Now the mirrordot cache, which will be down moments after I click submit:
I don't think I've ever seen Mirrordot down; but often it doesn't have the pages cached, presumably the orignal site went down before it could scrape them. But it is annoying that it only gets the first page of multi-page stories.
Opera's feature, and improved it by only blocking windows while the page loads...., Opera's implementation sucked. I went with Mozilla's implementation because it didn't block new windows opened by me.
To clarify, "sucked" is in the past tense; Opera doesn't do that now.
I buy a car from you I can do whatever the hell I want to it. I can take it apart to see how it works. I can build another car similar to it
But not too similar to it. Certainly not one with the same branded labels. And not if there is patented techology in the mechanism. Though auto manufacturers do dismantle and carefully study their competitors' offerings, they can't legally just duplicate them.
some will use www.hedgehogthemovie.com, others will use www.hedgehog-the-movie.com. No big difference? It is if you're trying to remember it.
Who remembers it? Just Google the movie title. If it doesn't come up in the first 5 hits, add "IMDB" or "Tomatoes" to the search string, which should get you the IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes pages on the film respectively, either of which will have the link to the "official" site. The whole reason Google is successful is that the name of the most relevant website is rarely predictable.
But the problem with the seemingly logical idea of always using a subdomain of a studio is that movies are often made by independent companies, who will start their site very early in the process, to help market and gain awareness, long before they make a distribution deal with a major. And a few years later when it's on video that could be sold to another studio or network; not to mention having different companies in different countries. Of course, if you know the studio they're likely to have links to current movies on their home page. What is more irritating is when you find an old DVD or see something on TV and would like to check out the website, to find it redirects to a porn or phishing site.
Sounds wonderful. What kind of "project" would have people who needed, and were capable of using, these tools? I've never met any bureaucrat who could understand, let alone use a single one of those features. People "collaborate" by printing out a document, writing on it, and faxing it back. Or, if they're slightly more sophisticated, interspersing their comments in CAPITAL LETTERS in the original and emailing it as an attachment. Then they let some flunky sort it all out an make it look nice, probably retyping most of it in the process. As for "discussions", people either meet, or use the phone. I work in DTP, 90% of the documents I get haven't even been spellchecked, I gave up trying to explain how to do that years ago, they just refuse to learn any features beyond hte absolute minimum.
In Hong Kong we've had something like this in public transport for about two years. Video monitors with "infotainment". Variety shows, movie previews and straight ads. On the rare occasions when it's something interesting you invariably miss the end. And if you have to catch several buses or trains each day, you see the same segments over and over. There was a campaign against them, which failed to get rid of them, but at least now they limit the sound volume so it's not as irritating and intrusive as it was.
I can avoid supermarkets in December or make lightning sorties to reduce my exposure to endless Xmas jingles, no such choice for commuting.
Possibly the most infuriating part of the whole thing, aside from the inescapability of it, was the straight-faced claim by the company pushing this was that it was being done as a service to passengers. That they were making millions from advertising was an unexpected side effect.
Though I really do have an old Quadra, the PC was a Celeron. All these pseudo-Latin marketing words get a bit muddled after a while. Another thing: older PCs and Macs seem to be much more robust, 486s and Quadras last forever, after 10 years or more they still boot up; Pentiums last three years at most before they fail catastrophically, in my experience. Of course, the 486 and Quadra cost several times the current models, and ran much cooler.
let's say a chemical factory or nuke reactor catches fire - you really really REALLY want to get 911 right there, right then
No you don't. They'll have a real hotline and automated alarms to the relevant emergency responders, they won't go through the 911 call centre. Aside from their own firemen and such on site.
Actually, they all seem to be quoting from this news article. There is alaso a video of the fire. (Why do people submit forum posts referring to blogs recapping usenet posts quoting from an article, instead of just going back to the original link?)
The most important question, "HOW LONG WAS THE DELAY?" is not answered anywhere I can see.
It is always the same. "The average user doesn't need to go up to the next $CURRENT_GREAT_CPU because they're able to do their average things OK now". Of course they're able to do their average things now, that's why they're stuck doing average things.
As opposed to what non-average things?
I upgraded from an 850 MHz Centris to a 2.4 GHZ Athlon a few months ago when the old mobo died; I don't see any noticeable difference in performance except video, which is a different matter. And I do DTP, more demanding than the average office paper work. As for gaming, Freecell seems about the same too.
Britain never had a social revolution like some other nations had and so never really had a defining moment where a well thought out governing body was created.
Except for the English Civil War, though of course a lot of that was rolled back in the Reformation.
Odd no one seems to have referenced the new movie V for Vendetta yet; seems quite apposite.
No. The Queen can, in theory, refuse to assent a bill, but it's a formality. The constitutional powers of the monarch are held by the Prime Minister (this is a source of controversy itself). Should any monarch try to make use of their theoretical powers, it would be massive constitutial crisis, and they would be removed in short order.
This happened in Australia in 1975. The Senate, controlled by the Liberals (actually a conservative party) blocked the Labor government's budget and the country was grinding to a halt. Governor General Kerr, the Queen's representative, sacked the elected PM, Whitlam, and appointed Fraser, a Liberal, as PM. Though Fraser went on to win in the next election, it was and still is an enormously divisive event, worse than the Florida voting scandal of the 2000 US election for making people doubt the legitimacy of government.
You can't. It's copyrighted, patented, and trademarked,
That pretty much goes with the term "franchise". Like McDonalds, if you want to sell Big Macs, you have to sign a contract with the McDonald's Corporation.
But it's not like there is any patent on space opera in general; there's a huge body of work from the 30s pulp magazines up to the present you could licence for almost nothing; or just write somethng original, there's a thought.
All I'm saying is that we won't know untill we try
Particle accelerators "try" every day. They pump gigantic amounts of energy into protons, electrons and other particles, get them up to a hair below c, but never any hint of reaching or exceeding c (in vacuum, I know you can go faster than light does in glass, water, etc).
This professor can't possibly be focused solely on note-taking.
Yes, I think she was trying to avoid saying STOP FUCKING AROUND WITH GAMES AND IM AND PORN WHEN YOU'RE IN MY LECTURES!, though that's probably understood by the students.
it will follow the method that all other science fiction TV shows have followed since the X Files and shoot in low light conditions so you can barely see what's happening
Actually, I think it will have lots of completely CGI characters and aliens, and be in full sunslight (both of them) most of the time. Lucas did a lot of Young Indian Jones like that, almost 10 years ago, he'll use it to showcase ILM as much as possible.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if a TV exec signed on for that many episodes of anything labeled Star Wars.
They would never ever do that. It's going to cost at least $1 million/episode. Even with unknown actors and greenscreen scenery. They'll certainly have an option, as they always do, but it will be cancelled after a dozen episodes if it doesn't deliver the ratings.
The post I responded to had been modded up at the time; it was therefore visible and "on the record", so I made an exception. Yours, however is invisible to almost everyone. Also, your style is certainly very similar to "rubato". If you are indeed him then I don't care for the tactic of going AC when you want to continue an argument to avoid possible karma damage from down-mods. But if you are someone else, then I don't know what your agenda is, but still mistrust your motives in sniping from cover, especailly as you are calling up my old posts while you remain anonymous. So log in or be ignored.
In such circumstances it is not pedantic to include "sic"; it is just good usage, colloquial or otherwise.
That's drawing a fine distinction between good usage and pedantry. They're not mutually exclusive. Anyway, since the text is a transcript of a TV show, we can at least give the presenter the benefit of the doubt and assume he actually said "eminent", while a sic would be claiming he really said "imminent".
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think I've ever seen Mirrordot down; but often it doesn't have the pages cached, presumably the orignal site went down before it could scrape them. But it is annoying that it only gets the first page of multi-page stories.
For one thing,it would stop global warming (at least that from greenhouse gases; the heat from fusion itself would eventually be a problem).
To clarify, "sucked" is in the past tense; Opera doesn't do that now.
But not too similar to it. Certainly not one with the same branded labels. And not if there is patented techology in the mechanism. Though auto manufacturers do dismantle and carefully study their competitors' offerings, they can't legally just duplicate them.
Who remembers it? Just Google the movie title. If it doesn't come up in the first 5 hits, add "IMDB" or "Tomatoes" to the search string, which should get you the IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes pages on the film respectively, either of which will have the link to the "official" site. The whole reason Google is successful is that the name of the most relevant website is rarely predictable.
But the problem with the seemingly logical idea of always using a subdomain of a studio is that movies are often made by independent companies, who will start their site very early in the process, to help market and gain awareness, long before they make a distribution deal with a major. And a few years later when it's on video that could be sold to another studio or network; not to mention having different companies in different countries. Of course, if you know the studio they're likely to have links to current movies on their home page. What is more irritating is when you find an old DVD or see something on TV and would like to check out the website, to find it redirects to a porn or phishing site.
Sounds wonderful. What kind of "project" would have people who needed, and were capable of using, these tools? I've never met any bureaucrat who could understand, let alone use a single one of those features. People "collaborate" by printing out a document, writing on it, and faxing it back. Or, if they're slightly more sophisticated, interspersing their comments in CAPITAL LETTERS in the original and emailing it as an attachment. Then they let some flunky sort it all out an make it look nice, probably retyping most of it in the process. As for "discussions", people either meet, or use the phone. I work in DTP, 90% of the documents I get haven't even been spellchecked, I gave up trying to explain how to do that years ago, they just refuse to learn any features beyond hte absolute minimum.
I can avoid supermarkets in December or make lightning sorties to reduce my exposure to endless Xmas jingles, no such choice for commuting.
Possibly the most infuriating part of the whole thing, aside from the inescapability of it, was the straight-faced claim by the company pushing this was that it was being done as a service to passengers. That they were making millions from advertising was an unexpected side effect.
Yeah, it had the Sonnet accelerator.
Though I really do have an old Quadra, the PC was a Celeron. All these pseudo-Latin marketing words get a bit muddled after a while. Another thing: older PCs and Macs seem to be much more robust, 486s and Quadras last forever, after 10 years or more they still boot up; Pentiums last three years at most before they fail catastrophically, in my experience. Of course, the 486 and Quadra cost several times the current models, and ran much cooler.
No you don't. They'll have a real hotline and automated alarms to the relevant emergency responders, they won't go through the 911 call centre. Aside from their own firemen and such on site.
The most important question, "HOW LONG WAS THE DELAY?" is not answered anywhere I can see.
As opposed to what non-average things?
I upgraded from an 850 MHz Centris to a 2.4 GHZ Athlon a few months ago when the old mobo died; I don't see any noticeable difference in performance except video, which is a different matter. And I do DTP, more demanding than the average office paper work. As for gaming, Freecell seems about the same too.
Yes. High school was a long, long time ago....
Not to mention the completely inaccurate Slashdot heading: "GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft".
Except for the English Civil War, though of course a lot of that was rolled back in the Reformation.
Odd no one seems to have referenced the new movie V for Vendetta yet; seems quite apposite.
Have you looked at how the US Electoral College system works? They can appoint anyone they like as president.
This happened in Australia in 1975. The Senate, controlled by the Liberals (actually a conservative party) blocked the Labor government's budget and the country was grinding to a halt. Governor General Kerr, the Queen's representative, sacked the elected PM, Whitlam, and appointed Fraser, a Liberal, as PM. Though Fraser went on to win in the next election, it was and still is an enormously divisive event, worse than the Florida voting scandal of the 2000 US election for making people doubt the legitimacy of government.
That pretty much goes with the term "franchise". Like McDonalds, if you want to sell Big Macs, you have to sign a contract with the McDonald's Corporation.
But it's not like there is any patent on space opera in general; there's a huge body of work from the 30s pulp magazines up to the present you could licence for almost nothing; or just write somethng original, there's a thought.
Particle accelerators "try" every day. They pump gigantic amounts of energy into protons, electrons and other particles, get them up to a hair below c, but never any hint of reaching or exceeding c (in vacuum, I know you can go faster than light does in glass, water, etc).
Yes, I think she was trying to avoid saying STOP FUCKING AROUND WITH GAMES AND IM AND PORN WHEN YOU'RE IN MY LECTURES!, though that's probably understood by the students.
Actually, I think it will have lots of completely CGI characters and aliens, and be in full sunslight (both of them) most of the time. Lucas did a lot of Young Indian Jones like that, almost 10 years ago, he'll use it to showcase ILM as much as possible.
They would never ever do that. It's going to cost at least $1 million/episode. Even with unknown actors and greenscreen scenery. They'll certainly have an option, as they always do, but it will be cancelled after a dozen episodes if it doesn't deliver the ratings.
It'll be The Dukes of Tattooine with a flying General Lee. Boss Jabba Hogg, Uncle Jesse Kenobi...
The post I responded to had been modded up at the time; it was therefore visible and "on the record", so I made an exception. Yours, however is invisible to almost everyone. Also, your style is certainly very similar to "rubato". If you are indeed him then I don't care for the tactic of going AC when you want to continue an argument to avoid possible karma damage from down-mods. But if you are someone else, then I don't know what your agenda is, but still mistrust your motives in sniping from cover, especailly as you are calling up my old posts while you remain anonymous. So log in or be ignored.
I don't debate ACS.
That's drawing a fine distinction between good usage and pedantry. They're not mutually exclusive. Anyway, since the text is a transcript of a TV show, we can at least give the presenter the benefit of the doubt and assume he actually said "eminent", while a sic would be claiming he really said "imminent".