From the story the link leads to- "Buckyballs, lacy-looking molecules made up of carbon atoms, are also known as fullerenes and are named in honor of Buckminster Fuller because they are shaped like the geodesic dome he invented." If that's not sufficient, there are 2 other links in the sentence that begins "For more info on buckyballs and what they are...".
Gee, I coulda had first post, but I wasted time looking to see what the story was about and whether there was anything intelligent I could add to the conversation. : )
"... if you don't think 20th century American Jerry Springer viewership qualifies as peasantry-..." Do you realise how badly you've just insulted peasants everywhere?
Actually if something else uses up too much of the oxygen in the water (like an algea bloom or somesuch), I think that fish can "drown". Not that that has anything to do one way or the other with the whole "creationism versus evolution" thing.
"I know of at least 6 businesses (a couple are quite large) who have purchased full licenses for Windows 2000, but will not install them as they are running legacy software that runs in a console." Is it just me or does that make about as much sense as buying tickets to a movie you have no intention of going to?
On second thought I realise that I'm being very unfair to chimpanzees everywhere with that comparison. : ) I do appreciate the job being done by good and concientious moderators, I just wish they were still a greater percentage of all the moderators than they have become in the past few months.
I'd love to, but as the signal to noise ratio around here has continually worsened, my turns as moderator have become fewer and farther between, and I'm starting to suspect that some have found a weakness in the moderation system that they've been able to exploit for their own selfish ends. Either that or Taco's turned most of the moderation duties over to a basement full of crackpipe smoking chimpanzees.:)
I too applaud his/her use of CTRL-F, but in this case you needed to have looked at Caldera stories from a week or three ago to know that the whole "logo looks like mouse ears" thing has already been run into the ground.
What I know about HTML could fill a thimble with plenty of room left over for the seamstress's finger, but as an experiment, here is the text in question with one difference-- Watch your wording - what you said is technically wrong on a few counts. CSS is a trade secret, not a copyright, and as such is suubject to different laws. Because of that, they could go ahead and sell an unlicensed player as long as they can prove that the CSS decryption information is in the open and therefore no longer qualifies as a trade secret. --The only thing I changed was to use capital b's and i's instead of lowercase, and if this looks the same when seen here as it does in preview, you'll see that that has made all the difference.
Can I repost my posts to the first Goldbach story here in hopes of higher mod points or are posts to redundant stories automatically modded "redundant"?:)
I, too, was surprised to see it moderated that way, usually the really off the wall moderations happen to posts submitted a couple of hours later in the day, about the time junior high schools let out.
Doesn't it check with the operating system to see what the association for the extension is? For example, install Win95, then try to open foobar.doc from My Computer or Explorer (the File Manager replacement, not Internet Explorer). Wordpad will pop up to try to open it. But install Office97 and it'll change the.doc association to default to Word instead. It's all a matter of how your associations are set up. I've had IE call up Netscape to open a.htm file, because I had that extension associated with netscape.exe and not with iexplore.exe:) I suppose you could even change your association so that doubleclicking a.doc file caused it to try to open in Freecell.
When was the last time you heard someone say "I think I'll just go home and curl up with a good download that may or may not be compatible with my current combination of hardware and software"?
And as for interactive fiction, if someone else can't write better stuff than I can, why would I be reading them in the first place?
"First off, I'd like to thank Mr. Katz for yet another well written and thought provoking essay." Oh, wouldn't we all. When's he going to post one? : )
Microstrategy adjusted their books to come a little more into line with standard accounting practices and the "value" of their stock dropped from 20 billion to 9 billion. Seems they were counting their chickens before they were hatched with regard to income from long term contracts, ie, money they'll be getting down the road, good Lord willing and the creek don't rise, but ask anybody who was in eastern N.C. 6 months ago about unexpected creek risings. How many of these and other "internet phenom" companies are dependent upon "special" accounting practices to keep from looking even worse off than they do?
What happens when Joe Average Consumer confuses this with Iridium, who seem rapidly to be disproving the old saying "there's no such thing as bad publicity".?
"If the average Slashdot reader had access to a Beowulf cluster..." they'd want to get together with other Slashdotters with Beowulf clusters and make a Beowulf cluster out of them:)
Slashdot Mirror
"Buckyballs, lacy-looking molecules made up of carbon atoms, are also known as fullerenes and are named in honor of Buckminster Fuller because they are shaped like the geodesic dome he invented."
If that's not sufficient, there are 2 other links in the sentence that begins "For more info on buckyballs and what they are...".
Gee, I coulda had first post, but I wasted time looking to see what the story was about and whether there was anything intelligent I could add to the conversation. : )
"... if you don't think 20th century American Jerry Springer viewership qualifies as peasantry-..."
Do you realise how badly you've just insulted peasants everywhere?
Actually if something else uses up too much of the oxygen in the water (like an algea bloom or somesuch), I think that fish can "drown".
Not that that has anything to do one way or the other with the whole "creationism versus evolution" thing.
I strongly suspect that John Campbell knew enough to say "differently *from* a man"
"I know of at least 6 businesses (a couple are quite large) who have purchased full licenses for Windows 2000, but will not install them as they are running legacy software that runs in a console."
Is it just me or does that make about as much sense as buying tickets to a movie you have no intention of going to?
always use preview, always use preview, always use preview
1. Re-open above post
2. insert 'e'
3. Re-take typing course
The funniest part is the MS hompage link.
On second thought I realise that I'm being very unfair to chimpanzees everywhere with that comparison. : )
I do appreciate the job being done by good and concientious moderators, I just wish they were still a greater percentage of all the moderators than they have become in the past few months.
I'd love to, but as the signal to noise ratio around here has continually worsened, my turns as moderator have become fewer and farther between, and I'm starting to suspect that some have found a weakness in the moderation system that they've been able to exploit for their own selfish ends. Either that or Taco's turned most of the moderation duties over to a basement full of crackpipe smoking chimpanzees. :)
I too applaud his/her use of CTRL-F, but in this case you needed to have looked at Caldera stories from a week or three ago to know that the whole "logo looks like mouse ears" thing has already been run into the ground.
What I know about HTML could fill a thimble with plenty of room left over for the seamstress's finger, but as an experiment, here is the text in question with one difference--
Watch your wording - what you said is technically wrong on a few counts. CSS is a trade secret, not a copyright, and as such is suubject to different laws. Because of that, they could go ahead and sell an unlicensed player as long as they can prove that the CSS decryption information is in the open and therefore no longer qualifies as a trade secret.
--The only thing I changed was to use capital b's and i's instead of lowercase, and if this looks the same when seen here as it does in preview, you'll see that that has made all the difference.
Can I repost my posts to the first Goldbach story here in hopes of higher mod points or are posts to redundant stories automatically modded "redundant"? :)
I, too, was surprised to see it moderated that way, usually the really off the wall moderations happen to posts submitted a couple of hours later in the day, about the time junior high schools let out.
Doesn't it check with the operating system to see what the association for the extension is? For example, install Win95, then try to open foobar.doc from My Computer or Explorer (the File Manager replacement, not Internet Explorer). Wordpad will pop up to try to open it. But install Office97 and it'll change the .doc association to default to Word instead. It's all a matter of how your associations are set up. I've had IE call up Netscape to open a .htm file, because I had that extension associated with netscape.exe and not with iexplore.exe :) I suppose you could even change your association so that doubleclicking a .doc file caused it to try to open in Freecell.
Is this the same as when running Netscape 3 or 4 on Win95 the page reloads if Quickres is used? You mean it isn't Microsoft's fault for once?
And as for interactive fiction, if someone else can't write better stuff than I can, why would I be reading them in the first place?
"First off, I'd like to thank Mr. Katz for yet another well written and thought provoking essay."
Oh, wouldn't we all.
When's he going to post one? : )
In which case I hope someone else moderates it as "funny".
Are you sure you didn't mean Microsoft Certified Pimp? or Prostitute?
By posting to the same thread as you moderated in, didn't you just undo your moderating?
Microstrategy adjusted their books to come a little more into line with standard accounting practices and the "value" of their stock dropped from 20 billion to 9 billion. Seems they were counting their chickens before they were hatched with regard to income from long term contracts, ie, money they'll be getting down the road, good Lord willing and the creek don't rise, but ask anybody who was in eastern N.C. 6 months ago about unexpected creek risings. How many of these and other "internet phenom" companies are dependent upon "special" accounting practices to keep from looking even worse off than they do?
It was probably Zappa.
I think sengan is/was in England or thereabouts, where the day's already well underway when it's still late/early on the U.S. east coast.
What happens when Joe Average Consumer confuses this with Iridium, who seem rapidly to be disproving the old saying "there's no such thing as bad publicity".?
"If the average Slashdot reader had access to a Beowulf cluster..." :)
they'd want to get together with other Slashdotters with Beowulf clusters and make a Beowulf cluster out of them