Where are the tubby bearded Unix gurus? The skinny, pasty-skinned, ponytailed technopolitical geeks with the long leather dusters? The thought of any "summit" where friendly user interfaces were highlighted probably scared 'em off.
If one examines folksonomies and their accompanying power relations, one is faced with a choice: either accept realism or conclude that the law is part of the dialectic of art. It could be said that followers of synonym control use the term 'the cultural paradigm of consensus' to denote the bridge between online identities and culture.
The premise of realism suggests that the significance of the observer is deconstruction. Thus, the characteristic theme of social tagging and mob indexing is the role of the participant as artist.
Anyone understand that? No? Neither did I. Didn't understand the OP either. Is/. receiving crossposts from alt.postmodern?
... according to a SpamCop scan. Here's the header of a typical Gmail spam:
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Reply-To: "Roy Montoya"
From: "Roy Montoya"
To: "Someone else"
Subject: Someone else Office XP - $60
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:53:10 +0200
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Korea. Spam. Where have I seen that before?
In my Gmail box (not my main e-mail, I'm still experimenting with Gmail much like the rest of you), most of my spam comes from what seems lke randomly-generated Anglo/corporate-sounding names of people that sound like they "work down in accounting"; "Kerri Dolan" , "Sharon Winslow", "Marci Pratt", "Darrin Snell" and the like.
All the spammed messahes all has titles like (something similar to my username) Popular software at low low prices and (something similar to my username) Extinguish pain with codeine. About 50% is for discount software, 40% drugs, 10% replica watches.
In my limited experience, Gmail sends incoming e-mail that has a similar-appearing but nonexistent address into your box. Let's say there's an cyburbia at gmail d0t com. You may get mail for cyburban, cyburb or syburbia at gmail d0t com, even when those addresses don't exist.
Even though I own my own domain, I have a few gmail accounts, just in case. Today, in my d[mylastname] at gmail d0t com account, I recieved a bunch baby pictures from someone I don't know; they were addressed to [my last name]s at gmail dot com, and my address is nowhere to be seen in the headers.
The typical city in North America doesn't look that different than the city of 50 years ago, except that it's less dense, the limited access highway network then under construction is mostly complete, and some mixed or incompatible land uses have been filtered out by zoning.
What was the newest land use trend 50 years ago? Relatively low density, automobile-oriented suburbs. Today, the suburbs dominate the urban landscape, though not to the exclusion of older built environment patterns such as denser urban neighborhoods.
What's making the pages of urban planning-related publications today? Gentrification, urban infill, and new urbanism, along with semi-rural exurban sprawl. Expect to see more of that, along with "kinder, gentler suburbs"; traditional lower-density suburbs with higher-quality architecture, low-profile signage and plentiful landscaping in commercial areas, and so on.
Cities are organic, living entities. Planning to shape and guide the development of existing urban areas is a Good Thing; without it, most urban North Americans would be subject to Houston-like chaos. However, contemporary cities planned from the start tend to be sterile and lacking in character; Canberra, Brazilia, planned industrial cities in the former Soviet Union, and sylvan 1970s-era New Towns in the US, for example.
It had to be said, some time or another
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Why is it "AOL Optimized?" Does it have a drool-proof keyboard with special keys including [LOL], [A/S/L], [OMG WTF] and [ME TOO!!!1!]?
You are all zee, how you say, ignorant fool? You Americains, and your George Bush and McDonald and Holly Wood and big pickup truck and Texas cowboy and Billgate and Britney Spear, yes, are not sophisticated or intellectual enough to understand zee advanced postmodern French technologie.
Now, if you fat Americain excuse me, I must, how you say, pee now. Yes, I know I'm on zee Metro. You Americains and your stupid concept of hygiene. You are all so uptight, no?
From the site:
"Pit the best Linux products against each other!"
Okay... so can I get a CD package with Slackware, Debian and Gentoo on it?/runs away from inevitable distro war
Seriously, I wonder why there's no comparison of other desktop/newbie oriented distros, such as Xandros and Lycoris? Seems like that's the real competition to Linspire.
I use both Windows and Linux, but at home I find myself spending an increasing amount of time in front of the Linux box.
Why? Peace and quiet. It's not so much spyware and popups... yes, you can also turn pop-ups off in Mozilla Firexox for Windows. However, many Windows programs seem... well, too loud and obnoxious, like they're always engaged in self-promotion and trying to justify their existence. Menus and help screens constantly tell you how great the program is. There's the endless "Are you sure?"-type prompts that result from attempts to change mundane, non-critical preferences. Programs steal ownership of file types from each other. "Hey, there's this great update available for this fantastic program... wanna' download it?" "Are you sure?" "Are you absolutely sure?" Each and every time you start a program? Yuk.
Using Windows XP, I increasingly feel like I'm driving down a wide freeway in Houston or Atlanta, with massive signs and billboards distracting from the road and detracting from the experience. Using Linux is like driving down the Pacific Coast Highway or a winding country road in Vermont, or even an expressway in a state where litter-on-a-stick and ugly roadside development is prohibited -- sometimes more challenging, but somehow less stressful and more peaceful.
The Buffalo Five, the Buffalo Spammer, and now Steve Kurtz. Can't Buffalonians get a break?
Any minute now, the Torontonians of Slashdot will probably start posting the usual Irv Weinstein references. "Blaze busters battle a five bell barn burner in Cheektowaga!" C'mon... let's just get it over with already, okay?
... can be seen at big-boards.com, which inventories the Web's busiest bulletin boards. The busiest boards are usually custom jobs, but they tend to be very light in features; they need to be with millions of daily visits. Otherwise, vBulletin and phpBB rule the day. Of 483 boards, the breakdown goes:
vBulletin: 295 phpBB: 34 Invision: 23 UBB: 22
I've got vBulletin 3.0 RC 2 running on an urban planning-related forum that I run, and I'm extremely happy with it.
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I'd really like to know the Straight Dope on this. *cough*
Nonsense! Just wait until Gnome 2.11 is revealed!
Where are the tubby bearded Unix gurus? The skinny, pasty-skinned, ponytailed technopolitical geeks with the long leather dusters? The thought of any "summit" where friendly user interfaces were highlighted probably scared 'em off.
(insert Warlord signature here)
live journal is dark like my soul like my heart a void its link is cut just like i'll be doing to my arm i blame my parents
It's a big deal only if vBulletin integration is provided.
Nice to start off the thread with a little America-bashing. After all, it's as Canadian as Tim Horton Donuts, Don Cherry and poutine.
The premise of realism suggests that the significance of the observer is deconstruction. Thus, the characteristic theme of social tagging and mob indexing is the role of the participant as artist.
Anyone understand that? No? Neither did I. Didn't understand the OP either. Is /. receiving crossposts from alt.postmodern?
... according to a SpamCop scan. Here's the header of a typical Gmail spam: X-Gmail-Received: aa86efbb260d53672e5caa7bd305096b1dc98674 Delivered-To: me@gmail.com Received: by 10.54.48.62 with SMTP id v62cs1134wrv; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 01:57:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.96.68 with SMTP id t68mr104874rnb; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 01:57:20 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from 64.233.171.27 ([219.252.70.103]) by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id 70si1117986rnb; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 01:57:20 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 219.252.70.103 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of KJ@yahoo.com) X-Message-Info: PP145WS311Iirc0rTQBmjTUE079TWV1wspAdJO5 Received: from 96.142.247.15 by ip-171-112-38-54.ock.KJ@yahoo.com (AppleMailServer 03.6.9.3) id 77325056016 via NDR; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:57:10 +0600 Reply-To: "Roy Montoya" From: "Roy Montoya" To: "Someone else" Subject: Someone else Office XP - $60 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:53:10 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="--874591855832788" REPORT SPAM TO: spamcop@kisa.or.kr;abuse@sknetworks.co.kr;postmast er@sknetworks.co.kr (219.252.70.103), SpamCop says.
Korea. Spam. Where have I seen that before?
All the spammed messahes all has titles like (something similar to my username) Popular software at low low prices and (something similar to my username) Extinguish pain with codeine. About 50% is for discount software, 40% drugs, 10% replica watches.
In my limited experience, Gmail sends incoming e-mail that has a similar-appearing but nonexistent address into your box. Let's say there's an cyburbia at gmail d0t com. You may get mail for cyburban, cyburb or syburbia at gmail d0t com, even when those addresses don't exist.
Even though I own my own domain, I have a few gmail accounts, just in case. Today, in my d[mylastname] at gmail d0t com account, I recieved a bunch baby pictures from someone I don't know; they were addressed to [my last name]s at gmail dot com, and my address is nowhere to be seen in the headers.
Rumor has it the first Indian space shuttle will be equipped with six robotic arms.
What was the newest land use trend 50 years ago? Relatively low density, automobile-oriented suburbs. Today, the suburbs dominate the urban landscape, though not to the exclusion of older built environment patterns such as denser urban neighborhoods.
What's making the pages of urban planning-related publications today? Gentrification, urban infill, and new urbanism, along with semi-rural exurban sprawl. Expect to see more of that, along with "kinder, gentler suburbs"; traditional lower-density suburbs with higher-quality architecture, low-profile signage and plentiful landscaping in commercial areas, and so on.
Cities are organic, living entities. Planning to shape and guide the development of existing urban areas is a Good Thing; without it, most urban North Americans would be subject to Houston-like chaos. However, contemporary cities planned from the start tend to be sterile and lacking in character; Canberra, Brazilia, planned industrial cities in the former Soviet Union, and sylvan 1970s-era New Towns in the US, for example.
Why is it "AOL Optimized?" Does it have a drool-proof keyboard with special keys including [LOL], [A/S/L], [OMG WTF] and [ME TOO!!!1!]?
If the Philly cops won't take action, why not contact a television news "gotcha!" reorter in the area. They're always looking for fresh blood.
Wonderful idea! We should take all our unneeded electronics and computer equipment, and ship them north of the border.
Now, if you fat Americain excuse me, I must, how you say, pee now. Yes, I know I'm on zee Metro. You Americains and your stupid concept of hygiene. You are all so uptight, no?
... never mind.
From the site: "Pit the best Linux products against each other!" Okay ... so can I get a CD package with Slackware, Debian and Gentoo on it? /runs away from inevitable distro war
Seriously, I wonder why there's no comparison of other desktop/newbie oriented distros, such as Xandros and Lycoris? Seems like that's the real competition to Linspire.
If you're really desperate, you could probably shove all the parts into a Thermaltake case. That'll be the shiznit ... yo!
I use both Windows and Linux, but at home I find myself spending an increasing amount of time in front of the Linux box.
... yes, you can also turn pop-ups off in Mozilla Firexox for Windows. However, many Windows programs seem ... well, too loud and obnoxious, like they're always engaged in self-promotion and trying to justify their existence. Menus and help screens constantly tell you how great the program is. There's the endless "Are you sure?"-type prompts that result from attempts to change mundane, non-critical preferences. Programs steal ownership of file types from each other. "Hey, there's this great update available for this fantastic program ... wanna' download it?" "Are you sure?" "Are you absolutely sure?" Each and every time you start a program? Yuk.
Why? Peace and quiet. It's not so much spyware and popups
Using Windows XP, I increasingly feel like I'm driving down a wide freeway in Houston or Atlanta, with massive signs and billboards distracting from the road and detracting from the experience. Using Linux is like driving down the Pacific Coast Highway or a winding country road in Vermont, or even an expressway in a state where litter-on-a-stick and ugly roadside development is prohibited -- sometimes more challenging, but somehow less stressful and more peaceful.
The Buffalo Five, the Buffalo Spammer, and now Steve Kurtz. Can't Buffalonians get a break? Any minute now, the Torontonians of Slashdot will probably start posting the usual Irv Weinstein references. "Blaze busters battle a five bell barn burner in Cheektowaga!" C'mon ... let's just get it over with already, okay?
The Attorney General's office will now be using Fraktur as its official font.
... can be seen at big-boards.com, which inventories the Web's busiest bulletin boards. The busiest boards are usually custom jobs, but they tend to be very light in features; they need to be with millions of daily visits. Otherwise, vBulletin and phpBB rule the day. Of 483 boards, the breakdown goes:
vBulletin: 295
phpBB: 34
Invision: 23
UBB: 22
I've got vBulletin 3.0 RC 2 running on an urban planning-related forum that I run, and I'm extremely happy with it.