The grammar in this article is atrocious. I wonder if he's reposessed all of the Herald-Leader's commas and parentheses.
Re:What goes around comes around, I guess...
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People are submitting what they saw on "The Screensavers" last nite?
Actually, it was posted to Memepool on
Tuesday morning. Given the fact that the guy that runs Memepool went to CMU with at least one Google employee that I know of, it's no surprise that Memepool got the early scoop. I tend to see a lot of stories on Slashdot that were posted to Memepool days prior. It's no big deal, sharing the knowledge is what it's all about.
This is cool - almost as cool as FTP search engines.
FTP searching has been around for ages. It used to be called
archie. It's namesake counerparts were veronica for global Gopher searching, and jughead,
for local Gopher indexing.
Great, just what I need: people being able to come over to my house and see that my refrigerator
contains nothing but three bottles of Dr. Pepper and four gallons of homemade chili.
From what I saw, it looked like most, if not all, of Andover went offline for a day, not just Slashdot. Any traffic I tried to send to any of Andover's network seemed to crap out in Exodus's territory.
Here's a link for the SuperCPU the article mentions. For the hyperlink-wary, you can find it at http://www.cmdweb.de/scpu.htm. It plugs into your C64 or C128 and boosts it from 1MHz to a whopping 20 MHz, and lets your Commodore support up to 16MB of RAM.
This is the worst thing they could do, because it completely removes any sort of leverage the ccTLDs could have over ICANN. There's no rational reason for it.
Removes leverage? Maybe you missed several statements in the article that mention the fact that the ccTLD organizations provide one-third of the funding for ICANN?
The FBI agent has the data copied to his hard drive. Now, he can't view it legally, but he still wants to know what it contains. What does "viewing" constitute?
The easiest approach might be grepping the data for interesting bits. But in this case he actually views parts of the data, so I guess that's out.
The agent never actually sees the contents of the file, but he can poke it with a stick to determine if what he's looking for is in there, kinda like the old Black-Box games. I wonder if something like this would considered a legal mehod for determining if a file contained justifiably suspect data.
Meanwhile, Napster is being sued yet again. That's gratitude for you.
Gratitude has nothing to do with it. The company that is now suing Napster is
MediaBay, a company that sells downloadable audio clips of old-time radio shows like Fibber McGee & Molly and Abbott and Costello, as well as audio books. They have nothing to do with the RIAA and don't care whether ot not Napster may have helped to boost CD sales.
Right from the door, it started acting like a copy of Eliza with a bunch of custom keyword triggers. (For example, I asked it "Who killed the Kennedys?" and it responded with "I think the lone gunman acted alone.") But most of the responses it gave were very Eliza-like.
Then I accused it of being an Eliza with custom triggers, and it took offense to that. Then it denied it. Then it proceeded to respond in Eliza-speak when I asked it to stop speaking in Eliza-speak. Then it started to both admit to and deny its Eliza-nature in the same responses. The conversation went rapidly downhill from there.
Sorry, but if I want a bogus AI to play with, I'll take a bunch of CMU grad students and their zephyr-backended web Forum over a Flash frontend to a souped-up Eliza any day.
This story reminds me of
this article on Segfault,
entitled Steve Jobs Now Officially "On Crack". Now, while I love the results of Steve's NeXT venture, I haven't been able to take the man seriously for over half a decade.
As opposed to those non-graphic images - they're fine.
Hey, back in the day, ACSII pr0n was all we had... Kick yer VT420 into 48-row,
132-column mode and squint at it from across the room to see monochrome green booty!
Now we even have a game show where contestants vote each other off! Isn't that what Survivor is????
The TV Networks refer to Survivor and Boot Camp as "Reality Shows" or somesuch (even though MTV's The Real World fits that name better.) By "game show",
I was referring to The Weakest Link. It's
a quiz show where the contestants vote each other out of the game. Same concept as Survivor, but you don't have to eat rats and it's over in 30 minutes, rather than a dozen episodes.
Cheers, WKRP in Cinnci, Barney Miller and most of the Treks were horrible until they had time to cook (stew? fester?) for a bit.
Yes, but those all aired back before the prevalence of cable television. Now the Networks have to compete with 500 other channels, rather than just each other. If something is getting low ratings, they pull it and replace it with a rip-off of another network's most popular shows.
Did we really need Survivor/Survivor II/Temptation Island/Boot Camp/etc? Now we even have a
game show where contestants vote each other off!
End result: a never-ending parade of lowest-common-denominator crap.
I find it rather amusing that the first thing I read while using my newly-installed copy of
Stefan Waldherr's modified
JunkBuster
was the slate.msn.com story about ad-based revenue
for web content. It works beautifully and replaces ad images with a 1x1 pixel image, rather than the typical 'broken image' icon. Boy, there sure is a lot of blank space in this Slate page...
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This may get modded down as offtopic or a troll, but I love the new Opera so much that it's worth it to get the word out.
The new
Opera for Linux rocks my socks. 5.0b8 is out, and it's
a heck of a lot more stable than Mozilla ever was for me.
Mozilla 0.8 was still too buggy, bloated and slow for my
poor little Pentium 233 to handle. Opera is quick, looks pretty, renders pages better and faster than Netscape or Mozilla, and it's still free. Yes, you have
to pay ~$40 to get rid of the banner ad in the button bar, but since I don't use the buttons, I just move that whole toolbar to the bottom of the pane.
I also like the selective restrictions you can place on things like Java popups, and the fact that you can specify sites from which to allow/deny cookies.
Hell, it even saves your state on the rare occasions when it crashes, and when you restart it, it will ask you if you want to open it with the same pages you were viewing when it tanked. Now if they'd only release a Solaris port so that I could use it at work. Either that, or opensource it so someone else (maybe me) can port it.
Would you happen to have any additional information on the Twin Peaks prop art?
Is this exhibit (or the artist group)
documented anywhere online?
Several Google searches have turned up
nothing, and the MOCA-LA website is so
Flash-laden that it's unusable.
I'd like to see browser tech that helps out, as well. I like a page with some pretty pictures (such as Slashdot's title, and the topic pics). Since I visit SlashDot everyday, I wish my browser would hold onto the images, so I wouldn't have to download them again, while flushing the ads that I download one times and look at zero times.
Browsers already retain images (and text) so that
frequently-viewed pages load faster. Netscape calls it the cache, and I think IE uses a
directory called Temporary Internet Files or something. If you're re-downloading graphics
from Slashdot every time you view the site, you might want to check your browser setting to see if you need to extend the expire timeout on your cache.
As for banner ads, most sites actually just reference the banner ad images via URL, as the
ad images themselves are stored on the advertising
company's own webservers, like ads.doubleclick.net for Doubleclick-based ads. Thus, banner ads do not usually contribute to the bandwidth utilization of the site that displays them.
Granted,/. houses it banner ads on images.slashdot.org, but the above article is in reference to smaller sites.
Simple. You give him the voice of Gilbert Gottfried. Microsoft actually has 2 Flash movies
on the OfficeClippy.com website, featuring Clippy with the World's
most annoying voice ever. Who the Hell thought this was a good idea?
It's not going to suceed until it's built into all the browsers, 'cuz writing code for non-existent interpretars is a waste of money..
Likewise, the browser companys aren't going to build in support for an un-used language, because it's a waste of money....
That's why there's a plugin version of the interpreter.
You've missed my point. I don't want a GUI-based installer. I have yet to have someone give me one good reason why I should use a GUI
to install an OS. Some of those Solaris installs I referred to in the original post were done as recently as a few months ago.
However, I?m sitting here writing, not on my Linux box, but on my Windows 98-running laptop in Microsoft Word 2000.
No shit. That's whay all your single-quotes got
turned into question marks. Stop exporting Word docs to HTML. Although, I guess if she hadn't mentioned this, we all would have
guessed from the ?s that she was using Word anyways, and her not mentioning it would have taken yet another chunk out of her credibility.
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Here's a Babelfish translation of the interview. Not the best in readability, but you can get the general idea.
The grammar in this article is atrocious. I wonder if he's reposessed all of the Herald-Leader's commas and parentheses.
Fabled Digital Convergence? Nah, they bit the big one over a week ago.
Great, just what I need: people being able to come over to my house and see that my refrigerator contains nothing but three bottles of Dr. Pepper and four gallons of homemade chili.
From what I saw, it looked like most, if not all, of Andover went offline for a day, not just Slashdot. Any traffic I tried to send to any of Andover's network seemed to crap out in Exodus's territory.
Here's a link for the SuperCPU the article mentions. For the hyperlink-wary, you can find it at http://www.cmdweb.de/scpu.htm. It plugs into your C64 or C128 and boosts it from 1MHz to a whopping 20 MHz, and lets your Commodore support up to 16MB of RAM.
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The agent never actually sees the contents of the file, but he can poke it with a stick to determine if what he's looking for is in there, kinda like the old Black-Box games. I wonder if something like this would considered a legal mehod for determining if a file contained justifiably suspect data.
Right from the door, it started acting like a copy of Eliza with a bunch of custom keyword triggers. (For example, I asked it "Who killed the Kennedys?" and it responded with "I think the lone gunman acted alone.") But most of the responses it gave were very Eliza-like.
Then I accused it of being an Eliza with custom triggers, and it took offense to that. Then it denied it. Then it proceeded to respond in Eliza-speak when I asked it to stop speaking in Eliza-speak. Then it started to both admit to and deny its Eliza-nature in the same responses. The conversation went rapidly downhill from there.
Sorry, but if I want a bogus AI to play with, I'll take a bunch of CMU grad students and their zephyr-backended web Forum over a Flash frontend to a souped-up Eliza any day.
This story reminds me of this article on Segfault, entitled Steve Jobs Now Officially "On Crack". Now, while I love the results of Steve's NeXT venture, I haven't been able to take the man seriously for over half a decade.
The TV Networks refer to Survivor and Boot Camp as "Reality Shows" or somesuch (even though MTV's The Real World fits that name better.) By "game show", I was referring to The Weakest Link. It's a quiz show where the contestants vote each other out of the game. Same concept as Survivor, but you don't have to eat rats and it's over in 30 minutes, rather than a dozen episodes.
Yes, but those all aired back before the prevalence of cable television. Now the Networks have to compete with 500 other channels, rather than just each other. If something is getting low ratings, they pull it and replace it with a rip-off of another network's most popular shows. Did we really need Survivor/Survivor II/Temptation Island/Boot Camp/etc? Now we even have a game show where contestants vote each other off!
End result: a never-ending parade of lowest-common-denominator crap.
I find it rather amusing that the first thing I read while using my newly-installed copy of Stefan Waldherr's modified JunkBuster was the slate.msn.com story about ad-based revenue for web content. It works beautifully and replaces ad images with a 1x1 pixel image, rather than the typical 'broken image' icon. Boy, there sure is a lot of blank space in this Slate page...
This may get modded down as offtopic or a troll, but I love the new Opera so much that it's worth it to get the word out.
The new Opera for Linux rocks my socks. 5.0b8 is out, and it's a heck of a lot more stable than Mozilla ever was for me. Mozilla 0.8 was still too buggy, bloated and slow for my poor little Pentium 233 to handle. Opera is quick, looks pretty, renders pages better and faster than Netscape or Mozilla, and it's still free. Yes, you have to pay ~$40 to get rid of the banner ad in the button bar, but since I don't use the buttons, I just move that whole toolbar to the bottom of the pane.
I also like the selective restrictions you can place on things like Java popups, and the fact that you can specify sites from which to allow/deny cookies. Hell, it even saves your state on the rare occasions when it crashes, and when you restart it, it will ask you if you want to open it with the same pages you were viewing when it tanked. Now if they'd only release a Solaris port so that I could use it at work. Either that, or opensource it so someone else (maybe me) can port it.
Would you happen to have any additional information on the Twin Peaks prop art? Is this exhibit (or the artist group) documented anywhere online? Several Google searches have turned up nothing, and the MOCA-LA website is so Flash-laden that it's unusable.
As for banner ads, most sites actually just reference the banner ad images via URL, as the ad images themselves are stored on the advertising company's own webservers, like ads.doubleclick.net for Doubleclick-based ads. Thus, banner ads do not usually contribute to the bandwidth utilization of the site that displays them. Granted,
Simple. You give him the voice of Gilbert Gottfried. Microsoft actually has 2 Flash movies on the OfficeClippy.com website, featuring Clippy with the World's most annoying voice ever. Who the Hell thought this was a good idea?
You've missed my point. I don't want a GUI-based installer. I have yet to have someone give me one good reason why I should use a GUI to install an OS. Some of those Solaris installs I referred to in the original post were done as recently as a few months ago.