I normally don't take the time to write to anyone on the internet because they are so rude and closed minded
I wonder if anyone's pointed out to her that as the e-mailer of this message she's included in the description, "on the internet."
I've not yet developed my skills enough to help anyone but I do have glimpses. Many reputable brokerage houses and even former presidents rely on psychics for decisions.
The career she describes is right up there with Bigfoot hunting and moon landing conspiracy theory - in other words, it's big. If she keeps straining extra hard those "glimpses" could lead to so much more. Slashdot, look at the people you're disenfranchising with that banned page!
Supply and demand have in fact decided that many sites require flash
I see your point about supply and demand. Nevertheless I don't see how the accessibility of Flash-heavy sites (even though there are a lot of them out there) should be taken as contradicting the phrase "all parts of the Internet." If we approach it that way, any 64-bit Linux distro wouldn't be able to access "all parts of the Internet" because they don't have a compatible Flash plugin either. Heck, the Olympics site is a very prominant site and so is the Democratic Convention site, and both of them (and a smattering of others) require Silverlight, which doesn't have a full implementation on even 32-bit Linux, but I'd hardly call my Ubuntu laptop an Internet loser. And the Wii uses Opera on Linux, which probably gets the shaft from a lot of crappy banking sites that boot non-Windows UserAgents. Should Nintendo be barred from claims of access to the whole Internet?
Again, I acknowledge your point about Flash's unfortunate popularity, and I'd add to it that Apple's use of the broad term "Internet" as a substitute for the more specific "Web" is silly (on that note, I love people's comments on the fact that the claim is technically inaccurate if the iPhone excludes the gopher protocol). But there are a lot of devices and OSes out there that can't access every single bit of content on the Web. I don't see how this sort of exclusion helps informed consumers.
This airline is sounding better and better. Kill switches to blow it up in midair, marines to put passengers in their place. I can see someone running with this idea and making a fortune, and to think we were part of the thread that first hatched the idea.
My addition to this would be that to ensure the safety of people on the ground the planes in this hypothetical airline shouldn't be allowed to actually take off, but should instead hug the ground throughout the flight, perhaps on some sort of stabilizing rail, or a magnetic hover track. We might even build a system for running these planes across North America.
Mind you, I don't know whether you've really considered the advantages of owning a really fine set of modern Bradbury hardcovers. You know, they can really do you wonders.
I'm a little ways into reading Snow Crash right now and am lukewarm about it. It may be because I've encountered some of the concepts in the book before, and encountering them in print 16 years too late is making them seem more dated than they would have been in 1992. I haven't read any of Stephenson's books before and was wondering, does it get better? How does it compare with his other books, like the ones mentioned in the summary?
Did. Same issues. My experience with 3 on various platforms is that the issues I've seen on Windows may be specific to my XP installation. I have no clear evidence to suggest this aside from the fact that other people don't seem to have the problems I have, and none of the usual fixes work.
I can't really rebuild this machine, but it will hopefully be replaced at some point soon. At that point I'll almost certainly try to embrace Firefox 3.
Great, now will have more little reminders and popups. Soon everything will be like Vista.
As long as you can make the warnings go away, I can live with it. But it had better not get too intrusive because I'm not on Firefox 2 out of personal choice or laziness.
While I use Firefox 3 on my personal Linux laptop, I've been stuck on 2 with my Windows laptop because the 3 betas kept crashing like mad, and when the final release came out there was no improvement. I gave it a good hearty try - new profiles, no extensions, and so on - but I eventually had to roll back.
On the other hand, even the Linux Firefox 3 is not without its issues. I find it sluggish when populating the awesome bar (which I otherwise like), and also when working with multiple tabs or downloading multiple files. (At the risk of going off on a tangent, I HATE the "Waiting until the first file you requested downloads completely before bothering to prompt you for the second file" routine that is new with 3.)
I'd love a 3.1 that doesn't crash on Windows and streamlines some of the background operations on Linux. Until then they'd better let me ignore the upgrade reminders. I don't need reminding.
Mom and pop users should never, ever go to a website with self-signed or expired certs.
This is what I'm always telling clueless mom and pop users. "Never go to a site with a self-signed or expired SSL cert!" I say in a commanding voice.
Typically they'll usually reply with something feeble like, "What's the self sign S.S. Elcer?" Ha. I just point at them menacingly and say it again: "Never go to a site with a self-signed or expired SSL cert!"
I've kept a lot of people safer this way - no need for silly browser warnings.
Ah, we're back at the playground. OK then: your argument is horse dookie. And you smell.
And, from the looks of your last line, your post is an anti-MS screed in disguise.
It isn't in disguise. And it isn't specific to MS. Reliance on these web apps is changing the market substantially. It just as easily means a Mac shop can tolerate a Vista box, whereas that was a harder sell in days past.
If you have a break-through network application that's going to change the world... GREAT! Write an actual program that will merely communicate over the net. Not some hacked together Javascript that just barely works on a good day, on the right version of the right browser, with all the settings done by your CTO.
Relying upon non-web network programs is what we've been doing for decades. The result is that people use inflexible proprietary software that locks them to their propriety desktop platforms, and those platforms (and we're not naming any names here) have stagnated for years, there being no real competition to drive innovation at the OS level.
The promise of these web apps is that it doesn't matter whether you buy a Thinkpad with Windows, a MacBook with OS X or an Asus netbook. In any case, online apps like Facebook and GMail work the same anywhere. It's not perfect, and you're right that there's a lot of entropy out there, but everyone can see by now that this is a move away from the Bad Old Days of "I need to be able to use Outlook and IE so I can't buy a Mac."
This is the standard post mentioning the apparently humorous idea of patenting the idea of patenting obvious ideas, thus being able to sue companies like Microsoft who do so (a joke that is often described as "ironic," even though it isn't). This joke occurs in each article pertaining to obvious patents that appears in Slashdot's Patents section, though from this point forward I will be taking personal responsibility for including it, freeing others to focus on making more original and insightful criticisms of the USPTO.
Thank you for visiting the Slashdot Patents section.
Microsoft will owe a lot of people cakes before too long, since they don't seem to be able to handle their own development efforts very well and everyone implements crutches to get around them. Imagine the size of the cake they'll bake for Canonical when we're all running our Windows apps in WINE under Ubuntu.
I do. And I do. I'm sure our government keeps lots of secrets in the US and A, but what the Chinese do is a bit more systematic. Also, you can blame the people in the US for not knowing about those events. In China the citizens really can't be blamed for ignorance the Party enforces.
True. This is a country whose people generally have no knowedge that the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square happened. In China's official history, they didn't happen. It should surprise no one that in China's official history, all of their gymnasts are at least 16 years old, even if they were 13 or 14 years old last year. That anyone would dare argue with China will be interpreted as an insult because the Party doesn't like to be argued with. (Also, Eastasia is now our ally. We have always been at war with Eurasia.)
Yes, I totally agree about the viability of netbooks upsetting the established order of the marketplace, but I wonder if this isn't a temporary symptom of a market in which processing power at the netbook scale has temporarily run below the requirements of the current version of the dominant OS, Windows Vista, and whether as Moore's Law continues, netbooks might continue to get more powerful and... oh. Wait a minute, I didn't realize we weren't talking about that subject anymore. Is New Here here?
They managed to be outdone by Sun Microsystems and they were treating
their x86 product like an ugly redheaded stepchild. Then along come
FreeBSD and Linux and make their product look even more inferior.
I'm an ugly, redheaded stepchild, you insensitive clod!
Bullshit. I have free will. I think. Independently. I happen to think that conscious thought is a sense, too - like smell and taste and hearing and both others. It's a means of perception.
And free will exists. How can anyone think he has no free will?
The first two stages of finding out you might not have free will are denial and anger. You seem to have blurred those together nicely. Candidly, I have to warn you that bargaining and depression are a bitch. But get back to us when you're in the acceptance stage.
Also, visit my Canadian Pharmacy online drugstore to choose from a great selection of products of high quality produced according to the strict pharmaceutical standards.
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I normally don't take the time to write to anyone on the internet because they are so rude and closed minded
I wonder if anyone's pointed out to her that as the e-mailer of this message she's included in the description, "on the internet."
I've not yet developed my skills enough to help anyone but I do have glimpses. Many reputable brokerage houses and even former presidents rely on psychics for decisions.
The career she describes is right up there with Bigfoot hunting and moon landing conspiracy theory - in other words, it's big. If she keeps straining extra hard those "glimpses" could lead to so much more. Slashdot, look at the people you're disenfranchising with that banned page!
By definition nothing under idol should make it to the font page.
Agreed. Throw me the idle, and I'll throw you the whip.
Supply and demand have in fact decided that many sites require flash
I see your point about supply and demand. Nevertheless I don't see how the accessibility of Flash-heavy sites (even though there are a lot of them out there) should be taken as contradicting the phrase "all parts of the Internet." If we approach it that way, any 64-bit Linux distro wouldn't be able to access "all parts of the Internet" because they don't have a compatible Flash plugin either. Heck, the Olympics site is a very prominant site and so is the Democratic Convention site, and both of them (and a smattering of others) require Silverlight, which doesn't have a full implementation on even 32-bit Linux, but I'd hardly call my Ubuntu laptop an Internet loser. And the Wii uses Opera on Linux, which probably gets the shaft from a lot of crappy banking sites that boot non-Windows UserAgents. Should Nintendo be barred from claims of access to the whole Internet?
Again, I acknowledge your point about Flash's unfortunate popularity, and I'd add to it that Apple's use of the broad term "Internet" as a substitute for the more specific "Web" is silly (on that note, I love people's comments on the fact that the claim is technically inaccurate if the iPhone excludes the gopher protocol). But there are a lot of devices and OSes out there that can't access every single bit of content on the Web. I don't see how this sort of exclusion helps informed consumers.
It's no longer referred to as jail. We call it "re-education." Please correct yourself or report to re-education for illegally backdating your posts.
This airline is sounding better and better. Kill switches to blow it up in midair, marines to put passengers in their place. I can see someone running with this idea and making a fortune, and to think we were part of the thread that first hatched the idea.
My addition to this would be that to ensure the safety of people on the ground the planes in this hypothetical airline shouldn't be allowed to actually take off, but should instead hug the ground throughout the flight, perhaps on some sort of stabilizing rail, or a magnetic hover track. We might even build a system for running these planes across North America.
Mind you, I don't know whether you've really considered the advantages of owning a really fine set of modern Bradbury hardcovers. You know, they can really do you wonders.
(Er ... just some friendly advice from a burgler.)
I think we should celebrate his turning 541...
Is that the temprature at which accuracy burns?
I'm a little ways into reading Snow Crash right now and am lukewarm about it. It may be because I've encountered some of the concepts in the book before, and encountering them in print 16 years too late is making them seem more dated than they would have been in 1992. I haven't read any of Stephenson's books before and was wondering, does it get better? How does it compare with his other books, like the ones mentioned in the summary?
Did. Same issues. My experience with 3 on various platforms is that the issues I've seen on Windows may be specific to my XP installation. I have no clear evidence to suggest this aside from the fact that other people don't seem to have the problems I have, and none of the usual fixes work.
I can't really rebuild this machine, but it will hopefully be replaced at some point soon. At that point I'll almost certainly try to embrace Firefox 3.
Great, now will have more little reminders and popups. Soon everything will be like Vista.
As long as you can make the warnings go away, I can live with it. But it had better not get too intrusive because I'm not on Firefox 2 out of personal choice or laziness.
While I use Firefox 3 on my personal Linux laptop, I've been stuck on 2 with my Windows laptop because the 3 betas kept crashing like mad, and when the final release came out there was no improvement. I gave it a good hearty try - new profiles, no extensions, and so on - but I eventually had to roll back.
On the other hand, even the Linux Firefox 3 is not without its issues. I find it sluggish when populating the awesome bar (which I otherwise like), and also when working with multiple tabs or downloading multiple files. (At the risk of going off on a tangent, I HATE the "Waiting until the first file you requested downloads completely before bothering to prompt you for the second file" routine that is new with 3.)
I'd love a 3.1 that doesn't crash on Windows and streamlines some of the background operations on Linux. Until then they'd better let me ignore the upgrade reminders. I don't need reminding.
Mom and pop users should never, ever go to a website with self-signed or expired certs.
This is what I'm always telling clueless mom and pop users. "Never go to a site with a self-signed or expired SSL cert!" I say in a commanding voice.
Typically they'll usually reply with something feeble like, "What's the self sign S.S. Elcer?" Ha. I just point at them menacingly and say it again: "Never go to a site with a self-signed or expired SSL cert!"
I've kept a lot of people safer this way - no need for silly browser warnings.
Your argument is bullshit.
Ah, we're back at the playground. OK then: your argument is horse dookie. And you smell.
And, from the looks of your last line, your post is an anti-MS screed in disguise.
It isn't in disguise. And it isn't specific to MS. Reliance on these web apps is changing the market substantially. It just as easily means a Mac shop can tolerate a Vista box, whereas that was a harder sell in days past.
You would be responsible for that post in my new regime, however as you posted AC it's impossible for me to delegate it.
If you have a break-through network application that's going to change the world... GREAT! Write an actual program that will merely communicate over the net. Not some hacked together Javascript that just barely works on a good day, on the right version of the right browser, with all the settings done by your CTO.
Relying upon non-web network programs is what we've been doing for decades. The result is that people use inflexible proprietary software that locks them to their propriety desktop platforms, and those platforms (and we're not naming any names here) have stagnated for years, there being no real competition to drive innovation at the OS level.
The promise of these web apps is that it doesn't matter whether you buy a Thinkpad with Windows, a MacBook with OS X or an Asus netbook. In any case, online apps like Facebook and GMail work the same anywhere. It's not perfect, and you're right that there's a lot of entropy out there, but everyone can see by now that this is a move away from the Bad Old Days of "I need to be able to use Outlook and IE so I can't buy a Mac."
This is the standard post mentioning the apparently humorous idea of patenting the idea of patenting obvious ideas, thus being able to sue companies like Microsoft who do so (a joke that is often described as "ironic," even though it isn't). This joke occurs in each article pertaining to obvious patents that appears in Slashdot's Patents section, though from this point forward I will be taking personal responsibility for including it, freeing others to focus on making more original and insightful criticisms of the USPTO.
Thank you for visiting the Slashdot Patents section.
Microsoft will owe a lot of people cakes before too long, since they don't seem to be able to handle their own development efforts very well and everyone implements crutches to get around them. Imagine the size of the cake they'll bake for Canonical when we're all running our Windows apps in WINE under Ubuntu.
I do. And I do. I'm sure our government keeps lots of secrets in the US and A, but what the Chinese do is a bit more systematic. Also, you can blame the people in the US for not knowing about those events. In China the citizens really can't be blamed for ignorance the Party enforces.
True. This is a country whose people generally have no knowedge that the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square happened. In China's official history, they didn't happen. It should surprise no one that in China's official history, all of their gymnasts are at least 16 years old, even if they were 13 or 14 years old last year. That anyone would dare argue with China will be interpreted as an insult because the Party doesn't like to be argued with. (Also, Eastasia is now our ally. We have always been at war with Eurasia.)
Yes, I totally agree about the viability of netbooks upsetting the established order of the marketplace, but I wonder if this isn't a temporary symptom of a market in which processing power at the netbook scale has temporarily run below the requirements of the current version of the dominant OS, Windows Vista, and whether as Moore's Law continues, netbooks might continue to get more powerful and ... oh. Wait a minute, I didn't realize we weren't talking about that subject anymore. Is New Here here?
They managed to be outdone by Sun Microsystems and they were treating their x86 product like an ugly redheaded stepchild. Then along come FreeBSD and Linux and make their product look even more inferior.
I'm an ugly, redheaded stepchild, you insensitive clod!
No you didn't.
That the anger and denial phases last longer than I thought. :)
Bullshit. I have free will. I think. Independently. I happen to think that conscious thought is a sense, too - like smell and taste and hearing and both others. It's a means of perception.
And free will exists. How can anyone think he has no free will?
The first two stages of finding out you might not have free will are denial and anger. You seem to have blurred those together nicely. Candidly, I have to warn you that bargaining and depression are a bitch. But get back to us when you're in the acceptance stage.
What does the blue pill taste like? Steak?
It kind of tastes like chicken. In fact, if you take the blue pill, everything tastes like chicken, and vice versa.
Also, visit my Canadian Pharmacy online drugstore to choose from a great selection of products of high quality produced according to the strict pharmaceutical standards.