I'm waiting for storage that can store a few gigs cheaply that has NO MOVING PARTS. MO's are nice, but as long as you've got moving parts, they're still the part of the computer most likely to fail (taking your data with it). I wish that storage companies would instead focus on say, flash card technology or something similar so that we wouldn't have to worry about drive failure.
They part with "Raymond K Hessel" was excellent. More people need a gun pointed at their heads and forced to explain what they wanted to do with their lives and forced to do it. I honestly believe that. That is exactly what more people need to do. You want to be doing something else? Start doing it now. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Now. There's no reason not too. Bills? bah. They'll get paid eventually. Job? Who the hell cares. Jobs are worthless these days. Career? Who's got an actual career any more? No. There's very rarely any reason not to start doing what you want right now. I did it myself. Not because of the movie, but because I was sick of it. Left the six figure job and started doing something else. No need to blow up any buildings.
In fact, I just remembered what a professor in college told me. If there's something that you want to do in your life. Anything at all. Become a veteranarian, whatever. Do it with the urgency you'd have if you had diarrhea. Literally (well, without the veteranarian part). He's right.
I wish I could find a chick like this, but there just aren't many out there. At 28, I have a hard time meeting any chicks at all, let alone ones who don't want the traditional house-and-kids-and-minivan routine.
Shit yeah, I agree. In the late twenties, most chicks start going into biologocal-clock mode. They start thinking, "if I don't bag a hubby and start popping out babies soon, I'll be a loser!" The ones like the one I got are few and far between. I met her via the Net... we got engaged 2 weeks later, and got married in Vegas 2 months later! Woo hoo! Thank fucking Christ for the Net!
I think that he meant that anyone that smart could do anything he wanted. Boxing yourself into some stupid tech job is well, stupid. If tech isn't working out, fuck it. Try something else. Life is short.
Hell, I did it backwards. Had the good job and marriage right out of college. I was "right on track" for the "good life". After about 6 years of that, I said fuck it. It wasn't worth it. Now I don't have a "traditional" job at all. I'm happily married, but to a great chick who thinks the same way I do. She doesn't have a "traditional" job either. We're doing just fine. No kids, we get to travel plenty, and we're pushing 30. Neither of us will ever do the traditional route ever again, and we couldn't be happier. And a little secret... not doing the traditional job, kids, big house thing doesn't mean that you can't still make money, if that's your thing, either. I'm not saying that to buck the trend you gotta get covered in tattoos, join a band, and paint all day, and go around all day saying "fuck the system". There are thousands of different ways to live. I run a couple of businesses (because that's what I like to do). No cubicle or commute for me! I have a good friend who's going to law school so that the can practice law off of a boat in the Caribbean. I know a guy who does nothing but restore vintage cars for a living. I know people who do nothing but run massive porn sites and work from home in their undies. Jeez, there are so many possibilities, and life is so short, I *hate* to see people wasting time by doing what's expected of 'em. Think about it. Do you wanna wake up one day, 65 years old, and think "what'd I do for the last 45 years? Well, I saved up a nice nest egg"?? That's insane. Hell, so many people don't even make it that long. What if you get hit by a bus when you're 35? What do you have to show for it all? A nice suit and tie that you can be buried in? A bunch of people saying that "he was a nice co-worker"? Or "he had a really nice car"? Fuck it man. Life doesn't end when you graduate from college... Life is just beginning!
Ok, now I really do think that I gotta go watch Fight Club again.
if you put it off you probably won't get around to it until retirement.
WHY? Why does everybody have this mindset that there's no choice after college except to get a boring job in a cubicle, get married, pop out kids, buy a big house, and hopefully, have enough time and money at the end to sit on your ass for a few years? That's so fucking depressing. You've only got one shot at life, and it may not be long. You never know. If you think that the rest of your life will be so bad that you won't get to do what you want to do (or at least, not for another 40 years), then you need to rethink things. Hell, just watch Fight Club a few times and *think* about it.
- From a person living a very unusual, fun, and rewarding life (ie: not a lemming)
Yeah, I just bought one (about 2 minutes ago) for $375. Nice internal, completely hardware based IDE RAID thingy. Now, I *really* don't have to worry... I'll just buy the shit drives and keep swapping them out on warranty when they die. Stupid hard drive manufacturers.
Well, just to throw this in, I am DEFINATELY willing to pay more for a more reliable IDE drive. My Point of Sale systems are incredibly important, and some crazy SCSI Raid 5 Server under the counter for a simple cash register is out of the question. At the same time, I need my drives to work. I don't care about the warranty. The $100 I save with a warranty is nothing compared to the thousands I lose when the cash register goes down and it takes a day to rebuild. I'd gladly pay $500 for a 20 gig HD if I could.
Is this "News for Nerds" or is it some kind of tech legal watch? Jesus, if it's not DMCA, it's MS's legal ruling. If it's not those, it's something about the legality of GNU/whatever. What the fuck? Is there really so little going on that the same shit has to be re-hashed over and over?
Wow. Could you let me know where I can download the source code? I have a whole bunch of modifications I'd like to make from fixing those pop-up window problems to making it runnable on Linux
No. My code gives me a significant competitive advantage in my business. Popup windows aren't a problem if you tweak IE. But then, with your sarcastic tone, I'm assuming that you wouldn't bother, or better yet, have no idea how to. Linux? I personally don't care about running it on Linux. I don't use Linux.
Yeah. You call the dll's directly. You can use any of all of the functionality in IE, and yes, it is distributable. I don't remember the names of 'em now, but there are several to use. And yes, you can customize it however you'd like. You can do a web browser window, do whatever buttons you'd like, however you'd like. I have one tool which is does something automatic, and doesn't even have a GUI. You can absolutely embed and customize it. Check out the details at MSDN. Hell, I'm looking at Quickbooks 2002 which is built around IE. They just use it for the rendering... no actual browsing per se. I use a customn app that I wrote that is completel automated using the XML object that comes with IE. You don't need the source since you have access to every possible property/method in every DLL, and they're all documented. If you have to muck with the source, that's because the program itself doesn't work, or has a shitty API. IE works and has a very extensive API. Has for years.
And no, of course you can't use it on Solaris. But, I'm not aware of a whole heck of a lot of products that would need to be ported to Solaris (Quickbooks for Solaris? I don't think so.).
Good troll attempt! I'll give you an A for effort!
Let's see... can I embed IE into my web app? Nope.
Yes you can. I've done it before, and I currently use three different programs with IE integrated.
Can my IE web app run on almost every platform out there? Nope.
You're right about this one, but for most commercial apps, hitting 99% of the users is pretty damn good. You can't please all the people all the time.
Can I modify IE in case I need additional functionality? Nope.
Yup, you sure can. I run a customized version of IE for a few special projects.
Oh yeah, and this has all been true for several years now.
So, 2/3 were flat wrong, and the third one was pretty irrelevant. All in all, I gotta say this was a *very* professional troll. Blatantly wrong, and intentionally inflammatory.
I doubt the Mozilla developers are losing too much sleep over them.
And I doubt that any major websites that don't work with Mozilla are losing any sleep about Mozilla users either. No question about who's losing out here. Mozilla's fighting a losing battle when they should instead be working on a working browser that the public can use.
And I'd say that it's probably not even the biggest cost. Bandwidth really isn't that expensive any more. It's probably 1/10 of what it cost when they started... maybe closer to 1/100. I would imagine the biggest cost has got to be the use of that giant friggin radio telescope. Considering it's the biggest in the world (lucky me... I got to see it in person, and even go into one of the control rooms), it can't be cheap to operate.
Third party add-ons are a one shot deal that compensate for the utter failures of the original program to deliver an acceptable product. That Ad-aware has a need to exist is a testament to the corporate-minded, user abusing design that went into IE.
So Mozilla plays Flash & Real Audio by default? I had no idea. That's pretty impressive. Of course, that may have something to do with the massive download size.
I am quite interested in your information regarding Mozilla and the ability to render DHTML and CSS standards. Can you provide a link? Implicit in this request is that you provide a link describing how IE does conform to these standards.
I know you're trolling, but I'll respond anyway. The standard today is IE. Let me say that again. The standard is IE. The W3C is an irrelevant, outdated, arbitrary standard that hasn't had meaning in several years. Besides, I know of several examples where IE supports the W3C "standard" and Mozilla still doesn't.
am a critical thinker, a freedom and privacy loving American, a voter, and a citizen. You are a marketing recipient, a consumer, and a revenue source.
Wrong. I'm just not a paranoid nutjob. Nobody's out to get me. I'm not important. I'm assuming that you think that you're so important, that everybody wants to know everything they can about you. That's unbelievably self-centered. And if somebody REALLY wants to know what MP3's I listen to, and what web sites I go to, so be it. I choose my fights. I have entirely too much going on to dick around with silly little shit like that. Marketing on the Net is such a minor thing, it's not worth my time. But hey, whatever floats your boat. Now, you should probably get back to the X-Files, in case you miss some evil, overarching scheme that the both government and "Big Business" are trying to use against you, Mr. back_pages. *yawn*
IE renders everything, but it's "stupid"? I'd call Mozilla "stupid" for being so damn strict. The only fans you're gonna win with only rendering pages *exactly* correctly are uber-geeks and W3C fanatics. All that does is piss off the vast majority of their potential user base: end users and site developers.
As both a user and a developer my thinking is "I don't give two shits about why it doesn't work, but it doesn't work. I'll use IE. IE works."
You are clearly not an AOL user. Most users, especially AOL users know absolutely nothing about security and don't care (and quite frankly... I agree with them). Third party add-ons are an easy one shot deal. And, AOL's versino of Netscape/Mozilla will not include the popup killer. So, the only obvious difference to the average AOL user will be that a good number of pages "don't work" because of DHTML and CSS standards.
Rights and privacy? Jesus. We're talking about the web here. Get a grip. If you're so paranoid about some web site knowing that the last web site you visited was http://angylesbiantransgendermidgets.com, then stick with Mozilla, by all means. You are in the minority, which has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on AOL (since that IS the topic of this thread).
...but including Mozilla in 8 isn't gonna help. They don't have the power any more to make a major switch like this. IF they actually do include Mozilla in their latest version, it's gonna leave a lot of new users scratching their heads as to why half of AOL (ie: the web) doesn't work. They definately need to delay trying to introduce Mozilla until they're more stable, financially. Rocky times are generally not a good time to be experimenting with new things.
India is willing to make such a strong statement regarding Freedom,
The only statement India makes with this move is how poor their country really is, and that at least one group has decided to officially stop pirating MS software.
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Not to mention the effects of motion on the battery life as well...
Huh? What motion and what battery? Are you talking about laptops?
I'm waiting for storage that can store a few gigs cheaply that has NO MOVING PARTS. MO's are nice, but as long as you've got moving parts, they're still the part of the computer most likely to fail (taking your data with it). I wish that storage companies would instead focus on say, flash card technology or something similar so that we wouldn't have to worry about drive failure.
They part with "Raymond K Hessel" was excellent. More people need a gun pointed at their heads and forced to explain what they wanted to do with their lives and forced to do it. I honestly believe that. That is exactly what more people need to do. You want to be doing something else? Start doing it now. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Now. There's no reason not too. Bills? bah. They'll get paid eventually. Job? Who the hell cares. Jobs are worthless these days. Career? Who's got an actual career any more? No. There's very rarely any reason not to start doing what you want right now. I did it myself. Not because of the movie, but because I was sick of it. Left the six figure job and started doing something else. No need to blow up any buildings.
In fact, I just remembered what a professor in college told me. If there's something that you want to do in your life. Anything at all. Become a veteranarian, whatever. Do it with the urgency you'd have if you had diarrhea. Literally (well, without the veteranarian part). He's right.
I wish I could find a chick like this, but there just aren't many out there. At 28, I have a hard time meeting any chicks at all, let alone ones who don't want the traditional house-and-kids-and-minivan routine.
Shit yeah, I agree. In the late twenties, most chicks start going into biologocal-clock mode. They start thinking, "if I don't bag a hubby and start popping out babies soon, I'll be a loser!" The ones like the one I got are few and far between. I met her via the Net... we got engaged 2 weeks later, and got married in Vegas 2 months later! Woo hoo! Thank fucking Christ for the Net!
You are not your job.
I think that he meant that anyone that smart could do anything he wanted. Boxing yourself into some stupid tech job is well, stupid. If tech isn't working out, fuck it. Try something else. Life is short.
Hell, I did it backwards. Had the good job and marriage right out of college. I was "right on track" for the "good life". After about 6 years of that, I said fuck it. It wasn't worth it. Now I don't have a "traditional" job at all. I'm happily married, but to a great chick who thinks the same way I do. She doesn't have a "traditional" job either. We're doing just fine. No kids, we get to travel plenty, and we're pushing 30. Neither of us will ever do the traditional route ever again, and we couldn't be happier. And a little secret... not doing the traditional job, kids, big house thing doesn't mean that you can't still make money, if that's your thing, either. I'm not saying that to buck the trend you gotta get covered in tattoos, join a band, and paint all day, and go around all day saying "fuck the system". There are thousands of different ways to live. I run a couple of businesses (because that's what I like to do). No cubicle or commute for me! I have a good friend who's going to law school so that the can practice law off of a boat in the Caribbean. I know a guy who does nothing but restore vintage cars for a living. I know people who do nothing but run massive porn sites and work from home in their undies. Jeez, there are so many possibilities, and life is so short, I *hate* to see people wasting time by doing what's expected of 'em. Think about it. Do you wanna wake up one day, 65 years old, and think "what'd I do for the last 45 years? Well, I saved up a nice nest egg"?? That's insane. Hell, so many people don't even make it that long. What if you get hit by a bus when you're 35? What do you have to show for it all? A nice suit and tie that you can be buried in? A bunch of people saying that "he was a nice co-worker"? Or "he had a really nice car"? Fuck it man. Life doesn't end when you graduate from college... Life is just beginning!
Ok, now I really do think that I gotta go watch Fight Club again.
if you put it off you probably won't get around to it until retirement.
WHY? Why does everybody have this mindset that there's no choice after college except to get a boring job in a cubicle, get married, pop out kids, buy a big house, and hopefully, have enough time and money at the end to sit on your ass for a few years? That's so fucking depressing. You've only got one shot at life, and it may not be long. You never know. If you think that the rest of your life will be so bad that you won't get to do what you want to do (or at least, not for another 40 years), then you need to rethink things. Hell, just watch Fight Club a few times and *think* about it.
- From a person living a very unusual, fun, and rewarding life (ie: not a lemming)
That's great, but from what I understand, these things have to be replaced, or at least recharged. How's that gonna be done?
Um....welll...Where should I be storing data...? I'm a small shop, and I don't have some kind of mini computer sitting in the back.
Yeah, I just bought one (about 2 minutes ago) for $375. Nice internal, completely hardware based IDE RAID thingy. Now, I *really* don't have to worry... I'll just buy the shit drives and keep swapping them out on warranty when they die. Stupid hard drive manufacturers.
Well, just to throw this in, I am DEFINATELY willing to pay more for a more reliable IDE drive. My Point of Sale systems are incredibly important, and some crazy SCSI Raid 5 Server under the counter for a simple cash register is out of the question. At the same time, I need my drives to work. I don't care about the warranty. The $100 I save with a warranty is nothing compared to the thousands I lose when the cash register goes down and it takes a day to rebuild. I'd gladly pay $500 for a 20 gig HD if I could.
Is this "News for Nerds" or is it some kind of tech legal watch? Jesus, if it's not DMCA, it's MS's legal ruling. If it's not those, it's something about the legality of GNU/whatever. What the fuck? Is there really so little going on that the same shit has to be re-hashed over and over?
Wow. Another professional troll. I won't even dignify that troll with an answer this time.
Wow. Could you let me know where I can download the source code? I have a whole bunch of modifications I'd like to make from fixing those pop-up window problems to making it runnable on Linux
No. My code gives me a significant competitive advantage in my business. Popup windows aren't a problem if you tweak IE. But then, with your sarcastic tone, I'm assuming that you wouldn't bother, or better yet, have no idea how to. Linux? I personally don't care about running it on Linux. I don't use Linux.
Yeah. You call the dll's directly. You can use any of all of the functionality in IE, and yes, it is distributable. I don't remember the names of 'em now, but there are several to use. And yes, you can customize it however you'd like. You can do a web browser window, do whatever buttons you'd like, however you'd like. I have one tool which is does something automatic, and doesn't even have a GUI. You can absolutely embed and customize it. Check out the details at MSDN. Hell, I'm looking at Quickbooks 2002 which is built around IE. They just use it for the rendering... no actual browsing per se.
I use a customn app that I wrote that is completel automated using the XML object that comes with IE. You don't need the source since you have access to every possible property/method in every DLL, and they're all documented. If you have to muck with the source, that's because the program itself doesn't work, or has a shitty API. IE works and has a very extensive API. Has for years.
And no, of course you can't use it on Solaris. But, I'm not aware of a whole heck of a lot of products that would need to be ported to Solaris (Quickbooks for Solaris? I don't think so.).
So yes, you are completely wrong.
Good troll attempt! I'll give you an A for effort!
Let's see... can I embed IE into my web app?
Nope.
Yes you can. I've done it before, and I currently use three different programs with IE integrated.
Can my IE web app run on almost every platform out there?
Nope.
You're right about this one, but for most commercial apps, hitting 99% of the users is pretty damn good. You can't please all the people all the time.
Can I modify IE in case I need additional functionality?
Nope.
Yup, you sure can. I run a customized version of IE for a few special projects.
Oh yeah, and this has all been true for several years now.
So, 2/3 were flat wrong, and the third one was pretty irrelevant. All in all, I gotta say this was a *very* professional troll. Blatantly wrong, and intentionally inflammatory.
I doubt the Mozilla developers are losing too much sleep over them.
And I doubt that any major websites that don't work with Mozilla are losing any sleep about Mozilla users either. No question about who's losing out here. Mozilla's fighting a losing battle when they should instead be working on a working browser that the public can use.
And I'd say that it's probably not even the biggest cost. Bandwidth really isn't that expensive any more. It's probably 1/10 of what it cost when they started... maybe closer to 1/100. I would imagine the biggest cost has got to be the use of that giant friggin radio telescope. Considering it's the biggest in the world (lucky me... I got to see it in person, and even go into one of the control rooms), it can't be cheap to operate.
Third party add-ons are a one shot deal that compensate for the utter failures of the original program to deliver an acceptable product. That Ad-aware has a need to exist is a testament to the corporate-minded, user abusing design that went into IE.
So Mozilla plays Flash & Real Audio by default? I had no idea. That's pretty impressive. Of course, that may have something to do with the massive download size.
I am quite interested in your information regarding Mozilla and the ability to render DHTML and CSS standards. Can you provide a link? Implicit in this request is that you provide a link describing how IE does conform to these standards.
I know you're trolling, but I'll respond anyway. The standard today is IE. Let me say that again. The standard is IE. The W3C is an irrelevant, outdated, arbitrary standard that hasn't had meaning in several years. Besides, I know of several examples where IE supports the W3C "standard" and Mozilla still doesn't.
am a critical thinker, a freedom and privacy loving American, a voter, and a citizen. You are a marketing recipient, a consumer, and a revenue source.
Wrong. I'm just not a paranoid nutjob. Nobody's out to get me. I'm not important. I'm assuming that you think that you're so important, that everybody wants to know everything they can about you. That's unbelievably self-centered. And if somebody REALLY wants to know what MP3's I listen to, and what web sites I go to, so be it. I choose my fights. I have entirely too much going on to dick around with silly little shit like that. Marketing on the Net is such a minor thing, it's not worth my time. But hey, whatever floats your boat. Now, you should probably get back to the X-Files, in case you miss some evil, overarching scheme that the both government and "Big Business" are trying to use against you, Mr. back_pages. *yawn*
IE renders everything, but it's "stupid"? I'd call Mozilla "stupid" for being so damn strict. The only fans you're gonna win with only rendering pages *exactly* correctly are uber-geeks and W3C fanatics. All that does is piss off the vast majority of their potential user base: end users and site developers.
As both a user and a developer my thinking is "I don't give two shits about why it doesn't work, but it doesn't work. I'll use IE. IE works."
You are clearly not an AOL user. Most users, especially AOL users know absolutely nothing about security and don't care (and quite frankly... I agree with them). Third party add-ons are an easy one shot deal. And, AOL's versino of Netscape/Mozilla will not include the popup killer. So, the only obvious difference to the average AOL user will be that a good number of pages "don't work" because of DHTML and CSS standards.
Rights and privacy? Jesus. We're talking about the web here. Get a grip. If you're so paranoid about some web site knowing that the last web site you visited was http://angylesbiantransgendermidgets.com, then stick with Mozilla, by all means. You are in the minority, which has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on AOL (since that IS the topic of this thread).
...but including Mozilla in 8 isn't gonna help. They don't have the power any more to make a major switch like this. IF they actually do include Mozilla in their latest version, it's gonna leave a lot of new users scratching their heads as to why half of AOL (ie: the web) doesn't work. They definately need to delay trying to introduce Mozilla until they're more stable, financially. Rocky times are generally not a good time to be experimenting with new things.
I'm working on making my website (see below) friendly for the sight-disabled. Any suggestions? I'm a bit stumped.
Well, the cost of a Ferrari is worth many of months of my salary. I guess I'm justified in stealing one from my local dealer, huh?
India is willing to make such a strong statement regarding Freedom,
The only statement India makes with this move is how poor their country really is, and that at least one group has decided to officially stop pirating MS software.