The UW has always been keen on social issues. It's good to know they're still sticking to their guns these days. Maybe some of the other U's will step up and take notice.
Maybe we should consider rethinking their contracts as we did the Dubai port management deals. Companies that are based outside the US are clearly not as favorable in terms of our security - at least in the eyes of congress.
Let's face it, there won't be a wide adoption for Ogg or FLAC until it's easy to File>Import one of those formats in iTunes. The fact that Microsoft/Zune is fighting Lucent/Alcatel is a non-issue. Zune is not likely to challenge iPod anytime soon. After years of using winamp, I finally caved and am using iTunes only because it's the only portal into my beautiful Video iPod. Windows Media Player isn't generally the media player of choice for anyone I know and neither is the Zune player. So what if MS is having trouble with the MP3 crowd. That's like saying Konquerer is having trouble integrating Flash player. They're not the market leader, so who cares?
You had me until I saw the 13" display. If I have a tablet, I'd actually like some space to draw on it. Of course, I'm not the typical business tablet user.
Haha...oddly enough, Vista boots faster than my old XP install and aside from some video drivers not yet being released for Vista (What?? I have to run Second Life on my MacBook Pro for the time being?), it's really a pretty decent experience.
You should call it Dynamic Method Affected Communication or "D'MAC". You could ship it with a pimp hat on the config screen and then make sure all the applications that you write with it can be hammered through a backdoor.
It would be functionally the same as DCOM but much, much cooler.
We all had fun over the holidays, sharing Wii Sports with our relatives and...
No we all didn't motherfucker...no...we all didn't.
*sobs quietly to himself as he waits for some store...any store in Washington State to get another Wii*
Dimmer switch...a competing viewpoint.
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One competing viewpoint with this theory is that these events were caused by a solar "Clapper" which flipped the sun when bombarded with echoes and reverberations from the big bang. This non-viewpoint is endorsed by non-dimmer switch oriented non-scientists but these non-scientist find it more plausible...in lots of ways.
You also have to realize that if Firefox included an ad blocker for all ads, many content providers that survive on ad revenue would stop developing for that browser. It would take a lot less time for most developers to write pages that only have to worry about IE. It's still got the greater market share and it costs extra money to comply with both browsers. If you knew that you were spending money to accommodate traffic that was going to eschew your revenue generator, would you continue to spend that money?
Probably not.
Firefox realizes that. They make it possible to plugin and block ads, but making that a default setting would marginalize them in the eyes of ecommerce developers and as soon as that happened, they would be marginalized in the development process.
Wow. You're only forgetting one thing. The Chinese aren't too fond of freedom of speech or expression. If they see more than a few people writing names on grains of sand, it'll be seen as an illegal assembly and they'll have to roll the tanks in to put it down. Cthulu wins, but on the upside, the ensuing war on Cthulu destabilizes the region and removes China as a threat to western world power.
Was it time for OO the last time Slashdot asked this question and more importantly, will it be the next time Slashdot asks. OO is getting better all the time but adoption needs to be driven by a sales force that gets out there and lets Enterprise customers know that it exists. Is anyone getting paid to do this right now? With Office 12 coming out soon, OO has a short window to take advantage of the upgrade uncertainty but to succeed, they would have to put more sales people on the ground (or evangelists) than MS has going out to the bug enterprises.
'With this kind of device,' Kahn told Wired, 'you're going to see the best and the worst of things.'"
I think George Eastman (inventor of the camera) might have beaten Kahn to this quote. This statement is a little short of profound:)
Now if Kahn had said "you're going to see the best and worst of upskirt porn, drunkass celebrities and rednecks fighting", he would have said a mouthful.
Welcome to the Social...Some of our chaperons have decided that they don't want you to dance with certain of their daughters so they're going to stand in the shadows and hit you with a stick when you pick the wrong one. For extra fun and suspense, we're not going to tell you which girls provoke the stick. God luck and enjoy the social, but not too much.
What if they're so alien or advanced to us that we don't qualify as intelligent life forms? Even if they found us, would they recognize out planet as habitable enough to support their version of life?:)
Can he still take on a bear? I mean, that's the original purpose of it right? Can you imagine how embarrassing it would be to fight through a platoon of lightly armed Iraqi soldiers only to have a bear at the Baghdad zoo screw off that helmet and take you out?
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Would that be called "Expenguination" ?
Now in addition to gold farmers picking up all the Yew Wood, you're going to have cancer farmers as well.
Nice job scientists!
The UW has always been keen on social issues. It's good to know they're still sticking to their guns these days. Maybe some of the other U's will step up and take notice.
Maybe we should consider rethinking their contracts as we did the Dubai port management deals. Companies that are based outside the US are clearly not as favorable in terms of our security - at least in the eyes of congress.
In China, the internet surfs YOU! *badumbum*
True, but the average iTunes user will never look. They have 11457 mp3's from the Napster days and are interested in whatever is easy.
Let's face it, there won't be a wide adoption for Ogg or FLAC until it's easy to File>Import one of those formats in iTunes. The fact that Microsoft/Zune is fighting Lucent/Alcatel is a non-issue. Zune is not likely to challenge iPod anytime soon. After years of using winamp, I finally caved and am using iTunes only because it's the only portal into my beautiful Video iPod. Windows Media Player isn't generally the media player of choice for anyone I know and neither is the Zune player. So what if MS is having trouble with the MP3 crowd. That's like saying Konquerer is having trouble integrating Flash player. They're not the market leader, so who cares?
Now if it were Apple vs Alcatel/Lucent...
...this is some web team figuring that they're no different from the thousands of other coders like us...
:)
Nah, they're not like us...we still have jobs.
You had me until I saw the 13" display. If I have a tablet, I'd actually like some space to draw on it. Of course, I'm not the typical business tablet user.
Haha...oddly enough, Vista boots faster than my old XP install and aside from some video drivers not yet being released for Vista (What?? I have to run Second Life on my MacBook Pro for the time being?), it's really a pretty decent experience.
:)
Modders, feel free to mod me off topic
Just in time for Vista!
when it gets up to 666 people implanted...then I'll be scared.
You should call it Dynamic Method Affected Communication or "D'MAC". You could ship it with a pimp hat on the config screen and then make sure all the applications that you write with it can be hammered through a backdoor.
It would be functionally the same as DCOM but much, much cooler.
Of course this is to combat urban terrorism only and could NEVER be employed to attack foreign shores or to take over other countries remotely. :)
We all had fun over the holidays, sharing Wii Sports with our relatives and...
No we all didn't motherfucker...no...we all didn't.
*sobs quietly to himself as he waits for some store...any store in Washington State to get another Wii*
One competing viewpoint with this theory is that these events were caused by a solar "Clapper" which flipped the sun when bombarded with echoes and reverberations from the big bang. This non-viewpoint is endorsed by non-dimmer switch oriented non-scientists but these non-scientist find it more plausible...in lots of ways.
You also have to realize that if Firefox included an ad blocker for all ads, many content providers that survive on ad revenue would stop developing for that browser. It would take a lot less time for most developers to write pages that only have to worry about IE. It's still got the greater market share and it costs extra money to comply with both browsers. If you knew that you were spending money to accommodate traffic that was going to eschew your revenue generator, would you continue to spend that money?
Probably not.
Firefox realizes that. They make it possible to plugin and block ads, but making that a default setting would marginalize them in the eyes of ecommerce developers and as soon as that happened, they would be marginalized in the development process.
Wow. You're only forgetting one thing. The Chinese aren't too fond of freedom of speech or expression. If they see more than a few people writing names on grains of sand, it'll be seen as an illegal assembly and they'll have to roll the tanks in to put it down. Cthulu wins, but on the upside, the ensuing war on Cthulu destabilizes the region and removes China as a threat to western world power.
Was it time for OO the last time Slashdot asked this question and more importantly, will it be the next time Slashdot asks. OO is getting better all the time but adoption needs to be driven by a sales force that gets out there and lets Enterprise customers know that it exists. Is anyone getting paid to do this right now? With Office 12 coming out soon, OO has a short window to take advantage of the upgrade uncertainty but to succeed, they would have to put more sales people on the ground (or evangelists) than MS has going out to the bug enterprises.
'With this kind of device,' Kahn told Wired, 'you're going to see the best and the worst of things.'" I think George Eastman (inventor of the camera) might have beaten Kahn to this quote. This statement is a little short of profound :)
Now if Kahn had said "you're going to see the best and worst of upskirt porn, drunkass celebrities and rednecks fighting", he would have said a mouthful.
Would it be enough for the Dems to recall him?
Welcome to the Social...Some of our chaperons have decided that they don't want you to dance with certain of their daughters so they're going to stand in the shadows and hit you with a stick when you pick the wrong one. For extra fun and suspense, we're not going to tell you which girls provoke the stick. God luck and enjoy the social, but not too much.
What if they're so alien or advanced to us that we don't qualify as intelligent life forms? Even if they found us, would they recognize out planet as habitable enough to support their version of life? :)
Just play Second Life. Except for teleportation and the two dimensionality of the "Street", you're 95% there.
Can he still take on a bear? I mean, that's the original purpose of it right? Can you imagine how embarrassing it would be to fight through a platoon of lightly armed Iraqi soldiers only to have a bear at the Baghdad zoo screw off that helmet and take you out?
Fucking bears...