2) The ongoing disappearance of poetry is mostly a consequence of poets' writing for each other rather for an audience. The readers haven't gotten dumber; the poems have become inaccessible and ugly.
I have to second that, considering that the following can indeed be seen as modern sociocritical poetry:
white white white white white
white white white white white
white white white white sad
white white white white white
white white white white white
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Concerning CSS: This site should be a good example. With modern browsers you can have content and presentation separate and implement some cool effects (see "Complexspiral"). Gecko even allows you to build menus using nothing but CSS.
With IE, most of this just doesn't work. And it won't until at least 2006.
If you define "painless" as running the script thrugh regexps, replacing parts of it with stuff that works outside of IE, yes. Note that you probably have to do this individually for every single script.
It's possible to use some IE-specific sites in another browser via the Proxomitron, but you basically have to rewrite all of the scripts from within a regexp-based search-and-replace program, which can be quite a hassle.
Ability to arbitrarily morph the the incoming text stream using regexp or javascript. This would allow me to roll my own weird crap.
The single most useful program I've ever seen for Windows (the Proxomitron) does exactly that: Regexp filtering for HTTP headers and content. It kinda works under Wine, but having a Firefox plugin with this functionality would REALLY improve my browsing experience (as well as making the browser more popular with semi-computer literate users). If there is one plugin the world needs it's HTTP regexp filtering.
That would be kind of useful, if I wasn't currently drifting away from browser-handled bookmarks and instead using a customized start page using CSS-generated menus, in which you can fit anything from links to the Google search <form>.
hmm, that would be a nice feature - a start page generated from your bookmark folders, utilizing meta-bookmarks (which are in fact HTML snippets). Add customizable CSS and a name like about:start and I'd be sold.
And if you want to cram a learning algorithm into that, make the code that generates the start page sort the folders and bookmarks by how often you use them.
I have a dual-boot system and I have no idea what you are talking about. If you have some free HDD space to create a Linux parition in you can just take your Win box and put Linux on top of it. Grub takes care of all your booting needs. Easy as Dell.
Windows gaming is no pain either; in order to get a DirectX DLL Hell you have to mistreat your system in some way, for example by downgrading to a previous DX version. If you don't try anything fancy Win gaming is just a matter of having the latest DX (comes with every major game) and the drivers for your hardware installed.
If you use Linux for work/browsing/mail and Windows for gaming and (via Moz/FF) occasional browsing you should be perfectly fine. Behind a NAT router or something similar, that is. Less hassle and better performance than using a VM.
By the way, it's Bochs. Bosch is an electric drill manufacturer.
The committee will probably return one of these two:
- "What do you expect? The last version of IE was released three $expletive years ago!"
- "We are utterly incompetent, but you will probably believe us when we tell you that it's a PR problem. Suckers."
I'm responsible for an undead anti-IE campaign in a medium-sized forum... Even after I stopped the campaign itself, the campaign's banner occasionally still shows up in sigs. Even though I love negative publicity for the IE it's kind of creepy to see my dead campaign live on and on.
BTW, does anyone know where w3schools.com get their data from? Their statistic shows a steady increase in Mozilla use with a July/2004 value of 12.2%. I'd really like to see figures like those applied to the 'Net as a whole.
Depends. If the monopolizing phone company owns all telephone lines you go from one expensive provider to ten expensive providers.
We had stuff like that happening here in Germany - when our old federal railway company got privatized it got to keep the entire track network. As a result there is next to no competition, because everyone else has to either pay them for using their tracks or buy the tracks, which is a problem because they don't want to sell any of them, even the unused ones.
Similarly, the T-Com (which used to be the Deutsche Telekom, but in Germany product/company names now have to be English for some reason) owns most of the telephone lines, which means that everyone else has to use their lines, paying them a fee, leading to higher prices.
That's just the average value - actually they're all getting paid minimum wages, except for the execs. Which explains the value of $300.000/yr/employee.
A big company that does not want to expand until it has a market share of 101%, even if that means cost cutting like there is no tomorrow? Yeah, right.
Same here. Even though the Greens are a lot less green than they used to be, they still are a party with at least a little bit of identity... The two major German parties (the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats) have become pretty much identical and they bend over for anyone who gives them a few bucks.
I heard that in the next show the categories will be "India's Least-Known Actors", "Polish Architecture of the 1400s", "Facts About Vacuum Cleaners", "Speed Limits Around the World", "Cricket Rules" and "Yiddish".
I know. IPv6 should have enough address space for everything. No need for IPvN with N > 4, but still some people comment that in a few hundred years we might need N > 4 or that they need N > 4 because they are different from the rest of the world. I figured that an address of one megabyte should be enough for anyone and their dog.
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2) The ongoing disappearance of poetry is mostly a consequence of poets' writing for each other rather for an audience. The readers haven't gotten dumber; the poems have become inaccessible and ugly.
I have to second that, considering that the following can indeed be seen as modern sociocritical poetry:
white white white white white
white white white white white
white white white white sad
white white white white white
white white white white white
Concerning CSS: This site should be a good example. With modern browsers you can have content and presentation separate and implement some cool effects (see "Complexspiral"). Gecko even allows you to build menus using nothing but CSS.
With IE, most of this just doesn't work. And it won't until at least 2006.
If you define "painless" as running the script thrugh regexps, replacing parts of it with stuff that works outside of IE, yes. Note that you probably have to do this individually for every single script.
It's possible to use some IE-specific sites in another browser via the Proxomitron, but you basically have to rewrite all of the scripts from within a regexp-based search-and-replace program, which can be quite a hassle.
"But honey, I have to browse porn sites! I'm just training the filter!"
Ability to arbitrarily morph the the incoming text stream using regexp or javascript. This would allow me to roll my own weird crap.
The single most useful program I've ever seen for Windows (the Proxomitron) does exactly that: Regexp filtering for HTTP headers and content. It kinda works under Wine, but having a Firefox plugin with this functionality would REALLY improve my browsing experience (as well as making the browser more popular with semi-computer literate users). If there is one plugin the world needs it's HTTP regexp filtering.
No problem, it will predict whether you want prediction or not.
Also, it would be awesome if using the internet were more like playing Fallout. That was a great game.
They once tried that but it broke their water chip.
That would be kind of useful, if I wasn't currently drifting away from browser-handled bookmarks and instead using a customized start page using CSS-generated menus, in which you can fit anything from links to the Google search <form>.
hmm, that would be a nice feature - a start page generated from your bookmark folders, utilizing meta-bookmarks (which are in fact HTML snippets). Add customizable CSS and a name like about:start and I'd be sold.
And if you want to cram a learning algorithm into that, make the code that generates the start page sort the folders and bookmarks by how often you use them.
I have a dual-boot system and I have no idea what you are talking about. If you have some free HDD space to create a Linux parition in you can just take your Win box and put Linux on top of it. Grub takes care of all your booting needs. Easy as Dell.
Windows gaming is no pain either; in order to get a DirectX DLL Hell you have to mistreat your system in some way, for example by downgrading to a previous DX version. If you don't try anything fancy Win gaming is just a matter of having the latest DX (comes with every major game) and the drivers for your hardware installed.
If you use Linux for work/browsing/mail and Windows for gaming and (via Moz/FF) occasional browsing you should be perfectly fine. Behind a NAT router or something similar, that is. Less hassle and better performance than using a VM.
By the way, it's Bochs. Bosch is an electric drill manufacturer.
The committee will probably return one of these two:
- "What do you expect? The last version of IE was released three $expletive years ago!"
- "We are utterly incompetent, but you will probably believe us when we tell you that it's a PR problem. Suckers."
I'm responsible for an undead anti-IE campaign in a medium-sized forum... Even after I stopped the campaign itself, the campaign's banner occasionally still shows up in sigs. Even though I love negative publicity for the IE it's kind of creepy to see my dead campaign live on and on.
BTW, does anyone know where w3schools.com get their data from? Their statistic shows a steady increase in Mozilla use with a July/2004 value of 12.2%. I'd really like to see figures like those applied to the 'Net as a whole.
That cluster could run ARMM, spamming Usenet with unseen efficiency. (Note to self: Insert marketing drivel here. Use "On Demand".)
Depends. If the monopolizing phone company owns all telephone lines you go from one expensive provider to ten expensive providers.
We had stuff like that happening here in Germany - when our old federal railway company got privatized it got to keep the entire track network. As a result there is next to no competition, because everyone else has to either pay them for using their tracks or buy the tracks, which is a problem because they don't want to sell any of them, even the unused ones.
Similarly, the T-Com (which used to be the Deutsche Telekom, but in Germany product/company names now have to be English for some reason) owns most of the telephone lines, which means that everyone else has to use their lines, paying them a fee, leading to higher prices.
That's just the average value - actually they're all getting paid minimum wages, except for the execs. Which explains the value of $300.000/yr/employee.
Besides, larger companies have the muscle to initiate standards which is what computing boils down to regulate and ensure competition.
They also have the muscle to simply ignore standards and instead create their own.
A big company that does not want to expand until it has a market share of 101%, even if that means cost cutting like there is no tomorrow? Yeah, right.
*gasp* And next it's... 23!
Interesting idea; let's just patent lots of trivial/nonsensical stuff and then sue our governments to show them how "nice" trivial patents are.
The Council of Ministers decision on pro-patents under the Irish Presidency has been one of the most undemocratic decisions ever taken here (Europe).
Well, what do you expect from someone who gets sponsored by Microsoft?
Same here. Even though the Greens are a lot less green than they used to be, they still are a party with at least a little bit of identity... The two major German parties (the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats) have become pretty much identical and they bend over for anyone who gives them a few bucks.
I heard that in the next show the categories will be "India's Least-Known Actors", "Polish Architecture of the 1400s", "Facts About Vacuum Cleaners", "Speed Limits Around the World", "Cricket Rules" and "Yiddish".
If you take the first letters of the first five categories he picked, you get "IDDQD".
I' rather see "Quiz Show" become reality than, say, "Wargames".
I know. IPv6 should have enough address space for everything. No need for IPvN with N > 4, but still some people comment that in a few hundred years we might need N > 4 or that they need N > 4 because they are different from the rest of the world. I figured that an address of one megabyte should be enough for anyone and their dog.
Steganography. Requires a lot of data to hide your messages in, but is virtually uncrackable.
The question is, however, do the Chinese need this? I think there's no big revolutionary group right now.