If you could somehow integrate a favorable remark regarding either Amiga, Firefox or Debian in this or any story, you'll have moderators doing your odd jobs.
Add all three and you'll be on top of 10 Hot Comments with a bullet!
Sega is shrinking, Nintendo are making decisions like a bunch of idiots and hemorraging money like crazy, Atari are ancient history... grim days for old skool console gamers like myself.
I mean, what a corporate robot doubleplusgood duckspeaker! I recall reading an interview in I believe it was PC World or some other lame pc mag, and I was fascinated by her unnatural and highly euphemistic responses.
Learning to speak like that must be like learning a new language.
I'd rather read a news story like this one than read about children murdered or some 18 wheel transport truck that jack-knifed on highway 401. The reason news like this propagates so quickly is because it's light fare.
Who wants to be depressed when they get home from work? I want to be uplifted (or at least mildly amused).
Though still in beta, Microsoft AntiSpyware does an amazing job at detecting spyware by finding twice as many infected files as Ad-Aware and nearly three times as SpyBot.
Yeah, but AntiSpyware doesn't work on 98/se, Ad-Aware and SpyBot do. I and a whole lotta other people are going to hold off buying XP as long as we can.
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I don't check Slashdot stories every minute. I have no idea what they're talking about. I don't even know what Slashdot is... yeah, that's the ticket. I don't even own a computer. The internet... what's that? Yeah, that's the ticket!
Don't underestimate what cheap bastards like me can accomplish. $30K will cover the retainer fee, quietly assure the lawyer they will get paid at least in the immediate future, and pay for alot of paper pushing and correspondence. I can't imagine there's going to be any real "action" regarding this case for awhile. Much posturing and not much else right now.
Aerobiz was the best. I remember playing that game with my buddies long into the night. The thing was it was hard to beat someone who had their headquarters in New York, LA, Tokyo or London. I always picked an underdog like Mexico City or Vancouver:)
Thanks for reminding me of that awesome game!
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A few years back, Chicago-based conceptual artist Eduardo Kac spliced the green fluorescent protein from the jellyfish into the genes of a rabbit, creating Alba the bright-green glowing transgenic bunny. He was also working with Mexican hairless dogs for a glow unobscured by fur. And I read in a recent ish of Wired scientists are "modifying" misquitoes to actually prevent malaria when they bite, rather than transmit it.
...of when the first cd burners with buffer underrun-proof technology came out, a sales rep made the outrageous claim you could theoretically burn a cd and play Quake 3 simultaneously. This is another overly optimistic theoretical claim that is best ignored until proven.
I think you're the one out of touch with demographics. Population aging is a world-wide phenomena now, and more and more old people are learning and using computers.
Firefox has been the darling of internet news media lately, not just on the internet but on television and print too, and all for free. Even grandma - who with her one good eye uses the internet for her genealogy - knows Firefox by now.
I have a daughter in high school and have percieved the following:
Music and it's cultural ideologies seem to have great affect on young people. Hiphop is huge nowadays, so you have kids in slanted baseball caps and drooping pants holding on to theit crotches as they walk from class to class. You also have metal heads with their own cliques, death rockers and freaks who listen to Marilyn Manson, and punks/skinheads wearing Exploited t-shirts and the list goes on. Music has a huge effect.
Counter-culture. Kids nowadays hate advertising. Marketers have a helluvatime trying to get their attention (and will often use music to appeal to their target market). I'd imagine high school students would find the whole psychology behind marketing and advertising fascinating. I wish there was a course like that when I was in high school!
This reminds me of this clever essay someone wrote, where he determines through demographics and statistical calculus why he will never have a girlfriend.
There's a great article at Arstechnica entitled Malware: what it is and how to prevent it. Good read, if not a little on the basic side. However, it did suggest a great anti-spyware app called SpywareBlaster which is seems effective at preventing spyware in the first place..
That, couple with the Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy, and I've had no problems whatsoever.
P.S. And it helps if you don't visit porn sites and download wares too;^)
It looks funky and futuristic, but I can't imagine it being comfortable, and for $35,000? At that cost for a temporary structure, it's certainly not affordable for the homeless, and the ultra-rich go camping in better.
Still - with all that being said - I respect the ingenuity and environmental thoughfulness of the structure.
"We consider our artists to be creative people and our engineers to be skilled professionals who relish flexibility but others use the outdated wage and hour laws to argue in favor of a workforce that is paid hourly like more traditional industries and conforming to set schedules"
Wow, talk about petty and cheap. Flexibility is one thing, but expecting employees to live for their work with no adaquate compensation is what's far outdated.
I thought I read in Wired some time ago that EA is now a bigger financial entity than Disney. If that's so, now I know how they did it: Cheap labour.
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If you could somehow integrate a favorable remark regarding either Amiga, Firefox or Debian in this or any story, you'll have moderators doing your odd jobs.
Add all three and you'll be on top of 10 Hot Comments with a bullet!
Sega is shrinking, Nintendo are making decisions like a bunch of idiots and hemorraging money like crazy, Atari are ancient history... grim days for old skool console gamers like myself.
I mean, what a corporate robot doubleplusgood duckspeaker! I recall reading an interview in I believe it was PC World or some other lame pc mag, and I was fascinated by her unnatural and highly euphemistic responses.
Learning to speak like that must be like learning a new language.
I for one welcome our Slashdot-editor mocking overlords!
It falls off the tongue a little better, doesn't it?
welcome our bizarre deep sea fish overlords!
I'd rather read a news story like this one than read about children murdered or some 18 wheel transport truck that jack-knifed on highway 401. The reason news like this propagates so quickly is because it's light fare.
Who wants to be depressed when they get home from work? I want to be uplifted (or at least mildly amused).
Though still in beta, Microsoft AntiSpyware does an amazing job at detecting spyware by finding twice as many infected files as Ad-Aware and nearly three times as SpyBot.
Yeah, but AntiSpyware doesn't work on 98/se, Ad-Aware and SpyBot do. I and a whole lotta other people are going to hold off buying XP as long as we can.
I don't check Slashdot stories every minute. I have no idea what they're talking about. I don't even know what Slashdot is... yeah, that's the ticket. I don't even own a computer. The internet... what's that? Yeah, that's the ticket!
Don't underestimate what cheap bastards like me can accomplish. $30K will cover the retainer fee, quietly assure the lawyer they will get paid at least in the immediate future, and pay for alot of paper pushing and correspondence. I can't imagine there's going to be any real "action" regarding this case for awhile. Much posturing and not much else right now.
Aerobiz was the best. I remember playing that game with my buddies long into the night. The thing was it was hard to beat someone who had their headquarters in New York, LA, Tokyo or London. I always picked an underdog like Mexico City or Vancouver :)
Thanks for reminding me of that awesome game!
A few years back, Chicago-based conceptual artist Eduardo Kac spliced the green fluorescent protein from the jellyfish into the genes of a rabbit, creating Alba the bright-green glowing transgenic bunny. He was also working with Mexican hairless dogs for a glow unobscured by fur. And I read in a recent ish of Wired scientists are "modifying" misquitoes to actually prevent malaria when they bite, rather than transmit it.
...of when the first cd burners with buffer underrun-proof technology came out, a sales rep made the outrageous claim you could theoretically burn a cd and play Quake 3 simultaneously. This is another overly optimistic theoretical claim that is best ignored until proven.
What's even better is when they type in www.cnn.com into the search field! You see it more often than you might think.
Try starmud.com 4000. Have fun.
To paraphrase the Simpsons:
Best. Sig. Ever.
Funny stuff dude!
horror story... agonizing process of installing DRM-enabled applications... mercy of the producer...
If I dare read this article, I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight. Sounds like chilling stuff!
I think you're the one out of touch with demographics. Population aging is a world-wide phenomena now, and more and more old people are learning and using computers.
So yes, gradma is a part of a huge social trend.
Firefox has been the darling of internet news media lately, not just on the internet but on television and print too, and all for free. Even grandma - who with her one good eye uses the internet for her genealogy - knows Firefox by now.
Moderators, please stop moderating when you're stoned! You obviously didn't catch the sarcasm in the parent post. + Funny
I have a daughter in high school and have percieved the following:
Music and it's cultural ideologies seem to have great affect on young people. Hiphop is huge nowadays, so you have kids in slanted baseball caps and drooping pants holding on to theit crotches as they walk from class to class. You also have metal heads with their own cliques, death rockers and freaks who listen to Marilyn Manson, and punks/skinheads wearing Exploited t-shirts and the list goes on. Music has a huge effect.
Counter-culture. Kids nowadays hate advertising. Marketers have a helluvatime trying to get their attention (and will often use music to appeal to their target market). I'd imagine high school students would find the whole psychology behind marketing and advertising fascinating. I wish there was a course like that when I was in high school!
This reminds me of this clever essay someone wrote, where he determines through demographics and statistical calculus why he will never have a girlfriend.
Hilariously geeky stuff.
There's a great article at Arstechnica entitled Malware: what it is and how to prevent it . Good read, if not a little on the basic side. However, it did suggest a great anti-spyware app called SpywareBlaster which is seems effective at preventing spyware in the first place..
;^)
That, couple with the Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy, and I've had no problems whatsoever.
P.S. And it helps if you don't visit porn sites and download wares too
It looks funky and futuristic, but I can't imagine it being comfortable, and for $35,000? At that cost for a temporary structure, it's certainly not affordable for the homeless, and the ultra-rich go camping in better.
Still - with all that being said - I respect the ingenuity and environmental thoughfulness of the structure.
"We consider our artists to be creative people and our engineers to be skilled professionals who relish flexibility but others use the outdated wage and hour laws to argue in favor of a workforce that is paid hourly like more traditional industries and conforming to set schedules"
Wow, talk about petty and cheap. Flexibility is one thing, but expecting employees to live for their work with no adaquate compensation is what's far outdated.
I thought I read in Wired some time ago that EA is now a bigger financial entity than Disney. If that's so, now I know how they did it: Cheap labour.
I should say Darl's actions are scumbagish - I don't personally know Darl McBride and I'm not justifies in getting personal by name calling.
It was an off-the-cuff remark that I maybe should've kept to myself. I apologise.