Popular bloggers are the ones who are faster than everyone who's better than them and better than everyone who's faster. If you hit the right balance of speed and insightfulness, you can't fail.
(This idea 100% plagiarized from Mickey Kaus, who I'm sure thought of it himself.
I second the RSS Reader Panel -- I don't see any point in getting a separate aggregator application when so many RSS feeds force you to visit the site for the full article.
As for Slashdot, I use Slashzilla -- it only shows the headlines and topic icons, but that's usually enough to decide whether an article will be interesting.
I'm curious about RSS - rather than breaking into a new technology, why not extend the existing platform? Why not set up a real-time form of html? Just have the user log-in to the webpage, and then the server sends diff information to the user whenever there's a change. Thus, there's no hitting the "refresh" button over and over again in your browser, and no wasting time downloading the full page over and over again, only the relevant diff info.
Um, that's pretty much how RSS works, except you set your aggregator to recheck the page at regular intervals instead of putting the strain on the server. The aggregator then displays the text of the new material (many sites only bother with the first few lines, so you have to visit the page to see the whole thing, though most non Blogger blogs give each article a separate page so you don't have to download the whole front page).
True, I see how this may help stop some spam, but it also means (if I understood the article correctly) that everyone can find out where I mail from... and in some instances that could be a problem too.
Unless you're using an anonymizing remailer, it's not exactly to do that with current email.
Why do frames cost so much? I see non-prescription sunglasses at convenience stores -- with frames not too different from what I'd want for daily-wear glasses -- that cost less than US$20.
Those are the low-end glasses for the masses. If you ever visit a dedicated sun-glass store, the top-of-the-line models (ones worn by stars in the movies) are about the same as the corrective models.
I've even seen posts saying (to paraphrase) 'everyone should have free speech except kiddie pornographers and nazis'.
get a clue and go fuck yourselves! If you want to filter what someone says because you dont agree with it than it's not really free speech, is it?
Dude, child pornography shouldn't be censored because people disagree with it. It should be censored because it requires the abuse of children to produce it.
I believe the boys of South Park said it perfectly.
Stan: Yeah. You know, we believe in equality for everybody, and tolerance, and all that gay stuff, but dude, f**k you.
By U.S. law, possion (even unintentional posession) makes you just as guilty as perverts who download it intentionally and the sick bastards who made the porn in the first place.
It's even worse than that -- you aren't merely in possession, but distributing it.
The idea that liberal society requires a certain amount of censorship (e.g., of child pornography, of pornography in general, of terror manuals) is of pretty recent vintage.
Stick with your decision, but know that child porn isn't exhalted or even condoned on Freenet, and it isn't even specifically accepted as a necessary evil.
If it's not a necessary evil, that implies that they're doing something to curb it. What might that be?
By uninstalling freenet, you just took away people's freedom to use your node of freenet. So do you not support yourself?
That's a bogus argument. Freedom of speech doesn't give anyone the right to use my computer to spread their speech any more than it gives me a right to have my letters to the editor printed in the Washington Post. In fact, part of my freedom is the right to decide what I use my own property to publish.
I always liked H. Beam Piper's variation -- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent because only the incompetent wait that long to use violence.
Many sci-fi shows have characters sacrifice themselves for a greater good, but you rarely see them sacrifice other people -- on the occasions when it happens, it never involves civilians, and is almost invariably preceded or followed by several minutes of melodramatic handwringing. What set BSG apart is that Apollo made the decision in a snap and refused to even listen to alternatives.
a follow up like Enterprise, where continuity is raped on a regular basis.
Did you ever see the original series -- the one where the Enterprise was called a United Earth Starship in one episode, and where Spock refers to the Eugenics War as WWIII even though in the next season Kirk talks about WWIII taking place in the 21st Century? Continuity was never a strong point of Trek, and there are more than enough reasons to criticize Enterprise without bringing it up.
I also thought the new Raiders with the scanning eye on the front were incredibly cheesy.
As opposed to the original where it took three robots to pilot one fighter? Come on, if you can build sentient robots, you can design sentient fighters -- which is what the Cylons did in the new version.
Lets see - Every single character is a total stereotypes. We have a tough as nails, always in trouble ace pilot, a father and son who don't talk anymore, an acerbic commander who doesn't take stick from anyone, and a cowardly scientist who refuses to take responsibility for his actions (Did they get mixed up and think it was a Lost in Space revival?).
Yeah, it was total cliche. Like where Apollo orders the FTL-capable ships into hyperspace and left the sub-lights to be destroyed by the Cylons. Man, I'm so tired of sci-fi protagonists who condemn thousands of innocent people to death. Why couldn't they make a character who would've gotten out there in his fighter and singlehandedly beat off the Cylon strike-force -- that would've been original, let me tell you.
The FCC's talking about powerline broadband. Yeah, we're nowhere close to a commercial rollout yet, but at least the regulators are certifying that the plans won't cause massive harm to any other communications tech, so they're about to sign off on it.
Depends what you mean by "commercial roll-out". It's commercially available in my area, though it's still a pilot program.
now they can use the google toolbar with ie...it blocks popups. (no version for netscape/mozilla exists yet...)
Please know what you're talking about before posting to Slashdot.
There's no official toolbar from Google, but...
The Mozilla Suite enables Google searches through the location bar,
Firefox has a separte search bar next to the location bar,
There's an unofficial Googlebar that blows the IE version away, and
Mozilla comes with a Search Sidebar (available as an extension for FF) which allows access to not only Google, but Lycos, Yahoo, Altavista, Amazon, and can be expanded for other engines.
Mozilla could be a contender, but it's split into a million project as a mozilla user, i know of the current browser (1.6?), Firefox (lets remember this IS a beta we're talking about), Thunderbird - a mail client, and some MAC OSX only broswer that I'm too lazy to go get the name of. My point is, that's 4 projects, please name the other 999,996 please cause I'd like to explore their other products.
And really FF and TB are branches of the main Mozilla suite. There was the Sunbird project, which was developing a stand-alone version of the Mozilla Calendar, but I think it's dead; and there was talk of creating Moonbird, an HTML editor. The other projects listed on Mozilla's download page are developer tools, and, strangely, a Java email client.
Being an open-source project, there are naturally some unofficial projects based upon Gecko, like Aggreg8 and Newsmonster, but they aren't taking resources away from the Mozilla Foundation.
Theories can be wrong, as they are generally unproven. Laws can be wrong also, but have stood the test of time.
No, "law" is merely the older term for what we now call "theory". The change in terminology came about when scientists started to find that many laws didn't hold up well when tested with modern equipment -- Newton's Laws, for example, didn't work properly for 19th Century scientists and had to be modified and refined by Einstein into the Theory of Relativity.
Hmm... two references to the same Almighty, and one to a made-up religion.
So tell me, if I worship Jesus and it turns out he was just one of Allah's prophets, does he waive the "no other gods before me" clause? And if Jesus is divine but I worship Allah and deny that he was anything but a man, does Jesus forgive the mistake?
Saying that Allah and Jehovah are the same bloke is fine if you're talking about the mythologic tradition, but as a practical matter it doesn't quite work out.
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Vaguely remember the game. I'm thinking the ban was related to the German ban on Nazi related themes.
Yes, when I think about games involving biplanes, I think Nazis.
The olde C64 top view airplane shooter Blue Max is (yes is, not was) banned in Germany.
Hey, I used to play that game when I lived in Germany. And I had a pirated copy, too! Man, I was so 1337 when I was eight.
Popular bloggers are the ones who are faster than everyone who's better than them and better than everyone who's faster. If you hit the right balance of speed and insightfulness, you can't fail. (This idea 100% plagiarized from Mickey Kaus, who I'm sure thought of it himself.
What you need is Firesomething.
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I second the RSS Reader Panel -- I don't see any point in getting a separate aggregator application when so many RSS feeds force you to visit the site for the full article.
As for Slashdot, I use Slashzilla -- it only shows the headlines and topic icons, but that's usually enough to decide whether an article will be interesting.
I'm curious about RSS - rather than breaking into a new technology, why not extend the existing platform? Why not set up a real-time form of html? Just have the user log-in to the webpage, and then the server sends diff information to the user whenever there's a change. Thus, there's no hitting the "refresh" button over and over again in your browser, and no wasting time downloading the full page over and over again, only the relevant diff info.
Um, that's pretty much how RSS works, except you set your aggregator to recheck the page at regular intervals instead of putting the strain on the server. The aggregator then displays the text of the new material (many sites only bother with the first few lines, so you have to visit the page to see the whole thing, though most non Blogger blogs give each article a separate page so you don't have to download the whole front page).
OpenOffice, Evolution and Mozilla have completely different interfaces from each other, in fact there are few simularities among them.
Yeah, it's almost like they're made by different organizations or something.
True, I see how this may help stop some spam, but it also means (if I understood the article correctly) that everyone can find out where I mail from... and in some instances that could be a problem too.
Unless you're using an anonymizing remailer, it's not exactly to do that with current email.
Those are the low-end glasses for the masses. If you ever visit a dedicated sun-glass store, the top-of-the-line models (ones worn by stars in the movies) are about the same as the corrective models.
get a clue and go fuck yourselves! If you want to filter what someone says because you dont agree with it than it's not really free speech, is it?
Dude, child pornography shouldn't be censored because people disagree with it. It should be censored because it requires the abuse of children to produce it.
I believe the boys of South Park said it perfectly.
By U.S. law, possion (even unintentional posession) makes you just as guilty as perverts who download it intentionally and the sick bastards who made the porn in the first place.
It's even worse than that -- you aren't merely in possession, but distributing it.
The idea that liberal society requires a certain amount of censorship (e.g., of child pornography, of pornography in general, of terror manuals) is of pretty recent vintage.
Um, no, actually, that ideas been around since the Constitutional convention.
Stick with your decision, but know that child porn isn't exhalted or even condoned on Freenet, and it isn't even specifically accepted as a necessary evil.
If it's not a necessary evil, that implies that they're doing something to curb it. What might that be?
By uninstalling freenet, you just took away people's freedom to use your node of freenet. So do you not support yourself?
That's a bogus argument. Freedom of speech doesn't give anyone the right to use my computer to spread their speech any more than it gives me a right to have my letters to the editor printed in the Washington Post. In fact, part of my freedom is the right to decide what I use my own property to publish.
I always liked H. Beam Piper's variation -- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent because only the incompetent wait that long to use violence.
Many sci-fi shows have characters sacrifice themselves for a greater good, but you rarely see them sacrifice other people -- on the occasions when it happens, it never involves civilians, and is almost invariably preceded or followed by several minutes of melodramatic handwringing. What set BSG apart is that Apollo made the decision in a snap and refused to even listen to alternatives.
a follow up like Enterprise, where continuity is raped on a regular basis.
Did you ever see the original series -- the one where the Enterprise was called a United Earth Starship in one episode, and where Spock refers to the Eugenics War as WWIII even though in the next season Kirk talks about WWIII taking place in the 21st Century? Continuity was never a strong point of Trek, and there are more than enough reasons to criticize Enterprise without bringing it up.
I also thought the new Raiders with the scanning eye on the front were incredibly cheesy.
As opposed to the original where it took three robots to pilot one fighter? Come on, if you can build sentient robots, you can design sentient fighters -- which is what the Cylons did in the new version.
Lets see - Every single character is a total stereotypes. We have a tough as nails, always in trouble ace pilot, a father and son who don't talk anymore, an acerbic commander who doesn't take stick from anyone, and a cowardly scientist who refuses to take responsibility for his actions (Did they get mixed up and think it was a Lost in Space revival?).
Yeah, it was total cliche. Like where Apollo orders the FTL-capable ships into hyperspace and left the sub-lights to be destroyed by the Cylons. Man, I'm so tired of sci-fi protagonists who condemn thousands of innocent people to death. Why couldn't they make a character who would've gotten out there in his fighter and singlehandedly beat off the Cylon strike-force -- that would've been original, let me tell you.
The FCC's talking about powerline broadband. Yeah, we're nowhere close to a commercial rollout yet, but at least the regulators are certifying that the plans won't cause massive harm to any other communications tech, so they're about to sign off on it.
Depends what you mean by "commercial roll-out". It's commercially available in my area, though it's still a pilot program.
firefox comes up less than WEBTV in most of the webtrends reports I am seeing.
It's only been out for two days. Give it time.
Please know what you're talking about before posting to Slashdot.
There's no official toolbar from Google, but...
Mozilla could be a contender, but it's split into a million project as a mozilla user, i know of the current browser (1.6?), Firefox (lets remember this IS a beta we're talking about), Thunderbird - a mail client, and some MAC OSX only broswer that I'm too lazy to go get the name of. My point is, that's 4 projects, please name the other 999,996 please cause I'd like to explore their other products.
And really FF and TB are branches of the main Mozilla suite. There was the Sunbird project, which was developing a stand-alone version of the Mozilla Calendar, but I think it's dead; and there was talk of creating Moonbird, an HTML editor. The other projects listed on Mozilla's download page are developer tools, and, strangely, a Java email client.
Being an open-source project, there are naturally some unofficial projects based upon Gecko, like Aggreg8 and Newsmonster, but they aren't taking resources away from the Mozilla Foundation.
Theories can be wrong, as they are generally unproven. Laws can be wrong also, but have stood the test of time.
No, "law" is merely the older term for what we now call "theory". The change in terminology came about when scientists started to find that many laws didn't hold up well when tested with modern equipment -- Newton's Laws, for example, didn't work properly for 19th Century scientists and had to be modified and refined by Einstein into the Theory of Relativity.
Hmm... two references to the same Almighty, and one to a made-up religion.
So tell me, if I worship Jesus and it turns out he was just one of Allah's prophets, does he waive the "no other gods before me" clause? And if Jesus is divine but I worship Allah and deny that he was anything but a man, does Jesus forgive the mistake?
Saying that Allah and Jehovah are the same bloke is fine if you're talking about the mythologic tradition, but as a practical matter it doesn't quite work out.