Yeah, I've been too occupied elsewise to put the non-frames version in. It's around here somewhere... too bad I just got my Garmin GPS yesterday, that's also likely to interfer with website quality, though I'll try very hard to put up some GPS maps and profiles and how I go about it (to increase content value(!))
Sounds like a mandatory book for web designers and webmasters, too. The problem for many businesses, colleges, or any other sort of enterprise, is that they still don't get it.
I talked with United Airlines a couple years ago about how bad their site was, bulky, difficult to navigate, lacking information and the IT guy I talked with agreed, but it was already their *new* site.
Too many minds don't think three dimensionally and others think a presense on the the web is all that it takes to succeed, although that old paradigm should be breathing its last gasp, after the fall out of the past year.
It's the duty of every websurfer not just to point out difficult to navigate or uninformative sites to webmasters. I take the opportunity whenever I can. Some appreciate input, others seem to ignore it (maybe it's a precious design, close to their heart and criticism hurts too much to ever consider that they may be wrong.) Telling someone their site or design sucks isn't going to improve anything, now it's worth emailing bad site hosts and designers and telling them about a book they might read. Include this link, too.
FWIW, I come from the school of design where it doesn't have to look pretty, but better work. Checkout my own site and feel free to tell me how much I don't live up to that;-)
either way, i thing this is going to be a MAJOR setback to the airlines industry. normal folks were just getting back onto
flights, even people who usually can't afford to fly have taken advantage of huge price breaks. accident or not, i forsee
this keeping people AWAY from planes. too bad trains are soo damn slow.
I was just talking to my sister, asking if she was considering flying out to visit me in California, not 30 minutes ago. Going so far as to indicate that airfares are a bargain right now. I could hear "Little House on the Prairie" in the background. I can imagine what she's seeing on her TV right now. Trains may be slow, but even in train wrecks not everyone dies, usually very few. I think I'll suggest taking Am-Trak.
Possibly and another, or a copy-cat, though this was wan IN-bound flight.
If this is indeed another hijacking brought down by passengers, the hijackers are demonstrating the type enginuity and resolve that the House lacks in getting the damn airline security bill passed.
If it's an accident...?
Imagine what this is going to do to Thanksgiving Holiday air traffic. Also, in the face of Am-Trak being asked to consider it's assets for liquidation. The irony.
Conservatives love or hate them often because the ACLU often defends the technical interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, sometimes the spirit of it. Frequently well-intentioned politicians try to get laws on the books that fly in the face of constititional rights, and conservatives, as well as liberals, are no strangers to conflict with the ACLU. After all, the ACLU opposes any manifestation of religion in public schools and has defended the rights of Klansmen and Nazis to speak their minds.
It's a double edged sword, to be sure, but last time I looked at the characterization of justice, she wields a double-edged sword, not a cutlass.
Atty. Gen. John "I promise not to let the conservative reublican agenda influence my decisions" Ashcroft tried to interfere with Oregon's Assisted Suicide law
. I think it's only right for them to send this
out to everyone who's registered at least, it's just the right ethical move. We do have to remember
who we're talking about though.
Remembering whom you are talking about should explain why they don't send this out. If they really had some competition they'd be letting you know, post haste. Ah, well, another reason why they should have been broken up for the good of the economy which wasn't done for the good of the economy.
While I did watch some of the cartoon series, I don't have a lot of baggage and expectations of the Live series and it works for me. Quite likely this is what FOX is looking for, broad audience appeal, rather than the million or less who know the Tick from back in the day.
I'd hazzard a guess, by way of explanation... I didn't play a lot of RPGs, (possibly because) I was one of those who took characters lightly. Actually so lightly, in an effort to liven up what seemed more dead-serious than a full scale financial audit, that I probably wasn't entirely welcome to play again, if ever. Tho, I must say, the idea of an Orc with a half dozen arrows protruding from his back and attempting to crawl through a mob of vigilantes, under cover of a overturned row boat, still seems rather humorous in some way. ("Hey, he's got a 5 Int, what do you expect, Zorro?")
Possibly similar inspiration led to the creation of the Tick and other 'Heroes'
Ok, I had a few beers and was attempting to make some kind of dinner without A) cutting my fingers off B) burning it, yet again and sat down to watch with a plate of curried rice with asparagus.
Patrick Warburton was absolutely perfect as The Tick, Nestor Carbonell was great as Batmanuel, Liz Vassey as Captain Liberty and David Burke was a great fit as Arthur. Since these shows were originally filmed in 2000, will this cast be preserved? Is there any plan to do a 1 hour show or movie? It was fun to watch, and just because of the beer!
Those were the days when you defined yourself as a Geek, you stayed up all hours exploring kernels, writing C progs (with names like: foo.c, bar.c, fred.c and of course xyzzy.c), writing shell scripts, telling people there wasn't enough space and they needed to buy you a couple more drives all the while hiding all your neat stuff on your own partition, because it was neat! All this while taking classes in (ugh) Cobol and RPG because they were the languages you had to take.
Now people have this whack idea of an 8-5 job and wearing ties.
I thought all it took was a deep masochistic streak and a fondness for curry.
These traits don't hurt... but having taken every single computer class your college has to offer, then having a project and Un*x box handed to you can have a little to do with it, too.
forbidden curry.... aghaghaghaghaghhhh...
Now you've done it... I *actually* left my Bangkok Curry noodles home today and brought in a sandwich, fortunately there's Sneha in Sunnyvale:9
Similar to my experience, though they handed me an RS/6000 and expected me to learn it from books, which we didn't have. I already wore tshirts and jeans so everyone knew I had to be a programmer.
Note: The downside of this is, some suits didn't think anyone who showed up at work in tshirt and jeans did any work. It was hard to feel sorry for any of them when they'd complain about 12 hour days now and then... When I was lucky I'd catch the Taco Bell at 1:59 AM, just before they closed, otherwise I slept hungry.
There's any number of College Extension departments, like UCSC-EXT in the San Jose area, which offer many classes, even a program. RedHat has Certification programs for Linux (and if you can admin Linux, it's a small jump to Unix)
For good practice you might want to get a PC and install FreeBSD or one of the Linuxes to familiarize yourself with the resources, shell programming, etc.
Perhaps at least consulting with an attorney on this matter would be wise, since the new owner is missusing it and obviously trying to profit off the sale of an.org domain, I expect some damages may be worth pursuing? Perhaps someone could recommend a good lawyer or firm to do this, as some will do this work for a percentage of award.
Owner's appears to be in Armenia, but has an Idaho area code in the phone number.
Organization:
Buy This Domain
Web Master
5 Tpagrichnery St., # 33
Yerevan Yerevan 375010
Armenia
Phone: 208.978.3555
Fax: 208.978.3555
offer@NameRegister.com
Domain Name: kdhxfm88.org
Created on: 06/29/2001
Expires on: 06/29/2003
Record Last Updated on: 10/14/2001
Like the subject says, the site now offers porn, not exactly a service to an public FM radio station. I'd call a.org site doing that a bit of a stretch, particularly because they're using the association of the radio station to sell porn.
IIRC there's something in the ICANN guidelines about.org registers now necessarily being a non-profit, etc, etc. Perhaps someone could shed more light on this. Appeal, by all means.
We understand, based upon the fact that our industry didn't rally to
support us, that we need to change the way we interact and
relate to our industry," Ballmer said.
Like they haven't already killed off a lot of competitors, knifed in the back a lot of partners, and set their sights on other industries, which BTW could be customers of partners and competitors? The problem with being an 357.142851428 Kg. gorilla is, you can sit anywhere you like, but after you've done so, who's willing to be their friend and stick their neck out for you? Even some things PR can't fix.
Outside of the demographic so well represented here at slashdot, who really needs that sort of
speed?
Well, considering the link in your sig, one customer demographic occurs to me, those who like to watch adult video entertainment.
As for me, I'd have access to a lot more cool things I like, like ifilms and BBC over the web, which all totally suck at 56K. I'm not even talking about running any kind of server, which I'd actually love to do just for grins, but you have to fork over $$$ now to get a fixed IP address, where they once gave them away to early customers, inadvertently (if you got one, don't change your service, they'll yank it!)
Add to that Observant +1 (note to previous moderator, how can parent be offtopic?)
It's a weak lead into to a scattergun shot at successes/failures of DSL/CableModem/etc. from server and client side. Of all service providers, though, PacBell is stable and not likely to evaporate, like Covad and others. Love or hate PacBell, if the service works and is reliable (not really all that unusual, from anecdotes) there's no reason to drop it, other than for the cost. I'd love to have it, myself and I live in spitting distance of the main switch, in my hamlet.
I pay $19.95 a month for the benefit of dial up (yeah, it could be less, but not by much) and by habit avoid many large downloads because I'd rather not have my phone line tided of for hours, while 56K (which is *NOT* actual, but theoretical, in practice much less for binary (.zip or.gz) downloads) does it's thing, and disconnects occasionally. $30 more per month is an incredible deal.
OT Stuff:
All that said, here's something I tried to submit and it got rejected, hope someone enjoys it, it's pretty cool, particularly if you have a fast connection:
Nosing around the U.S. Geological Survey I found this nifty
press
release concerning a joint effort between USGS and Florida International University,
TerraFly, which allows viewers to 'fly' over
the Continental US, but still in its infancy. In two years nearly all (probably excluding
some sites for security purposes) of the continental US will be viewable, followed by
satellite maps and 3D views, all through a browser.
I usually receive my email in text, using a package on Windows called The Bat, because it's simple, reliable (I've regularly got 4000+ messages in my Inbox, 99% spam) and was the first I found off Tucows which performed mail handling to my satisfaction (after spending years with pine, before my Evil ISP took away my shell account.)
To the point. I haven't had a chance to download and trial Ximian, but a spam I recieved, twice, in the past couple days, reminded me of features which would be great for an email manager:
the ability to view only in text, not executing any scripts
the ability to execute, in a debugging/diagnostic mode, what javascript is doing
The latter I performed by saving a suspicious spam to a file and then cleaning it up and nutering it sufficiently to I could see what it was attempting to do. As expected, it unpacked some urls and attempted to open windows.
The beauty of this being an Open Source project, is that there's hope that a feature, rather than completely out of the question in Outlook.
Most people are willing to deprive your great grandchildren to make money today
And their children, grand children, great grand children, etc., assuming the worst offenders actually procreate. Thoughtless and greedy, or just greedy?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I've been too occupied elsewise to put the non-frames version in. It's around here somewhere... too bad I just got my Garmin GPS yesterday, that's also likely to interfer with website quality, though I'll try very hard to put up some GPS maps and profiles and how I go about it (to increase content value(!))
I talked with United Airlines a couple years ago about how bad their site was, bulky, difficult to navigate, lacking information and the IT guy I talked with agreed, but it was already their *new* site.
Too many minds don't think three dimensionally and others think a presense on the the web is all that it takes to succeed, although that old paradigm should be breathing its last gasp, after the fall out of the past year.
It's the duty of every websurfer not just to point out difficult to navigate or uninformative sites to webmasters. I take the opportunity whenever I can. Some appreciate input, others seem to ignore it (maybe it's a precious design, close to their heart and criticism hurts too much to ever consider that they may be wrong.) Telling someone their site or design sucks isn't going to improve anything, now it's worth emailing bad site hosts and designers and telling them about a book they might read. Include this link, too.
FWIW, I come from the school of design where it doesn't have to look pretty, but better work. Checkout my own site and feel free to tell me how much I don't live up to that ;-)
If you'd rather not dork around trying to cut and paste it all into your browser See streets here At this writing it's slow.
I was just talking to my sister, asking if she was considering flying out to visit me in California, not 30 minutes ago. Going so far as to indicate that airfares are a bargain right now. I could hear "Little House on the Prairie" in the background. I can imagine what she's seeing on her TV right now. Trains may be slow, but even in train wrecks not everyone dies, usually very few. I think I'll suggest taking Am-Trak.
Trying to bring up the story on New York Times I get an Orbitz pop-under ad. Story probably requires the free registration.
If this is indeed another hijacking brought down by passengers, the hijackers are demonstrating the type enginuity and resolve that the House lacks in getting the damn airline security bill passed.
If it's an accident...?
Imagine what this is going to do to Thanksgiving Holiday air traffic. Also, in the face of Am-Trak being asked to consider it's assets for liquidation. The irony.
Conservatives love or hate them often because the ACLU often defends the technical interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, sometimes the spirit of it. Frequently well-intentioned politicians try to get laws on the books that fly in the face of constititional rights, and conservatives, as well as liberals, are no strangers to conflict with the ACLU. After all, the ACLU opposes any manifestation of religion in public schools and has defended the rights of Klansmen and Nazis to speak their minds.
It's a double edged sword, to be sure, but last time I looked at the characterization of justice, she wields a double-edged sword, not a cutlass.
Oh, you're just paranoid, when are you going to learn to trust President Ashcroft?
Dept. of John goes soft on big business.
"Quick, while they're all watching the war in Afghanistan, let's slip these things under their noses..."
Remembering whom you are talking about should explain why they don't send this out. If they really had some competition they'd be letting you know, post haste. Ah, well, another reason why they should have been broken up for the good of the economy which wasn't done for the good of the economy.
Yours.
Theirs.
While I did watch some of the cartoon series, I don't have a lot of baggage and expectations of the Live series and it works for me. Quite likely this is what FOX is looking for, broad audience appeal, rather than the million or less who know the Tick from back in the day.
Possibly similar inspiration led to the creation of the Tick and other 'Heroes'
Last sentence should have read 'and NOT just because...' Thanks! (btw, I'm certainly sober, I just type really bad!)
Patrick Warburton was absolutely perfect as The Tick, Nestor Carbonell was great as Batmanuel, Liz Vassey as Captain Liberty and David Burke was a great fit as Arthur. Since these shows were originally filmed in 2000, will this cast be preserved? Is there any plan to do a 1 hour show or movie? It was fun to watch, and just because of the beer!
Those were the days when you defined yourself as a Geek, you stayed up all hours exploring kernels, writing C progs (with names like: foo.c, bar.c, fred.c and of course xyzzy.c), writing shell scripts, telling people there wasn't enough space and they needed to buy you a couple more drives all the while hiding all your neat stuff on your own partition, because it was neat! All this while taking classes in (ugh) Cobol and RPG because they were the languages you had to take.
Now people have this whack idea of an 8-5 job and wearing ties.
These traits don't hurt... but having taken every single computer class your college has to offer, then having a project and Un*x box handed to you can have a little to do with it, too.
forbidden curry .... aghaghaghaghaghhhh...
Now you've done it... I *actually* left my Bangkok Curry noodles home today and brought in a sandwich, fortunately there's Sneha in Sunnyvale :9
Note: The downside of this is, some suits didn't think anyone who showed up at work in tshirt and jeans did any work. It was hard to feel sorry for any of them when they'd complain about 12 hour days now and then... When I was lucky I'd catch the Taco Bell at 1:59 AM, just before they closed, otherwise I slept hungry.
For good practice you might want to get a PC and install FreeBSD or one of the Linuxes to familiarize yourself with the resources, shell programming, etc.
Owner's appears to be in Armenia, but has an Idaho area code in the phone number.
Organization:
Buy This Domain
Web Master
5 Tpagrichnery St., # 33
Yerevan Yerevan 375010
Armenia
Phone: 208.978.3555
Fax: 208.978.3555
offer@NameRegister.com
Domain Name: kdhxfm88.org
Created on: 06/29/2001
Expires on: 06/29/2003
Record Last Updated on: 10/14/2001
Administrative Contact:
Buy This Domain
Web Master
5 Tpagrichnery St., # 33
Yerevan Yerevan 375010
Armenia
Phone: 208.978.3555
Fax: 208.978.3555
offer@NameRegister.com
IIRC there's something in the ICANN guidelines about .org registers now necessarily being a non-profit, etc, etc. Perhaps someone could shed more light on this. Appeal, by all means.
Like they haven't already killed off a lot of competitors, knifed in the back a lot of partners, and set their sights on other industries, which BTW could be customers of partners and competitors? The problem with being an 357.142851428 Kg. gorilla is, you can sit anywhere you like, but after you've done so, who's willing to be their friend and stick their neck out for you? Even some things PR can't fix.
Well, considering the link in your sig, one customer demographic occurs to me, those who like to watch adult video entertainment.
As for me, I'd have access to a lot more cool things I like, like ifilms and BBC over the web, which all totally suck at 56K. I'm not even talking about running any kind of server, which I'd actually love to do just for grins, but you have to fork over $$$ now to get a fixed IP address, where they once gave them away to early customers, inadvertently (if you got one, don't change your service, they'll yank it!)
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=1, Insightful=2, Funny=1, Total=4.
Add to that Observant +1 (note to previous moderator, how can parent be offtopic?)
It's a weak lead into to a scattergun shot at successes/failures of DSL/CableModem/etc. from server and client side. Of all service providers, though, PacBell is stable and not likely to evaporate, like Covad and others. Love or hate PacBell, if the service works and is reliable (not really all that unusual, from anecdotes) there's no reason to drop it, other than for the cost. I'd love to have it, myself and I live in spitting distance of the main switch, in my hamlet.
I pay $19.95 a month for the benefit of dial up (yeah, it could be less, but not by much) and by habit avoid many large downloads because I'd rather not have my phone line tided of for hours, while 56K (which is *NOT* actual, but theoretical, in practice much less for binary (.zip or .gz) downloads) does it's thing, and disconnects occasionally. $30 more per month is an incredible deal.
OT Stuff:
All that said, here's something I tried to submit and it got rejected, hope someone enjoys it, it's pretty cool, particularly if you have a fast connection:
I usually receive my email in text, using a package on Windows called The Bat, because it's simple, reliable (I've regularly got 4000+ messages in my Inbox, 99% spam) and was the first I found off Tucows which performed mail handling to my satisfaction (after spending years with pine, before my Evil ISP took away my shell account.)
To the point. I haven't had a chance to download and trial Ximian, but a spam I recieved, twice, in the past couple days, reminded me of features which would be great for an email manager:
the ability to view only in text, not executing any scripts
the ability to execute, in a debugging/diagnostic mode, what javascript is doing
The latter I performed by saving a suspicious spam to a file and then cleaning it up and nutering it sufficiently to I could see what it was attempting to do. As expected, it unpacked some urls and attempted to open windows.
The beauty of this being an Open Source project, is that there's hope that a feature, rather than completely out of the question in Outlook.
The spam javascript can be viewed here.
And their children, grand children, great grand children, etc., assuming the worst offenders actually procreate. Thoughtless and greedy, or just greedy?