OT, but the Tappan Zee Bridge has to have just about the best name ever.
But yeah I can imagine this being really expensive in even in NYC, the roads get torn up to replace pipes and wires often enough.
And even NYC is less crowded than Tokyo... we don't actually have people hired to squash us onto the subway cars, although sometimes I think it might help.
Ah, thanks. The last time I noticed that thing was way back when I had Netscape Comunicator. I didn't even realize that IE had one until you pointed it out. =)
Now, the OS (Explorer) and MS apps will automatically handle html, xml, etc. without calling up a special browser app...
I know that it's dangerous to say anything that could be construed as pro-MS, but really this actually makes a hell of alot of sense to me. I like the fact that if I'm looking at a file view of my hard drive, I can type a web address into the address bar and immediately go to that site. Why should, for most users at least, there be any actual difference between Explorer and Internet Explorer.
Alright, I know I'm going to get flamed for this, and I actually don't believe all that I said above, but I mean, I never quite understood the "browser wars"... the moment MS started giving out IE for free, it seemed obvious that it should come with the OS rather than needing to be gotten separately. If the OS can function more and more like a regular webrowser, the easier it will be to use for ordinary users.
Disclaimer Disclaimer Disclaimer: I am a happy user of Mozilla Firebird, and have taken it upon myself to force it on everyone I meet ("oh, you want me to fix your computer for you? well, I can't do it on computer with IE, just hold on a second...").
The new web page looks nice, much more "commercial-software-like", much more user friendly (gets the more confusing open source stuff and lesser-used programs further down the page).
One thing I just noticed is the new(?) Firebird logo. Doesn't it look like a prettier Quake logo, or is it just me?
I wonder if this is why I can show a girl a game where you can pick up prostitutes, use them to gain health, and then kill them with a chainsaw to get your money back -- GTA Vice City -- and she'll be at least intrigued and amused by it, if not suddenly wanting to buy and play it: it's got bright, cheery colors, a understandable non-game reference point (gangster movies such as Scarface & Goodfellas), and an absurbist fantasy feel to it.
I probably would generally enjoy the game just as much if it had a grim, disturbing theme with realistic gore, but I'm sure my female cousin would have been far less amused by it.
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I essentially didn't listen to music before napster. The occaisional random CD, but I (for some reason) never listened to the radio, never watched MTV, etc., and was pretty much entirely out of the loop regarding popular music. Actually even unpopular music.
Now I have a 20gig mp3 that I quite literally carry around with me *everywhere* and I have a much more diverse music tastes (can listen to rap-rock, baroque, ska, and big-beat sequentially without batting an eye) than I could ever have gotten through normal music-discovering means (radio, MTV).
Since when was film supposed to be art? It can be art, you can decide to only watch 'art' films, but for others of us, we like the occaisional popcorn film. Nothing wrong with that. It's like saying cars are supposed to be sports cars.
From the Liberty City Survivor commercial in Grand Theft Auto III:
Male Voice: "Tonight...the TV event that will make history...Liberty City Survivor! This takes reality TV to a whole new level! We'll take 20 recently paroled guys, equip them with grenade launchers and flamethrowers...and let them hunt each other down!! It's the reality show where you...just might be...part of the action!!"
Man: "I was grabbing a sandwich in the Happy Blimp, and all-of-a-sudden these guys crashed through the window and started shooting at each other! I was so excited, I didn't even notice I'd been hit! After that, I was hooked on Liberty City Survivor! I watch it every day in the hospital!"
Male Voice: "The game doesn't end until there's only one man left standing!! Tune in nightly, or watch the 24hour live webcast!......Liberty City Survivor!!......Natural selection...has come home!!......."
There were some rumors about this that floated around a couple of months after 9/11 that were pretty much ignored and forgotten about, perhaps because they didn't have much substance, or perhaps because the American public is as blase as we think it is. However:
if the the US Government actually -had- orchestrated 9/11... If there were undeniable proof
Are you kidding me? There would be a bigger shitstorm than you've ever seen. The American public still cares more about 9/11 than you would imagine. I'm sure there at least a couple thousand firefighters here in NYC who would be willing to go down to the District of Columbia to start a little firestarting...
Who still uses the "lesser search engine players", like AllTheWeb, HotBot, FAST, etc., anyway? Everyone I know uses Google, maybe Yahoo, or just the MSN homepage search.
Did anyone notice how popular search engines have names that don't make any sense? What the hell is "Google" or "Yahoo!"
How many computer companies have names that make any sense? What do Apples have to do with computers? Is Oracle's database really a seer? Is Microsoft's software in any way "micro"? =)
They're just names to catch your attention, to stick in your mind, and perhaps to become a word that does make sense (slowly "google" is becoming something of an synonym for "search", just like "xerox" once was a synonym for "photocopy")
Ah, I just realized that I may be dumb and AOL may have something like a POST ON THE USENET link on their front page... sorry I haven't had AOL in over five years, something that makes me very very happy =)
Yo don't have to read their blogs, in fact you could just avoid anything that says "AOL Journal", just like many slashdotters (including myself) avoid all links that end in "cx"...
I'm surprised your AOLer figured out how to use usenet so fast. I've never used it more than once or twice and I'd consider myself at least at the basic level of/. computer-savvy-ness...
Slashdot Mirror
Wait, what's SCO SCO SCO? Is that like a triple-attack of pointless lawsuits? That almost sounds dangerous.
Depends on what version you have. The pre 2.6s have a much louder forestfall property, and so can be heard better.
OT, but the Tappan Zee Bridge has to have just about the best name ever.
But yeah I can imagine this being really expensive in even in NYC, the roads get torn up to replace pipes and wires often enough.
And even NYC is less crowded than Tokyo... we don't actually have people hired to squash us onto the subway cars, although sometimes I think it might help.
Honda...
I specially would like to see what neon-lit modifications enterprising young ricers could make on one of those X-planes...
Oh believe me, Ma Bell's gonna give little Jeff Bell a good spankin' when he gets home. Makin' up stories about his big brothers' hard work...
Although "glitter" is not incorrect, usually in English stars are said to "twinkle", as in the nursery rhyme "Twinkle, twinkle, little star".
Otherwise, good post, I love watching conspiracy theories get debunked.
Ah, thanks. The last time I noticed that thing was way back when I had Netscape Comunicator. I didn't even realize that IE had one until you pointed it out. =)
Cool, thanks, makes sense to me now... just a quick question: what's a throbber?*
* I can tell I'm going to feel really dumb in about five minutes after I post this.
Now, the OS (Explorer) and MS apps will automatically handle html, xml, etc. without calling up a special browser app...
I know that it's dangerous to say anything that could be construed as pro-MS, but really this actually makes a hell of alot of sense to me. I like the fact that if I'm looking at a file view of my hard drive, I can type a web address into the address bar and immediately go to that site. Why should, for most users at least, there be any actual difference between Explorer and Internet Explorer.
Alright, I know I'm going to get flamed for this, and I actually don't believe all that I said above, but I mean, I never quite understood the "browser wars"... the moment MS started giving out IE for free, it seemed obvious that it should come with the OS rather than needing to be gotten separately. If the OS can function more and more like a regular webrowser, the easier it will be to use for ordinary users.
Disclaimer Disclaimer Disclaimer: I am a happy user of Mozilla Firebird, and have taken it upon myself to force it on everyone I meet ("oh, you want me to fix your computer for you? well, I can't do it on computer with IE, just hold on a second...").
The new web page looks nice, much more "commercial-software-like", much more user friendly (gets the more confusing open source stuff and lesser-used programs further down the page).
One thing I just noticed is the new(?) Firebird logo. Doesn't it look like a prettier Quake logo, or is it just me?
I wonder if this is why I can show a girl a game where you can pick up prostitutes, use them to gain health, and then kill them with a chainsaw to get your money back -- GTA Vice City -- and she'll be at least intrigued and amused by it, if not suddenly wanting to buy and play it: it's got bright, cheery colors, a understandable non-game reference point (gangster movies such as Scarface & Goodfellas), and an absurbist fantasy feel to it.
I probably would generally enjoy the game just as much if it had a grim, disturbing theme with realistic gore, but I'm sure my female cousin would have been far less amused by it.
I essentially didn't listen to music before napster. The occaisional random CD, but I (for some reason) never listened to the radio, never watched MTV, etc., and was pretty much entirely out of the loop regarding popular music. Actually even unpopular music.
Now I have a 20gig mp3 that I quite literally carry around with me *everywhere* and I have a much more diverse music tastes (can listen to rap-rock, baroque, ska, and big-beat sequentially without batting an eye) than I could ever have gotten through normal music-discovering means (radio, MTV).
Thank you Napster.
Since when was film supposed to be art? It can be art, you can decide to only watch 'art' films, but for others of us, we like the occaisional popcorn film. Nothing wrong with that. It's like saying cars are supposed to be sports cars.
From the Liberty City Survivor commercial in Grand Theft Auto III:
Male Voice: "Tonight...the TV event that will make history...Liberty City Survivor! This takes reality TV to a whole new level! We'll take 20 recently paroled guys, equip them with grenade launchers and flamethrowers...and let them hunt each other down!! It's the reality show where you...just might be...part of the action!!"
Man: "I was grabbing a sandwich in the Happy Blimp, and all-of-a-sudden these guys crashed through the window and started shooting at each other! I was so excited, I didn't even notice I'd been hit! After that, I was hooked on Liberty City Survivor! I watch it every day in the hospital!"
Male Voice: "The game doesn't end until there's only one man left standing!! Tune in nightly, or watch the 24hour live webcast!......Liberty City Survivor!!......Natural selection...has come home!!......."
(courtesy of John Mazzocchi's Commercial Scripts FAQ on gamefaqs.com
or knew about it and allowed it to happen
... If there were undeniable proof
There were some rumors about this that floated around a couple of months after 9/11 that were pretty much ignored and forgotten about, perhaps because they didn't have much substance, or perhaps because the American public is as blase as we think it is. However:
if the the US Government actually -had- orchestrated 9/11
Are you kidding me? There would be a bigger shitstorm than you've ever seen. The American public still cares more about 9/11 than you would imagine. I'm sure there at least a couple thousand firefighters here in NYC who would be willing to go down to the District of Columbia to start a little firestarting...
I think that if they didn't enforce a law that was highly pertinant to a case they were working on, they would get fired.
Too often we are far less than safe from "completely unethical weasels".
Who still uses the "lesser search engine players", like AllTheWeb, HotBot, FAST, etc., anyway? Everyone I know uses Google, maybe Yahoo, or just the MSN homepage search.
Did anyone notice how popular search engines have names that don't make any sense? What the hell is "Google" or "Yahoo!"
How many computer companies have names that make any sense? What do Apples have to do with computers? Is Oracle's database really a seer? Is Microsoft's software in any way "micro"? =)
They're just names to catch your attention, to stick in your mind, and perhaps to become a word that does make sense (slowly "google" is becoming something of an synonym for "search", just like "xerox" once was a synonym for "photocopy")
expansion like back in the good ol' days when we had AOL buying Time Warner
One would hope (or at least, Yahoo would hope) that this aquisition will turn out better than that one.
So, is the WSJ saying that Yahoo has been having something of a turnaround, despite the poor economic climate?
Ah, but then they wouldn't make more money by spending that money, which is their intent.
Also, does anybody anybody use winamp anymore?
I still use Winamp 2.8... back when it was good.
Actually, does anybody use Winamp 3 now? It sucked when it came out, has it gotten any better?
Ah, I just realized that I may be dumb and AOL may have something like a POST ON THE USENET link on their front page... sorry I haven't had AOL in over five years, something that makes me very very happy =)
Yo don't have to read their blogs, in fact you could just avoid anything that says "AOL Journal", just like many slashdotters (including myself) avoid all links that end in "cx"...
I'm surprised your AOLer figured out how to use usenet so fast. I've never used it more than once or twice and I'd consider myself at least at the basic level of /. computer-savvy-ness...