Well, it exploded. I would hope that it was dead. Luckily for us, Internet Explorer is still there to fill the gap created when Exploder went to visit Great Grandpa Mosaic.
I feel that if IBM was to relook at the OS, they may gain some market share because users are now more educated as to the workings of a computer.
You're joking right? OS/2 failed during a time when it was MORE likely that people using computers would understand them. Now, with OSs that nearly force you to NOT know about computers (by hiding everything behind purty graphics) people know even less about how their computers interact with the OS.
Just because more people can *use* computers doesn't mean that they know how they work.
The biggest problem with myspace are all the users who think it's cool to customize your profile with all sorts of random useless crap like large background images, floating images, and ten video clips playing simultaneously.
Well, now that geocities is basically dead, the lamers had to go somewhere, right?
You know what pisses me off? Sites like myspace and stumbleupon that let users hotlink every image on your pr0n site, most often without citing the source. Bandwidth is expensive and this type of crap can push me into the red. It should be illegal.
Then disable them from hotlinking via http.conf or.htaccess. There are plenty of resources to get information on how to stop it from happening. If you're going to have your site be public and running without hotlinking protection, then it's fair game.
We don't need legislation when a simple google search and a copy/paste would solve your issues.
I sort of switched. I bought a Mac Mini last week because I'm tired of my wind tunnel of a PC in the living room. The PC is back in the office where it belongs, I still have my Toshiba notebook, but most of my work is done on the Mini. With 1GB of RAM, it's really quite a good performer - not on par with the AMD64 that it "replaced", but fast enough. And small. Very, very small.
I sort of switched and have put myself in a position to use the Mac. Problem is that I'm not really "using" the Mac, I'm just surfing the web with it and using Terminal to SSH to my Linux machine.
I can't stand OS X (for various reasons that are irrelevant to this discussion) but I have "switched" due to Apple's recent marketing. I still don't have an iPod but I do drool over the car integration kits that include charging, contols via the external CD changer interface, etc. I have a much better media player (IMHO) but it doesn't have the third party support for neat shit like the iPod does.
I'd like to put the Mini in the living room but for now it's going to remain in my "office" humming away nearly silent while the loud and electricity hogging Abit BP6 sits quiet.
It's simple retaliation. The current administration knows that their on-going media campaigns to alter people's perceptions of events and actions will harm Google.
On that day, a lot of people will immediately drop their current plan (even if it means paying contract termination penalties to do it) and switch. I'll be first in line.
And thus why there are two year contract terms that people are happy to renew all the time for a slightly better phone that allows more vendor lockin.
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It seems to me that most of the "rudeness" of phones stems from peoples strange addictions to ringtones.
It stems from people's strange addiction to using the phone, whenever and wherever they are. The previous poster's assertion that "vibrate" solves the issue is incorrect. It just lessens the initial shock of the phone ringing. It in no way stops them from answering that vibrating phone and then interrupting everyone when they take the call.
Yeah, there area always times when you "must take a call", just do it outside where no one has to hear you.
Well, now that I again have an automobile that has a CD player I have stopped listening to the radio all together, but for the last few years I have noticed that radio is truly dead. Yeah, there are the small and private stations that play stuff that's "different" but I find them to be usually too far out for even my tastes.
XM radio, something that a lot of people hail as the "greatest thing", is another medium I just don't care for. I really enjoyed DirecTV's own music stations but when they moved over to offering XM's channels I was *very* disappointed in the selection and stations. Honestly, IMHO, it's not worth the monthly fee.
I'm not a "podcast" adopter, only listening to one local one, but I can see why they are so popular. Free content that's specialized and interesting. Kinda like what Slashdot used to be in 1997. Will they end up going the way of current "Radio", possibly, but at least it's another grassroots effort to get people interested in a small and narrow item.
Radio will continue to be on my "dead world" list as long as the commercials and/or required fees outweigh the small benefit.
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What I see more and more of, perhaps just because of the communities I'm involved with, is a lot more "crossover" from online communities to normal face-to-face communities.
I can't say that I will ever play WoW and I really don't believe that it will be the next "golf" but I can certainly see "Foo" (carried out online) crossover as an activity that any group might engage in while in person.
So, remove WoW from the equation and insert whatever online community you are involved with and carry on.
The big question is, what does Motorola gain by obstructing willing developers from bringing software to their platform?
Well, it keeps the development in the hands of the mobile phone companies using the phone who then will charge their customers to download songs, applications, etc. If they phone is wide open and anyone can develop for it why would anyone pay $2.50/song, $5 to $10/application, etc?
Exactly, they wouldn't and that's why phones with great development environments (like the T-mobile Sidekick) are dead in the water.
Searching and applying for jobs online is already difficult enough. With applicant pools numbering in the thousands for many jobs, it's already a royal pain in the ass to get in for an interview. Aside from that, even if you do get an interview it might be one of those "well, we know we won't hire this one but we need to interview X number of people" and you end up being asked such illustrious questions as "if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound?" (yes, an actual interview question for a part-time job at $8.50/hr).
Keep your resume up-to-the-minute current. "The rules allow companies to pick a random pool of applicants by searching the job boards for 'most recent' qualified applicants," Crispin notes. "In those cases, no one will even look at a resume that is more than two or three weeks old." Yikes.
Oh whatever, if the company is looking for someone with experience that most don't have they are going to look closely at the resumes. If anyone can do the job in the applicant pool they aren't going to care one way or the other.
For the jobs that I have interviewed for through monster.com and careerbuilder.com applications, I have received a few offers -- none of which bettered my current job security and benefits (the pay was better).
We don't need laws to make it more difficult to find work -- we need laws that make the jobs we have better than they already are.
You're 100% correct, you weren't insightful. People that have emoticons enabled might not fully understand your "old-school" smiley. So you might still have the "dreaded chasm" that you speak of.
Not to sound like a Google fanboy, but I absolutely LOVE GTalk for its nice clean interface and lack of smilies.
Yes, because that's the reason to use Google's client... The lack of emoticons! A feature that every client I have ever used allows you to disable anyway.
Broadband service (DSL anyway) has gotten cheaper rather than more expensive.
Where the hell do you live because I want to go there! My DSL connections have remained fairly constant in price and bandwith over the years (640 to 768k) at about $50/mo in addition to whatever phone line costs were involved (usually $25 to $35).
2004 was the first time that I saw a reduction in "cost" when the service level was bumped to 2mbit for $49.95 + local phone service ($35/mo). The only reason that occured was because there was Cable competition in the area at $39.99/mo for 3mbit access.
DSL isn't getting any cheaper and it certainly isn't keeping up with RoadRunner and Comcast's 6+ mbit connections.
It doesn't require a PhD to figure out that coffee served at McDonalds will be hot either... Yet on every cup of their coffee there are written warnings about it.
People that bring these suits are dumb and the juries that bring down judgements in favor of the dumbasses are even more dumb.
Obvious and open danger exists everywhere. We shouldn't need to be reminded of it.
The newspapers will turn over the card numbers of subscribers who may have been affected to the companies upon request. As of last night, Mastercard and Visa have asked for the details. The newspapers are doing the same thing with banks of customers who may be affected.
They will only turn the numbers over upon *request* and only MC and Visa have requested it? WTF?!
so there goes the "fun", I have to tap it regularly not to make it feel deprived.
While sleeping is out of the question, I really don't consider that "fun". I'm sure that you will be able to have "fun" while getting road-head. It's not exactly as if both your arms need to be on the back of his/her head.
Not that anyone on Slashdot would know about road-head anyway;)
I am deathly afraid of needles and find that they hurt terribly. Especially that I apparently have narrow veins (they look huge to me) that or the nurses that I've been lucky enough to draw my blood suck...
Anyway, I have been cut by flying glass in a bar fight (I was an innocent and very drunk bystander), stepped on the eye-end of a needle (with thread) that was lodged in my foot, etc. All of those were painless.
But the little pin prick from the needle at the doctor's is enough to send me screaming.
I'd have to say there's nothing I'd like better than a Crackberry network shutdown, at least for a week. It might actually wake up the execs to the mess the modern patent system has made.
Because this shutdown wouldn't affect the government members that might actually move to do something about it, it's not going to change anything there. If anything, with all the execs seeing how it could hurt their competition, it's going to fuel even more patent attacks.
Umm...wouldn't that be the textbook definition of solid ? In the absence of any information as to the composition of the 'frozen liquid, the term 'frozen liquid' could apply equally well to any terrestrial planet.
It's obvious that they were suffering from a severe case of brain freeze from eating too many Slushies. Mmmm, red.
Unfortunately the planet takes ten years to circle the red dwarf and has a surface temperature estimated at -220 C which means it's just a larger version of Pluto so the chance of finding life on this planet is essentially zero.
Which means that besides its thin atomosphere and a rocky core, it's nothing like Earth.
No matter how many people tell me that "Foo" is the best CMS, the only way that I found to really get a feel for them was to test them out myself. That included setting something up, testing the setup, and testing my abilities at updating the code.
I settled on Drupal only because it was the "hot thing" at the time and I enjoyed the fact that you could put php code into "blocks" and have it run custom code w/o much hassle. At the time I wasn't all that much interested in working on the actual code so the "blocks" allowed me to get some of my bash shell scripts onto the site w/o doing too much hacking.
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Well, it exploded. I would hope that it was dead. Luckily for us, Internet Explorer is still there to fill the gap created when Exploder went to visit Great Grandpa Mosaic.
I feel that if IBM was to relook at the OS, they may gain some market share because users are now more educated as to the workings of a computer.
You're joking right? OS/2 failed during a time when it was MORE likely that people using computers would understand them. Now, with OSs that nearly force you to NOT know about computers (by hiding everything behind purty graphics) people know even less about how their computers interact with the OS.
Just because more people can *use* computers doesn't mean that they know how they work.
The biggest problem with myspace are all the users who think it's cool to customize your profile with all sorts of random useless crap like large background images, floating images, and ten video clips playing simultaneously.
Well, now that geocities is basically dead, the lamers had to go somewhere, right?
You know what pisses me off? Sites like myspace and stumbleupon that let users hotlink every image on your pr0n site, most often without citing the source. Bandwidth is expensive and this type of crap can push me into the red. It should be illegal.
.htaccess. There are plenty of resources to get information on how to stop it from happening. If you're going to have your site be public and running without hotlinking protection, then it's fair game.
Then disable them from hotlinking via http.conf or
We don't need legislation when a simple google search and a copy/paste would solve your issues.
I sort of switched. I bought a Mac Mini last week because I'm tired of my wind tunnel of a PC in the living room. The PC is back in the office where it belongs, I still have my Toshiba notebook, but most of my work is done on the Mini. With 1GB of RAM, it's really quite a good performer - not on par with the AMD64 that it "replaced", but fast enough. And small. Very, very small.
I sort of switched and have put myself in a position to use the Mac. Problem is that I'm not really "using" the Mac, I'm just surfing the web with it and using Terminal to SSH to my Linux machine.
I can't stand OS X (for various reasons that are irrelevant to this discussion) but I have "switched" due to Apple's recent marketing. I still don't have an iPod but I do drool over the car integration kits that include charging, contols via the external CD changer interface, etc. I have a much better media player (IMHO) but it doesn't have the third party support for neat shit like the iPod does.
I'd like to put the Mini in the living room but for now it's going to remain in my "office" humming away nearly silent while the loud and electricity hogging Abit BP6 sits quiet.
What the heck is the difference between "Office Plus" and "Enterprise Edition" vis-a-vis "Office"?
The price.
It's simple retaliation. The current administration knows that their on-going media campaigns to alter people's perceptions of events and actions will harm Google.
Oh come on, what your ego really needs is egoSurf! :)
On that day, a lot of people will immediately drop their current plan (even if it means paying contract termination penalties to do it) and switch. I'll be first in line.
And thus why there are two year contract terms that people are happy to renew all the time for a slightly better phone that allows more vendor lockin.
It seems to me that most of the "rudeness" of phones stems from peoples strange addictions to ringtones.
It stems from people's strange addiction to using the phone, whenever and wherever they are. The previous poster's assertion that "vibrate" solves the issue is incorrect. It just lessens the initial shock of the phone ringing. It in no way stops them from answering that vibrating phone and then interrupting everyone when they take the call.
Yeah, there area always times when you "must take a call", just do it outside where no one has to hear you.
Common courteosy is the best option.
Well, now that I again have an automobile that has a CD player I have stopped listening to the radio all together, but for the last few years I have noticed that radio is truly dead. Yeah, there are the small and private stations that play stuff that's "different" but I find them to be usually too far out for even my tastes.
XM radio, something that a lot of people hail as the "greatest thing", is another medium I just don't care for. I really enjoyed DirecTV's own music stations but when they moved over to offering XM's channels I was *very* disappointed in the selection and stations. Honestly, IMHO, it's not worth the monthly fee.
I'm not a "podcast" adopter, only listening to one local one, but I can see why they are so popular. Free content that's specialized and interesting. Kinda like what Slashdot used to be in 1997. Will they end up going the way of current "Radio", possibly, but at least it's another grassroots effort to get people interested in a small and narrow item.
Radio will continue to be on my "dead world" list as long as the commercials and/or required fees outweigh the small benefit.
What I see more and more of, perhaps just because of the communities I'm involved with, is a lot more "crossover" from online communities to normal face-to-face communities.
I can't say that I will ever play WoW and I really don't believe that it will be the next "golf" but I can certainly see "Foo" (carried out online) crossover as an activity that any group might engage in while in person.
So, remove WoW from the equation and insert whatever online community you are involved with and carry on.
Yup and in addition...
The big question is, what does Motorola gain by obstructing willing developers from bringing software to their platform?
Well, it keeps the development in the hands of the mobile phone companies using the phone who then will charge their customers to download songs, applications, etc. If they phone is wide open and anyone can develop for it why would anyone pay $2.50/song, $5 to $10/application, etc?
Exactly, they wouldn't and that's why phones with great development environments (like the T-mobile Sidekick) are dead in the water.
Searching and applying for jobs online is already difficult enough. With applicant pools numbering in the thousands for many jobs, it's already a royal pain in the ass to get in for an interview. Aside from that, even if you do get an interview it might be one of those "well, we know we won't hire this one but we need to interview X number of people" and you end up being asked such illustrious questions as "if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound?" (yes, an actual interview question for a part-time job at $8.50/hr).
Keep your resume up-to-the-minute current. "The rules allow companies to pick a random pool of applicants by searching the job boards for 'most recent' qualified applicants," Crispin notes. "In those cases, no one will even look at a resume that is more than two or three weeks old." Yikes.
Oh whatever, if the company is looking for someone with experience that most don't have they are going to look closely at the resumes. If anyone can do the job in the applicant pool they aren't going to care one way or the other.
For the jobs that I have interviewed for through monster.com and careerbuilder.com applications, I have received a few offers -- none of which bettered my current job security and benefits (the pay was better).
We don't need laws to make it more difficult to find work -- we need laws that make the jobs we have better than they already are.
So, no, not really that insightful.
You're 100% correct, you weren't insightful. People that have emoticons enabled might not fully understand your "old-school" smiley. So you might still have the "dreaded chasm" that you speak of.
Get over yourself.
Not to sound like a Google fanboy, but I absolutely LOVE GTalk for its nice clean interface and lack of smilies.
Yes, because that's the reason to use Google's client... The lack of emoticons! A feature that every client I have ever used allows you to disable anyway.
Broadband service (DSL anyway) has gotten cheaper rather than more expensive.
Where the hell do you live because I want to go there! My DSL connections have remained fairly constant in price and bandwith over the years (640 to 768k) at about $50/mo in addition to whatever phone line costs were involved (usually $25 to $35).
2004 was the first time that I saw a reduction in "cost" when the service level was bumped to 2mbit for $49.95 + local phone service ($35/mo). The only reason that occured was because there was Cable competition in the area at $39.99/mo for 3mbit access.
DSL isn't getting any cheaper and it certainly isn't keeping up with RoadRunner and Comcast's 6+ mbit connections.
It doesn't require a PhD to figure out that coffee served at McDonalds will be hot either... Yet on every cup of their coffee there are written warnings about it.
People that bring these suits are dumb and the juries that bring down judgements in favor of the dumbasses are even more dumb.
Obvious and open danger exists everywhere. We shouldn't need to be reminded of it.
The newspapers will turn over the card numbers of subscribers who may have been affected to the companies upon request. As of last night, Mastercard and Visa have asked for the details. The newspapers are doing the same thing with banks of customers who may be affected.
They will only turn the numbers over upon *request* and only MC and Visa have requested it? WTF?!
so there goes the "fun", I have to tap it regularly not to make it feel deprived.
;)
While sleeping is out of the question, I really don't consider that "fun". I'm sure that you will be able to have "fun" while getting road-head. It's not exactly as if both your arms need to be on the back of his/her head.
Not that anyone on Slashdot would know about road-head anyway
I am deathly afraid of needles and find that they hurt terribly. Especially that I apparently have narrow veins (they look huge to me) that or the nurses that I've been lucky enough to draw my blood suck...
Anyway, I have been cut by flying glass in a bar fight (I was an innocent and very drunk bystander), stepped on the eye-end of a needle (with thread) that was lodged in my foot, etc. All of those were painless.
But the little pin prick from the needle at the doctor's is enough to send me screaming.
I'd have to say there's nothing I'd like better than a Crackberry network shutdown, at least for a week. It might actually wake up the execs to the mess the modern patent system has made.
Because this shutdown wouldn't affect the government members that might actually move to do something about it, it's not going to change anything there. If anything, with all the execs seeing how it could hurt their competition, it's going to fuel even more patent attacks.
Umm...wouldn't that be the textbook definition of solid ? In the absence of any information as to the composition of the 'frozen liquid, the term 'frozen liquid' could apply equally well to any terrestrial planet.
It's obvious that they were suffering from a severe case of brain freeze from eating too many Slushies. Mmmm, red.
Unfortunately the planet takes ten years to circle the red dwarf and has a surface temperature estimated at -220 C which means it's just a larger version of Pluto so the chance of finding life on this planet is essentially zero.
Which means that besides its thin atomosphere and a rocky core, it's nothing like Earth.
No matter how many people tell me that "Foo" is the best CMS, the only way that I found to really get a feel for them was to test them out myself. That included setting something up, testing the setup, and testing my abilities at updating the code.
I settled on Drupal only because it was the "hot thing" at the time and I enjoyed the fact that you could put php code into "blocks" and have it run custom code w/o much hassle. At the time I wasn't all that much interested in working on the actual code so the "blocks" allowed me to get some of my bash shell scripts onto the site w/o doing too much hacking.