sometime between May 6, 1999 and Oct. 9, 1999, WebCrawler stopped pitching the Netscape Now! and Microsoft Internet Explorer buttons at the bottom of the page.
All Things Considered ran a good overview tonight of the Diebold story.
Cited are critiques of security and even poor code quality, the guts of internal memos now floating around, Diebold's threats against ISPs, and comments from the EFF.
unfortunately, my university bookstore just rents space from the University (and presumably gives them a slice off the top). It is a private company that owns many many bookstores across the country (and even in Canada).
excepting that efollett goes belly-up and the university has to reassume responsibility for selling textbooks, I don't see any harm befalling schools like mine just because some students don't feel like shelling out $50.00 for a paperback book (deep links to individual titles not possible, for obvious reasons).
maybe not the most insightful [+1] of answers, but it does seem likely that in the big picture, spam-happy businesses seeking span-senders will generally outnumber the spam-senders themselves, in a modern-day hydra sort of way.
attacking the root of the problem rather than battling each individual head, it then seems, would be that much more effective.
With ten minutes of legwork and a little less knee-jerk, you could have discovered that the C64 styling is not a stand-alone feature, but rather one implementation of a pretty damn cool feature: user-defined style sheets.
So, they spent a little bit of time and threw together several quick examples to show this off (incl. "Emulate text browser," "High contrast W/B") and apparently thought C64 might be kind of funny. And it is.
You don't need no gun control. We need some bullet control. I think all bullets should cost $5,000... Every time somebody get shot, you'd be like, "Dang, he musta did somethin'. Shit, they put $50,000 worth a bullets in his ass!"
here's the deal. My friend and I are planning a ~semester-long backpacking trip through Europe in about a year. Official crap now out of the way, we are looking at day-to-day living. As bona-fide, e-mail addicted, grade-A nerds, having a portable PC is a must. "Laptops, you idiot!" Not really. Can you use your TiBook to scribble out an e-mail while walking to catch the next train? Look at e-maps when you're half-drunk and two-thirds lost? The on-the-go/as-you-go functionality is the appeal, at least for me.
my CS professor loves to use powerpoint presentations as lectures almost as much as he likes to walk around (presumably to keep us awake...?)
he recently purchased one of these mice and initially we were all impressed -- waving his arms through the air with pp slides flying by behind him; it was like magic. pure, hardcore geeky magic.
until the batteries died. then things got frustrating: the cursor, *when* it responded, skittered around the screen like a coked up mosquito, slides would click by at random. I presume he tired of banging the confounded thing against the wall (with no effect) since he eventually retired the bugger.
now we're back in the tech stone-age: actually CLICKING the mouse. oh, the humanity.
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sometime between May 6, 1999 and Oct. 9, 1999, WebCrawler stopped pitching the Netscape Now! and Microsoft Internet Explorer buttons at the bottom of the page.
an interesting milestone, to say the least
All Things Considered ran a good overview tonight of the Diebold story.
Cited are critiques of security and even poor code quality, the guts of internal memos now floating around, Diebold's threats against ISPs, and comments from the EFF.
(Runtime, 4:50; RealPlayer or WMP required)
unfortunately, my university bookstore just rents space from the University (and presumably gives them a slice off the top). It is a private company that owns many many bookstores across the country (and even in Canada).
excepting that efollett goes belly-up and the university has to reassume responsibility for selling textbooks, I don't see any harm befalling schools like mine just because some students don't feel like shelling out $50.00 for a paperback book (deep links to individual titles not possible, for obvious reasons).
(*),
> I'm sure the sight of my award bring tears to their eyes, just as it does to me.
[from the audience]: it ain't the award, dude! it's your pits!
... exist in Opera:
also:
if you tried it and bailed, try again. it really is worth another look.
++ of course, I have no affiliation with Opera Software aside from owning a registered copy ($39) of their phenomenal browser.
"So, who buys a Segway? I can only think of one answer: rich, lazy, stupid people." - scottseeley.com
heh.
yep.
Internet Explorer: Opera
NOT abandoning Mac users as was first reported...
maybe not the most insightful [+1] of answers, but it does seem likely that in the big picture, spam-happy businesses seeking span-senders will generally outnumber the spam-senders themselves, in a modern-day hydra sort of way.
attacking the root of the problem rather than battling each individual head, it then seems, would be that much more effective.
ahem.
Speaking of mistakes...
With ten minutes of legwork and a little less knee-jerk, you could have discovered that the C64 styling is not a stand-alone feature, but rather one implementation of a pretty damn cool feature: user-defined style sheets.
So, they spent a little bit of time and threw together several quick examples to show this off (incl. "Emulate text browser," "High contrast W/B") and apparently thought C64 might be kind of funny. And it is.
But, yeah. Feature creep.
You don't need no gun control. We need some bullet control. I think all bullets should cost $5,000... Every time somebody get shot, you'd be like, "Dang, he musta did somethin'. Shit, they put $50,000 worth a bullets in his ass!"
here's the deal. My friend and I are planning a ~semester-long backpacking trip through Europe in about a year. Official crap now out of the way, we are looking at day-to-day living. As bona-fide, e-mail addicted, grade-A nerds, having a portable PC is a must. "Laptops, you idiot!" Not really. Can you use your TiBook to scribble out an e-mail while walking to catch the next train? Look at e-maps when you're half-drunk and two-thirds lost? The on-the-go/as-you-go functionality is the appeal, at least for me.
I'm saving my pennies.
my CS professor loves to use powerpoint presentations as lectures almost as much as he likes to walk around (presumably to keep us awake...?)
he recently purchased one of these mice and initially we were all impressed -- waving his arms through the air with pp slides flying by behind him; it was like magic. pure, hardcore geeky magic.
until the batteries died. then things got frustrating: the cursor, *when* it responded, skittered around the screen like a coked up mosquito, slides would click by at random. I presume he tired of banging the confounded thing against the wall (with no effect) since he eventually retired the bugger.
now we're back in the tech stone-age: actually CLICKING the mouse. oh, the humanity.