It's quite a hefty investment, and it doesn't run on any open-source operating systems, but I happen to think that simple Lingo programming can be quite satisfying for non-programmers. The syntax is very high-level, and the payoff can be magnificent, especially if the kids learn the timeline and keyframe animation system first.
There are more elegant, more intelligent ways to program graphics, but there are few easier ones that are that powerful.
Is there any ability for Mac users like myself to play with Mindstorms? I heard that there's a DACTA system which comes in a macintosh version, but I have seen almost nothing except for rumor.
If I were a Windows user, RIS would have been up at the tippy-top of my holiday list.
Hey slashdot- when do you think that you will be sued because somebody's spending too much time reading the site and the wasted time was out of their control?
I mean, you people are costing corporate america BILLIONS of dollars in wasted hours. I think that a class action suit is in order: Microsoft et al. v. Andover.net. I mean, how are they supposed to prevent themselves from reading such juicy content?
Denise Richards is great when she takes the sort of Keanu-ish roles that require terrible acting. A couple of examples:
- Starship Troopers (IMHO a great movie, if you relax and take it for the trash it is meant to be.) - Wild Things (Just wait until the end.)
I have not seen the Bond movie, but I'm sure that casting her as a nuclear scientist was done almost completely tongue in cheek. Hey, how about Keanu Reeves as a college professor!
I have a good friend (who is also an avid/. reader BTW) who owned business.com in 1995. He must just be howling right now.
I own five domain names. Some are for my personal use, some are business related, and one is purely for speculation.
I think that cybersquatting is OK. If you register a name for personal use that happens to resemble a trademarked entity, there's no reason in the world why you should have to give it up. And the boundary between "for personal use" and "pay my ransom!" can be mighty fuzzy sometimes, believe it or not.
I own "panda.net", among other names. Not a week goes by when I don't get a request for the name. Nobody has offered any money yet, and I won't take it unless it's a stratospherically high offer. For personal use! But what if "Panda Computing" or some sort of other group decides that I am infringing on their trademark? In Australia, I gather I would be up the creek. How do you separate the assholes from the earnest?
This is the first part of the article run through Babelfish in the following order:
English --> Portugese --> English --> Italian --> English
It's interesting that Babelfish doesn't even understand words it uses from other languages... --
Blikk: Madonna, Budapest says that hello with the arms that are it is scattered - eagled. You have one called here that it was gradevole? They are you in the good odore? It you are the larger fan of the our new people who feel the relative musical productions and they appreciate to them to move the relative bodies in the answer.
Madonna: [ thankses that say these conservations to it of compliment have raised the hands ]. the arrests satisfy with making the examination of the photography of the sensationalist until that it does not remove the indumenti of the mine for all in order seeing [ risate ]. That is a joke that I have made.
Blikk: Madonna, we cut for the hunting: You are bold(realce) of the hussy-woman these parties in the men who are high?
Nobody ever buys PCs for single packages that are bundled on them! "Look, Honey! This Compaq has Reading Rabbit preinstalled! Let's drop two grand and put it in the kids' room."
Hotsauce, nee Project X, was an Apple project. GoLive CyberStudio v2 was an application which could export site indexes as.mcf's- you could have a running X-map of your site. Very, very, very cool stuff. Alas, it was Steved.
I agree. The problem with my workplace is that the n/d system was implemented, and they simply left it alone. There were almost no training sessions. Nobody knows (except the IT people and me, the sole tech-literate designer) how to even pull files from the Notes server. It's a tragedy.
I work in an office completely regimented by Domino and Notes... a more clunky excuse for a groupware framework I have never encountered. Notes spends more time giving people problems than it does solving them.
The idea was that great lumps of information would be shared by groups through Notes databases and Domino pages. The reality is that it's one more thing for notech lusers and PHB's to ignore and fail to learn. It's just a glorified email system at this point, and far less elegant than simple POP and SMTP. ah well.
It's been a long time since America came up with anything even approaching the genius of Monty Python's Flying Circus, but UCB comes close. They're hysterical, smart and completely unafraid to take chances. So what if some episodes fall flat? The successes- the "hole in the sheet" episode, the Little Donny Foundation, "New Brain!"- these make it the best thing on television.
Best movie: A Bug's Life. OK, so it was Disney. And a kids' movie. (I'm 28.) But nothing kept me consistently as entertained in my seat. My jaw hit the floor in the first few seconds and stayed there. Don't be snobs! It was awesome. Happiness was also great, but not nearly as enjoyable an experience.
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It's quite a hefty investment, and it doesn't run on any open-source operating systems, but I happen to think that simple Lingo programming can be quite satisfying for non-programmers. The syntax is very high-level, and the payoff can be magnificent, especially if the kids learn the timeline and keyframe animation system first.
There are more elegant, more intelligent ways to program graphics, but there are few easier ones that are that powerful.
Don't flame me! We're talking about kids here.
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The codecs are still proprietary, but the work has begun.
Is there any ability for Mac users like myself to play with Mindstorms? I heard that there's a DACTA system which comes in a macintosh version, but I have seen almost nothing except for rumor.
If I were a Windows user, RIS would have been up at the tippy-top of my holiday list.
When will it end?
Hey slashdot- when do you think that you will be sued because somebody's spending too much time reading the site and the wasted time was out of their control?
I mean, you people are costing corporate america BILLIONS of dollars in wasted hours. I think that a class action suit is in order: Microsoft et al. v. Andover.net. I mean, how are they supposed to prevent themselves from reading such juicy content?
Gosh, you guys are a menace.
Mallrats stank. It was a classic example of the "Let's give that talented indie kid fifteen million dollars and see how he can waste it" syndrome.
Chasing Amy was a much better, more mature movie. Get it straight.
Denise Richards is great when she takes the sort of Keanu-ish roles that require terrible acting. A couple of examples:
- Starship Troopers (IMHO a great movie, if you relax and take it for the trash it is meant to be.)
- Wild Things (Just wait until the end.)
I have not seen the Bond movie, but I'm sure that casting her as a nuclear scientist was done almost completely tongue in cheek. Hey, how about Keanu Reeves as a college professor!
I have a good friend (who is also an avid /. reader BTW) who owned business.com in 1995. He must just be howling right now.
I own five domain names. Some are for my personal use, some are business related, and one is purely for speculation.
I think that cybersquatting is OK. If you register a name for personal use that happens to resemble a trademarked entity, there's no reason in the world why you should have to give it up. And the boundary between "for personal use" and "pay my ransom!" can be mighty fuzzy sometimes, believe it or not.
I own "panda.net", among other names. Not a week goes by when I don't get a request for the name. Nobody has offered any money yet, and I won't take it unless it's a stratospherically high offer. For personal use! But what if "Panda Computing" or some sort of other group decides that I am infringing on their trademark? In Australia, I gather I would be up the creek. How do you separate the assholes from the earnest?
This is the first part of the article run through Babelfish in the following order:
English --> Portugese --> English --> Italian --> English
It's interesting that Babelfish doesn't even understand words it uses from other languages...
--
Blikk: Madonna, Budapest says that hello with the arms that are it is scattered - eagled. You have one called here that it was gradevole? They are you in the good odore? It you are the larger fan of the our new people who feel the relative musical productions and they appreciate to them to move the relative bodies in the answer.
Madonna: [ thankses that say these conservations to it of compliment have raised the hands ]. the arrests satisfy with making the examination of the photography of the sensationalist until that it does not remove the indumenti of the mine for all in order seeing [ risate ]. That is a joke that I have made.
Blikk: Madonna, we cut for the hunting: You are bold(realce) of the hussy-woman these parties in the men who are high?
Madonna: Yes,
Nobody ever buys PCs for single packages that are bundled on them! "Look, Honey! This Compaq has Reading Rabbit preinstalled! Let's drop two grand and put it in the kids' room."
Hotsauce, nee Project X, was an Apple project. GoLive CyberStudio v2 was an application which could export site indexes as .mcf's- you could have a running X-map of your site. Very, very, very cool stuff. Alas, it was Steved.
I agree. The problem with my workplace is that the n/d system was implemented, and they simply left it alone. There were almost no training sessions. Nobody knows (except the IT people and me, the sole tech-literate designer) how to even pull files from the Notes server. It's a tragedy.
I work in an office completely regimented by Domino and Notes... a more clunky excuse for a groupware framework I have never encountered. Notes spends more time giving people problems than it does solving them.
The idea was that great lumps of information would be shared by groups through Notes databases and Domino pages. The reality is that it's one more thing for notech lusers and PHB's to ignore and fail to learn. It's just a glorified email system at this point, and far less elegant than simple POP and SMTP. ah well.
Now WHY is this trollbait? People are getting a little moderation-happy, methinks. He's just agreeing! Are "Me Too" posts trolls?
It's gone. Anybody got a mirror?
Using "real 3d" to make 2d characters, floating around and occasionally folding themselves.
It looks to me like the comments for the essay and the comments for the poll are the same. Was that intentional?
Yeah, sure, keep him. Believe it or not, after this first installment, I prefer Katz.
Best show: Upright Citizens Brigade
It's been a long time since America came up with anything even approaching the genius of Monty Python's Flying Circus, but UCB comes close. They're hysterical, smart and completely unafraid to take chances. So what if some episodes fall flat? The successes- the "hole in the sheet" episode, the Little Donny Foundation, "New Brain!"- these make it the best thing on television.
Best movie: A Bug's Life.
OK, so it was Disney. And a kids' movie. (I'm 28.) But nothing kept me consistently as entertained in my seat. My jaw hit the floor in the first few seconds and stayed there. Don't be snobs! It was awesome. Happiness was also great, but not nearly as enjoyable an experience.