...it was my favorite tech company that finally _really_ brought Unix to the desktop, while Slashdot's
pick turned out a slow, bloated Explorer knockoff, and fired half their workers the day they finished it...
Whoah now. Let's not be bringing Netscape into this. Wait--whom do you mean?;-)
This site has pictures of MEN in addition to pictures of women. Many of these ethics people (who have good points, I might add)
are saying that it is a women only site.
Not true. The male pictures are equally demoralizing:))
If there's any porn or indecent material, you can click a link at the bottom and notify the site administrators.
Also, people are voluntarily doing this, often for its fun.
People do have appearances, and many want to know how others think of them...sadly not everyone is attractive as he or she wants to be, but people who may want to improve their appearances can at least get accurate knowledge from this site. I say accurate because your friends will lie if you ask them how you look.
How can you improve your appearance you say? Exercise, eating nutritiously, orthodontics, and yes, surgery. How many people do you know have perfect teeth as a result of orthodontics? Looks are a priority in the society.
Good point. However, I don't hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, and in fact I am anticipating waiting for the release of Windows XP. I have planned to pay a reservation fee to get a copy held for me so that I can upgrade from OpenBSD. Why? Window Media Player has the coolest visualization effects, and by the time XP comes out I'm sure they'll be the best in existance.
Curiously, though, there seems to be something fishy, a dark side, regarding Windows Media Player, aka WMP.
WMP, the acronym, looks strangely like WhoMP, as in conquer and destroy.
WMP is strangely a high quality product--indicative of an attempt to gain "market share" in the area of music file formats. (The reason I say "market share" is because, well, is there's a market here?)
WMP has its own format while maintaining backwards compatibility.
When I installed WinAmp, clippy politely informed me that Windows Media Player had all the features of WinAmp and more. Then he (or she) politely informed me that he (or she) could uninstall WinAmp for me. At first I didn't want to, but then it did that Japanese seizure-inducing thing, foreshadowing the coming events:
When I set my computer's clock to 2002, WMP said "MP3 format has become obsolete. All your MP3 are downgrade to 56 kbps."
When I set my computer's clock to 2003, windows said, "You are not using our flagship product!!! Please upgrade to XP; it's our flagship product!!! Make your time! Small print: you do not have to do this."
Okay, this post is getting stupid, so I'm stopping now.
We could write a software daemon (similar to Gnutella/freenet) that allows us to chain IP ports of nodes together in order to hide who is
sending what to whom. For example, if I wanted to send an e-mail that were unencrypted to someone, but I wanted to hide what
machine I were using, I could use this system to connect the mail daemon through about six machines who'd be running the system that
would pass the e-mail through each one (preferrably encrypted as well). "Portster" or some other trendy name could be used:) (When
you run the daemon, it allows others who are running it to connect through your machine to additional machines, ad infinum, until you've
chaned enough ports together.)
I wrote that earlier. What if we implemented this? Then tracking data like these would be much harder
then you'd need a defibrualtor for your defibrulator...
or a backup machine with "clippy": "It looks like your defibruator has crashed! Shall I restart it? Thumb chest if yes, otherwise proceed to die."
I think that as long as you have a backup device to restart the main device, crashes won't be a problem with Windows CE or Windows NT Embedded. The probability is too low that both will crash simultaneously. Hence, we don't need to work on Linux for this mundane task.
One thing I find interesting about the Yopy is that it's vaporware. Vaporware seems to have made some steady inroads into American
electronics shops with low- and mid-grade linux-pdas....We've come to think of Vaporware companies like Yopy, Microsfot, and Samsung as being the high-end makers for certain types of fictitious consumer goods...The large Korean combines / Chaebol (Hyundai, Daewoo, Samsung, etc) make products in so many lines it's hard to keep track, but I
don't see many of them in this country.
p.s. I really want a free yopy, anyone who has an extra can please send it along.
Sadly, I can only send you some of the free vapor I picked up at CompUSA today in a ziplock bag. Would you like Plug 'N Play (very easy to inhale), USB 2.0 (this vapor goes really fast), or Serial ATA (now with only four wires!)?
Second generation vaporware is the funniest thing I've heard all week.
You see, by the time Windows XP comes out, my hard discs will be so big that I won't need MP3 compression;). And software and music will all be streaming from the Internet anyway! In fact, with IPv6, I can have one IP address for each song.
Seriously, though, if you want a good sound & music compression software, chech out Ogg Vorbis, which is free software, cross platform, fast, and high quality. I recommend bitrates of 160 or higher.
You must use the ".divx" file extension in any Encoded Content...you must prominently display the "Encoded in DivX" logo on the package of any Encoded Content...you must include the "Encoded in DivX" video logo at the beginning of any Encoded Content...Any Codec or Larger Works created by you must conform to the MPEG-4 Video Standard...
We could write a software daemon (similar to Gnutella/freenet) that allows us to chain IP ports of nodes together in order to hide who is sending what to whom. For example, if I wanted to send an e-mail that were unencrypted to someone, but I wanted to hide what machine I were using, I could use this system to connect the mail daemon through about six machines who'd be running the system that would pass the e-mail through each one (preferrably encrypted as well). "Portster" or some other trendy name could be used:) (When you run the daemon, it allows others who are running it to connect through your machine to additional machines, ad infinum, until you've chaned enough ports together.)
I wouldn't mind having ads in games...I wish that game companies would stop advertising the game and game systems themselves inside the game! I've alread bought the game and the system; I don't need to be reminded of those things every time I play. By that I mean not constantly telling me that I'm playing "NBA 2k" on SEGA brand SEGA genesis. I mean, remember the original game boy and how it said "nintendo" when you turned it on? It was annoying because you'd have to watch that every time!(And it took a while.) Then there was sega genesis...the EA sports games always had real long intro scenes. You'd see "SEGA Genesis" followed by "Licensed by SEGA", etc. as if I didn't know which system I was using or what game I was playing.
Basic has reached critical mass--everyone has Microsoft TM Qbasic on his or her or its computer. (All your basic are belong to us.) Those who use linux or BSD can easily get basic interpreters from freshmeat. But the question remains: how do we integrate BASIC into the web browser? I believe the peer-to-peer paradigm of buzzwords requires that we sucessfully implement a proprietary closed-source plug-in that is high-content and pro-validity with full customer compliance in order to sucessfully reach the goals instated.
You are advised and acknowledge that the plug-in may transmit information regarding your use of content to curl. This information may contain, without limitation, information relating to the license status of any content processed by the plug-in, the size of any content processed by the plug-in, an identifier for any content processed, the location from which the content was downloaded, the time at which the content was downloaded or processed, an identifier indicating the provider and/or developer of the content, and other usage information that may be used to determine the license status of content, to bill providers of licensed commercial content for use of the content, and/or to provide statistics or other aggregate information on content use. The plug-in will not collect or transmit personally identifiable information to curl, and curl will not associate any information collected by the plug-in with any personally identifiable information obtained from any source. You expressly authorize the collection and transmission of information by the plug-in, and expressly authorize curl to access and utilize the information collected and transmitted by the plug-in.
OTHER RESTRICTIONS: You may not modify, enhance, supplement, create derivative work from, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise reduce the Software to human readable form.
It'll be interesting to see just exactly how symmetrical the new connections will be...I'm thinking that major content providers, ala Time Warner AOL, and others, are not going to want to see high upload speeds for regular people. Regular people with high speed uploads have enough power to [shudder] make their own content.
New!! Analog Data Glyphs, from Xerox. They look like this when printed:
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When sequenced like such, they can make pretty progress indicators. When printed at sufficiently fine resolutions, computers can not identify them. (Unless anti-aliased using XFree86's Render extension.) When printed at sufficiently coarse resolutions, they use a lot of paper. However, your printer will need to be able to print in grey.
Prepare to see the DeCSS code hidden within your next Linux-related document, or hacker magazine.
If you scan it upside down, are all the ones zeros, and vice versa?
Slashdot Mirror
No thanks; GNUCash runs just fine on a Pentium 1.
...to de-ethicify itself, has started an amihotornot club in addition to selling pornographic DVDs.
Not true. The male pictures are equally demoralizing :))
and vice versa.
Also, people are voluntarily doing this, often for its fun.
People do have appearances, and many want to know how others think of them...sadly not everyone is attractive as he or she wants to be, but people who may want to improve their appearances can at least get accurate knowledge from this site. I say accurate because your friends will lie if you ask them how you look.
How can you improve your appearance you say? Exercise, eating nutritiously, orthodontics, and yes, surgery. How many people do you know have perfect teeth as a result of orthodontics? Looks are a priority in the society.
is that whenever you select women gender, the site seem to still returns pictures of mem.
Curiously, though, there seems to be something fishy, a dark side, regarding Windows Media Player, aka WMP.
WMP, the acronym, looks strangely like WhoMP, as in conquer and destroy.
WMP is strangely a high quality product--indicative of an attempt to gain "market share" in the area of music file formats. (The reason I say "market share" is because, well, is there's a market here?)
WMP has its own format while maintaining backwards compatibility.
When I installed WinAmp, clippy politely informed me that Windows Media Player had all the features of WinAmp and more. Then he (or she) politely informed me that he (or she) could uninstall WinAmp for me. At first I didn't want to, but then it did that Japanese seizure-inducing thing, foreshadowing the coming events:
When I set my computer's clock to 2002, WMP said "MP3 format has become obsolete. All your MP3 are downgrade to 56 kbps."
When I set my computer's clock to 2003, windows said, "You are not using our flagship product!!! Please upgrade to XP; it's our flagship product!!! Make your time! Small print: you do not have to do this."
Okay, this post is getting stupid, so I'm stopping now.
I wrote that earlier. What if we implemented this? Then tracking data like these would be much harder
Corporations having data about you is one of the consequences of freedom of speech.
not to use Windows XP in embedded MP3 players.
or a backup machine with "clippy": "It looks like your defibruator has crashed! Shall I restart it? Thumb chest if yes, otherwise proceed to die."
I think that as long as you have a backup device to restart the main device, crashes won't be a problem with Windows CE or Windows NT Embedded. The probability is too low that both will crash simultaneously. Hence, we don't need to work on Linux for this mundane task.
Second generation vaporware is the funniest thing I've heard all week.
Seriously, though, if you want a good sound & music compression software, chech out Ogg Vorbis, which is free software, cross platform, fast, and high quality. I recommend bitrates of 160 or higher.
This license is ridiculous.
We could write a software daemon (similar to Gnutella/freenet) that allows us to chain IP ports of nodes together in order to hide who is sending what to whom. For example, if I wanted to send an e-mail that were unencrypted to someone, but I wanted to hide what machine I were using, I could use this system to connect the mail daemon through about six machines who'd be running the system that would pass the e-mail through each one (preferrably encrypted as well). "Portster" or some other trendy name could be used :) (When you run the daemon, it allows others who are running it to connect through your machine to additional machines, ad infinum, until you've chaned enough ports together.)
I wouldn't mind having ads in games...I wish that game companies would stop advertising the game and game systems themselves inside the game! I've alread bought the game and the system; I don't need to be reminded of those things every time I play. By that I mean not constantly telling me that I'm playing "NBA 2k" on SEGA brand SEGA genesis. I mean, remember the original game boy and how it said "nintendo" when you turned it on? It was annoying because you'd have to watch that every time!(And it took a while.) Then there was sega genesis...the EA sports games always had real long intro scenes. You'd see "SEGA Genesis" followed by "Licensed by SEGA", etc. as if I didn't know which system I was using or what game I was playing.
Good points. I do hope that the people at caltech are smarter than this guy is. ;)
Basic has reached critical mass--everyone has Microsoft TM Qbasic on his or her or its computer. (All your basic are belong to us.) Those who use linux or BSD can easily get basic interpreters from freshmeat. But the question remains: how do we integrate BASIC into the web browser? I believe the peer-to-peer paradigm of buzzwords requires that we sucessfully implement a proprietary closed-source plug-in that is high-content and pro-validity with full customer compliance in order to sucessfully reach the goals instated.
Mozilla ;)
It'll be interesting to see just exactly how symmetrical the new connections will be...I'm thinking that major content providers, ala Time Warner AOL, and others, are not going to want to see high upload speeds for regular people. Regular people with high speed uploads have enough power to [shudder] make their own content.
Prepare to see the DeCSS code hidden within your next Linux-related document, or hacker magazine.
If you scan it upside down, are all the ones zeros, and vice versa?
Does this apply to CD-Rs or music CD-Rs? I thought this was applicable to only DATs, which is still offensive.