I believe we need to bring back the concept of `senior', and not just as `matinee prices at the evening showing'. There are people who I respect because they have something to teach me---not some automatic prestige that gray hairs and potbellies imbue their owners with.
I remember when I was in elementary school, teachers would never hesitate to regale us with some story of how Eastern cultures have all this respect for their elders and how American kids are little bastards for not respecting blah blah blah. Kids still hear that today.
I was talking with a multiethnic group of people a couple of years ago (we were all around 19 or 20), and an Indian friend of mine made a comment to that same effect. An American guy in the group made an interesting point: maybe people in the east respect their elders because they feel they have received something precious from them. And maybe we feel like all our grandparents have to offer us is hate and ignorance. The obvious counter to that is that eastern cultures do a great job of killing each other too, but I think he was on to something, and the references to martial arts in this thread seem to go along with that.
When I got through my impetuous teenage years, I realized that when it came to buying a car or going to a job interview, my parents were genuinely smarter than me and I'd do well to swallow my pride and take their advice. But I'm realizing more and more that when it comes to friendships, love, and trying to make the world a better place, they really aren't a hell of a lot smarter than me, and haven't been since I was a teenager.
Maybe (let me stress the maybe, so you know this isn't anti-American flamebait) until we have a culture we can be truly proud of, we will never give greyhairs serious respect.
Even code/content separation isn't enough in truly large products. Many medium to large projects separate it out in code, design and content.
I have seen a lot of theoretical discussion of keeping code and content separate, as well as on presentation-based versus content-based formats on this article. And I must admit I have absolutely no idea what you're all talking about. Can you point me to somewhere I can learn about what this stuff means? I did a google search, but all I could find were products that promised to deliver the above ideas, without saying exactly what these ideas are.
Thanks!
There's a disused piece of parchment in a display case in Philadelphia that purports to secure the right to free speech, and NO law passed by Congress can overrule it.
I assume you're talking about the Bill of Rights. It was written here in Philly, but it's in the National Archives in Washington DC. Kind of a cool place to visit: they have the Constitution on a secure table that descends into the floor at night.
Is there one main web site out there where people can submit interesting things they've received in order to have their advice? An admitted voyeur, I've been disappointed with the quality of things I've gotten so far - although one zip file full of (clean) pictures of some girl was interesting. I guess this means I correspond with boring people. Oh well. ----
A lot of libraries lend out audio CD's and movies, right? Does anyone know of a public (or college) library that lends out software CD's? Obviously that'd be a licensing nightmare for proprietary stuff, but what about Free software? There are a lot of 386 and 486 computers lying around out there without Internet connections. For nearly no cost you can burn a Mandrake (no flames, any distro is good) ISO and let every young geek in the neighborhood try it out and learn something. Now that I think of it, maybe I'll do that for my local library this summer before I go back to college.... ----
Napster also had B-sides of mainstream bands. Nirvana, for instance, have at least 20 songs that showed up on singles or rare studio sessions, which you can't buy anymore except as expensive collectors' items. The record companies make NO MONEY off these recordings, yet we can't share them. Ludicrous.
Another thing was amateur remixes. I used to type in the name of any popular song when I was bored to see the remixes people had put together. (My favorite of all time was Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" with the Super Mario Brothers music.)
I'm pondering making a Freenet site all about Nirvana MP3's, since it's taking a long time for mainstream music to find its way into Freenet. (But if I do it, and Geffen asks, it's not me.) ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
Computers playing games are always much better than humans if their AI is done correctly.
Actually, computers have, as of now, never been able to master the game of Go. For an intro to the game from the angle of Game Theory, check out http://eksl.cs.umass.edu/~heeringa/home/doc/go_pap er/. A human being with a mastery of the basic strategy can beat most of the best artificial intelligence simulations. Fascinating stuff.... ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
a search for "funk" yielded no results on several servers a week ago, which I felt was a telling sign.
As I understand it, not only are certain filenames being blocked, but also certain words in a search are set to return no results without any actual search being performed. This prevents partially-misspelled filenames from being found - if you can't search for them, you can't find them. In all likelihood there were thousands of files with the word "funk" in them, and quite possibly many of those recordings were not RIAA-owned material, but your search got nipped in the bud. ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, was never on it. You could, however, see Hank Azaria (any number of secondary Simpsons characters including Apu and Dr. Hibbard) and Yeardley Smith (Lisa). ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
I don't really see how ads can affect the sale of existing products, however. One doesn't drink Coke instead of Pepsi or vice versa because of their respective adds, one drinks one because of the taste, or merely because it's what's available whereever one happens to be.
Instinctively, I know that's true, but.... how do you explain the millions of dollars Coke and Pepsi put into that kind of advertising? Some of the most high-profile ads in the last 50 years have been by those two corporations. Can they really be so wrong, or are they doing research that shows these things work? Can someone in the advertising industry set me straight here? ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
For those of you who aren't baseball fans (or Phillies fans like me) I should give you the geek background on Doug Glanville. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Transportation Engineering, and every time Jayson Stark (who wrote for the Philly Inquirer before he joined ESPN.com) approaches him for a quote, he comes through with something bizarre and hilarious. In past Stark columns, he's made comments about the earth's gravitational constant's being decreased to allow more home runs, and when teammates compared him to old-time player Wally Pipp, he commented, "I hope they were talking about Picture-In-Picture technology." Stark himself is a real math geek too - every week he publishes this column of numerical abberations from around Baseball. Like the week the Detroit Tigers had more babies (2) than wins (0). ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
How incompetent are the IT losers working at the school district that they've been hacked several times?
The sad thing is that's a fantastic school district in most respects. A bunch of the smartest Comp Sci students here at Rutgers came out of West Windsor-Plainsboro, their team won the New Jersey Junior Classical League competition I worked at, and as the story goes, every student in their AP Biology class in 1998 scored 5 on the exam. Does this all go to show that you don't have to be stupid to be ignorant? ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
The greatest example I ever saw of cheating was in my Operating Systems course this semester. We had to write a basic shell (with some simple but useless features thrown in so people couldn't just take Bash or something obvious like that). In discussing the grade results, the grading TA told us that two people had handed in shells that he himself had written in the past, and that that was a pretty bad idea. ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
How about reporting news without inserting redundant pokes at certain software simply for the shock/sarcasm/controversy value?
Oh, come on now. They weren't saying the equipment sucks. They weren't passing judgment either way. It was a joke. A mild, harmless joke. There's no need to be anywhere near this touchy. ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
AFAIK, there's no rule in any HTML specification that says TEXTAREAs have to suck, is there? It seems like the most logical solution would be for the browsers to a) implement a quality text editor, or b) let the user choose an editor and embed a copy of it in the page. That would leave the standard on the page, and the fun customization on the user's end. Personally, I fear TEXTAREAs because they lack Autobackup (for when Netscape and IE decide to bite the dust), Search/Replace, Insert File, Save As, and other such goodies. I'd love to have xemacs or gnotepad embedded in my browser. This seems like the cleanest solution to me.... ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
The great thing about the Ti-82 and -83 is that you tend have them with you when you're stuck in boring situations, i.e. high school and college classes. Personally, I think I've done better in Math and CS throughout my education as a result of having them. When a teacher says something and you don't quite grok it, or when it sparks an idea in your head, you can use the BASIC-like language to throw together a quick implementation, and see how it works. All in all, they keep the brain cells working at times when they'd otherwise be off thinking about funny trolls to post on Slashdot. ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
I can't argue with most of that. I'd imagine one solution would be to auction 10-year rights to given frequencies. Now, I know that would be a mess, and probably give the hardware people an excuse to make you upgrade every time they had to move to a different frequency. Hmmmmm. Think think think....
As a college radio artist/DJ, I am fully aware of the power of small-time radio. I wish every neighborhood could have what my college has - particularly the more poor ones in my hometown - because it really creates community. Not to mention the fact that if I paid for my house and land, and you're broadcasting across it, I should get a say in what you're broadcasting.
Can anyone think of a solution that doesn't put too much arbitary decision-making power or overregulation in the hands of the government, but lets the little guys have a fair shot?
OR do you think that eventually the entire spectrum will be binary data, and cheap Radio-over-IP devices will level the playing field for everyone? Just imagine flicking on your NetRadio and choosing between Radio Pakistan, Joe Bob's Confederate Rock, 24-hour Geeks in Space, and ten thousand others.... ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
Governments made quite a few of these decisions based entirely on personal connections and lobbying, guaranteeing that taxpayers didn't even have a chance to get a fair shake.
That's why an auction is the most fair way. It's not fair, but it's the most fair. Everyone gets a shot to throw their money in and try to outbid everyone else.
The fact that these corporations think that they have a chance to buy the spectrum implies that they certainly aren't going to pay a fair price for it.
Well, if it's an auction, SOMEONE's got to be the high bidder, right? Even if they're paying far less than what they'll make in the long run, they'll still be paying more than anyone else was willing to pay. ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
http://cryptome.org/sdmi-attack.htm is the link I see up there right now, and although I haven't perused the page, it's not a 404 or anything like that.... ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
I just want to throw in my $0.02 and say that this year's crop of April Fools stuff is as good as if not better than any other year's, because it's all very subtle and isn't obviously false when you first read it, and because it shows that the entire Slashdot staff have not let success go to their heads and can laugh at themselves. Great job, guys.
(Although I was hoping for a goatse.cx story....) ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
That'd be "All your BYTE are belong to us." Pluralizing "base" was beyond Zero Wing's capabilities. ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
I play with different Linux distributions casually, and I've wanted to try the BSD's for a while, but two things have held me back. First of all, although most Linux software is distributed as source that would almost certainly compile on BSD, the games that are coming out for Linux might be a little more OS-dependent. That's just my instinct - I don't even play these games, it's just the idea that I might someday.
The other issue is that the desktops probably aren't AS friendly as, say, Mandrake. I'd probably have to do a default KDE install, and that kinda scares me. ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
I strongly suspect that 'That's My Bush" will utterly destroy the cretin in the Whitehouse.
That's not really what Parker and Stone have in mind. I can't find the article I read that said it best, but this one does a good job of explaining it too. They say they don't want to do the cliched Saturday Night Live thing of just making the guy look like an idiot, because that gets old after 5 minutes. Their goal seems to be to bash sitcoms, because sitcoms are the lowest form of entertainment known to man. (In my opinion and theirs.) So it should hopefully be as original as South Park. ---- "Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
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I was talking with a multiethnic group of people a couple of years ago (we were all around 19 or 20), and an Indian friend of mine made a comment to that same effect. An American guy in the group made an interesting point: maybe people in the east respect their elders because they feel they have received something precious from them. And maybe we feel like all our grandparents have to offer us is hate and ignorance. The obvious counter to that is that eastern cultures do a great job of killing each other too, but I think he was on to something, and the references to martial arts in this thread seem to go along with that.
When I got through my impetuous teenage years, I realized that when it came to buying a car or going to a job interview, my parents were genuinely smarter than me and I'd do well to swallow my pride and take their advice. But I'm realizing more and more that when it comes to friendships, love, and trying to make the world a better place, they really aren't a hell of a lot smarter than me, and haven't been since I was a teenager.
Maybe (let me stress the maybe, so you know this isn't anti-American flamebait) until we have a culture we can be truly proud of, we will never give greyhairs serious respect.
Dude! We've almost got the trolls under control! Don't mention Natalie Portman's sexuality!
Thanks!
Is there one main web site out there where people can submit interesting things they've received in order to have their advice? An admitted voyeur, I've been disappointed with the quality of things I've gotten so far - although one zip file full of (clean) pictures of some girl was interesting. I guess this means I correspond with boring people. Oh well.
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A lot of libraries lend out audio CD's and movies, right? Does anyone know of a public (or college) library that lends out software CD's? Obviously that'd be a licensing nightmare for proprietary stuff, but what about Free software? There are a lot of 386 and 486 computers lying around out there without Internet connections. For nearly no cost you can burn a Mandrake (no flames, any distro is good) ISO and let every young geek in the neighborhood try it out and learn something. Now that I think of it, maybe I'll do that for my local library this summer before I go back to college....
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Another thing was amateur remixes. I used to type in the name of any popular song when I was bored to see the remixes people had put together. (My favorite of all time was Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" with the Super Mario Brothers music.)
I'm pondering making a Freenet site all about Nirvana MP3's, since it's taking a long time for mainstream music to find its way into Freenet. (But if I do it, and Geffen asks, it's not me.)
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
Actually, computers have, as of now, never been able to master the game of Go. For an intro to the game from the angle of Game Theory, check out http://eksl.cs.umass.edu/~heeringa/home/doc/go_pap er/. A human being with a mastery of the basic strategy can beat most of the best artificial intelligence simulations. Fascinating stuff....
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
As I understand it, not only are certain filenames being blocked, but also certain words in a search are set to return no results without any actual search being performed. This prevents partially-misspelled filenames from being found - if you can't search for them, you can't find them. In all likelihood there were thousands of files with the word "funk" in them, and quite possibly many of those recordings were not RIAA-owned material, but your search got nipped in the bud.
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, was never on it. You could, however, see Hank Azaria (any number of secondary Simpsons characters including Apu and Dr. Hibbard) and Yeardley Smith (Lisa).
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
For those of you who aren't baseball fans (or Phillies fans like me) I should give you the geek background on Doug Glanville. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Transportation Engineering, and every time Jayson Stark (who wrote for the Philly Inquirer before he joined ESPN.com) approaches him for a quote, he comes through with something bizarre and hilarious. In past Stark columns, he's made comments about the earth's gravitational constant's being decreased to allow more home runs, and when teammates compared him to old-time player Wally Pipp, he commented, "I hope they were talking about Picture-In-Picture technology." Stark himself is a real math geek too - every week he publishes this column of numerical abberations from around Baseball. Like the week the Detroit Tigers had more babies (2) than wins (0).
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
The greatest example I ever saw of cheating was in my Operating Systems course this semester. We had to write a basic shell (with some simple but useless features thrown in so people couldn't just take Bash or something obvious like that). In discussing the grade results, the grading TA told us that two people had handed in shells that he himself had written in the past, and that that was a pretty bad idea.
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
Oh, come on now. They weren't saying the equipment sucks. They weren't passing judgment either way. It was a joke. A mild, harmless joke. There's no need to be anywhere near this touchy.
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
AFAIK, there's no rule in any HTML specification that says TEXTAREAs have to suck, is there? It seems like the most logical solution would be for the browsers to a) implement a quality text editor, or b) let the user choose an editor and embed a copy of it in the page. That would leave the standard on the page, and the fun customization on the user's end. Personally, I fear TEXTAREAs because they lack Autobackup (for when Netscape and IE decide to bite the dust), Search/Replace, Insert File, Save As, and other such goodies. I'd love to have xemacs or gnotepad embedded in my browser. This seems like the cleanest solution to me....
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
The great thing about the Ti-82 and -83 is that you tend have them with you when you're stuck in boring situations, i.e. high school and college classes. Personally, I think I've done better in Math and CS throughout my education as a result of having them. When a teacher says something and you don't quite grok it, or when it sparks an idea in your head, you can use the BASIC-like language to throw together a quick implementation, and see how it works. All in all, they keep the brain cells working at times when they'd otherwise be off thinking about funny trolls to post on Slashdot.
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
As a college radio artist/DJ, I am fully aware of the power of small-time radio. I wish every neighborhood could have what my college has - particularly the more poor ones in my hometown - because it really creates community. Not to mention the fact that if I paid for my house and land, and you're broadcasting across it, I should get a say in what you're broadcasting.
Can anyone think of a solution that doesn't put too much arbitary decision-making power or overregulation in the hands of the government, but lets the little guys have a fair shot?
OR do you think that eventually the entire spectrum will be binary data, and cheap Radio-over-IP devices will level the playing field for everyone? Just imagine flicking on your NetRadio and choosing between Radio Pakistan, Joe Bob's Confederate Rock, 24-hour Geeks in Space, and ten thousand others....
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
That's why an auction is the most fair way. It's not fair, but it's the most fair. Everyone gets a shot to throw their money in and try to outbid everyone else.
The fact that these corporations think that they have a chance to buy the spectrum implies that they certainly aren't going to pay a fair price for it.
Well, if it's an auction, SOMEONE's got to be the high bidder, right? Even if they're paying far less than what they'll make in the long run, they'll still be paying more than anyone else was willing to pay.
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
http://cryptome.org/sdmi-attack.htm is the link I see up there right now, and although I haven't perused the page, it's not a 404 or anything like that....
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
(Although I was hoping for a goatse.cx story....)
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
That'd be "All your BYTE are belong to us." Pluralizing "base" was beyond Zero Wing's capabilities.
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
The other issue is that the desktops probably aren't AS friendly as, say, Mandrake. I'd probably have to do a default KDE install, and that kinda scares me.
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
That's not really what Parker and Stone have in mind. I can't find the article I read that said it best, but this one does a good job of explaining it too. They say they don't want to do the cliched Saturday Night Live thing of just making the guy look like an idiot, because that gets old after 5 minutes. Their goal seems to be to bash sitcoms, because sitcoms are the lowest form of entertainment known to man. (In my opinion and theirs.) So it should hopefully be as original as South Park.
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."