I never heard of the Black Lotus...? My favorite card was always the Breeding Pit. I played a mixture of black and blue, the "Mind Fsck" deck. *sigh* I miss my college homeys...
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
I think you hit on something no one else here has yet, that there's too much information being posted online on a daily basis for one human to read. Even if you only ever read/. you'd still be hard pressed to go through every story and every comment. I am super happy that I can go to Google and find practically anything, anytime. That doesn't mean I need (or want) to know everything all the time. I come to/. and read up on legal poo and science, then I run off to Zeldman's site and worship the god(s), then go to suck.com and look at the pretty pictures.;-)
The Internet cannot be completely devoured, it can only be grazed. Moderation and filtering can help a person do that more effectively sometimes; so what?
I tend to agree with you. I was enrolled in a private school from kindergarten to 4th grade, and the culture shock when I went to public school in 5th grade was insane. In private school, at least back in my day, if you misbehaved you went to the principal's office and got the paddle. Imagine that: between swats, the kid's yelling "I promise I'll *ow* never forget the *ow* difference between list and *OW* scalar again!":-)
Or you could become a Marxist, and hope that Capitalism contains the own seeds of it's destructions, to which I reply McDonalds and HDTV, I mean, bread and circuses for all the sheeple.
Nice one.
Truly though I think Open Source was our best chance for bringing down the beast. But even that card could not trump the widespread ignorance and apathy that keep Capitalism alive and thriving. As long as programmers sell their skills for food (or toys, or perks, ad infinitum) then someone will use them for kamikaze coding. I'm no saint, either - I just finished designing a site that sells, among other things, internet filtering software. Yes I feel dirty, but you know that crap doesn't work anyway, right?;-)
I guess what I'm trying to say is that as long as the Internet is packaged up by AOL and M$ for mass consumption then those of us who know better will always be the minority. "So easy to use, no wonder it's #1." Can Linux say that? Sure it's free (as in beer?) but that doesn't make a damn bit of difference when you're talking about a million soccer moms, baby.
Meat market indeed. I do have to brag that I finally met someone IRL who I'd been doing web work for for the past 2 years, and it was awesome. He's moving here.:-)
Yes, Virginia, there are still honest people online.
If I heard correctly, there's a big class action suit against Verizon right now because they're signing up more customers for DSL than they can actually handle. I finally got on yesterday (Praise Allah/Buddha/Krishna!) but it took two months of waiting and then three tech support calls Sunday morning. Grr. I didn't have any strange needs, I already had the modem and everything, all they had to do was turn it on, and that took 2 months. ??! It just kills me to see their commercials all over TV now, 'sign up today and get free this/that/whatever' and I'm thinking, okay so where's MY free shit?!
*sigh* At least I'm on so I don't have to stay late at the office anymore just to check my damn email.:-)
We were approached over and over again by large ISPs who wanted to buy us.
I worked for a mom 'n' pop for a year (hiya, dethro!) and it was painful to watch the bigger ISP's circle us like a dying animal. But being so close to my clients (I was the webmistress) and having them know they could call me whenever, or knowing that you could call the president at home if your email went down, or page the sys admin at 3am, those kinds of things were really cool. Not to mention being able to stay late and play Q2 on the T1, muahahaha!:-)
I've had friends who worked for the bigger companies, and I'm glad I never went that route. I'm dealing with Verizon right now in a frustrating attempt to get DSL at home, and their customer support is a fscking joke. When OH When will cable modems become available in my city?!
[Pardon my rant.]
I still don't know what everyone has against using tables-?! They were the first hurdle I overcame when I learned HTML and they've been the foundation of almost every site I've built for the past 3 years of my career. They WORK in damn near every browser. CSS doesn't.
Also, keep in mind that various graphic effects just aren't possible without tables, and if a client wants an assload of graphics, they'll get 'em. I enjoy getting paid.:-)
That is the most awesome idea! The trick, though, is to get the shirts away from your rocker before he wears holes in them beyond the point of repair.:-)
"We want to use them positively so that they can create adequate firewalls so that nobody can hack our country's Web sites," he added.
Okay somebody answer me this: using hackers to catch/thwart hackers sounds good, but is it really feasible? What's to say that little Wali, age 14, who built your firewall, won't share those techniques with, oh, say some kid in Minnesota who happens to post regularly to places like Slashdot, and so now your custom defense can be cracked by k1dd13s? Do they sign a NDA or something?
Not that I'm a Xian or anything, but isn't the lowest frozen level of Hell (according to Dante) the place where commiters of fraud go? (Personally I agree with you, but wanted to stir the pot a bit.)
I disagree, love can happen online. I've seen it happen to my friends. What's the difference between meeting in a chat room, and meeting through a dear abby letters-to-soldiers thing? Nothing. Love and marriage and all that crap can and does blossom from both.
I do have to add my $.02 to the previous topic, though...I have been in IRC many a night chatting with friends in CO, Canada, and Europe, while boyfriend sat 3 feet away in the same room, chatting in the same channel, and we would more likely type than talk. It's sick, kinda. And I can't count the number of times I've run into someone and said "Oh I just sent you an email, I can't talk to you until you read it." That's disturbing!
...isn't that he's got the machines:
"One expert I spoke with estimated that an integrated bundle of 12-15 PlayStations could provide enough computer power to control an Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV -- a pilotless aircraft."
...but where he's going to get enough American teenage boys to fly the planes.
*Packs bags, checks passport, heads off to Switzerland.*
This is the key to making ads go away. It really doesn't matter in what format ads on the web take, if people ignore them and don't buy products/services from online advertisers, then the ads will be deemed ineffective. Marketers may spend endless amounts of time and money to ram ads down your throat, but clients won't. Banner ads are a money pit, we tell all our clients that...but really most of them know it already before they ask. IMHO I don't think online advertising has much time left in this world. Pay for play will take its place.
I watched that last night too but didn't know those were FIFs... I was actually fascinated that they could discern anything in those close-up pixelated shots!
Right. In my state, it's illegal to do anything other than missionary position for the purpose of procreation. Which is why I think organizations like BR are so damn cool, providing the illusion of sexual freedom for one weekend a year. *sigh*
In VA, we got ONE sheet of paper, divided with thick black lines. Pres. candidates on the left, other issues on the right. You got a felt pen, colored in a circle next to the names, and fed it into a machine that read the dots. I have never seen one of these weird-ass pin-books, and am having a difficult time figuring out why they're so popular when all they seem to do is make it difficult for everyone...?
It wasn't the 10 commandments but a bunch of hand-written things that God does and doesn't "like." I'm not going to protest or anything, but I did find it a bit freaky. Living in a huge Republican State (We have Pat Robertson, w00t!) I imagine it comforted more voters than not...
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I never heard of the Black Lotus...? My favorite card was always the Breeding Pit. I played a mixture of black and blue, the "Mind Fsck" deck. *sigh* I miss my college homeys...
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Well, seeing as how the citizenry are where our representatives come from, what hope have we got of getting techno-savvy persons in office??
/."
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
I think you hit on something no one else here has yet, that there's too much information being posted online on a daily basis for one human to read. Even if you only ever read /. you'd still be hard pressed to go through every story and every comment. I am super happy that I can go to Google and find practically anything, anytime. That doesn't mean I need (or want) to know everything all the time. I come to /. and read up on legal poo and science, then I run off to Zeldman's site and worship the god(s), then go to suck.com and look at the pretty pictures. ;-)
The Internet cannot be completely devoured, it can only be grazed. Moderation and filtering can help a person do that more effectively sometimes; so what?
/."
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
bribery and corruption in Bush's white hose
/."
The Clinton White House, Part Deux!
(I don't ususally troll but this was too good to let pass. Check your spelling, guys, hehe.)
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
the school made the rule.
:-)
/."
I tend to agree with you. I was enrolled in a private school from kindergarten to 4th grade, and the culture shock when I went to public school in 5th grade was insane. In private school, at least back in my day, if you misbehaved you went to the principal's office and got the paddle. Imagine that: between swats, the kid's yelling "I promise I'll *ow* never forget the *ow* difference between list and *OW* scalar again!"
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
This is the real deal, sweetie: http://hempcar.org/
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(Shameless plug for my dear Reverend Al.)
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
Or you could become a Marxist, and hope that Capitalism contains the own seeds of it's destructions, to which I reply McDonalds and HDTV, I mean, bread and circuses for all the sheeple.
;-)
/."
Nice one.
Truly though I think Open Source was our best chance for bringing down the beast. But even that card could not trump the widespread ignorance and apathy that keep Capitalism alive and thriving. As long as programmers sell their skills for food (or toys, or perks, ad infinitum) then someone will use them for kamikaze coding. I'm no saint, either - I just finished designing a site that sells, among other things, internet filtering software. Yes I feel dirty, but you know that crap doesn't work anyway, right?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that as long as the Internet is packaged up by AOL and M$ for mass consumption then those of us who know better will always be the minority. "So easy to use, no wonder it's #1." Can Linux say that? Sure it's free (as in beer?) but that doesn't make a damn bit of difference when you're talking about a million soccer moms, baby.
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
2001-08-16-14:30:00
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'Course I've never heard whether the MIR has a penchant for fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches...
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
Meat market indeed. I do have to brag that I finally met someone IRL who I'd been doing web work for for the past 2 years, and it was awesome. He's moving here. :-)
/."
Yes, Virginia, there are still honest people online.
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
If I heard correctly, there's a big class action suit against Verizon right now because they're signing up more customers for DSL than they can actually handle. I finally got on yesterday (Praise Allah/Buddha/Krishna!) but it took two months of waiting and then three tech support calls Sunday morning. Grr. I didn't have any strange needs, I already had the modem and everything, all they had to do was turn it on, and that took 2 months. ??! It just kills me to see their commercials all over TV now, 'sign up today and get free this/that/whatever' and I'm thinking, okay so where's MY free shit?! :-)
/."
*sigh* At least I'm on so I don't have to stay late at the office anymore just to check my damn email.
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
We were approached over and over again by large ISPs who wanted to buy us. :-)
/."
I worked for a mom 'n' pop for a year (hiya, dethro!) and it was painful to watch the bigger ISP's circle us like a dying animal. But being so close to my clients (I was the webmistress) and having them know they could call me whenever, or knowing that you could call the president at home if your email went down, or page the sys admin at 3am, those kinds of things were really cool. Not to mention being able to stay late and play Q2 on the T1, muahahaha!
I've had friends who worked for the bigger companies, and I'm glad I never went that route. I'm dealing with Verizon right now in a frustrating attempt to get DSL at home, and their customer support is a fscking joke. When OH When will cable modems become available in my city?!
[Pardon my rant.]
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
Maybe it's cuz I'm in a particularly cynical mood today, but that whole ass thing just made me smile. Thanks. :-)
/."
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
That made my Monday. Thank you!
/."
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
I still don't know what everyone has against using tables-?! They were the first hurdle I overcame when I learned HTML and they've been the foundation of almost every site I've built for the past 3 years of my career. They WORK in damn near every browser. CSS doesn't. :-)
/."
Also, keep in mind that various graphic effects just aren't possible without tables, and if a client wants an assload of graphics, they'll get 'em. I enjoy getting paid.
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
That is the most awesome idea! The trick, though, is to get the shirts away from your rocker before he wears holes in them beyond the point of repair. :-)
/."
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
I thought that it was a garden gnome?
/."
Or has it happened more than once?
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
"We want to use them positively so that they can create adequate firewalls so that nobody can hack our country's Web sites," he added.
/."
Okay somebody answer me this: using hackers to catch/thwart hackers sounds good, but is it really feasible? What's to say that little Wali, age 14, who built your firewall, won't share those techniques with, oh, say some kid in Minnesota who happens to post regularly to places like Slashdot, and so now your custom defense can be cracked by k1dd13s? Do they sign a NDA or something?
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
Not that I'm a Xian or anything, but isn't the lowest frozen level of Hell (according to Dante) the place where commiters of fraud go? (Personally I agree with you, but wanted to stir the pot a bit.)
/."
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
I disagree, love can happen online. I've seen it happen to my friends. What's the difference between meeting in a chat room, and meeting through a dear abby letters-to-soldiers thing? Nothing. Love and marriage and all that crap can and does blossom from both.
/."
I do have to add my $.02 to the previous topic, though...I have been in IRC many a night chatting with friends in CO, Canada, and Europe, while boyfriend sat 3 feet away in the same room, chatting in the same channel, and we would more likely type than talk. It's sick, kinda. And I can't count the number of times I've run into someone and said "Oh I just sent you an email, I can't talk to you until you read it." That's disturbing!
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
...isn't that he's got the machines:
...but where he's going to get enough American teenage boys to fly the planes.
/."
"One expert I spoke with estimated that an integrated bundle of 12-15 PlayStations could provide enough computer power to control an Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV -- a pilotless aircraft."
*Packs bags, checks passport, heads off to Switzerland.*
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
This is the key to making ads go away. It really doesn't matter in what format ads on the web take, if people ignore them and don't buy products/services from online advertisers, then the ads will be deemed ineffective. Marketers may spend endless amounts of time and money to ram ads down your throat, but clients won't. Banner ads are a money pit, we tell all our clients that...but really most of them know it already before they ask. IMHO I don't think online advertising has much time left in this world. Pay for play will take its place.
/."
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
I watched that last night too but didn't know those were FIFs... I was actually fascinated that they could discern anything in those close-up pixelated shots!
/."
Here's to the Ever-Expanding Universe!
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
Right. In my state, it's illegal to do anything other than missionary position for the purpose of procreation. Which is why I think organizations like BR are so damn cool, providing the illusion of sexual freedom for one weekend a year. *sigh*
/."
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
In VA, we got ONE sheet of paper, divided with thick black lines. Pres. candidates on the left, other issues on the right. You got a felt pen, colored in a circle next to the names, and fed it into a machine that read the dots. I have never seen one of these weird-ass pin-books, and am having a difficult time figuring out why they're so popular when all they seem to do is make it difficult for everyone...?
/."
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on
It wasn't the 10 commandments but a bunch of hand-written things that God does and doesn't "like." I'm not going to protest or anything, but I did find it a bit freaky. Living in a huge Republican State (We have Pat Robertson, w00t!) I imagine it comforted more voters than not...
;-)
/."
But by whoever's God, I voted for Nader!
"I'm not a bitch, I just play one on