If I operated a site which went on and on about how [insert -ism here] followers are great and America is evil and all that "bin Ladin" jazz then I would either get shut down or arrested.
America right now is in such a state of panic (well, the government is...) that they would go out of their way to crush your message.
Let's look back to the Committees on Anti-American Activities. So many lives were ruined and people were forced to answer up because they believed in something that "threatened" America (note: some didn't even believe, they were just accused). Now even though people here were afraid because of the obvious reasons - the Communist party was on the ballott. They still would have to be elected to gain any power. In fact AFAIK, no one has ever been elected under the party.
So, is this a YRO story? Kinda. But only if you are in Russia. To change this you'd have to be Russian and you would have to vote out the bastards doing this. If no one objects then... oh well.
Of course "anyone who give up freedom for security deserves neither". But that is an American quote. My guess is that lots of people here would be jumping to restrict KKK or Al-Quesadilla sites fast.
It's a funny thing. Bush has used the word "terrorism" so much that he is starting to become a tumor, ah I mean terrorist himself. His speeches scare more people than a picture of bin Ladin or the falling Twin Towers.
Just wait till they sue over the LoTR Part II title claiming it's offensive.
You know what I do think would sell though? A soda dispensing option on the front, where they put the ice-maker and water dispenser. They should let home users purchase the large bags of syrup and rechargeable CO2 cylinders that the stores use for fountain beverages, and attach them to the fridge. In the long run, it would save a *lot* of money on soda, eliminate the need to throw away or recycle a bunch of cans or bottles, save space in the fridge for other things, and never have to worry about your open 2 litre bottle losing its fizz.
Cool thing too is that Cola companies will save a fortune because all they sell is the syrup.
See for example Coke just sells the syrup (siz-urp) to the bottlers and they mix it and use the Coke trademark (which they bought also). If you mixed it yourself hopefully you would be getting more for less and you would likely not need to pay a trademark licensing fee.
{as far as bar codes, I think everyone on/. has come up with this idea on their own at one time - I can show you notes from '98 where I sketched such an idea down.}
I was modded as a troll even though I know what I am talking about.
Americans have come up with some cool things but we abandon the technology and other nation's companies sweep up on it and we buy it fast.
Imagine, the Xbox being the only American console at this time. What happened to the days where Atari ruled? Nintendo of course!
Our major export is entertainment media! We are shipping music and movies overseas faster than electronics (TV's for example are made in other countries but invented mainly here by RCA!)
Edison, and the Wright Brothers. Edison's work has been built upon by the Germans (light, Siemans) and the Japanese electronic empires have invented their own means of recording music (that we export right back to them). The Wright Brothers started with the first flying plane. Now British Airbus is designing planes which will destroy the 777.
But back to the Britons. They lost their massive empire due to the fact that they ignored American and German inventions and cooperation. She focused on the things which worked in the past and when the "Great Depression" started they blamed Oscar Wilde, and not the fact their German counterparts were doing things with quinine that would change the world (of cloth dyes, but that was important then).
Slowly she lost it all and it was because she wasn't on the top of technology.
Two things get you to the top. The willingness to fight and technology.
Everyone *would* be better off if everyone is working at maximum productivity but it isn't possible. Two nations rarely share the same dreams, ideals and goals. Even though nine out of ten times democratic countries won't fight each other they will never be allies 100% because we all long to be on top.
It is of course part of who we are and nothing you or anyone can do. If it was that simple communism would be rule of the day.
please don't take me as some sort of nationalist, i'm tired and i'm trying to discuss science
This book review provides a perfect example of why my friends, family, and wife would never be interested in reading science fiction. "Paper-eating bacteria?" "Quadruple agents?" Not only does the plot lack believability, it sounds ridiculous to boot. It's really no wonder why this sort of fiction has no mass appeal: it's pure, unadulterated tripe, thrown together by some hack who could never make it as a real writer. Fans will say that it is "insightful" or some such nonsense, but at the end of the day, every minute you spend reading a book like "Memiors Found in a Bathtub" is a minute wasted.
If you could hold the video stores collection of movies then one would put forth another plan to distribute movies.
Simply you get all the movies ever made inside your cable box (PC, etc). New movies come out and you download them to your HD (all at 238932398GB/s last mile). Then you "buy" a movie, or basically the rights to watch it forever as much as you want. If you like, you can "rent" a movie and pay for the trial usage.
(of course this could be done with music too if you are right)
Problem is new things are always coming out and digital copies are getting bigger (ok, let's forget ogg, mp3, DivX;-), et. al.).
One thing though is that maybe the 12GB potential of these discs could start a (crappy) holographic format!
George W. Bush today announced to abandon his idea for cabinet level status for Homeland Security and instead simply declare a new "Department of Microsoft".
Under the new cabinet it will be dictated that all U.S. citizens will be given a copy of all Microsoft software while on overseas computers will be restricted to "pay-as-you-go" plans which will expire unless you pay the MsTariff '02.
Limewire! Not my favorite Gnutella client but certainly one of the easiest to use. (ironically I don't like it because it isn't as "powerful" as other clients)
The cool thing about Limewire is that even though the technology behind it has grown and they have been working hard behind the scenes - the software is virtually the same since I first used it.
KISS, Knights In... I mean keep it simple silly.
Of course though there are users out there like me who want to be able to play with all those cool options.
Fuck this "version fatigue". There should be a least two applications for each task - there can be a niche market for those apps that don't change and there should be that market for people that can read at the PC!*
* I've noticed lately that perfectly literate people can't read when they sit in front of a PC. Tell them to click "Ok" and suddenly they can't read, is this where 'computer literate' comes from?
"U.S. Middlemen Demand Protection From Being Cut Out WASHINGTON, DC--Some 20,000 members of the Association of American Middlemen marched on the National Mall Monday, demanding protection from such out-cutting shopping options as online purchasing, factory-direct catalogs, and outlet malls. "Each year in this country, thousands of hard-working middlemen are cut out," said Pete Hume, a Euclid, OH, waterbed retailer. "No one seems to care that our livelihood is being taken away from us." Hume said the AAM is eager to work with legislators to find alternate means of passing the savings on to you."
Seems to mirror the ??AA stance on online sales. I know it's off-topic, but if these ??AA's would just look ahead then you could get 100% score on this stupid game!
I believe that is something like what CNN/M$NBC/Fox used to film from Afghanistan... remember it looked like they were streaming the video using Real and over 56k!
I think they were using satellite phones but I don't buy it, the quality sometimes was like 14.4.
...Saudi clerics and their supporters have tried to ban developments in technology on grounds that they could be used to violate Islamic law. These include such appliances as telephones, mobile phones, satellite television and the Internet....
Well, this could be a Good Thing for the good ol' USA!
From my view the Saudi's are part of the group of Islamic states who would like to push us down in the pecking order of nations. Any willingness to have them abandon technology is good in my view.
It's a tough world folks. America is slipping because everything we have invented has been built and improved on overseas and shipped in. We need what we can take.
Now if Japan didn't have a gazillion uses (and plants) for the microchip, etc...
Maybe some sites aren't meant to be "archived", no matter how cool it would be to see sites such as Yahoo '96 again.
There are sites however out there with good information that should be available forever. This is our history folks! One of the advantages of the Web and the Internet in general is access to data. If archive.org wants to be the ones who house this data let us praise them!
I think they were smart by doing this. Now we don't have to rely on nightly news (or other horrible, skewed sources) to replay their tapes or interviews. Now I don't have to save every newspaper I get.
Archive.org demonstrates what the web should be!
Also, check out there movies section. The greatest.
Of course opt out with robots.txt (as said above. they won't delete their copy, just exclude it from the site)
All I can find are the four "apps" that come with it.
I would love to find more and if there is a repository I would love to add to it (I'm planning on taking a crappy course in Java and I would like doing Java GUI apps.)
For Microsoft they can go down the road of a developed cross-platform VM. Apple seems to love it, linux loves it - so do you do what everyone else is doing or squash it.
Of course you've got.net in your pocket - passport and so much more. What do you do? Microsoft putting a little backing behind Java could jump start their own cross platform answer because getting users excited about it in the first place.
Hey, look how cool Windows ran Java! We can make you something even better - join the revolution with Windows<Longhorn>.
But I like Java, it has come a long way since I first saw a clock on a web page! Fully developed applications, it has become part of the system on all good desktops.
Right now, you can't be without Java. Maybe Microsoft doesn't have to bend for Sun but it sure would good if they acted like they were playing nice. Then they can try to come out with their "Java Killer", until then I'm happy.
Of course more Java development would help keep it in place.
When I first saw the AP story, and later on the network news (Headline, ABC World News Now, MSNBC) I thought about posting this but I figured nahh!
One source, I believe Headline News, said the bars were in fact put on the windows by the government, although they didn't give a level of government.
They first reported that the fire started at 2:30 AM and some government officials (city level) had claimed it went out in 15 minutes; although another source said 45 minutes.
They claimed that the cafe was only open because they are close to the college but they vaguely implied that it was only open because the city watched them or something - didn't make sense.
So from the first reports it sounded like the city let them use the internet, the fire sounds like it was actually started by someone who works for the chinese government. Then they show up, put the fire out but it burns somewhere between 10 and 60 minutes killing, what, 24 people?
The people who did the saving was the other citizens; they showed pictures of mainly citizens pulling people out of the windows.
Then again I'm crazy - sounds like things that happen.
Slashdot Mirror
Great! But there is still the folding twenty trick.
Got this place is fucked up.... and we are making fun of Russia.
Bush does preach hellfire in brimestone in the sense that he has told everyone they have an enemy.
It's the first thing to do to become a "good" leader.
For example Billy Grahm (spelled right? fuck it he's a bigot) rose up on Senator Joe's coat tails preaching "Communism must die or Christianity".
I could give you a huge list of artificial enemies conjured up to get power. Communism was one of those.
Required reading for everyone on Slashdot:
The Lucifer Priciple, Howard Bloom.
http://www.bookworld.com/lucifer/
If I operated a site which went on and on about how [insert -ism here] followers are great and America is evil and all that "bin Ladin" jazz then I would either get shut down or arrested.
America right now is in such a state of panic (well, the government is...) that they would go out of their way to crush your message.
Let's look back to the Committees on Anti-American Activities. So many lives were ruined and people were forced to answer up because they believed in something that "threatened" America (note: some didn't even believe, they were just accused). Now even though people here were afraid because of the obvious reasons - the Communist party was on the ballott. They still would have to be elected to gain any power. In fact AFAIK, no one has ever been elected under the party.
So, is this a YRO story? Kinda. But only if you are in Russia. To change this you'd have to be Russian and you would have to vote out the bastards doing this. If no one objects then... oh well.
Of course "anyone who give up freedom for security deserves neither". But that is an American quote. My guess is that lots of people here would be jumping to restrict KKK or Al-Quesadilla sites fast.
It's a funny thing. Bush has used the word "terrorism" so much that he is starting to become a tumor, ah I mean terrorist himself. His speeches scare more people than a picture of bin Ladin or the falling Twin Towers.
Just wait till they sue over the LoTR Part II title claiming it's offensive.
damn... i wish i had those contacts.
the only bud smokers i know can't use a pc and the the computer people frown on bud smoking.
of course there is the exception with the internet friends i meet
The problem is that even though they won't sue kids if they did they could play it off.
Headlines:
"Dirty Nasty Pirates Stopped Playing With Xbox Contents"
"Pirates in Court Over Soldering Irons"
Everyone would get on the Microsoft side because they would use the word 'pirate' a million times.
I didn't even know they had 'bin Ladin's retina scan data.
Damn those military satellites are cool.
You know what I do think would sell though? A soda dispensing option on the front, where they put the ice-maker and water dispenser. They should let home users purchase the large bags of syrup and rechargeable CO2 cylinders that the stores use for fountain beverages, and attach them to the fridge. In the long run, it would save a *lot* of money on soda, eliminate the need to throw away or recycle a bunch of cans or bottles, save space in the fridge for other things, and never have to worry about your open 2 litre bottle losing its fizz.
/. has come up with this idea on their own at one time - I can show you notes from '98 where I sketched such an idea down.}
Cool thing too is that Cola companies will save a fortune because all they sell is the syrup.
See for example Coke just sells the syrup (siz-urp) to the bottlers and they mix it and use the Coke trademark (which they bought also). If you mixed it yourself hopefully you would be getting more for less and you would likely not need to pay a trademark licensing fee.
{as far as bar codes, I think everyone on
don't reply to my comments like that!
i never wrote that drivel
:)
hava niceday
How can the Britons talk?
I was modded as a troll even though I know what I am talking about.
Americans have come up with some cool things but we abandon the technology and other nation's companies sweep up on it and we buy it fast.
Imagine, the Xbox being the only American console at this time. What happened to the days where Atari ruled? Nintendo of course!
Our major export is entertainment media! We are shipping music and movies overseas faster than electronics (TV's for example are made in other countries but invented mainly here by RCA!)
Edison, and the Wright Brothers. Edison's work has been built upon by the Germans (light, Siemans) and the Japanese electronic empires have invented their own means of recording music (that we export right back to them). The Wright Brothers started with the first flying plane. Now British Airbus is designing planes which will destroy the 777.
But back to the Britons. They lost their massive empire due to the fact that they ignored American and German inventions and cooperation. She focused on the things which worked in the past and when the "Great Depression" started they blamed Oscar Wilde, and not the fact their German counterparts were doing things with quinine that would change the world (of cloth dyes, but that was important then).
Slowly she lost it all and it was because she wasn't on the top of technology.
Two things get you to the top. The willingness to fight and technology.
Everyone *would* be better off if everyone is working at maximum productivity but it isn't possible. Two nations rarely share the same dreams, ideals and goals. Even though nine out of ten times democratic countries won't fight each other they will never be allies 100% because we all long to be on top.
It is of course part of who we are and nothing you or anyone can do. If it was that simple communism would be rule of the day.
please don't take me as some sort of nationalist, i'm tired and i'm trying to discuss science
try this:
instead
/. is killing urls for some reason
This book review provides a perfect example of why my friends, family, and wife would never be interested in reading science fiction. "Paper-eating bacteria?" "Quadruple agents?" Not only does the plot lack believability, it sounds ridiculous to boot. It's really no wonder why this sort of fiction has no mass appeal: it's pure, unadulterated tripe, thrown together by some hack who could never make it as a real writer. Fans will say that it is "insightful" or some such nonsense, but at the end of the day, every minute you spend reading a book like "Memiors Found in a Bathtub" is a minute wasted.
There is this that eats CD layers!
If you could hold the video stores collection of movies then one would put forth another plan to distribute movies.
Simply you get all the movies ever made inside your cable box (PC, etc). New movies come out and you download them to your HD (all at 238932398GB/s last mile). Then you "buy" a movie, or basically the rights to watch it forever as much as you want. If you like, you can "rent" a movie and pay for the trial usage.
(of course this could be done with music too if you are right)
Problem is new things are always coming out and digital copies are getting bigger (ok, let's forget ogg, mp3, DivX;-), et. al.).
One thing though is that maybe the 12GB potential of these discs could start a (crappy) holographic format!
Imagine getting a movie and being in it... cool.
1x of course.
;-)
Obligatory Link to Robot Insurance Movie If You Can't Search Google (first result)
Funny I just changed this sig a few days ago....:
Limewire! Not my favorite Gnutella client but certainly one of the easiest to use. (ironically I don't like it because it isn't as "powerful" as other clients)
The cool thing about Limewire is that even though the technology behind it has grown and they have been working hard behind the scenes - the software is virtually the same since I first used it.
KISS, Knights In... I mean keep it simple silly.
Of course though there are users out there like me who want to be able to play with all those cool options.
Fuck this "version fatigue". There should be a least two applications for each task - there can be a niche market for those apps that don't change and there should be that market for people that can read at the PC!*
* I've noticed lately that perfectly literate people can't read when they sit in front of a PC. Tell them to click "Ok" and suddenly they can't read, is this where 'computer literate' comes from?
Seems to mirror the ??AA stance on online sales. I know it's off-topic, but if these ??AA's would just look ahead then you could get 100% score on this stupid game!
I believe that is something like what CNN/M$NBC/Fox used to film from Afghanistan... remember it looked like they were streaming the video using Real and over 56k!
I think they were using satellite phones but I don't buy it, the quality sometimes was like 14.4.
...Saudi clerics and their supporters have tried to ban developments in technology on grounds that they could be used to violate Islamic law. These include such appliances as telephones, mobile phones, satellite television and the Internet....
Well, this could be a Good Thing for the good ol' USA!
From my view the Saudi's are part of the group of Islamic states who would like to push us down in the pecking order of nations. Any willingness to have them abandon technology is good in my view.
It's a tough world folks. America is slipping because everything we have invented has been built and improved on overseas and shipped in. We need what we can take.
Now if Japan didn't have a gazillion uses (and plants) for the microchip, etc...
I know what web start is... I just couldn't find any apps.
I love it - I'm excited in developing some web start apps.
This is one point I agree with 100%.
Maybe some sites aren't meant to be "archived", no matter how cool it would be to see sites such as Yahoo '96 again.
There are sites however out there with good information that should be available forever. This is our history folks! One of the advantages of the Web and the Internet in general is access to data. If archive.org wants to be the ones who house this data let us praise them!
I think they were smart by doing this. Now we don't have to rely on nightly news (or other horrible, skewed sources) to replay their tapes or interviews. Now I don't have to save every newspaper I get.
Archive.org demonstrates what the web should be!
Also, check out there movies section. The greatest.
Of course opt out with robots.txt (as said above. they won't delete their copy, just exclude it from the site)
I can just hear them now!
Why is it this group of people all visit one web site? And it's from a Russian domain!
Well, we've looked into it sir - it seems to be a, uhhh, proxy
What the hell is a proxy?
We are on it sir!
I must ask, what is out there for Web Start?
All I can find are the four "apps" that come with it.
I would love to find more and if there is a repository I would love to add to it (I'm planning on taking a crappy course in Java and I would like doing Java GUI apps.)
Of course you've got
But I like Java, it has come a long way since I first saw a clock on a web page! Fully developed applications, it has become part of the system on all good desktops.
Right now, you can't be without Java. Maybe Microsoft doesn't have to bend for Sun but it sure would good if they acted like they were playing nice. Then they can try to come out with their "Java Killer", until then I'm happy.
Of course more Java development would help keep it in place.
When I first saw the AP story, and later on the network news (Headline, ABC World News Now, MSNBC) I thought about posting this but I figured nahh!
One source, I believe Headline News, said the bars were in fact put on the windows by the government, although they didn't give a level of government.
They first reported that the fire started at 2:30 AM and some government officials (city level) had claimed it went out in 15 minutes; although another source said 45 minutes.
They claimed that the cafe was only open because they are close to the college but they vaguely implied that it was only open because the city watched them or something - didn't make sense.
So from the first reports it sounded like the city let them use the internet, the fire sounds like it was actually started by someone who works for the chinese government. Then they show up, put the fire out but it burns somewhere between 10 and 60 minutes killing, what, 24 people?
The people who did the saving was the other citizens; they showed pictures of mainly citizens pulling people out of the windows.
Then again I'm crazy - sounds like things that happen.