Seriously, people are laughing at the parent post but they would have laughed at a sacastic post about the NSA getting warrentless taps to listen to our phone calls in the recent past as well.
Hmm. Seems to me this is nothing at all like it. You've equated hysteria over Windows vulnerabilities with the government spying. I'm afraid I'll have to recommend elevating panic level to Pearls with Plaid
Can't say I've had the pleasure as we've switched to HP/Compaq, but I did have to sort out some issues with a Dell desktop a few years back and felt I wasn't getting the best service there could be.
[Micahel Dell] still thinks the best is yet to come.
He's delusional. Their glory days are in the past. 10 years ago they made some of the best PCs you could lay your hands on with great support, too. Now they're about as bad, if not worse, than the jokers who build PCs in their garages. Too much competition for them to continue delivering the top of the line stuff, since too many people are willing to spend on rubbish. The PC is a commodity item and they're just another company selling them.
A better system would be for public/gov to create a network of towers for wimax/wifi.
You mean you don't see this as a salvo in the public/private WiFi battle?
"Senator Claghorn here, and I most strenuously, I say strenuosly protest the people's tax dollars bein' spent competing with this fine company. I say we shut down the government funded public service and give the money back to the other porkbarrel projects it was so wrongly taken from. Now excuse me, I have a golf outting this afternoon with some fine corporate gentlemen."
For instance, say I have a web site with images on it. I could have some javascript detect how big the page is and the user's text size, then request appropriate resolution images. Server side there would presumably be something that resizes and caches a variety of different size images from the highest resolution original.
Hence the ever increasing bload of code required to render a page and hardware capability on your end. It seems we're a bunch of hamsters always running in wheels, but never getting anywhere.
How about fibre-to-the-curb or even better, to my demark point instead. Wireless is nice, but I spend 90% of my on-line time connected to a wire.
You obviously don't get out much.
I predict the logical successor to the 4x4 SUV will be a vehicle with a desk in place of the dashboard, because I swear more business is being done on the road than in boardrooms.
I for one welcome our new
Worldwide Interoperability of Microwave Access (WiMAX) technology platform foundation
mobile broadband Next-Generation Network (NGN) build-out 4G overlords.
But a 1920x1200 resolution often creates legibility problems for some users resulting from the tiny size of the default Windows font."
Fonts and documents can be scaled, in browsers, word processing, Adobe Acrobat, etc. Even Flash objects can be scaled, if the page is set up
properly (which they often aren't, so you get a postage stamp at hires)
The worst thing is images. I have a picture on a web page which was, back in 1999, a large
image. Now it's tiny and I can hardly make out the detail. Some images can be stretched, but others, particularly those
which include text can be rendered poorly if not scaled by even multipliers. Where is all this resolution going, anyway? It's nice for some
things, like photo editing of large images, but redundant for most other applications.
your new computer consumes 200 watts on idle, requires a 64 bit processor, 2 GB RAM, and a phat video card, so you can do what? Work in MS Office and surf the web? Seems about as appropriate as requireing everyone in Manhattan to have a
Hummer.
Vapid, self-obsessed, score-keeping emo-inanities will now be even easier to find! And that's just the garage bands.
C'mon. This is why eBay is so successful. Not because they have the best approach or the best business model, hell from what I've seen they're a mindless bunch of jerks who change their site arbitrarily in not necessarily good ways. Even the best practices seem to evade them for years.
It's simply where the herd is. And when the herd is all in one spot, very few feel compelled, until significant pain or market forces dictate they must move elsewhere, even that will likely be a mass migration to the next place. That you and I don't see it as exciting should tell both of us that we are outside the bell-curve. (Either that or these people have it fatally wrong and won't know it until a year or so from now when it all goes tits up, just like a lot of the really dumb ideas of the dot-com bubble.)
Why then, are movies using myspace? Talladega nights advertises its offical url as http://myspace.com/rickybobby. Why? Why not just have a regular website? Or is there something i'm missing?
I don't believe it is unreasonable, nor prejudiced, to think that a man, who obviously and intentionally doctored a photo, did so to fan the anti-Isreali flame that seems to permeate the world right now.
The fact, that the man has an "arab-sounding name", only intensifies that theory.
Actually, that is highly unreasonable because it is stereotyping the man. The "theory" bundles him into an "arab" camp, which by your programming, has inherent traits, such as they all are oppressed by and hate Israel.
An opinion poll conducted throughout middle eastern countries (not including Israel and Lebanon), at the begining of the conflict had about 50/50 view on which side was responsible for the escalation. Imagine that. Clearly there are arabs who do not side with what Hezbollah is doing, but by your "theory" they couldn't voice such an opinion since it's "reasonable" to assume they all should be against Israel.
I think you're being more than a little paranoid with what you think you 'see between the lines'. Not everybody has some kind of insidius agenda, whether they be freelance photographers or/. posters.
Listen to the news and take note: When the fighters are contrary to the wishes of US foreign policy, they are insurgeants or even terrorists. When they are for the wishes of US foreign policy, they are soldiers or even patriots. (This brought to light during the Reagan presidency regarding the actions in Nicaragua, it's the same these days.) News tends to colour Hezbollah and Hamas as organisations with dirty, bloody even, hands. The problem is, both sides are about as bad, rather like the tit-for-tat vengeance killing in Iraq between sunnis and shites. It's were everything becomes shades of gray and the news, often in line with Whitehouse wishes (because the Whitehouse feeds much of the media), is coloured in.
That may be, but representing photoshop-retouched pictures as images of actual reality is more along the lines of fraud, although it might perhaps be motivated by bias.
How about this for bias: He's doing it because he has an arab-sounding name, therefore he's a hezbollah or lebanese sympathiser, which is what I see between the lines in some of the posts.
What, me prejudiced?
Some may feel uncomfortable being confronted with this thought, but that doesn't mean they weren't thinking it. More likely the photographer has no agenda, but doctored the photos simply to make a buck. He's freelance, after all and the better his pics the more he sells. Take it from a former freelance photographer.
And what about sites that sell malware as tangible goods, like anybody stocking Sony CDs?
I'm not terribly worried about these sites, for myself, as I'm pretty up on things. The real target would be the unsophisticated computer users (i.e. those who have several bots running on their
computer and don't know it.)
What would be very useful is a Safe Mode button on browsers which turn off/on image viewing, flash, java, all plug-ins, etc. You'd need to reload, but if you are looking for text, the rest of that is so much dross anyway.
now lawsuits, just wait until they warn about FUD emitting sites. ha!
You do know that we've now had, continuously, more Star Trek then the gulf of time between the TOS and revival with movies and TNG, right? Give it some rest. Explore new horizons, frontiers, etc, with diffent casts, different races, different stories, having nothing to do with ST.
I for one loved The Original Series. I cringed at TNG, and after that (aside from 7 of 9) it's been a bad dream even a rarebit fiend wouldn't approach.
Don't think sorry's easily said Don't try turning tables instead You've taken lots of Chances before But I ain't gonna give any more
Don't ask me
That's how it goes Cause part of me knows what You're thinkin' Don't say words you're gonna regret Don't let the fire rush to your head I've heard the accusation before And I ain't gonna take any more
Believe me The sun in your Eyes Made some of the lies worth believing
I am the eye in the sky Looking at you I can read your mind I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools I can cheat you blind And I don't Need to see any more To know that I can read your mind, I can read your mind
Don't leave false Illusions behind Don't Cry cause I ain't changing my mind So find another fool like before Cause I ain't gonna live anymore believing Some of the lies while all of the Signs are deceiving
I am the eye in the sky...
Eye In The Sky Written by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons
I was under the impression many things on BBC can be used with Windows Media Player Granted you're probably thinking which is the lesser of two evils, but you do have a choice.
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Apparently the fellow regularly worked at his office/laboratory up until a month ago.
Don't retire - You'll die!
not that i have anything to worry about, to have any kind of retirement i'll be working until i'm 91, too.
Seriously, people are laughing at the parent post but they would have laughed at a sacastic post about the NSA getting warrentless taps to listen to our phone calls in the recent past as well.
Hmm. Seems to me this is nothing at all like it. You've equated hysteria over Windows vulnerabilities with the government spying. I'm afraid I'll have to recommend elevating panic level to Pearls with Plaid
Spiffy, but how they going to get one of these things out into the field?
I suppose they must really want to, or the owners of this particle accelerator are very cool with, see what's inside
there's a little sticker on this one, it says Ant-Hill Inside
"Killers" rarely work. Name me one that did work.
I dunno, I was under the impression Nokia were doing a pretty good job of killing themselves. coughN-Gagecough
If they had any of the original controllers they could have climbed on them and floated to safety.
But everyone in Manhattan does have a Hummer...
Note the (mispelled) word: requiring
You really can't drive those pennies into the asphalt of 7th Ave without a Hummer(tm)!
The adventures of TurboMan? Just to confirm, we are talking about college students, not elementary school, right?
Yes, let's be certain of that age group. More comic books are purchased by adults than elementary school-age children.
I think it's overdue, the return of the turbo packages. Microsoft's .net suite is a nightmare.
Dell tech support makes me suicidal.
Can't say I've had the pleasure as we've switched to HP/Compaq, but I did have to sort out some issues with a Dell desktop a few years back and felt I wasn't getting the best service there could be.
[Micahel Dell] still thinks the best is yet to come.
He's delusional. Their glory days are in the past. 10 years ago they made some of the best PCs you could lay your hands on with great support, too. Now they're about as bad, if not worse, than the jokers who build PCs in their garages. Too much competition for them to continue delivering the top of the line stuff, since too many people are willing to spend on rubbish. The PC is a commodity item and they're just another company selling them.
A better system would be for public/gov to create a network of towers for wimax/wifi.
You mean you don't see this as a salvo in the public/private WiFi battle?
"Senator Claghorn here, and I most strenuously, I say strenuosly protest the people's tax dollars bein' spent competing with this fine company. I say we shut down the government funded public service and give the money back to the other porkbarrel projects it was so wrongly taken from. Now excuse me, I have a golf outting this afternoon with some fine corporate gentlemen."
For instance, say I have a web site with images on it. I could have some javascript detect how big the page is and the user's text size, then request appropriate resolution images. Server side there would presumably be something that resizes and caches a variety of different size images from the highest resolution original.
Hence the ever increasing bload of code required to render a page and hardware capability on your end. It seems we're a bunch of hamsters always running in wheels, but never getting anywhere.
How about fibre-to-the-curb or even better, to my demark point instead. Wireless is nice, but I spend 90% of my on-line time connected to a wire.
You obviously don't get out much.
I predict the logical successor to the 4x4 SUV will be a vehicle with a desk in place of the dashboard, because I swear more business is being done on the road than in boardrooms.
excuse me officer, do you have an appointment?
"4G" "NGN" "WiMAX" "UMTS-based technology dubbed TD-CDMA" "Flash-OFDM" Nice load of acronyms, that's $4.5Bn invested.
I for one welcome our new Worldwide Interoperability of Microwave Access (WiMAX) technology platform foundation mobile broadband Next-Generation Network (NGN) build-out 4G overlords.
But a 1920x1200 resolution often creates legibility problems for some users resulting from the tiny size of the default Windows font."
Fonts and documents can be scaled, in browsers, word processing, Adobe Acrobat, etc. Even Flash objects can be scaled, if the page is set up properly (which they often aren't, so you get a postage stamp at hires)
The worst thing is images. I have a picture on a web page which was, back in 1999, a large image. Now it's tiny and I can hardly make out the detail. Some images can be stretched, but others, particularly those which include text can be rendered poorly if not scaled by even multipliers. Where is all this resolution going, anyway? It's nice for some things, like photo editing of large images, but redundant for most other applications.
your new computer consumes 200 watts on idle, requires a 64 bit processor, 2 GB RAM, and a phat video card, so you can do what? Work in MS Office and surf the web? Seems about as appropriate as requireing everyone in Manhattan to have a Hummer.
Vapid, self-obsessed, score-keeping emo-inanities will now be even easier to find! And that's just the garage bands.
C'mon. This is why eBay is so successful. Not because they have the best approach or the best business model, hell from what I've seen they're a mindless bunch of jerks who change their site arbitrarily in not necessarily good ways. Even the best practices seem to evade them for years.
It's simply where the herd is. And when the herd is all in one spot, very few feel compelled, until significant pain or market forces dictate they must move elsewhere, even that will likely be a mass migration to the next place. That you and I don't see it as exciting should tell both of us that we are outside the bell-curve. (Either that or these people have it fatally wrong and won't know it until a year or so from now when it all goes tits up, just like a lot of the really dumb ideas of the dot-com bubble.)
Why then, are movies using myspace? Talladega nights advertises its offical url as http://myspace.com/rickybobby. Why? Why not just have a regular website? Or is there something i'm missing?
One word: Moo.
I don't believe it is unreasonable, nor prejudiced, to think that a man, who obviously and intentionally doctored a photo, did so to fan the anti-Isreali flame that seems to permeate the world right now. The fact, that the man has an "arab-sounding name", only intensifies that theory.
Actually, that is highly unreasonable because it is stereotyping the man. The "theory" bundles him into an "arab" camp, which by your programming, has inherent traits, such as they all are oppressed by and hate Israel.
An opinion poll conducted throughout middle eastern countries (not including Israel and Lebanon), at the begining of the conflict had about 50/50 view on which side was responsible for the escalation. Imagine that. Clearly there are arabs who do not side with what Hezbollah is doing, but by your "theory" they couldn't voice such an opinion since it's "reasonable" to assume they all should be against Israel.
I think you're being more than a little paranoid with what you think you 'see between the lines'. Not everybody has some kind of insidius agenda, whether they be freelance photographers or /. posters.
Listen to the news and take note: When the fighters are contrary to the wishes of US foreign policy, they are insurgeants or even terrorists. When they are for the wishes of US foreign policy, they are soldiers or even patriots. (This brought to light during the Reagan presidency regarding the actions in Nicaragua, it's the same these days.) News tends to colour Hezbollah and Hamas as organisations with dirty, bloody even, hands. The problem is, both sides are about as bad, rather like the tit-for-tat vengeance killing in Iraq between sunnis and shites. It's were everything becomes shades of gray and the news, often in line with Whitehouse wishes (because the Whitehouse feeds much of the media), is coloured in.
That may be, but representing photoshop-retouched pictures as images of actual reality is more along the lines of fraud, although it might perhaps be motivated by bias.
How about this for bias: He's doing it because he has an arab-sounding name, therefore he's a hezbollah or lebanese sympathiser, which is what I see between the lines in some of the posts.
What, me prejudiced?
Some may feel uncomfortable being confronted with this thought, but that doesn't mean they weren't thinking it. More likely the photographer has no agenda, but doctored the photos simply to make a buck. He's freelance, after all and the better his pics the more he sells. Take it from a former freelance photographer.
And what about sites that sell malware as tangible goods, like anybody stocking Sony CDs?
I'm not terribly worried about these sites, for myself, as I'm pretty up on things. The real target would be the unsophisticated computer users (i.e. those who have several bots running on their computer and don't know it.)
What would be very useful is a Safe Mode button on browsers which turn off/on image viewing, flash, java, all plug-ins, etc. You'd need to reload, but if you are looking for text, the rest of that is so much dross anyway.
now lawsuits, just wait until they warn about FUD emitting sites. ha!
What am I going to tell my children?!
Tell them that Wallace and Gromit went to the English Moon.
Until the UK lands on the Moon, to them it's still, cheese!!!
just because americans have to go and disect and kill every romantic myth doesn't mean the rest of the world has to
Well there goes the middle-age spread excuse.
Acutally it's still digesting Earth's former "other" moon.
don't even joke about that!
Prithee, why, squire?
You do know that we've now had, continuously, more Star Trek then the gulf of time between the TOS and revival with movies and TNG, right? Give it some rest. Explore new horizons, frontiers, etc, with diffent casts, different races, different stories, having nothing to do with ST.
I for one loved The Original Series. I cringed at TNG, and after that (aside from 7 of 9) it's been a bad dream even a rarebit fiend wouldn't approach.
Other casting???
honestly, isn't it time for a real good laugh at this tired old series?
Don't think sorry's easily said
Don't try turning tables instead
You've taken lots of Chances before
But I ain't gonna give any more
Don't ask me
That's how it goes
Cause part of me knows what You're thinkin'
Don't say words you're gonna regret
Don't let the fire rush to your head
I've heard the accusation before
And I ain't gonna take any more
Believe me
The sun in your Eyes
Made some of the lies worth believing
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don't Need to see any more
To know that I can read your mind, I can read your mind
Don't leave false Illusions behind
Don't Cry cause I ain't changing my mind
So find another fool like before
Cause I ain't gonna live anymore believing
Some of the lies while all of the Signs are deceiving
I am the eye in the sky...
Eye In The Sky
Written by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons
First BBC, now Mozilla?
I was under the impression many things on BBC can be used with Windows Media Player Granted you're probably thinking which is the lesser of two evils, but you do have a choice.