Re:Talking out both sides of out mouths.
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Let me point you to Irfanview It's a small, nippy graphic viewer with some (but not many) editing tools, slideshow and thumbnail capabilities and can handle pretty much any kind of graphic file. (It also supports movies, sounds and text, but is not designed with that in mind)
As a graphic buffer it is fantastic. Quicker and more flexible than Paint, excellent keyboards shortcuts, yadda, yadda, yadda. Love it.
You posted a link to a picture on/. as one of the early posts. And you hosted the image at imageshck. You didn't post this comment on fark as well did you?
I found this (using google)
IIR
It's a PDF so here's the text:
Protection of intellectual property
In our Trading Statement issued on 6 April 2004, it was noted that Google Inc. were intending to
launch a service by the name of Gmail, and that the Group has had a similar service since 2002. The
Group has been working together with a firm of London based solicitors with a highly regarded
Intellectual Property department, and has recently written to the founding directors of Google on the
subject. We await a response.
Looks like they themselves are treating this as IP infringment. There is another report from august 2005 which clearly uses these words. Surely only the lawyers will win.....
Fair point but one thing to add. There are distinct and recognisable types of thinking, feeling and doing - those of us here who think of our selves as nerds are distinctly and measurably distinct from those who don't on several dimentions.
Those intangible tasks that are difficult to quantify, they just take some people longer and require greater effort from them.
In my office I am a little bit L3et. I am magnitudes faster on a computer at nearly all tasks because I know the shortcuts and rarely come across a problem I can't fix or avoid in the first place.
Garry, a middle aged ex-boxer types with the first two fingers on his right hand.
I can process mabey ten documents to his one.
Now I can't sell for toffee. I can engage customers, have good interpersonal skills, good communicator, yadda, yadda, but I can't make somone want to buy into the service like Garry can. The man realy captivates and controls his audience.
We are paid to do the same job but have different skill sets. We work in concert at the same task towards the same outcomes and with a lot of redundancy between our roles but we effectivly do different work.
How do you judge productivity in an information age? It's a nonsense.
INterestingly.... spends his two hours downtime networking........oh...and in a different sort of way, so do I.
Hang on.....let me check something....
No this is definitely slashdot. If you didn't want immature rants then what are you doing here? I think you want somting with content that's a bit more adult and considered. Try somewhere like Fark
Meanwhile, I have to agree...measles makes me sick too.
I have a better gadget that requires only ordinary paper and an ordinary pen. The way it works is that I write the calculation down on the paper and then using the power of thinking and the standard mathematical notation that I learnt at school, I perform the calculation.
In this way I can add, divide, multiply and subtract. If I'm feeling brave I can do simple equations where one or more variables are unknown and if I really push myself I can even do simple calculations in my head.
I'm not so old that I didn't have a calc at school but a calc is just another tool like a pencil. I think my point is that people seem to want to invent any number of technological solutions to the problem of learning. Technology cannot solve the problem of learning. Only making an effort to learn can solve the problem of learning.
The only advantage of this pen is that it might make learning a bit more fun for those that like playing with gadgets and hence engage those kids that might not be engaged in other ways.
And as I'm feeling a bit ranty today, it seems to me that a lot of people think that technology is a solution to what ever problem is out there (E.G. Biometrics, I.D. cards et al as a sloution to terrorism {don't get me started}). Surely technology can only ever be a tool or a useful approach. Technology solves nothing. People solve stuff. Stop throwing pretty (but essentially useless) gadgets at our kids. Stop making them consumers before they can think for them selves.
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What good is science if you don't use it for evil? Come on, more evil science please.
This is not such a silly idea. There is an artical here about the weight and mass of information and the internet. It's a good read if you're interested in the physics of information technologies.
Although most people consider light to be the fastest thing there is, heavy is indeed faster but it takes longer to get up to speed and has problems turning corners.
10 Slashdotterdude 1: people are stupid
20 Slashdotterdude 2: no they're not
goto 10
Come on guys, think it through. internetworldstats (can't be arsed to link) reports there are 888 million internet users in the top 20 internet using countrys. It's a lot of people. Now imagine a normal curve and, to make it easy for the stupid out there, imagine that's 444mil that are stupid and 444mil that have a clue.
Let's, for the sake of (wildly inaccurate) argument make another curve with half of the 'not stupid' having time and half not, and then another curve of the resultant with half being technically minded......etc, etc and pretty soon you have.......ermmmm(counts fingers)....777million people who can't or wont 'get' computers or the internet, let alone look up a word on dictionary.com.
You guys.....why must you pointlessly argue about how stupid people are or not when they are obviously both and niether at the same time.
Is it me or do slashdot readers all fall on the left hand side of the curve?
Having said that, there are huge amounts of things I believe with a small "b". I believe I am posting to slashdot, I believe my keyboard needs cleaning (ewwwwwww - what is that stuck between j and k?), I believe that tommorrow I have to go to work and attempt to be productive or at the very minimum, appear to do so and I believe millions of small things that seem to make my world go round and appears to make an awful lot of peoples worlds do the same.
I don't Believe in god, science, economics, art, the spirit, government, the law yadda, yadda yadda.
I don't see the point in "beliving IN something" because one's belief seldom seems to make a difference to anything in particular. I do believe in "believing THAT something is", generally because things very often are.
To (mis)quote Terry Pratchet: "seeing is not believing because once you've seen it, belief isn't nesscesary anymore."
"Right mate...'ave you tried a whistle un flute on the old arm un knee? You ave? You gotta be 'avin' a laaff incha?
Try this then, give "my computer" the old micheal knight lickety split and go darn ta properties. Click on the well-'ardware 'ansome cab and then on ta the device pitch un toss.
what do you mean there's naffin there. Bleedin norah mate, this is turning aart ta be a right lionel blair. fak........."
Check out googles image search - I think I remember seeing this over two years ago now:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=earthlights&hl =en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Ridiculous argument. How many computers (hundreds of thousands I suspect) had windoze 3.1 installed? How many millions (billions?) of computers are there now with windoze by comparison? Just as computer use and computer users have grown by huge factors over the last decade or so, those who can't, don't want to or wont deal with administering a computer have grown quicker.
People increasingly have to use a word processor for work for instance but don't at the same time increasingly have to learn how to patch the system the word processor is on.
My experience with linux on my own system is that it is harder to get it to work in the first place than windoze. Once you can get a system working you can then go on to learn trouble shooting that system. If you have to begin with trouble shooting before getting the OS to work, why bother.
It's a damn shame but for me, ripping off M$ is still easyer than installing Linux.
I have 5gb of music. I haven't even begun to record my LPs onto my hard disk. I'm happy to give friends mp3s on cd and I borrow albulms from the library at 80p per albulm. Anyone wanting to get some tracks off me is welcome to. My rate is postage, packing and media cost. How free do you want music to be?
Quite
One of the real problems with this movie is not that the hulk can do things that are impossible but that he is animated like a cartoon. Even if the hulk could do these things he wouldn't be able to do it the way it's shown. The makers didn't seem interested in following the rules of gravity, accelaration and momentum, obviously followed a disney physics.
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As a graphic buffer it is fantastic. Quicker and more flexible than Paint, excellent keyboards shortcuts, yadda, yadda, yadda. Love it.
Displosable? What? Is this some new fiendish Chinese technology?
Enough already.....It's giving me a hadock!
No wonder your nano is farked dude.
Oh dude.....just the image in my head is doing me harm....oh my neurones, my poor, poor neurones.
It's a PDF so here's the text:
Protection of intellectual property In our Trading Statement issued on 6 April 2004, it was noted that Google Inc. were intending to launch a service by the name of Gmail, and that the Group has had a similar service since 2002.
The Group has been working together with a firm of London based solicitors with a highly regarded Intellectual Property department, and has recently written to the founding directors of Google on the subject. We await a response.
Looks like they themselves are treating this as IP infringment.
There is another report from august 2005 which clearly uses these words. Surely only the lawyers will win.....
You must be new here. The majority of /.'ers will never reproduce.
Those intangible tasks that are difficult to quantify, they just take some people longer and require greater effort from them.
In my office I am a little bit L3et. I am magnitudes faster on a computer at nearly all tasks because I know the shortcuts and rarely come across a problem I can't fix or avoid in the first place.
Garry, a middle aged ex-boxer types with the first two fingers on his right hand. I can process mabey ten documents to his one.
Now I can't sell for toffee. I can engage customers, have good interpersonal skills, good communicator, yadda, yadda, but I can't make somone want to buy into the service like Garry can. The man realy captivates and controls his audience. We are paid to do the same job but have different skill sets. We work in concert at the same task towards the same outcomes and with a lot of redundancy between our roles but we effectivly do different work.
How do you judge productivity in an information age? It's a nonsense.
INterestingly.... spends his two hours downtime networking........oh...and in a different sort of way, so do I.
--Parental guidence
No this is definitely slashdot. If you didn't want immature rants then what are you doing here? I think you want somting with content that's a bit more adult and considered. Try somewhere like Fark
Meanwhile, I have to agree...measles makes me sick too.
The way it works is that I write the calculation down on the paper and then using the power of thinking and the standard mathematical notation that I learnt at school, I perform the calculation.
In this way I can add, divide, multiply and subtract. If I'm feeling brave I can do simple equations where one or more variables are unknown and if I really push myself I can even do simple calculations in my head.
I'm not so old that I didn't have a calc at school but a calc is just another tool like a pencil. I think my point is that people seem to want to invent any number of technological solutions to the problem of learning. Technology cannot solve the problem of learning. Only making an effort to learn can solve the problem of learning.
The only advantage of this pen is that it might make learning a bit more fun for those that like playing with gadgets and hence engage those kids that might not be engaged in other ways.
And as I'm feeling a bit ranty today, it seems to me that a lot of people think that technology is a solution to what ever problem is out there (E.G. Biometrics, I.D. cards et al as a sloution to terrorism {don't get me started}). Surely technology can only ever be a tool or a useful approach. Technology solves nothing. People solve stuff. Stop throwing pretty (but essentially useless) gadgets at our kids. Stop making them consumers before they can think for them selves. ----- What good is science if you don't use it for evil? Come on, more evil science please.
Although most people consider light to be the fastest thing there is, heavy is indeed faster but it takes longer to get up to speed and has problems turning corners.
20 Slashdotterdude 2: no they're not
goto 10
Come on guys, think it through.
internetworldstats (can't be arsed to link) reports there are 888 million internet users in the top 20 internet using countrys. It's a lot of people. Now imagine a normal curve and, to make it easy for the stupid out there, imagine that's 444mil that are stupid and 444mil that have a clue.
Let's, for the sake of (wildly inaccurate) argument make another curve with half of the 'not stupid' having time and half not, and then another curve of the resultant with half being technically minded......etc, etc and pretty soon you have.......ermmmm(counts fingers)....777million people who can't or wont 'get' computers or the internet, let alone look up a word on dictionary.com.
You guys.....why must you pointlessly argue about how stupid people are or not when they are obviously both and niether at the same time.
Is it me or do slashdot readers all fall on the left hand side of the curve?
Retards.
Sandy Toksvig. She would own the role.
Bottle of water anyone?
Having said that, there are huge amounts of things I believe with a small "b". I believe I am posting to slashdot, I believe my keyboard needs cleaning (ewwwwwww - what is that stuck between j and k?), I believe that tommorrow I have to go to work and attempt to be productive or at the very minimum, appear to do so and I believe millions of small things that seem to make my world go round and appears to make an awful lot of peoples worlds do the same.
I don't Believe in god, science, economics, art, the spirit, government, the law yadda, yadda yadda.
I don't see the point in "beliving IN something" because one's belief seldom seems to make a difference to anything in particular. I do believe in "believing THAT something is", generally because things very often are.
To (mis)quote Terry Pratchet: "seeing is not believing because once you've seen it, belief isn't nesscesary anymore."
Or at least, so I believe.
Where's the foetus going to gestate? In a box?
You can't reason with an asshole
Lets detail this here:
1 - Select generic ruuning gag post
2 - Quote said post
3 - Meta comment, with self-referential irony, terseness and/or dry humour on said post.
4 - ????????
5 - Profit?.......Erm, just a minute
Damn, it's been a long day, I'm off for coffee and a nice lie down.
Everybody.... click on the links in the parent. Hit refresh. And again.......and again.....
Good slashdotter...
I never metaphore I didn't like.
"Right mate...'ave you tried a whistle un flute on the old arm un knee? You ave? You gotta be 'avin' a laaff incha?
Try this then, give "my computer" the old micheal knight lickety split and go darn ta properties. Click on the well-'ardware 'ansome cab and then on ta the device pitch un toss.
what do you mean there's naffin there. Bleedin norah mate, this is turning aart ta be a right lionel blair. fak........."
Check out googles image search - I think I remember seeing this over two years ago now: http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=earthlights&hl =en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Anyone?
Ridiculous argument. How many computers (hundreds of thousands I suspect) had windoze 3.1 installed? How many millions (billions?) of computers are there now with windoze by comparison? Just as computer use and computer users have grown by huge factors over the last decade or so, those who can't, don't want to or wont deal with administering a computer have grown quicker.
People increasingly have to use a word processor for work for instance but don't at the same time increasingly have to learn how to patch the system the word processor is on.
My experience with linux on my own system is that it is harder to get it to work in the first place than windoze. Once you can get a system working you can then go on to learn trouble shooting that system. If you have to begin with trouble shooting before getting the OS to work, why bother.
It's a damn shame but for me, ripping off M$ is still easyer than installing Linux.
I have 5gb of music. I haven't even begun to record my LPs onto my hard disk. I'm happy to give friends mp3s on cd and I borrow albulms from the library at 80p per albulm.
Anyone wanting to get some tracks off me is welcome to. My rate is postage, packing and media cost.
How free do you want music to be?
Deranged is as good as depressed.
Microsoft running on normal PCs? YOU can make windoze work on a normal PC? What's your secret?
Quite One of the real problems with this movie is not that the hulk can do things that are impossible but that he is animated like a cartoon. Even if the hulk could do these things he wouldn't be able to do it the way it's shown. The makers didn't seem interested in following the rules of gravity, accelaration and momentum, obviously followed a disney physics.