What would Rain-in-the-Face do?
They've had this on MSNBC for awhile. If you click on the news categories on the lefT nav bar instead of mousing over and choosing a story, you get a big ad blocking your screen, and you have t go up to the top nav to actually get to that category. There's no free lunch anywhere. I guess if I didn't want to be annoyed, I could just read a book.
(Assuming target clientele=female) as if any girl would pay for it!
In either case, the 'client' could come (pardon the pun) away with a tangible good.. It would just take 9 months.
More likely she would come away with a tangible liability, and you'd spend the next 18 yrs. paying for it!
-- What would Missy Elliott do? --
There was supposedly a whole system of signals guiding African-American slaves to escape to the north. The signals were hidden in quilts, which could be left out in the open. It's written up in Hidden in Plain View, and you can see some of the symbols here. This was very low-tech, and the end-users didn't even have to be literate. Haven't you seen spy movies where signals were passed according to whether a curtain was open or shut, the color of a shirt hanging on a clothesline, etc.? This kind of low-tech signal would leave much less footprint than anything composed or transmitted via machine.
Consensus is derived by compromise. Can you imagine where the middle would be today without zealous idiots on either end of it?
Well put. I'm thinking about embroidering a sampler with those words on it.
-- What would Missy Elliott do? --
We have every stripe of political opinion on this page. thus let it ever be! The day /. became a lobbying organization, it would lose its unique position as a forum where all voices can be heard (even if some get modded down)
Need i say more? We've already got E-Z Pass, Acme Rent-A-Car's GPS systems and every "CRM" system devised in the last 5 years tracking our movements and purchases. I used to think people who claimed the government had implanted a chip in their brains to monitor their movements were crazy; maybe they were just prescient. This would be an instant challenge to hack. We already live in a country where the Pres' teenage daughters can drink on a fake ID, so there would be a big demand for faking these IDs.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Kodiak is an island about 87 miles off the mainland coast of Alaska, and while it has plenty of coastline, it isn't exactly "on the Alaskan coast," although I suppose you could argue that as an island Kodiak has plenty of coastline. It was the capital of the Russian settlement in Alaska from 1783 to 1799, long before U.S. westward expansion into the Oregon territory and California.
If you take a picture of the launch, will it be a Kodiak Moment?
... how did you like FrontPage 2002, compared, to, say, FrontPage 2000? (What, no product review?)Or would you recommend waiting for Frontpage 2004?
As the late Trader Vic once said, "Why anyone would want a drink made with Blue Curacao is beyond me."
Here's an Easter special. It isn't purple, it's pink, it's the Jellybean Cocktail:
Put some ice in a tall glass.
Add about two fingers of Ouzo.
Pour in some grapefruit juice.
Add a little Grenadine to give it some color.
Stir and sip.
(You could add an olive, but I would skip it.)
In most of the world, there's no such thing as a doggie bag -- Prof. Kelly Brownell
Maybe he could find an old set of Pirate and Traveler? It combined elements of geography, adventure and risks, although the references to whale trade, seal skins, polar bear fur and cannibals might not be politically incorrect.
You're correct. I'm left-handed, mouse right-handed and use the mousewheel instead of the scrollbar whenever possible. I can be jotting down notes or checking items off a list with a pen in my left hand while I wheel/scroll with the right hand. The only thing that's hard for me to do with the mouse in my right hand is freehand drawing. I think most left-handed people develop some degree of ambidexterity.
The best thing about being left-handed is that you're always in your right mind.
What is Aimster?
"Aimster allows you to Find New Buddies and Share With Buddies."
Now there's a mission statement worth leaving a great school like RPI to pursue. Still, if you hadn't done it, you would have missed the experience. It would be like missing out on Woodstock. It may have been muddy and crowded and inconvenient, and there was bad purple acid and stuff, but those who went could brag about it for the rest of their lives. Have fun in school and pay attention in economics class.
Beware of enterprises that require new software - Didn't Benjamin Franklin say that?
Channelware (now called NetActive) used to rent games through a deal with Blockbuster. They also distributed games inside cereal boxes that you could only play for a limited time. If you liked the game, you could rent the software online to "re-charge" the CD the games came on.
What with all the policies and the gigantic ads taking up most of the room, pretty soon you won't be able to see anything on the site anyway.
And if you work for BigCorp, they not only pay your way but write it off their taxes. But the tech slump has cut into that gravy train big time.
Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse.
In addition to his wonderful fiction, Tolkien was a linguist and an expert on Anglo-Saxon languages. A collection of his lectures, aptly entitled The Monsters and the Critics, reviewed here includes one "On Translating Beowulf."
And no collection of Tolkiena would be complete without Letters from Father Christmas, a collection of letters Tolkien wrote to his kids over the years beginning in the 1930s. They were painstakingly illustrated, down to the North Pole postage stamps. You can see his style develop over the years, from straightforward tales of mishaps at the North Pole, often including a clumsy polar bear, to escalating wars between armies of trolls and dwarves.
Am I in a sweatshop?
Evidently. Try job-swap with Russian counterpart and compare.
It's always something. - Gilda Radner
...used to have teams of programmers, including a team in Siberia, working tag-team shifts around the globe to get rush projects finished. (I wonder if they were among the 30,000 that got laid off?)
The part I liked about this release was seeing his email address linked in the press release - how many "big cheese departs" press releases have that on them?
Maybe this practice will become more common, in case someone has a job offer for one of these cheeses.
Don't think of it as supporting their economy. Think of it as burning their crops - Kinky Friedman on Cuban cigars.