Offtopic rant: I am sick and tired of all this "Hey moderators" bull. Let whoever has mod points moderate already. It seems in every article these days there are a few posts saying "I can't believe this got a 2" or "Mod this up" etc....leave it alone.
while the people who build Web sites have a good grasp of the issues, the people who sign off on them are often marketing types who don't
Exactly. I'm a web designer for an ad agency, and while I agree that splash pages are the bane of the web, every client seems to want one. The last thing these folks care about is 'ease of use', they just want a better website than their competitors, which will invariably involve JavaScript, Flash, and other bandwidth hogging features.
I would love to give every one of my clients a copy of this book...sigh... Oh and one for the Art Dept., as well, who are having trouble understanding why a web page can't look exactly like the print ads they produce.
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If anything, it'll make liberal politics--and, by extension, politics in general--more interesting to kids.
Now THAT would be a feat.
The only kids interested in politics, at least when I was a kid, were the seniors taking Government class. I just don't see 8 year olds being upset because they couldn't get to Ross Perot's website. I do, however, agree with a previous poster, that this was a good story and I'm glad it's here...
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I am simply fuming. I've said it a zillion times, parents who let the TV/computer babysit, entertain, educate and raise their children for them are BAD parents. Kids need discipline, they need guidance. I played Quake feverishly when it came out, I played Mortal Kombat, etc., but my parents had taught me right from wrong and I knew how to seperate fantasty from reality.
Your quote is right on. Parents who don't pay attention to what their kids are doing have only themselves to blame. Not video games, not gun manufacturers, not society, not drugs, ad freaking nauseum...
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Because I'm a queen? I also happen to be a FEMALE, but I can see you don't know how to talk to a lady. The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I agree that this seems like a bull-headed stance to take on what seems an inevitability. I can see where he's coming from as far as people not wanting to read books online, I know working at a computer all day long gives me enough of a headache without reading "War and Peace" on a monitor, too. However, as you said, what about the books that are old and falling apart? Wouldn't it be in the interest of academia to have digital copies to thumb through? And what about research? Certainly it would be awesome to have all those tomes online and available to the public.
As for his degrading commentary about internet content and its subservient position towards commercialism, I flip him a hardy bird. I hate ad banners as much as the next guy but somebody's gotta pay the bills...
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hilarious essay from Space.com on Star War's most annoying characters that I found extremely funny
I am sorry to have to jump to Jar-Jar's defense, but whether this article was meant to be 'hilarious' or not, anyone familiar with Joseph Campbell (or who has taken any literature analysis/appreciation courses) would have to think twice about the Gungan's role in the epic after reading this. As annoying as he was, he very well could turn out to be one of the most important characters. While I wouldn't go so far as the author did in comparing him to Luke Skywalker, I think there is definitely some real purpose besides comic relief in Jar-Jar.
IMO, the Ewoks were much more annoying as characters...but ended up being more marketable. Why? It's the fur.;-)
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Is that the same as the movie Future Shock they showed us back in 7th grade where a man and woman are getting married except the guy's in the dress? Oh wait, no that was an Aerosmith video. Sorry.
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However, I think very visible companies/distributions like Redhat and Mandrake are gaining a (gasp!) brand identity that people will likely be more accepting of as more M$ poo is unveiled in the media.
We bought our copy of Mandrake at Wal-Mart.;-)
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...you're talking to a bunch of lazy geeks. We don't get out much. I don't tan, don't have kids, and don't know anyone who has kids.
I hope that I just offended some well-tanned, father-of-three geek out there who hates to be called a geek. Now you guys get off your asses and fight this WAVE crap! I can't believe this!
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shouldn't they be working on developing world peace by 2025, not super-soldiers?
It'd sure be nice, but there's no money, power, or glory in world peace.
We are actually at the top of a very unbalanced food chain, I worry about that. News clips of Arabs and Cubans chanting anti-American slogans makes my skin crawl...just build another McDonald's, the natives will love us! Ugh.
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I am a 24 year old web designer whose friends are 99% male, geeks (PROUD geeks), gearheads, musicians, artists, etc. All the 'sub-culture' folks. Sites like ChickClick nauseate me. No one I hang out with fits this girlie pigeonhole...although my mom comes close, she uses AOL IM to chat with her next-door neighbor. But let's leave my dysfunctional family out of this.:-)
I often call myself one of the guys, because it seems that I relate better to other guys than to other girls. That's on AND offline. It's something hard to swallow, maybe not 'pc', but building and maintaining the architecture of cyberspace is still a male domain. Jon may have been enforcing a stereotype but from where this geek chick is sitting, unfortunately he doesn't seem too far off.
If someone can show me statistics about how many women OFFline are chatting about clothes and how many are crunching code, I'd be willing to change my mind.
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Thanks for the link to the Tom Waits site...wanted to email you but you don't appear to want/. folk to be able to do that... "The ocean doesn't want me today."
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There isn't any wysiwyg editor on the market that produces ready to publish html
Actually, I watched Lynda's video for Adobe Go Live the other day (my man brought it home from work) and during the few glimpses she gave of the code you could see (and I have confirmed this in person) the HTML it writes IS fairly clean and ready to go. Imagine my shock.
I write all my sites with Notepad, and even though AGL does some awesome things with mouseovers and image maps, I still prefer to have ABSOLUTE POWER over my code.:-)
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That is what I think mp3 is best at, allowing you to find obscure artists and branch out from your daily dose of Top 40. Absolutely. (Check out my band on mp3.com for an earful of swank digitalia.)
Problem is, once you are discovered and signed, your record company doesn't want you on mp3 anymore because they can't make a dime off it, and they claim it hurts sales. The argument we 'pirates' are making is that making music available for the masses to check out will ensure that your fan base continues to grow. How many times have you been at the store, and a CD caught your eye, but you'd never heard of the band, none of your friends had either, and you could think of a couple other things to spend your money on than a band that could very well suck? You go to mp3.com or someplace like that and check it out, find out, hey, they rock, then you go back and buy the cd. Our buy a ticket to the show when they come to town. Or turn your friends onto the band, and they buy the cd. I just think the number of folks who WILL spend money tends to outweigh the 'cost' of people who just download it and never buy anything.
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I went through the whole article on Sharky's and there was only one picture of a human model. (The part where they showed image morphing interpolation - very cool.) But - I want to see better hair. Anybody watching that new show on the WB, Max Steel? The hair on those characters is awesome! Granted, they still have a few bothersome jerky movements, and their joints are a bit unnatural looking... I want a big hair-flying frag fest!;-) The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Yeah, I've wondered that myself...but then I come home and look through my mail to find I've received health insurance statements for someone who lived here three years ago.:-)
Good idea in theory. If they can do it, and do it right, I say go for it. The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
"Ma'am, we have evidence that you spammed your co-workers with a list called the Darwin Awards, a chain-letter involving a sick boy and business cards, and an.mpg movie of an African man lifting a stone with his penis. What do you have to say for yourself?"
"Did you see that guy! That rock must've weighed a ton! Isn't that hilarious?"
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That may be because you have never been afraid to tell people that you don't believe in the God of Abraham and then wait for a reaction, or wait for them to fire you from your job, or take your kids away because you're 'immoral.'
I've been following this issue with interest, but didn't really think about it until the other day when my boss gets me to proofread a TV spot they're doing for a client who sells filtering software. I'm against it. The technology just isn't there yet. I can't even keep pron spam out of my email and I'm damned careful where I go and whose cookies I accept, etc.... So you don't want tax money funding pron surfers in the library? I don't want my tax money funding the war on drugs or other people's churches or nuclear warheads, but it does.
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Slashdot Mirror
Offtopic rant: I am sick and tired of all this "Hey moderators" bull. Let whoever has mod points moderate already. It seems in every article these days there are a few posts saying "I can't believe this got a 2" or "Mod this up" etc....leave it alone.
It's a bit hypocritical to bitch about something you yourself are guilty of, my homey.
http://slashdot.org/co mments.pl?sid=00/04/13/1939221&cid=152
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while the people who build Web sites have a good grasp of the issues, the people who sign off on them are often marketing types who don't
Exactly.
I'm a web designer for an ad agency, and while I agree that splash pages are the bane of the web, every client seems to want one. The last thing these folks care about is 'ease of use', they just want a better website than their competitors, which will invariably involve JavaScript, Flash, and other bandwidth hogging features.
I would love to give every one of my clients a copy of this book...sigh... Oh and one for the Art Dept., as well, who are having trouble understanding why a web page can't look exactly like the print ads they produce.
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So is that why you rarely ever see the Enterprise fly over / dive under an enemy to evade fire? Cause they'll hit the edge? ;-)
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If anything, it'll make liberal politics--and, by extension, politics in general--more interesting to kids.
Now THAT would be a feat.
The only kids interested in politics, at least when I was a kid, were the seniors taking Government class. I just don't see 8 year olds being upset because they couldn't get to Ross Perot's website. I do, however, agree with a previous poster, that this was a good story and I'm glad it's here...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I am simply fuming. I've said it a zillion times, parents who let the TV/computer babysit, entertain, educate and raise their children for them are BAD parents. Kids need discipline, they need guidance. I played Quake feverishly when it came out, I played Mortal Kombat, etc., but my parents had taught me right from wrong and I knew how to seperate fantasty from reality.
Your quote is right on. Parents who don't pay attention to what their kids are doing have only themselves to blame. Not video games, not gun manufacturers, not society, not drugs, ad freaking nauseum...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Because I'm a queen? I also happen to be a FEMALE, but I can see you don't know how to talk to a lady.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I agree that this seems like a bull-headed stance to take on what seems an inevitability. I can see where he's coming from as far as people not wanting to read books online, I know working at a computer all day long gives me enough of a headache without reading "War and Peace" on a monitor, too. However, as you said, what about the books that are old and falling apart? Wouldn't it be in the interest of academia to have digital copies to thumb through? And what about research? Certainly it would be awesome to have all those tomes online and available to the public.
As for his degrading commentary about internet content and its subservient position towards commercialism, I flip him a hardy bird. I hate ad banners as much as the next guy but somebody's gotta pay the bills...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
hilarious essay from Space.com on Star War's most annoying characters that I found extremely funny
;-)
I am sorry to have to jump to Jar-Jar's defense, but whether this article was meant to be 'hilarious' or not, anyone familiar with Joseph Campbell (or who has taken any literature analysis/appreciation courses) would have to think twice about the Gungan's role in the epic after reading this. As annoying as he was, he very well could turn out to be one of the most important characters. While I wouldn't go so far as the author did in comparing him to Luke Skywalker, I think there is definitely some real purpose besides comic relief in Jar-Jar.
IMO, the Ewoks were much more annoying as characters...but ended up being more marketable. Why? It's the fur.
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...they mentioned the site on NPR this morning, as well. I actually was going to go there before I saw that /. had the same story. Oh well. ;-)
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Is that the same as the movie Future Shock they showed us back in 7th grade where a man and woman are getting married except the guy's in the dress? Oh wait, no that was an Aerosmith video. Sorry.
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However, I think very visible companies/distributions like Redhat and Mandrake are gaining a (gasp!) brand identity that people will likely be more accepting of as more M$ poo is unveiled in the media.
;-)
We bought our copy of Mandrake at Wal-Mart.
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Exactly - your fantasy involves a sorceress named Arianrhod and mine involves a ninja thief named Geek Meat, so what? What does it hurt?
Is this the same brand of anal retentiveness that makes some members of the SCA wear their home-made leather jerkins to LUG meetings?
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...you're talking to a bunch of lazy geeks. We don't get out much. I don't tan, don't have kids, and don't know anyone who has kids.
I hope that I just offended some well-tanned, father-of-three geek out there who hates to be called a geek. Now you guys get off your asses and fight this WAVE crap! I can't believe this!
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
shouldn't they be working on developing world peace by 2025, not super-soldiers?
It'd sure be nice, but there's no money, power, or glory in world peace.
We are actually at the top of a very unbalanced food chain, I worry about that. News clips of Arabs and Cubans chanting anti-American slogans makes my skin crawl...just build another McDonald's, the natives will love us!
Ugh.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I am a 24 year old web designer whose friends are 99% male, geeks (PROUD geeks), gearheads, musicians, artists, etc. All the 'sub-culture' folks. Sites like ChickClick nauseate me. No one I hang out with fits this girlie pigeonhole...although my mom comes close, she uses AOL IM to chat with her next-door neighbor. But let's leave my dysfunctional family out of this. :-)
I often call myself one of the guys, because it seems that I relate better to other guys than to other girls. That's on AND offline. It's something hard to swallow, maybe not 'pc', but building and maintaining the architecture of cyberspace is still a male domain. Jon may have been enforcing a stereotype but from where this geek chick is sitting, unfortunately he doesn't seem too far off.
If someone can show me statistics about how many women OFFline are chatting about clothes and how many are crunching code, I'd be willing to change my mind.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Thanks for the link to the Tom Waits site...wanted to email you but you don't appear to want /. folk to be able to do that...
"The ocean doesn't want me today."
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
There isn't any wysiwyg editor on the market that produces ready to publish html
:-)
Actually, I watched Lynda's video for Adobe Go Live the other day (my man brought it home from work) and during the few glimpses she gave of the code you could see (and I have confirmed this in person) the HTML it writes IS fairly clean and ready to go. Imagine my shock.
I write all my sites with Notepad, and even though AGL does some awesome things with mouseovers and image maps, I still prefer to have ABSOLUTE POWER over my code.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
That is what I think mp3 is best at, allowing you to find obscure artists and branch out from your daily dose of Top 40. Absolutely. (Check out my band on mp3.com for an earful of swank digitalia.)
Problem is, once you are discovered and signed, your record company doesn't want you on mp3 anymore because they can't make a dime off it, and they claim it hurts sales. The argument we 'pirates' are making is that making music available for the masses to check out will ensure that your fan base continues to grow. How many times have you been at the store, and a CD caught your eye, but you'd never heard of the band, none of your friends had either, and you could think of a couple other things to spend your money on than a band that could very well suck? You go to mp3.com or someplace like that and check it out, find out, hey, they rock, then you go back and buy the cd. Our buy a ticket to the show when they come to town. Or turn your friends onto the band, and they buy the cd. I just think the number of folks who WILL spend money tends to outweigh the 'cost' of people who just download it and never buy anything.
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Finally somebody quit bitching and actually DID something.
Played with his nails, eh? He didn't even take notes?! That's not very encouraging, but unfortunately not very suprising either...
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I went through the whole article on Sharky's and there was only one picture of a human model. (The part where they showed image morphing interpolation - very cool.) But - I want to see better hair. Anybody watching that new show on the WB, Max Steel? The hair on those characters is awesome! Granted, they still have a few bothersome jerky movements, and their joints are a bit unnatural looking... I want a big hair-flying frag fest! ;-)
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...so that's why all that mail addressed to "Slashdot Karma Whore" still manages to find me. ;-)
You are right, of course. I can only beg the court for mercy on grounds that I hadn't finished my morning tea at the time of posting.
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Yeah, I've wondered that myself...but then I come home and look through my mail to find I've received health insurance statements for someone who lived here three years ago. :-)
Good idea in theory. If they can do it, and do it right, I say go for it.
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"Ma'am, we have evidence that you spammed your co-workers with a list called the Darwin Awards, a chain-letter involving a sick boy and business cards, and an .mpg movie of an African man lifting a stone with his penis. What do you have to say for yourself?"
"Did you see that guy! That rock must've weighed a ton! Isn't that hilarious?"
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Zero Administration for Windows
Stop! My sides hurt!
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That may be because you have never been afraid to tell people that you don't believe in the God of Abraham and then wait for a reaction, or wait for them to fire you from your job, or take your kids away because you're 'immoral.'
I've been following this issue with interest, but didn't really think about it until the other day when my boss gets me to proofread a TV spot they're doing for a client who sells filtering software. I'm against it. The technology just isn't there yet. I can't even keep pron spam out of my email and I'm damned careful where I go and whose cookies I accept, etc.... So you don't want tax money funding pron surfers in the library? I don't want my tax money funding the war on drugs or other people's churches or nuclear warheads, but it does.
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