you only see 1 picture as the background. By comparison it means, is this the picture you use, or not. So if you see the picture of your sister blowing out candles on her birthday cake you know it's the right sight. Now if you get a picture of someone elses sister blowing....... Well then you might be at the wrong site for your bank but the right site for something else.
when a blind person gets spam though, what does it read it to them as? I think the microsoft narrator reads you the symbols and letters when it's a misspelling even. Wouldn't this type of system work for them? Instead of a picture, it's a series of symbols(kind of like pictures) placed in a certain order?
so when are they going to start making foods laced with http://www.provigil.com/physician/home.aspxModafin il so that we caffeine based drinks and foods are avoided for breakfast just to get that extra jolt.
I for one welcome our new pill-poping-sleep-deprived overloads.
Wasn't there another problem with AMD unable to meet the quota for Dell a while back? Now I realize Dell sells a lot more PC's than Apple puts out a year, but in comparison could AMD really meet the demand?
But I really do have to agree some with the root post, AMD seems like it could be a cheaper alternative. Not to mention, I'd like to see an AMD sticker on a mac. I'm not a mac user, but I think it would be a nice underdog pairing for the two companies to team up.
As for mac users, I'm pretty sure the price isn't their biggest concern. Considering it seems like mac users have to throw out their mac and buy a whole new one every so often instead of upgrading piece by piece, it might be a good start into moving mac's into a more upgradable market?
i don't. I tend to avoid ever playing music on it because this becomes so annoying. My phone though (treo 600) allows me to disconnect from the phone network and still run the device, so sometimes I'll just disconnect and lose all incoming calls and messages while i'm say working out or someplace with lead walls and i know I won't get half the calls anyways so listening to the music then is okay. Plus i tend to have the phone out on a desk then or someplace easy to get to.
I personally wouldn't mind picking up a copy of this when it comes out. It would be useful for me since I'm stuck going home every few weeks to re-format my parents old computer and install windows ME on the machine again (which is the only legal copy of MS they own).
If they had a broken down, wait let me rephrase that. If they have a chopped down version of Windows that would work nicely on older machines without using the older technology (IE 95, 98) it would be great for situations when your teaching your older parents how to use a computer for the first time and getting them into the internet without having to deal with phone calls every day about an issue coming up.
I'd much rather switch them to linux and might do it soon just for a while to try it out with them, but I had initially started them on linux and they couldn't seem to figure it out at all.
Keep in mind, mine is a rare case where for a change windows and AOL would be the prefered choices just for simplicity for the end user.
.... in other news google maps helps old ladys cross the street as slashdot users rejoice in another google article.
in all reality though, look how often google puts out some new project. Their 20% rule they have (employee's are allowed to spend 20% of their paid work time on their own project) gives them a really good opportunity to develop projects they think would be innovative and great to have. That's where most of these projects we see posted here once a week come from I assume. Whens the last time microsoft let the engineers actually decide what to build and why to build it?
when ever i plug in normal headphones to my phone to listen to music, if someone calls me, my phone automaticly answers and i'm suddenly without music and i can hear the caller, but i can't speak to them due to the lack of a mic on my headphones. so i'm then forced to hunt around for my phone and dig it out before they freak out anymore and hang up. at which point even if they hang up, i'm forced to dig it out to put the music back on.
We have something called "Art and Technology" at my school. It's similar to doing 3D and Flash and such here. You even work with robotics and electronics as well as holograms. Yet it's an art degree and you learn enough to make flash video games, 3d worlds, and VRML to use it. I'd say this programs at nearly all large public universitys. So who really needs a game development program?
If you combine a minor in CIS with an art degree with specific classes in digital art you'll get the same thing, if not better I think.
Is this really necessary to add an extra program and degree type to the already growing list of options for technical majors?
When I originaly started programming back in the day I didn't know any real good techniques to find bugs in the code. So I would make my code print out what I refered to as Flags on the screen to show me where in the code the program was. It started out simple with me putting stuff like "Flag 1" or "Flag 2" then after a while the numbers didn't work and I'd try label it with something else that might make sense like "3rd loop with input int" But this was just getting annoying as well. In the end I started just putting "F*ck line 21" or similar ideas.
It really is a hard habbit to break. I'm still doing this all the time and I doubt I'll ever really stop doing it in my code. It just goes to show how many of us do this in our code, so what's the big deal? We might be able to understand the code better with it since it would be more like our own comments. I have a weird time when I see code with real comments and whole paragraphs explaining it.
I remember an article a while back talking about an employee of one of these companies secretly placing and stealing houses. I think in UO. The employee was able to get an extra income for himself by doing this until he was caught. Maybe someone else remembers and can say more on it.
I couldn't help but think back to how that article on microwaving stuff just turned to chaos with all of the discussion on what we could microwave for fun. I bet a bunch of us broke microwaves and somewhere, someone is keeping track saying "Wow, there's a big demand on micowaves this week." Now it's going to happen all over again bringing this article back...
I got the 86 because it was the highest allowed back in the day when I took the SAT. Shame I didn't just get the 89 then and scratch off the 9....
I'd really like to switch to the 89, but I fear relearning a graphing calculator like ebola! Yet if they are dropping the 86 I probably should move on so I don't get left behind much more. Anyone have any suggestions on a good way to switch to a different model of TI's? I assume just using it a lot works, but considering I'm deep in engineering, math, and physics classes right now I can't afford to fiddle with a calculator too long for 1 problem.
There are a few charitys out there that collect old cell phones just for this purpose. They give them out to women in tough situations so they can call for help if need be. I'm not sure on which charitys run this but maybe someone else can post it.
The object of the Californian's anger was Douglas Mackay, president of DM Contact Management, which works for Albion Medical, a firm advertising the "Only Reliable, Medically Approved Penis Enhancement."
If anyone knows the e-mail address for this guy please post it!! I'd love to forward him back my penis e-mail!
I can't wait till MSNBC changes to a format like that. I can see it now, bill gates 1000x's on my screen just looking back at me with a different pose and look on his face.
Since pitures take more bandwidth than words, maybe they will change it to ASCII pictures next? Talk about a fast news service!
I tend to read slashdot in class on my laptop, which takes place in a room with 700 people. Poor people are me that aren't allowed to read it are always looking over my shoulder for a glaze at the news.
Slashdot Mirror
you only see 1 picture as the background. By comparison it means, is this the picture you use, or not. So if you see the picture of your sister blowing out candles on her birthday cake you know it's the right sight. Now if you get a picture of someone elses sister blowing....... Well then you might be at the wrong site for your bank but the right site for something else.
when a blind person gets spam though, what does it read it to them as? I think the microsoft narrator reads you the symbols and letters when it's a misspelling even. Wouldn't this type of system work for them? Instead of a picture, it's a series of symbols(kind of like pictures) placed in a certain order?
you'd still use the web, you'd just never use anything that required a secure login.
so when are they going to start making foods laced with http://www.provigil.com/physician/home.aspxModafin il so that we caffeine based drinks and foods are avoided for breakfast just to get that extra jolt.
I for one welcome our new pill-poping-sleep-deprived overloads.
is the new netscape able to work on other OS's? how about in a wine or lindows session? This might be the case where #2 falls into play.
Wasn't there another problem with AMD unable to meet the quota for Dell a while back? Now I realize Dell sells a lot more PC's than Apple puts out a year, but in comparison could AMD really meet the demand?
But I really do have to agree some with the root post, AMD seems like it could be a cheaper alternative. Not to mention, I'd like to see an AMD sticker on a mac. I'm not a mac user, but I think it would be a nice underdog pairing for the two companies to team up.
As for mac users, I'm pretty sure the price isn't their biggest concern. Considering it seems like mac users have to throw out their mac and buy a whole new one every so often instead of upgrading piece by piece, it might be a good start into moving mac's into a more upgradable market?
i don't. I tend to avoid ever playing music on it because this becomes so annoying. My phone though (treo 600) allows me to disconnect from the phone network and still run the device, so sometimes I'll just disconnect and lose all incoming calls and messages while i'm say working out or someplace with lead walls and i know I won't get half the calls anyways so listening to the music then is okay. Plus i tend to have the phone out on a desk then or someplace easy to get to.
I personally wouldn't mind picking up a copy of this when it comes out. It would be useful for me since I'm stuck going home every few weeks to re-format my parents old computer and install windows ME on the machine again (which is the only legal copy of MS they own).
If they had a broken down, wait let me rephrase that. If they have a chopped down version of Windows that would work nicely on older machines without using the older technology (IE 95, 98) it would be great for situations when your teaching your older parents how to use a computer for the first time and getting them into the internet without having to deal with phone calls every day about an issue coming up.
I'd much rather switch them to linux and might do it soon just for a while to try it out with them, but I had initially started them on linux and they couldn't seem to figure it out at all.
Keep in mind, mine is a rare case where for a change windows and AOL would be the prefered choices just for simplicity for the end user.
..... your dvd player fingers you... hmm could be a great new idea actually... when does it release in america?
.... in other news google maps helps old ladys cross the street as slashdot users rejoice in another google article. in all reality though, look how often google puts out some new project. Their 20% rule they have (employee's are allowed to spend 20% of their paid work time on their own project) gives them a really good opportunity to develop projects they think would be innovative and great to have. That's where most of these projects we see posted here once a week come from I assume. Whens the last time microsoft let the engineers actually decide what to build and why to build it?
when ever i plug in normal headphones to my phone to listen to music, if someone calls me, my phone automaticly answers and i'm suddenly without music and i can hear the caller, but i can't speak to them due to the lack of a mic on my headphones. so i'm then forced to hunt around for my phone and dig it out before they freak out anymore and hang up. at which point even if they hang up, i'm forced to dig it out to put the music back on.
the major flaw in absolute positioning stuff on websites... it sometimes positions it where you told it to go.
We have something called "Art and Technology" at my school. It's similar to doing 3D and Flash and such here. You even work with robotics and electronics as well as holograms. Yet it's an art degree and you learn enough to make flash video games, 3d worlds, and VRML to use it. I'd say this programs at nearly all large public universitys. So who really needs a game development program?
If you combine a minor in CIS with an art degree with specific classes in digital art you'll get the same thing, if not better I think.
Is this really necessary to add an extra program and degree type to the already growing list of options for technical majors?
When I originaly started programming back in the day I didn't know any real good techniques to find bugs in the code. So I would make my code print out what I refered to as Flags on the screen to show me where in the code the program was. It started out simple with me putting stuff like "Flag 1" or "Flag 2" then after a while the numbers didn't work and I'd try label it with something else that might make sense like "3rd loop with input int" But this was just getting annoying as well. In the end I started just putting "F*ck line 21" or similar ideas.
It really is a hard habbit to break. I'm still doing this all the time and I doubt I'll ever really stop doing it in my code. It just goes to show how many of us do this in our code, so what's the big deal? We might be able to understand the code better with it since it would be more like our own comments. I have a weird time when I see code with real comments and whole paragraphs explaining it.
obviously you never drove the 10mins south to the real landfil... Parma
I remember an article a while back talking about an employee of one of these companies secretly placing and stealing houses. I think in UO. The employee was able to get an extra income for himself by doing this until he was caught. Maybe someone else remembers and can say more on it.
I couldn't help but think back to how that article on microwaving stuff just turned to chaos with all of the discussion on what we could microwave for fun. I bet a bunch of us broke microwaves and somewhere, someone is keeping track saying "Wow, there's a big demand on micowaves this week." Now it's going to happen all over again bringing this article back...
Microwave my 802.11b card...I wonder....
I got the 86 because it was the highest allowed back in the day when I took the SAT. Shame I didn't just get the 89 then and scratch off the 9....
I'd really like to switch to the 89, but I fear relearning a graphing calculator like ebola! Yet if they are dropping the 86 I probably should move on so I don't get left behind much more. Anyone have any suggestions on a good way to switch to a different model of TI's? I assume just using it a lot works, but considering I'm deep in engineering, math, and physics classes right now I can't afford to fiddle with a calculator too long for 1 problem.
There are a few charitys out there that collect old cell phones just for this purpose. They give them out to women in tough situations so they can call for help if need be. I'm not sure on which charitys run this but maybe someone else can post it.
If anyone knows the e-mail address for this guy please post it!! I'd love to forward him back my penis e-mail!
goatse...
it would bring back the memmories of seeing goatse on those old LCD laptop monitors i used to use...
No one has what... Oh nevermind I'm going look at some more pictures now...
I can't wait till MSNBC changes to a format like that. I can see it now, bill gates 1000x's on my screen just looking back at me with a different pose and look on his face.
Since pitures take more bandwidth than words, maybe they will change it to ASCII pictures next? Talk about a fast news service!
finnally a reason to turn back on my 14.4 modem!! i knew this day would come!!!
I tend to read slashdot in class on my laptop, which takes place in a room with 700 people. Poor people are me that aren't allowed to read it are always looking over my shoulder for a glaze at the news.