I know every Slashdotter thinks Disney "shut down their traditional 2D animation" because there was an article posted here a while back with that headline, but for the millionth time--Disney didn't shut it down to kill off their 2D.
They have tons of 2D animators. They wanted them all in one building, because Eisner is a micro-managing loon. So they shut down the Florida studio because Eisner couldn't control it from a distance like he wanted to.
On Slashdot, this has somehow become "Disney shutting down their 2D studio" but in the animation world, it's just Eisner being a micro-managing croney. Disney is still doing 2D animation and doesn't plan to end any time soon.
Why would all your servers magically be controlled by Hollywood? Are you going to wake up one day, and suddenly the whole Internet is a "controlled system by Hollywood?" What a ridiculous post (no wonder it got modded up...).
Scaremongers always say things like this without actually thinking it through practically. But it's been that way for centuries with you types. "Does anyone get the idea that maybe books will be used for nothing but pushed entertainment like some glorified street performer? Soon, books may be nothing more than a controlled system by merchants and the like."
- They're too afraid to stand by their opinions, so they use the mask of anonymity - They refer to what the "government really wants" - They think an uneducated population is something desirable, even though it would collapse an economy - They reference some TV show like American Idol, which has nothing to do with the government because American Idol is produced by a TV studio that viewers support through ratings
Stop taking the Bill Hicks CDs so seriously--even he knew he was being facetious most of the time.
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He took credit for "taking the initiative in inventing the Internet."
Guess what, he did. He helped sign in the legislative funding for the project. He was referring to himself as having invented it--merely signing the initial legislation that created it.
He claimed he was tired when he said it. I can understand. After having done a ton of interviews and things, and talking about technology to one particular interviewer and thinking back on signing into law the legislation, I'd probably also say, "yeah, I helped take the initiative in creating the Internet" without realizing how out-of-context it would suddenly be taken.
A hacker isn't just someone who writes code--it implies a very disorganized, chaotic approach to writing code or dealing with any formal system or machine. Thus, some crackers are also hackers.
You're missing the point. You're still trying to use the Slashdot definition of hacker/cracker. To the entire rest of the world, a hacker is what you would call a cracker. It's pointless to discuss some sort of difference between the terms.
The whole hacker/cracker thing is just old Linux veterans trying to feel cool and be called "hackers" without doing illegal things. The rest of the world isn't gonna buy it because RMS said so, sorry.
It's just nerd semantics. Only on Slashdot is there suddenly some sort of big issue between the usage of "hacker" and "cracker." The entire rest of the world uses "hacker."
It's like a recent post I wrote (check my history). It was a tongue-in-cheek list of the reasons nerds don't get laid--it was originally +5, then suddenly plummeted to 1 when someone pointed out I confused "geek" and "nerd."
It was insane--one of the points I had written was that geeks get overly concerned about pointless definitions and facts that nobody else even acknowledges. And here was someone who completely missed that and actually replied to criticize a joke post, thereby proving it true.
It's stupid to expect everyone to accept our little definition of "hacker" and "cracker" and get all bent out of shape when 90% of the world continues to use the definition they all already agreed on. Actually, it's a bit self-absorbed.
It's sort of how the first drafts of The Matrix are hokey and suck, and the studio made the Wachowskis change a lot of things and streamline it, and the movie was deliciously paced and really good.
Then for Reloaded and Revolutions, they were given free reign. Hmm.
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Computer geeks of the 80s are outnumbered by all the young computer geeks of the 90s who got turned onto computers because of the old MS-DOS/Windows 3.1 combination. Hell, there are still QBASIC user groups out there online, living up the nostalgia and still making games.
You could say that about anything. "History of Open Source would look quite similar without Linux Torvalds. We would have AthenaOS, or Minix, or widespread FreeBSD-adoption."
Seriously, you could do that to any historical figure. If Rosa Parks wasn't going to stand her ground on the bus, someone else would have eventually. But they didn't--she did.
I don't know what happened for you. That's the first account of instability I've ever heard coming from Opera.
Opera is EXTREMELY fast, takes up very little memory, and has all the functionality and more of Mozilla, etc. In fact, those free browsers ripped off a bunch of their features from Opera (tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, etc.)
I've had Mozilla crash lots of times, on the other hand. And it was always with a lot of tabs open, so I lost them all.
Guess what happens if Opera exits for whatever reason and you have stuff open? The next time you start up, you find out it auto-saved the session for you! You're right back where you left off.
But it doesn't work with Ebay. My password is rejected everytime I use Opera and accepted everytime I use Internet Explorer 5.
Also whenever I use Yahoo! mail with Opera and I am entering my password, the prompt JUMPS to the user name box and the characters that I type appear appended to my user name. Again this doesn't happen in Internet Explorer.
I sure wish they could fix this nonsense.
Have you even TRIED changing your browser's identification string? It's a couple of clicks away in the Quick Preferences menu...
Also, I should note to everyone that the latest beta of Opera has a redesigned interface that removes clutter. Let's be honest--Opera is the fastest and lightest browser, and almost all of its innovative features were copied by the freeware browsers. Not that I'm not typing this in the new Firefox right now! But once the new Opera comes out, I may switch back again. Heck, changing skins happens instantly in less than a second with no restart.
Online FPS are dominated by anti-social people...kids who don't have social lives and so spend all their time in UT2003/CS chatrooms and servers.
So, it's hard for a beginner to start because these kids have all the time in the world to become either frighteningly extreme experts or lame cheaters. And if you somehow do manage to beat someone--like you mentioned, they become weenies about it.
LAN parties are where it's at. You get to play with your buddies, you get to have fun. Yell insults at each other as you play. Hand each other some sodas and chips. Way better.
Wow...that's bizarre. Saddam, an "innocent victim of a smear campaign." I'm sure he was such an innocent victim in his big, golden palaces while his sons killed and tortured his own citizens...
"Paradise of prosperity and respect for human rights." Yeah, right. Saddam was a dictator, and he didn't care.
Or are you talking about those protesters over in California who were blocking ambulance paths, and actually complained when they were told to leave?
Friggin' insane. I honestly don't know what to think about the war. Everyone agrees Saddam had to go. But a section of people don't agree with the way it was done.
But then I see the Iraqis discovering another hidden mass grave in Iraq and realize the world over there is better off with Saddam gone. Imagine if you were one of those Iraqis and realized your fellow citizens have been tortured and murdered for decades and you probably didn't even know about it.
The net just added to the hype. The novelty of the movie itself kept it going. That $140 million was because of the quirkiness and uniqueness of the movie at the time, not the hype that preceded it. I visited the Blair Witch website maybe once that year.
Dean also had the net hype. But nobody was as interested in the candidate as the hype wanted you to be.
The problem is, people think the net world = the real world.
Same reason we had all those dot-com companies--they thought the future was the net, that everyone would spend their time on the net using their net companies and buying their net products.
Dean was the net candidate and got popular on the net.
The truth is, even if it flies in the face of the lifestyles of most Slashdotters, the net is still just a hobby pasttime to keep contact with friends and family, enjoyed by mainstream people who spend more time actually talking to people face-to-face and working day jobs than posting to messageboards about the latest Democratic candidates.
Why is it on Slashdot that if you hold a minority viewpoint, you're automatically a "sock puppet?"
I've been accused of being a Microsoft shill before simply for pointing out hysteria over some thing that Microsoft did which Slashdot was exaggerating in the past.
Everyone seems so polarizing all the time. Is it possible for someone to be a complete, 100% Democrat yet point out the flaws in Kerry (obviously, if you read my sig, you'll see I don't like the guy...the only one I like out of the group is Edwards, who seems so genuine)?
Kerry is YAWWP--Yet-Another-Wishy-Washy Politician. It's no wonder so many people are voting for him. Let's run down the list:
- Contradicting things he voted for in the past...check. - Took special interest money while claiming to be against special interests...check. - Very vague and never specific, speaks very slowly...check. - Present for only 28 percent of votes...check. - Reports coming out how arrogant he's been during his career, actually asking people at restaurants, "Do you know who I am?"...check. - Shows no sign WHATSOEVER of being any different from any other corrupt, special-interest, money-taking politician...a big, fat check.
It's depressing. People always vote for the same guy in every election, no matter which party it is. You get the impression people are just sheep...but then you try not to be polarizing...:(
The real sock puppets are the candidates out there trying to become President.
What killed Dean was his negative campaigning, which works on the 'net but turns off voters.
He'd say something insane to appeal to extreme lefties ("We're no safer with Saddam captured"), then we'd all wait a few days for him to come out and explain what he "really" meant, so he could appeal to the moderates and centrists.
It was a tricky game that backfired when you had the steady-stoned Kerry (this is ignoring that he took special interest moneys in the past, of course...I'm talking appearance-wise) with his chest of wartime awards and vague, easy, partyline statements. It's amazing how much support you can get just by saying vague things like, "America is ready for a change!" Meanwhile, nobody really knows what specifically you mean by change.
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I know every Slashdotter thinks Disney "shut down their traditional 2D animation" because there was an article posted here a while back with that headline, but for the millionth time--Disney didn't shut it down to kill off their 2D.
They have tons of 2D animators. They wanted them all in one building, because Eisner is a micro-managing loon. So they shut down the Florida studio because Eisner couldn't control it from a distance like he wanted to.
On Slashdot, this has somehow become "Disney shutting down their 2D studio" but in the animation world, it's just Eisner being a micro-managing croney. Disney is still doing 2D animation and doesn't plan to end any time soon.
Why would all your servers magically be controlled by Hollywood? Are you going to wake up one day, and suddenly the whole Internet is a "controlled system by Hollywood?" What a ridiculous post (no wonder it got modded up...).
Scaremongers always say things like this without actually thinking it through practically. But it's been that way for centuries with you types. "Does anyone get the idea that maybe books will be used for nothing but pushed entertainment like some glorified street performer? Soon, books may be nothing more than a controlled system by merchants and the like."
The true sign of a paranoid individual:
- They're too afraid to stand by their opinions, so they use the mask of anonymity
- They refer to what the "government really wants"
- They think an uneducated population is something desirable, even though it would collapse an economy
- They reference some TV show like American Idol, which has nothing to do with the government because American Idol is produced by a TV studio that viewers support through ratings
Stop taking the Bill Hicks CDs so seriously--even he knew he was being facetious most of the time.
He took credit for "taking the initiative in inventing the Internet."
Guess what, he did. He helped sign in the legislative funding for the project. He was referring to himself as having invented it--merely signing the initial legislation that created it.
He claimed he was tired when he said it. I can understand. After having done a ton of interviews and things, and talking about technology to one particular interviewer and thinking back on signing into law the legislation, I'd probably also say, "yeah, I helped take the initiative in creating the Internet" without realizing how out-of-context it would suddenly be taken.
A hacker isn't just someone who writes code--it implies a very disorganized, chaotic approach to writing code or dealing with any formal system or machine. Thus, some crackers are also hackers.
You're missing the point. You're still trying to use the Slashdot definition of hacker/cracker. To the entire rest of the world, a hacker is what you would call a cracker. It's pointless to discuss some sort of difference between the terms.
The whole hacker/cracker thing is just old Linux veterans trying to feel cool and be called "hackers" without doing illegal things. The rest of the world isn't gonna buy it because RMS said so, sorry.
It's just nerd semantics. Only on Slashdot is there suddenly some sort of big issue between the usage of "hacker" and "cracker." The entire rest of the world uses "hacker."
It's like a recent post I wrote (check my history). It was a tongue-in-cheek list of the reasons nerds don't get laid--it was originally +5, then suddenly plummeted to 1 when someone pointed out I confused "geek" and "nerd."
It was insane--one of the points I had written was that geeks get overly concerned about pointless definitions and facts that nobody else even acknowledges. And here was someone who completely missed that and actually replied to criticize a joke post, thereby proving it true.
It's stupid to expect everyone to accept our little definition of "hacker" and "cracker" and get all bent out of shape when 90% of the world continues to use the definition they all already agreed on. Actually, it's a bit self-absorbed.
It's sort of how the first drafts of The Matrix are hokey and suck, and the studio made the Wachowskis change a lot of things and streamline it, and the movie was deliciously paced and really good.
Then for Reloaded and Revolutions, they were given free reign. Hmm.
Computer geeks of the 80s are outnumbered by all the young computer geeks of the 90s who got turned onto computers because of the old MS-DOS/Windows 3.1 combination. Hell, there are still QBASIC user groups out there online, living up the nostalgia and still making games.
You could say that about anything. "History of Open Source would look quite similar without Linux Torvalds. We would have AthenaOS, or Minix, or widespread FreeBSD-adoption."
Seriously, you could do that to any historical figure. If Rosa Parks wasn't going to stand her ground on the bus, someone else would have eventually. But they didn't--she did.
I stand corrected. Thanks!
For you Opera users, here's something fun--hit Shift-F12 and see what your webpage looks like rendered by Opera on a tiny device!
They regularly release betas. In fact, they just released a new one with a redesigned interface intended to remove clutter.
I don't know what happened for you. That's the first account of instability I've ever heard coming from Opera.
Opera is EXTREMELY fast, takes up very little memory, and has all the functionality and more of Mozilla, etc. In fact, those free browsers ripped off a bunch of their features from Opera (tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, etc.)
I've had Mozilla crash lots of times, on the other hand. And it was always with a lot of tabs open, so I lost them all.
Guess what happens if Opera exits for whatever reason and you have stuff open? The next time you start up, you find out it auto-saved the session for you! You're right back where you left off.
You've already labelled EVERYONE who disagrees with you a "corporate whore." Nice way to be objective with your opinion...
But it doesn't work with Ebay. My password is rejected everytime I use Opera and accepted everytime I use Internet Explorer 5.
Also whenever I use Yahoo! mail with Opera and I am entering my password, the prompt JUMPS to the user name box and the characters that I type appear appended to my user name. Again this doesn't happen in Internet Explorer.
I sure wish they could fix this nonsense.
Have you even TRIED changing your browser's identification string? It's a couple of clicks away in the Quick Preferences menu...
Also, I should note to everyone that the latest beta of Opera has a redesigned interface that removes clutter. Let's be honest--Opera is the fastest and lightest browser, and almost all of its innovative features were copied by the freeware browsers. Not that I'm not typing this in the new Firefox right now! But once the new Opera comes out, I may switch back again. Heck, changing skins happens instantly in less than a second with no restart.
Online FPS are dominated by anti-social people...kids who don't have social lives and so spend all their time in UT2003/CS chatrooms and servers.
So, it's hard for a beginner to start because these kids have all the time in the world to become either frighteningly extreme experts or lame cheaters. And if you somehow do manage to beat someone--like you mentioned, they become weenies about it.
LAN parties are where it's at. You get to play with your buddies, you get to have fun. Yell insults at each other as you play. Hand each other some sodas and chips. Way better.
Wow...that's bizarre. Saddam, an "innocent victim of a smear campaign." I'm sure he was such an innocent victim in his big, golden palaces while his sons killed and tortured his own citizens...
"Paradise of prosperity and respect for human rights." Yeah, right. Saddam was a dictator, and he didn't care.
Everything wants everything to be anthropomorphised.
So, we get Bush being a "deserter," and Kerry questioning his guard service, when meanwhile Kerry said this:
"We do not need to divide America over who served and how"...
Why is it all these candidates are constantly contradicting their own word?
Care to cite a single, valid example?
Or are you talking about those protesters over in California who were blocking ambulance paths, and actually complained when they were told to leave?
Friggin' insane. I honestly don't know what to think about the war. Everyone agrees Saddam had to go. But a section of people don't agree with the way it was done.
But then I see the Iraqis discovering another hidden mass grave in Iraq and realize the world over there is better off with Saddam gone. Imagine if you were one of those Iraqis and realized your fellow citizens have been tortured and murdered for decades and you probably didn't even know about it.
The net just added to the hype. The novelty of the movie itself kept it going. That $140 million was because of the quirkiness and uniqueness of the movie at the time, not the hype that preceded it. I visited the Blair Witch website maybe once that year.
Dean also had the net hype. But nobody was as interested in the candidate as the hype wanted you to be.
The problem is, people think the net world = the real world.
Same reason we had all those dot-com companies--they thought the future was the net, that everyone would spend their time on the net using their net companies and buying their net products.
Dean was the net candidate and got popular on the net.
The truth is, even if it flies in the face of the lifestyles of most Slashdotters, the net is still just a hobby pasttime to keep contact with friends and family, enjoyed by mainstream people who spend more time actually talking to people face-to-face and working day jobs than posting to messageboards about the latest Democratic candidates.
Why is it on Slashdot that if you hold a minority viewpoint, you're automatically a "sock puppet?"
:(
I've been accused of being a Microsoft shill before simply for pointing out hysteria over some thing that Microsoft did which Slashdot was exaggerating in the past.
Everyone seems so polarizing all the time. Is it possible for someone to be a complete, 100% Democrat yet point out the flaws in Kerry (obviously, if you read my sig, you'll see I don't like the guy...the only one I like out of the group is Edwards, who seems so genuine)?
Kerry is YAWWP--Yet-Another-Wishy-Washy Politician. It's no wonder so many people are voting for him. Let's run down the list:
- Contradicting things he voted for in the past...check.
- Took special interest money while claiming to be against special interests...check.
- Very vague and never specific, speaks very slowly...check.
- Present for only 28 percent of votes...check.
- Reports coming out how arrogant he's been during his career, actually asking people at restaurants, "Do you know who I am?"...check.
- Shows no sign WHATSOEVER of being any different from any other corrupt, special-interest, money-taking politician...a big, fat check.
It's depressing. People always vote for the same guy in every election, no matter which party it is. You get the impression people are just sheep...but then you try not to be polarizing...
The real sock puppets are the candidates out there trying to become President.
What killed Dean was his negative campaigning, which works on the 'net but turns off voters.
He'd say something insane to appeal to extreme lefties ("We're no safer with Saddam captured"), then we'd all wait a few days for him to come out and explain what he "really" meant, so he could appeal to the moderates and centrists.
It was a tricky game that backfired when you had the steady-stoned Kerry (this is ignoring that he took special interest moneys in the past, of course...I'm talking appearance-wise) with his chest of wartime awards and vague, easy, partyline statements. It's amazing how much support you can get just by saying vague things like, "America is ready for a change!" Meanwhile, nobody really knows what specifically you mean by change.
Because one is something they've probably done in their past, while the other affects them negatively (I've had viruses I have no idea how I got).
In other words--yes, Slashdotters are selfish. If it annoys them, it's bad. If it's convenient, nice, and fun, it's good.
It's also why MP3 piracy is suddenly a "good thing."
I can't access the list of mirrors. However, I just now clicked the torrent, and I'm downloading at 160kb/s!
BitTorrent is a good thing.