personally i think people that wear headphones are inconsiderate to their fellow humans. back in high school there were kids that would wear headphones when talking to the teacher in class, which is the ultimate f-u statement if there ever was one. by wearing headphones you are telling me that you don't care to interact with me, and that's fine by me. but if you try to initiate a conversation with me i am just not going to talk to you. you are also tuning out the reality around you and indirectly making a statement that it is of lesser importantance. if you value your inner space so much perhaps you should consider moving to a sub-urban setting?
the red vs. blue is reminiscent of the existentialist thought processes. it reminds me of samuel beckett's "waiting for godot" -- really great material, especially if you've ever played halo and contemplated on life
i hate spam and advertisement. even google's seemingly unabtrusive adwords are annoying when i need to do research and need pages to come up fast.
i have found the mozilla firebird adblocking css script to be immensely useful for those who want to try it out, the instructions as well as the script itself is located at http://texturizer.net/firebird/adblock.html
this is by far the greatest adblocker that i have come across, it blocks a vast majority of the ads and works much better than the "block images from this server" feature which was very neat as well.
it seems like every time we discover a new quark with properties that do not conform to anything we have seen before we move farther away from the unified theory of everything / the long-lived dream of many an astrophysisist. could it be that there is no unified theory? that the world is infinitely complex / mysterious / that there is no system to the madness?
is this organization in any way affiliated with the free masons? i guess the masons have moved their operations into the subatomic level as they find new ways to manipulate the world
i saw the matrix last night and learned to do this without any technology / gadgets -- hold your right hand in front of you kind of a little sideways and concentrate. wearing a bandana over your eyes helps tremendously -- and then just will the signal to turn green. works every time
i am not so sure this method holds water because isn't the top #1 download where it is because 50 cent is just popular these days? you don't need to look at kazaa statistics to know that. i don't see how this information is useful other than to reaffirm pre-existing knowledge... just my 2 cents (no pun intended)
what attracts people to ebay is great deals. a couple of months ago, i made out with a 21.3" LCD screen paying $500 less than at bestbuy's, a set of bose speakers, saving $200, a roomba vacuum cleaner, saving $100 off sharper image price. i saved about $1000 on all the various purchases i made. my philosophy on ebay is that every time you bid, you are taking a risk. i always ask myself whether that risk exceeds the reward? by looking at the feedback of the seller i can further mitigate that risk. so the question i ask myself is: am i justified in taking a risk of buying from a seller with a 99.7% positive feedback selling a $1500 LCD screen for $1000? the answer was yes, i took the risk, and now i'm reaping the rewards.
i have been with ebay for about 4 years. i have never had a major problem. i buy and sell. i have had problems, don't get me wrong, but was able to resolve each one.
The Eclipse IDE itself is written in SWT which is a JNI interface that hooks up into the host OS's native instructions. I think it's great that the IDE itself is written in Java as opposed to C++ (as was probably the case for VisualAge for Java productline)
I would encourage anyone to check out the SWT examples -- with relative ease you can make your Java code look like Win32 apps or Motif apps--depending on your platform preferences.
ibm knows better than to practice in questionable dealings. the company is very old and has a reputation of integrity, honesty, quality. with that said, it is sad that these articles have such a negative effect on the share price. i happen to own a number of shares and i just hope it's only a matter of time before ibm is cleared up and the price goes back up to where it was because the company is undervalued today as is.
i think the schrodinger's cat experiment is cute. you put a cat into a black-box. you release deadly radio-active elements inside. but, get this, until you actually open the box, the cat is both dead and alive. it is the opening of the box, or making the observation, that collapses the superposition of the cat's state... now if that is not a beautiful experiment, what is?
thanks for the elaborate explanation but i learned all that in college. i was speaking from the user-perspective, where the user turns on the computer, and , already familiar with browsing the web, sees she can browse her local file system in the exact same way as she browses the web. that, is a "good thing" (tm).
and this is exactly what i mean, that microsoft thinks they should be one, and i don't see anything wrong with that concept. it creates the feel that the local files are just URI's, on the sale level with any external URL. though not a fan of microsoft in general, i like this integrated concept of treating local files as web-pages. just an opinion i guess. -m
that may be so on pre-win98 windows but not on post-win98. conversely, i would also imagine that it is easier to remove/disable IE on pre-win98 windows, but i will not volunteer to do it at gunpoint:)
don't mean to be a party popper, but isn't the browser an integral part of the windows os, w/o it you can't even look at your files, etc.? what's wrong with that?
Last month I attendended the Silicon Valley Summit III in Manhattan hosted by Tom Brokaw on MSNBC. Present at the summit was at least one CEO whose company is a member of the RIAA.
The Music Revolution: A story about the ways in which the Internet has irrevocably changed the way many young people listen to music was one of the hot topics discussed, dealing with music piracy. A member of the audience asked the Sony Corporation of America Chairman and CEO Howard Stringer about how Sony was going address the problem of a new album coming out with only a couple of decent cuts while all the rest were fillers. Obviously Howard didn't have an adequate answer. This is what's at the core of this issue I believe. Unless the record companies find a (profitable) way to change with the "Music revolution" and allow people to pay on a per-song-basis, the industry is pretty much screwed.
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personally i think people that wear headphones are inconsiderate to their fellow humans. back in high school there were kids that would wear headphones when talking to the teacher in class, which is the ultimate f-u statement if there ever was one. by wearing headphones you are telling me that you don't care to interact with me, and that's fine by me. but if you try to initiate a conversation with me i am just not going to talk to you. you are also tuning out the reality around you and indirectly making a statement that it is of lesser importantance. if you value your inner space so much perhaps you should consider moving to a sub-urban setting?
as the other poster amply put it, thanks for a great cut/paste job.
the red vs. blue is reminiscent of the existentialist thought processes. it reminds me of samuel beckett's "waiting for godot" -- really great material, especially if you've ever played halo and contemplated on life
i hate spam and advertisement. even google's seemingly unabtrusive adwords are annoying when i need to do research and need pages to come up fast.
i have found the mozilla firebird adblocking css script to be immensely useful for those who want to try it out, the instructions as well as the script itself is located at http://texturizer.net/firebird/adblock.html
this is by far the greatest adblocker that i have come across, it blocks a vast majority of the ads and works much better than the "block images from this server" feature which was very neat as well.
-m
it seems like every time we discover a new quark with properties that do not conform to anything we have seen before we move farther away from the unified theory of everything / the long-lived dream of many an astrophysisist. could it be that there is no unified theory? that the world is infinitely complex / mysterious / that there is no system to the madness?
is this organization in any way affiliated with the free masons? i guess the masons have moved their operations into the subatomic level as they find new ways to manipulate the world
who said we ever went to the moon? it was all set up in nevada by hollywood.
i saw the matrix last night and learned to do this without any technology / gadgets -- hold your right hand in front of you kind of a little sideways and concentrate. wearing a bandana over your eyes helps tremendously -- and then just will the signal to turn green. works every time
first post and they are slashdotted already!
i am not so sure this method holds water because isn't the top #1 download where it is because 50 cent is just popular these days? you don't need to look at kazaa statistics to know that. i don't see how this information is useful other than to reaffirm pre-existing knowledge... just my 2 cents (no pun intended)
what attracts people to ebay is great deals. a couple of months ago, i made out with a 21.3" LCD screen paying $500 less than at bestbuy's, a set of bose speakers, saving $200, a roomba vacuum cleaner, saving $100 off sharper image price. i saved about $1000 on all the various purchases i made. my philosophy on ebay is that every time you bid, you are taking a risk. i always ask myself whether that risk exceeds the reward? by looking at the feedback of the seller i can further mitigate that risk. so the question i ask myself is: am i justified in taking a risk of buying from a seller with a 99.7% positive feedback selling a $1500 LCD screen for $1000? the answer was yes, i took the risk, and now i'm reaping the rewards.
i have been with ebay for about 4 years. i have never had a major problem. i buy and sell. i have had problems, don't get me wrong, but was able to resolve each one.
yeah, i did. it's pretty cool. check out my review here. if that link doesn't work click go to this url: http://www.epinions.com/content_108070014596
i think you are reading into it too much. it's just a virus. a rose is a rose is a rose... -gertrude stein, 1913
The Eclipse IDE itself is written in SWT which is a JNI interface that hooks up into the host OS's native instructions. I think it's great that the IDE itself is written in Java as opposed to C++ (as was probably the case for VisualAge for Java productline)
I would encourage anyone to check out the SWT examples -- with relative ease you can make your Java code look like Win32 apps or Motif apps--depending on your platform preferences.
ibm knows better than to practice in questionable dealings. the company is very old and has a reputation of integrity, honesty, quality. with that said, it is sad that these articles have such a negative effect on the share price. i happen to own a number of shares and i just hope it's only a matter of time before ibm is cleared up and the price goes back up to where it was because the company is undervalued today as is.
just my 2 cents.
my favorite method is the BOSS key
-m
RIAA will never win. they don't stand a chance. move with times. that's all i can say
there is a already a tron game made for linux called glTron made by andreas umbach. you can access it here
i think the schrodinger's cat experiment is cute. you put a cat into a black-box. you release deadly radio-active elements inside. but, get this, until you actually open the box, the cat is both dead and alive. it is the opening of the box, or making the observation, that collapses the superposition of the cat's state... now if that is not a beautiful experiment, what is?
thanks fiorina. now that you've screwed up lucent, let's screw hp. my poor friend may be out of a job as a result of this merger?
thanks for the elaborate explanation but i learned all that in college. i was speaking from the user-perspective, where the user turns on the computer, and , already familiar with browsing the web, sees she can browse her local file system in the exact same way as she browses the web. that, is a "good thing" (tm).
and this is exactly what i mean, that microsoft thinks they should be one, and i don't see anything wrong with that concept. it creates the feel that the local files are just URI's, on the sale level with any external URL. though not a fan of microsoft in general, i like this integrated concept of treating local files as web-pages. just an opinion i guess.
-m
that may be so on pre-win98 windows but not on post-win98. conversely, i would also imagine that it is easier to remove/disable IE on pre-win98 windows, but i will not volunteer to do it at gunpoint :)
-m
don't mean to be a party popper, but isn't the browser an integral part of the windows os, w/o it you can't even look at your files, etc.? what's wrong with that?
Last month I attendended the Silicon Valley Summit III in Manhattan hosted by Tom Brokaw on MSNBC. Present at the summit was at least one CEO whose company is a member of the RIAA.
The Music Revolution: A story about the ways in which the Internet has irrevocably changed the way many young people listen to music was one of the hot topics discussed, dealing with music piracy. A member of the audience asked the Sony Corporation of America Chairman and CEO Howard Stringer about how Sony was going address the problem of a new album coming out with only a couple of decent cuts while all the rest were fillers. Obviously Howard didn't have an adequate answer. This is what's at the core of this issue I believe. Unless the record companies find a (profitable) way to change with the "Music revolution" and allow people to pay on a per-song-basis, the industry is pretty much screwed.