This is as serious as I am drunk. Very. However, I could see the necessity of the "exploit" to crash someone's browser through HTML since this seems to be intentionally allowed (from the exploit: ) which is perfectly good...oh wait, I only see that because intoxication has the better of me...good thing there's mozilla!
Many people are just as afraid of:
Programming the VCR.
Changing the oil.
Using the TV without a remote.
Programming jobs on copiers (yes, those Xerox-like machines)
Copying movies off their camera tapes.
Figuring out why the microwave has more than one mode of operation.
Learning to make felled seams on a Singer.
Insert your own favorite technophobia.
Are people actually afraid of doing these things, or are they afraid of breaking the technical gizmo if they fail, screw up, or make a mistake?
Doesn't this fear come from the fact that they don't understand how to do it, or that they just don't understand the gizmo itself?
So, do they fear any of these actions specifically, or do they just generally fear their own ignorance towards technology (we fear what we don't understand?) Perhaps we can be as user friendly as we want, but if the user chooses to remain ignorant, they will remain in fear regardless of how savvy we are when we design a system. Just a thought.
If more people did a little research when they bought computers, or computer parts, they wouldnt have half the problems. Instead they listen to the sales people, or they buy the cheapest thing they can find and then wonder why their system locks up.
I wish more people would do this and not just for memmory, but for any big purchase. It's one of the truly great aspects of the internet, fast cheap research.
It is straight-ahead, grammatically incorrect to use a pronoun other than "he" when one refers to a gender-nonspecific third person.
Nice way to emphasize a point with "straight ahead." Unfortunately, you're wrong for a few reasons.
1. It is arguable that "he" is the only acceptable neutral gender pronoun.
2. It is "staight ahead" sexist. Right or wrong, it's still sexist (period, bold, underline, exclamation mark.)
3. It's isn't "unfortunately" the same word used for the male pronoun, it was made to be that way by sexist dominant males because most people in gender neutral situations were men. Now it's changing, and the language needs to change too.
30 minutes is pretty close for a full CD on cable. You have to consider the u/l capapbilites or the computer you're d/l from, if both of you have cable, their u/l speed is likely capped at a very moderate level (128 - 256 kb/s usually.) Unless they have >=T1+ then it's going to fly.
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First of all, he said he had it on vibrate
Secondly, who says he couldn't walk out of the theatre when he felt it vibrating to converse?
Finally, What if a doctor who worked the emergency room wanted to go see a movie, he should have a phone, pager, or something cuz what if there's a major accident downtown and they suddenly need every doctor to come in? What if it was you on the operation table without a doctor because he didn't take his phone to the movies?
However, yes, rude people who have a cell phone for status purposes only and leave the ringer on in a theater, meeting, classroom, library etc and/or proceed to converse on the phone in an otherwise quiet place should be shot, and twice at that for certainty.
Adobe to a publishing company : "We are trying to investigate a potential fraud and loss for your company due to a group involved in breaking your ebook's protection code. Can we have your permission to..."
idea: Start a company so I can use good excuses to downloaded e-books I don't own with permission from the company that holds the copyrights...better yet, offer to charge them for results of my investigation...and keep the e-books too.
Our initial PR statment confirms that our product was not intended to whipe-out the competition; we meant that the XP4 will whipe the ass of our competitors. We understand the definite language barrier of our PR staff and the general international public. Over the past 6 months, Trident has become one of the greatest suppliers of industrial sand paper and the most abrasive toilette paper in the history of indoor plumbing of developed nations. The Trident XP4 is intended to provide the most dis-comfort in our competitors as its only use is to whipe their ass in the most abrasive fassion possible.
So what you're saying is your product will be covered in the blood and shit of your competitors? NO THANKS!
Also if your competitors are wiping their asses with your product, whether or not it's uncomfortable, they are still using your product to wipe their asses with...which is still bad!
PS I think your PR personel are suppose to be good at the whole general public/language barrier kinda thing. It may be a good time to get some new people in there...
Actually, it's slashdot that makes the internet suck a little more each day, but he was close.
Well, actually, nothing really *sucks* since it's all pressure related. Just like when you breathe in you aren't really *sucking* but you're increasing the volume in your lungs (which in turn decreases the amount of air molecules/volume) and since there is greater air molecules/volume outside of your lungs - well that's just movement of a gas from a high concentration to a low concentration, isn't it? In a sense, the air is actually being *pushed* into your mouth...
So please, next time announce that slashdot creates a low concentration/volume which in turn causes users in high concentration/volume areas to move to slashdot for equilibrium.
I've ordered from them at least 6 times now. Perfect everytime, decent prices (sometimes a bit high) great service and fast shipping.
PriceWatch - well, I've been shafted twice now from 2 different companies, but I still use it sometime (btw, newegg is on pricewatch for some items). So, use with extreme caution and stay the heck away from yahoo sellers...all dumb as boxes of roxes (unless you don't care at all about service.)
500 black-market clones of himself. At $1.7 million a pop..., that's $850 million.
...Total cost for companionship? $40,005,050
Fifty-year supply of McDonald's Big Mac value meal: $9,836,750.
Pays $280,800 to have his mother-in-law overnight borscht every week for 60 years
Gives rest of fortune ($250 million) to a nonprofit scientific research organization...
Maybe the geek should have been smarter than a Forbes editor and bought a beo cluster to keep track of their (non-sexist language added intentionally) 1 billion so as not to overspend it by $$$150,122,944.
It really makes me think of how underused most technology is before we discard it and "upgrade" to the next better thing.
I think we need more people like this who innovate new ideas into old technology and use it in ways it was never thought of to be used in, even if it is just for a hobby or personal employment. (Did I just say we need more hackers?)
Also, check the songs he made with TWO ataris, wild.
What a total load of BS. Why do you think Unionized truck drivers make more money than most techies? Could it be because they have unions?
Why do truck drivers have more benefits (health, retirement, etc) than most techies? Unions again?
Or how about the fact that seniority counts (read: MANY YEARS OF HARDWORK as oppose to a short term burst of burning yourself out to make a bonus since you're already getting underpaid since no union fights for your wages and you need the money)? Yeah, it's the unions.
They aren't a thorn in the economy, disfunctional corporate america that schemes, steals, and incorrectly accounts their finances are the thorn.
It's time for techies to wake up and unite, put the anti-social bs that we're infamous for in the trash and stand up for what we believe in.
Last week's paper version of EETimes had an article about the fact that 60% of EE/CompE/CS undergrads in the US today either flunk out or quit
It's not a very good statistic due to the fact that 50% of all students who enter college intent on earning a bachelor's degree (in any subject) either fail out or change majors prior to graduation. So there's 10% more in the technical fields, is it really a surprise?
I would bet if you looked at a field like education, there would be a smaller number of drop outs/major changes.
Also, speaking as a senior seeking a theoretical computer science degree (BSc) I can attest that it's not easy, it requires alot of work. I will be very proud to earn my Diploma come May '03 and I hope there's a job for me, but I don't blame people who enter CS/EE/CE thinking it sounds good who later find out what is really involved who then quit. I think the MATH gets alot of people too, not necessarily the other classes and elements.
Slashdot Mirror
This is as serious as I am drunk. Very. However, I could see the necessity of the "exploit" to crash someone's browser through HTML since this seems to be intentionally allowed (from the exploit: ) which is perfectly good...oh wait, I only see that because intoxication has the better of me...good thing there's mozilla!
Many people are just as afraid of: Programming the VCR. Changing the oil. Using the TV without a remote. Programming jobs on copiers (yes, those Xerox-like machines) Copying movies off their camera tapes. Figuring out why the microwave has more than one mode of operation. Learning to make felled seams on a Singer. Insert your own favorite technophobia.
Are people actually afraid of doing these things, or are they afraid of breaking the technical gizmo if they fail, screw up, or make a mistake?
Doesn't this fear come from the fact that they don't understand how to do it, or that they just don't understand the gizmo itself?
So, do they fear any of these actions specifically, or do they just generally fear their own ignorance towards technology (we fear what we don't understand?) Perhaps we can be as user friendly as we want, but if the user chooses to remain ignorant, they will remain in fear regardless of how savvy we are when we design a system. Just a thought.
If more people did a little research when they bought computers, or computer parts, they wouldnt have half the problems. Instead they listen to the sales people, or they buy the cheapest thing they can find and then wonder why their system locks up.
I wish more people would do this and not just for memmory, but for any big purchase. It's one of the truly great aspects of the internet, fast cheap research.
It is straight-ahead, grammatically incorrect to use a pronoun other than "he" when one refers to a gender-nonspecific third person.
Nice way to emphasize a point with "straight ahead." Unfortunately, you're wrong for a few reasons.
1. It is arguable that "he" is the only acceptable neutral gender pronoun.
2. It is "staight ahead" sexist. Right or wrong, it's still sexist (period, bold, underline, exclamation mark.)
3. It's isn't "unfortunately" the same word used for the male pronoun, it was made to be that way by sexist dominant males because most people in gender neutral situations were men. Now it's changing, and the language needs to change too.
4. Your last statement is unnecessary.
30 minutes is pretty close for a full CD on cable. You have to consider the u/l capapbilites or the computer you're d/l from, if both of you have cable, their u/l speed is likely capped at a very moderate level (128 - 256 kb/s usually.) Unless they have >=T1+ then it's going to fly.
First of all, he said he had it on vibrate
Secondly, who says he couldn't walk out of the theatre when he felt it vibrating to converse?
Finally, What if a doctor who worked the emergency room wanted to go see a movie, he should have a phone, pager, or something cuz what if there's a major accident downtown and they suddenly need every doctor to come in? What if it was you on the operation table without a doctor because he didn't take his phone to the movies?
However, yes, rude people who have a cell phone for status purposes only and leave the ringer on in a theater, meeting, classroom, library etc and/or proceed to converse on the phone in an otherwise quiet place should be shot, and twice at that for certainty.
Adobe to a publishing company : "We are trying to investigate a potential fraud and loss for your company due to a group involved in breaking your ebook's protection code. Can we have your permission to..."
idea: Start a company so I can use good excuses to downloaded e-books I don't own with permission from the company that holds the copyrights...better yet, offer to charge them for results of my investigation...and keep the e-books too.
Our initial PR statment confirms that our product was not intended to whipe-out the competition; we meant that the XP4 will whipe the ass of our competitors. We understand the definite language barrier of our PR staff and the general international public. Over the past 6 months, Trident has become one of the greatest suppliers of industrial sand paper and the most abrasive toilette paper in the history of indoor plumbing of developed nations. The Trident XP4 is intended to provide the most dis-comfort in our competitors as its only use is to whipe their ass in the most abrasive fassion possible.
So what you're saying is your product will be covered in the blood and shit of your competitors? NO THANKS!
Also if your competitors are wiping their asses with your product, whether or not it's uncomfortable, they are still using your product to wipe their asses with...which is still bad!
PS I think your PR personel are suppose to be good at the whole general public/language barrier kinda thing. It may be a good time to get some new people in there...
Well, actually, nothing really *sucks* since it's all pressure related. Just like when you breathe in you aren't really *sucking* but you're increasing the volume in your lungs (which in turn decreases the amount of air molecules/volume) and since there is greater air molecules/volume outside of your lungs - well that's just movement of a gas from a high concentration to a low concentration, isn't it? In a sense, the air is actually being *pushed* into your mouth...
So please, next time announce that slashdot creates a low concentration/volume which in turn causes users in high concentration/volume areas to move to slashdot for equilibrium.
I've ordered from them at least 6 times now. Perfect everytime, decent prices (sometimes a bit high) great service and fast shipping. PriceWatch - well, I've been shafted twice now from 2 different companies, but I still use it sometime (btw, newegg is on pricewatch for some items). So, use with extreme caution and stay the heck away from yahoo sellers...all dumb as boxes of roxes (unless you don't care at all about service.)
An original 1977 poster print of Star Wars. $344
500 black-market clones of himself. At $1.7 million a pop..., that's $850 million.
Fifty-year supply of McDonald's Big Mac value meal: $9,836,750.
Pays $280,800 to have his mother-in-law overnight borscht every week for 60 years
Gives rest of fortune ($250 million) to a nonprofit scientific research organization...
Maybe the geek should have been smarter than a Forbes editor and bought a beo cluster to keep track of their (non-sexist language added intentionally) 1 billion so as not to overspend it by $$$150,122,944.
However, that's just me...
You think webcomics other than MT suck? Well you can all just DIE (shameless plug for my wife's web comic)
It really makes me think of how underused most technology is before we discard it and "upgrade" to the next better thing.
I think we need more people like this who innovate new ideas into old technology and use it in ways it was never thought of to be used in, even if it is just for a hobby or personal employment. (Did I just say we need more hackers?)
Also, check the songs he made with TWO ataris, wild.Why do truck drivers have more benefits (health, retirement, etc) than most techies? Unions again?
Or how about the fact that seniority counts (read: MANY YEARS OF HARDWORK as oppose to a short term burst of burning yourself out to make a bonus since you're already getting underpaid since no union fights for your wages and you need the money)? Yeah, it's the unions.
They aren't a thorn in the economy, disfunctional corporate america that schemes, steals, and incorrectly accounts their finances are the thorn.
It's time for techies to wake up and unite, put the anti-social bs that we're infamous for in the trash and stand up for what we believe in.
It's not a very good statistic due to the fact that 50% of all students who enter college intent on earning a bachelor's degree (in any subject) either fail out or change majors prior to graduation. So there's 10% more in the technical fields, is it really a surprise?
I would bet if you looked at a field like education, there would be a smaller number of drop outs/major changes.
Also, speaking as a senior seeking a theoretical computer science degree (BSc) I can attest that it's not easy, it requires alot of work. I will be very proud to earn my Diploma come May '03 and I hope there's a job for me, but I don't blame people who enter CS/EE/CE thinking it sounds good who later find out what is really involved who then quit. I think the MATH gets alot of people too, not necessarily the other classes and elements.