You know, if I wanted to test a hosting service, I would find a site listed there and post it on/. If it didn't crash, it might be a decent hosting service. Of course I would have to lie about what is on the Website. Pr0n for geeks and nerds. Click http://....
I sometimes telecoummute, but at the moment, I need a dsl connection as software development is done via a central repository at work. A dialup connection is way too slow.
I find I work longer and harder at home. I don't watch the clock and there are fewer distractions. I don't have to shower in the morning and I can look like shit warmed over and yet still work. It all depends on your attitude and environment. I don't have kids unless you consider 4 dogs and 2 cats as kids. I do, but they don't bother me at all and they just like my presence.
Whether you are productive or not when telecommuting is up to you. You can be a complete jerk-off and play all day or you can work much better than you can at an office with all sorts of distractions.
And judgiing your productivity is always questionable at best. If you don't meet impossible schedules, are you not productive? I don't think so. You must know that most software sucks and is behind schedule because of impossible demands.
I have tended to be on the side of intellectual property, but this case changed my mind. This TV show, which I have never watched, is off the deep end. How can we help this guy who currently owns battlebots.org?
I think that whomever registers a domain first should own it as long as they want to.
Robert Heinlen that said that the three biggest failures of socialism in the 20th centry were the Russian farm program, the US educational system, and NASA?
Re: I just got the literature in the mail and the cost, less installation cost, runs about $45,000 for a 30 kWh/day system."
Hmm. I might be able to work my home (with a bit more conservation) with that power output. Does that include Nicad wet cells instead of lead-acid batteries? Wet cell Nicads last virtually forever.
The cost increases if you add solar heating, even if you only use solar for hot water.
At that cost, only those not near an existing power grid can justify it.
While watching foodtv, i can push a button and order all the ingredients for a tasty looking dish (a food dish, not a female). The ingredients are delivered by a PFY and put into a bin in the front of my house and transported to the fridge. Then when I am ready to make the dish, the recipie is projected in front of my food workspace.
But wait, that will cost a lot of money. I can log on to ye ol' internet, go to the foodty website, print the recipie, take that to the store and buy my own ingredients and not depend on one PFY to pick out the best stuff. Then I can have the recipie in front of me while I make it.
as to knowing what is in my fridge...
99 bottles of beer in the fridge, 99 bottles of beer...
Ok, I can agree with the separation of content and style. But what tools currently exist to support generation of the N different styles? Not that I have used a lot of Web generation tools. I use Net Object Fusion and Arachnophilia.
Do realize that much of the Web is generated by people who do not want to know about HTML, CSS, XML, or whatever. How do those people generate Websites that are viewable by all?
I am visually impaired (legally blind) and also design Websites, but as an avocation. Nonetheless, I often violate my principles of KISS and concentrating on content. After all, applets, Javascript, DHTML, animated gifs, etc can be really cool at times. At least cool to me, but perhaps a major hassle to others.
The original purpose of HTML, as I understand it, was to deliver content and let the renderer decide how it should be presented. Yet tables are now used for precise pixel layout. I think it is becoming damn difficult for all browswers to support all the bells and whistles of modern Web pages. And all those bells and whistles can be annoying at times and do not help the bandwidth problem. Not all of us have DSL and the broadband industry is in a real state of flux.
I enjoy Jon Katz'es writing. Not that I alway agree with him, but do we not agree with the conccept of free speech???
Us geeks/nerds/dorks, no matter what age we are, do deserve the discussion about our community.
Slashdot Mirror
Because it pointed to a great resource. 700 millions messages!! I found about 900 of mine archived. I hope this sticks around for awhile.
And google has found some of the more salient points of our history. How cool is that??
You know, if I wanted to test a hosting service, I would find a site listed there and post it on /. If it didn't crash, it might be a decent hosting service. Of course I would have to lie about what is on the Website. Pr0n for geeks and nerds. Click http://....
And a consultant is some guy that will tell you (for a large fee) 1000 ways to make love to a woman, but has never even had a girlfriend.
After you type for awhile, a little talking toilet pops up and informs you that what you have written is crap. And then flushes it.
From Netcraft
The site www3.gartner.com is running Netscape-Enterprise/4.1 on Solaris.
I sometimes telecoummute, but at the moment, I need a dsl connection as software development is done via a central repository at work. A dialup connection is way too slow.
I find I work longer and harder at home. I don't watch the clock and there are fewer distractions. I don't have to shower in the morning and I can look like shit warmed over and yet still work. It all depends on your attitude and environment. I don't have kids unless you consider 4 dogs and 2 cats as kids. I do, but they don't bother me at all and they just like my presence.
Whether you are productive or not when telecommuting is up to you. You can be a complete jerk-off and play all day or you can work much better than you can at an office with all sorts of distractions.
And judgiing your productivity is always questionable at best. If you don't meet impossible schedules, are you not productive? I don't think so. You must know that most software sucks and is behind schedule because of impossible demands.
I have tended to be on the side of intellectual property, but this case changed my mind. This TV show, which I have never watched, is off the deep end. How can we help this guy who currently owns battlebots.org?
I think that whomever registers a domain first should own it as long as they want to.
I predict the future and all I can win is a t-shirt?
No thank you. My time is much more valuable than that.
Once the Internet became available to the unwashed masses. I got on the Arpanet in 1984 and it was a damn friendly, helpful, and great place.
Take this as a warning. The entire infrastructure of the Internet is at risk. Turn off your computer and go outside and play.
My trashbin could easily hold all my computers. How tempting!
Robert Heinlen that said that the three biggest failures of socialism in the 20th centry were the Russian farm program, the US educational system, and NASA?
Re: I just got the literature in the mail and the cost, less installation cost, runs about $45,000 for a 30 kWh/day system." Hmm. I might be able to work my home (with a bit more conservation) with that power output. Does that include Nicad wet cells instead of lead-acid batteries? Wet cell Nicads last virtually forever. The cost increases if you add solar heating, even if you only use solar for hot water. At that cost, only those not near an existing power grid can justify it.
While watching foodtv, i can push a button and order all the ingredients for a tasty looking dish (a food dish, not a female). The ingredients are delivered by a PFY and put into a bin in the front of my house and transported to the fridge. Then when I am ready to make the dish, the recipie is projected in front of my food workspace.
But wait, that will cost a lot of money. I can log on to ye ol' internet, go to the foodty website, print the recipie, take that to the store and buy my own ingredients and not depend on one PFY to pick out the best stuff. Then I can have the recipie in front of me while I make it.
as to knowing what is in my fridge... 99 bottles of beer in the fridge, 99 bottles of beer...
Ok, I can agree with the separation of content and style. But what tools currently exist to support generation of the N different styles? Not that I have used a lot of Web generation tools. I use Net Object Fusion and Arachnophilia. Do realize that much of the Web is generated by people who do not want to know about HTML, CSS, XML, or whatever. How do those people generate Websites that are viewable by all?
I am visually impaired (legally blind) and also design Websites, but as an avocation. Nonetheless, I often violate my principles of KISS and concentrating on content. After all, applets, Javascript, DHTML, animated gifs, etc can be really cool at times. At least cool to me, but perhaps a major hassle to others. The original purpose of HTML, as I understand it, was to deliver content and let the renderer decide how it should be presented. Yet tables are now used for precise pixel layout. I think it is becoming damn difficult for all browswers to support all the bells and whistles of modern Web pages. And all those bells and whistles can be annoying at times and do not help the bandwidth problem. Not all of us have DSL and the broadband industry is in a real state of flux.
I enjoy Jon Katz'es writing. Not that I alway agree with him, but do we not agree with the conccept of free speech??? Us geeks/nerds/dorks, no matter what age we are, do deserve the discussion about our community.