When I clicked the link for a story that was from NYT it came up w/&PARTNER=GOOGLE in the headline (or something similar)
NYT normally requires a free registration to view the news content on their site. This probably circumvents the registration for Google News users who just want to read a quick news story.
This Google News thing is nothing new (just quite refined). It was available for a while in an older design. Google just finally got around to refining this and putting it on their little "tab navigation" strip. BTW, the "old" Google News logged (the link points to the new site, not a cached version, but notice the older dates of many of the search results) Slashdot stories as well.
Perhaps, during shows, the show's "window" will shrink, leaving space for a "minishow" that is silent and is probably text only describing a product. The "minishow" will appear every, say, 5 minutes and last for 30 minutes.
Of course, the minishow should (but probably won't be anyway:-p) marked as a sponsor message.
This is actually based on an advertising concept I am making for an upcoming website that I am collaborating on, with "text ads" in a "text ad article" appearing every so often in a box that is right-indented in an article.
Or, TV's could have springs built in printers and firing mechanisms, and pop-up ads to you. The faster you skip commercials, the faster the pop-up's come. ENTROPY! (AAAAGH)
At first, this might sound like the "optical" and "software enhanced" resolutions on many scanners. That's not the case.
When you scan an image, and print it, you are probably going to get the same results whether you use the "optical" resolution and the "software enhanced" resolution. Why? You're going to print them out the same size. Your eye cannot see any difference in detail.
Enlarging 35mm film to make 70mm IMAX movies is different. Why? By making the image bigger, you are being more lenient on the limitations on the film projector, the film quality, and the human eye. To a person with binoculars in a perfect theater in perfect light using perfect film, there would be no difference. But, in typical conditions, you would see an immense improvement, since the bigger image allows your limited vision to see more, the film grain to be less, and so on.
Quoting from the parent: "asuming you can still find [one])..."
We got ours during the post-holiday DC shortage at Video Games Etc. They had many in stock for around $65, which also includes the Sega Smash Pack GD-ROM. Its availability at your local store may vary, of course, and the VGE website doesn't list any in stock.
I know that Microsoft is known for making programs that seem to have unneccesarily large filesizes, but I doubt that a 40MB patch - even from Microsoft - would only add a small Control Panel applet.
I don't think it will actually allow you to remove IE, but, rather, make Windows more flexible in letting you choose your browser in more situations. Windows Help and stuff will still need to be rendered by IE, so components of it will probably always be a part of Windows. It is a step in the right direction, but, IMHO, it isn't as great as you might think it will be.
While you're at it, I better retake a keyboaroarding class...or maybe go to my speecheech therapist and makaaka sure i donta have a studderudding problem...
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(note to moderators: i wrote this slashdot article. this is not offtopic:-D)
The icon still exists in the Topics screen, but it is no longer in the post message screen. Anyway, Netscape is really Mozilla plus an evil corporate empire, and both icons have the Mozilla in them. Having an inaccurate icon is not the end of the world:-D
FYI: Apparently, Slashdot has discontinued the use of the Netscape icon from posting stories. I tried to find it in the drop down list, but it wasn't there.
I doubt this law will do much good...there probably will be no enforcement and people will just set up kids websites, get inspection, get the domain, then turn the sites into porn sites.
This reminds me of the guy who claimed ownership of the moon and is selling land on it...people think that they can make an e-business by selling the equivalent of a pet rock, only without giving the purchasar/registrar/commandar/landownar/whatevar any tangible thing...unless you want to count an acre of the moon that you can't really own anyway.
I hope that this e-commerce trend ends soon. The current domain name system, nobody-owns-the-moon-"ownership"-program, etc all work fine. I wish companies had learned their lessons back during the dotcom crash - to make money, you have to sell something that is real and/or is good enough to replace what your consumer has already got.
What I'm saying is that most of the students probably use MSOffice or a similar product at home (not StarOffice). StarOffice files cannot be opened in Microsoft programs, so this could pose a problem for people to cart their files back and forth between school and home using removable media.
I wonder if those kids could figure out how to save their StarOffice documents in Office format and vice-versa...I'm not sure about Linux in schools (with the big exception of MacOS X)
Sorry about all this USB mouse stuff...I don't own a PS2, and did not know that you can just hook up a normal USB mouse. Anyway, USB mice run around $40 nowadays, so I'm still not sure if it's practical...plus, you are going to get a USB extention cable to use it on a big screen TV.
Maxis has had failures in the past porting their simulations to consoles. Without a real mouse or keyboard, most SIM games just end up being unplayable. I doubt the PS2 version will get very far.
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Who needs a 'brand new' dead face? Botox kills the one you already have!
This Google News thing is nothing new (just quite refined). It was available for a while in an older design. Google just finally got around to refining this and putting it on their little "tab navigation" strip. BTW, the "old" Google News logged (the link points to the new site, not a cached version, but notice the older dates of many of the search results) Slashdot stories as well.
...and it has (and invented) bullet time :-D
They're trying to bastardize the metric system by misusing it.
Exactly. They're fucknuts.
Perhaps, during shows, the show's "window" will shrink, leaving space for a "minishow" that is silent and is probably text only describing a product. The "minishow" will appear every, say, 5 minutes and last for 30 minutes. Of course, the minishow should (but probably won't be anyway :-p) marked as a sponsor message.
This is actually based on an advertising concept I am making for an upcoming website that I am collaborating on, with "text ads" in a "text ad article" appearing every so often in a box that is right-indented in an article.
Or, TV's could have springs built in printers and firing mechanisms, and pop-up ads to you. The faster you skip commercials, the faster the pop-up's come. ENTROPY! (AAAAGH)
When you scan an image, and print it, you are probably going to get the same results whether you use the "optical" resolution and the "software enhanced" resolution. Why? You're going to print them out the same size. Your eye cannot see any difference in detail.
Enlarging 35mm film to make 70mm IMAX movies is different. Why? By making the image bigger, you are being more lenient on the limitations on the film projector, the film quality, and the human eye. To a person with binoculars in a perfect theater in perfect light using perfect film, there would be no difference. But, in typical conditions, you would see an immense improvement, since the bigger image allows your limited vision to see more, the film grain to be less, and so on.
Actually, I don't think they bring it back (the probe doesn't have its own launch-back-to-earth mechanism...too inefficient).
Quoting from the parent: "asuming you can still find [one])..."
We got ours during the post-holiday DC shortage at Video Games Etc. They had many in stock for around $65, which also includes the Sega Smash Pack GD-ROM. Its availability at your local store may vary, of course, and the VGE website doesn't list any in stock.
I'm right...as usual......EWEEK magazine confirms my suspicions
I know that Microsoft is known for making programs that seem to have unneccesarily large filesizes, but I doubt that a 40MB patch - even from Microsoft - would only add a small Control Panel applet.
I don't think it will actually allow you to remove IE, but, rather, make Windows more flexible in letting you choose your browser in more situations. Windows Help and stuff will still need to be rendered by IE, so components of it will probably always be a part of Windows. It is a step in the right direction, but, IMHO, it isn't as great as you might think it will be.
IF A MODERATOR IS READING THIS: Could you please modify the story so it says 5 million, not 500 million? TYVM in advance.
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(note to moderators: i wrote this slashdot article. this is not offtopic :-D)
The icon still exists in the Topics screen, but it is no longer in the post message screen. Anyway, Netscape is really Mozilla plus an evil corporate empire, and both icons have the Mozilla in them. Having an inaccurate icon is not the end of the world :-D
FYI:
Apparently, Slashdot has discontinued the use of the Netscape icon from posting stories. I tried to find it in the drop down list, but it wasn't there.
I doubt this law will do much good...there probably will be no enforcement and people will just set up kids websites, get inspection, get the domain, then turn the sites into porn sites.
This reminds me of the guy who claimed ownership of the moon and is selling land on it...people think that they can make an e-business by selling the equivalent of a pet rock, only without giving the purchasar/registrar/commandar/landownar/whatevar any tangible thing...unless you want to count an acre of the moon that you can't really own anyway.
I hope that this e-commerce trend ends soon. The current domain name system, nobody-owns-the-moon-"ownership"-program, etc all work fine. I wish companies had learned their lessons back during the dotcom crash - to make money, you have to sell something that is real and/or is good enough to replace what your consumer has already got.
Sorry...OSX isnt Linux, but it is UNIX. I am still a believer of macs in schools (I'm still kind of iffy about them at home).
What I'm saying is that most of the students probably use MSOffice or a similar product at home (not StarOffice). StarOffice files cannot be opened in Microsoft programs, so this could pose a problem for people to cart their files back and forth between school and home using removable media.
I wonder if those kids could figure out how to save their StarOffice documents in Office format and vice-versa...I'm not sure about Linux in schools (with the big exception of MacOS X)
Sorry about all this USB mouse stuff...I don't own a PS2, and did not know that you can just hook up a normal USB mouse. Anyway, USB mice run around $40 nowadays, so I'm still not sure if it's practical...plus, you are going to get a USB extention cable to use it on a big screen TV.
At that point, wouldn't it just be easier...and cheaper...to use a computer and a TV-out compatible videocard?
Nobody is going to pay $50 for a PS2 mouse just to play a $40 game.
Maxis has had failures in the past porting their simulations to consoles. Without a real mouse or keyboard, most SIM games just end up being unplayable. I doubt the PS2 version will get very far.