I thought everything after what you quoted was clearly sarcastic. Saudi Arabia and China democratic and human rights conscious? You must have at least thought I was on drugs or stupid.
I was joking.
The war wasn't about that. I'm not quite sure yet what it was about, but it wasn't about making life better for Iraqis. The Bush administration had a woody for Saddam ever since 9/11/01, and before that Bush was (in my opinion) too isolationist. They kept hinting at terrorist ties, but I haven't heard anything particularly convincing about that yet. Besides, with a state enemy like Iraq the threat of nuclear or other mass force retaliation is a decent deterrent to hostilities. Al Qaeda's a bitch because you can't nuke them if they step too far over the line.
Oil's an easy answer and compelling because of Bush's and Cheney's ties, but their isolationist stance before 9/11 counters this idea for me.
I'd be curious to see if you'll still be thinking that in 10 years when the USA still hasn't taken their military forces out of Iraq (under the so-called pretense of keeping the peace).
I can't imagine the US public (including me) standing for keeping peacekeeping forces in hostile territory that long, at least not in the occupying type force they currently exist in Afghanistan and Iraq. Then again maybe I should brush up on my WWII history and see how long we occupied West Germany and Japan, but in those cases the infrastructure and military were basically demolished; here in Iraq the public is more or less healthy and diverse (men and women) and the surrounding states aren't happy we're there and except for the Sunis apparently feel empowered, not conquered. I don't see a long term US occupation. At some point we'll either withdraw or escalate.
Is Winamp evil now? I know AOL owns them, but I didn't think they'd gone evil yet, although I didn't like 3.0 and switched to Freeamp^H^H^H^H^H^H^HZinf (for Windows; still XMMS on X).
I ask because you make it sound as if Winamp is a bad thing but it plays Ogg Vorbis. Maybe I misread the post.
They should standardize to an "og3" file extension. "Oh gee three" is reminiscent of "em pee three" and at least there's some connection.
To a geek it's stupid, but it could make the difference in public recognition since most digital music capable people know what mp3 is. Plus it's kinda like bumping your product's version number to make it appear on par or just superior to your competitor. Stupid, but it works.
It's easier to explain that og3 is a cooler version of mp3 (to a technophobe) than to differentiate between Ogg and Vorbis like we usually do. Speaking of which, since Ogg is the file format,.ogg was a short-sighted extension in the first place since the other Xiph codecs will likely use the same file format.
Yeah I've posted this idea before. It deserves some more exposure, mainly because I want public acceptance of Vorbis so I can buy a cheap player!
I just thought of the killer application for this: Porn.
Just like the magazine in a brown wrapper these things can be mailed to eager beavers discretely and encourage repeated purchases. Porn DVDs are fairly expensive, but they could sell these fairly cheaply for LOTS of repeat business to customers who are nervous about adult shops and rental places (where you have to go there TWICE and usually pay a huge deposit to rent).
The war wasn't about the oil. It was about freeing the Iraqi people from the human rights abuses and brining democracy to them just like our other allies have like our good allies and trading partners Saudi Arabia and China.
...i agree with many posters that said the last thing we need is the entire world throwing out every movie they rent.
I'm not exactly an environmentalist, but everything is going throw-away it seems. Swifter-type one-use dusters and mops, paper plates (don't recall the brand) now advertising that you have more time for family if you use their product and throw it away--this commercial complete with a shot of Mom doing dishes and looking over her shoulder to Dad with two kids laughing over a game or similar group activity. Disposable DVDs...sheesh.
I remember when Compact Discs first came out; one of the promotional ideas was that it used less plastic than LPs (that's "vinyl" or "records" for you young 'uns) and cassette tapes, yet they packaged them in jewel cases several times the CD's thickness and large boxes over twice the height of the jewel case. WTF? I guess they were afraid of them being stolen. The boxes eventually shrunk but the large jewel cases are still prevalent.
Come to think of it, my Mom made my sister and I do the dishes while she and Dad had all the fun.
Popups are handled by mozilla just as well. Sure one popup occasionally gets through but it's no biggie.
You get occasional popups? I haven't had a popup yet with Mozilla or Phoenix.
With IE several of my users are getting popups on my company's intranet. I used one of my female user's PCs today to scan a document and WebDAV upload it and got popups for penile enlargement and celebrity pics! I figure that has to be adware but I haven't found it yet.
It's like living under a flightpath: at first, you can't deal with all the jet planes, but after a while you don't even realize they're there.
I thought it went like this:
At first you're happy to get a good deal on a property and house, and you don't see the planes flying that closely, you can handle it. Then you move in and the winds shift and you form a neighborhood committee to lobby the public, government and airport to change the flight paths of the planes and prevent new runways from being built. (At some airports at certain times of the night planes have to approach at a steeper angle to avoid flying low over houses.)
That's the way I've seen it happen, anyway. I think DFW wound up buying a neighborhood's worth of houses due to that type of thing. The Chuck Norris "Walker, Texas Ranger" show found that the houses were being demolished so they bid the contract and blew them up to get footage for the show. I don't watch that show, but I'll bet there are lots of houses blowing up, and now you know why.
My DSL is pitifully slow these days, but this BitTorrent d/l is slower than I've seen with other torrents.
I started at 2kB (big B is bytes/sec, little b is bits/sec) down and 10kB up but now am 14/7...actually it's changing too fast.
I'm going to leave my torrent open and go to sleep. 128kbs upload sucks but it's better than dialup! Enjoy!
Okay, now 24kB/1kB. Not sure what's up with the upload; maybe everyone's at the same point in the download as I am. I have upload limited to 10kB since my connection is 128kb which is roughly equivalent B-b.
(now 34/2...reminds me of the movie Airplane: "This guy's all over the place. What an asshole!")
People constantly mention DRM, but I never run across any,
Many people have had Windows Media Player 9 refuse to play their personal recorded MP3s after a reimaging. Seems you have to back up license files as well as your MP3s. In this case they can re-rip their songs, but what if those were company documents that were locked that way? That's what may be coming, and that's what has people worried.
Mozilla Firebird 0.6 (Glendale) should be released soon, possibly within a week or so.
I actually considered pre-authoring a release story to try to submit it to Slashdot ASAP after its release but quickly realized my life isn't that empty. I downloaded the latest nightly instead; very nice and stable, and many glitches from March nightlies are gone including the hard-to-drag links.
I just had a silly armchair lawyer idea: Next time someone's home burns and damages the CD/DVD collection the insurer should sue the publishers to replace just the media since the listening rights were already paid for. It could save insurance companies money and set a legal precedent.
However, if you own the CD and it gets broken they won't let you buy a replacement for the media cost, and they're taking extraordinary measures (including DCMA) to prevent me from making copies to guard against this.
So what am I buying? The listening rights or the physical product? It seems like I'm buying the worst of both worlds. I wish they'd make up their minds.
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will
eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the
Internet, we know this is not true."
Why doesn't everyone use Knoppix? Why do we ever mention other distros?
I use Knoppix and it's great. I gave it to all my friends and they think it's great. I gave it to school kids and they think it's great.
It autodetects all my hardware and mows my lawn. It never clogs the toilet. It doesn't hog the covers. It never needs you to listen to it rant about its day.
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I thought everything after what you quoted was clearly sarcastic. Saudi Arabia and China democratic and human rights conscious? You must have at least thought I was on drugs or stupid.
I was joking.
The war wasn't about that. I'm not quite sure yet what it was about, but it wasn't about making life better for Iraqis. The Bush administration had a woody for Saddam ever since 9/11/01, and before that Bush was (in my opinion) too isolationist. They kept hinting at terrorist ties, but I haven't heard anything particularly convincing about that yet. Besides, with a state enemy like Iraq the threat of nuclear or other mass force retaliation is a decent deterrent to hostilities. Al Qaeda's a bitch because you can't nuke them if they step too far over the line.
Oil's an easy answer and compelling because of Bush's and Cheney's ties, but their isolationist stance before 9/11 counters this idea for me.
I'd be curious to see if you'll still be thinking that in 10 years when the USA still hasn't taken their military forces out of Iraq (under the so-called pretense of keeping the peace).
I can't imagine the US public (including me) standing for keeping peacekeeping forces in hostile territory that long, at least not in the occupying type force they currently exist in Afghanistan and Iraq. Then again maybe I should brush up on my WWII history and see how long we occupied West Germany and Japan, but in those cases the infrastructure and military were basically demolished; here in Iraq the public is more or less healthy and diverse (men and women) and the surrounding states aren't happy we're there and except for the Sunis apparently feel empowered, not conquered. I don't see a long term US occupation. At some point we'll either withdraw or escalate.
Is Winamp evil now? I know AOL owns them, but I didn't think they'd gone evil yet, although I didn't like 3.0 and switched to Freeamp^H^H^H^H^H^H^HZinf (for Windows; still XMMS on X).
I ask because you make it sound as if Winamp is a bad thing but it plays Ogg Vorbis. Maybe I misread the post.
They should standardize to an "og3" file extension. "Oh gee three" is reminiscent of "em pee three" and at least there's some connection.
.ogg was a short-sighted extension in the first place since the other Xiph codecs will likely use the same file format.
To a geek it's stupid, but it could make the difference in public recognition since most digital music capable people know what mp3 is. Plus it's kinda like bumping your product's version number to make it appear on par or just superior to your competitor. Stupid, but it works.
It's easier to explain that og3 is a cooler version of mp3 (to a technophobe) than to differentiate between Ogg and Vorbis like we usually do. Speaking of which, since Ogg is the file format,
Yeah I've posted this idea before. It deserves some more exposure, mainly because I want public acceptance of Vorbis so I can buy a cheap player!
I just thought of the killer application for this: Porn.
Just like the magazine in a brown wrapper these things can be mailed to eager beavers discretely and encourage repeated purchases. Porn DVDs are fairly expensive, but they could sell these fairly cheaply for LOTS of repeat business to customers who are nervous about adult shops and rental places (where you have to go there TWICE and usually pay a huge deposit to rent).
I'll bet that's what's behind this.
(hint - we just had a war over this stuff)
The war wasn't about the oil. It was about freeing the Iraqi people from the human rights abuses and brining democracy to them just like our other allies have like our good allies and trading partners Saudi Arabia and China.
Does anyone here have any experience with the trucking industry to give any input?
I heard you shouldn't leave smuggled illegal immigrants in your truck for 48 hours in Texas. It gets too hot and it pisses off a lot of people.
...i agree with many posters that said the last thing we need is the entire world throwing out every movie they rent.
I'm not exactly an environmentalist, but everything is going throw-away it seems. Swifter-type one-use dusters and mops, paper plates (don't recall the brand) now advertising that you have more time for family if you use their product and throw it away--this commercial complete with a shot of Mom doing dishes and looking over her shoulder to Dad with two kids laughing over a game or similar group activity. Disposable DVDs...sheesh.
I remember when Compact Discs first came out; one of the promotional ideas was that it used less plastic than LPs (that's "vinyl" or "records" for you young 'uns) and cassette tapes, yet they packaged them in jewel cases several times the CD's thickness and large boxes over twice the height of the jewel case. WTF? I guess they were afraid of them being stolen. The boxes eventually shrunk but the large jewel cases are still prevalent.
Come to think of it, my Mom made my sister and I do the dishes while she and Dad had all the fun.
Popups are handled by mozilla just as well. Sure one popup occasionally gets through but it's no biggie.
You get occasional popups? I haven't had a popup yet with Mozilla or Phoenix.
With IE several of my users are getting popups on my company's intranet. I used one of my female user's PCs today to scan a document and WebDAV upload it and got popups for penile enlargement and celebrity pics! I figure that has to be adware but I haven't found it yet.
So then they put a caching proxy in the way that rejects anything but RFC-conforming HTTP.
Well, that leaves Microsoft out, so Linux will TAKE OVER THE WORLD!! MUAHAHAHAHA!
It's like living under a flightpath: at first, you can't deal with all the jet planes, but after a while you don't even realize they're there.
I thought it went like this:
At first you're happy to get a good deal on a property and house, and you don't see the planes flying that closely, you can handle it. Then you move in and the winds shift and you form a neighborhood committee to lobby the public, government and airport to change the flight paths of the planes and prevent new runways from being built. (At some airports at certain times of the night planes have to approach at a steeper angle to avoid flying low over houses.)
That's the way I've seen it happen, anyway. I think DFW wound up buying a neighborhood's worth of houses due to that type of thing. The Chuck Norris "Walker, Texas Ranger" show found that the houses were being demolished so they bid the contract and blew them up to get footage for the show. I don't watch that show, but I'll bet there are lots of houses blowing up, and now you know why.
My DSL is pitifully slow these days, but this BitTorrent d/l is slower than I've seen with other torrents.
I started at 2kB (big B is bytes/sec, little b is bits/sec) down and 10kB up but now am 14/7...actually it's changing too fast.
I'm going to leave my torrent open and go to sleep. 128kbs upload sucks but it's better than dialup! Enjoy!
Okay, now 24kB/1kB. Not sure what's up with the upload; maybe everyone's at the same point in the download as I am. I have upload limited to 10kB since my connection is 128kb which is roughly equivalent B-b.
(now 34/2...reminds me of the movie Airplane: "This guy's all over the place. What an asshole!")
Here's a 23kb screenshot of the site in case it gets Slashdotted.
I highly recommend this style of web design.
I think "ridicularize" is a Photoshop/GIMP filter effect, but I didn't think Ghandi used those.
Cool! Now throw in some comedy, action, music, sex, plot and special effects in accordance with the formula and we have a box office hit!
Let's call it Firebird.
People constantly mention DRM, but I never run across any,
Many people have had Windows Media Player 9 refuse to play their personal recorded MP3s after a reimaging. Seems you have to back up license files as well as your MP3s. In this case they can re-rip their songs, but what if those were company documents that were locked that way? That's what may be coming, and that's what has people worried.
Shut up Jennifer
Well for one because you can't buy Mozilla.
Psst. I'll sell you a Mozilla. Email me.
From the Firebird Browser Project Page:
2003-05-04: New release soon
Mozilla Firebird 0.6 (Glendale) should be released soon, possibly within a week or so.
I actually considered pre-authoring a release story to try to submit it to Slashdot ASAP after its release but quickly realized my life isn't that empty. I downloaded the latest nightly instead; very nice and stable, and many glitches from March nightlies are gone including the hard-to-drag links.
I just had a silly armchair lawyer idea: Next time someone's home burns and damages the CD/DVD collection the insurer should sue the publishers to replace just the media since the listening rights were already paid for. It could save insurance companies money and set a legal precedent.
However, if you own the CD and it gets broken they won't let you buy a replacement for the media cost, and they're taking extraordinary measures (including DCMA) to prevent me from making copies to guard against this.
So what am I buying? The listening rights or the physical product? It seems like I'm buying the worst of both worlds. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Nope, you just failed to download the picture on the left. Look at this portion of a screenshot.
Yeah, but who has the patience to keep the monkeys on task? I think they'd be copulating with everything within minutes of a lapse in supervision.
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will
eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the
Internet, we know this is not true."
You have to give them enough time. Some monkeys have done it. That quote is hilarious anyway.
Why doesn't everyone use Knoppix? Why do we ever mention other distros?
I use Knoppix and it's great. I gave it to all my friends and they think it's great. I gave it to school kids and they think it's great.
It autodetects all my hardware and mows my lawn. It never clogs the toilet. It doesn't hog the covers. It never needs you to listen to it rant about its day.
Redundant? Noooooooo....
and neither do most of the rest of us penguinistas.
Now that's funny. I hadn't heard that one before.
Someone needs to rewrite "Cows with Guns" to be the Penguinistas new battle song.
VIVA LAS PENGUINISTAS!