Is being "pre-Boston Tea Party a BAD thing?"
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When people make statements like these do they ever put what they are referring to in a historical context? By saying this aren't you aligning yourself with the British and ignoring all the good that came from the event? How odd...
I work at print shop where we have a first come, first serve policy. It doesn't matter how big your job is, how much money you're going to spend, everyone gets in line and the jobs are done in order. I once had a customer who placed a relatively small order who was shocked that I wouldn't do it for her right away and stormed out while yelling, "I've had enough of your silly egalitarian system." Should the words silly and egalitarian ever be anywhere near each other?
I'm a performance artist... professional wrestling has very very strong ties (not necessarily overt, but certainly implied) to performance art. Most things in performance art that have been lauded as influential and important took place in professional wrestling decades before they took place in the art world.
I've gotten a substantial grant to research this and it will eventually be compiled in book form to be published by a major Boston area university. As much as I'm a "homo" and love to "suck a dick" I'm doing what I believe will be fairly important research in a historical context.
Maybe for the big corporate sites. But massively invasive advertising is alive and well.
Turn off your pop-up blocker, turn on flash and check out PWInsider for a great example. If you have access to a Windows box check it out with IE, it's mind boggling...
Obviously, they are including tons of ads not for the purpose of gaining ad revenue as much as they are including tons of them to get people to buy a membership.
For supposedly being the "graphics" platform the resolutions of the Apple laptops have always been pathetically low. I was running 1920x1200 on my 15.4" laptop, and now I'm running 1280x768 on my 10.6". 1024x768 on a 12.1" doesn't cut it, and it REALLY doesn't cut it on a 14.1".
I just bought an Access Virus TI Desktop and the fact that you can use it as an audio and MIDI interface as well as a knob box with direct access with a VST plugin is making me seriously consider moving away from Linux after five years... I can't stand MacOS, but I can't stand dualbooting even more.
A "type manager" is already a piece of software that manages fonts and such... shouldn't the category that software like iTunes, etc. (including traditional font-managing type managers) be called something like a "File Type Manager" to avoid confusion?
It doesn't matter how many times I've told her over the phone, how many times we've gone over it in person, how many times she's taken notes... my mom can't remember how to do even the most basic things. Opening and saving she has down... but copy and paste? Double space? Changing the font? Oof! Too difficult!
Hrm... but now that I think of it, she probably won't be able to figure out how to bookmark the site, and even if she does she probably won't remember how to find the bookmark.
Just like speakerphone lets you use your phone without holding it up to your ear, video speakerphone will let you watch video without squinting at a tiny screen!
Sure, the details are vague, but it sounds good to me!
"Cryovolcanoes are pseudo-volcanoes believed to be present on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Unlike volcanoes on Earth which spew hot lava, cryvolcanoes bring super-cool "lava" to the surface of their planets. They are volcanic-like vents that spew forth ice, water or vapor-phase volatiles, with some gas driven solid fragments instead of lava. It is suggetsed that they could be present on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. However it has only been seen on Triton, the biggest of Neptune's moons. Also it is said that they might be active in Europa and Enceladus.
This term was coined by NASA in late 2004, when the Cassini space probe observed cryvolcanoes and cryogenic lakes for the first time."
Since developers won't need to make two different versions anymore does anything think there's any chance the big companies will start developing more for Linux since many will have a dev team/porting team that won't be doing much of anything anymore?
What do you think the average Windows user needs to know other than how to download, install, and use Firefox, AVG, Ad-aware, Spybot, Gaim, and firewall? I mean, apart from hardware stuff... but for a lot of that hardware stuff, if you're fucked, you're fucked.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I know ONE Mac user that can argue the benefits of RISC over CISC, understands the influence of BSD on MacOS, etc etc. And I go to an art school which is dominated (over 90%) by Apple users.
The vast vast majority (98%+) of Mac users only them SOLELY because they either like how they look, they are following a trend, they have simply been sucked in by the "it's easier" marketing (anyone that knows a modicum of computer maintenance can keep a Windows machine running well), or (especially in my experience) they are still clinging on to the misguided beliefe that graphic designers must use Macs, not because they think they are architecturally superior.
Nonetheless, I don't believe Intel will be making x86 chips for them.
It sounds even better than Wintel!
I went through a lot of different failed combinations to come up with that, including Intapple and Applintel, among others.
Right... but the origin of the quote is typically said to come from some an employee of a major video came manufacturer (I've seen Nintendo, most often) and said to have originated in the early to mid-80s. I would be willing to bet it originated from Joe Gamer in the mid-90s at best.
I just submitted it to snopes.com maybe somebody there can find the origin.
1. Find the location where the gun/camera thing is.
2. Figure out what it's coordinates are.
3. Get somebody to go geocaching in this location.
4. Shoot them!
It's easy to prevent yourself from being traced to a specific location, and payment is also easy to fake.
Hmm... so what you're saying is that it looks goofy while it's loading, but once it's loaded it's OK? So, what's the fuss about all these people saying the bug makes/. "unreadable?" Sounds like their a bunch of sissies that need to suck it up...
So... maybe I just haven't used IE in such a long time I can't tell the difference... but,/. seems to render just fine for me. Can anyone possible post a comparison shot between Firefox rendering incorrectly and something else rendering correctly?
I used to look forward to AOL free trial disks because they had the *best* repository for ZZT games... I tried to get a ZZT newsgroup started back in the mid-90s but it never got going.
The thing about gentoo that I love is that the installation instructions are so straightforward and well explained. When something goes wrong (and something will) you know how to fix it, and if you don't know how to fix it you at least know how to talk about the problem you have in a way that's more constructive than, "it doesnt work."
The first time I installed Linux was Red Hat on an AMD K6-450 maybe seven years ago. Everything worked fine (even dual monitors), until the second or third boot, and then the taskbar in whatever desktop environment started crashing. Over and over and over, it made it impossible to do anything because it was crashing, coming back, crashing. I got on IRC and asked around, posted a message on a Linux help board... but I didn't really know what to ask, and I certainly couldn't understand what the answers meant.
A point and click graphical installer would be fine for somebody that already knew what they were doing. What might be a good idea is to have the documentation on screen and still make the users go through the process of typing everything they need to type while checking for typos and such, maybe going into certain functions, files, directories, etc in further detail. Now that would be a good use of a graphical installer...
This is an interesting point... I can't really relate to how involved kids get wrapped up in computer games. But what you've said makes a whole lot of sense, maybe it didn't affect my peers as much (I was born in 79) because the games we had were significantly less complicated than the games kids play now.
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When people make statements like these do they ever put what they are referring to in a historical context? By saying this aren't you aligning yourself with the British and ignoring all the good that came from the event? How odd...
I work at print shop where we have a first come, first serve policy. It doesn't matter how big your job is, how much money you're going to spend, everyone gets in line and the jobs are done in order. I once had a customer who placed a relatively small order who was shocked that I wouldn't do it for her right away and stormed out while yelling, "I've had enough of your silly egalitarian system." Should the words silly and egalitarian ever be anywhere near each other?
Nobody? Well... maybe you're right, I do graphics work on a 10.6" screen, so I don't count.
I'm a performance artist... professional wrestling has very very strong ties (not necessarily overt, but certainly implied) to performance art. Most things in performance art that have been lauded as influential and important took place in professional wrestling decades before they took place in the art world.
I've gotten a substantial grant to research this and it will eventually be compiled in book form to be published by a major Boston area university. As much as I'm a "homo" and love to "suck a dick" I'm doing what I believe will be fairly important research in a historical context.
Maybe for the big corporate sites. But massively invasive advertising is alive and well.
Turn off your pop-up blocker, turn on flash and check out PWInsider for a great example. If you have access to a Windows box check it out with IE, it's mind boggling...
Obviously, they are including tons of ads not for the purpose of gaining ad revenue as much as they are including tons of them to get people to buy a membership.
For supposedly being the "graphics" platform the resolutions of the Apple laptops have always been pathetically low. I was running 1920x1200 on my 15.4" laptop, and now I'm running 1280x768 on my 10.6". 1024x768 on a 12.1" doesn't cut it, and it REALLY doesn't cut it on a 14.1".
I just bought an Access Virus TI Desktop and the fact that you can use it as an audio and MIDI interface as well as a knob box with direct access with a VST plugin is making me seriously consider moving away from Linux after five years... I can't stand MacOS, but I can't stand dualbooting even more.
A "type manager" is already a piece of software that manages fonts and such... shouldn't the category that software like iTunes, etc. (including traditional font-managing type managers) be called something like a "File Type Manager" to avoid confusion?
It doesn't matter how many times I've told her over the phone, how many times we've gone over it in person, how many times she's taken notes... my mom can't remember how to do even the most basic things. Opening and saving she has down... but copy and paste? Double space? Changing the font? Oof! Too difficult!
Hrm... but now that I think of it, she probably won't be able to figure out how to bookmark the site, and even if she does she probably won't remember how to find the bookmark.
Oh well... nevermind...
Just like speakerphone lets you use your phone without holding it up to your ear, video speakerphone will let you watch video without squinting at a tiny screen!
Sure, the details are vague, but it sounds good to me!
unlikely...
cheaper than walmart online? yeah, but it's not just froogle that lets us find that out.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly... the site is very vague about that. Did you know that Kim Jong Il gets 3-4 hole-in-ones per round of golf?
originally slated to open on Nov. 4 ... 'Remember, remember the 5th of November'
Uh... am I missing something here?
"Cryovolcanoes are pseudo-volcanoes believed to be present on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Unlike volcanoes on Earth which spew hot lava, cryvolcanoes bring super-cool "lava" to the surface of their planets. They are volcanic-like vents that spew forth ice, water or vapor-phase volatiles, with some gas driven solid fragments instead of lava. It is suggetsed that they could be present on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. However it has only been seen on Triton, the biggest of Neptune's moons. Also it is said that they might be active in Europa and Enceladus.
This term was coined by NASA in late 2004, when the Cassini space probe observed cryvolcanoes and cryogenic lakes for the first time."
definition quoted from explore-dictionary.com
Since developers won't need to make two different versions anymore does anything think there's any chance the big companies will start developing more for Linux since many will have a dev team/porting team that won't be doing much of anything anymore?
What do you think the average Windows user needs to know other than how to download, install, and use Firefox, AVG, Ad-aware, Spybot, Gaim, and firewall? I mean, apart from hardware stuff... but for a lot of that hardware stuff, if you're fucked, you're fucked.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I know ONE Mac user that can argue the benefits of RISC over CISC, understands the influence of BSD on MacOS, etc etc. And I go to an art school which is dominated (over 90%) by Apple users.
The vast vast majority (98%+) of Mac users only them SOLELY because they either like how they look, they are following a trend, they have simply been sucked in by the "it's easier" marketing (anyone that knows a modicum of computer maintenance can keep a Windows machine running well), or (especially in my experience) they are still clinging on to the misguided beliefe that graphic designers must use Macs, not because they think they are architecturally superior.
Nonetheless, I don't believe Intel will be making x86 chips for them.
It sounds even better than Wintel! I went through a lot of different failed combinations to come up with that, including Intapple and Applintel, among others.
Right... but the origin of the quote is typically said to come from some an employee of a major video came manufacturer (I've seen Nintendo, most often) and said to have originated in the early to mid-80s. I would be willing to bet it originated from Joe Gamer in the mid-90s at best.
I just submitted it to snopes.com maybe somebody there can find the origin.
Google this quote. You'll find dozens of people that supposedly said it. It's a fake.
1. Find the location where the gun/camera thing is. 2. Figure out what it's coordinates are. 3. Get somebody to go geocaching in this location. 4. Shoot them!
It's easy to prevent yourself from being traced to a specific location, and payment is also easy to fake.
Hmm... so what you're saying is that it looks goofy while it's loading, but once it's loaded it's OK? So, what's the fuss about all these people saying the bug makes /. "unreadable?" Sounds like their a bunch of sissies that need to suck it up...
So... maybe I just haven't used IE in such a long time I can't tell the difference... but, /. seems to render just fine for me. Can anyone possible post a comparison shot between Firefox rendering incorrectly and something else rendering correctly?
I used to look forward to AOL free trial disks because they had the *best* repository for ZZT games... I tried to get a ZZT newsgroup started back in the mid-90s but it never got going.
The thing about gentoo that I love is that the installation instructions are so straightforward and well explained. When something goes wrong (and something will) you know how to fix it, and if you don't know how to fix it you at least know how to talk about the problem you have in a way that's more constructive than, "it doesnt work."
The first time I installed Linux was Red Hat on an AMD K6-450 maybe seven years ago. Everything worked fine (even dual monitors), until the second or third boot, and then the taskbar in whatever desktop environment started crashing. Over and over and over, it made it impossible to do anything because it was crashing, coming back, crashing. I got on IRC and asked around, posted a message on a Linux help board... but I didn't really know what to ask, and I certainly couldn't understand what the answers meant.
A point and click graphical installer would be fine for somebody that already knew what they were doing. What might be a good idea is to have the documentation on screen and still make the users go through the process of typing everything they need to type while checking for typos and such, maybe going into certain functions, files, directories, etc in further detail. Now that would be a good use of a graphical installer...
I never got into MUDs because they didn't have beautiful blocky 8-bit graphics. ;)
I did get quite into ZZT though...
This is an interesting point... I can't really relate to how involved kids get wrapped up in computer games. But what you've said makes a whole lot of sense, maybe it didn't affect my peers as much (I was born in 79) because the games we had were significantly less complicated than the games kids play now.