Web pages are an art-based, audio-based, text-based medium depending on the designer's whims. Blind people can't read newspaper advertisements and can't order by catalog, deaf people can't hear radio advertisements and can't order by phone. Why should the web be any different?
Why can't a designer make an all-Flash webpage if he wants? Why can't a designer do as he pleases with his site knowing that there are other means to sell items to his customers?
Anyone reading this may think I'm harsh but I'm at a point where I grow weary of unnecessary adjustments. This is NOT handicapped parking. This is NOT denial of employment. This is an effort to limit an audio-visual medium to suit certain people's needs. I wish more people wound understand that the web is audio-visual.
I'm not trying to be snarky with this question, but I have to ask: What would constitute a business site (and thus be subject to ADA policies)? Obviously Southwest would, but would smaller sites that sell t-shirts and hats to subsist be included?
I'm getting one today, only because Catherine Zeta-Jones has painstakingly assessed which mobile network has the widest range of coverage with the largest amount of redundant systems in case of outages.
A number of people that I talk to either consider the internet to be something "just for those computer nerd types", or they think it's the ultimate medium from which all things will eventually derive.
My question is how important a place in society is the internet now, and what do you expect its place to be in the future?
Technically I could send ever Bond movie, the entire NFL Films library, and the collectors' edition DVD of UHF all at the same time via snail mail. But that's going to cost A LOT of money.
The article briefly mentioned cost, but it didn't necessarily say that mail 3 videos was the same cost as downloading them.
My knowledge of the judicial system pretty much begins and ends with "Law and Order" but here's my take:
The police are allowed to do certain things to obtain information, and there are certain things they can't do. The ones that they can't do require a warrant.
That would mean that if this story is correct then obtaining library information would NOT require a warrant for it to be admissable in court.
Another problem touched on though is that while the warrant system is there to prevent unlawful convictions, in this instance a law enforcement official could obtain library info for someone even if there is no case pending. That would make the warrants and "admissable in court" moot relative the privacy violations that would occur.
Before the advent of computers there was just "shorthand". It was a combination of abbreviations and symbols so that you could write and transcript quickly.
For example (in the version I learned) you used the letter-v for "of" and you used a one-stroke plus sign for "and".
And you know what? You weren't allowed to submit a paper with that kind of shorthand either. And in the future there'll probably be some new kind of shorthand (with holographic swirls or some other crap like that) and that won't be allowed either.
Shorthand is a tool either for the person's use or for quick communication with others. It's not professional and shouldn't be treated as such.
The real safety issue on these rides is not the design but how well they're maintained.
Kind-of-relevant story:
I once worked as a ride operator at an amusement pier in Seaside Heights, NJ ("Yes, MTV. We'll galdly take your money!")
A kid got shocked on one of the kiddie rides where these little boats go around in a circle. For whatever reason electricity was coarsing through the water the boats rode on.
One of the mechanics told another of the mechanics that the water shocked at least one kid. The second mechanic, in order to verify what the first mechanic said, stuck his hand in the water, shocking himself.
While this may not be indicative of ride mechanics throughout the country, it's a scary thought to think guys like this are insuring the safety of hundreds of thousands of people.
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I think Basil Exposition from the Austin Powers movies said it best when trying to explain time travel:
"I suggest you don't worry about this sort of thing and just enjoy yourself. That goes for you all, too."
Obvious this guy can only do what Quake allows, but I do find it funny that as of right now he's having trouble emulating a piece of Atari 2600 software (namely the bridge).
Now before I get berated, let me just say right now I couldn't even do the smallest fraction of what this guy did. It's impossibly cool and can't wait to see what he does with it.
This is somewhat similar to when Macintoshes went to a USB-only configuration. Causing a lot of rumblings early-on, but it came out stronger later-on.
I was selling the original iMacs from the online Apple Store when they first came out. A few months earlier Apple stopped the sale of their All-In-One models (which were sold exclusively to education customers).
So anyone wanting a computer & monitor combined had to get the iMac. Fine. The problem was that there were zero USB printers for the Mac. We were selling HP serial printers. And we were told to tell the customer that an adapter to allow those printers should be available "in about a month".
Oh my, what fun calls we had trying to (a) sell a computer that had no available printer capabilites, (b) answer complaints from people who thought or were told the printers would work with the USB ports (the adapter did come out many months later from a third-party), and (c) not rip our ears off after hearing "I've been a loyal Apple customer for over a year/decade/eon and this is how you treat us?!"
At least this time around they've given people forewarning about the change before we reach the no-turning-back point.
It took Apple introducing USB-only iMacs to jump-start the USB peripheral market.
Very true, and in the long-term it really all worked out. There was some "unpleasantness" in the short-term, though.
I was selling the original iMacs from the online Apple Store when they first came out. A few months earlier Apple stopped the sale of their All-In-One models (which were sold exclusively to education customers).
So anyone wanting a computer & monitor combined had to get the iMac. Fine. The problem was that there were zero USB printers for the Mac. We were selling Imagewriters (or Scriptwriters, it's been a few years:) ) And we were told to tell the customer that an adapter to allow those printers should be available "in about a month".
Oh my, what fun calls we had trying to (a) sell a computer that had no available printer capabilites, (b) answer complaints from people who thought or were told the printers would work with the USB ports (the adapter did come out many months later from a third-party), and (c) not rip our ears off after hearing "I've been a loyal Apple customer for over a year/decade/eon and this is how you treat us?!"
At least this time around they've given people forewarning about the change before we reach the no-turning-back point.
I just want to say if the one poster is correct and his mother went online to let people know he had passed away, then that was a pretty nice thing to do.
Whether it was good or bad spending that much time online (I didn't know the guy, I'm simply reading the arguments of other posters.); but at least he had people who understood he had friends online and were willing to notify them.
If you read the article it explains how the games are in fact a form of commentary and not just a Me-Hate-Bin-Laden thing.
For example, one game has you bombing targets but you're only supposed to hit military targets. The catch is that the military and civilian targets look the same. Essentially, this person is saying that going to war with Afghanistan will result in large civilian casualities.
Now I disagree with his point, and it's not exactly a William Safire column as far as depth, but it is commentary nonetheless.
Where:
PU = Pints of feces they're wallowing in
CB = Number of cinder blocks under the wheels of the car in the front yard.
T = Number of teeth
BL = Years of book learnin'
Just want to say that this was interesting interview getting us to look at how him and the other builders are really in it to have fun. Some of the posters have said they don't like Carmen Electra or the overall flash of the show, but they seem to be getting a kick out of it and it's not like they take the pomp and circumstance too seriously.
I am curious about how he feels about people going in with a less-technical mindset than himself. People are going to start bringing in pre-designed bots. There was that one kid last season who just up and bought his bot from someone else.
(By the way, Complete Control is the most interesting bot out there, IMHO)
To give you an idea of how insanely much $2.2 trillion is, consider the women who sued McDonalds for spilling a cup of coffee on herself.
She was eventually awarded half-a-million dollars. You'd have to douse yourself with almost 300 million gallons of McDonalds coffee in order to get the $2.2 trillion.
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So Mandrake is on the XBox? Big deal.
Just last night I picked up 50 magic coins and was able to hack into the Pentagon using Super Mario Sunshine.
5 GET Webspace
10 PRINT Opinion
20 IF OPINION = NotHorriblyCrappy THEN GOTO 10
30 END
Web pages are an art-based, audio-based, text-based medium depending on the designer's whims. Blind people can't read newspaper advertisements and can't order by catalog, deaf people can't hear radio advertisements and can't order by phone. Why should the web be any different?
Why can't a designer make an all-Flash webpage if he wants? Why can't a designer do as he pleases with his site knowing that there are other means to sell items to his customers?
Anyone reading this may think I'm harsh but I'm at a point where I grow weary of unnecessary adjustments. This is NOT handicapped parking. This is NOT denial of employment. This is an effort to limit an audio-visual medium to suit certain people's needs. I wish more people wound understand that the web is audio-visual.
I'm not trying to be snarky with this question, but I have to ask: What would constitute a business site (and thus be subject to ADA policies)? Obviously Southwest would, but would smaller sites that sell t-shirts and hats to subsist be included?
A good blog for (an admittedly skewed) look at ADA lawsuits go to disabled rights at overlawyered.com
I'm getting one today, only because Catherine Zeta-Jones has painstakingly assessed which mobile network has the widest range of coverage with the largest amount of redundant systems in case of outages.
...and she can assumedly stop time.
Are you forgetting the game that was exhalted by an entire genreation: Congo Bongo?
A number of people that I talk to either consider the internet to be something "just for those computer nerd types", or they think it's the ultimate medium from which all things will eventually derive.
My question is how important a place in society is the internet now, and what do you expect its place to be in the future?
An article called Big Trouble in Big Physics delved deeply into this situation and to how this could've occured.
This guy better hope The White Stripes are making a second video.
Technically I could send ever Bond movie, the entire NFL Films library, and the collectors' edition DVD of UHF all at the same time via snail mail. But that's going to cost A LOT of money.
The article briefly mentioned cost, but it didn't necessarily say that mail 3 videos was the same cost as downloading them.
My knowledge of the judicial system pretty much begins and ends with "Law and Order" but here's my take:
The police are allowed to do certain things to obtain information, and there are certain things they can't do. The ones that they can't do require a warrant.
That would mean that if this story is correct then obtaining library information would NOT require a warrant for it to be admissable in court.
Another problem touched on though is that while the warrant system is there to prevent unlawful convictions, in this instance a law enforcement official could obtain library info for someone even if there is no case pending. That would make the warrants and "admissable in court" moot relative the privacy violations that would occur.
Before the advent of computers there was just "shorthand". It was a combination of abbreviations and symbols so that you could write and transcript quickly.
For example (in the version I learned) you used the letter-v for "of" and you used a one-stroke plus sign for "and".
And you know what? You weren't allowed to submit a paper with that kind of shorthand either. And in the future there'll probably be some new kind of shorthand (with holographic swirls or some other crap like that) and that won't be allowed either.
Shorthand is a tool either for the person's use or for quick communication with others. It's not professional and shouldn't be treated as such.
If only these people buying these accounts used the free way to gain 30 levels:
S tart
Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Select-
would you use your knowledge to help protect software from other crackers?
Hey, let's keep race out of this.
The real safety issue on these rides is not the design but how well they're maintained.
Kind-of-relevant story:
I once worked as a ride operator at an amusement pier in Seaside Heights, NJ ("Yes, MTV. We'll galdly take your money!")
A kid got shocked on one of the kiddie rides where these little boats go around in a circle. For whatever reason electricity was coarsing through the water the boats rode on.
One of the mechanics told another of the mechanics that the water shocked at least one kid. The second mechanic, in order to verify what the first mechanic said, stuck his hand in the water, shocking himself.
While this may not be indicative of ride mechanics throughout the country, it's a scary thought to think guys like this are insuring the safety of hundreds of thousands of people.
I think Basil Exposition from the Austin Powers movies said it best when trying to explain time travel:
"I suggest you don't worry about this sort of thing and just enjoy yourself. That goes for you all, too."
Obvious this guy can only do what Quake allows, but I do find it funny that as of right now he's having trouble emulating a piece of Atari 2600 software (namely the bridge).
Now before I get berated, let me just say right now I couldn't even do the smallest fraction of what this guy did. It's impossibly cool and can't wait to see what he does with it.
This is somewhat similar to when Macintoshes went to a USB-only configuration. Causing a lot of rumblings early-on, but it came out stronger later-on.
I was selling the original iMacs from the online Apple Store when they first came out. A few months earlier Apple stopped the sale of their All-In-One models (which were sold exclusively to education customers).
So anyone wanting a computer & monitor combined had to get the iMac. Fine. The problem was that there were zero USB printers for the Mac. We were selling HP serial printers. And we were told to tell the customer that an adapter to allow those printers should be available "in about a month".
Oh my, what fun calls we had trying to (a) sell a computer that had no available printer capabilites, (b) answer complaints from people who thought or were told the printers would work with the USB ports (the adapter did come out many months later from a third-party), and (c) not rip our ears off after hearing "I've been a loyal Apple customer for over a year/decade/eon and this is how you treat us?!"
At least this time around they've given people forewarning about the change before we reach the no-turning-back point.
It took Apple introducing USB-only iMacs to jump-start the USB peripheral market.
Very true, and in the long-term it really all worked out. There was some "unpleasantness" in the short-term, though.
I was selling the original iMacs from the online Apple Store when they first came out. A few months earlier Apple stopped the sale of their All-In-One models (which were sold exclusively to education customers).
So anyone wanting a computer & monitor combined had to get the iMac. Fine. The problem was that there were zero USB printers for the Mac. We were selling Imagewriters (or Scriptwriters, it's been a few years
Oh my, what fun calls we had trying to (a) sell a computer that had no available printer capabilites, (b) answer complaints from people who thought or were told the printers would work with the USB ports (the adapter did come out many months later from a third-party), and (c) not rip our ears off after hearing "I've been a loyal Apple customer for over a year/decade/eon and this is how you treat us?!"
At least this time around they've given people forewarning about the change before we reach the no-turning-back point.
I just want to say if the one poster is correct and his mother went online to let people know he had passed away, then that was a pretty nice thing to do.
Whether it was good or bad spending that much time online (I didn't know the guy, I'm simply reading the arguments of other posters.); but at least he had people who understood he had friends online and were willing to notify them.
If you read the article it explains how the games are in fact a form of commentary and not just a Me-Hate-Bin-Laden thing.
For example, one game has you bombing targets but you're only supposed to hit military targets. The catch is that the military and civilian targets look the same. Essentially, this person is saying that going to war with Afghanistan will result in large civilian casualities.
Now I disagree with his point, and it's not exactly a William Safire column as far as depth, but it is commentary nonetheless.
This is all part of an elaborate ruse to see whether the populace is intrested in a possible Loverboy reunion (with opening act Triumph!)
I don't think it's so much religious intolerance as it is their long-standing embargo on midichloreons.
X = (PU + CB) / (T + BL)
Where:
PU = Pints of feces they're wallowing in
CB = Number of cinder blocks under the wheels of the car in the front yard.
T = Number of teeth
BL = Years of book learnin'
If X > 5, add to the list.
Just want to say that this was interesting interview getting us to look at how him and the other builders are really in it to have fun. Some of the posters have said they don't like Carmen Electra or the overall flash of the show, but they seem to be getting a kick out of it and it's not like they take the pomp and circumstance too seriously.
I am curious about how he feels about people going in with a less-technical mindset than himself. People are going to start bringing in pre-designed bots. There was that one kid last season who just up and bought his bot from someone else.
(By the way, Complete Control is the most interesting bot out there, IMHO)
To give you an idea of how insanely much $2.2 trillion is, consider the women who sued McDonalds for spilling a cup of coffee on herself.
She was eventually awarded half-a-million dollars. You'd have to douse yourself with almost 300 million gallons of McDonalds coffee in order to get the $2.2 trillion.