Did you look at the source code? Inline CSS, tags and an obvious dislike of indententation... Plus the fact that they are/were hosted by geocities... Check out this code:
"Term Stuffing"? It didn't look like the terms used on that page were chosen to pop up in a search engine. They looked to me much more like the terms that any marketing department would use to make a product seem good/useful/whatever. Are we going to ban marketing departments from using common positive words now?
I've just noticed something interesting. I'm at a public computer and was browsing google when all of a sudden some text appeared below the searchbox asking me if I'd like a GMail account. When I clicked it, it brought me to a page which mentioned that google was expanding their GMail services and was offering accounts to a "random percentage" of their visitors. Between this and my neverending supply of invites (50 now, 50 before, 50 forever!) I'm starting to think that Google might be going public with GMail pretty soon. Thoughts?
Strangely, I'm inclined to agree with Mr. Gates on this one. The High School experience has become that of "7 hours of MCAS-Prep" here in Massachusetts. Hell, they've dropped World History from the curriculum. Entirely. Gotta love the NCLB act, eh?
No problem with this one, as long as access is tightly controled and records are destroyed frequently. I'd prefer that my employers 20 years down the line can't look up my bathroom stats from kindergarten
Violation of privacy for the teachers (the school isn't in loco parentis), plus these are little kids. I highly doubt this is necessary in elementary school.
Good idea! Then we can make everyone wear little tickers with Google PageAds on them and we can really make some bucks! (sarcasm aside, bad idea. Too much temptation to branch into advertising, and advertising in schools essentially destroys the school. Been there, done that, as they say.)
Did anyone besides me see that as "Cat-Based Linux", the first time you looked at that? C'mon, after the article about the model train computer, anything's possible!
I think what the parent of your post is trying to say, Tarwn, is that it's a stock icon, so any patent on the icon itself shouldn't apply. And I've seen that sort of help behavior since, well, as long as I've been using computers. Look to Macs- they probably had "Context Help" way back when.
Personally, I love Steam and have never had a problem with it. It even solved one of my problems: my third CD was damaged, but Steam allowed me to download the data on that CD. Meaning that I could install HL2 with a damaged CD without exchanging the whole set- good deal. Maybe you're all mad because you're cheap and you don't want to pay for anything- I see a lot of posts about how you pirated Half-Life 2. Personally, I find that inexcusable. But it's not my place to enforce copyright laws. Or maybe you're mad because of Steam's ability to drastically limit cheating in CounterStrike. A lot of you strike me as people that might take offense at that.:P I don't know. But I think Steam's the best thing to happen to the gaming industry. It entirely eliminates SecureROM technology. I don't need the CD's for anything anymore! It also handles updates very gracefully and allows the user to download things like the SDKs all in one go. Now, play nice.:)
"there is no single Development Environment for Linux as there is for Microsoft"
Yes, what a good point. There are multiple DE's for linux. This is a bad thing, because it means developers have a choice. There should only be one piece of software for each category, and it should be manufactured by Microsoft. Choice is bad, people!
But you could get arrested if you said that, at least if you were encouraging the use of said product. I think that's called Facilitating or some whatnot like that. For example, if a police officer was trying to do some sort of a sting operation and asked you where he could buy some good pot, then you told him "go ask the guy down the street", you could get in -very- big trouble.
The way I see it, XML's only benefit over something like SQL is that it -is- plain text and easily user modifiable. Binary XML seems to me more like a step backwards than a step fowards. Of course, I've never understood the buzzwordiness of XML anyway. Things like SOAP make it seem like a protocol when it's a format. I think that the W3C should be spending their time on XML implimentations like SVG, MathML and XHTML, not on things like this.
Hurrah! I finally broke the 80KB/s barrier! I'd like to thank all the mods, editors, and readers. And the Academy of Monkeys with Typewriters who write the articles, of course.
Automatic iTunes sync, and the iTunes shuffle playlist thingie, both of which sound pretty cool. Plus, 512MB for $99 is extremely competitive for one of those little doohickeys. A quick search found similar 512MB devices for $139.99 to $199.99. 1GB devices were even more expensive.
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You get 24MB more with the 1GB deal... You should probably click on that one...
I'd like to note that I pointed this out on March 05 and only got to +2. link.
And F@H has 187 TeraFLOPS. However, random companies cannot use SETI@Home or Folding@Home for drug research, can they? :P
And we shall call it... Jabber!
"Term Stuffing"? It didn't look like the terms used on that page were chosen to pop up in a search engine. They looked to me much more like the terms that any marketing department would use to make a product seem good/useful/whatever. Are we going to ban marketing departments from using common positive words now?
I've just noticed something interesting. I'm at a public computer and was browsing google when all of a sudden some text appeared below the searchbox asking me if I'd like a GMail account. When I clicked it, it brought me to a page which mentioned that google was expanding their GMail services and was offering accounts to a "random percentage" of their visitors. Between this and my neverending supply of invites (50 now, 50 before, 50 forever!) I'm starting to think that Google might be going public with GMail pretty soon. Thoughts?
PS: Is this a new feature too?
Mmm. I wish we had CS courses...
Strangely, I'm inclined to agree with Mr. Gates on this one. The High School experience has become that of "7 hours of MCAS-Prep" here in Massachusetts. Hell, they've dropped World History from the curriculum. Entirely. Gotta love the NCLB act, eh?
What about LGPL and CreativeCommons licenses? Libraries and artwork (books, websites, etc) still ought to have their open-source licenses available...
Did anyone besides me see that as "Cat-Based Linux", the first time you looked at that? C'mon, after the article about the model train computer, anything's possible!
That would be the UserAgent Switcher extension.
I think what the parent of your post is trying to say, Tarwn, is that it's a stock icon, so any patent on the icon itself shouldn't apply. And I've seen that sort of help behavior since, well, as long as I've been using computers. Look to Macs- they probably had "Context Help" way back when.
Have you ever actually tried using Gnome? Because you really should -try- something before you make blanket assumptions about it...
Personally, I love Steam and have never had a problem with it. It even solved one of my problems: my third CD was damaged, but Steam allowed me to download the data on that CD. Meaning that I could install HL2 with a damaged CD without exchanging the whole set- good deal. Maybe you're all mad because you're cheap and you don't want to pay for anything- I see a lot of posts about how you pirated Half-Life 2. Personally, I find that inexcusable. But it's not my place to enforce copyright laws. Or maybe you're mad because of Steam's ability to drastically limit cheating in CounterStrike. A lot of you strike me as people that might take offense at that. :P I don't know. But I think Steam's the best thing to happen to the gaming industry. It entirely eliminates SecureROM technology. I don't need the CD's for anything anymore! It also handles updates very gracefully and allows the user to download things like the SDKs all in one go. Now, play nice. :)
Yes, what a good point. There are multiple DE's for linux. This is a bad thing, because it means developers have a choice. There should only be one piece of software for each category, and it should be manufactured by Microsoft. Choice is bad, people!
They probably mean diskless as in no MiniDV disks.
But you could get arrested if you said that, at least if you were encouraging the use of said product. I think that's called Facilitating or some whatnot like that. For example, if a police officer was trying to do some sort of a sting operation and asked you where he could buy some good pot, then you told him "go ask the guy down the street", you could get in -very- big trouble.
Not that I agree with it. But it is what it is...
The way I see it, XML's only benefit over something like SQL is that it -is- plain text and easily user modifiable. Binary XML seems to me more like a step backwards than a step fowards. Of course, I've never understood the buzzwordiness of XML anyway. Things like SOAP make it seem like a protocol when it's a format. I think that the W3C should be spending their time on XML implimentations like SVG, MathML and XHTML, not on things like this.
Hurrah! I finally broke the 80KB/s barrier! I'd like to thank all the mods, editors, and readers. And the Academy of Monkeys with Typewriters who write the articles, of course.
Considering that I am currently getting 1.5KB/s, I think you should -all- start downloading. :)
Hmm. Okay. Opening the link... http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g5_powerbook. Okay. The link works. It must be true then. Wait... http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g6_powerbook works as well! That must mean that they're releasing the G6 at the same time as the G5! Yay! Let's go post an article on The Register about it!
Try the GooglePreview extension for Firefox.
Automatic iTunes sync, and the iTunes shuffle playlist thingie, both of which sound pretty cool. Plus, 512MB for $99 is extremely competitive for one of those little doohickeys. A quick search found similar 512MB devices for $139.99 to $199.99. 1GB devices were even more expensive.