I studied English lit and ancient Greek in college. I gained the best understanding of grammar, syntax and sentence structure from Greek. Breaking down those huge words, looking at a language from scratch -- it has helped me the most in English. It's tough now to not see Greek in English words. I view prepositional purposes from the Greek model and all parts of speech came into light through Greek (queue the "it's all Greek to me" jokes).
When it comes to computing, I started out at the command line. True computing, to me, IS the command line, and I gained the most understanding of computers from it. I prefer to use Linux that way (I don't load a GUI). "Windows is a good terminal" is how I think Richie put it, and although the GUI is here and necessary, real computing will always be from the command line. I will admit Lynx never replaced a GUI web browser for me, but someone who really knows the command line (and therefore the OS) can run circles around the mousey admins....
Thanks. I was in process of looking up what it meant. All that quickly was recalled from memory was "shit of out luck" of course.... Which made sense: "here's where we were sol due to potato sized rock, and here's where we were sol with another potato sized rock"... etc.
In a couple of years all of those 1000s of titles will be a buck a piece in some bargain bin and shortly after chucked into the trash "bin" out back....
Is this really worth ruining some young person's life over?...
RFID technology is the greatest threat to individual freedom in our times. In order for there to be liberty, we must be free to be anonymous. "Tagging" things -- making items identifiable -- is really nothing more than a step toward tracking us (we are our things in spite of what fight club would have us believe). It all began when the U.S. laid back and allowed social security numbers to be attached to every citizen....
I was an EQ1 griefer. Griefing takes intelligence, ingenuity, style and thought. Griefing also helps the game IMO making it more challenging and pointing out the flaws in design. If it weren't for griefing, Sony woulda lost my monthly fees months before I quit.
I started playing EQ shortly after it went gold. I quickly found that a necromancer best served my play style -- alone. I grew to not like other players at all, and once I got close to 50, the game had ran its course. I spent my last 6 months or so doing nothing but griefing. Here's what I did:
Oasis was a prime spot to grief. There's lots of lowbies/newbs there who just don't get it. Their little existence consisted of excitement over attaining a lockjaw hide vest. I felt it my responsibility to make their game more fun -- to challenge them by bringing conflict into their little game. They were also stupid enough to bind themselves to the dock. This zone must have been designed by a griefer, for just a few hundred yards away, in the middle of the lake, was an island wherein 6 specters lived. These specters were mid 30s and nothing to my necro, but they were gods to the tweens that hung around the docks. I would cast deadman floating to walk across the water, click my jboots for speed, and then go round up the boys (the specters) on the island. All 6 of 'em coming at me. They were my posse, my crew, my 6-pack of liquid hell!... I would get far enough ahead and then cast my invis spell (only detectable then to the players wearing something or having cast a spell to see invis). I would then run to the docks, past the docks, and wait out in the ocean in view of what was happening. Specters are great grief mobs because they will aggro on you, but then if another player gets within their rather wide aggro zone they will forget about you for the time being and go for the nearest victim. Once the 6-pack got to the dock they bounced from low-level newb to low-level newb like a rubber ball in, um, in something that would make rubber balls bounce all over! These poor little lowbies would be standing there by the dozen chatting, hanging out, making a sandwich in the kitchen, staring at their spell book (that staring at the spell book thing in early EQ was also designed by a griefer!) -- name it. They were incredulous, in complete oblivion. Suddenly, 6 mobs with 3 or 4 times their level were on top of 'em. Whackity, whack whack -- down goes Frazier!... Down goes Frazier!... I'd get screenshots and send to my friends who loved it.
Now, sometimes, these newbs would make the mistake of binding themselves at the docs and they would then make the mistake of parking their character there too and then they'd make the final mistake of going AFK -- to do whatever. They'd come back to find 6 of their own corpses scattered about as the specters would whack! (respawn) whack! (respawn)... rinse, repeat -- specters are very thorough in that way. The giants in the area didn't work out cuz they would most likely stay on their first aggro come hell or highwater. The newbs got really upset, but I think it made their game fun even though they would show up from their sandwich-making quest and be like, "OMFG!!!! WHO'S THE FAGGOT THAT GOT ME KILLED AT TEH DOCKS?!?!" and "AAHHHH!!! I have 6 corpses here - so, so sad...." I am a full believer that my actions made the game fun for me and for them. Dying, losing your experience and getting set-back like that -- I mean come on. We all need a challenge right? I was making the game tougher and better and fun for others!
The best sort of griefing, though, was prior to the making of the Bazaar. Everyone hung out in East Commons in the Ro Tunnel. This is where people bought/sold/traded/talked/met, name it. It was a huge place to be with all sorts of folks there. Well, in that zone, in one of the 1st huts as you zone in from Freeport, was a lady you could buy from named Rina Lightshadow. She hated evil thingies and she could quad hit like a mofo -- like four 600s in a row. I had this low leve
Does he walk around, old and mad, at the end muttering:
"daisy-chain.... daisy-chain...."
When is it too much?
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I think the need to have a bigger pile of "whatever" is in all of us, but I do find the hording of music interesting.
I have a family member who needs to have a copy of every single song. He's been building it for years and has 10s of 1000s of songs. I sat down and built a play list the other and while the songs came up and were playing he kept saying, "where'd you find that? I got that?" It was all stuff on his computer....
I personally keep a list of maybe several 100 songs, but carry on me about 50 at any time....
Good points, but MS is guilty of making the "next/next/next/finish" administrators who don't know wtf they're doing. MS, with this proliferation of "dumb" admins (yes, I called them dumb cuz they are) are what have provided the world with a very nice DDoS farm waiting to receive such things as codered. That thing will never go away cuz there are still boxes out there on the public network that are unpatched cuz the next/next admins don't even realize they're running an IIS server!!! This is a mind-boggling fact. The MS "Options Pack" CD (or whatever it was called) for NT4 server came ready to go with IIS and one had to do little more than next/next/finish their way through setting it up, and voila! a webserver you don't even realize is running (btw, everything has a friggin webserver on it these don't it?). Administration should be hard (are listening microsoft?), and the fact that Microsoft has both dumbed it down and then built an insecure OS riddled with holes and wherein everything is connected to everything (MSTD) has created this cacaphony. We patch, we AV protect, we do it all to still have our large switches about once a year peg out at 100% (network goes down) cuz of some new worm broadcasting to the world, and it's due to the root-assumption of windows that they're just now trying to do something about (omg, i gotta stop cuz I'm gonna rant, ramble and roll).
Second and final point I want to make, is after considering all of the above, you then have to consider the fact that microsoft is an incredible PR machine/marketing machine. They control so much spin, and most upper IT managers get their talking points from these microsoft influenced "CIO Magazine" type crap. So, we little guys in the trenches meet with the big guys who already know what the "truth" is as microsoft has spun it. Thus, Linux is indeed not free, Firefox will be JUST AS BAD as IE once enough people use it, and Squirrelmail isn't really an email server cuz no real email server would be called "Squirrelmail."
My one haven is Dilbert. Dilbert isn't funny. It's a religious experience....
Microsoft should use the business model that's brought them where they are today, create a "virus" department in Redmond and beat these guys at their own game.
I can see it now: Active Virus (TM)
1. Make OS.
2. Build-in holes.
3. Release patches.
4. Create virus.
5. Still profit!
I can relate to that myself. Back in the summer of 1994, while I was working at Babbages and living at home, I bought an Atari Jaguar, and practically every game released for it.
Hey, I can relate too! My wife left me for an old man. My life was devastated. I moved in with my grandmother and had no house payment/utilities/cable bill.... I spent all my money on computers, games and beer. That is, until my grandmother started drinking all my beer. You think I'm making this up don't you?...
I hate I missed this one, but I only read/. through the week. If anyone reads this lone post in the great vastness of nothing, then please reply to it....
Having a major in English lit and having studied linguistics, semantics and all that shit that I don't use to make a living now, and doing my best to be objective (read my journal), I must say that this issue of Al Gore's famous words regarding the Internet continues to fascinate me.
The mere fact that people defend, vehemently, what he said reveals to me that there's something to it. I.e., "me thinks he doeth protest too much," as one of Shakespeare's characters put it. Which means, the fact that there's all this buzz -- that we can't even discuss the Internet's history without 90% of that discussion going toward Gore -- tells me that surely there's "something rotten in the state of Denmark" (ugh, I'm wearing out the Shakespeare quotes).
1st and foremost, Gore did indeed contribute, perhaps more than any other in his day, to the Internet's development. Now, that means, as a government representative he did what his position could do and did more than any other.
So, did Gore tell the truth? Yes, there was truth in what he said (there's also truth in a joke, a lie, a heresy, and indeed in the truth itself), did his political opponents use his famous words to smear him? Yes. Did they find a weakness and exploit it? Yes. All of this is true.
As I see it, he was speaking the truth regarding some factual happenings, but he was also self-aggrandizing and exaggerating, and that's what bit him in the ass. He broke a cardinal rule of politics and he knew better, so no one should feel sorry for him or, really, defend him any longer (please, let's let this die). Always let your political enemies bury themselves when wounded. Always let your political friends defend you when possible, and always, ALWAYS, let your political friends puff your record. You should come across as humble, kind, gracious, etc. Gore puffed himself for himself all by himself and it cost him greatly. Good job in this thread on explaining the "truth" of the matter, but live with the fact that he screwed the political pooch otherwise....
For purposes of argumentation, Netscape enjoyed greater saturation prior to the IE takeover and indeed did not cause the problems IE causes. Sure, a lot of holes can be poked into that, but it is a valid point.
Secondly, my primary argument to management is the speed by which Open Source provides fixes for bugs in such products as Firefox (such as we see today with the secunia vulnerability). I apologize for not being clear. My waxationable wrath over-powered my ability to communicate... or something....
hmm, which non IE web browser had almost 10 years of >90% market penetration again ?
I really try not to do follow-up posts to posts to my posts... or something, cuz I have found them to end in utter, um, futility....
However, you're telling me that IE has had 90% saturation since the mid-90s? That simply can't be, and I'm resisting hard to get smart-assed here. Netscape was dominant through the w95 era -- prior to IE4.x release. IE has had a longer running sure, but Netscape never brought the ills IE does. Come on, the platform that IS Windows has nearly taken down the Internet at times (code red). And IE is, if nothing else, an extension of this root-all-the-time OS called Windows. I dunno. My job is to actually try to protect a large network from attacks, so maybe I just know stuff you don't. Admins have to patch, AV-protect, SWFW-protect, do their own backwards-engineered removal of root from each workstation, etc. I laughed my ass off in glee and joy the first time I fired up a test linux machine and bitchx and started to log into an IRC server and the thing said something like, "only an idiot logs onto an irc server as root." I was like, "hell yea!"
/. has been a haven of sympathy for all the shit MS has done, but maybe that's changing now. I feel like Galadriel suddenly....
I whole-heartedly disagree. This shit we deal with on a daily basis that threatens our network, kills our switches and routers, makes management scramble and IT constantly try to fix/patch/protect against is not due to complexity alone. It is due to the POS OS called Windows that suffers from MSTD (Microsoft Transmitted/Terminal -- take your pick -- disease). Other OSes are complex, but they do not suffer the same horrific fate. I am constantly boggled at work as I try to sell Linux to be given the Microsoft-created line, "no OS is free -- there's cost involved." It took months for me convince management that we could use Linux without paying for licensing, but then they started using the new line (surely invented by MS) which is based off of the fact that you gotta pay for consultants/labor/research, blah, blah to use an OS (oh brother duh! let's forget the millions we dish out to the "Microsoft Tax"). Now, I'm trying to push Firefox over IE and I get the tried and true line, "well, as soon as Firefox becomes as proliferated as IE then it'll be just as bad." But, that's not proven yet, and there have been OSes, web browsers, that have been proliferated that have not suffered the same fate.
I'm saying stuff we all know in a forum that will appreciate it, but come on guy. You call yourself a/.er?
I got this email from our training supervisor one day. He's a cool guy and we joke a lot. His email was like, "how's it going?" And I wrote back, "my ovaries hurt" (I'mma guy btw), and then he writes back, "50 people in the training room just read that.... [he had his desktop pulled up on the big screen]." He was training on email that day.
Erm, I'mma not sure if that was grammatically correct r not....
The goal should be to make the children see *relevance* to what they're being taught.
The founders of western civilization knew this. That's why Plato's Academy was a walking school wherein everyday objects and occurances were models for teaching. No rote memorization and real world application....
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Its so much better now when everone who is not a right-wing-christian-gun-loving-American is labeled a terrorist.
"Of course with hindisight, it turns out that most of them _[are]_ [terrorists]..."
I studied English lit and ancient Greek in college. I gained the best understanding of grammar, syntax and sentence structure from Greek. Breaking down those huge words, looking at a language from scratch -- it has helped me the most in English. It's tough now to not see Greek in English words. I view prepositional purposes from the Greek model and all parts of speech came into light through Greek (queue the "it's all Greek to me" jokes).
When it comes to computing, I started out at the command line. True computing, to me, IS the command line, and I gained the most understanding of computers from it. I prefer to use Linux that way (I don't load a GUI). "Windows is a good terminal" is how I think Richie put it, and although the GUI is here and necessary, real computing will always be from the command line. I will admit Lynx never replaced a GUI web browser for me, but someone who really knows the command line (and therefore the OS) can run circles around the mousey admins....
If your pizza box has a Domino's logo, there is no chance that anyone would steal it to get the contents, either.
Ah, I see I have found another, former, lotus notes admin -- that is, I pray to god you're a "former." If not, then god bless you my son....
We all know the next big thing in technology is Internets!...
*Beep**Beep*[pager]
NEWS ALERT! Scientists are concerned that the Information Age is nurturing 'cognitive overload
A "Sol" is one Martian day, btw.
... etc.
Thanks. I was in process of looking up what it meant. All that quickly was recalled from memory was "shit of out luck" of course.... Which made sense: "here's where we were sol due to potato sized rock, and here's where we were sol with another potato sized rock"
In a couple of years all of those 1000s of titles will be a buck a piece in some bargain bin and shortly after chucked into the trash "bin" out back....
Is this really worth ruining some young person's life over?...
RFID technology is the greatest threat to individual freedom in our times. In order for there to be liberty, we must be free to be anonymous. "Tagging" things -- making items identifiable -- is really nothing more than a step toward tracking us (we are our things in spite of what fight club would have us believe). It all began when the U.S. laid back and allowed social security numbers to be attached to every citizen....
I was an EQ1 griefer. Griefing takes intelligence, ingenuity, style and thought. Griefing also helps the game IMO making it more challenging and pointing out the flaws in design. If it weren't for griefing, Sony woulda lost my monthly fees months before I quit.
... rinse, repeat -- specters are very thorough in that way. The giants in the area didn't work out cuz they would most likely stay on their first aggro come hell or highwater. The newbs got really upset, but I think it made their game fun even though they would show up from their sandwich-making quest and be like, "OMFG!!!! WHO'S THE FAGGOT THAT GOT ME KILLED AT TEH DOCKS?!?!" and "AAHHHH!!! I have 6 corpses here - so, so sad...." I am a full believer that my actions made the game fun for me and for them. Dying, losing your experience and getting set-back like that -- I mean come on. We all need a challenge right? I was making the game tougher and better and fun for others!
I started playing EQ shortly after it went gold. I quickly found that a necromancer best served my play style -- alone. I grew to not like other players at all, and once I got close to 50, the game had ran its course. I spent my last 6 months or so doing nothing but griefing. Here's what I did:
Oasis was a prime spot to grief. There's lots of lowbies/newbs there who just don't get it. Their little existence consisted of excitement over attaining a lockjaw hide vest. I felt it my responsibility to make their game more fun -- to challenge them by bringing conflict into their little game. They were also stupid enough to bind themselves to the dock. This zone must have been designed by a griefer, for just a few hundred yards away, in the middle of the lake, was an island wherein 6 specters lived. These specters were mid 30s and nothing to my necro, but they were gods to the tweens that hung around the docks. I would cast deadman floating to walk across the water, click my jboots for speed, and then go round up the boys (the specters) on the island. All 6 of 'em coming at me. They were my posse, my crew, my 6-pack of liquid hell!... I would get far enough ahead and then cast my invis spell (only detectable then to the players wearing something or having cast a spell to see invis). I would then run to the docks, past the docks, and wait out in the ocean in view of what was happening. Specters are great grief mobs because they will aggro on you, but then if another player gets within their rather wide aggro zone they will forget about you for the time being and go for the nearest victim. Once the 6-pack got to the dock they bounced from low-level newb to low-level newb like a rubber ball in, um, in something that would make rubber balls bounce all over! These poor little lowbies would be standing there by the dozen chatting, hanging out, making a sandwich in the kitchen, staring at their spell book (that staring at the spell book thing in early EQ was also designed by a griefer!) -- name it. They were incredulous, in complete oblivion. Suddenly, 6 mobs with 3 or 4 times their level were on top of 'em. Whackity, whack whack -- down goes Frazier!... Down goes Frazier!... I'd get screenshots and send to my friends who loved it.
Now, sometimes, these newbs would make the mistake of binding themselves at the docs and they would then make the mistake of parking their character there too and then they'd make the final mistake of going AFK -- to do whatever. They'd come back to find 6 of their own corpses scattered about as the specters would whack! (respawn) whack! (respawn)
The best sort of griefing, though, was prior to the making of the Bazaar. Everyone hung out in East Commons in the Ro Tunnel. This is where people bought/sold/traded/talked/met, name it. It was a huge place to be with all sorts of folks there. Well, in that zone, in one of the 1st huts as you zone in from Freeport, was a lady you could buy from named Rina Lightshadow. She hated evil thingies and she could quad hit like a mofo -- like four 600s in a row. I had this low leve
Citizen Journalism? Like Citizen Kane?
Does he walk around, old and mad, at the end muttering:
"daisy-chain.... daisy-chain...."
I think the need to have a bigger pile of "whatever" is in all of us, but I do find the hording of music interesting.
I have a family member who needs to have a copy of every single song. He's been building it for years and has 10s of 1000s of songs. I sat down and built a play list the other and while the songs came up and were playing he kept saying, "where'd you find that? I got that?" It was all stuff on his computer....
I personally keep a list of maybe several 100 songs, but carry on me about 50 at any time....
Good points, but MS is guilty of making the "next/next/next/finish" administrators who don't know wtf they're doing. MS, with this proliferation of "dumb" admins (yes, I called them dumb cuz they are) are what have provided the world with a very nice DDoS farm waiting to receive such things as codered. That thing will never go away cuz there are still boxes out there on the public network that are unpatched cuz the next/next admins don't even realize they're running an IIS server!!! This is a mind-boggling fact. The MS "Options Pack" CD (or whatever it was called) for NT4 server came ready to go with IIS and one had to do little more than next/next/finish their way through setting it up, and voila! a webserver you don't even realize is running (btw, everything has a friggin webserver on it these don't it?). Administration should be hard (are listening microsoft?), and the fact that Microsoft has both dumbed it down and then built an insecure OS riddled with holes and wherein everything is connected to everything (MSTD) has created this cacaphony. We patch, we AV protect, we do it all to still have our large switches about once a year peg out at 100% (network goes down) cuz of some new worm broadcasting to the world, and it's due to the root-assumption of windows that they're just now trying to do something about (omg, i gotta stop cuz I'm gonna rant, ramble and roll).
Second and final point I want to make, is after considering all of the above, you then have to consider the fact that microsoft is an incredible PR machine/marketing machine. They control so much spin, and most upper IT managers get their talking points from these microsoft influenced "CIO Magazine" type crap. So, we little guys in the trenches meet with the big guys who already know what the "truth" is as microsoft has spun it. Thus, Linux is indeed not free, Firefox will be JUST AS BAD as IE once enough people use it, and Squirrelmail isn't really an email server cuz no real email server would be called "Squirrelmail."
My one haven is Dilbert. Dilbert isn't funny. It's a religious experience....
Microsoft should use the business model that's brought them where they are today, create a "virus" department in Redmond and beat these guys at their own game.
I can see it now: Active Virus (TM)
1. Make OS.
2. Build-in holes.
3. Release patches.
4. Create virus.
5. Still profit!
I can relate to that myself. Back in the summer of 1994, while I was working at Babbages and living at home, I bought an Atari Jaguar, and practically every game released for it.
Hey, I can relate too! My wife left me for an old man. My life was devastated. I moved in with my grandmother and had no house payment/utilities/cable bill.... I spent all my money on computers, games and beer. That is, until my grandmother started drinking all my beer. You think I'm making this up don't you?...
I couldn't afford my own place or even a car, but I could buy all the game cartridges I wanted.
/. subscription....
And a
I hate I missed this one, but I only read /. through the week. If anyone reads this lone post in the great vastness of nothing, then please reply to it....
Having a major in English lit and having studied linguistics, semantics and all that shit that I don't use to make a living now, and doing my best to be objective (read my journal), I must say that this issue of Al Gore's famous words regarding the Internet continues to fascinate me.
The mere fact that people defend, vehemently, what he said reveals to me that there's something to it. I.e., "me thinks he doeth protest too much," as one of Shakespeare's characters put it. Which means, the fact that there's all this buzz -- that we can't even discuss the Internet's history without 90% of that discussion going toward Gore -- tells me that surely there's "something rotten in the state of Denmark" (ugh, I'm wearing out the Shakespeare quotes).
1st and foremost, Gore did indeed contribute, perhaps more than any other in his day, to the Internet's development. Now, that means, as a government representative he did what his position could do and did more than any other.
So, did Gore tell the truth? Yes, there was truth in what he said (there's also truth in a joke, a lie, a heresy, and indeed in the truth itself), did his political opponents use his famous words to smear him? Yes. Did they find a weakness and exploit it? Yes. All of this is true.
As I see it, he was speaking the truth regarding some factual happenings, but he was also self-aggrandizing and exaggerating, and that's what bit him in the ass. He broke a cardinal rule of politics and he knew better, so no one should feel sorry for him or, really, defend him any longer (please, let's let this die). Always let your political enemies bury themselves when wounded. Always let your political friends defend you when possible, and always, ALWAYS, let your political friends puff your record. You should come across as humble, kind, gracious, etc. Gore puffed himself for himself all by himself and it cost him greatly. Good job in this thread on explaining the "truth" of the matter, but live with the fact that he screwed the political pooch otherwise....
"Researchers find that men who place portable computers on their laps are inadvertently raising the temperature of their scrotums....
I wondered what that sizzling was....
Oh come on - the original poster was completely over the top in blaming MS for all the ills of the Internet....
They're not guilty of ALL the ills (don't think I actually said that), but they're not slackers....
For purposes of argumentation, Netscape enjoyed greater saturation prior to the IE takeover and indeed did not cause the problems IE causes. Sure, a lot of holes can be poked into that, but it is a valid point.
... or something....
Secondly, my primary argument to management is the speed by which Open Source provides fixes for bugs in such products as Firefox (such as we see today with the secunia vulnerability). I apologize for not being clear. My waxationable wrath over-powered my ability to communicate
hmm, which non IE web browser had almost 10 years of >90% market penetration again ?
... or something, cuz I have found them to end in utter, um, futility....
/. has been a haven of sympathy for all the shit MS has done, but maybe that's changing now. I feel like Galadriel suddenly....
I really try not to do follow-up posts to posts to my posts
However, you're telling me that IE has had 90% saturation since the mid-90s? That simply can't be, and I'm resisting hard to get smart-assed here. Netscape was dominant through the w95 era -- prior to IE4.x release. IE has had a longer running sure, but Netscape never brought the ills IE does. Come on, the platform that IS Windows has nearly taken down the Internet at times (code red). And IE is, if nothing else, an extension of this root-all-the-time OS called Windows. I dunno. My job is to actually try to protect a large network from attacks, so maybe I just know stuff you don't. Admins have to patch, AV-protect, SWFW-protect, do their own backwards-engineered removal of root from each workstation, etc. I laughed my ass off in glee and joy the first time I fired up a test linux machine and bitchx and started to log into an IRC server and the thing said something like, "only an idiot logs onto an irc server as root." I was like, "hell yea!"
It's the price of complexity.
/.er?
/endrant
I whole-heartedly disagree. This shit we deal with on a daily basis that threatens our network, kills our switches and routers, makes management scramble and IT constantly try to fix/patch/protect against is not due to complexity alone. It is due to the POS OS called Windows that suffers from MSTD (Microsoft Transmitted/Terminal -- take your pick -- disease). Other OSes are complex, but they do not suffer the same horrific fate. I am constantly boggled at work as I try to sell Linux to be given the Microsoft-created line, "no OS is free -- there's cost involved." It took months for me convince management that we could use Linux without paying for licensing, but then they started using the new line (surely invented by MS) which is based off of the fact that you gotta pay for consultants/labor/research, blah, blah to use an OS (oh brother duh! let's forget the millions we dish out to the "Microsoft Tax"). Now, I'm trying to push Firefox over IE and I get the tried and true line, "well, as soon as Firefox becomes as proliferated as IE then it'll be just as bad." But, that's not proven yet, and there have been OSes, web browsers, that have been proliferated that have not suffered the same fate.
I'm saying stuff we all know in a forum that will appreciate it, but come on guy. You call yourself a
It requries ActiveX install to work--so only those willing to risk IE need apply.
/thinks
/pacesroom
/considers
It's just not worth it....
I got this email from our training supervisor one day. He's a cool guy and we joke a lot. His email was like, "how's it going?" And I wrote back, "my ovaries hurt" (I'mma guy btw), and then he writes back, "50 people in the training room just read that.... [he had his desktop pulled up on the big screen]." He was training on email that day.
Erm, I'mma not sure if that was grammatically correct r not....
The goal should be to make the children see *relevance* to what they're being taught.
The founders of western civilization knew this. That's why Plato's Academy was a walking school wherein everyday objects and occurances were models for teaching. No rote memorization and real world application....
A 10 second bout of googling and I found The Gimp color manager....
You should've, instead, submitted a news story (like the submitter of this piece) along the lines of:
"A news blurb on slashdot asks: I'm a freelance writer and photographer...."
Sure, takes much longer than google, but come on. Fame baby fame!...