There are html, css, and 508 validators. There should be a slashdot validator for pages: The likelihood that if slashdotted, your pages will take your server down for the count.
When I read "Unplugging Email To Combat Spam", I immediately thought of just forgetting about email altogether and closing all my accounts... This would effectively put an end to all spam as far as I am concerned.
Which I may still do.
Except of course that I want to try gmail first. hehe.
Except that the article also mentioned that all of the other shells had a hole drilled in them (forgot why) and the assumption is that they didn't drill into this one because they knew what was in it.
Except of course for the artillery shells containing Sarin (which happens to be a WMD), one of which was almost used as a roadside bomb in Iraq (was found and defused by US personnel).
See article in Time Magazine.
Of course, calling people idiots and morons is not a good sign.
>Trying to simply "hire more women" won't work if, for instance, they're coders or subordinate to a male lead.
great point.
You are a game executive?
You want to develop more games for women by women?
Follow these two pieces of advice:
-- Hire a female HR director who will review your company practices and make them gender-neutral so that future female employees are not put off by the working conditions. (fire any guy mo makes a sly remark, he 's an enormous liability).
-- Offer a very competitive package. I guarantee that if you offer $120,000 + benefits, full dental vision and medical HMO+PPO, 401K and on-site gym with female-only workout room, you will get them.
Of course, if you don't want them bad enough, you won't get them,and your company will lose out on the sales.
Remember: women control 80%+ of discretionary spending out there. You've got to spend money to make money.
It involves real life clothing, jewelery, shoes, accessories, makeup, perfume, and getting guys to pay for it all and then some.
They see the visa/mastercard flash, quickly sign the slip with practiced abandon, and off they go to the next shop.
Instead of wasting all their gp on some armor that's sure to rust and a dagger of poison resistance, they get the +4 white skirt of fatal attraction with the greaves of smooth-skin, which does massive area damage and renders all mages speechless.
Of course, they have an arsenal of spells, from the "Let's Be Friends" of Doom to the "I like your friend too" of monster confusion.
Surprisingly, their bag of holding actually is able to contain all magic artifacts, and is fully skinnable with the latest Gucci or Louis Vuitton wallpapers.
It should also be noted that while most of them adopt a winner takes all style of play, they will cooperate as a team when faced with a room-full of drunk monsters. They will use the "Wall of Silence" for defense and stick together like a cluster of giant spiders to fend off the most gallant palladin or the most gruff dark elf.
Oh, the payoff for paying the game well is not some cheesy animation with glowing credits scrolling up, but rather the latest Benz in the driveway of a million-dollar house with "Bob the level 60 Lawyer of Litigation" sufficiently charmed to fight all her battles, and an unlimited supply of lowfat Dannon yoghurts, to be enjoyed at all times of the day while deciding which restaurant to make a reservation at for the evening.
No wonder they don't like our stinking video games.
The price of nookie goes up indefinely, and exponentially, until it's just more cost-effective to let her stay in the cave and eat whatever she wants for no nookie.
Man 1: You see these little squarish symbols on the map there?
Man 2: yes
Man 1: They represent units. There are the infantry regiments and battalions, the field artillery here , the armored units over here, the mech inf behind.
Man 2: I see.
Man 1: We move them around, and gain terrain by pushing the enemy back.
Man 2: Brilliant! Let's do it.
Now, that's abstracting the flesh and blood nature of the soldiers on the ground doing the moving around and the civilians getting caught in the middle.
When true-to-life realistic games come across, and you see the bodyparts flying around, it's a lot harder for joe public to say it's okay to lose a regiment on a "bad day".
So while psychologically it's harder to "see the white of their eyes", I think ultimatly it serves the soldiers all around the world that the public realize they are not just game pieces to be moved around.
I think also that it is better if 500,000 19 year olds get the "kill them" out of their systems by shooting virtual soldiers that respawn in 10 seconds than enlisting to go "kick some ass" overseas.
(to the great chagrin of recruiters everywhere)
Perhaps it would be good to set up netcafes in "hotspots" with free fps gaming like counterstrike, so that the locals can get their kicks instead of making roadside bombs.
I also noticed an interesting side effect. Any ill-conceived notion of invulnerability is shattered by playing those games, because you will be killed in the games, no matter how good you are. Everybody that plays those games know that the ones who rush the tunnels die first. And the lone sniper whose team has been wiped out can last a bit longer, but he gets killed too. Maybe not this round, but next.
The realism makes people realize that being gung-ho about fighting with guns makes you dead.
In the forest (in the fucking middle of the forest, leading from nowhere to nowhere) was a Roman road: 10 feet wide, stones the size of suitcases. It went on for a quarter mile.
I used to go stroll there with my mom and sister and imagine the workers who built this thing I was sitting on, 1900 +-200 years later.
Now, I live in soCal. I am on the fourth floor. About fifty feet below me is bedrock that's been there 30 million years. (before that it was at the bottom of the continental shelf).
You are a business owner => You worry about pagerank. I am a business owner => I don't.
Now, for the long answer:
Pagerank is a technology over which you have no control. It is in the hnads of google and wheneveer they feel like, they can change the algorithm. They have done so in the past, to the great ire of all the Me! Me! Me! crowd. I am nearly certain that they will do so in the future again. I am fairly sure that improvements to the pagerank algorithm are happening more subtly on a monthly basis.
This means you the business owner have absolutely no say on how the PageRank game is played. You just find out the rules of the month, and play the game. Like in Vegas. And the House always wins.
Google is hooking millions of people on their PageRank game. People go around and ask: You have a website? What's your pagerank?" Not: What is your site about...
I had a guy once tell me my personal site gets a five, and he asked me how I did it. I said: I guess because I use valid XHTML and CSS. He looked at me and asked: "That's it?"
I replied that I didn't even know I had a five.
Now, my site is a vanity site essentially, with stuff for me and my wife and my friends.
Now, I do run a business: consulting. I build web sites and other sundry magical things like that. My customers all go nuts with Google Ranking. I tell them that the best form of advertising is word of mouth. Always has been, always will be. Spend your time working on that, making sure your customers are ecstatic with your services, and you won't be firing up the old Win98 to see your page rank because you won't care: You'll be too busy taking care of your exsting customers.
from what I understand having looked at the various project (CODE looks interesting) my impression is that they need help, because the projects are very complex and they probably can't dedicate the manpower needed to see them through.
On the other hand, it would be rad for street cred if _your_ code was used in a spacecraft.
No need for a movie or dinner. She'll just screw you for money. Actually, she'll let you screw her for nothing, in the hope that you will pay in the future once you get "comfortable" with her, hummm, services.
I can imagine in 20 years seeing lawsuits upon lawsuits of people claiming that this or that was GPL'd back in the good old days (that would be now?) and that all derivative works, no matter how far removed or remote, are now and forever in the GPL...
A sign of things to come?
Of course, SCO will have ceased to exist a long time before that. Maybe future lawyers will look at SCO's cases and teach harvard courses on what not to do...
Just because something is ancient does not mean is's obsolete. Lisp is ancient... The atomic bomb is ancient... Airplanes are ancient...
I tend to think ancient things have withstood the test of time. We'll see what you look like in 40 years.
Anyway, my point is: just because something is ancient does not mean it's obsolete. Quantum physics were worked out in the 20s and 30s? They're ancient, man!!!
Actually, some companies are already doing that: They have install teams of hardware guys in india set up everything in labs there, then ship all the shit with spares and spares for the spares, and a team of four flies in for the week, slap it together, and a couple keep coming each week for a few months. Then they hire a local guy (indian, same city/university as the others) and he vacuums the dust out of the machines and keeps everything real tidy.
It's cheaper to fly the four Indians in five times a year than keep a team of four good hardware sysadmins (cisco certs) on payroll.
I personally think this is a good thing. The Indians are generally more polite and they have been bitten by the American worship bug, so when you ask them to do something, they usually jump to it.
Actually, I don't think it's a good thing come to think of it.
Slashdot Mirror
There are html, css, and 508 validators.
There should be a slashdot validator for pages: The likelihood that if slashdotted, your pages will take your server down for the count.
When I read "Unplugging Email To Combat Spam", I immediately thought of just forgetting about email altogether and closing all my accounts... This would effectively put an end to all spam as far as I am concerned.
Which I may still do.
Except of course that I want to try gmail first. hehe.
Me me me!!!
chris_mahan@yahoo.com
Except that the article also mentioned that all of the other shells had a hole drilled in them (forgot why) and the assumption is that they didn't drill into this one because they knew what was in it.
Except of course for the artillery shells containing Sarin (which happens to be a WMD), one of which was almost used as a roadside bomb in Iraq (was found and defused by US personnel).
See article in Time Magazine.
Of course, calling people idiots and morons is not a good sign.
>Trying to simply "hire more women" won't work if, for instance, they're coders or subordinate to a male lead.
,and your company will lose out on the sales.
great point.
You are a game executive?
You want to develop more games for women by women?
Follow these two pieces of advice:
-- Hire a female HR director who will review your company practices and make them gender-neutral so that future female employees are not put off by the working conditions. (fire any guy mo makes a sly remark, he 's an enormous liability).
-- Offer a very competitive package. I guarantee that if you offer $120,000 + benefits, full dental vision and medical HMO+PPO, 401K and on-site gym with female-only workout room, you will get them.
Of course, if you don't want them bad enough, you won't get them
Remember: women control 80%+ of discretionary spending out there. You've got to spend money to make money.
Women play a different kind of video game.
It involves real life clothing, jewelery, shoes, accessories, makeup, perfume, and getting guys to pay for it all and then some.
They see the visa/mastercard flash, quickly sign the slip with practiced abandon, and off they go to the next shop.
Instead of wasting all their gp on some armor that's sure to rust and a dagger of poison resistance, they get the +4 white skirt of fatal attraction with the greaves of smooth-skin, which does massive area damage and renders all mages speechless.
Of course, they have an arsenal of spells, from the "Let's Be Friends" of Doom to the "I like your friend too" of monster confusion.
Surprisingly, their bag of holding actually is able to contain all magic artifacts, and is fully skinnable with the latest Gucci or Louis Vuitton wallpapers.
It should also be noted that while most of them adopt a winner takes all style of play, they will cooperate as a team when faced with a room-full of drunk monsters. They will use the "Wall of Silence" for defense and stick together like a cluster of giant spiders to fend off the most gallant palladin or the most gruff dark elf.
Oh, the payoff for paying the game well is not some cheesy animation with glowing credits scrolling up, but rather the latest Benz in the driveway of a million-dollar house with "Bob the level 60 Lawyer of Litigation" sufficiently charmed to fight all her battles, and an unlimited supply of lowfat Dannon yoghurts, to be enjoyed at all times of the day while deciding which restaurant to make a reservation at for the evening.
No wonder they don't like our stinking video games.
perhaps "source libre"
Libre in french (i'm french I know) means free as in speech.
Free as in beer is "gratuit", which is where the english word gratuity comes from. A freebie.
the advantage of "source libre" is that the english speaking world can understand it perfectly well.
And why is it too hard?
Because distributed applications that marshall remote objects are "too hard" to get right.
ologs.
for online logs
Likewise, who the F does google think they are, just because their IPO made them feel all cozy.
I don't give a damn about gmail if I can't sign in. As far as I am concerned, it's vaporware.
I'll tell you something. It's easy to have a great system with 10k users. When they have 85 million users, we'll talk again.
Yahoo has been doing email for what, 6 years now? They're rock solid.
Oh, and Orkut is also vaporware as fa as I am concerned.
Maybe google should pay attention to apple and not release things until they are ready.
I say vote with dollars.
The companies with th ebux make contributions.
The contributions support candidates who win.
I know it's once more removed, but it's constant, and extremely effective.
I am married.
The price of nookie goes up indefinely, and exponentially, until it's just more cost-effective to let her stay in the cave and eat whatever she wants for no nookie.
Completely correct.
However, the notion is like this:
Man 1:
You see these little squarish symbols on the map there?
Man 2:
yes
Man 1:
They represent units. There are the infantry regiments and battalions, the field artillery here , the armored units over here, the mech inf behind.
Man 2:
I see.
Man 1:
We move them around, and gain terrain by pushing the enemy back.
Man 2:
Brilliant! Let's do it.
Now, that's abstracting the flesh and blood nature of the soldiers on the ground doing the moving around and the civilians getting caught in the middle.
When true-to-life realistic games come across, and you see the bodyparts flying around, it's a lot harder for joe public to say it's okay to lose a regiment on a "bad day".
So while psychologically it's harder to "see the white of their eyes", I think ultimatly it serves the soldiers all around the world that the public realize they are not just game pieces to be moved around.
I think also that it is better if 500,000 19 year olds get the "kill them" out of their systems by shooting virtual soldiers that respawn in 10 seconds than enlisting to go "kick some ass" overseas.
(to the great chagrin of recruiters everywhere)
Perhaps it would be good to set up netcafes in "hotspots" with free fps gaming like counterstrike, so that the locals can get their kicks instead of making roadside bombs.
I also noticed an interesting side effect. Any ill-conceived notion of invulnerability is shattered by playing those games, because you will be killed in the games, no matter how good you are. Everybody that plays those games know that the ones who rush the tunnels die first. And the lone sniper whose team has been wiped out can last a bit longer, but he gets killed too. Maybe not this round, but next.
The realism makes people realize that being gung-ho about fighting with guns makes you dead.
I know. I lived in France.
In the forest (in the fucking middle of the forest, leading from nowhere to nowhere) was a Roman road: 10 feet wide, stones the size of suitcases. It went on for a quarter mile.
I used to go stroll there with my mom and sister and imagine the workers who built this thing I was sitting on, 1900 +-200 years later.
Now, I live in soCal. I am on the fourth floor. About fifty feet below me is bedrock that's been there 30 million years. (before that it was at the bottom of the continental shelf).
Exactly.
You are a business owner => You worry about pagerank.
I am a business owner => I don't.
Now, for the long answer:
Pagerank is a technology over which you have no control. It is in the hnads of google and wheneveer they feel like, they can change the algorithm. They have done so in the past, to the great ire of all the Me! Me! Me! crowd. I am nearly certain that they will do so in the future again. I am fairly sure that improvements to the pagerank algorithm are happening more subtly on a monthly basis.
This means you the business owner have absolutely no say on how the PageRank game is played. You just find out the rules of the month, and play the game. Like in Vegas. And the House always wins.
Google is hooking millions of people on their PageRank game. People go around and ask: You have a website? What's your pagerank?" Not: What is your site about...
I had a guy once tell me my personal site gets a five, and he asked me how I did it. I said: I guess because I use valid XHTML and CSS. He looked at me and asked: "That's it?"
I replied that I didn't even know I had a five.
Now, my site is a vanity site essentially, with stuff for me and my wife and my friends.
Now, I do run a business: consulting. I build web sites and other sundry magical things like that. My customers all go nuts with Google Ranking. I tell them that the best form of advertising is word of mouth. Always has been, always will be. Spend your time working on that, making sure your customers are ecstatic with your services, and you won't be firing up the old Win98 to see your page rank because you won't care: You'll be too busy taking care of your exsting customers.
Honestly, pagerank is not high on my priority of things to look at (to put it mildly).
It's a nice gimmick, granted, to look at it, but since I'm not trying to play the google game, I couldn't really care less.
from what I understand having looked at the various project (CODE looks interesting) my impression is that they need help, because the projects are very complex and they probably can't dedicate the manpower needed to see them through.
On the other hand, it would be rad for street cred if _your_ code was used in a spacecraft.
actually, typing speed is not as important as typing accuracy. A stray "*" can really make your day worse.
I say if you can type 30 wpm + you're fine.
I also say: if you can type 50+, watch out because the typing intensive stuff is going to get passed on to you.
I would rather have time to think than have to type all day.
Actually, microsoft is like a cheap whore.
No need for a movie or dinner. She'll just screw you for money. Actually, she'll let you screw her for nothing, in the hope that you will pay in the future once you get "comfortable" with her, hummm, services.
RSI?
Could you elaborate on what you found frustrating exactly?
Dude, we do the eggs right on the motherboard. Then we eat with chopsticks. Very carefully.
Somehow this is reminiscent of GPL.
I can imagine in 20 years seeing lawsuits upon lawsuits of people claiming that this or that was GPL'd back in the good old days (that would be now?) and that all derivative works, no matter how far removed or remote, are now and forever in the GPL...
A sign of things to come?
Of course, SCO will have ceased to exist a long time before that. Maybe future lawyers will look at SCO's cases and teach harvard courses on what not to do...
>Plain System V is ancient...
Just because something is ancient does not mean is's obsolete.
Lisp is ancient...
The atomic bomb is ancient...
Airplanes are ancient...
I tend to think ancient things have withstood the test of time. We'll see what you look like in 40 years.
Anyway, my point is: just because something is ancient does not mean it's obsolete.
Quantum physics were worked out in the 20s and 30s? They're ancient, man!!!
Actually, some companies are already doing that: They have install teams of hardware guys in india set up everything in labs there, then ship all the shit with spares and spares for the spares, and a team of four flies in for the week, slap it together, and a couple keep coming each week for a few months. Then they hire a local guy (indian, same city/university as the others) and he vacuums the dust out of the machines and keeps everything real tidy.
It's cheaper to fly the four Indians in five times a year than keep a team of four good hardware sysadmins (cisco certs) on payroll.
I personally think this is a good thing. The Indians are generally more polite and they have been bitten by the American worship bug, so when you ask them to do something, they usually jump to it.
Actually, I don't think it's a good thing come to think of it.