You can moderate the parent comment troll all you like, but we have to admit he's a bit right. Obama certainly is better than Bush. But that isn't that hard now, it it? ^^
The most interesting fact here is, that the very banks that got those tons of money, were the ones that nearly entirely payed his whole campaign. And I think we all already agreed some months ago, that Biden is a tool of the content industry. ^^ The thing that really hit me positively with Obama, (And here is the point that you should have read too, if you modded me troll too by now. ^^) was that what he said was almost *exactly* what I would have planned, if I would be the president. Something I thought to be unthinkable. The thing that really hit me negatively, was how so many people he appointed, were busted for this crime and that crime. And how he chose to appoint the next guy, and that guy *also* got busted for some shit. I really wonder if this happened, because Obama, in the attempt to keep his promises, ignored the lobbies and appointed who he really thought was the best one, and those lobbies then went to find something to get that guy killed... or if Obama did actually deliberately choose bad people? (Or both? Or none of both?)
I think I will only judge him, *after* his actions. And I will not judge him relative to Bush, but relative to my values.
I mean, W.T.F.?? Why not require one display per icon? ^^ Why not just put a preview of the file or thing itself an that place? I just don't get it. ^^
No offense, but I rather invent something just as ingenious but new, on top of those building block, so that future yous can re-invent my wheel. ^^
Based on your theory, one could also argue, that it makes sense, to make your own resistors and transistors, and perhaps also the machines to make them, and the machines to make the components for those machines, and so on... literally re-inventing the wheel in the process.:)
I usually am happy with reading how such stuff works (I actually literally feel the need for it). But I do not see the point in re-implementing it. The only stuff I want to know how to make myself, is stuff that could save my life if I happen to get into an end time / war scenario: - Know how to find or prepare drinkable water. - Know which plants one can eat, and how to cultivate, prepare and conserve them them. (including making fire.) - Hunt, catch, disembowel, partition, and conserve animals (meat). - Know a bit about health, and how to prepare pharmaceuticals. - Make my own clothes. (Secondary, if the weather allows it.) - Build a shelter or hut/house. - Secure my shelter and myself. (defensive and offensive methods.) - Oh, and I recommend knowing how to make children, and raise them. But I hope that one is obvious, even to the spoiled city-dwelling subset of Slashdotters. ^^
Remember Myst? Well, you can make something like that right now. What you need is: - A lens or mirror that can make at least 180 images. - A panorama creation program. - A simple video camera. - A Quicktime VR creation tool. - A Java applet that can display Quicktime VR, including clickable zones.
Basically you make enough (overlapping) images of each place, to create a panorama. Then you make short (accelerated) movies of the walk between those places. Now you create the panoramas, and with that tool, create clickable zones. In a house, you would make the doors, and perhaps the windows clickable. You know what I mean. Then you can simply link the clickables to the different movies, contained in Flash files. And you make the end of the Flash files automatically load the URL of the resulting panorama. If you really want to become fancy, you record loops of background audio, so people can heart them, and feel immersed.
Do not forget to describe the feeling of the senses that you can't show that well. Describe how it smells, how it feels on your skin. How hot/cold/windy it is, etc. People are really good at building their own super-realistic fantasy out of this. I guarantee you, they will be impressed!
I wonder, what you are going to do about it. Just complain? Or rise up? Because as long as you do not rise up, it seems like it still is far from bad enough, and has to become much worse, before you actually rise up.
Just take a simple test. Some intelligence test. And I mean all types of intelligence. I bet by the third day (at latest), you will stop staying awake, when you see the results. ^^
Not if you are in the axis of fundamentalism (USA, Iran, Israel, other Arabic countries, etc). Then you only can get a tax deduction for "enhanced tuition techniques".
Hmm. The real problem is, that you can not go somewhere else when stuff like that happens. Usually they all are that way. And usually they can just reject you and not care, while you can not do the same.
That's why unions came up. Unfortunately it turned out being something not exactly as good as intended. ^^
Try a lightweight Hollywood model. That is, when everybody is self-employed, and you can have multiple "bosses"/clients and can always hire your own employees/businesses. Lightweight would mean, to do it, but to group with those bosses/clients/employees/businesses in a kind of "company" that lets you cut down on the administration and tax work, while still being just as free in everything else. Then you could easily say "no" to one boss/client, and choose to do work for the other one.
Is there anyone here who seriously thought that it would be even remotely related to ok, to not sleep for several days?
Not only does it make you stupid as hell, and depressed. Your brain also starts to fail more and more. Even if you do not die, you will not be far away from a zombie.
Hope you do not run up to me in that state, because I am going to shoot you. I don't take risks zombies. Zombies and raptors. Especially zombie raptors. ^^
Hmm... Sure it adds some complexity. And complexity can add bugs. (But does not have to.)
But it is well worth it. Same as UTF-8.
If you fear exploitability then I ask you: Do you run Windows? A browser? A instant-messaging-client? (They transmit HTML too.) A file sharing program? (Those things are always scanned for exploits. All the time.) Do you use cracks off of sites like astalavista, gamecopyworld, or straigt out of the p2p nets?
If you at all do any of those things, then I think it's pretty much irrelevant to worry about your e-mail-client allowing HTML.:) No offense, but I just think it's a bit unrealistic. ^^
Besides: The thing with hot-linked images is long solved. Thunderbird for example asks you (non-modal notification bar) before it loads images. And it asks again, before loading non-embedded (=hot-linked) images.:)
Of course, you can do what you prefer, and not see the proper layout and emphasis. It's a part of being free, to be able to do things, even if they make no sense (to others or at all).:)
Well... I think th "swimming in money" aspect is already way smaller than it was, and I also think that Microsoft is already preparing for the moment when it will be gone. Which certainly will happen when Win7 fails.
Come on! In these times, this argument is completely and utterly outdated. And besides: The spammers do not care anyway.
No why not use HTML as it was intended: To mark-up hypertext. You know, it's actually a cool and useful technology.
And there is not a single real-world e-mail client I know that still can't do basic HTML. Where do you live? in the 80s? We techies usually aren't so conservative. So why here?
Examples for which HTML is good:
Emphasizing elements.
Properly embedding links.
Properly embedding those images that say more than a thousand words. (Emphasis on useful)
Semantically structuring your mail: Paragraphs, sections, headings, addresses, code, etc.
Other useful semantic structures, like tables, lists, definitions, etc.
Works best, when used with UTF-8, for real extended characters. (Can't live without those since I installed the first NEO 2.0 beta [optimized and extended German keyboard layout]. Slashdot is the only site I know that fails hard at UTF-8.)
Mind you, that I did not mention CSS in this comment. I think in mails, the visual style should be decided by the reader. (Ok, the submitter could suggest a style. But he can not expect it. [Same as here on/.])
Oh, and, this comment was written in extrans (HTML-on-text). (Wrongly called "Plain Old Text" on/., because of a bug in Slash that exists for ages.)
Hmm... I don't know, but isn't it obvious here, that the RIAA payed that lawyer to stop working for her? I mean, if they didn't do it, they will, as soon as they read this.
Is there really no way, to make the government think that the RIAA is linked to the Al-Qaeda, and has to be tortured in some offshore prison? Why some poor Arabic slobs? Why not them? ^^
tl;dr: They flushed $200M down the toilet in the attempt to built a MS Office killer in Visual Basic 6, and ended up attaching computers to donkeys in the Himalaya. No shit!
He meant the resolution of modern models, maps and textures. But I think that is secondary. Look at how little Flash games on Kongregate vastly outperform even some huge multi-million game projects.
I would do just focus on ingenious funny concepts. The Duke always was about his attitude. But it was limited. Go full-fledged berserk on this. Make it deliberately offensive to conservatives, just for the fun of it. Booze, drugs, Coughing Nails (the same of cigarettes in System Shock 2), a red-light-district, and comedically retarded aliens. Explode large buildings, hell, add tons of huge explosions and overly big guns to it. Add everything to the game, that lets him show his ego and attitude.:)
Just do not go the way of Serious Sam. That's when you know you went too far. ^^
Well, who says that? I think it's entirely possible. You just do not have to blow up the graphics like crazy. The sole fun, and balancing, and game mechanics, etc? For sure! Just use a well-made engine. It already has nearly all of it. Start with the most basic 1-hour-in-3dsmax models, and some basic rooms, to test out the concepts. Then gradually improve the game. Do not focus on high-res stuff. That's what eats up nearly all of the resources. You see, most modern shooters are not much more complex in terms of game mechanics, than Quake 1 or Quake 3.
Just for the non-german speakers: "Dr. Hirnficker" aktually means "Dr. Brainfucker".:)
I still await "Herzog Atombombesie Für Immer" though. (Sadly we have no word for "nuke" in German. Who wants to be the first to coin the new term. You know: For the good of humanity. For the fun. To become rich and fam... aaah, who am I telling this? *walks off the stage*)
What about stores that do not care for retards. Like, you know, DJ stores.:P
Seriously: You can go too far on expecting your clients to be stupid. (And one of Murphy's laws is, that if you dumb your expectations down, nature will just invent better idiots.)
Slashdot Mirror
That's obviously fake.
Also, I would know, if there were that product in Germany.
You can moderate the parent comment troll all you like, but we have to admit he's a bit right.
Obama certainly is better than Bush. But that isn't that hard now, it it? ^^
The most interesting fact here is, that the very banks that got those tons of money, were the ones that nearly entirely payed his whole campaign. And I think we all already agreed some months ago, that Biden is a tool of the content industry. ^^
The thing that really hit me positively with Obama, (And here is the point that you should have read too, if you modded me troll too by now. ^^) was that what he said was almost *exactly* what I would have planned, if I would be the president. Something I thought to be unthinkable.
The thing that really hit me negatively, was how so many people he appointed, were busted for this crime and that crime. And how he chose to appoint the next guy, and that guy *also* got busted for some shit.
I really wonder if this happened, because Obama, in the attempt to keep his promises, ignored the lobbies and appointed who he really thought was the best one, and those lobbies then went to find something to get that guy killed... or if Obama did actually deliberately choose bad people? (Or both? Or none of both?)
I think I will only judge him, *after* his actions. And I will not judge him relative to Bush, but relative to my values.
I haven't used Vista, so I can't tell: Is this really the normal icon size for Vista?
http://static.arstechnica.com/2010tp_icons.jpg
I mean, W.T.F.??
Why not require one display per icon? ^^
Why not just put a preview of the file or thing itself an that place?
I just don't get it. ^^
Well, not in Germany. ^^
No offense, but I rather invent something just as ingenious but new, on top of those building block, so that future yous can re-invent my wheel. ^^
Based on your theory, one could also argue, that it makes sense, to make your own resistors and transistors, and perhaps also the machines to make them, and the machines to make the components for those machines, and so on... literally re-inventing the wheel in the process. :)
I usually am happy with reading how such stuff works (I actually literally feel the need for it). But I do not see the point in re-implementing it.
The only stuff I want to know how to make myself, is stuff that could save my life if I happen to get into an end time / war scenario:
- Know how to find or prepare drinkable water.
- Know which plants one can eat, and how to cultivate, prepare and conserve them them. (including making fire.)
- Hunt, catch, disembowel, partition, and conserve animals (meat).
- Know a bit about health, and how to prepare pharmaceuticals.
- Make my own clothes. (Secondary, if the weather allows it.)
- Build a shelter or hut/house.
- Secure my shelter and myself. (defensive and offensive methods.)
- Oh, and I recommend knowing how to make children, and raise them. But I hope that one is obvious, even to the spoiled city-dwelling subset of Slashdotters. ^^
Remember Myst? Well, you can make something like that right now.
What you need is:
- A lens or mirror that can make at least 180 images.
- A panorama creation program.
- A simple video camera.
- A Quicktime VR creation tool.
- A Java applet that can display Quicktime VR, including clickable zones.
Basically you make enough (overlapping) images of each place, to create a panorama. Then you make short (accelerated) movies of the walk between those places.
Now you create the panoramas, and with that tool, create clickable zones. In a house, you would make the doors, and perhaps the windows clickable. You know what I mean.
Then you can simply link the clickables to the different movies, contained in Flash files. And you make the end of the Flash files automatically load the URL of the resulting panorama.
If you really want to become fancy, you record loops of background audio, so people can heart them, and feel immersed.
Do not forget to describe the feeling of the senses that you can't show that well. Describe how it smells, how it feels on your skin. How hot/cold/windy it is, etc.
People are really good at building their own super-realistic fantasy out of this. I guarantee you, they will be impressed!
I wonder, what you are going to do about it. Just complain? Or rise up?
Because as long as you do not rise up, it seems like it still is far from bad enough, and has to become much worse, before you actually rise up.
Please act. Or stop complaining.
Just take a simple test. Some intelligence test. And I mean all types of intelligence.
I bet by the third day (at latest), you will stop staying awake, when you see the results. ^^
That's like holding the word record for the times being raped. Or for the days without water. Not something to be proud of...
Well, cats sleep 18 hours a day. So of course they have the biggest problems with that. Poor kitties though. :(
Not if you are in the axis of fundamentalism (USA, Iran, Israel, other Arabic countries, etc).
Then you only can get a tax deduction for "enhanced tuition techniques".
Hmm. The real problem is, that you can not go somewhere else when stuff like that happens. Usually they all are that way. And usually they can just reject you and not care, while you can not do the same.
That's why unions came up. Unfortunately it turned out being something not exactly as good as intended. ^^
Try a lightweight Hollywood model. That is, when everybody is self-employed, and you can have multiple "bosses"/clients and can always hire your own employees/businesses. Lightweight would mean, to do it, but to group with those bosses/clients/employees/businesses in a kind of "company" that lets you cut down on the administration and tax work, while still being just as free in everything else. Then you could easily say "no" to one boss/client, and choose to do work for the other one.
Is there anyone here who seriously thought that it would be even remotely related to ok, to not sleep for several days?
Not only does it make you stupid as hell, and depressed. Your brain also starts to fail more and more. Even if you do not die, you will not be far away from a zombie.
Hope you do not run up to me in that state, because I am going to shoot you. I don't take risks zombies. Zombies and raptors. Especially zombie raptors. ^^
Why put up with all the hassle? Just use PostgreSQL, and be good. :)
Yes, you can do replication (the master/slave thing, aka S/M ^^) with it.
Hmm... Sure it adds some complexity. And complexity can add bugs. (But does not have to.)
But it is well worth it. Same as UTF-8.
If you fear exploitability then I ask you: Do you run Windows? A browser? A instant-messaging-client? (They transmit HTML too.)
A file sharing program? (Those things are always scanned for exploits. All the time.)
Do you use cracks off of sites like astalavista, gamecopyworld, or straigt out of the p2p nets?
If you at all do any of those things, then I think it's pretty much irrelevant to worry about your e-mail-client allowing HTML. :)
No offense, but I just think it's a bit unrealistic. ^^
Besides: The thing with hot-linked images is long solved. Thunderbird for example asks you (non-modal notification bar) before it loads images. And it asks again, before loading non-embedded (=hot-linked) images. :)
Of course, you can do what you prefer, and not see the proper layout and emphasis. It's a part of being free, to be able to do things, even if they make no sense (to others or at all). :)
Well... I think th "swimming in money" aspect is already way smaller than it was, and I also think that Microsoft is already preparing for the moment when it will be gone. Which certainly will happen when Win7 fails.
*hopes this will happen*
Come on! In these times, this argument is completely and utterly outdated. And besides: The spammers do not care anyway.
No why not use HTML as it was intended: To mark-up hypertext.
You know, it's actually a cool and useful technology.
And there is not a single real-world e-mail client I know that still can't do basic HTML. Where do you live? in the 80s?
We techies usually aren't so conservative. So why here?
Examples for which HTML is good:
Works best, when used with UTF-8, for real extended characters. (Can't live without those since I installed the first NEO 2.0 beta [optimized and extended German keyboard layout]. Slashdot is the only site I know that fails hard at UTF-8.)
Mind you, that I did not mention CSS in this comment. I think in mails, the visual style should be decided by the reader. (Ok, the submitter could suggest a style. But he can not expect it. [Same as here on /.])
Oh, and, this comment was written in extrans (HTML-on-text). (Wrongly called "Plain Old Text" on /., because of a bug in Slash that exists for ages.)
Hmm... I don't know, but isn't it obvious here, that the RIAA payed that lawyer to stop working for her? I mean, if they didn't do it, they will, as soon as they read this.
Is there really no way, to make the government think that the RIAA is linked to the Al-Qaeda, and has to be tortured in some offshore prison? Why some poor Arabic slobs? Why not them? ^^
Hulu does not work in my country, you insensitive clod. :(
Ooops, it's actually four articles: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Virtudyne_0x3a__The_Founding.aspx
Well worth it, though.
tl;dr: They flushed $200M down the toilet in the attempt to built a MS Office killer in Visual Basic 6, and ended up attaching computers to donkeys in the Himalaya. No shit!
Already done in a virtuosely WTFy way: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Virtudyne_0x3a__The_Gathering.aspx :)
(Read the 3 articles. It's the best WTF you will ever have had.
He meant the resolution of modern models, maps and textures. But I think that is secondary. Look at how little Flash games on Kongregate vastly outperform even some huge multi-million game projects.
I would do just focus on ingenious funny concepts. The Duke always was about his attitude. But it was limited. Go full-fledged berserk on this. Make it deliberately offensive to conservatives, just for the fun of it. Booze, drugs, Coughing Nails (the same of cigarettes in System Shock 2), a red-light-district, and comedically retarded aliens. Explode large buildings, hell, add tons of huge explosions and overly big guns to it. Add everything to the game, that lets him show his ego and attitude. :)
Just do not go the way of Serious Sam. That's when you know you went too far. ^^
Well, who says that? I think it's entirely possible. You just do not have to blow up the graphics like crazy. The sole fun, and balancing, and game mechanics, etc? For sure!
Just use a well-made engine. It already has nearly all of it. Start with the most basic 1-hour-in-3dsmax models, and some basic rooms, to test out the concepts.
Then gradually improve the game. Do not focus on high-res stuff. That's what eats up nearly all of the resources. You see, most modern shooters are not much more complex in terms of game mechanics, than Quake 1 or Quake 3.
And: Yes, I know such things.
Just for the non-german speakers: "Dr. Hirnficker" aktually means "Dr. Brainfucker". :)
I still await "Herzog Atombombesie Für Immer" though. (Sadly we have no word for "nuke" in German. Who wants to be the first to coin the new term. You know: For the good of humanity. For the fun. To become rich and fam... aaah, who am I telling this? *walks off the stage*)
What about stores that do not care for retards. Like, you know, DJ stores. :P
Seriously: You can go too far on expecting your clients to be stupid. (And one of Murphy's laws is, that if you dumb your expectations down, nature will just invent better idiots.)