Futuristic? The first thing it reminded me of, was the main car model they had in Idiocracy. I wish I had a Dilldozer (or Assblaster) to drive over that wheelchair with a car body.;)
(Btw: Idiocracy pictures seem to be exceptionally rare.:/)
That’s one of the worst xkcd comics in existence. (Usually they are quite good.) Because it gets things completely wrong, and tries to adhere to a primitive “Amirite??” standpoint.
People are de facto dumbing down. As I have done my own research, I also know the main causes: 1. Excessive sugar. (Because excessive sugar eats away the B vitamins your brain needs, instead of delivering them, like whole grain carbohydrate products would.) 2. The bigger the population, the less the single human has to think, to survive. 3. Corporations, running after a false goal, trying to make things simpler and simpler, so that you have at hard time using their products at all, without seriously being dumb (Examples: Most movies with plot holes as big as a red giant. Microsoft and Apple products. Very stupid warning labels on everything. Etc.) (See also: The difference between “more efficient” and just plain “simpler”: plain simpler often means less efficiency. Meaning more work. And for intelligent people also harder to use.)
And the icing on the cake: Sorry, but we intelligent people simply have much better sex!:D (You know: Imagination and that stuff!)
This isn’t anything new. You can do anything with a “browser”, as long as you have the right plug-in. Which of course nobody will ever have installed, unless some big player drives people to it.
As seen in the countless 3D plugins that existed since at least 1996! Hell, I was playing accelerated 3D browser games, before 3D acceleration cards hit the mainstream market at all! (And I ever played some king of SecondLife, called “Alpha World(s)”. I even had built a house in there,)
I will wait for WebGL. (And WebAL? Please? Because even my mobile phone can do EAX 4 HD like effects now.)
Well, in case the whole thing would be GPLed, nothing would stop anyone from freely mixing things.
A Solaris kernel with a GNU user space. A Linux kernel on an OpenSolaris user space. Why not? After all, that’s the biggest beauty of Linux: The freedom to get, whatever fits you personally like a glove!
(And that’s why Gnome and KDE (and XFCE) should work more on their integration [via FreeDesktop].)
Good intentions / idea in general. The only problem is, that of course “States” means “state governments”, meaning: “not the dickheads (judges) themselves, but instead their best friends, shall make the descision”. Which of course changes nothing at all.:/
What is needed is to fix the fundamental problems: 1. Enact a direct democracy. 2. Split the country / states into smaller units, so that common views and laws are at all possible. (They are not, right now. Since there are at least two strong groups, that strongly disagree with each other on everything.)
There is nothing bad in making the US two countries. as a whole, all of you would be happier. And you could still team up on everything you wanted / agreed.
Yes, but no-one cares, since Firefox users already switched on their brain, to install FF in the first place. So they are usually already using the latest version.:)
An average annual base salary for a developer of 31,040 EUR
What kind of silly number is that? I am 100% sure there is no single person who earns that little... is there? Definitey not with all the taxes included. That would result in 2299 EUR a month (plus 1.5 months of holiday and christmas bonus.) Or about 1250 EUR net money on your bank account. Or just below 8 EUR (net) an hour. As a programmer?? Just... Silly.
That wouldn’t leave you with much, after apartment, food, phone/internet and basic clothing & co. With a bit bad luck (in a big city), you couldn’t even pay for a car. (= expensive fuel)
Sorry, but that is very stupid. (Especially since you brought no base argument why.)
People like you always assume doing that would cause raging torch-carrying mobs on the streets, because people are completely unable/unwilling to change anything in their life. (Which is already flawed logic, since becoming a raging mob is already a change.)
Repeat this with me: The only reason people are unwilling to change things, is because you trained them to expect it in the first place!
You know what would happen in reality, if Google would just block IE (Trident) as a whole, from now on? It would take any random user about five minutes, to search for “browser alternative”, download and install it. Done. There would be one week of media bullshit panic FUD. (With everyone already using an alternate browser, mind you!) Then it would get back to business as usual. With MS bitching a bit every now and then. And buying or licensing some other small browser. They would tell us all that their new Internet Explorer X “a browser for a new generation” would come soon... for a couple of months... and then deliver it as a standard update. Done.
That’s what would really happen.
The “companies still use IE6” excuse is a lie. I mean what company does not even do official MS updates with a huge “WARNING! UPDATE TO IE8 OR BE HACKED!!!” sign attached to it? I tell you what company: A soon cracked and bankrupt one!
Seriously, what workplace do you work in, that hasn’t done any Windows Updates for a couple of years, putting the company as a whole at huge risks?
Even without talking about Firefox... WTF? I mean all I would need to wreck your whole company to bankrupcy, would be someone from your company surfing on my prepared site... The holes are well-known. And IE6 won’t be fixed anymore. That’s all it would take for you to lose your job!!
Now of course I wouldn’d do that to you, as I’m not a dick. But... aaahhhh!
I can only say: Get outta there as fast as you can!
Damn, if I could, I’d hire you, just to get you out of there!
Exactly my thought. Just that I include every IE ever with the Trident engine.
I will only let MS off the hook, if they do a complete rewrite of that mess.
The reason? Because Trident is a MS-typical upside-down pyramid. You know, like Windows ME. Or MS Office. It desperately needs a redesign of the core architecture.
But I’m fair. If MS really does that, they will get my respect. As that new engine would most likely blow even Firefox out of the water. (Gecko still is way too close to Netscape Navigator 4, for my taste.)
(Disclaimer: I use Firefox, Opera, and sometimes have to use IE for testing.)
Has anyone else noticed the “dark gamma” cancer that came over the Internet since the dawn of cheap LCD displays?
I have a couple of very carefully calibrated displays here, and pretty much everything on YouTube and every image on the net has a way too deep gamma. Which is caused by the LCDs (especially the cheap ones) all being extremely white and having a distorted gamma by default.
It’s really annoying, since I always have to switch the color profile when I want to see anything in those videos. And images I create for the web end up looking very white on Joe Sixpack’s displays.:(
I wish there was a way to punch every display company boss in the face for not enforcing proper calibration.:/
The IOC has taken an extreme protectionist stance on all its content for many years.
(Error in logic highlighted.)
1. The death of a person is certainly not ownable by anyone. 2. Ideas/information are by definition not ownable by anyone, since they are no physical objects and don’t adhere to the rules of meatspace.
The IOC is nothing else than a criminal bully, trying to push its own sick reality upon weak people who buy into it.
Crysis won awards? For what? Bad dialogue? Even Far Cry 2 isn’r better than the original Far Cry, where you could hear things like “You there with the shirt! I’m finishing you!”. ^^
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Futuristic? The first thing it reminded me of, was the main car model they had in Idiocracy. ;)
I wish I had a Dilldozer (or Assblaster) to drive over that wheelchair with a car body.
(Btw: Idiocracy pictures seem to be exceptionally rare. :/)
The article does not contain a photo. So here it comes.
That’s one of the worst xkcd comics in existence. (Usually they are quite good.)
Because it gets things completely wrong, and tries to adhere to a primitive “Amirite??” standpoint.
People are de facto dumbing down. As I have done my own research, I also know the main causes:
1. Excessive sugar. (Because excessive sugar eats away the B vitamins your brain needs, instead of delivering them, like whole grain carbohydrate products would.)
2. The bigger the population, the less the single human has to think, to survive.
3. Corporations, running after a false goal, trying to make things simpler and simpler, so that you have at hard time using their products at all, without seriously being dumb (Examples: Most movies with plot holes as big as a red giant. Microsoft and Apple products. Very stupid warning labels on everything. Etc.) (See also: The difference between “more efficient” and just plain “simpler”: plain simpler often means less efficiency. Meaning more work. And for intelligent people also harder to use.)
And the icing on the cake: Sorry, but we intelligent people simply have much better sex! :D (You know: Imagination and that stuff!)
I am very happy, thank you, that the the flying penises are NOT visible in a better quality than with late ’90s graphics! ;)
Oh, and wanna know what gets people to stop sending flying penisis? ;)
Hovering flying Goatses right in the “landing zone” of those penises.
And FOX news doesn’t? ;)
I bet they are at least already planning the show “OW, my balls!”.
This isn’t anything new. You can do anything with a “browser”, as long as you have the right plug-in.
Which of course nobody will ever have installed, unless some big player drives people to it.
As seen in the countless 3D plugins that existed since at least 1996! Hell, I was playing accelerated 3D browser games, before 3D acceleration cards hit the mainstream market at all! (And I ever played some king of SecondLife, called “Alpha World(s)”. I even had built a house in there,)
I will wait for WebGL. (And WebAL? Please? Because even my mobile phone can do EAX 4 HD like effects now.)
Well, in case the whole thing would be GPLed, nothing would stop anyone from freely mixing things.
A Solaris kernel with a GNU user space. A Linux kernel on an OpenSolaris user space. Why not?
After all, that’s the biggest beauty of Linux: The freedom to get, whatever fits you personally like a glove!
(And that’s why Gnome and KDE (and XFCE) should work more on their integration [via FreeDesktop].)
Do we then at least get ZFS (The fast original implementation. Not the slow and huge FUSE one) for Linux?
Or will it end like with Lotus SmartSuite (best. office. suite. ever. full stop.), and die, never to be opened? :/
Good intentions / idea in general. The only problem is, that of course “States” means “state governments”, meaning: “not the dickheads (judges) themselves, but instead their best friends, shall make the descision”. Which of course changes nothing at all. :/
What is needed is to fix the fundamental problems:
1. Enact a direct democracy.
2. Split the country / states into smaller units, so that common views and laws are at all possible. (They are not, right now. Since there are at least two strong groups, that strongly disagree with each other on everything.)
There is nothing bad in making the US two countries. as a whole, all of you would be happier. And you could still team up on everything you wanted / agreed.
For the Internet Archive / Wayback machine: His sig was:
“Knock-knock.
-Who's there?
Under the Patriot Act, we don't have to tell you that.”
Yes, but no-one cares, since Firefox users already switched on their brain, to install FF in the first place. So they are usually already using the latest version. :)
An average annual base salary for a developer of 31,040 EUR
What kind of silly number is that? I am 100% sure there is no single person who earns that little... is there?
Definitey not with all the taxes included. That would result in 2299 EUR a month (plus 1.5 months of holiday and christmas bonus.)
Or about 1250 EUR net money on your bank account. Or just below 8 EUR (net) an hour.
As a programmer?? Just... Silly.
That wouldn’t leave you with much, after apartment, food, phone/internet and basic clothing & co. With a bit bad luck (in a big city), you couldn’t even pay for a car. (= expensive fuel)
LOL! HMO shills? On my Slashdot? Modding me Flamebait?
Slashdot gets weirder every day... Today this, and tomorrow we get faggy Apple fanbois... Oh, wait...
Depends on if the person you are asking knows anything about browsers.
IE7 and 8, and in fact every software with the Trident engine, is not considered a browser at all by professional web developers. ;)
The Trident “engine” ” or rather “upside-down pyramid architecture” — in the deciding factor.
Doing so would be pretty stupid.
Sorry, but that is very stupid. (Especially since you brought no base argument why.)
People like you always assume doing that would cause raging torch-carrying mobs on the streets, because people are completely unable/unwilling to change anything in their life. (Which is already flawed logic, since becoming a raging mob is already a change.)
Repeat this with me: The only reason people are unwilling to change things, is because you trained them to expect it in the first place!
You know what would happen in reality, if Google would just block IE (Trident) as a whole, from now on?
It would take any random user about five minutes, to search for “browser alternative”, download and install it. Done.
There would be one week of media bullshit panic FUD. (With everyone already using an alternate browser, mind you!)
Then it would get back to business as usual. With MS bitching a bit every now and then. And buying or licensing some other small browser.
They would tell us all that their new Internet Explorer X “a browser for a new generation” would come soon... for a couple of months... and then deliver it as a standard update. Done.
That’s what would really happen.
The “companies still use IE6” excuse is a lie. I mean what company does not even do official MS updates with a huge “WARNING! UPDATE TO IE8 OR BE HACKED!!!” sign attached to it? I tell you what company: A soon cracked and bankrupt one!
Seriously, what workplace do you work in, that hasn’t done any Windows Updates for a couple of years, putting the company as a whole at huge risks?
Even without talking about Firefox... WTF?
I mean all I would need to wreck your whole company to bankrupcy, would be someone from your company surfing on my prepared site...
The holes are well-known. And IE6 won’t be fixed anymore.
That’s all it would take for you to lose your job!!
Now of course I wouldn’d do that to you, as I’m not a dick. But... aaahhhh!
I can only say: Get outta there as fast as you can!
Damn, if I could, I’d hire you, just to get you out of there!
Exactly my thought. Just that I include every IE ever with the Trident engine.
I will only let MS off the hook, if they do a complete rewrite of that mess.
The reason? Because Trident is a MS-typical upside-down pyramid. You know, like Windows ME. Or MS Office.
It desperately needs a redesign of the core architecture.
But I’m fair. If MS really does that, they will get my respect. As that new engine would most likely blow even Firefox out of the water. (Gecko still is way too close to Netscape Navigator 4, for my taste.)
(Disclaimer: I use Firefox, Opera, and sometimes have to use IE for testing.)
Has anyone else noticed the “dark gamma” cancer that came over the Internet since the dawn of cheap LCD displays?
I have a couple of very carefully calibrated displays here, and pretty much everything on YouTube and every image on the net has a way too deep gamma.
Which is caused by the LCDs (especially the cheap ones) all being extremely white and having a distorted gamma by default.
It’s really annoying, since I always have to switch the color profile when I want to see anything in those videos. And images I create for the web end up looking very white on Joe Sixpack’s displays. :(
I wish there was a way to punch every display company boss in the face for not enforcing proper calibration. :/
When are the "cheerleaders getting UNdressed" videos going to leak?
There, fixed that for you.
No, he can still move elsewhere. In fact he can move to my server if he pays the traffic. :)
The IOC has taken an extreme protectionist stance on all its content for many years.
(Error in logic highlighted.)
1. The death of a person is certainly not ownable by anyone.
2. Ideas/information are by definition not ownable by anyone, since they are no physical objects and don’t adhere to the rules of meatspace.
The IOC is nothing else than a criminal bully, trying to push its own sick reality upon weak people who buy into it.
Crysis won awards? For what? Bad dialogue? Even Far Cry 2 isn’r better than the original Far Cry, where you could hear things like “You there with the shirt! I’m finishing you!”. ^^
Didn’t Uwe Boll make a “film” out of it?
“Enterprise Admits 20005 Trilitium Leak”
Wow, that is at least as dumb as saying that Obama is like Saddam, because his second name is Hussein.
You’re also not biased at all ...right? ;)
Disastrous failure? Twitter? There’s at least one joke in there somewhere. ^^