'gf', 'wtf[h]', 'swak', 'asap'
Some of these are pretty old, probably adopted as netspeak, which should underscore that, like the
muck that is the english language, so is netspeak adaptable. What's worse is when k1dz put t3xt m3ss4g3 s14ng 1n th31r
p4p3rz. Teachers have seen quite a bit of it, as an article several months back in the San Jose Murky News told of. u for you,
mi for me, etc. English if nothing else has accumulated and occasionally discarded words from other languages and even
made acronyms words. It's an ongoing thing over generations. Quite a lot comes in from whatever the big social upheaval is at the time
a lot of slang came out of WW II with returning GI's
Great, just what I need, an AI app that keeps poping up saying, "You know you should go to that meeting. What do you mean you don't want to go? Did you remember your wedding anniversary? Have you called your wife? Who's this 'Elle' person in your phone book. You should stop playing 'Tetris' so often..."
Sounds like one of those Disorganizers from Discworld Bingley Bingley beep Insert Your Name Here, it is eight thirty aye em, you have a meeting with the Patrician
Re:1 in 10? That's an average right? Because I can't see how 10% of people have bought stuff from spam. I think that guy who likes buying spam stuff is driving the average up.
Probably understated because guys who buy those pills probably don't own up to it. Especially people who get taken are less likely to admit, so it's probably a bit higher percentage.
Personally, I refuse to buy anything via spam and don't even open the stuff. Anyone who will resort to such unethical mode of advertising is not to be trusted in any case.
Don't install it if you don't want it? I don't think you need to add the toolbar.
Actually, I'm one of those cretins who installs it, then goes hunting for the actual bit of offending code and and rename/delete it. I've just done that to something recently, which now launches notepad instead of some exremely annoying thing.
I don't see this as really being a problem. People don't really browse the internet with handheld devices (phones, PDAs, etc) actually attempting to REPLACE their computer.
The problem is attitudes exactly like that. oh, nobody will really want to surf whatever kind of content, blah blah blah should be good enough for them."
A friend and I were on a scavenger hunt and trying to surf some pages for clues and it was inconvenient to say the least. Flash only or at entry point sites effectively say, "we have enough visitors, the rest of you go away."
I remember berating United Airlines on their horrible interface, a few years back, and the guy on the other end of the phone said, "well, we just had it redesigned, it should be better!" Better, what a subjective word that was. Flashier, slicker, but not very useable, much less so than the previous incarnation.
A well designed website shouldn't make assumptions that everyone is going to have DSL and a 1024x768 screen. Why? Because it limits access to those who don't and they are still a significant number. Moreso, because people with handhelds are a growing population. Design to exclude them and your business model is such that a growing demographic doesn't matter and you can afford to throw it away. In such ways do competitors gain a toe-hold before carving out a piece of your marketshare.
I still run 56K at home, even though I have a 1280/1024 monitor and I by default disable Flash, first because it's irritating, secondly because I don't believe I must see anything animated. I enable it by choice for things such as homestarrunner and sbemails, but that's about it. I don't have the patience to wait for 1 meg of crap of incidentals.
Bill Nye was the best science teacher because he was also a comedian.
Brought to mind a rather ecentric chemistry prof. To demonstrate Potential Energy he jumped off a table onto the floor. Sure woke some people up. He also had lots of corny jokes, e.g. What is a child's favorite compound on Christmas Eve? Nickelous Nitride.
Seemed a bit of a nut but kept us awake and thinking, opposed to the extremely dry teacher I had a couple terms later, who could put caffeine to sleep.
the planets are not newly discovered. they were previously known, but not directly imaged before.
Yes, they were were Xenu came from and the Co$ will be suing to remove this information from internet servers because it constitutes a violation of their copyrighted duh trade secrets.
What we're seeing is really the continuation of the gradual shift from "big iron" mainframes to "microcomputers" to PCs to PDAs to iPods. Technology is becoming cheaper, more flexible, and more diversified.
Sure. Bill gets it wrong on a regular basis, but in the short term you can find some very worrying things in what he says by reading whats between the lines or not there. I was at a CES years ago and you could see him smile while he evangelically threatened many of the vendors products on sale as these new features would be bundled into Windows XP and CE or Microsoft was rewriting the standards (isn't this great?!?!?)
Microsoft will try to keep a finger in everything, but the Midas Touch from their PC luck doesn't extend much as we see cell/camera/pda/etc become more popular and use whatever OS or software the vendor choses, as opposed to having only the choices of being stuck with Microsoft or proprietary, in-house.
PC's will have their use, particularly in the office, but at home they'll become more a portal device to entertainment, news, communications, etc., which could very well be dropping your cell phone into a cradle which has a screen, keyboard and mouse hooked up to it. Who needs that box anyway?
"Bill Gates has an op-ed in this morning's BW Online, in which he responds to the magazine's question Is the PC dead? with a resounding "No!" and argues that the most revolutionary years for personal computing are yet to come."
Well, there you have it, I guess I might as well toss the thing in the bin when I get home. He's about as visionary as an american entering a water drinking contest in rural Mexico.
Or if you don't like this slashdot article, you can read the same one that was posted on slashdot exactly one year ago (well, almost exactly)
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
A year ago?!??! That's ancient history!
We here at slashdot require only the most up to date information.
Geez.. trying to pass off old news as current... wotta lotta nerve..
I haven't been big on designing my own Windows icons because, before I gave up looking, all icon editors
cost $$. Inexplicably the one format Paint doesn't support is *.ico
I used to have some beauties on my Amiga, and they could be any size I liked, up to the whole screen if that was your wish. IIRC they were easy to draw with something
that came with the operating system.
I'd like to take some of my raytracings and make them icons. Any ideas where to start?
Darn my dyslexia. At first glance I thought it said "A History of Loons" and thought it was something
biographical about slashdot.
You end up shutting down the zombied PCs. I don't see how that's a bad thing.
Shutdown zombies, fine, maybe choke them enough so their owners realize there's a problem.
But what about those computers out there that aren't zombies? IIRC the last time something like this was proposed or anyone acted on blocking IP addresses of such computers the chinese complained bitterly.
Expect chinese, russian and several other countries which which happily host these servers and the scumbags who own them to complain bitterly.
Remember when our trade was arguments about wood or steel or shoes? Now it's about internet traffic and ecommerce
Thank you for alerting me to a piece of US culture that obviously seems worth to get in touch with:)
Walt Kelly and his Pogo strip were what we had before the likes of Doonesbury, Bloom County, Boondocks and many other. Kelly took on McCarthy at a time when it wasn't popular to do so, he also satirized LBJ, George Wallace and lambasted Nixon. Within his funny animal strip about a 'possum' and his Okefenokee dwelling friends, Kelly aimed some very sharp barbs at political figures. On top of all that, there was also social commentary, such as the title character and friend overlooking the trash strewn swamp and stating, "We have met the enemy and he is us." A former Disney animator, Kelly had a very beautiful, detailed style of drawing.
Kind of makes you wonder what Lee Harvey Oswald III is up to nowadays.
President. The real George W. Bush's body is in the concrete foundation of Arlington Stadium. It's all a very long, convoluted plot to seize the Whitehouse and... whoops, boot coming through the door, see ya
(Puts on tin-foil hat)
They could also compare DNA to aptitude tests, and found out what genetically makes a soldier good. Not that this would be used for making gentically modified soldiers (god forbid), but it could come in useful when recruiting.
"This one's cut out for Navy SEAL!"
"How do you know?"
"DNA shows high strength, agility, good swimmer and an excellent natural armor class"
Why is it that people think that new technologies always mean new risks to rights? The issues dealing with keeping DNA records are surely no different to those for figerprints etc.
Oh, probably because of the devious ways government can try to accumulate such things, "for the common good". Also worth noting is the amount of energy with which they pursue such things. If there's a lot of power behind something you probably should be paying a lot more attention than usual.
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Which are perfectly cromulent words!
Which 'English' are you referring to?
Some of these are pretty old, probably adopted as netspeak, which should underscore that, like the muck that is the english language, so is netspeak adaptable. What's worse is when k1dz put t3xt m3ss4g3 s14ng 1n th31r p4p3rz. Teachers have seen quite a bit of it, as an article several months back in the San Jose Murky News told of. u for you, mi for me, etc. English if nothing else has accumulated and occasionally discarded words from other languages and even made acronyms words. It's an ongoing thing over generations. Quite a lot comes in from whatever the big social upheaval is at the time a lot of slang came out of WW II with returning GI's
Don't understand what people are saying today?
"I dig"
"uh, no, it's 'word'"
"word?
"word!"
eom/eot/fts
Sounds like an improvement.
A month or so back Ukraine tosses an inept and corrupt government.
Today Kyrgyzstan chucks it's dubious government.
Who knows, maybe some day the people of the USA will follow suit, if they're not so lazy as to leave it to machines to do.
Sounds like one of those Disorganizers from Discworld Bingley Bingley beep Insert Your Name Here , it is eight thirty aye em, you have a meeting with the Patrician
At least it's not Alt.Fan.Pratchett
I think Lucas has this covered with his patent on the
Actually the transistor was a british invention.
Probably understated because guys who buy those pills probably don't own up to it. Especially people who get taken are less likely to admit, so it's probably a bit higher percentage.
Personally, I refuse to buy anything via spam and don't even open the stuff. Anyone who will resort to such unethical mode of advertising is not to be trusted in any case.
I'd suggest an ant, but then PETA would be all over their case and people would mod me, uh, flamebait.
Hmm...
Actually, I'm one of those cretins who installs it, then goes hunting for the actual bit of offending code and and rename/delete it. I've just done that to something recently, which now launches notepad instead of some exremely annoying thing.
The problem is attitudes exactly like that. oh, nobody will really want to surf whatever kind of content, blah blah blah should be good enough for them."
A friend and I were on a scavenger hunt and trying to surf some pages for clues and it was inconvenient to say the least. Flash only or at entry point sites effectively say, "we have enough visitors, the rest of you go away."
I remember berating United Airlines on their horrible interface, a few years back, and the guy on the other end of the phone said, "well, we just had it redesigned, it should be better!" Better, what a subjective word that was. Flashier, slicker, but not very useable, much less so than the previous incarnation.
A well designed website shouldn't make assumptions that everyone is going to have DSL and a 1024x768 screen. Why? Because it limits access to those who don't and they are still a significant number. Moreso, because people with handhelds are a growing population. Design to exclude them and your business model is such that a growing demographic doesn't matter and you can afford to throw it away. In such ways do competitors gain a toe-hold before carving out a piece of your marketshare.
I still run 56K at home, even though I have a 1280/1024 monitor and I by default disable Flash, first because it's irritating, secondly because I don't believe I must see anything animated. I enable it by choice for things such as homestarrunner and sbemails, but that's about it. I don't have the patience to wait for 1 meg of crap of incidentals.
Brought to mind a rather ecentric chemistry prof. To demonstrate Potential Energy he jumped off a table onto the floor. Sure woke some people up. He also had lots of corny jokes, e.g. What is a child's favorite compound on Christmas Eve? Nickelous Nitride.
Seemed a bit of a nut but kept us awake and thinking, opposed to the extremely dry teacher I had a couple terms later, who could put caffeine to sleep.
Yes, they were were Xenu came from and the Co$ will be suing to remove this information from internet servers because it constitutes a violation of their copyrighted duh trade secrets.
You fool!
Obviously he uses the telescope to keep an eye on corporations!
Next up Eliot Spitzer will take on Veeblefetzer, Axolotl and Potrzebie Wholesalers of NY.
Sure. Bill gets it wrong on a regular basis, but in the short term you can find some very worrying things in what he says by reading whats between the lines or not there. I was at a CES years ago and you could see him smile while he evangelically threatened many of the vendors products on sale as these new features would be bundled into Windows XP and CE or Microsoft was rewriting the standards (isn't this great?!?!?)
Microsoft will try to keep a finger in everything, but the Midas Touch from their PC luck doesn't extend much as we see cell/camera/pda/etc become more popular and use whatever OS or software the vendor choses, as opposed to having only the choices of being stuck with Microsoft or proprietary, in-house.
PC's will have their use, particularly in the office, but at home they'll become more a portal device to entertainment, news, communications, etc., which could very well be dropping your cell phone into a cradle which has a screen, keyboard and mouse hooked up to it. Who needs that box anyway?
"Bill Gates has an op-ed in this morning's BW Online, in which he responds to the magazine's question Is the PC dead? with a resounding "No!" and argues that the most revolutionary years for personal computing are yet to come." Well, there you have it, I guess I might as well toss the thing in the bin when I get home. He's about as visionary as an american entering a water drinking contest in rural Mexico.
A year ago?!??! That's ancient history!
We here at slashdot require only the most up to date information.
Geez.. trying to pass off old news as current... wotta lotta nerve..
An it's all slashdotted, too.
I used to have some beauties on my Amiga, and they could be any size I liked, up to the whole screen if that was your wish. IIRC they were easy to draw with something that came with the operating system.
I'd like to take some of my raytracings and make them icons. Any ideas where to start?
Darn my dyslexia. At first glance I thought it said "A History of Loons" and thought it was something biographical about slashdot.
Shutdown zombies, fine, maybe choke them enough so their owners realize there's a problem.
But what about those computers out there that aren't zombies? IIRC the last time something like this was proposed or anyone acted on blocking IP addresses of such computers the chinese complained bitterly.
Expect chinese, russian and several other countries which which happily host these servers and the scumbags who own them to complain bitterly.
Remember when our trade was arguments about wood or steel or shoes? Now it's about internet traffic and ecommerce
And if you had a doctor who would put consenting adults to rest, your government servants would put him in prison to protect you from him.
You mean Martin Niemöller
Walt Kelly and his Pogo strip were what we had before the likes of Doonesbury, Bloom County, Boondocks and many other. Kelly took on McCarthy at a time when it wasn't popular to do so, he also satirized LBJ, George Wallace and lambasted Nixon. Within his funny animal strip about a 'possum' and his Okefenokee dwelling friends, Kelly aimed some very sharp barbs at political figures. On top of all that, there was also social commentary, such as the title character and friend overlooking the trash strewn swamp and stating, "We have met the enemy and he is us." A former Disney animator, Kelly had a very beautiful, detailed style of drawing.
President. The real George W. Bush's body is in the concrete foundation of Arlington Stadium. It's all a very long, convoluted plot to seize the Whitehouse and ... whoops, boot coming through the door, see ya
"This one's cut out for Navy SEAL!"
"How do you know?"
"DNA shows high strength, agility, good swimmer and an excellent natural armor class"
Oh, probably because of the devious ways government can try to accumulate such things, "for the common good". Also worth noting is the amount of energy with which they pursue such things. If there's a lot of power behind something you probably should be paying a lot more attention than usual.