I hate to respond to my own post, but in case ANYONE should come back and read this, there has been an update on this front. The Register published an article today, June 25, 2001, titled "Web sites! Banish those WinXP, IE6 smart tag blues!". In it, they state:
The tag is:
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
I'm sure/. will do a feature story on this, but in case they don't, the information is here...
The server is / was. The Netscape browser was just that, a browser.
You obviously don't remember, then, Navigator being sold in the store for around $40? It wasn't free (except to education and maybe non-profit orgs) until afterThe Man gave away his browser for free (and subsequently integrated it into the OS). After Netscape's marketshare started slipping, they decided to follow suit and tried to make money off of their other services, which you pointed out. Sadly, they never could.
Furthermore, anything that can be written in Kanji can be written (phonetically) in either Hiragana or Katakana - the use of Katakana for foreign words is nothing more than custom, not a limitation of the characters.
Both kanas are derived from the Chinese characters that they "borrowed"; hiragana is the smoothing down of an entire kanji character, while katakana is more or less radicals taken from kanji.
Hiragana was used initially solely by women and was derived from Chinese character's "caoshuti" in Heian era (794~1192). It was initially called "onna de", or "women's character".
Katakana (literally, "side script") is derived from a Chinese character of the same sound, ignoring semantic meaning. It was invented by Kibi no Makibi (AD 693-755). They were initially used as pronunciation aids in Buddist scripts; but later became verb endings.
If I'm to believe my last professor, at the end of WWII, this all changed. Hiragana was changed to reflect verb endings and particles, while katakana was reserved for foreign words, usually Dutch, German, and Chinese -- and with the post-war American occupation, English.
How many active distros are there for Linux right now? 14? Really? Raise of hands for Mandrake/Red Hat/Slackware/Debian/Suse? Did I miss anyone? (probably did and that will just serve to destroy my argument...).
There's more than 14. Check out LWN's Linux Distributions page for more info. Amongst those that you missed: Yellow Dog Linux, TurboLinux, Progeny, the Linux Router Project, etc...
How about your television shows? How many *major* stations are there? Certainly not 14...
Does cable count? What about satellite? How about radio stations? FM and AM?
As the goals of a large group of people come closer together, the group merges, pools resources, and strives to better the achievement of the common goal.
Which is what? To become a monopoly and lock out the industry?
Plus, I hope I give some admins a good laugh now and then. If you ever see this in your server logs, you'll know it's me:
Mozilla/6.666 (Atari 2600)
I like the images that this conjures.
For 2+ years, mine has been:
Mozilla/5.0 [en] (Commodore VIC-20; I)
The funniest thing about this was that someone actually included it in their GPL'd web server log parser, along with the comment similar to, "I'm not sure if this is legit..."
I still chuckle to this day thinking about it. Sadly, they did a complete rewrite and my unique client is no longer a part of the code.:(
I was going to suggest dailystrips, which I use daily, but apparently the author got the old Cease and Desist. This is a fabulous program, and I recommend it for personal use.
... it's better to omit them than to Add Capitals for no Apparent Reason. You see what I mean.
I always understood those random capitals, when read in electronic forums such as these*, were to be read as emphasized words, but not to the point of yelling. At any rate, you forgot the most important capital of all -- the beginning of a sentence.:)
*... or in forums where you don't have the luxury of a typeface markup, like bold.
There are actually three -- Imagine Media's, Nintendo's, and the truth. Which one will prevail?
Doubt it's the truth.
But you make a good point. I wish Nintendo the best of luck in dealing with the hordes of hate mail that will no doubtedly flow toward them. Maybe we should take up a hipwader fund?
Commit is what you do to a felon. Rollback is what your car does when you forget to turn the wheels and pull the handbrake on your car on a hill. Rollbacks can lead to commits if your car accidently hurts someone.
In a transactional database, they do what they sound like. Commit "commits" data to the table and "rollback" throws away your changes. Saved my bacon a few times. And possibly my job.
Do we have otherwise healthy people dying in their sleep due to violent dreams? Hell no!
How would we know? They'd be dead. Granted, most of us think "dying in your sleep" is peaceful, but maybe it's not. I don't really have first-hand experience on this, and I can't think of anyone that does...
For those of you interested, I have a Tick News section on one of my websites that I'll be collecting the various story links on. If you have any more, I'd love to see them. Unfortunately, I'm not as elite enough as/. to allow discussions -- something I'm currently still writing (but there are other Tick discussion boards (and newsgroup) if you really need to vent to fellow Tick fans). I won't make it a secret I'm a little scared about a live-action Tick (I've been a big fan since the comic first came out), but something is better than nothing... and maybe, just maybe this will be popular enough to propel The Tick onto the big screen. I'm tired of waiting. Ben! Hurry up already!
Okay, I know I'm really late on this and chances are someone else probably said something about it already (what can I say? I'm stuck with a 14.4 dialup at my parent's house for the holidays!)
When I was at the San Diego Comic Con this past August, I dutifully attended the Star Wars panel. It was announced (much to the booing of the crowd) that Lucas did not want to release *any* of the Star Wars movies on DVD until all of them were out in the theater. This was because he was thinking of bundling them together and doing a real nice package with it (for the fans, he claims). There was also some talk about him not liking the DVD format, but I can't remember if that was someone's accusation from the audience or if that came from the messenger's mouth. I can't imagine that he'd hate the format. This was August, mind you, before the encryption was "cracked" (which still gets me to shake my head. Weren't people pirating DVDs *before* the encryption was cracked?)
We all booed. And I still boo. Shame on you, Mr. Lucas! You are make me very disappointed in you and your mega-franchise. First Jar Jar, now this. No, Virginia, there isn't a Santa Claus. He's been turned to the dark side.
Because honestly, if I were to buy a copy of Quake III right now, I'd have to buy the Windows version because I haven't the "right" hardware 3D-accelerator.
Please consider buying the Linux version and then download the Wintel engine from the FTP server when it's released. This is what I'm going to do, even though my gfx card isn't supported under Linux (yet). I have no problem making my money vote for Linux even if I'm going to run it under Windows. Hopefully the distributors who do not believe alternative platforms exist will sit up and take notice.
You do make a very valid point, though, about Mesa. I've got it compiled but I'm a bit miffed at how slow it is. I mean, come on! I have an Athlon 550 (and a PIII-450 at work). I feel like I'm running a 486/66 again. A lower-res "fast" mode would be great. I'd consider helping the project, but you haven't seen me try to program 3D software. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
(other than that, I'm happy with Mesa. I just can't wait for a.so library for my video card)
At my previous job, we were bought out by a bigger company who thought they could do the ISP business. In the process of "finding" their name, they hired some outfit from California (IIRC), which spent weeks and weeks discovering *the* name that would revolutionize the ISP business. The contractor met with the companies representatives and suggested... Syndic (and the slogan was "The biggest thing on the Internet"). Yes, the only ISP name that could double as a pr0n site.:-D
Needless to say, they said *thank you* and went somewhere else.
The owner of ToysRGus seems to think that the case is weak, but the names are too similar and I have to agree with ToysRus.
So you're saying that if someone trying to go to toysrus.com accidently typed toysrgus.com, they're going to be confused and think it's Toys "R" Us? Have you even gone to the Gus' site?
I don't think this confusion will be made. That is, unless they can't tell the difference between left and right; in which case, they shouldn't be crusin' the web in the first place.
The owner of ToysRGus states that ToysRus is claiming ownership of anything with ___US.COM and that's not correct. ToyRus is claiming its trademark covers anything using ___RUS and if it goes to court they will win.
Already pointed out, but Gus' domain ends in _RGUS, not __RUS. This point is moot.
In a nutshell, TRU has no legal leg to stand on and are using scare tactics that won't work.
Slashdot Mirror
*sigh* Leave it to /. to screw up a link.
... or using Hotmail.
I hate to respond to my own post, but in case ANYONE should come back and read this, there has been an update on this front. The Register published an article today, June 25, 2001, titled "Web sites! Banish those WinXP, IE6 smart tag blues!". In it, they state:
I'm sureThere is none yet. Microsoft hasn't decided on what it'll be.
They'll spring it on us at the last possible moment, so that we'll all have to scramble to "opt-out" of their little game.
You obviously don't remember, then, Navigator being sold in the store for around $40? It wasn't free (except to education and maybe non-profit orgs) until after The Man gave away his browser for free (and subsequently integrated it into the OS). After Netscape's marketshare started slipping, they decided to follow suit and tried to make money off of their other services, which you pointed out. Sadly, they never could.
Both kanas are derived from the Chinese characters that they "borrowed"; hiragana is the smoothing down of an entire kanji character, while katakana is more or less radicals taken from kanji.
Hiragana was used initially solely by women and was derived from Chinese character's "caoshuti" in Heian era (794~1192). It was initially called "onna de", or "women's character".
Katakana (literally, "side script") is derived from a Chinese character of the same sound, ignoring semantic meaning. It was invented by Kibi no Makibi (AD 693-755). They were initially used as pronunciation aids in Buddist scripts; but later became verb endings.
If I'm to believe my last professor, at the end of WWII, this all changed. Hiragana was changed to reflect verb endings and particles, while katakana was reserved for foreign words, usually Dutch, German, and Chinese -- and with the post-war American occupation, English.
There's more than 14. Check out LWN's Linux Distributions page for more info. Amongst those that you missed: Yellow Dog Linux, TurboLinux, Progeny, the Linux Router Project, etc...
Does cable count? What about satellite? How about radio stations? FM and AM?
Which is what? To become a monopoly and lock out the industry?
However, they were fired for relying on it.
Aye, two Wrights make an airplane.
Any takers? I'm surprised nobody has really asked this question yet. Here are my nominees:
Of course, since this is America, it'll probably be more along the lines of:
Nope. Cartoon only.
For 2+ years, mine has been:
Mozilla/5.0 [en] (Commodore VIC-20; I)
The funniest thing about this was that someone actually included it in their GPL'd web server log parser, along with the comment similar to, "I'm not sure if this is legit..."
I still chuckle to this day thinking about it. Sadly, they did a complete rewrite and my unique client is no longer a part of the code. :(
I was going to suggest dailystrips, which I use daily, but apparently the author got the old Cease and Desist. This is a fabulous program, and I recommend it for personal use.
* ... or in forums where you don't have the luxury of a typeface markup, like bold.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned kisama.
There are actually three -- Imagine Media's, Nintendo's, and the truth. Which one will prevail?
Doubt it's the truth.
But you make a good point. I wish Nintendo the best of luck in dealing with the hordes of hate mail that will no doubtedly flow toward them. Maybe we should take up a hipwader fund?
Please explain what commit and rollback are.
Commit is what you do to a felon. Rollback is what your car does when you forget to turn the wheels and pull the handbrake on your car on a hill. Rollbacks can lead to commits if your car accidently hurts someone.
In a transactional database, they do what they sound like. Commit "commits" data to the table and "rollback" throws away your changes. Saved my bacon a few times. And possibly my job.
Do we have otherwise healthy people dying in their sleep due to violent dreams? Hell no!
How would we know? They'd be dead. Granted, most of us think "dying in your sleep" is peaceful, but maybe it's not. I don't really have first-hand experience on this, and I can't think of anyone that does...
... choosing Microsoft is a safe bet. No one ever got fired for selecting a Microsoft product. No matter how much they deserved to.
Right ... they got fired for relying on a Microsoft product. <G>
For those of you interested, I have a Tick News section on one of my websites that I'll be collecting the various story links on. If you have any more, I'd love to see them. Unfortunately, I'm not as elite enough as /. to allow discussions -- something I'm currently still writing (but there are other Tick discussion boards (and newsgroup) if you really need to vent to fellow Tick fans). I won't make it a secret I'm a little scared about a live-action Tick (I've been a big fan since the comic first came out), but something is better than nothing... and maybe, just maybe this will be popular enough to propel The Tick onto the big screen. I'm tired of waiting. Ben! Hurry up already!
Okay, I know I'm really late on this and chances are someone else probably said something about it already (what can I say? I'm stuck with a 14.4 dialup at my parent's house for the holidays!)
When I was at the San Diego Comic Con this past August, I dutifully attended the Star Wars panel. It was announced (much to the booing of the crowd) that Lucas did not want to release *any* of the Star Wars movies on DVD until all of them were out in the theater. This was because he was thinking of bundling them together and doing a real nice package with it (for the fans, he claims). There was also some talk about him not liking the DVD format, but I can't remember if that was someone's accusation from the audience or if that came from the messenger's mouth. I can't imagine that he'd hate the format. This was August, mind you, before the encryption was "cracked" (which still gets me to shake my head. Weren't people pirating DVDs *before* the encryption was cracked?)
We all booed. And I still boo. Shame on you, Mr. Lucas! You are make me very disappointed in you and your mega-franchise. First Jar Jar, now this. No, Virginia, there isn't a Santa Claus. He's been turned to the dark side.
Because honestly, if I were to buy a copy of Quake III right now, I'd have to buy the Windows version because I haven't the "right" hardware 3D-accelerator.
Please consider buying the Linux version and then download the Wintel engine from the FTP server when it's released. This is what I'm going to do, even though my gfx card isn't supported under Linux (yet). I have no problem making my money vote for Linux even if I'm going to run it under Windows. Hopefully the distributors who do not believe alternative platforms exist will sit up and take notice.
You do make a very valid point, though, about Mesa. I've got it compiled but I'm a bit miffed at how slow it is. I mean, come on! I have an Athlon 550 (and a PIII-450 at work). I feel like I'm running a 486/66 again. A lower-res "fast" mode would be great. I'd consider helping the project, but you haven't seen me try to program 3D software. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
(other than that, I'm happy with Mesa. I just can't wait for a .so library for my video card)
At my previous job, we were bought out by a bigger company who thought they could do the ISP business. In the process of "finding" their name, they hired some outfit from California (IIRC), which spent weeks and weeks discovering *the* name that would revolutionize the ISP business. The contractor met with the companies representatives and suggested... Syndic (and the slogan was "The biggest thing on the Internet"). Yes, the only ISP name that could double as a pr0n site. :-D
Needless to say, they said *thank you* and went somewhere else.
Robotic snake, huh? Won't be long before we have flying cars, electric sheep that dream, and Atari making a surprise comeback.
The owner of ToysRGus seems to think that the case is weak, but the names are too similar and I have to agree with ToysRus.
So you're saying that if someone trying to go to toysrus.com accidently typed toysrgus.com, they're going to be confused and think it's Toys "R" Us? Have you even gone to the Gus' site?
I don't think this confusion will be made. That is, unless they can't tell the difference between left and right; in which case, they shouldn't be crusin' the web in the first place.
The owner of ToysRGus states that ToysRus is claiming ownership of anything with ___US.COM and that's not correct. ToyRus is claiming its trademark covers anything using ___RUS and if it goes to court they will win.
Already pointed out, but Gus' domain ends in _RGUS, not __RUS. This point is moot.
In a nutshell, TRU has no legal leg to stand on and are using scare tactics that won't work.