In the scene where Arnold is strapped in for his initial simulated vacation one of the technicians makes an offhand remark about the program disc:
" 'Blue Skies on Mars'? That's a new one. "
So it was a wholesale hallucination after all.
Attorney ads have done this for years
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There's a classic accident representation attorney ad that's been circulating in lots of cities for a long while. The commercial is shot in black and white, which heightens the drama. The setting is the office of an Insurance Company's legal staff where the evil insurance lawyers are discussing the details of a new claim. The attorneys are arrogantly joking about how they're going to deny the claim. One of the older lawyers finally asks "Who's their lawyer?"
Then they use the trick that makes the ad reusable. The camera cuts away to a hilarious reaction shot as the attorney's name is matter-of-factly spoken.
"James Sokolov"
All the young attorneys suddenly look up, visibly shaken. After a few moments of uncomfortable silence the camera cuts back to the older lawyer who says:
"Uh. Let's settle this thing."
I've seen the same ad many times in different cities, always with a different lawyer's name. I've seen a few different versions with different actors and dialog. I always laugh when they get to the cutaway shot.
I find that if I say "Unfrozen Caveman Attorney" at the cutaway the reaction seems even funnier.
Italics are back (using cite) so you can tell what is contributed and what is editorial remarks.
I have "jump to" links to the content, navigation, and right-side boxes.
Labels are used on the forms.
The content column comes first
Padding is fixed so some text isn't touching the edges of the boxes (maybe it's just a personal pet peeve, but that really bugs me)
I'm sure there's more stuff I did, but this was a month ago and I forgot already.:)
I'm also willing to help get/. up to speed. Where's the best place for interested parties to discuss this further? Please post replies on the ALA forum.
The point is not to foil non-css browsers, but to make content semantically available to such readers. Eventually they will be css-compliant, so it behooves us to get cracking. I'm glad to hear you're doing the right thing for your own site.
Keep an eye on ALA anyhow, because at the end of the article the author states:
Next week: printer-friendly and handheld-friendly Slashdot with a few simple additions.
Maybe some of these will be good for your PocketPC woes. And while you're at it, contact the author of the article and see if he knows what works for Pocket PCs.
It seems pretty obvious that the high cost of music CDs is the result of an illegal collusion among record companies. They got caught on payola back in the 60's so they had to drop that little strategy. Now they just charge more for all CDs in order to fund expansion into wider markets.
I wouldn't be surprised if this illegal collusion is exposed through civil litigation in the next few years and extreme penalties levied.
A lot of these sharing clients automatically share the same folder you use to store your mp3 files. If she's a typical casual computer user she could have been completely unaware that her music library was being shared.
Let it die. Leave it up there. When a new telescope is placed into orbit, if it is feasible at that time to bring Hubble back online they should do so. The reasoning is that by enabling Hubble you can *combine* its power with that of the new unit to gain a high degree of resolution. This is similar to the idea of using several small radio telescopes around the world in tandem to form a single mega-telescope.
If it is not feasible to bring Hubble back in service in the near future then someday it will be possible to do so with relative ease. Eventually - perhaps soon - we will develop small jet-like craft that can enter and exit the atmosphere with ease. Mucking with Hubble then will be like picking cherries.
I'd rather it kept being useful than end up sitting in the Smithsonian like a moon rock. The irony of a perfectly good telescope being looked-at!
This is a cool idea that will certainly lead to better things.
Honda has been developing a robot for awhile now. It was originally codenamed P1, but it's been publicly announced with the name Asimo, an unabiguous homage to "I, Robot" author Isaac Asimov.
Asimo is intended to become a household robot, so it has legs instead of wheels. It's pretty adept and can already climb stairs. It doesn't approach the dexterity of Hollywood robots by any stretch. Last I knew Asimo was unable to figure out the height of stairs on its own, either visually or by trial-and-error. By now it's likely to have some software to do this.
Eventually robots will have to incorporate a bit of both - a gyroscopic balance system, plus smart processors in the joints and head to better judge orientation - so this work at MIT is pretty useful in that area.
Of course the folks at MIT are probably most interested in giving their learning robots the ability to move around and gain new experiences. You can't do much better than a Segway base for that!
"...other operating systems that have a stronger IP basis than Linux..."
What silly FUD. What IP could be stronger than that which is owned and maintained by everyone? Are they implying that proprietary software is bolstered by some kind of secret or magic technology that can't be independently discovered and implemented by the collective minds of the open source world? Or is this simply an underhanded way of reasserting that the IP of Linux is tainted?
I'm very proud of my Alma Mater. Too bad I didn't have a class with Professor Feng.
Quite so. Such as it is you are left with an impressive UI Number of zero. However this is entirely cancelled out by having a Feng Number of infinity. Thanks for playing!
I'm still confused as to why metadata isn't being taken seriously by the rest of the computing world.
Actually, if you read some of the articles about Microsoft's preview of Longhorn you'll see that they're developing a new filesystem that not only incorporates metadata but takes it to the level of a relational database. Expect to see many articles on how metadata is the best innovation to come from Microsoft since Windows 95.
Well, using your Mac you can host a local website on your desktop, develop PHP code, learn the underpinnings of BSD Unix, muck around with MySQL, do shell-scripting, write cross-platform games in C++ using SDL and OpenGL, etc. ad nauseum.
Having Mac skills now means gaining skills that scale extremely well. Thanks to my experience playing around with the myriad of technologies and standards provided in Mac OS X has made me highly adaptable and eminently employable.
So take advantage of what's on your desk and develop yourself. You won't regret a second of it.
In the world of electronic data transmission the notion of theft is much blurrier than it used to be. A company that sold onions could point to an onion thief and say "he stole seven onions so we want seven equivalent onions as a remedy." They could easily prove damages because they have physical goods on hand.
The issue becomes blurrier in the case where - at the end of their season - the onion company ends up with a lot of rotten onions that they can't sell. They cannot claim unequivocally that the individual onion thief caused them any damage. They would have to know whether the onion thief would have bought the onions he stole, or whether those seven onions would have rotted with the rest.
In the case of cable tv or music downloads, it seems to me that a company has to be able to show that a given individual thief would have bought the item in question.
In other words, a million dollars in "theft" probably only amounts to a thousand dollars in actual damages. And that's a generous estimate.
Obviously companies have to sustain themselves somehow. However, it ought to be done in ways that make creative use of the newest technologies. It ought to be done through adaptation, not through shortsighted legal scheming.
If I were the President of Show Business I'd tell the music and movie folks to suck it up and send the lawyers home. The present may seem scary, but there's no need to panic and start making kooky demands. In the longer view this is just a little bump in the road.
Whatever. The MPAA is a leading beneficiary of the first amendment, but frankly if the first amendment were repealed tomorrow the MPAA would do what it must in order to survive... go back to making propaganda films and the like. At least Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay would still be thriving.
In iTunes you can set the iPod's preferences to automatically sync or to manage it yourself. If it's set to automatically sync then it will sync to whatever computer it's connected. Now you know.
Web applications run anywhere. A smart company implements its apps using standards-compliant web-based applications, of which there are several open-source solutions. This naturally applies to calendards, workgroups, bug tracking, etc. I can think of few companies that deploy proprietary desktop applications on a wide basis.
Your point is well-taken. But doesn't it seem fundamentally fucked-up that you're pushing for the most problematic OS, the one that's causing you the most headaches? And aren't you concerned about limiting yourselves to Windows, while the rest of the world is moving on to more stable, standards-compliant, and open solutions?
A well-rounded IT staff (i.e., the kind that keeps itself challenged and learning) needs more than an MCSE, a lexicon of MS buzzwords, and a strange affinity for multi-layered tab panels. Your staff should be concerned with keeping its prospects open and gaining experience with Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, in addition to the latest Windows solutions.
Diverse knowledge is how you get the pick of the jobs when your employer goes belly-up. Knowing Linux / BSD is how you get a foothold with NPs, NGAs, and government subcontractors. Knowing Mac OS X gets your foot in the door in creative industries where you might get a good brain-stretch once in awhile and there's the remote possibility of meeting women.
If you're more the cave-troll type who enjoys saturated snack-foods and all-night Evercrack sessions then you may be better to disregard these insights.
If you've got basic familiarity with networking then it should be a no-brainer to do Mac support. They are set up to be simple, with all configuration stuff (except NetInfo) in the System Preferences. A weekend playing with Mac OS X should be more than enough for a typical IT dude to get a handle on networking a Mac with any other platform.
I see this only when a connected Mac goes to sleep. The system hangs waiting for a response from the sleeping Mac in the other room. Very silly. I hope this is fixed in Panther.
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Was it all just a hallucination? Here's a clue.
In the scene where Arnold is strapped in for his initial simulated vacation one of the technicians makes an offhand remark about the program disc:
" 'Blue Skies on Mars'? That's a new one. "
So it was a wholesale hallucination after all.
There's a classic accident representation attorney ad that's been circulating in lots of cities for a long while. The commercial is shot in black and white, which heightens the drama. The setting is the office of an Insurance Company's legal staff where the evil insurance lawyers are discussing the details of a new claim. The attorneys are arrogantly joking about how they're going to deny the claim. One of the older lawyers finally asks "Who's their lawyer?"
Then they use the trick that makes the ad reusable. The camera cuts away to a hilarious reaction shot as the attorney's name is matter-of-factly spoken.
"James Sokolov"
All the young attorneys suddenly look up, visibly shaken. After a few moments of uncomfortable silence the camera cuts back to the older lawyer who says:
"Uh. Let's settle this thing."
I've seen the same ad many times in different cities, always with a different lawyer's name. I've seen a few different versions with different actors and dialog. I always laugh when they get to the cutaway shot.
I find that if I say "Unfrozen Caveman Attorney" at the cutaway the reaction seems even funnier.
Following your identical post on ALA the following reply from Marshall Roch
Everything mentioned in these comments are fixable, including Andrew's "CSS tables."
Have a look at http://projects.exclupen.com/slashdot/ (does not work well in IE, but that is fixable if there is interest)
I'm also willing to help get /. up to speed. Where's the best place for interested parties to discuss this further? Please post replies on the ALA forum.
The point is not to foil non-css browsers, but to make content semantically available to such readers. Eventually they will be css-compliant, so it behooves us to get cracking. I'm glad to hear you're doing the right thing for your own site.
Keep an eye on ALA anyhow, because at the end of the article the author states:
Next week: printer-friendly and handheld-friendly Slashdot with a few simple additions.
Maybe some of these will be good for your PocketPC woes. And while you're at it, contact the author of the article and see if he knows what works for Pocket PCs.
It seems pretty obvious that the high cost of music CDs is the result of an illegal collusion among record companies. They got caught on payola back in the 60's so they had to drop that little strategy. Now they just charge more for all CDs in order to fund expansion into wider markets.
I wouldn't be surprised if this illegal collusion is exposed through civil litigation in the next few years and extreme penalties levied.
Just a hunch.
She was planning to give the files back, man!
A lot of these sharing clients automatically share the same folder you use to store your mp3 files. If she's a typical casual computer user she could have been completely unaware that her music library was being shared.
Let it die. Leave it up there.
When a new telescope is placed into orbit, if it is feasible at that time to bring Hubble back online they should do so. The reasoning is that by enabling Hubble you can *combine* its power with that of the new unit to gain a high degree of resolution. This is similar to the idea of using several small radio telescopes around the world in tandem to form a single mega-telescope.
If it is not feasible to bring Hubble back in service in the near future then someday it will be possible to do so with relative ease. Eventually - perhaps soon - we will develop small jet-like craft that can enter and exit the atmosphere with ease. Mucking with Hubble then will be like picking cherries.
I'd rather it kept being useful than end up sitting in the Smithsonian like a moon rock. The irony of a perfectly good telescope being looked-at!
Now as you see, when we flip this switch....
"Ah, fuck, my pacemaker!"
This is a cool idea that will certainly lead to better things.
Honda has been developing a robot for awhile now. It was originally codenamed P1, but it's been publicly announced with the name Asimo, an unabiguous homage to "I, Robot" author Isaac Asimov.
Asimo is intended to become a household robot, so it has legs instead of wheels. It's pretty adept and can already climb stairs. It doesn't approach the dexterity of Hollywood robots by any stretch. Last I knew Asimo was unable to figure out the height of stairs on its own, either visually or by trial-and-error. By now it's likely to have some software to do this.
Eventually robots will have to incorporate a bit of both - a gyroscopic balance system, plus smart processors in the joints and head to better judge orientation - so this work at MIT is pretty useful in that area.
Of course the folks at MIT are probably most interested in giving their learning robots the ability to move around and gain new experiences. You can't do much better than a Segway base for that!
What silly FUD. What IP could be stronger than that which is owned and maintained by everyone? Are they implying that proprietary software is bolstered by some kind of secret or magic technology that can't be independently discovered and implemented by the collective minds of the open source world? Or is this simply an underhanded way of reasserting that the IP of Linux is tainted?
Quite so. Such as it is you are left with an impressive UI Number of zero. However this is entirely cancelled out by having a Feng Number of infinity. Thanks for playing!
Actually, if you read some of the articles about Microsoft's preview of Longhorn you'll see that they're developing a new filesystem that not only incorporates metadata but takes it to the level of a relational database. Expect to see many articles on how metadata is the best innovation to come from Microsoft since Windows 95.
Well, using your Mac you can host a local website on your desktop, develop PHP code, learn the underpinnings of BSD Unix, muck around with MySQL, do shell-scripting, write cross-platform games in C++ using SDL and OpenGL, etc. ad nauseum.
Having Mac skills now means gaining skills that scale extremely well. Thanks to my experience playing around with the myriad of technologies and standards provided in Mac OS X has made me highly adaptable and eminently employable.
So take advantage of what's on your desk and develop yourself. You won't regret a second of it.
...Tech Report is a site that capitalizes on hearsay and likes to spread FUD. Avoid in future.
Yes, it's like a bug only it has extra buzzword-compliance.
I look forward to your frequent posts of
"Bug Fixes already? wtf?"
Here's the most recent This Modern World comic by Tom Tomorrow for those of you who are into biting political humor....
In the world of electronic data transmission the notion of theft is much blurrier than it used to be. A company that sold onions could point to an onion thief and say "he stole seven onions so we want seven equivalent onions as a remedy." They could easily prove damages because they have physical goods on hand.
The issue becomes blurrier in the case where - at the end of their season - the onion company ends up with a lot of rotten onions that they can't sell. They cannot claim unequivocally that the individual onion thief caused them any damage. They would have to know whether the onion thief would have bought the onions he stole, or whether those seven onions would have rotted with the rest.
In the case of cable tv or music downloads, it seems to me that a company has to be able to show that a given individual thief would have bought the item in question.
In other words, a million dollars in "theft" probably only amounts to a thousand dollars in actual damages. And that's a generous estimate.
Obviously companies have to sustain themselves somehow. However, it ought to be done in ways that make creative use of the newest technologies. It ought to be done through adaptation, not through shortsighted legal scheming.
If I were the President of Show Business I'd tell the music and movie folks to suck it up and send the lawyers home. The present may seem scary, but there's no need to panic and start making kooky demands. In the longer view this is just a little bump in the road.
Whatever. The MPAA is a leading beneficiary of the first amendment, but frankly if the first amendment were repealed tomorrow the MPAA would do what it must in order to survive... go back to making propaganda films and the like. At least Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay would still be thriving.
Not only does Command-Backtick snd the front window to the back but Command-Shift-Backtick brings the rear window to the front.
In iTunes you can set the iPod's preferences to automatically sync or to manage it yourself. If it's set to automatically sync then it will sync to whatever computer it's connected. Now you know.
Web applications run anywhere. A smart company implements its apps using standards-compliant web-based applications, of which there are several open-source solutions. This naturally applies to calendards, workgroups, bug tracking, etc. I can think of few companies that deploy proprietary desktop applications on a wide basis.
Your point is well-taken. But doesn't it seem fundamentally fucked-up that you're pushing for the most problematic OS, the one that's causing you the most headaches? And aren't you concerned about limiting yourselves to Windows, while the rest of the world is moving on to more stable, standards-compliant, and open solutions?
A well-rounded IT staff (i.e., the kind that keeps itself challenged and learning) needs more than an MCSE, a lexicon of MS buzzwords, and a strange affinity for multi-layered tab panels. Your staff should be concerned with keeping its prospects open and gaining experience with Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, in addition to the latest Windows solutions.
Diverse knowledge is how you get the pick of the jobs when your employer goes belly-up. Knowing Linux / BSD is how you get a foothold with NPs, NGAs, and government subcontractors. Knowing Mac OS X gets your foot in the door in creative industries where you might get a good brain-stretch once in awhile and there's the remote possibility of meeting women.
If you're more the cave-troll type who enjoys saturated snack-foods and all-night Evercrack sessions then you may be better to disregard these insights.
If you've got basic familiarity with networking then it should be a no-brainer to do Mac support. They are set up to be simple, with all configuration stuff (except NetInfo) in the System Preferences. A weekend playing with Mac OS X should be more than enough for a typical IT dude to get a handle on networking a Mac with any other platform.
I see this only when a connected Mac goes to sleep. The system hangs waiting for a response from the sleeping Mac in the other room. Very silly. I hope this is fixed in Panther.