Even more so, I PAY for every bit (literally) I download (time is literally money, and bandwidth is still not cheap) so why should I watch some ad (good OR bad) when it's costing me real money?
Simply put, if you didn't have to pay a little bit of money to view the add, you'd have to pay a whole lot for the site to exist at all...
Well, it would make a clear statement about how the owner feels about certain things. For example, www.nazi.pro (to take the French Yahoo thing a little further) would be a pro-nazi website and will most likely not be suitable for non-nazi lovers. Now will we have a.ant domain as its counterpart?
Too look at things from another side, the day after the Concorde crashed I received a tech-support phone call from the flight control center of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport. They needed an exchange for one of their monitors...
Disclaimer, this is not a joke, this actually happened. That's the scary part.
punching a hole in a missile both weakens it and is likely to make the engine do messy things.
Oh great, so the nuke will hit somewhere it isn't supposed to, just what we needed. I really hope the laser is capable of just destroying the whole thing, otherwise the results would be pretty much the same, just in another location.
The geek produces beauty as a byproduct, much like a mathematician who is above all concerned with finding a proof, and is not concerned whether that proof is elegant or not, though it often will be.
I beg to differ. You seem to assume that being a geek excludes being an artist. Using computers on a (semi)professional basis does not indicate inability to appreciate, and in some case, create art.
Blindly assuming you are Kiss-The-Blade, which you are most likely not, considering you're anonymous, let's have some:
The typical slashdotter is a conflicting hive of schizophrenic emotions, and would be at home in a Munch painting, I feel.
Well, thank you very much.
I consider myself to be of an artistic bent, and I have long been interested in the polar opposite of my mindset - the mindset of the 'geek'.
Please redefine your/his/her/whoever's definition of art. Good code should be considered as art, it's just that most people do not have the system requirements to appreciate it. Where on earth does the idea come from that Geeks(tm) and Artists(tm) are each other's opposites? They actually have quite a lot in common, as they both refuse to walk on the middle of the road.
While those feelings may not exist with any web site, going technologically backwards is no solution.
But staying with a technology that works instead of switching to one that doesn't(in some people's opinion) somehow makes a lot more sense, or is it just me?
OK, now be very, very honest with me. Would/. be the same without the goatsex, Beowulf cluster and Natalie Portman references? I almost consider it a sport avoiding the links we all know so well. The trolls might make a lot of noise, but it'd be damn silent without them every now and then...
So what if you want your little cosy place back where you can hang out with a few of your virtual friends. First of all, the fact that the Internet exists does not mean you can't start up a BBS anymore, now does it. Second, if you somehow wish do to it on the WWW anyway, just build a site with an URL that's too weird to be true, don't include any metatags and don't have anyone linking to you (Google might find you, the horror). Next just e-mail the adress to your friends so they can blindly copy-paste it into their favorites folder and there you go. Of course you could also build something that requires a login and kill off any account that misbehaves...
And have it turn off because it's out of batteries? You might as well buy a cheap webcam, get some free motion detecting software, and have that do the job for you. This one comes with software that supports motion detecting, among others.
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If you are only in school to get a job I question whether you should be in school at all. School is to expand your mind. It also lets you get a job.
Exactly! Do what I did, quit school before they've completed the brainwashing process and go do tech-support. Become poor, frustrated and violent. See the world, leave your cubicle. Guess that'll do for today's rant...
The only interesting thing I've seen S3 do lately is selling their entire graphic chips department to a joint venture with VIA. BTW, that was the link I had in mind:-(
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Even more so, I PAY for every bit (literally) I download (time is literally money, and bandwidth is still not cheap) so why should I watch some ad (good OR bad) when it's costing me real money?
Simply put, if you didn't have to pay a little bit of money to view the add, you'd have to pay a whole lot for the site to exist at all...
Oh yes! The incredible evil of creating an operating system whose file browser can also display web pages. Oh and its evil(tm)...
You should move to Yougoslavia. They've got far cooler domain names...
Well, it would make a clear statement about how the owner feels about certain things. For example, www.nazi.pro (to take the French Yahoo thing a little further) would be a pro-nazi website and will most likely not be suitable for non-nazi lovers. Now will we have a .ant domain as its counterpart?
Too look at things from another side, the day after the Concorde crashed I received a tech-support phone call from the flight control center of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport. They needed an exchange for one of their monitors...
Disclaimer, this is not a joke, this actually happened. That's the scary part.
punching a hole in a missile both weakens it and is likely to make the engine do messy things.
Oh great, so the nuke will hit somewhere it isn't supposed to, just what we needed. I really hope the laser is capable of just destroying the whole thing, otherwise the results would be pretty much the same, just in another location.
I, for one, am NOT interested in boy-bands
So you are interested in Britney Spears then. Mhh, naughty boy.
Sorry, couldn't resist:-)
The geek produces beauty as a byproduct, much like a mathematician who is above all concerned with finding a proof, and is not concerned whether that proof is elegant or not, though it often will be.
I beg to differ. You seem to assume that being a geek excludes being an artist. Using computers on a (semi)professional basis does not indicate inability to appreciate, and in some case, create art.
So what happens if you link to all of the articles at the same time?
Next, you'll have companies filing lawsuits against Andover because of the Slashdot effect.
Terrific idea! Now all I need is a company to do so...
Maybe I should just start charging people for linking to them. Let me see, who has a lot of money? What do you know, I'm gonna be rich!
Blindly assuming you are Kiss-The-Blade, which you are most likely not, considering you're anonymous, let's have some:
The typical slashdotter is a conflicting hive of schizophrenic emotions, and would be at home in a Munch painting, I feel.
Well, thank you very much.
I consider myself to be of an artistic bent, and I have long been interested in the polar opposite of my mindset - the mindset of the 'geek'.
Please redefine your/his/her/whoever's definition of art. Good code should be considered as art, it's just that most people do not have the system requirements to appreciate it. Where on earth does the idea come from that Geeks(tm) and Artists(tm) are each other's opposites? They actually have quite a lot in common, as they both refuse to walk on the middle of the road.
I copy-pasted directly from their board:
OH COURSE THE FILM IS "IN SHAMBLES" AT THIS PHASE OF PRODUCTION....THE MOVIE COMES OUT 18 GODDAMN MONTHS FROM NOW...!!!!
Can we just leave it at that?
While those feelings may not exist with any web site, going technologically backwards is no solution.
But staying with a technology that works instead of switching to one that doesn't(in some people's opinion) somehow makes a lot more sense, or is it just me?
OK, now be very, very honest with me. Would /. be the same without the goatsex, Beowulf cluster and Natalie Portman references? I almost consider it a sport avoiding the links we all know so well. The trolls might make a lot of noise, but it'd be damn silent without them every now and then...
So what if you want your little cosy place back where you can hang out with a few of your virtual friends. First of all, the fact that the Internet exists does not mean you can't start up a BBS anymore, now does it. Second, if you somehow wish do to it on the WWW anyway, just build a site with an URL that's too weird to be true, don't include any metatags and don't have anyone linking to you (Google might find you, the horror). Next just e-mail the adress to your friends so they can blindly copy-paste it into their favorites folder and there you go. Of course you could also build something that requires a login and kill off any account that misbehaves...
And have it turn off because it's out of batteries? You might as well buy a cheap webcam, get some free motion detecting software, and have that do the job for you. This one comes with software that supports motion detecting, among others.
Please do not reply to the idiot. Giving him/her/it* attention will only make it worse. Just adjust your threshold.
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So will the fact that it is a regionless DVD make a DVD player appear in my computer?
to boldly encode where no one has encoded before.
If you are only in school to get a job I question whether you should be in school at all. School is to expand your mind. It also lets you get a job.
Exactly! Do what I did, quit school before they've completed the brainwashing process and go do tech-support. Become poor, frustrated and violent. See the world, leave your cubicle. Guess that'll do for today's rant...
The only interesting thing I've seen S3 do lately is selling their entire graphic chips department to a joint venture with VIA. BTW, that was the link I had in mind:-(
Wapping is like surfing on a broken board when there are no waves (wind for some of us) and the tide's so low you're actually stuck on the beach.
Sega have let their most valuable franchises die for lack of new titles (Sonic, NiGHTS, etc)
It's even worse, looks like we've got a whole new type of hedgehog around...
Let's see, that makes, well Sintendo(tm) I guess. Or maybe Ninga(ninja).