Boo hoo... so the web isn't what it was in 1991. As a web designer, I personally really like control over presentation and formatting. And given the option of looking at either the mostly redundant but at least semi-attractive corporate web of today or a gray background, black text, bordered images, corporate web (the web will still be largely corporate no matter how you format it) then i'll take the evil misuse of HTML for document control any day.
my nickname is colmore but for some reason i can't sign in:
I patent the following idea:
Passenger spacecraft
A vehicle service, operating at a fee, propelled by rocketry or other means of high velocity propulsion, for the purposes of transportation and/or recreation through the regions outside of Earth's lower atmospheric layers.
there you go grandkids, that should pay your way through college.
actually if your remember, Leia has distant memories of her mother which means at least two years have to elapse between birth of the twins and portman's death
also lucas has been quoted as saying episode 2 will be mainly a "love story"
does star wars meets nine months scare anyone else ?
on another note, does this stuff matter at all? i mean, sure we can all get excited about the new movies, but will anyone ever really consider them with the originals? i imagine they will allways just be thaught of as related but not central (like the ewoks movie!)
the first thing i thaught of with this was "oh no..." a movie tie in is usually the first sign of something going downhill (quick cash in before the ship sinks!) but
the simpsons has a way of defying expectations remember the "who killed mr. burns" thing a few years back? with any other show it would have been really really lame (JR is gonna die!!!) but no, the Simpsons handled it with loads of humor.
the most recent new episode, the behind the laughter season finale, could have easily been a self congratulatory clip show, but was actually a hilarious spin on modern pulp documentary. and as for self congratulatory clip shows, the 168th episode spectacular was awesome.
so yes, there's an excellent chance that the movie does the show justice.
good work boys, and hears to another happy ten years.
man if there is one horribly superlative viewpoint that i'm sick of its that "the united states is totalitarian"
first off it is tipically held by privilaged US citizens who have no clue how lucky they are. anyone from a REAL totalitarian military state would give their left foot to get into the united states.
sure our (elected) officials don't allways go about things in the most intelligent of matters. sure they sometimes side with big business over regular people and sure taxes can be a little high. but the unites states is pretty damn free.
now of course this doesn't mean we should sit back and just feel lucky. we *can* loose our freedoms quite easily, and we mush jealously guard them. but to say that the US is allready a "totalitarian" state is ridiculous.
the misuse of strong words to make a point ultimately dulls language. if "totalitarian" comes to mean any kinda-bad thing that a government does then what will we use to describe Stalinist Russia, Hitler's Germany, or Mao's China?
i have a much easier time going back to my old favorite console games than to my old favorite computer games. while i can play zelda any day of the week, my old favorite computer games, zork, castles, doom, and the better king's quests feel so sadly dated.
lets see from someone's appriciation of a certain style of animation you have
a) drawn conclusions about their social life
b) made a critique of a very common system of ranking things by quality (used in SPIN the Olympics and billions of other places)
c) extended these conclusions to all members of a large fan base ("just goes to show the sort of people...")
now honestly who needs to tell who to get a life?
now me personally i'm not a big anime fan. with the exception of the "Americanime" action toons of my 80's childhood (G.I. Joe, Voltron, Transformers) and "Akira" which is good enough to be put up next to any sci fi of any medium, it hasn't done that much for me.
Well, whatever they release this can only be good. I think this is the natural outgrowth of the DOJ case, that no matter how limp-wristed the actual punishment on Microsoft is, MS will need to fight a PR battle to get back into the computer-using public's good faith. If this encourages a little more good behavior on their part then wonderful.
but I for one would still like to see more standards. Forget breaking MS into parts or releasing source, if there were open standards for Office-style documents, if MS complied with HTML 4, if there was some way of making a "standard" way of Intel based OSs to work, then competition could easily occur.<BR><BR> and this current idea of breaking MS into "Windows" and "Office etc." is mind-numbingly stupid. Windows and Office can stand on their own. The real abuses of power come from MS using these products to push things such as Internet Explorer which could never be profitable on their own, killing out competitors in the same market who have to survive on their efforts.
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like so many futuristic visions, this cool concept would, in almost any conceivable implementation, be too costly to replace the standard methods of cabling.
a thousand tiny robots = a thousand points of failure. even if these robots were able to cost $20 a peice, they would still be far far more expensive than a standard fiber optic drop and the labor to install it.
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This imperitave of a sentance should end with an exclamation point!
wrong... because there are any number of ways that a program can or can't terminate. it involves looping etc.
you can simple scan an html document for "= new Window(" and assume that the page wants to, at some point, generate a popup.<BR><BR>
while this isn't exactly the Turing problem, for all practical purposes, it will tell you whether or not you're going to get hit with a popup.
Boo hoo... so the web isn't what it was in 1991. As a web designer, I personally really like control over presentation and formatting. And given the option of looking at either the mostly redundant but at least semi-attractive corporate web of today or a gray background, black text, bordered images, corporate web (the web will still be largely corporate no matter how you format it) then i'll take the evil misuse of HTML for document control any day.
wasn't 1984 set in Britain?
have you considered the possibility that you might be the antichrist? you should be worried.
it told my I was anonymous coward and then it posted me as colmore... what is going on?
my nickname is colmore but for some reason i can't sign in: I patent the following idea: Passenger spacecraft A vehicle service, operating at a fee, propelled by rocketry or other means of high velocity propulsion, for the purposes of transportation and/or recreation through the regions outside of Earth's lower atmospheric layers. there you go grandkids, that should pay your way through college.
bleh
actually if your remember, Leia has distant memories of her mother which means at least two years have to elapse between birth of the twins and portman's death
also lucas has been quoted as saying episode 2 will be mainly a "love story"
does star wars meets nine months scare anyone else ?
on another note, does this stuff matter at all? i mean, sure we can all get excited about the new movies, but will anyone ever really consider them with the originals? i imagine they will allways just be thaught of as related but not central (like the ewoks movie!)
and its not like George wouldn't think of changin a title because of the leak... oh wait i have to go
<I>Revenge of the Jedi</I> is on TBS...
the ompossible crew are clearly retarted...
"Me fail english, thats unpossible!" is funny because his english is so bad he's mixing up his prefixes
"Me fail english, thats ompossible!" is confusing and a bit odd.
that was a joke you jackass, right after the fake plot idea "the simpsons are going to delaware"
hey did you think that the show was *really* based on homer's life too?
do the simpsons <I>really</I> live in the old mc hammer mansion?
whoever moderated that up...
actually yes it should....
the first thing i thaught of with this was "oh no..." a movie tie in is usually the first sign of something going downhill (quick cash in before the ship sinks!) but
the simpsons has a way of defying expectations remember the "who killed mr. burns" thing a few years back? with any other show it would have been really really lame (JR is gonna die!!!) but no, the Simpsons handled it with loads of humor.
the most recent new episode, the behind the laughter season finale, could have easily been a self congratulatory clip show, but was actually a hilarious spin on modern pulp documentary. and as for self congratulatory clip shows, the 168th episode spectacular was awesome.
so yes, there's an excellent chance that the movie does the show justice.
good work boys, and hears to another happy ten years.
The League of Nations is the cure for Big Brother?
yes when the forces of totalitarianism are closing in i want to be protected by...
a limp-wristed innefectual powerless bicker party whos most powerful member is... the french
man if there is one horribly superlative viewpoint that i'm sick of its that "the united states is totalitarian"
first off it is tipically held by privilaged US citizens who have no clue how lucky they are. anyone from a REAL totalitarian military state would give their left foot to get into the united states.
sure our (elected) officials don't allways go about things in the most intelligent of matters. sure they sometimes side with big business over regular people and sure taxes can be a little high. but the unites states is pretty damn free.
now of course this doesn't mean we should sit back and just feel lucky. we *can* loose our freedoms quite easily, and we mush jealously guard them. but to say that the US is allready a "totalitarian" state is ridiculous.
the misuse of strong words to make a point ultimately dulls language. if "totalitarian" comes to mean any kinda-bad thing that a government does then what will we use to describe Stalinist Russia, Hitler's Germany, or Mao's China?
don't reply to people's sigs
too bad no one will read this...
i have a much easier time going back to my old favorite console games than to my old favorite computer games. while i can play zelda any day of the week, my old favorite computer games, zork, castles, doom, and the better king's quests feel so sadly dated.
i guess its in that two button controller.
lets see from someone's appriciation of a certain style of animation you have
a) drawn conclusions about their social life
b) made a critique of a very common system of ranking things by quality (used in SPIN the Olympics and billions of other places)
c) extended these conclusions to all members of a large fan base ("just goes to show the sort of people...")
now honestly who needs to tell who to get a life?
now me personally i'm not a big anime fan. with the exception of the "Americanime" action toons of my 80's childhood (G.I. Joe, Voltron, Transformers) and "Akira" which is good enough to be put up next to any sci fi of any medium, it hasn't done that much for me.
but we can be civil about this, can't we.
blocking by scanning for HREF tags? that would be a small feat
yes... but if you want security why would you even think about running a wireless server?
well i guess it can now be LAME is An Mp3 Encoder
Well, whatever they release this can only be good. I think this is the natural outgrowth of the DOJ case, that no matter how limp-wristed the actual punishment on Microsoft is, MS will need to fight a PR battle to get back into the computer-using public's good faith. If this encourages a little more good behavior on their part then wonderful.
but I for one would still like to see more standards. Forget breaking MS into parts or releasing source, if there were open standards for Office-style documents, if MS complied with HTML 4, if there was some way of making a "standard" way of Intel based OSs to work, then competition could easily occur.<BR><BR>
and this current idea of breaking MS into "Windows" and "Office etc." is mind-numbingly stupid. Windows and Office can stand on their own. The real abuses of power come from MS using these products to push things such as Internet Explorer which could never be profitable on their own, killing out competitors in the same market who have to survive on their efforts.
moderate this up
like so many futuristic visions, this cool concept would, in almost any conceivable implementation, be too costly to replace the standard methods of cabling.
a thousand tiny robots = a thousand points of failure. even if these robots were able to cost $20 a peice, they would still be far far more expensive than a standard fiber optic drop and the labor to install it.
i guess this means i have to stop making fun of the french.