I actually liked emperor's new groove. And I am someone who hates disney, and has boycotted their movies since lion king (except for the pixar ones). I saw new groove under extreeme duress, and I have to admit I enjoyed it.
It has an interesting storyline, a creative setting, funny dialogue, and . . . well, its about a talking llama, thats really hard to turn down. and it wasn't so trite that I wanted to vomit everytime someone spoke (unlike the lion king), and it actually had a non-imperialist message (unlike the lion king), where someone who wasn't born into greatness was the real hero of the story. The characters seemed to actually have real stories and not just be convenient archetypes (unlike the lion king). Most of all it didn't rip off someone elses idea, or take a traditional story and bastardise it into the usual bland disney mash.
This, I thought was a positive step for disney, actually making a new story. I agree, Cinderella II is sickening. I hate the way they embrace and extend clasic stories. There should be some kind of law against that kind of thing. I have never forgiven them for what they did to the little mermaid.
This is not really the point. The point is that a good story shouldn't require you to throw away everything you know about what things actually mean, just so that George lucas can still a 14 year old girl in his movies to get all the little geek school kiddies going wild. Its so transparent that he is just making up shit to try and fit in the actors that he wants to use and the merchandising that he wants to sell. that is the problem.
thats not really the point. the parent's author actually did blame X, but he went further to say that if mozilla is running on a client that has a known bug, it should make an attempt not to trigger that bug. The same could be said for any win32 applicaiton.
also I don't think the author meant that gimp crashing X was not a big deal in the way you meant it. Of course it is a big deal, but not when you compare it to the other posibility of an unknown host being able to trigger a crash in X
I think he is insecure about it. From what I have gathered from interviews he was never really happy with the original three. He had to leave out stuff becasue he didn't have the technology to make it look good. What he never seemed to realise was that this fact introduced a new subtlety to his movies. Thing weren't so explicit and obvious. I don't think he has an appreciation for subtlety. so he always had this urge to add something more graphic and visual to his movies, and when he could, he did. I think insecurity is definately the driving force behind it. I think he looks back at the first 3 and wishes he could make them with the tech that he has today.
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Well, gee, thanks. its all clear as mud now.
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What the hell does this mean?
My Little VAIO.
Worldwide smallest * most light weight * it actualized in the Microsoft Windows XP on-board type the " bio U ". The imagination it loads the prejudice function of the extent which is not attached from that compact body. Removing from the bag, you can use directly. It can enjoy casually, it is birth of biology.
Babelfish is col and all, but I can't wait until AI's are advanced enough to translate thigns properly.
What really hurts is doing multi-dimensional algebra, and trying to actualy picture it. I mean how can any sane person picture equations in 19 dimensions. Ouch
I think drugs assist in any form of science and mathematics. I remember I spent a month trying to understand the chaos theory in highschool. Then on a camping trip with some friends, after smoking the herb . . . . suddenly it all made sense. They couldn't shut me up about it for hours. And the best thing is that I remembered it all afterwards!
When I saw the first part of the article "Plan 9 from Bell Labs", the first thing I thought was "Has bell labs done some kind of remake?". I was surprised to find out that this plan 9 was in fact an OS, and not the plan of alien invaders, depicted in the Ed Wood classic, Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Commonly known as the worst movie ever made, Ed only ever did one take of anything. Special effects are so bad, that they are really good (talking way beyond Dr Who here). Did anyone else confuse the two? I wonder if bell labs actually named their OS after this movie? Does anyone know where the name came from?
I am at this moment evaluating a web server for a major product. I wanted to go straight for a apache, but management said to consider IIS and give them a comparison. In using both, I have found that the text file interface actually easier to use. I mean you have a file there, and every option has a nice description of what it does above . . . in IIS you get this little tree with . . . stuff in it. and twho the hell knows what these nodes do, you spend all you time right clicking everything, bringing up properties boxes, trying to find what the hell you want to do . . . it sucks. I apache its all laid out in a flat text file and you can just do a keyword search to find what you are looking for. simple. Anyone who can't handle this belongs in the other side of the browser.
You shouldn't use px or pt to define font size. You really should be letting the user agent decide on this. Use the default font, then small or large for everything. You get to choose the proportions, and let the user agent choose the base. This is the best way to design a site that will be usable for everyone, regardless of screen resolution, or how well they can see things.
I think the simpsons has made every country look bad. I am an Australian, and the Australian episode was hard to watch. I didn't so much mind the depiction of our justice system (the prime minister attempts to deliver a punishment to bart, consisting of kicking him in the butt with a giant boot), the worst thing was the accents. Ouch. No one in the world talks like that.
It did make australia look like a bizzare, twisted, barbaric country. Which I guess it is, but not in the way they showed it.
Yes, old browsers are limiting. new, good browsers can actually help you avoid these stupidities, while still allowing you to experience modern advances in web technology.
I use mozilla. It has higly configurable options, for example, I can tell mozilla to allow all sessions cookies, but disalow permanent cookies. or I can set it to automaticaly reject all 3rd part cookies. I can reject 3rd party images as well. And I can disable automatic pop ups or pop unders. This is my favourite, mozilla will still allow a popup if it happens as a result of a use action (i.e. I press a button) but will ignore popups on page loads and unloads. Since discovering all these features, I never see banner ads (unless they are hosted on the same site), I have only 5 cookies on my machine (for sites I allow, slashdot is one of them), and I have never since seen a pop up or under add. All this, and I get to experience all the cool things in HTML4
Hmmm, I never noticed his name, probably cause I didn't include the front and back covers on the photo copies of the photo copies that I had.
Actually, I think i still have them somewhere, nicely bound with my own custom drawn covers, with my characters and their portraits as well as had drawn pictures of every piece of equipment they owned.
Ok, good point, I think. Still many companies make a killing out of donations (Greenpeace for example). I don't think that Mandrakes subscription system is much worse of a business model. I just hope that the community who uses their product is willing to join up. You seem to fear the worst for them. I think I do too, but I am willing to give them some money to help them out. I think that sitting there and shaking your head in pity is a good way of encouraging human greed. It is sending out a message saying that people shouldn't bother doing things unledd it will pay off.
I think there is a great deal of value in giving support to a group who are doing good things. It helps the community, and goes a small way to reversing the trend of greed. Greed in humans will always exist, but greed as a charactersitic of a society need not. I believe that our society is greed, and that it is generaly becasue that is the best way to survive in a capitalist system. By going against this general trend, I think it helps to show people that you don't HAVE to be like that. If enough people start doing this, then there is some hope for positive growth in our society.
Maybe I am being too optimistic, but I find your atitude, well . . . depressing.
Why do you take such a hard line economic-rationalist view point? I am not flaming just curious. I mean, while this is the system that we work in, what does it do in terms of the comunity? Mandrake make free software, which emphasises the role of the community, and members of a community should support each other. It is sad that a company who's main aim seems to be in providing something good for a community will fail because the economic system does not smile apon such things.
I really am curious about your ideology, would you be happy in a trully capitalist world, where the market was the only thing that determined success from failure? I personaly think that a sense of community is vital to nurturing the human spirit, and I find it hard to understand how people can just not care about the fate of those who aim to bring good and helpful things into the world and fail because of a system that does not support them.
I would not normaly bother with this, butI can't believe someone modded up your comment.
Did you read the article? It is about the possibility of causing a fusion reaction in a bubble that becomes extreemly hot. The high temperature is localised only to the space within the bubble. There is no explosion, just a tiny flash of light in beaker. This may concern you if you happen to be a deuterium atom. Or if you are in the habit of sticking your hand into beakers during experiments, but I do not think we have much to fear in terms of bombs.
So what the hell are you talking about? I didn't see the words, "table-top thermoneuclear bomb" anywhere in the article. Do you even know the difference between fusion and fision? I think your quote should instead be "Too much ignorant/racist indoctrination, too little brain cells"
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I actually liked emperor's new groove. And I am someone who hates disney, and has boycotted their movies since lion king (except for the pixar ones). I saw new groove under extreeme duress, and I have to admit I enjoyed it.
It has an interesting storyline, a creative setting, funny dialogue, and . . . well, its about a talking llama, thats really hard to turn down. and it wasn't so trite that I wanted to vomit everytime someone spoke (unlike the lion king), and it actually had a non-imperialist message (unlike the lion king), where someone who wasn't born into greatness was the real hero of the story. The characters seemed to actually have real stories and not just be convenient archetypes (unlike the lion king). Most of all it didn't rip off someone elses idea, or take a traditional story and bastardise it into the usual bland disney mash.
This, I thought was a positive step for disney, actually making a new story. I agree, Cinderella II is sickening. I hate the way they embrace and extend clasic stories. There should be some kind of law against that kind of thing. I have never forgiven them for what they did to the little mermaid.
This is not really the point. The point is that a good story shouldn't require you to throw away everything you know about what things actually mean, just so that George lucas can still a 14 year old girl in his movies to get all the little geek school kiddies going wild. Its so transparent that he is just making up shit to try and fit in the actors that he wants to use and the merchandising that he wants to sell. that is the problem.
thats not really the point. the parent's author actually did blame X, but he went further to say that if mozilla is running on a client that has a known bug, it should make an attempt not to trigger that bug. The same could be said for any win32 applicaiton.
also I don't think the author meant that gimp crashing X was not a big deal in the way you meant it. Of course it is a big deal, but not when you compare it to the other posibility of an unknown host being able to trigger a crash in X
http://thatsnice.org has a big table around the whole page. plus it doesn't validate as the XHTML 1.0 Traditional it claims to be.
my site http://brownplanet.netforce.com.au is an example of purely tableless site. and it validates as XHTML 1.0 strict!
I think he is insecure about it. From what I have gathered from interviews he was never really happy with the original three. He had to leave out stuff becasue he didn't have the technology to make it look good. What he never seemed to realise was that this fact introduced a new subtlety to his movies. Thing weren't so explicit and obvious. I don't think he has an appreciation for subtlety. so he always had this urge to add something more graphic and visual to his movies, and when he could, he did. I think insecurity is definately the driving force behind it. I think he looks back at the first 3 and wishes he could make them with the tech that he has today.
Well, gee, thanks. its all clear as mud now.
What the hell does this mean?
Babelfish is col and all, but I can't wait until AI's are advanced enough to translate thigns properly.
that makes sense. I thought it strange that someone with such opinions would have the URL of a linux-centric site in their sig.
What really hurts is doing multi-dimensional algebra, and trying to actualy picture it. I mean how can any sane person picture equations in 19 dimensions. Ouch
I think drugs assist in any form of science and mathematics. I remember I spent a month trying to understand the chaos theory in highschool. Then on a camping trip with some friends, after smoking the herb . . . . suddenly it all made sense. They couldn't shut me up about it for hours. And the best thing is that I remembered it all afterwards!
When I saw the first part of the article "Plan 9 from Bell Labs", the first thing I thought was "Has bell labs done some kind of remake?". I was surprised to find out that this plan 9 was in fact an OS, and not the plan of alien invaders, depicted in the Ed Wood classic, Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Commonly known as the worst movie ever made, Ed only ever did one take of anything. Special effects are so bad, that they are really good (talking way beyond Dr Who here). Did anyone else confuse the two? I wonder if bell labs actually named their OS after this movie? Does anyone know where the name came from?
Hey, your right. Looks like I am not right, or paranoid, just stupid.
I think that you work for verisign and posted this link to increase their interest rating!
Either that or I am way too paranoid.
I am at this moment evaluating a web server for a major product. I wanted to go straight for a apache, but management said to consider IIS and give them a comparison. In using both, I have found that the text file interface actually easier to use. I mean you have a file there, and every option has a nice description of what it does above . . . in IIS you get this little tree with . . . stuff in it. and twho the hell knows what these nodes do, you spend all you time right clicking everything, bringing up properties boxes, trying to find what the hell you want to do . . . it sucks. I apache its all laid out in a flat text file and you can just do a keyword search to find what you are looking for. simple. Anyone who can't handle this belongs in the other side of the browser.
yeah well this is not really with the spirit of HTML and the web.
You shouldn't use px or pt to define font size. You really should be letting the user agent decide on this. Use the default font, then small or large for everything. You get to choose the proportions, and let the user agent choose the base. This is the best way to design a site that will be usable for everyone, regardless of screen resolution, or how well they can see things.
I think the simpsons has made every country look bad. I am an Australian, and the Australian episode was hard to watch. I didn't so much mind the depiction of our justice system (the prime minister attempts to deliver a punishment to bart, consisting of kicking him in the butt with a giant boot), the worst thing was the accents. Ouch. No one in the world talks like that.
It did make australia look like a bizzare, twisted, barbaric country. Which I guess it is, but not in the way they showed it.
I think brazil should get over it.
Yes, old browsers are limiting. new, good browsers can actually help you avoid these stupidities, while still allowing you to experience modern advances in web technology.
I use mozilla. It has higly configurable options, for example, I can tell mozilla to allow all sessions cookies, but disalow permanent cookies. or I can set it to automaticaly reject all 3rd part cookies. I can reject 3rd party images as well. And I can disable automatic pop ups or pop unders. This is my favourite, mozilla will still allow a popup if it happens as a result of a use action (i.e. I press a button) but will ignore popups on page loads and unloads. Since discovering all these features, I never see banner ads (unless they are hosted on the same site), I have only 5 cookies on my machine (for sites I allow, slashdot is one of them), and I have never since seen a pop up or under add. All this, and I get to experience all the cool things in HTML4
go mozilla
Hmmm, I never noticed his name, probably cause I didn't include the front and back covers on the photo copies of the photo copies that I had.
Actually, I think i still have them somewhere, nicely bound with my own custom drawn covers, with my characters and their portraits as well as had drawn pictures of every piece of equipment they owned.
Man, how geeky do I feel now
eh? white writing on a black background. what is so hard to read about that?
Ok, good point, I think. Still many companies make a killing out of donations (Greenpeace for example). I don't think that Mandrakes subscription system is much worse of a business model. I just hope that the community who uses their product is willing to join up. You seem to fear the worst for them. I think I do too, but I am willing to give them some money to help them out. I think that sitting there and shaking your head in pity is a good way of encouraging human greed. It is sending out a message saying that people shouldn't bother doing things unledd it will pay off.
I think there is a great deal of value in giving support to a group who are doing good things. It helps the community, and goes a small way to reversing the trend of greed. Greed in humans will always exist, but greed as a charactersitic of a society need not. I believe that our society is greed, and that it is generaly becasue that is the best way to survive in a capitalist system. By going against this general trend, I think it helps to show people that you don't HAVE to be like that. If enough people start doing this, then there is some hope for positive growth in our society.
Maybe I am being too optimistic, but I find your atitude, well . . . depressing.
Why do you take such a hard line economic-rationalist view point? I am not flaming just curious. I mean, while this is the system that we work in, what does it do in terms of the comunity? Mandrake make free software, which emphasises the role of the community, and members of a community should support each other. It is sad that a company who's main aim seems to be in providing something good for a community will fail because the economic system does not smile apon such things.
I really am curious about your ideology, would you be happy in a trully capitalist world, where the market was the only thing that determined success from failure? I personaly think that a sense of community is vital to nurturing the human spirit, and I find it hard to understand how people can just not care about the fate of those who aim to bring good and helpful things into the world and fail because of a system that does not support them.
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Yeah, ok, I'll shut up now.
In the "nice to have" section, it mentions a laser.
Well, der, I think this is obvious. Its always nice to have a laser. You could put this on basicaly any list of "nice to haves" for anything:
I would not normaly bother with this, butI can't believe someone modded up your comment.
Did you read the article? It is about the possibility of causing a fusion reaction in a bubble that becomes extreemly hot. The high temperature is localised only to the space within the bubble. There is no explosion, just a tiny flash of light in beaker. This may concern you if you happen to be a deuterium atom. Or if you are in the habit of sticking your hand into beakers during experiments, but I do not think we have much to fear in terms of bombs.
So what the hell are you talking about? I didn't see the words, "table-top thermoneuclear bomb" anywhere in the article. Do you even know the difference between fusion and fision? I think your quote should instead be "Too much ignorant/racist indoctrination, too little brain cells"