As far as I can tell, Super_Harris is just some guy with a lot of free time who added "Kazaa Moderator" to his.sig file in a fit of zealousness one day. He devotes a whole lot of posts to plugging his own "advice" website and picking fights with Kazaa critics. If he actually has some sort of official position with Kazaa, I haven't seen the evidence yet.
Why is three quarters of the spam I get ads for spamming services? That seems to suggest that the services aren't getting a whole lot of repeat business.
BeOS has a utility that takes ID3 tags and makes them into filesystem attributes, which means that you can sort and search by artist/genre/whatever. There are plenty of utilities specifically to do that elsewhere, but having it built into the OS like that is pretty sweet.
Phooey. So long as it's bad people killing good people and good people killing bad people, and both sides are clearly labeled, conservatives are whooping along with the rest of the audience (okay, I suppose bad people killing bad people is acceptable too).
It's only the combination of violence and moral ambiguity that gets the Right all worked up
Well,dang. Now I feel bad about being so harsh in my last message. Thanks for the thoughtful response.
Having full control over one's work is really
what McCloud is asking for, isn't he?
No. Not here, anyway. The essay we're supposed to be discussing here is all about the proverbial Benjamins. The freedom-of-content issue has pretty much been fought and won on numberous different fronts in the last decade.
<cheap shot>While Image was a valuable demonstration of the right of "hot" artists to write their own scripts, no matter how bad an idea it was<\cheap shot>, other publishers, like Fantagraphics and the late lamented Kitchen Sink, were giving artists the freedom to explore their own sensibilities and visions. It opened the field up enough that now as personal and genre-defying a book like Reinventing Comics (admittedly, one with proven market value) can be published by DC, albeit with a funky disclaimer on the title page.
In the meantime, Image has taken up the work-for-hire policies that they were ostensibly founded to combat. One sign the war is over is often when you can't tell which side is which anymore.
I don't expect all slashdot posts to be intelligent and well-informed, so I don't particularly blame the author of the preceding message. But jeez, you guys! Don't mod up what you don't understand. Calling Todd MacFarlane the inventor of creators rights is a bizarre distortion of comics history. Giving him precedence over Scott McCloud in that department is a grotesque and bizarre distortion. Introducing said grotesque and bizarre distortion as if it's relevant to the issue of micropayments is...just goofy, really.
Now I feel guilty for never having gotten around to that Reinventing Comics review I promised Hemos. Perhaps this weekend...
On the cutting board? The cutting board is a sacred place! You do not wrestle on the cutting board. You are no chef! You are no Geek in Space! You are nothing! Nothing!
I've been working on a page that makes fairly heavy use of CSS, particularly the notoriously buggy "float" and "clear" functions. It looks like shit in IE 5 or NS 4.7 (and crashes NS 4.5, so watch out).
NS 6, M18 and IE 5.5 all render it quite nicely. However, Gecko takes a little under ten seconds to render it from my hard drive. IE takes a little under two. That's a pretty bad gap. And I suspect that ordinary users, who don't care about standards compliance or open source, are going to be even less patient with it than I am.
The account given by Microsoft officials to the Times also cited the use of QAZ Trojan. Computer security experts said QAZ was a well-known worm virus that first surfaced in China several months ago.
So the QAZ trojan is a well-known worm virus. Glad we got that straightened out.
That's why it's preferable to use something safe, with no risk of explosion, like...um...gasoline... Oops.
Phoey on these small fry!
on
Quimby2000
·
· Score: 2
There's only one candidate worth voting for this year, and that's Vermin Supreme-- He may not have the worst policies, but he has worst habedashery, and the ugliest HTML! Vermin Supreme promises to make crime against the law! combat illiterates! Fight the unemployed! And stop pregnant teenagers!
Have any other candidates released their dental records to the press? I think not! Gotta wonder what they're hiding, eh?
...And if you think Vermin's a joke, you should see the other candidates!
Oh, and I suppose Athlon and Duron are brilliant names, eh?
Actually, my favorite stupid name of the hour is the artist formerly known as BBN, which finally IPOed this week under the name Genuity. Presumably, it's the opposite if ingenuity. Woo-hoo.
Slashdot Mirror
Count on J. Katz to put they "hype" in "hypermedia."
...if quality mattered, GENEROUS CAPITALISERS would have their posting privileges REVOKED.
As far as I can tell, Super_Harris is just some guy with a lot of free time who added "Kazaa Moderator" to his .sig file in a fit of zealousness one day. He devotes a whole lot of posts to plugging his own "advice" website and picking fights with Kazaa critics. If he actually has some sort of official position with Kazaa, I haven't seen the evidence yet.
(eom)
Does anyone else keep reading it as "theonionring.net"?
Mmmm. Onion rings...
The domain is free, btw, if anyone wants to snap it up and see what WIPO has to say about it.
Why is three quarters of the spam I get ads for spamming services? That seems to suggest that the services aren't getting a whole lot of repeat business.
Not if he was supposed to die at 42.
Late, as in the late Adams Douglas Adams.
I feel a little weird about making jokes about his death, except that I'm confident he'd approve.
That's okay--looks like at least three moderators read as carelessly as you did.
...why do they have such a dorky name?
BeOS has a utility that takes ID3 tags and makes them into filesystem attributes, which means that you can sort and search by artist/genre/whatever. There are plenty of utilities specifically to do that elsewhere, but having it built into the OS like that is pretty sweet.
Take your pick
I say it's a prank, albeit a fairly restrained and subtle one.
Phooey. So long as it's bad people killing good people and good people killing bad people, and both sides are clearly labeled, conservatives are whooping along with the rest of the audience (okay, I suppose bad people killing bad people is acceptable too).
It's only the combination of violence and moral ambiguity that gets the Right all worked up
But wouldn't that number be useless unless you had a table of all 12345... numbers, or else replicated all the computational work yourself?
Well,dang. Now I feel bad about being so harsh in my last message. Thanks for the thoughtful response.
Having full control over one's work is really
what McCloud is asking for, isn't he?
No. Not here, anyway. The essay we're supposed to be discussing here is all about the proverbial Benjamins. The freedom-of-content issue has pretty much been fought and won on numberous different fronts in the last decade.
<cheap shot>While Image was a valuable demonstration of the right of "hot" artists to write their own scripts, no matter how bad an idea it was<\cheap shot>, other publishers, like Fantagraphics and the late lamented Kitchen Sink, were giving artists the freedom to explore their own sensibilities and visions. It opened the field up enough that now as personal and genre-defying a book like Reinventing Comics (admittedly, one with proven market value) can be published by DC, albeit with a funky disclaimer on the title page.
In the meantime, Image has taken up the work-for-hire policies that they were ostensibly founded to combat. One sign the war is over is often when you can't tell which side is which anymore.
I don't expect all slashdot posts to be intelligent and well-informed, so I don't particularly blame the author of the preceding message. But jeez, you guys! Don't mod up what you don't understand. Calling Todd MacFarlane the inventor of creators rights is a bizarre distortion of comics history. Giving him precedence over Scott McCloud in that department is a grotesque and bizarre distortion. Introducing said grotesque and bizarre distortion as if it's relevant to the issue of micropayments is...just goofy, really.
Now I feel guilty for never having gotten around to that Reinventing Comics review I promised Hemos. Perhaps this weekend...
"...on the cutting board!"
On the cutting board? The cutting board is a sacred place! You do not wrestle on the cutting board. You are no chef! You are no Geek in Space! You are nothing! Nothing!
I've been working on a page that makes fairly heavy use of CSS, particularly the notoriously buggy "float" and "clear" functions. It looks like shit in IE 5 or NS 4.7 (and crashes NS 4.5, so watch out).
NS 6, M18 and IE 5.5 all render it quite nicely. However, Gecko takes a little under ten seconds to render it from my hard drive. IE takes a little under two. That's a pretty bad gap. And I suspect that ordinary users, who don't care about standards compliance or open source, are going to be even less patient with it than I am.
Here's a plot of the distribution of votes in the relevant Florida precincts.
The account given by Microsoft officials to the Times also cited the use of QAZ Trojan. Computer security experts said QAZ was a well-known worm virus that first surfaced in China several months ago.
So the QAZ trojan is a well-known worm virus. Glad we got that straightened out.
That's why it's preferable to use something safe, with no risk of explosion, like...um...gasoline... Oops.
There's only one candidate worth voting for this year, and that's Vermin Supreme-- He may not have the worst policies, but he has worst habedashery, and the ugliest HTML! Vermin Supreme promises to make crime against the law! combat illiterates! Fight the unemployed! And stop pregnant teenagers!
Have any other candidates released their dental records to the press? I think not! Gotta wonder what they're hiding, eh?
...And if you think Vermin's a joke, you should see the other candidates!
Where can I see this famous CT vs. S11 slapfest IRC log? It sounds like some jolly campfire reading.
As Fearless Leader Taco points out, this idea has been kicking around for a while, and I'd come up with a name and even a slogan:
NoZilla--no newsreader, no email, no bloat, no bull.
Of course, if I wanted someone to actually use it someday, I probably should have mentioned it outloud, instead of just thinking it to myself.
Oh, and I suppose Athlon and Duron are brilliant names, eh?
Actually, my favorite stupid name of the hour is the artist formerly known as BBN, which finally IPOed this week under the name Genuity. Presumably, it's the opposite if ingenuity. Woo-hoo.