just another "use firefox" advert of course, I DO use firefox but still..
does not surprise me, using IE as a core in an attempt to recreate something like firefox (which all this functionality you can easily do with ff and a few tweaks that take five minutes)
I am not sure if it the tools they are giving people or what.. but if that is what web2.0 is "supposed" to look like then that site time travelled from about 1997 or so to now because the last time I saw that many sites with horrible frame-jobs and "wacky" animated gifs was in 1996 (and we were sick of it then)
I have gone further and tried to find a single redeeming site on there.. I have yet to find one..
all the websites on myspace look like crap.. it is just the new geocities combined with one of those social network sites.
I am sure they make good money on ads..
if I see a company with a mission statement that talks about giving stuff away, lots of venture capital and no product then I will really belive that bubble2.0 has arrived..
I highly suspect that Sony was following the contracts with these artist to the letter, so the artists are attempting to say that their contracts (clearly written before the advent of mp3's and itunes) are no longer valid in light of new technology. The artists will most likely not win here and Sony will continue to make money.
Is a bummer to have an old contract though.. poor elvis
well.. if ads didn't interfere with your use of your operating system would you still want them there?
so, you open up your vista control panel and there is a flashing ad for a singles site there.. technically that would have no impact on your use of the product?
I suppose it is the difference with using something like gaim (linux user here) or icq in windows.. icq has a popup advertising window, and ads at the bottom and all over when you are trying to talk with people.. Sure they are not "in the way" but I would still prefer they were not there..
Am reminded of just how old this is.. The romans even had sponsored by messages that their news dispatchers would have to say at the end of news.. "Romanna... real roman bread for real romans.."
has always been a thing.. but, living in a city, they have managed to plaster ads on every available space.. and smaller stores/sites go crazy with the stickers and flyers.
In Europe, there are ads, but they are very limited, nothing like times square in NYC or Tokyo.
that old saying from some research somewhere that men think about sex six times per hour... well, the law of averages.. sort of like how the timed salts worked with old crack program (people were most likely to create a new password in the morning so it limited the number of salts to a couple hour window which made cracking much faster)...
sounds insecure to me:) but then, what I am thinking about?
yes yes... I am not normally a modelling app fanboy, but having no idea what I was doing, I modelled the building I live in and did it in under and hour.. so, I got very impressed...
and google owns them, so.. actually, cue the/. google-fan-boy-dom
if you have not tried out this program.. download it now.. the push/pull tool is amazing and so intuitive it is like.. "magic".. has been a long time since I have been that impressed at a program.
read some of the reviews out there and see what people are doing with it. The online galleries are inspiring..
you can import almost any model, export to almost any kind of model..
amazing amazing program I have been using for a few months now..
There are websites like allofmp3.com that sell mp3's in bulk with a set amount per meg.. seems pretty cheap to me, set the bitrate, if you want higher quality music than you can get on limewire or soulseek..
iTunes is too expensive.. but, there are alternatives.
more code is good code.. though, just noticed the other day that MS seems to have some "code-sharing" initiative they have done.. though, for some reason I cannot seem to force myself to download *any* of it..
perhaps they need to remove the big graphics on that page? at first I thought it was a video load or something.. then realized it was a display graphic of some girls (who are those girls?)
seems they just restarted the server, don't think they quite know yet they are slashdotted.
the fact that it has been there for centuries aside, the fact that it is one of the most important sea ports in the world aside (gas prices affected by that city) and the fact that I was clearly poking fun at the whole situation aside..
there are entire countries below sea level and surrounded by levee systems.
you sir, from your statements, sound like one that would say that New York should not have built buildings so tall so people could fly planes into them..
polar bears drowning all over, huge chunks of ice the size of rhode island falling off antartica, hurricanes destroying entire cities in the leading developed country... it is like watching a movie already, only thing missing is the statue of liberty sticking out of a glacier...
as for us, we are screwing ourselves so fast it kind of hard not to notice it.. you can only piss and shit in your own house for so long before it becomes unbearable and you end up catching some sickness and making a total wreck of the place.. if you look, you will see the corporations coming back in zipping up their pants..
will it 'fully' happen in our lifetime? probably not, so who really cares.. plug your nose and let our kids clean up..
just following up.. if you belive in ID, the we still run into the problem of who created the creator.. which becomes circular and a mess..
you may think it is horseshit, you are fully in your right to think that.. but if you belive in ID, then who/what created the ID? In essence, science has cut out this messy "invisible hand in the sky" stuff and attempts to explain what we can see.. We may not always be correct, but we "can" self-correct, which in itself is leaps and bounds beyond a religious fanatic who is locked in his mental closet who worships ghosts and lives in fear of them.
however, it does not change the fact that these things are true.. Space "is" infinite, if you could fly to the edge of the universe in a second and continue at that speed, you could fly forever and never reach a boundary.. One thing we won't run out of is space..
Time is the same way, it moves regardless of all other factors..
You can read a lot about the "big bang" and other educated guesses on wikipedia and at your local library...
I don't have the time to rehash it all here for you..
as much as I would love to discuss "nothingness" with you.. which oddly, I do agree with you.. energy is technically "nothing" as is "light" as far where everything came from, that is a question bigger than you or I and is mostly covered in a theory called the "big bang" which is a theory on a compressed universe (google 'nucleosynthesis') and speaks volumes about ideas for the origin, and the creation of a lot of this matter... For a brush up, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang
You are going to notice a prevalence of the terms "space" and "time" here a lot..
Though, most of this topic should have been covered somewhere in Junior high, unless you went to a religious school, then it would have been brushed over in favor of a censored version they are legally obligated to cover.
are you familiar with velocity? "time" is a factor. thus, without time, things don't, well.. do anything. (i.e. With lots of 'time', we could currently send a probe to another solar system..)
as far as 'space', it is common to take into account all the matter, and that involves you and myself.. unless you are trying to tell me you are not a part of the universe?
so, the reality is, there is only time and space, everything else happens within those two pillars of the universe.
time as we know it, has to be infinite and unending/unbeginning.. some theorize markers, but time would have had to exist beforehand.
space as we know it also has to be infinite, even by the theory that it is expanding at the speed of light = infinite. Mostly because as we approach the speed of light, we never quite get there because it is an asymptotic climb.
I have never even heard of anything to refute the above two..
based on those two thing, possibilities must therefore be infinite.
well, it used to be that being "into" computers was a geek thing and would socially isolate you (usually to the computer lab)..
go to any computer store now, you have all the cool kids in there fawning over the latest computers and if you don't have a computer you are considered strange.. And I read an article a while back about meeting women while computing and what computers are considered cool...
Slashdot Mirror
just another "use firefox" advert of course, I DO use firefox but still..
does not surprise me, using IE as a core in an attempt to recreate something like firefox (which all this functionality you can easily do with ff and a few tweaks that take five minutes)
moving along.. nothing to see here..
yay.. spiffy new vim, vrs spiffy old vim..
though, the new features do look nice.
I actually know a guy with a ":wq" tattoo (on the back of his neck)
accidentally deleting your airline reservations while wilding trying to remove spam from your inbox so you don't MISS the airline reservation mail..
*sigh*
what you get for not paying attn to the little box in lower left of the thunderbird window..
This is perfect, some GREAT opportunities for wardrobe malfunctions and haircombing shots... :)
whoa!!!
20k ??
guess giving out cheap webspace and smearing it with ads really does pay off..
I thought that died off with geocities.. saying I have not seen a link to a geocities or tripod whatever etc site in ages..
wow
I am not sure if it the tools they are giving people or what..
but if that is what web2.0 is "supposed" to look like then that site time travelled from about 1997 or so to now because the last time I saw that many sites with horrible frame-jobs and "wacky" animated gifs was in 1996 (and we were sick of it then)
I have gone further and tried to find a single redeeming site on there.. I have yet to find one..
all the websites on myspace look like crap..
it is just the new geocities combined with one of those social network sites.
I am sure they make good money on ads..
if I see a company with a mission statement that talks about giving stuff away, lots of venture capital and no product then I will really belive that bubble2.0 has arrived..
I highly suspect that Sony was following the contracts with these artist to the letter, so the artists are attempting to say that their contracts (clearly written before the advent of mp3's and itunes) are no longer valid in light of new technology.
The artists will most likely not win here and Sony will continue to make money.
Is a bummer to have an old contract though..
poor elvis
lots of talent around here.. ...
well..
if ads didn't interfere with your use of your operating system would you still want them there?
so, you open up your vista control panel and there is a flashing ad for a singles site there.. technically that would have no impact on your use of the product?
I suppose it is the difference with using something like gaim (linux user here) or icq in windows.. icq has a popup advertising window, and ads at the bottom and all over when you are trying to talk with people.. Sure they are not "in the way" but I would still prefer they were not there..
Am reminded of just how old this is.. The romans even had sponsored by messages that their news dispatchers would have to say at the end of news.. "Romanna... real roman bread for real romans.."
has always been a thing..
but, living in a city, they have managed to plaster ads on every available space.. and smaller stores/sites go crazy with the stickers and flyers.
In Europe, there are ads, but they are very limited, nothing like times square in NYC or Tokyo.
that old saying from some research somewhere that men think about sex six times per hour...
:)
well, the law of averages.. sort of like how the timed salts worked with old crack program (people were most likely to create a new password in the morning so it limited the number of salts to a couple hour window which made cracking much faster)...
sounds insecure to me
but then, what I am thinking about?
yes yes...
/. google-fan-boy-dom
I am not normally a modelling app fanboy, but having no idea what I was doing, I modelled the building I live in and did it in under and hour.. so, I got very impressed...
and google owns them, so.. actually, cue the
well, the subway has record profits.. in NYC, several billion in surplus.
so.. most of the ads there get defaced fast though..
movie theatres are losing money because movies for the most part have really sucked for the last couple years..
the *main* reason people pay for "premium" channels like HBO and Cinemax etc (thus your paying more stmt) is because they don't have to deal with ads.
All the good stuff is on these channels now..
Network tv is all reality shows now..
if you have not tried out this program.. download it now.. .. "magic".. has been a long time since I have been that impressed at a program.
the push/pull tool is amazing and so intuitive it is like
read some of the reviews out there and see what people are doing with it. The online galleries are inspiring..
you can import almost any model, export to almost any kind of model..
amazing amazing program I have been using for a few months now..
"Are you sure you want to click there? and while you are clicking, here is a word from our sponsor"
like how you pay to be on the subway, pay to go to a movie etc and then get bombarded the entire time with ads and ad placements..
everywhere ads..
There are websites like allofmp3.com that sell mp3's in bulk with a set amount per meg.. seems pretty cheap to me, set the bitrate, if you want higher quality music than you can get on limewire or soulseek..
.. but, there are alternatives.
iTunes is too expensive
more code is good code..
though, just noticed the other day that MS seems to have some "code-sharing" initiative they have done..
though, for some reason I cannot seem to force myself to download *any* of it..
perhaps they need to remove the big graphics on that page?
at first I thought it was a video load or something..
then realized it was a display graphic of some girls (who are those girls?)
seems they just restarted the server, don't think they quite know yet they are slashdotted.
the fact that it has been there for centuries aside, the fact that it is one of the most important sea ports in the world aside (gas prices affected by that city) and the fact that I was clearly poking fun at the whole situation aside..
there are entire countries below sea level and surrounded by levee systems.
you sir, from your statements, sound like one that would say that New York should not have built buildings so tall so people could fly planes into them..
bah.. go back to your trailer park
polar bears drowning all over, huge chunks of ice the size of rhode island falling off antartica, hurricanes destroying entire cities in the leading developed country... it is like watching a movie already, only thing missing is the statue of liberty sticking out of a glacier...
..
as for us, we are screwing ourselves so fast it kind of hard not to notice it..
you can only piss and shit in your own house for so long before it becomes unbearable and you end up catching some sickness and making a total wreck of the place.. if you look, you will see the corporations coming back in zipping up their pants..
will it 'fully' happen in our lifetime? probably not, so who really cares.. plug your nose and let our kids clean up
just following up..
if you belive in ID, the we still run into the problem of who created the creator.. which becomes circular and a mess..
you may think it is horseshit, you are fully in your right to think that.. but if you belive in ID, then who/what created the ID? In essence, science has cut out this messy "invisible hand in the sky" stuff and attempts to explain what we can see.. We may not always be correct, but we "can" self-correct, which in itself is leaps and bounds beyond a religious fanatic who is locked in his mental closet who worships ghosts and lives in fear of them.
however, it does not change the fact that these things are true..
Space "is" infinite, if you could fly to the edge of the universe in a second and continue at that speed, you could fly forever and never reach a boundary.. One thing we won't run out of is space..
Time is the same way, it moves regardless of all other factors..
You can read a lot about the "big bang" and other educated guesses on wikipedia and at your local library...
I don't have the time to rehash it all here for you..
as much as I would love to discuss "nothingness" with you..
which oddly, I do agree with you.. energy is technically "nothing" as is "light"
as far where everything came from, that is a question bigger than you or I and is mostly covered in a theory called the "big bang" which is a theory on a compressed universe (google 'nucleosynthesis') and speaks volumes about ideas for the origin, and the creation of a lot of this matter...
For a brush up, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang
You are going to notice a prevalence of the terms "space" and "time" here a lot..
Though, most of this topic should have been covered somewhere in Junior high, unless you went to a religious school, then it would have been brushed over in favor of a censored version they are legally obligated to cover.
are you familiar with velocity?
"time" is a factor. thus, without time, things don't, well.. do anything. (i.e. With lots of 'time', we could currently send a probe to another solar system..)
as far as 'space', it is common to take into account all the matter, and that involves you and myself.. unless you are trying to tell me you are not a part of the universe?
so, the reality is, there is only time and space, everything else happens within those two pillars of the universe.
think about it...
time as we know it, has to be infinite and unending/unbeginning.. some theorize markers, but time would have had to exist beforehand.
space as we know it also has to be infinite, even by the theory that it is expanding at the speed of light = infinite. Mostly because as we approach the speed of light, we never quite get there because it is an asymptotic climb.
I have never even heard of anything to refute the above two..
based on those two thing, possibilities must therefore be infinite.
so..
well, it used to be that being "into" computers was a geek thing and would socially isolate you (usually to the computer lab)..
go to any computer store now, you have all the cool kids in there fawning over the latest computers and if you don't have a computer you are considered strange.. And I read an article a while back about meeting women while computing and what computers are considered cool...
how funny the switch...