Well, since my site still ranks #1 and #2 for the appropriate keywords with A9, I like it.
The "Site Info" rollover is very nice, it gives a bit of pre-click background about the page.
Seems like every search engine is offering some kind of Toolbar/Deskbar these days. Does anyone know if the deskbars are all built on Dave Bau's original open source project?
Decades ago (this was back when a CAD computers cost $20K or more) I proposed the adoption of CAD for the company I worked for. It was new and spiffy and promised all kinds of new things I could learn.
Since then I've seen a lot of clueless use of the technology that seems to waste more overall time than drawing by hand ever did. The worst part seems to be that management can hire discipline-ignorant CAD people and expect to save big bucks. Not to mention that newcomers don't have to learn the skill of working and communicating with pen and paper, which makes them essentially useless in the field.
On the other hand, having convenient access to "live" site photos is a big help, but document control can be a problem.
I am sometimes deeply affected by realistic, emotionally charged film violence, like that in Schindler's List -- though not to the degree that snuff affects me.
That was quite an emotionally-charged statement in itself and I agree. There's only so much prurient interest in squished/beheaded/debased people that a normal person can stand. Given the possibilities of the net when I got on, I sought out this type of thing out of curiousity. After seeing a few of them my curiousity was sated. What worries me is people that look at this stuff all the time. To me, that's a red flag worth paying more attention to.
Thanks. I have the fancy hologrammed original CD and everything and I've had to swap out and back a "high-end" video card. I suppose with XP this might have been more of a problem.
I chose to use W2K Pro (luser, I know) rather than XP because of some poorly-defined talk about XP requiring authorization. And some other talk about problems when swappping out hardware. Was this ever true or just FUD?
Another good one was the reversing exchangers in air separation plants (that technology is now obsolete) whereby the switchover would be accompanied by a thunderous boom. Quite unnerving unless you're used to it. Timing and careful listening could be used to predict when it would happen, so bringing casual visitors to the plant could be properly scheduled.
Instead of posting repeats, maybe the editors would have a look at pending submissions like CAD machine recommendations or "new" concepts like mine-finding flail tanks.
Just a thought.
I wish spam actually were a useful, cheap advertising medium. I might actually see something once in a while that was useful. But hundreds a day, for pills or porn or loans, that is not useful.
So, 50 spams a day for mortgages, free university degrees and loans would be OK?
The current state of spam activity is deplorable. Should Joe User respond to the reponsible spammers who promise to take him off "the list" or is he better off just deleting the crap? How can one tell the difference?
Nobody ever pays attention to the fact that the first two choices *do not* contain any spam. I'm relying on the online transcript since my memory is crappy due to my forced reliance on machines.
a. spend that money on R&D to improve the company's operations
While I agree with the general statement, please stop the phrase/word confusionification. "R&D" invokes the mental idea of labs, scientists, technicians, etc. What we are *really* talking about here is marketing and how to increase sales. I've also seen wordplay misdirection when it comes to "social engineering". What many Slashdotters routinely call "social engineering" is simple fraud and scamming. Let's try to not dilute the language any more than necessary, huh?
It helps a lot if the terms are understood by the population at large, even if they are all clueless users.
...or bundling less desirable tracks with hot singles."
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Waitress:...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Waitress:...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Farscape is one of those shows that's very difficult to break into because of its highly seralized nature. That is to say, the plotline is very involved, and trying to break into it is very difficult. ("Who is that guy? Why are they all looking at each other uncomfortably? Why the musical sting?")
Why are there obvious muppets as main characters? Is this a Sci-Fi show or a puppet show? Why is one of them farting an on-going joke? Is this Terence and Phillip?
Is it supposed to be puppet funny, cartoon funny or ironing funny?
I'm guessing that (non cgi-enhanced) puppets leave most of the real world wondering, me included.
Ironically, for a magazine that runs so many good articles on privacy issues, they whored my address to anyone and everyone. I never got so much crap junkmail as after I started a subscription. And tenacious bulkmailers, sending thick wads every other month or so for years.
Add to that the blown-in and tear-out ads in "real" magazines (which, to me, are enough to get violently into tear/shake-out mode) and you've got annoyance for the "consumer". These type of ads are the precursors to the web's popup/under in that they inhibit your ability to read what you want, and everyone I know rips and discards this junk out because it causes the mag to flop open to an ad page.
But for some reason, showing folks information in a graphical or visual format makes it more real
Why do you think (in chronological order) artists, draftsmen (now CAD operators, I suppose), graphic artists and now GUI designers exist? Oh, crap, I think I've been trolled by a lower UID.
A 133-foot-long tractor-trailer with 192 tires and 16 axles [...] will take about five days to crawl about 17 miles...
Stuff like this is generally un/loaded in stages with multiple giant cranes. The engineer/builder of the structure provides detailed drawings and procedures for the lifting and manipulation of the load.
I used to have a small webpage about these big transport machines (often called "Schnabels" - this particular page is about Schnabel railroad cars), but passed it off to The Road Load Page.
Check it out if transporting heavy stuff interests you.
Slashdot Mirror
C'mon, everybody knows that Slashdot readers can't get $activity[0].
That reminded me of the poster further up this page that wasn't interested in sex in the city. Maybe he's a farm boy.
Dan's Data has a new review of some enclosures. There are lots of other manufacturers of these things out there as well. Why is Iomega bothering?
Well, since my site still ranks #1 and #2 for the appropriate keywords with A9, I like it.
The "Site Info" rollover is very nice, it gives a bit of pre-click background about the page.
Seems like every search engine is offering some kind of Toolbar/Deskbar these days. Does anyone know if the deskbars are all built on Dave Bau's original open source project?
Just a bit of an off-topic rant...
Decades ago (this was back when a CAD computers cost $20K or more) I proposed the adoption of CAD for the company I worked for. It was new and spiffy and promised all kinds of new things I could learn.
Since then I've seen a lot of clueless use of the technology that seems to waste more overall time than drawing by hand ever did. The worst part seems to be that management can hire discipline-ignorant CAD people and expect to save big bucks. Not to mention that newcomers don't have to learn the skill of working and communicating with pen and paper, which makes them essentially useless in the field.
On the other hand, having convenient access to "live" site photos is a big help, but document control can be a problem.
I'm afraid a cost-benefit analysis would reveal that it's (currently) cheaper to let the scammers scam:(
Like email?
Did VA Software get audited, or what?
...BackWater, Alabayma
Too bad you didn't reference *Sweet Home Alabama*. Probably would have gotten modded up.
I am sometimes deeply affected by realistic, emotionally charged film violence, like that in Schindler's List -- though not to the degree that snuff affects me.
That was quite an emotionally-charged statement in itself and I agree. There's only so much prurient interest in squished/beheaded/debased people that a normal person can stand. Given the possibilities of the net when I got on, I sought out this type of thing out of curiousity. After seeing a few of them my curiousity was sated. What worries me is people that look at this stuff all the time. To me, that's a red flag worth paying more attention to.
Thanks Kevin (visited your site), I'm more accustomed to which grade lead to use in my mechanical pencil than I am with MS sneakery.
Thanks. I have the fancy hologrammed original CD and everything and I've had to swap out and back a "high-end" video card. I suppose with XP this might have been more of a problem.
I chose to use W2K Pro (luser, I know) rather than XP because of some poorly-defined talk about XP requiring authorization. And some other talk about problems when swappping out hardware. Was this ever true or just FUD?
Nowadays, trains zip by cattle many times a day, and they don't even bother to look up anymore..
That's because when no one's looking they're standing up and drinking coffee. Cows. Is there anything they *can't* do?
High speed paper machines
Fun to watch, not to touch.
Another good one was the reversing exchangers in air separation plants (that technology is now obsolete) whereby the switchover would be accompanied by a thunderous boom. Quite unnerving unless you're used to it. Timing and careful listening could be used to predict when it would happen, so bringing casual visitors to the plant could be properly scheduled.
Also, I'm guessing the maglev goes *much* faster than the wheeled train to make the same overall dbs of sound.
Dopeler Effect: Two similar comments from different ACs within 30 seconds of each other.
Can anyone explain this to me about um... "traditional" train sound, because I've always wondered
Choo-choo. Didn't your parents ever buy you toys?
Next!
Instead of posting repeats, maybe the editors would have a look at pending submissions like CAD machine recommendations or "new" concepts like mine-finding flail tanks. Just a thought.
I agree. What is the point in watching this type of thing? It only goes to send a message that you didn't want to get.
Some sites feature photos of blown-up people of all backgrounds and religions. Is that relative or prurient?
I wish spam actually were a useful, cheap advertising medium. I might actually see something once in a while that was useful. But hundreds a day, for pills or porn or loans, that is not useful.
So, 50 spams a day for mortgages, free university degrees and loans would be OK?
The current state of spam activity is deplorable. Should Joe User respond to the reponsible spammers who promise to take him off "the list" or is he better off just deleting the crap? How can one tell the difference?
Something has to be done, and soon.
Nobody ever pays attention to the fact that the first two choices *do not* contain any spam. I'm relying on the online transcript since my memory is crappy due to my forced reliance on machines.
a. spend that money on R&D to improve the company's operations
While I agree with the general statement, please stop the phrase/word confusionification. "R&D" invokes the mental idea of labs, scientists, technicians, etc. What we are *really* talking about here is marketing and how to increase sales. I've also seen wordplay misdirection when it comes to "social engineering". What many Slashdotters routinely call "social engineering" is simple fraud and scamming. Let's try to not dilute the language any more than necessary, huh?
It helps a lot if the terms are understood by the population at large, even if they are all clueless users.
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Waitress:
Waitress:
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Farscape is one of those shows that's very difficult to break into because of its highly seralized nature. That is to say, the plotline is very involved, and trying to break into it is very difficult. ("Who is that guy? Why are they all looking at each other uncomfortably? Why the musical sting?")
Why are there obvious muppets as main characters? Is this a Sci-Fi show or a puppet show? Why is one of them farting an on-going joke? Is this Terence and Phillip?
Is it supposed to be puppet funny, cartoon funny or ironing funny?
I'm guessing that (non cgi-enhanced) puppets leave most of the real world wondering, me included.
Ironically, for a magazine that runs so many good articles on privacy issues, they whored my address to anyone and everyone. I never got so much crap junkmail as after I started a subscription. And tenacious bulkmailers, sending thick wads every other month or so for years.
Add to that the blown-in and tear-out ads in "real" magazines (which, to me, are enough to get violently into tear/shake-out mode) and you've got annoyance for the "consumer". These type of ads are the precursors to the web's popup/under in that they inhibit your ability to read what you want, and everyone I know rips and discards this junk out because it causes the mag to flop open to an ad page.
But for some reason, showing folks information in a graphical or visual format makes it more real
Why do you think (in chronological order) artists, draftsmen (now CAD operators, I suppose), graphic artists and now GUI designers exist? Oh, crap, I think I've been trolled by a lower UID.
A 133-foot-long tractor-trailer with 192 tires and 16 axles [...] will take about five days to crawl about 17 miles...
Stuff like this is generally un/loaded in stages with multiple giant cranes. The engineer/builder of the structure provides detailed drawings and procedures for the lifting and manipulation of the load.
I used to have a small webpage about these big transport machines (often called "Schnabels" - this particular page is about Schnabel railroad cars), but passed it off to The Road Load Page.
Check it out if transporting heavy stuff interests you.
Paul