I was once an intern in an advertising company who was trying to break into internet advertising, since this was 1996 and the web ads was supposed to be the Next Big Thing.
I was a recent college grad with Internet Experience (TM). Part of my job was to, yes, print out webpages of successful web ads and bind them in a folder for their strategy meetings.
Needless to say, they never really landed any big contracts, and were forced to stay with their Junkmail business.
What's the FBI/Interpol's definition of "home"? Why do they consider my aparment a "home", but not some space at the local movie cafe?
Maybe you could put the TV & player in a small room at your business, and rent out the small room as "apartment space" or "apartment storage space" or something.
So how often do YOU utilize the internet without using DNS? Not often, I bet.
Christmas: Give yourself a "bonus check"!
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how to spend that Christmas bonus check!
(bitter humor) No no no! Since none of us will be getting a Christmas bonus check from our employers, we should give ourselves a bonus check!
Order a bunch of these babies for your office, and then steal one! Now THAT'S a bonus, and is what Christmas in the IT world is all about! (/bitter humor)
My mother-in-law used to live on the Washington Shore. She's a vagabond type, and at that point lived in a trailer, but owned a modified giant blue school bus with half-an-airstream welded on top, a 1 ton towing truck, another pickup truck with a huge camper shell, and two other camper trailers.
I have no friggen idea how she moved this stuff from Northern California to north-western washington all by herself.
I found the picture which shows her old trailer, but alas, the rest of the junk isn't in the photo. Damn... it would have made quite the photo.
EvilCabbage is a fraud! The product he sells is a rip-off. I bought ChairME from him 2 years ago, but the chair just flipped over and my butt smacked the floor hard, which is where I'm typing this article from now....
Dry ice shouldn't be too expensive if you get it from your local industrial chemical supply store (A place that sekks propane, helium, dry ice, etc) . Dry ice is probably more expensive from a party outlet.
Last halloween I bought several pounds of dry ice from a local industrial chemical supply store for about $15 total. I placed the dry ice in a cheap black 5 gallon "witches cauldron", which I got from the local Haloween store.
To create the fog, I simply placed the ice in the cauldron, and periodically added warm water when I saw trick-or-treaters. The warm water melts the ice, and you get fog.
The dry-ice provided enough fog rolling down my front steps to freak out the neighborhood kids. This fog lasted approximately 4 hours.
For added effect, I placed a couple of those green and red glow sticks inside the cauldron (Since glow sticks glow less when cold, I placed the sticks on a pedestal above the cold ice and water), replaced my porch light with a black light, and added a bunch of those green-spiderwebs from the halloween store.
This gave the whole porch a nice eerie glow, especially with the green-glow eminating from the cauldron.
Whole cost of this operation, including dry ice $15 for several pounds), cauldron ($5 at halloween store), black light ($2 at hardware store), glow sticks ($2 each) and spiderwebs ($3 a pack) was probably $25. I'm going to do the same thing this year.
A step towards learning computers? Not quite...
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"The New Scientist magazine has an article reporting on new advances in keeping brain tissue alive (and working) on a "chip", with electrodes that can monitor the brain activity. Could this be a step toward computers that can learn as humans learn?"
Not quite, The scientists are really just developing a a way for keeping your brain alive while watching TELEVISION!
How many Slashdot readers have learned Latin and how has it helped you in your life/career?
Career?!!? CARREER? You were trying to use a dead language in your CARREER?
Gee whiz, man!!! You were supposed to take that Latin Knowledge and become a Latin LoverJUST LIKE ME!!! The chicks get all giggly when I speak in dead toungues...
This is different because occasionally, a Chevy worker will drive a Ford to work; and a McDonalds worker will eat Burger King food. Neither activity is restricted by their job.
There is a ride called "Indiana Jones" at Disneyland. One of the special effects used in the ride is similar to the water screens and to this WAVE.
In the effect, a machine sprays some fog, and a projector projects an image of "rats crawling up some vines" onto the fog, and your vehicle travels through the projection, which makes it seem like your traveling through a bunch of "rats crawling up some vines".
It's pretty cool, but only when the air is still enough for you to see the rats. People with rat-phobia can really freak out.
Other times, air turbulance moves the fog around too much, so all you see is a very distorted image of the rats (Imagine watching a movie on a shredded movie screen).
This product claims to reduce the turbulance by containing the fog inside a "laminar flow", whatever that means.
I tried playing the RMS character, but I couldn't figure out if 'Escape-Ctrl-Shift-S Ctrl-Alt-Escape-T' meant "Shoot Target" or "Highlight Region and Step-on Toe".
Slashdot Mirror
I was once an intern in an advertising company who was trying to break into internet advertising, since this was 1996 and the web ads was supposed to be the Next Big Thing.
I was a recent college grad with Internet Experience (TM). Part of my job was to, yes, print out webpages of successful web ads and bind them in a folder for their strategy meetings.
Needless to say, they never really landed any big contracts, and were forced to stay with their Junkmail business.
Where's the part that goes "rm -rf /*"? :)
What's the FBI/Interpol's definition of "home"? Why do they consider my aparment a "home", but not some space at the local movie cafe?
Maybe you could put the TV & player in a small room at your business, and rent out the small room as "apartment space" or "apartment storage space" or something.
"Joe's Movie Cafe, your 'home' away from 'home'".
But I thought you said it WASN'T a pipe.
"'Nude Descending a Staircase'... did she FALL or something?"
So how often do YOU utilize the internet without using DNS? Not often, I bet.
how to spend that Christmas bonus check!
(bitter humor)
No no no! Since none of us will be getting a Christmas bonus check from our employers, we should give ourselves a bonus check!
Order a bunch of these babies for your office, and then steal one! Now THAT'S a bonus, and is what Christmas in the IT world is all about!
(/bitter humor)
My mother-in-law used to live on the Washington Shore. She's a vagabond type, and at that point lived in a trailer, but owned a modified giant blue school bus with half-an-airstream welded on top, a 1 ton towing truck, another pickup truck with a huge camper shell, and two other camper trailers.
I have no friggen idea how she moved this stuff from Northern California to north-western washington all by herself.
I found the picture which shows her old trailer, but alas, the rest of the junk isn't in the photo. Damn... it would have made quite the photo.
Who cares who did it first.
What's important is that both KDE and Gnome will be able to support this feature in the next 0.x version, which is great!
This isn't a friggen pissing contest...
EvilCabbage is a fraud! The product he sells is a rip-off. I bought ChairME from him 2 years ago, but the chair just flipped over and my butt smacked the floor hard, which is where I'm typing this article from now....
Actually, I just asked my wife, the keeper of all records. We got 10 pounds of dry ice for about $15. Lasted a looong time...
Dry ice shouldn't be too expensive if you get it from your local industrial chemical supply store (A place that sekks propane, helium, dry ice, etc) . Dry ice is probably more expensive from a party outlet.
Last halloween I bought several pounds of dry ice from a local industrial chemical supply store for about $15 total. I placed the dry ice in a cheap black 5 gallon "witches cauldron", which I got from the local Haloween store.
To create the fog, I simply placed the ice in the cauldron, and periodically added warm water when I saw trick-or-treaters. The warm water melts the ice, and you get fog.
The dry-ice provided enough fog rolling down my front steps to freak out the neighborhood kids. This fog lasted approximately 4 hours.
For added effect, I placed a couple of those green and red glow sticks inside the cauldron (Since glow sticks glow less when cold, I placed the sticks on a pedestal above the cold ice and water), replaced my porch light with a black light, and added a bunch of those green-spiderwebs from the halloween store.
This gave the whole porch a nice eerie glow, especially with the green-glow eminating from the cauldron.
Whole cost of this operation, including dry ice $15 for several pounds), cauldron ($5 at halloween store), black light ($2 at hardware store), glow sticks ($2 each) and spiderwebs ($3 a pack) was probably $25. I'm going to do the same thing this year.
"The New Scientist magazine has an article reporting on new advances in keeping brain tissue alive (and working) on a "chip", with electrodes that can monitor the brain activity. Could this be a step toward computers that can learn as humans learn?"
Not quite, The scientists are really just developing a a way for keeping your brain alive while watching TELEVISION!
These guys want to do it the old fashioned way.
Some of the parts and props are authentic or antiques from other Dark Rides.
How many Slashdot readers have learned Latin and how has it helped you in your life/career?
Career?!!? CARREER? You were trying to use a dead language in your CARREER?
Gee whiz, man!!! You were supposed to take that Latin Knowledge and become a Latin LoverJUST LIKE ME!!! The chicks get all giggly when I speak in dead toungues...
Some people don't get it...
This is different because occasionally, a Chevy worker will drive a Ford to work; and a McDonalds worker will eat Burger King food. Neither activity is restricted by their job.
whereas the Apple version is on Slim-Fast shakes wearing a lycra outfit and eating mostly fruit
Come to think of it, the iMac colors look suspiciously similar to the unholy colors of the Crystal Light diet drinks... hot pink, neon blue, etc.
And I bet they both glow under blacklight!
Hit them? Damage?
./ a CGI page, and attempt to DDOS their site?
So you don't like what these lawyers are doing, therefore you want us to
The movie is downloading ac 160kb/s
Hear that boys? SOUNDS LIKE A CHALLENGE!
XFree86 resolution changing is supported by your favorite window managers
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X controls the resolution, not the window manager or desktop.
Your Window Manager will support any resolution change made by X
A while, I'd guess.
Unfortunately, this is true. It will take a while for X4.3 (or whatever) to make it into the next major versions of most distros.
But if your impatient, you can install XFree86 on your own. It's not that hard.
A hammer.
Rather then carry around one tool to solve each problem, it's much simpler to carry around a hammer and treat all problems as nails.
There is a ride called "Indiana Jones" at Disneyland. One of the special effects used in the ride is similar to the water screens and to this WAVE.
In the effect, a machine sprays some fog, and a projector projects an image of "rats crawling up some vines" onto the fog, and your vehicle travels through the projection, which makes it seem like your traveling through a bunch of "rats crawling up some vines".
It's pretty cool, but only when the air is still enough for you to see the rats. People with rat-phobia can really freak out.
Other times, air turbulance moves the fog around too much, so all you see is a very distorted image of the rats (Imagine watching a movie on a shredded movie screen).
This product claims to reduce the turbulance by containing the fog inside a "laminar flow", whatever that means.
Wow! This guy is now suffering from Big Brother with the Slashdot Effect?
./ article!
Slashdot Effect, because his website is already down, and Big Brother, because the website isn't even
linked to on the
Only problem is they would have to cover 1/2 of southern California to cover the power debt that this area has.
That seems a little large, do you have numbers to support this claim? Those numbers didn't come from the Nuke companies, by any chance?
Some solar groups claim that covering Southern California in solar panels would generate enough electricity to power all of the US.
Not that I believe them, but I just want to point out another example where understanding is a three edged sword: Your side, their side and the truth.
I tried playing the RMS character, but I couldn't figure out if 'Escape-Ctrl-Shift-S Ctrl-Alt-Escape-T' meant "Shoot Target" or "Highlight Region and Step-on Toe".
Gee whiz, Deep Blue looks like it was created during the age of Deep Throat!
In fact, the angle of the Deep Blue picture reminds me of the video cover!