See, this is what we get when our schools aren't allowed to whoop ass anymore.
Schools don't need to "whoop ass". Parents need to be able to "whoop ass" w/o their kids knowing (or even having) the ability to "call social services". Parents should be able to practice a little "tough love" as long as it stays as a red ass and doesn't cross into black eyes.
The problem these days is that "timeouts" are used instead of the *threat* of the belt (the sound of a belt coming off a pair of jeans *still* bothers me to this day and I think it was used on me less than 5x).
Oh and all stores need to follow the lead of the guy that put up a *well written* sign on his door that asks that parents ensure that their children behave. Those that were part of the "backlash" against it need to seriously rethink their parental abilities and theories as they may not be the perfect parents that their precious parenting books tell them they are.
The TV programmers have figured out that there are enough gullible people in the world who watch and believe these shows that they can hire a basically competant series of actors who go through the motions of a reality series.
Uhh, the first? No. I realize that most people here are smart enough to shy away from watching the mind-numbing antics that "Reality TV" provides but being one of the sole Slashdotters that is married, I'm sucked into watching these shows w/my wife (if I didn't we wouldn't spend any time together). The Real World (faked, including the "engagement" of two of the on show actors -- probably MTV trying to be like Survivor and have a televised wedding). Survivor? Pay close attention to the size of the readily available fire wood. Looks precut to me. Joe Millionaire? All a bunch of bullshit.
So it's not the first -- only the first to appear on the "New and Improved" Slashdot -- News for Nerds, Stuff that only matters to *everyone else*.
Taco got it apparently and it wouldn't be much of an advertisement when it's not linked to from the main page I guess. Perhaps they left out the link by mistake or they did it purposefully so that people like you and I (who probably bitch when they have Slashvertisements) would complain when they don't blatantly "Slashvertise".
you'll definitely be envied by your friends next time you haul it out at a LAN party... it's a hell of a lot sexier than lugging around a monitor and a mini-atx based machine. I'm sad to let the review unit go back to WidowPC.
Personally, I would guess that your friends would be far more envious if you had a super sleek machine that wasn't noisy, hot, and HUGE but still offered good graphics, response, and the *possibily* of child rearing if you could get a girl.
Only if those working at the fast food outlets hacked them PRIOR to putting them in the kids' meals and included: this song as the only thing on there.
For instant notifications powered by Upoc, I certainly wouldn't mind this. If I leave my phone off for a couple hours (no signal at work) I get an SMS flood soon after leaving and end up having to delete messages after I read them. While it's not big deal it would be nice if I didn't even have to think about it.
*NO* text message that *I* get is worth keeping around after I read it. If it was, I'd just e-mail it to myself or copy/paste it to another application.
They need to have google.slashdot.org and then people could block this stuff. Better yet, pointless-google-stories.slashdot.org as well as google.slashdot.org so we could seperate out the true trash from the slightly overrated trash that the editors have been pushing lately.
It wasn't set by default when I saw it this morning. Stupid Beta;)
Can't say I was overly impressed this morning...
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I saw it when I opened GMail to do my daily clean up of my GMail archive account. I disabled 99% of it and added Slashdot as the only "Webclip" available. The first (and only) story it showed was from 18 hours ago. Not exactly useful for me I guess.
Web 2.0 fundamentally revolves around us and seeks to ensure that we engage ourselves, participate and collaborate together, and mutually trust and enrich each other, even though we could be separated by the entire world geographically. And Web 2.0 gives us very specific techniques to do this and attempts to address the "people problem" directly.
Sweet! It gets rid of trolls, uneducated users, and the typical "Dumbass Element" that prevails on the Internet?
No? Oh, then Web 2.0 sucks just as much as "Web 1.0".
Are you equally outraged (or whatever emotion suits you) over the fakeable domain name data versus non-fakeable public data due to government records?
Uh, a drivers' license is not even in the same league as a domain. Let's not try to compare unrelated things, it's pointless.
I'm outraged at the fact that people who own domains legitimately are getting fucked over by those same people that have the power and ability to abuse this "law".
A while back I was using Metro Transit's trip planner to get me from the rail stations that I commonly use to another location accessable only by bus.
Anyway, afterward, the trip planner asked if I wanted to take a survey. They were very blatantly interested in mobile devices and how people use them to utilize their trip planner. At the time I was using the first public iteration of the Sidekick II's OS and it rendered well and was fast to use. At the end of the survey it asked if I wanted to be contacted about a live group session to discuss the mobile use of their planner. I was never contacted...
Now I'm onto the Sidekick II's second OS (update that includes better rendering for CSS, etc) and is MUCH more usable on every site except Metro Transit's trip planner. I don't know if they changed something or what but I'd like to see it go back to a more usable and friendly state.
Onto my point about Google Maps. While this is great and all, Google Maps doesn't work well on MY mobile device because the GPRS connection is slow. What I want to see is ease of use and seamless mobile integration into transit planning. Who wouldn't? Most of us aren't connected via "broadband to the hand" or wifi jetpacks.
Let's get some useful stuff out there for technology that MOST people have available to them RIGHT NOW and take into consideration the speed of the bandwidth available for that technology!
When I was in college I had my real information with "William Domain Roehl" as my name. Guess how much junk mail I got to my address with my middle initial as D or "Domain"? Tons.
Either you're lucky or you have no presence on the web for your domains.
A) why does my private information need to become public just because I register a domain? I most certainly should not be required to provide a home address and telephone number let alone my real name just because I like to have a domain.
B) why should the registrar or ISP get to make additional money on top of the already outrageous costs associated with registering a domain name just to protect my information that shouldn't be required anyway?
...totally boring, usually incorrect, massively ignored, whiners...then yes.
Wow, a completely ignorant comment from someone that didn't RTFA and hasn't been keeping up w/the rapid changes taking place in the "industry".
Actually, recently, those that author some of the largest blogs are starting to do it as their full time job (we've seen articles on Slashdot about that), this article mentions that people are going directly to the authors' homes to try and pitch their idea/technology to get a write up on their website, and now blog authors are getting the red carpet treatment where only traditional journalists used to.
The difference between the old media elite and the new blogging elite is that the latter gets redefined much more frequently. All it takes is attracting links from other bloggers.
The article is about using AJAX on a webpage, but the biggest use of AJAX is on a web application.
Sure, putting ajax on the companies webpage may not be the best idea, but how often are you using bookmarks on gmail (a web application)? And if you want to print from gmail, it shouldn't be a print of the screen, but a specially built printable html page.
I think that pointing these things out NOW is a great idea being that AJAX is now one of the biggest buzzwords in the industry. With marketing and management raving about AJAX and demanding AJAX applications be put everywhere including locations they shouldn't be, I think it's about time someone put an article out there that describes the negative effect that AJAX applications could have on the web.
Hopefully more media outlets will start picking this up and not just touting the successes of AJAX. Remember, buzzwords = $$$ in the eyes of those that are clueless.
However, it appears that all the talk about "communications SNAFUs" was a smokescreen for a half-assed compromise that leaves the highest-quality recordings available only as streams, meaning that they can no longer be simply downloaded from the Archive and traded on....''
Exactly, while there are some high quality AUDs out there they just aren't the same as the SBDs. The Dead made millions on tour and they likely didn't need any more money to be coming in from the sale of their music so they never cared about charging for it.
Now, with people trying to make a living off what others did (and no longer do), they need to turn profits on what they have in their archive. Do I agree? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Unfortunately it's too late for them to do anything. The stuff is already out there and it's not like they are going to win the battle.
Thanks for dragging the GREAT name of Jerry and the rest of the Band down the fucking drain you morons. *THAT* makes me want to buy merchandise from you, really, it does...
I'm unconvinced- I think webmail will soon be replacing client side readers for all but power users.
Why? Webmail is slow at times and your Internet connection could be unavailable or only available at intervals. GMail, while great and all, isn't something I'm comfortable with even though I have 100s of labels and filters to make it readable. It's extremely slow on older CPUs and just b/c Google thinks that you don't need the "Folder concept" doesn't mean I don't want that.
With Webmail I can't get my e-mail to my machine and HOLD IT. I like the feeling that my e-mail is stored on *my* machine. I choose to archive my e-mail at GMail but it's not something I *must* have. In fact, depending on their future choices, I may remove all that e-mail and go back to just having it archived on WORM media.
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See, this is what we get when our schools aren't allowed to whoop ass anymore.
Schools don't need to "whoop ass". Parents need to be able to "whoop ass" w/o their kids knowing (or even having) the ability to "call social services". Parents should be able to practice a little "tough love" as long as it stays as a red ass and doesn't cross into black eyes.
The problem these days is that "timeouts" are used instead of the *threat* of the belt (the sound of a belt coming off a pair of jeans *still* bothers me to this day and I think it was used on me less than 5x).
Oh and all stores need to follow the lead of the guy that put up a *well written* sign on his door that asks that parents ensure that their children behave. Those that were part of the "backlash" against it need to seriously rethink their parental abilities and theories as they may not be the perfect parents that their precious parenting books tell them they are.
The TV programmers have figured out that there are enough gullible people in the world who watch and believe these shows that they can hire a basically competant series of actors who go through the motions of a reality series.
Uhh, the first? No. I realize that most people here are smart enough to shy away from watching the mind-numbing antics that "Reality TV" provides but being one of the sole Slashdotters that is married, I'm sucked into watching these shows w/my wife (if I didn't we wouldn't spend any time together). The Real World (faked, including the "engagement" of two of the on show actors -- probably MTV trying to be like Survivor and have a televised wedding). Survivor? Pay close attention to the size of the readily available fire wood. Looks precut to me. Joe Millionaire? All a bunch of bullshit.
So it's not the first -- only the first to appear on the "New and Improved" Slashdot -- News for Nerds, Stuff that only matters to *everyone else*.
Taco got it apparently and it wouldn't be much of an advertisement when it's not linked to from the main page I guess. Perhaps they left out the link by mistake or they did it purposefully so that people like you and I (who probably bitch when they have Slashvertisements) would complain when they don't blatantly "Slashvertise".
you'll definitely be envied by your friends next time you haul it out at a LAN party... it's a hell of a lot sexier than lugging around a monitor and a mini-atx based machine. I'm sad to let the review unit go back to WidowPC.
Personally, I would guess that your friends would be far more envious if you had a super sleek machine that wasn't noisy, hot, and HUGE but still offered good graphics, response, and the *possibily* of child rearing if you could get a girl.
That's me though.
Only if those working at the fast food outlets hacked them PRIOR to putting them in the kids' meals and included: this song as the only thing on there.
For instant notifications powered by Upoc, I certainly wouldn't mind this. If I leave my phone off for a couple hours (no signal at work) I get an SMS flood soon after leaving and end up having to delete messages after I read them. While it's not big deal it would be nice if I didn't even have to think about it.
*NO* text message that *I* get is worth keeping around after I read it. If it was, I'd just e-mail it to myself or copy/paste it to another application.
I like the idea, YMMV.
Debugged the fact that you're lame as hell. Don't do that, it's really pointless.
And God help you if you try to open the window and give others a peek.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
I don't see it being much different than any other professional "ball" based spot these days.
For what it's worth, the Internet filter at CMP Media, where I work, blocks Overpeer's site as 'spyware.'"
For what it's worth, a friend that works at Honeywell says that Bug Me Not's site is blocked as "hacking and subversion tools".
Yeah, exactly, so what?
They need to have google.slashdot.org and then people could block this stuff. Better yet, pointless-google-stories.slashdot.org as well as google.slashdot.org so we could seperate out the true trash from the slightly overrated trash that the editors have been pushing lately.
It wasn't set by default when I saw it this morning. Stupid Beta ;)
I saw it when I opened GMail to do my daily clean up of my GMail archive account. I disabled 99% of it and added Slashdot as the only "Webclip" available. The first (and only) story it showed was from 18 hours ago. Not exactly useful for me I guess.
YMMV.
Web 2.0 fundamentally revolves around us and seeks to ensure that we engage ourselves, participate and collaborate together, and mutually trust and enrich each other, even though we could be separated by the entire world geographically. And Web 2.0 gives us very specific techniques to do this and attempts to address the "people problem" directly.
Sweet! It gets rid of trolls, uneducated users, and the typical "Dumbass Element" that prevails on the Internet?
No? Oh, then Web 2.0 sucks just as much as "Web 1.0".
Are you equally outraged (or whatever emotion suits you) over the fakeable domain name data versus non-fakeable public data due to government records?
Uh, a drivers' license is not even in the same league as a domain. Let's not try to compare unrelated things, it's pointless.
I'm outraged at the fact that people who own domains legitimately are getting fucked over by those same people that have the power and ability to abuse this "law".
MOST? You mean, like, desktop computers?
I meant like SMS capable mobile phones and do something similar to London's Transit System that you can request info by SMS.
Nice attempt at a troll though, almost worked!
A while back I was using Metro Transit's trip planner to get me from the rail stations that I commonly use to another location accessable only by bus.
Anyway, afterward, the trip planner asked if I wanted to take a survey. They were very blatantly interested in mobile devices and how people use them to utilize their trip planner. At the time I was using the first public iteration of the Sidekick II's OS and it rendered well and was fast to use. At the end of the survey it asked if I wanted to be contacted about a live group session to discuss the mobile use of their planner. I was never contacted...
Now I'm onto the Sidekick II's second OS (update that includes better rendering for CSS, etc) and is MUCH more usable on every site except Metro Transit's trip planner. I don't know if they changed something or what but I'd like to see it go back to a more usable and friendly state.
Onto my point about Google Maps. While this is great and all, Google Maps doesn't work well on MY mobile device because the GPRS connection is slow. What I want to see is ease of use and seamless mobile integration into transit planning. Who wouldn't? Most of us aren't connected via "broadband to the hand" or wifi jetpacks.
Let's get some useful stuff out there for technology that MOST people have available to them RIGHT NOW and take into consideration the speed of the bandwidth available for that technology!
When I was in college I had my real information with "William Domain Roehl" as my name. Guess how much junk mail I got to my address with my middle initial as D or "Domain"? Tons.
Either you're lucky or you have no presence on the web for your domains.
A) why does my private information need to become public just because I register a domain? I most certainly should not be required to provide a home address and telephone number let alone my real name just because I like to have a domain.
B) why should the registrar or ISP get to make additional money on top of the already outrageous costs associated with registering a domain name just to protect my information that shouldn't be required anyway?
C) My domain information is fake. Fuck em.
...totally boring, usually incorrect, massively ignored, whiners...then yes.
Wow, a completely ignorant comment from someone that didn't RTFA and hasn't been keeping up w/the rapid changes taking place in the "industry".
Actually, recently, those that author some of the largest blogs are starting to do it as their full time job (we've seen articles on Slashdot about that), this article mentions that people are going directly to the authors' homes to try and pitch their idea/technology to get a write up on their website, and now blog authors are getting the red carpet treatment where only traditional journalists used to.
The difference between the old media elite and the new blogging elite is that the latter gets redefined much more frequently. All it takes is attracting links from other bloggers.
Does Google have the technology to do this kind of scientific searches yet?
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It's only in Beta thus it's not useful
The article is about using AJAX on a webpage, but the biggest use of AJAX is on a web application.
Sure, putting ajax on the companies webpage may not be the best idea, but how often are you using bookmarks on gmail (a web application)? And if you want to print from gmail, it shouldn't be a print of the screen, but a specially built printable html page.
I think that pointing these things out NOW is a great idea being that AJAX is now one of the biggest buzzwords in the industry. With marketing and management raving about AJAX and demanding AJAX applications be put everywhere including locations they shouldn't be, I think it's about time someone put an article out there that describes the negative effect that AJAX applications could have on the web.
Hopefully more media outlets will start picking this up and not just touting the successes of AJAX. Remember, buzzwords = $$$ in the eyes of those that are clueless.
However, it appears that all the talk about "communications SNAFUs" was a smokescreen for a half-assed compromise that leaves the highest-quality recordings available only as streams, meaning that they can no longer be simply downloaded from the Archive and traded on. ...''
Exactly, while there are some high quality AUDs out there they just aren't the same as the SBDs. The Dead made millions on tour and they likely didn't need any more money to be coming in from the sale of their music so they never cared about charging for it.
Now, with people trying to make a living off what others did (and no longer do), they need to turn profits on what they have in their archive. Do I agree? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Unfortunately it's too late for them to do anything. The stuff is already out there and it's not like they are going to win the battle.
Thanks for dragging the GREAT name of Jerry and the rest of the Band down the fucking drain you morons. *THAT* makes me want to buy merchandise from you, really, it does...
This in itself is not surprising -- it's a natural step that Google had to take in order to compete with the other biggies in the business.
Of course it's not surprising. They've been blocking "bad" attachments for quite some time (and possibly since I started using it on 6/22/04).
If they were doing that (which gets rid of most viruses and non-sense) all along, I certainly wouldn't be surprised by this.
I'm unconvinced- I think webmail will soon be replacing client side readers for all but power users.
Why? Webmail is slow at times and your Internet connection could be unavailable or only available at intervals. GMail, while great and all, isn't something I'm comfortable with even though I have 100s of labels and filters to make it readable. It's extremely slow on older CPUs and just b/c Google thinks that you don't need the "Folder concept" doesn't mean I don't want that.
With Webmail I can't get my e-mail to my machine and HOLD IT. I like the feeling that my e-mail is stored on *my* machine. I choose to archive my e-mail at GMail but it's not something I *must* have. In fact, depending on their future choices, I may remove all that e-mail and go back to just having it archived on WORM media.