your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours--making all those things easier
...to sell to spammers and identity thieves. Thanks, Microsoft!
And a can opener. Don't forget the can opener - most of the things that come in cans can be eaten without heating, and pork-n-beans is a great meal for under a dollar.
And I second leaving the electronics at home. Pick up a 5 pack of legal pads and a couple of decent paperbacks, and write and read to your heart's content.
The highway is a wonderful frontier - I've been on a few multi-month road trips myself, and there's nothing like it. Despite all the bitching people do, this is a wonderful country full of wonderful citizens; you can criss-cross it for the rest of your life and never even scratch the surface.
However, many important web portals I use to pay my bills (citibank, spring, verizon and 2 student loan companies) often use heavily crufted javascript. As a result, when I want to 'conduct business' online, I have to fire up IE. It just feels nasty. Any suggestions?
Buy a box of envelopes and some stamps?
That's what I do. Then again, I don't place a lot of stock in trusting my money to technology. Hell, I still won't get direct deposit for my paychecks.
Back on topic, I'm posting this with Mozilla. In the rare case that a site won't work with it, it will work with Omniweb.
IE is only on the home machine for my girlfriend, and on the work machine for the crappy web pages Filemaker Pro puts out.
I know this may be too late to get read, but oh well...
One of my coworkers has two sons, about two and four, and he's in the same situation. His solution was to put all of their game CDs into caddies and get an old caddy-loading SCSI CD drive for their computer.
It's still not perfect protection, but it certainly stops most of the casual scratching and such.
* Statistics show that if you accept a counteroffer, the probability of voluntarily leaving in six months or being let go in one year is extremely high.
Well, hey, with rock-solid information like that to go on, I'd be a fool to accept a counteroffer.
After all, if you can't accept vague, unsubstatiated, unaccountable claims on the Internet as gospel, you just can't trust anyone.
Bluebeard. I've read the vast majority of Vonnegut's books, and that one is by far my favorite.
As for me, I decided to spend some time catching up on my mid-20th century American writers. Norman Mailer, James Cain, James Jones, Mickey Spillane - maybe I'll reread some of my Jim Thompson collection while I'm at it.
Though I must admit that the parallels between the anti-Communism of Spillane and the anti-foreign message of, say, Dan Rather, is kind of creepy.
the relative merits of using open source software rather than Microsoft Corp.'s Windows applications
Uh, there are more than two options in the world of operating systems. I'm assuming that everyone here has heard of small companies like Apple and Sun, who seem pretty effective at marketing their own OSes.
(Yeah, I know, they both fund some open source efforts too. But this whole "everything is either Microsoft or free-as-in-lint" dichotomy is too simple for anyone but retarded schoolchildren.)
So I think we're all clear on how murray feels about this.
Yeah, he feels that the editorial staff are a pack of unprofessional assclowns who can't be bothered to perform the sort of rudimentary fact-checking demanded of the average high school newspaper.
Hey, nobody ever managed to crack my A/UX server before I switched to OpenBSD -- maybe there's something to this.
Of course, the flip side would be that the whole OS is toast as soon as a vulnerability is found. Hell, Apple won't admit they even _made_ A/UX any more.
--saint (Seriously. Try to find it on their site. You'll find Newton stuff first.)
If so, what would be the theme and what talks would a convention like this have?
1) JonKatz needs a good cock-punching.
2) Why he needs it, cock-punching techniques for the new post-Columbine and post-9/11 world, the globalization of cock-punching, cock-punching from the middle east with a commodore 64...
Slashdot Mirror
over one billion PCs have been sold worldwide.
And I've got parts from at least three-quarters of them hidden away in the spare bedroom closet.
Sigh. My girlfriend has the patience of a saint.
--saint
Talks about legal issues, as well as bandwidth issues, and the simple issue of employees wasting their employers time.
Good. I can hardly wait for the "music wants to be free" and "find another job, man" commentary from the hordes of slashbots who've never had a job.
Sigh.
--saint
Gee, I hope the sound is of the same pristine quality I've come to expect from .ra files. It'll have to be, if they want to compete, right?
Here's hoping for streaming audio that sounds like it was encoded in my basement, beneath an overturned copper bathtub, during a torrential downpour.
--saint
your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours--making all those things easier
...to sell to spammers and identity thieves. Thanks, Microsoft!
--saint
Please welcome Winamp Visualization Plugins for XMMS, available now!
Time to call all of the Linux-using stoners I know.
--saint
(Hey, this is my 500th post. Sheesh.)
From the article:
"There's no way we can raise our standard of living rapidly without IT," Somuah says.
I wondered who the target market for the Segway was... apparently it's Ghanaians earning a dollar a day. Good for them!
--saint
And a can opener. Don't forget the can opener - most of the things that come in cans can be eaten without heating, and pork-n-beans is a great meal for under a dollar.
And I second leaving the electronics at home. Pick up a 5 pack of legal pads and a couple of decent paperbacks, and write and read to your heart's content.
The highway is a wonderful frontier - I've been on a few multi-month road trips myself, and there's nothing like it. Despite all the bitching people do, this is a wonderful country full of wonderful citizens; you can criss-cross it for the rest of your life and never even scratch the surface.
--saint
British researchers claim to have developed an implant
Uh, oh. If it's British, odds are it'll leak oil and send plumes of blue smoke out of your mouth.
(Well, back to work on Dad's Sunbeam roadster...)
--saint
Today, that last phrase has gone missing and there is no more talk of running any programs designed for Windows, let alone Microsoft products
Good. Now they just have to stop claiming that their cobbled together toy OS has the stability of UNIX, and the ad copy will finally be accurate.
--saint
However, many important web portals I use to pay my bills (citibank, spring, verizon and 2 student loan companies) often use heavily crufted javascript. As a result, when I want to 'conduct business' online, I have to fire up IE. It just feels nasty. Any suggestions?
Buy a box of envelopes and some stamps?
That's what I do. Then again, I don't place a lot of stock in trusting my money to technology. Hell, I still won't get direct deposit for my paychecks.
Back on topic, I'm posting this with Mozilla. In the rare case that a site won't work with it, it will work with Omniweb.
IE is only on the home machine for my girlfriend, and on the work machine for the crappy web pages Filemaker Pro puts out.
--saint
I know this may be too late to get read, but oh well...
One of my coworkers has two sons, about two and four, and he's in the same situation. His solution was to put all of their game CDs into caddies and get an old caddy-loading SCSI CD drive for their computer.
It's still not perfect protection, but it certainly stops most of the casual scratching and such.
--saint
Hmm. Time to see if my boss reads slashdot.
If so, time to start posting anonymously.
--saint
Just imagine high school science-class field trips laughing at the very system you're using now...
They probably already would. Hell, I'd bet most of them have a better car than me, too.
Goddamned student loans.
--saint
[From the article:]
* Statistics show that if you accept a counteroffer, the probability of voluntarily leaving in six months or being let go in one year is extremely high.
Well, hey, with rock-solid information like that to go on, I'd be a fool to accept a counteroffer.
After all, if you can't accept vague, unsubstatiated, unaccountable claims on the Internet as gospel, you just can't trust anyone.
--saint
Not to sound like a Troll or anything, but do you not find that rendering to be far to blurry?
Seems okay to me now, but I'm on my work machine with a Studio Display LCD - the original Moz rendering was jagged because the display is so crisp.
I've got a CRT on my system at home - it'll be interesting to see what it looks like there.
--saint
You forgot to close the ALT quotes on your second image. So the second image doesn't show up, at least in IE
:) )
Thanks for the heads-up. It's fixed now.
(Hey, it worked in Moz. How was I supposed to know?
--saint
I'm suprised that it took a third party to provide support.
Yeah, that's weird. You'd certainly expect Apple to be eager to give people one less reason to buy their computers and OS.
[/sarcasm]
--saint
I took a couple of screenshots of Slashdot rendered with and without the Quartz rendering of Mozilla 1.1A.
Wow. What a difference.
http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/mozilla.html
--saint
Which Vonnegut book should I read next?
Bluebeard. I've read the vast majority of Vonnegut's books, and that one is by far my favorite.
As for me, I decided to spend some time catching up on my mid-20th century American writers. Norman Mailer, James Cain, James Jones, Mickey Spillane - maybe I'll reread some of my Jim Thompson collection while I'm at it.
Though I must admit that the parallels between the anti-Communism of Spillane and the anti-foreign message of, say, Dan Rather, is kind of creepy.
--saint
the relative merits of using open source software rather than Microsoft Corp.'s Windows applications
Uh, there are more than two options in the world of operating systems. I'm assuming that everyone here has heard of small companies like Apple and Sun, who seem pretty effective at marketing their own OSes.
(Yeah, I know, they both fund some open source efforts too. But this whole "everything is either Microsoft or free-as-in-lint" dichotomy is too simple for anyone but retarded schoolchildren.)
--saint
So I think we're all clear on how murray feels about this.
Yeah, he feels that the editorial staff are a pack of unprofessional assclowns who can't be bothered to perform the sort of rudimentary fact-checking demanded of the average high school newspaper.
And hey presto, he's right.
--saint
declares the current CPU war to have been won by Intel.
(-1, Ad-impression Seeking Flamebait)
--saint
in case you can't figure it out, spoiler alert...
Hmm. That would imply that I was biting my nails on the edge of my seat, just dying to find out who won the Blandest Small-Chested Actress award.
--saint
Hey, nobody ever managed to crack my A/UX server before I switched to OpenBSD -- maybe there's something to this.
Of course, the flip side would be that the whole OS is toast as soon as a vulnerability is found. Hell, Apple won't admit they even _made_ A/UX any more.
--saint
(Seriously. Try to find it on their site. You'll find Newton stuff first.)
If so, what would be the theme and what talks would a convention like this have?
1) JonKatz needs a good cock-punching.
2) Why he needs it, cock-punching techniques for the new post-Columbine and post-9/11 world, the globalization of cock-punching, cock-punching from the middle east with a commodore 64...
--saint