Re:Yeah, this is beliveable..
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No, I'm talking more about material from New Zealand TV documentaries with pictures that were obtained clandestinely by filming through partially curtained windows at night.
Yeah, this is beliveable..
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I glanced at this article and I put it in the same category as CIA selling crack in LA, Aliens crashed at Roswell, and the Black Helicoper stuff...
Although, there is nothing more fun than watching the black helicopter crowd froth at the mouth...
A couple of days ago, in this very messaging board, somebody proposed a brilliant idea: instead of something useless like SETI or cracking RC5, one could dedicate those cycles to analysing satellite data that could help farmers plan crops. Truly wonderful. Sad thing, though, is that in a tech world like the one we have, "sexy" useless projects like SETI demand all the attention, while worthwhile causes like the latter languish. Truly sickening.
Hey, if its such a great idea, go ahead, start it up and waste your idle CPU cycles on it.
Me, I'm going to use my idle CPU cycles on them there flying toasters...
Well, I hope all of you people who bitch and moan whenever someone or some company take steps towards introducing some form of accountability to the internet (although this is always presented here as "Big Brother wants to destroy your privacy"), remember this sort of thing.
As it stands now, there really isn't anything that can be done... sad really.
Doesn't anyone else think that this PDA craze is getting out of hand? Sure, it's neat to have information in a small, portable form, but do we want to be "connected" 24/7? Don't we want the ability to take a vacation instead of spending our week in Hawaii sending memos to the boss on our shiny new PDA while talking on a cellphone, waiting for our beeper to ring, and coding on a laptop?
Well, here is an idea. Don't fucking buy one if you don't want one. Don't make the rest of us suffer because you want to fucking rub to sticks together to make a fire, while the rest of us are more than happy to use a zippo.
Pretty cool stuff - the setting of the game is going to be prior to the Star Wars movies. I don't know whether that means prior to Episode I or Episode IV, but the real-world ship date is supposed to be 2002. So, donna hold your breath.
According to a story I read on Blues News the game takes place 4000 years before Episode IV (or for the very pedantic 3970ish years before Episode I)
, "Of course, I wanted to be paid for it, and I was. Just as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and countless others were paid, despite the absence of copyright protection."
Yeah, there are some great examples. Beethoven died a pauper and was burried in a mass grave.
. Remember several people have threatened trolls with violence for posting to slashdot, do you really think it would be great for everyone to have access to every other person's informtion?
Sure, it would certainly give people an extra pause before hitting that submit button.
Whoever had done the site before designed it with frames, lots of text images, and not an ALT tag in sight. It was pretty scary, especially if you tried browsing it with Lynx.
Great, if you want to waste your time catering to less than 1% of the web sufing public, well that's your business, but I find it hard to belive you couldn't come up with a better use of your time.
Do you keep a gopher version of your site up on a gopher server for people who can't even run Lynx?
... But they're also impossible to read, inelegant when it comes to handwriting, low-res, low-powered, and just plain primitive.
You forgot to mention underpriced (compared to the Newton). Good ol' Apple. When they make their once in a while decent product, they manage to price themselves right out of the market. (The horrible handwriting recognition with the first generation Newton's didn't help anything either).
Couldn't it be said that Windows 9x and NT based OS's were built wrong from the ground up as well? If UNIX was built wrong from the ground up, why has it survived for the base, oh, 30 years?!?
The leaning tower of Pisa has been around for several hundred....
Journalism to me indicates doing some actual reporting, not just linking to other people's stories and saying "So, uh, what do youa ll think about this?"
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No, I'm talking more about material from New Zealand TV documentaries with pictures that were obtained clandestinely by filming through partially curtained windows at night.
I glanced at this article and I put it in the same category as CIA selling crack in LA, Aliens crashed at Roswell, and the Black Helicoper stuff...
Although, there is nothing more fun than watching the black helicopter crowd froth at the mouth...
A couple of days ago, in this very messaging board, somebody proposed a brilliant idea: instead of something useless like SETI or cracking RC5, one could dedicate those cycles to analysing satellite data that could help farmers plan crops. Truly wonderful. Sad thing, though, is that in a tech world like the one we have, "sexy" useless projects like SETI demand all the attention, while worthwhile causes like the latter languish. Truly sickening.
Hey, if its such a great idea, go ahead, start it up and waste your idle CPU cycles on it.
Me, I'm going to use my idle CPU cycles on them there flying toasters...
Well, I hope all of you people who bitch and moan whenever someone or some company take steps towards introducing some form of accountability to the internet (although this is always presented here as "Big Brother wants to destroy your privacy"), remember this sort of thing.
As it stands now, there really isn't anything that can be done... sad really.
Read the book Stiffed by Susan Faludi.
If mindless feminist claptrap is your idea of a good time, yeah, its a great book.
Ah, the traditional luddite post..
Doesn't anyone else think that this PDA craze is getting out of hand? Sure, it's neat to have information in a small, portable form, but do we want to be "connected" 24/7? Don't we want the ability to take a vacation instead of spending our week in Hawaii sending memos to the boss on our shiny new PDA while talking on a cellphone, waiting for our beeper to ring, and coding on a laptop?
Well, here is an idea. Don't fucking buy one if you don't want one. Don't make the rest of us suffer because you want to fucking rub to sticks together to make a fire, while the rest of us are more than happy to use a zippo.
Pretty cool stuff - the setting of the game is going to be prior to the Star Wars movies. I don't know whether that means prior to Episode I or Episode IV, but the real-world ship date is supposed to be 2002. So, donna hold your breath.
According to a story I read on Blues News the game takes place 4000 years before Episode IV (or for the very pedantic 3970ish years before Episode I)
You are right, I've read your rant and I'm going to go be a freeloader and a bum.
, "Of course, I wanted to be paid for it, and I was. Just as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and countless others were paid, despite the absence of copyright protection."
Yeah, there are some great examples. Beethoven died a pauper and was burried in a mass grave.
. Remember several people have threatened trolls with violence for posting to slashdot, do you really think it would be great for everyone to have access to every other person's informtion?
Sure, it would certainly give people an extra pause before hitting that submit button.
Done properly there is no way in hell it should take as long to write a browser as a complete operating system.
If the mozilla people were half as good at producing code that works as they are at producing excuses they would have a real product out there...
Whoever had done the site before designed it with frames, lots of text images, and not an ALT tag in sight. It was pretty scary, especially if you tried browsing it with Lynx.
Great, if you want to waste your time catering to less than 1% of the web sufing public, well that's your business, but I find it hard to belive you couldn't come up with a better use of your time.
Do you keep a gopher version of your site up on a gopher server for people who can't even run Lynx?
Car thieves acutally buy more cars than other people. Wow, who would have thought it. We should legalize car theft!
... But they're also impossible to read, inelegant when it comes to handwriting, low-res, low-powered, and just plain primitive.
You forgot to mention underpriced (compared to the Newton). Good ol' Apple. When they make their once in a while decent product, they manage to price themselves right out of the market. (The horrible handwriting recognition with the first generation Newton's didn't help anything either).
Wow a bunch of unsubstantiated claims thrown around and this gets moderated as insightful. Can you back up any of this? Didn't think so.
And when allocating newsprint to newspapers, the government can do whatever they want, too.
I wasn't aware that the government produced newsprint. Could you provide me a link to the government newsprint department?
It's pretty bad when you trust an independent review site as much as the company's press release.
No it isn't. Everyone is biased in one way or another and you are deluding yourself if you thing anyone is "independent" whatever the hell that means.
The ISSUE is whether or not a small site should post a favorable review based on a corporation's strong arming tactics.
Well, then its really a case of the site's ethics, not NVidia's unlike the extremely misleading headline of this article.
No you can't. Slader is a civil tort, not a criminal act.
HTH.
Couldn't it be said that Windows 9x and NT based OS's were built wrong from the ground up as well? If UNIX was built wrong from the ground up, why has it survived for the base, oh, 30 years?!?
The leaning tower of Pisa has been around for several hundred....
Yup. Too many assholes like me buying computers that are too easy to use and too easy to look at.
Exactly. Things would be OK if people like you just bought them and looked at them though...
Its people like you who are the problem with the computer industry.
Wouldn't you love to buy this steaming pile of dog shit I've got here? I'll put it in a real nice bag for you...
The article on /. is kind of misleading (heh, go figure)... the mail in question does have to be d/l from the mail server before anything can go south.
...lets get rid of those stupid sexual harrisment laws.
Journalism to me indicates doing some actual reporting, not just linking to other people's stories and saying "So, uh, what do youa ll think about this?"