"Presumably most of us sympathize with people with disabilities and support measures to make life easier for them."
<conspiracy>True, which is why I wonder sometimes if many of these groups are really just about trying to mobilize their respective groups for tangential purposes, i.e. mostly liberal-type issues. It's the only way I can explain why some of these groups do what they do.</conspiracy>
"See the *uncut Japanese version* of the film as it was really meant to be seen, as a serious anti-nuke picture, not just Saturday afternoon UHF fodder."
It would be cool if Greenpeace projected this film on walls, boats, etc. during their protests. And maybe have someone running around dressed in a Godzilla outfit. That, mixed with the long hair, round eyeglasses, hemp clothing, and Joni Mitchell music, would be a sight worth paying to see...
True, but all but one of those examples looks like shit with large fonts.
Table layouts do not experience problems with text overflowing the borders, it will resize correctly. CSS sure the hell would be easier to use if they made the overflowing crap easier to avoid, and behaved as tables do in that regard.
Dude, you forgot the prelude to this, it's the funniest part:
- Hey Jack, what's happenin'? - I don't know. - Well uh, rumor around town says you mighht be thinkin' 'bout goin' down to the shore. - Uh, yeah, I think I'm gonna go down to the shore. - Whadda ya gonna do down there? - Uh, I don't know, play some video games, buy some Def Leppard t-shirts. - Don't forget your Motley Crue t-shirt; you know all proceeds go to get their lead singer out of jail. - Uh huh. - Can't wait to go down. Hey uh, were ya goonna check out the sand bar while you're down there? - Uh, what's the Sand Bar? - Ah, it's a place that lets sixteen year-old kids drink. - Ah, cool. - Ya hey, guess who's gonna be there? - Uh, who? - My favourite cover band, Crystal Ship. - Wow. - Yeah, they do a Doors show, you'd be really impressed, in fact, it goes a little like this:
Love me two times baby Love me twice today Love me two times girl Cause I got AIDS Love me two times baby, once for tomorrow, once cause I got AIDS
- Uh... - Pretty good Jim Morrison impersonation there. I hope those guys have a good sense of humour and don't take us into court. - Uh, what's the court? - Never mind that, the important thing heree... - You mean the People's Court. - The... Now, that's another story. The important thing here is that we get to the part where you ask me how I'm gonna get down to the shore....
Slashdotters have yet to legally or morally justify pirating an artist's music. Notice nobody mentions the artists--it's all RIAA. The artists are forgotten in this equation, their music ripped off and not paid for by anybody.
Look, I'm just being honest. I'm otherwise a pretty conservative guy (Christian, etc.), but I'm saying that I honestly don't have any internal or moral sense that file-sharing is wrong. I feel somewhat the same about software. The only time morality kicks in is when I'm using someone's software to make money - I feel a strong sense to pay for it then.
While I wouldn't sneak in to a concert since I feel that's wrong, I don't feel the same way about downloading illegal mp3s. Why? I don't know. It's very confusing to live in the modern world, and I don't have a good answer as to why I feel this way about digital 'property', IP, etc.
Not sure what exactly I'm trying to say with this post, but these are a few of my random observations on this:
Many/most people today (especially young people), do not view file sharing of music and videos as wrong.
The entertainment industry has done more in the past 50 years to promote a youthful recklessness/lawlessness and a 'fuck the man' attitude. Now that it's turning around and hurting their own profits, they're resorting to strongarm tactics to scare kids into line.
This puts a cloud of fear over my and other's perception of the entertainment industry. Entertainment is supposed to be a light distraction from real life - it's not a requirement like food, clothing, and shelter. As such, I feel like people are being treated like cattle, and are being force-fed 'entertainment'.
The percieved value of music and other types of media is dropping. I personally laugh at the idea of buying a $10-$20 CD anymore - it no longer seems worth it. $1 per mp3/aac/whatever is equally laughable. I'd personally be willing to pay about 10 cents a song (with no DRM). I have no idea if this is even economically feasible. But that still doesn't change what I'm willing to pay.
Has to be said...
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It was cooler to play it back in the day when hardly anyone had heard of it. Popularity/fame made it a 'dork thing'.
It makes big difference... I started a few years ago at 55K, and thought it was a ton of money until I started looking for a place to live. Paying half your take home pay only to live 50yards from the railroad tracks really sucks.
Exactly, I don't see how Japan, with it's Keiretsu mega-corporations, could be considered to be exactly fair in regards to anti-trust.
Literally a handful of companies own nearly everything in Japan, it's much, much worse than what the hippy-types say what's wrong with corporate America.
It's to get images to the support the multi-trillion dollar Windows desktop wallpaper industry.
Didn't you know that a Halliburton subcontractor designed Windows XP's 'Bliss' wallpaper for Microsoft? Dick Cheney himself designed 'River Sumida' for Windows NT.
Yeah, it's a bit freaky, from the PEEK/POKE, figuring out what char looked most like a monster or whatever, down to the Gary Numan (still love 'Films')... freaking exact.
Let's see, wouldn't POKE 1524 place a char in the center of C-64 screen?
Slashdot Mirror
"Presumably most of us sympathize with people with disabilities and support measures to make life easier for them."
<conspiracy>True, which is why I wonder sometimes if many of these groups are really just about trying to mobilize their respective groups for tangential purposes, i.e. mostly liberal-type issues. It's the only way I can explain why some of these groups do what they do.</conspiracy>
It's Eunice's
Chicken shit.
Just because you disagree with me does not make it flamebait or a troll you retards. I hope you're meta-modded appropriately.
Why do peace-types protest defense systems like this so much?
I've never understood the logic. Defensive weaponry helps reduce the threat of war.
Actually, I stand corrected - their message would be much more effective if they dressed like these guys (from another serious anti-nuke film):
Godzilla versus Monster Zero
"See the *uncut Japanese version* of the film as it was really meant to be seen, as a serious anti-nuke picture, not just Saturday afternoon UHF fodder."
It would be cool if Greenpeace projected this film on walls, boats, etc. during their protests. And maybe have someone running around dressed in a Godzilla outfit.
That, mixed with the long hair, round eyeglasses, hemp clothing, and Joni Mitchell music, would be a sight worth paying to see...
Not sure if this has been posted before, but I stumbled on this today, it's quite amazing:
Mars Exploration Rover
(requires Quicktime, me thinks)
True, but all but one of those examples looks like shit with large fonts.
Table layouts do not experience problems with text overflowing the borders, it will resize correctly.
CSS sure the hell would be easier to use if they made the overflowing crap easier to avoid, and behaved as tables do in that regard.
Dude, you forgot the prelude to this, it's the funniest part:
...
- Hey Jack, what's happenin'?
- I don't know.
- Well uh, rumor around town says you mighht be thinkin' 'bout goin' down to the shore.
- Uh, yeah, I think I'm gonna go down to the shore.
- Whadda ya gonna do down there?
- Uh, I don't know, play some video games, buy some Def Leppard t-shirts.
- Don't forget your Motley Crue t-shirt; you know all proceeds go to get their lead singer out of jail.
- Uh huh.
- Can't wait to go down. Hey uh, were ya goonna check out the sand bar while you're down there?
- Uh, what's the Sand Bar?
- Ah, it's a place that lets sixteen year-old kids drink.
- Ah, cool.
- Ya hey, guess who's gonna be there?
- Uh, who?
- My favourite cover band, Crystal Ship.
- Wow.
- Yeah, they do a Doors show, you'd be really impressed, in fact, it goes a little like this:
Love me two times baby
Love me twice today
Love me two times girl
Cause I got AIDS
Love me two times baby,
once for tomorrow,
once cause I got AIDS
- Uh...
- Pretty good Jim Morrison impersonation there. I hope those guys have a
good sense of humour and don't take us into court.
- Uh, what's the court?
- Never mind that, the important thing heree...
- You mean the People's Court.
- The... Now, that's another story. The important thing here is that we get to the part where you ask me how I'm gonna get down to the shore.
Slashdotters have yet to legally or morally justify pirating an artist's music. Notice nobody mentions the artists--it's all RIAA. The artists are forgotten in this equation, their music ripped off and not paid for by anybody.
Look, I'm just being honest. I'm otherwise a pretty conservative guy (Christian, etc.), but I'm saying that I honestly don't have any internal or moral sense that file-sharing is wrong. I feel somewhat the same about software. The only time morality kicks in is when I'm using someone's software to make money - I feel a strong sense to pay for it then.
While I wouldn't sneak in to a concert since I feel that's wrong, I don't feel the same way about downloading illegal mp3s. Why? I don't know. It's very confusing to live in the modern world, and I don't have a good answer as to why I feel this way about digital 'property', IP, etc.
Not sure what exactly I'm trying to say with this post, but these are a few of my random observations on this:
Many/most people today (especially young people), do not view file sharing of music and videos as wrong.
The entertainment industry has done more in the past 50 years to promote a youthful recklessness/lawlessness and a 'fuck the man' attitude. Now that it's turning around and hurting their own profits, they're resorting to strongarm tactics to scare kids into line.
This puts a cloud of fear over my and other's perception of the entertainment industry. Entertainment is supposed to be a light distraction from real life - it's not a requirement like food, clothing, and shelter. As such, I feel like people are being treated like cattle, and are being force-fed 'entertainment'.
The percieved value of music and other types of media is dropping. I personally laugh at the idea of buying a $10-$20 CD anymore - it no longer seems worth it. $1 per mp3/aac/whatever is equally laughable. I'd personally be willing to pay about 10 cents a song (with no DRM). I have no idea if this is even economically feasible. But that still doesn't change what I'm willing to pay.
It was cooler to play it back in the day when hardly anyone had heard of it. Popularity/fame made it a 'dork thing'.
Love, boomgopher
Stupid, yes. But how exactly is that a troll?
So I shouldn't have been eating my old motherboards all these years?
Please confirm my Slashdot friends! Woe is me...
It makes big difference... I started a few years ago at 55K, and thought it was a ton of money until I started looking for a place to live. Paying half your take home pay only to live 50yards from the railroad tracks really sucks.
Oops
This is sort of on topic with your post. Here's a discussion and visualizations of various OS's TCP sequence numbers:
Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis
Exactly, I don't see how Japan, with it's Keiretsu mega-corporations, could be considered to be exactly fair in regards to anti-trust.
Literally a handful of companies own nearly everything in Japan, it's much, much worse than what the hippy-types say what's wrong with corporate America.
Why is it that we have this never ending need for more powerlines and more electricity rather than looking for alternatives with any real conviction?
Whoa, michael not only posted the story, but got first post too... impressive.
It's to get images to the support the multi-trillion dollar Windows desktop wallpaper industry.
Didn't you know that a Halliburton subcontractor designed Windows XP's 'Bliss' wallpaper for Microsoft? Dick Cheney himself designed 'River Sumida' for Windows NT.
Did you see the link?
http://www.google.com/jobs/sw-bangalore.html
Yeah, it's a bit freaky, from the PEEK/POKE, figuring out what char looked most like a monster or whatever, down to the Gary Numan (still love 'Films')... freaking exact.
Let's see, wouldn't POKE 1524 place a char in the center of C-64 screen?
Cool article...
Exactly, for small bussiness projects, Access totally kicks ass. The XML handling in Access 2003 is excellent in my opinion.