Now, obviously, this is *too* simple somehow, or otherwise somebody'd be doing this already. What is it?
The same thing it always is... profit. In this case the profit on increased network trafic by bandwith sellers - MaBell 2.0 bitches, recognize.
As Aldous Huxley said, "An intellectual is someone who has found one thing that's more interesting than sex."
So that explains why there's so few of them? (I would say "few of us", but my mind seldom leaves the gutter:)
...now that I think of it, doesn't this then mean it is to the betterment of society if intellectuals are encouraged to get laid? Intellectuals are after all the ones on the forefront of science, and the evolution of the human race depends on our ever expanding knowledge.
Athur Clarke and Stephen Baxter knocked up "The Light of Other Days" that describes quite a society in which everyone really *can* read each others ideas... goes into how such a society would evolve.
"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth."
Cowboys and Indians (oops, native americans), soldiers, cops and robbers, etc. have been a natural part of a child's existance since time began. Its a natural part of growing up.
I can't belive you actually wrote that... you almost made me laugh as much as I did when I first saw a Native American nativity set for sale on QVC...
Valueweb is a webhost that will block your IP (for a period of 6 hours) if it detects you trying to 'port scan' a webserver they control. I found this out the hard way when a client of mine (lets call them 'blah') tried to set up their POP account settings as 'blah.com' instead of 'pop.blah.com'... Valuweb resolves 'blah.com' to the webserver, and see's somebody trying to access it on port 110, hey presto, your IP is blocked for 6 hours.
Kinda sucks that valuweb doesn't have this in any official documentation on their site, but calling their tech support number will verify this. (800.522.1093)
I tried following this credo but I've found that even O'Reilly can make books that suck (rarely... but the Windows 2000 Active Directory book, for example, was *crap*)
On the other hand, The Java2 SDK 1.4 book by Wrox press was brilliant for starting out in Java.
I think it makes more sense not to become fanatic about cartain publishers... but rather with certain authors. (Well not *fanatic*... but you know what I mean)
Authors that are definatly on my 'watch for books by them' list are:
Ivor Horton (Wrox) Robert Lafore (SAMS) Cathrine Paquet (Cisco Press) (...yes, that's her real name:) Jeff Doyle (both Cisco and Juniper Press)
oh wait we have some that can't understand their own language and those languages which are universal like money and the hand/finger gesture of giving someone the bird.
Slight nit-pick... in JSL (Japanese Sign Language) the 'birdie' is used quite often, and does not have any negative connotation to it when used in the context of that language.
However, it can be assumed that a fair number of people in the Japanese speaking (and signing) world have had to communicate with the western world, and they know that perticular hand guesture may not be taken well:)
It's not always a case of 'looking the same in all browsers'. Problems arise normally from getting the site to *not* look fugly in as many possible configurations as possible. (browser/screen res/OS/etc)
That is more important (IMO) than getting all the different browsers to display the page the same.
It's not as simple as saying 'style over substance' (those corporate whores! how dare they care about showing consistency and clean, efficient design!)... next thing you know you'll start saying that slashdot with all of it's fancy images for story categories is just trying to emphasize style over substance.....wait a minute.:)
I'm not so sure I'd agree. Remember when GIFs were all the rage? I thought no one would ever convert to JPGs because GIFs were so popular. Now, you hardly ever see them. I know, JPGs are better at compression, so maybe that's the reason.
... umm...what? Says who?
GIFs may not be as prominent as they once were, but they are still very much in use. The general rule of thumb is that if you have a photo, use JPG, and for images with very few colors in them (or if they require transparancy), use GIF.
(...although, honestly, I wish people would use PNG instead of GIFs nowadays...most browsers after 4.x support them. (I think there's a problem with IE4 not showing transparencies with PNG properly..but that's about it.))
*snip*
The world (at least MY world) is nothing like it would have been 20 years ago.
*/snip*
Umm...*yeah*...that's because you would have been barely discovering that your you-know-what feels *funny* when blood starts pumping to it.
yeesh.
The previous poster was talking in the sense of how an employee acts toward an employer. Not in the sense of how easy it is to buy consumer goods online or how accesible information has become with the Internet.
*Thank*you for fully formulating the exact reason why I still keep coming back to slashdot. The OS and software credo thare are constantly "preached to the chior" here can at times be annoying, but your explanation pretty much sums up how I feel. I may not always use linux nor open source software (heresy, I know:) but damn I'm sure glad it's there.
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It's from an old NES game that was translated from Japanese to English...*badly*. "All your base are belong to us!" is a line one of the characters had. Anyway, on some game newsboard, one guy started posting images he'd adapted with that line in there (stuff like roadside billboards with that line on it)...maybe he had a thing for the line, maybe he's a nutcase, who knows...anyway...the phrase strikes people as funny and next thing you know it gets posted to another board...and another and another and...you get the idea.
check out the images...although frankly anyone with a couple hours and Adobe Photoshop could pretty much do the same.
Hell, somebody with *macpaint* could do the same on some of the images:o).
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Vetinari is more appropriate given the above topic, Carrot was just king, Vetinari was the tyrant with the only vote.
Now, obviously, this is *too* simple somehow, or otherwise somebody'd be doing this already. What is it?
The same thing it always is... profit. In this case the profit on increased network trafic by bandwith sellers - MaBell 2.0 bitches, recognize.
what happens when it's not alcohol?
As Aldous Huxley said, "An intellectual is someone who has found one thing that's more interesting than sex."
:)
...now that I think of it, doesn't this then mean it is to the betterment of society if intellectuals are encouraged to get laid? Intellectuals are after all the ones on the forefront of science, and the evolution of the human race depends on our ever expanding knowledge.
So that explains why there's so few of them? (I would say "few of us", but my mind seldom leaves the gutter
fuck saving whales, save the geeks!
it's true! ... made my life much easier knowing that every site I go to has the exact same MAC address as my default gateway...
00:32:fc:14:0a:3c bitches.
recognize.
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Athur Clarke and Stephen Baxter knocked up "The Light of Other Days" that describes quite a society in which everyone really *can* read each others ideas... goes into how such a society would evolve.
Pretty good read.
"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth."
s/television/the_media ?
...almost paniced, then I noticed:
;
only works in IE5 though...
hmm... <mouseGesture>down-right</mouseGesture>
I'm sorry, but you lost all credibility with:
Cowboys and Indians (oops, native americans), soldiers, cops and robbers, etc. have been a natural part of a child's existance since time began. Its a natural part of growing up.
I can't belive you actually wrote that... you almost made me laugh as much as I did when I first saw a Native American nativity set for sale on QVC...
Valueweb is a webhost that will block your IP (for a period of 6 hours) if it detects you trying to 'port scan' a webserver they control. I found this out the hard way when a client of mine (lets call them 'blah') tried to set up their POP account settings as 'blah.com' instead of 'pop.blah.com' ... Valuweb resolves 'blah.com' to the webserver, and see's somebody trying to access it on port 110, hey presto, your IP is blocked for 6 hours.
Kinda sucks that valuweb doesn't have this in any official documentation on their site, but calling their tech support number will verify this. (800.522.1093)
I tried following this credo but I've found that even O'Reilly can make books that suck (rarely... but the Windows 2000 Active Directory book, for example, was *crap*)
:)
On the other hand, The Java2 SDK 1.4 book by Wrox press was brilliant for starting out in Java.
I think it makes more sense not to become fanatic about cartain publishers... but rather with certain authors. (Well not *fanatic*... but you know what I mean)
Authors that are definatly on my 'watch for books by them' list are:
Ivor Horton (Wrox)
Robert Lafore (SAMS)
Cathrine Paquet (Cisco Press) (...yes, that's her real name
Jeff Doyle (both Cisco and Juniper Press)
Yeah.. I think that anyone who has learned Japanese will have a better understanding of how to speak French, anyway. ;)
perhaps not, but could we agree that learning Latin would help you to learn English?
Sensationalism is just a waste of time ...and you still read slashdot *why*?
...a world where the tools used to educate and illustrate are no longer small enough to throw at a daydreaming students head?
;)
Or, just possibly, a world where people mispell things that they type into a bloody text box without reviewing.
I dunno, you tell me
http://www.mediatemple.com/home.html
Click the sattelite in the top right corner of the flash movie.
You'll get a very nice video conferencing system.
I thought it looked pretty cool. Even though other people can...*gasp*...see you!
Oh no Batman! mAcROmeDia 0wnz j00!
oh wait we have some that can't understand their own language and those languages which are universal like money and the hand/finger gesture of giving someone the bird.
... in JSL (Japanese Sign Language) the 'birdie' is used quite often, and does not have any negative connotation to it when used in the context of that language.
:)
Slight nit-pick
However, it can be assumed that a fair number of people in the Japanese speaking (and signing) world have had to communicate with the western world, and they know that perticular hand guesture may not be taken well
It's not always a case of 'looking the same in all browsers'. Problems arise normally from getting the site to *not* look fugly in as many possible configurations as possible. (browser/screen res/OS/etc)
... next thing you know you'll start saying that slashdot with all of it's fancy images for story categories is just trying to emphasize style over substance.....wait a minute. :)
That is more important (IMO) than getting all the different browsers to display the page the same.
It's not as simple as saying 'style over substance' (those corporate whores! how dare they care about showing consistency and clean, efficient design!)
I'm not so sure I'd agree. Remember when GIFs were all the rage? I thought no one would ever convert to JPGs because GIFs were so popular. Now, you hardly ever see them. I know, JPGs are better at compression, so maybe that's the reason.
... umm...what? Says who?
GIFs may not be as prominent as they once were, but they are still very much in use. The general rule of thumb is that if you have a photo, use JPG, and for images with very few colors in them (or if they require transparancy), use GIF.
(...although, honestly, I wish people would use PNG instead of GIFs nowadays...most browsers after 4.x support them. (I think there's a problem with IE4 not showing transparencies with PNG properly..but that's about it.))
.AVI !=
</snip>
...shirly that should be:
#include <std_flamewar.h>
??
</me runs>
The blind gentelmen to whom you refer was called "Whistler"
(IIRC)
Vidi, Vici, Veni
:o)
well *actually* Vidi, Vici, Veni est Veni est Veni est *Veni*...
and then I woke up with wet sheets.
*snip* The world (at least MY world) is nothing like it would have been 20 years ago. */snip* Umm...*yeah*...that's because you would have been barely discovering that your you-know-what feels *funny* when blood starts pumping to it. yeesh. The previous poster was talking in the sense of how an employee acts toward an employer. Not in the sense of how easy it is to buy consumer goods online or how accesible information has become with the Internet.
*Thank*you for fully formulating the exact reason why I still keep coming back to slashdot. The OS and software credo thare are constantly "preached to the chior" here can at times be annoying, but your explanation pretty much sums up how I feel. I may not always use linux nor open source software (heresy, I know :) but damn I'm sure glad it's there.
It's from an old NES game that was translated from Japanese to English...*badly*. "All your base are belong to us!" is a line one of the characters had. Anyway, on some game newsboard, one guy started posting images he'd adapted with that line in there (stuff like roadside billboards with that line on it)...maybe he had a thing for the line, maybe he's a nutcase, who knows...anyway...the phrase strikes people as funny and next thing you know it gets posted to another board...and another and another and...you get the idea.
...although frankly anyone with a couple hours and Adobe Photoshop could pretty much do the same.
Hell, somebody with *macpaint* could do the same on some of the images :o).
check out the images