that as the interfaces get smarter, they are more humanizing than any before them. Compare the computer interfaces of today with the punch card. I'd say that we've been on an upward trend for quite some time.
I'm waiting for tablet PCs to take off, myself.
Is it an open protocol?
on
Replacing TCP?
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
If it's not an open protocol (if they charge for use) it may find niche applications. If it is, it may proliferate. I wasn't able to find details about this on the site.
I can't see most of the "polish" they're talking about because I'm looking at a lousy, badly dithered 255-color GIF file. I mean, come on! If there was any polish and shine it disappeared in the noise diffusion. What on earth are they using as their screenshot/conversion tool? Give me a 24-bit PNG already! =b
As a web developer, I find it infuriating that users use a proprietary browser which takes standards-compliant code that results in perfectly good, beautiful pages in every other browser... and mangles it.
I suggest a new sign-up form: Name:_____ Email:____ Other stuff: __________ Repeat the following three times: "We will not ask for your passwords via email." __________ __________ __________ "We will not ask for your credit card number via email." __________ __________ __________
The problem with some people who worry about global warming is that they have a tendency to say that severely reducing carbon dioxide emissions is the only way to prevent disaster- and while that's a lovely sentiment, it is excessively impractical. But what of alternative solutions to the problem?
A mere 0.5 percent change in Earth's net reflectivity, or albedo, would solve the greenhouse problem completely.... About 1 percent of the United States is covered by human constructions, mostly paving, suggesting that we may already control enough of the land to get at the job.
It's a whole lot more likely than cutting emissions 30% or more.
I mean, the US is already a nation of drug slaves. I don't mean street-drugs, either, I mean 'legitimate, socially accepted drugs'. 3/4's of the U.S. is high, daily, anyway.
You have a fascinating statistic, but unless you're talking about some unholy combined count of antidepression medications and caffeine, I have serious doubts as to its accuracy. Do you have any lies^W damned lies^W^W statistics to point me to that you may back up your view?
This will just get the people who would like to start a hate site even more upset and more liable to hate the person/group in question... then they get some offshore hosting and you still have the hate sites.
Heck, if you were a Nazi and thought that the Jews had an evil conspiracy to control the banks and the government, this kind of legislation wouldn't exactly make you change your mind.
Yes. Investigate the wonderful world of SQL joins. Generally, you'll find yourself doing something like, oh, I don't know:
select client.name, client.id, product.id, product.name, product.price from client_table client, product_table product where client.id = product.client_id and client.id = ? and product.discontinued = 0 order by product.price
Assuming you substitute something for ?, that will effectively join the two tables into one, and give you a list for all products from a certain client (given by ID) which have not been discontinued, and order these results by price.
I'm testing the Cisco 7970G for the local university's Technology Quarters program... It's a VOIP phone, but it's only VOIP across the university LAN. Mostly it's absurd overkill, but you can see how people in a big company who make lots of calls could really use it.
Why is this filed under YRO? I thought we had a Politics section for this sort of stuff. I remember blocking it in my prefrences with multiple shiny check-boxes.
While India's satellite launches and outsourcing news are already covered in slashdot umpteen times, sometimes her sensible achievements should be covered too.
Query: What's so darned not-sensible about a satellite launch?
Filtering! You think spam is "OK" because of filtering?!? My site has had 4 gigabytes of traffic these past six days, and I'll tell you: Most of that is not the httpd. It's just spam spam spam spam spam to the umpteenth degree. Someone has to pay for that bandwidth and the processor power to do that filtering. And it's not the spammer.
That doesn't get around the cleardot.gif file, but you can AdBlock that image easily enough, and if your AdBlock is set to hide ads instead of removing them, you can then view the background image.
I seem to recall them using a simiar trick on the official site for Lord of the Rings when it came out.
One-line bookmarklet for your convenience
on
Breaking Google's DRM
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Slashdot Mirror
I'm waiting for tablet PCs to take off, myself.
If it's not an open protocol (if they charge for use) it may find niche applications. If it is, it may proliferate. I wasn't able to find details about this on the site.
I can't see most of the "polish" they're talking about because I'm looking at a lousy, badly dithered 255-color GIF file. I mean, come on! If there was any polish and shine it disappeared in the noise diffusion. What on earth are they using as their screenshot/conversion tool? Give me a 24-bit PNG already! =b
As a web developer, I find it infuriating that users use a proprietary browser which takes standards-compliant code that results in perfectly good, beautiful pages in every other browser... and mangles it.
CPI: $342
GDP Deflator: $286
Unskilled Wage: $494
GDP Per Capita: $810
GDP: $1440
I suggest a new sign-up form:
Name:_____
Email:____
Other stuff:
__________
Repeat the following three times:
"We will not ask for your passwords via email."
__________
__________
__________
"We will not ask for your credit card number via email."
__________
__________
__________
On that note, most people attempting to guess my system's root password over SSH seem to be using computers in Korea as well. :)
Well, nice to see it coming around to byte you, eh, Dell?
To do business with Wal-Mart is to invite death."
I think I saw it in a Wall Street Journal article at some point...
Well... usually in communism, there's some sort of nominal promise that the communes and stuff belong to the People, not to the WalMart corporation.
You have a fascinating statistic, but unless you're talking about some unholy combined count of antidepression medications and caffeine, I have serious doubts as to its accuracy. Do you have any lies^W damned lies^W^W statistics to point me to that you may back up your view?
Heck, if you were a Nazi and thought that the Jews had an evil conspiracy to control the banks and the government, this kind of legislation wouldn't exactly make you change your mind.
select client.name, client.id, product.id, product.name, product.price from client_table client, product_table product where client.id = product.client_id and client.id = ? and product.discontinued = 0 order by product.price
Assuming you substitute something for ?, that will effectively join the two tables into one, and give you a list for all products from a certain client (given by ID) which have not been discontinued, and order these results by price.
I'm testing the Cisco 7970G for the local university's Technology Quarters program... It's a VOIP phone, but it's only VOIP across the university LAN. Mostly it's absurd overkill, but you can see how people in a big company who make lots of calls could really use it.
Why is this filed under YRO? I thought we had a Politics section for this sort of stuff. I remember blocking it in my prefrences with multiple shiny check-boxes.
Here's a list.
I have a Coral cache of the pollution image map.
(Well, at least if you use Internet Explorer or don't keep your virus protection up to date, you do.)
Filtering! You think spam is "OK" because of filtering?!? My site has had 4 gigabytes of traffic these past six days, and I'll tell you: Most of that is not the httpd. It's just spam spam spam spam spam to the umpteenth degree. Someone has to pay for that bandwidth and the processor power to do that filtering. And it's not the spammer.
I seem to recall them using a simiar trick on the official site for Lord of the Rings when it came out.
It's not tough "DRM"... my university's local online student newspaper equivalent effectively does the same thing.
Dude- Tell us which college you go to, so we can avoid it at all costs. :)