...says the person too afraid to post with a real account.
Oh, and incidentally:
joke ['jOk] (n). 1a: something said or done to provoke laughter; especially: a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist; b (1): the humorous or ridiculous element in something
(2): an instance of jesting: KIDDING ("can't take a joke")
Ah, but thank you for the insight. Please, continue with your scintillating wit.
Dale Todd, Evan's father, said he hooked up with Thompson through research he did on violent video games. He even obtained a copy of "Doom" and played it himself. He was appalled.
I don't blame him, what with its blocky, 320x200x256-color graphics, 2.5D engine, MIDI music, and lack of any TCP/IP compatible multiplayer capability! Why, the game looks like it's, oh, six years old or something! I'd be appalled too!
(I shudder for the day when the media realizes the existence of Half-Life or Unreal Tournament...)
I have to disagree -- conditionally. While I wouldn't want ALL my software existing on the Net, there are some things that people already have no problem with running off the Internet. AIM Express is the main example that comes to mind; it exists completely as a Java applet, downloaded off the Net to use remotely.
I guess what I'm saying is that, while users may not like having their word processor on some central server somewhere, maybe they'll embrace it when dealing with small to mid-sized applications that are most convenient when accessible from many locations.
I would like to note that, thanks to the massive number of April Fools' posts on Slashdot yesterday, I now find myself second-guessing the validity of every story posted. One or two April Fools' stories would've been enough, but Slashdot, you really hurt your credibility a bit in my eyes...
I'm sorry, but this has my "bull-meter" pegged at maximum, and here's why:
Well, I just checked www.westernion.com and he wasn't lying, he sent the funds. I got the tracking number and he paid by cash so I can pick up the money without an ID.
Regardless of whether you can get cash by Western Union with an ID (which has been touched upon by others), we're supposed to believe this guy didn't just take the money and run? The same guy who has stolen countless credit card numbers, bought thousands of dollars of merchandise, and is "untraceable"?
The W32.Winux virus is written in a primitive computer language called 'assembly language', which is what allows it to infect either Windows or Linux programs, Peer said.
I move we immediately introduce legislation to block this "assembly language" thing. It sounds Un-American (tm), could lead to pirating of intellectual property, and somebody has to think of the children...
There's a good chance advertisers would've used larger ads eventually anyway. With standards set for the size of these new sorts of ads, it'll be that much easier to filter them out with regular expression parsers like Internet Junkbuster and Squid.Redir.
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ChuckFlynn and you seem to assume, right off the bat, that blogs are necessarily targeted toward some general public audience. That's not necessarily the case. My friends and I have blogs primarily as a way of communicating between one another, more than anything else. It's sort of a glorified newsgroup, but without the spam and with the ability to practice web design skills at the same time. If someone else happens to stumble upon our communiques, then good for them, but I don't assume that I'm some high and mighty philosopher, spouting my views on a soapbox to the masses. At most, I'm spouting my views to five or ten friends, and whoever else happens to wander in.
At the same time, I could turn your argument on its side: why do you post comments on Slashdot? Because you want others to read them, right? And these comments offer your take on the subject at hand to hundreds, of not thousands of other people, right? To use your own words, why do you assume that your trivial personal views are somehow relevant or helpful to the forum?
I'm confused here -- how, exactly, is posting Slashdot comments that much different from the view of blogging you presented?
Plans for EyeVision include...
putting a transparent plane on the goal line to show distinctly whether the ball penetrated the plane and crossed the goal line.
Heck, there's already a transparent plane there. And on the line of scrimmage. And on every yard line. And in the bleachers, and in the skyboxes, and piercing through the Goodyear blimp, and threading through the cheerleaders, and passing straight through the centers of both the star quarterback and the couch potato sitting at home...
Oh, they meant a translucent plane. Well, that's different now.
If there isn't a decisive winner, I think the ONLY fair thing to do, and this may rise to the level of a decision by the Supreme Court, would be to throw out the ENTIRE 25 electoral votes in Florida as if they had gone to a different candidate.
But they didn't go to a different candidate. Essentially, they went to no candidate. Therefore, IMHO it would make more sense to throw out the ENTIRE 25 electoral votes in Florida completely. That puts the majority line at 256 or 257 (I'm not going to do the exact math right now). Therefore, Gore got the majority of electoral votes and would win.
Of course, I like the solution proposed by one of the comics in our university paper: Florida is a narrow state, so a few properly placed explosives would break it off and send it floating off into the Gulf. Voila, no more Florida, no more problems!
Yes, an SACD has a sample rate of 2.82MHz, but that's with one bit per sample (per channel). Yep, that's right---a single bit per sample. In fact, the signal-to-noise ratio on a SACD is very likely negative--there is more noise than signal.
I'm sure I'll lose karma for being so nitpicky, but... if there's more noise than signal, the signal-to-noise ratio will be between 0 and 1. Not negative.
I have one main problem with Mojo Nation, or any other bandwidth-sharing system: my university imposes a flat maximum of 500MB per day. After that, my port is shut down and can't be re-enabled until I talk with our security folks (which is a real pleasure). If Mojo Nation had a feature to limit total bandwidth used per day, or even better, throttle bandwidth (perhaps even dynamic throttling as a certain maximum is reached), it would be far more preferable to people in my situation!
I just wanted to point out that the TRGpro available from TRG Corporation does the same sort of thing, but uses a CompactFlash card instead, thereby supporting that standard. (This also means you could use an IBM 340MB Microdrive in the thing, if you like your batteries to be depleted every two or three days!) The TRGpro also contains CFPro, which (unlike this Sony unit) DOES let you run apps off of external memory (provided they are read-only and use read-only databases; inline write support isn't possible yet).
In addition, The TRGpro boasts a true speaker instead of the Palm's piezo buzzer, and Benchmark puts my unit at 160% the speed of a Palm IIIx/Palm V. Sure, it's modeled after a Palm III (actually, it's the exact same casing), and it's a bit more expensive than a IIIxe, but the screen is more like Palm V quality (no streaking, and support for 4-bit grayscale with OS 3.5). All around, it hasn't disappointed me yet.
I always felt that the best way to demonstrate how Google weeds out the chaff is the "pseudo-porn-term test". If you can type in "beaver" as the search term, and get all clean results for the top 10 entries, you know the engine is doing the job. Works for other words, too...
It's true! I can't get to their site now! The Slashdot Effect is a DoS being orchestrated against them as an evil commie hippie pinko anarchist terrorist plot to stop the public from hearing their dire cries of warning! We'd all better switch to WinXX, right now!
2000-2020 A massive earth quake destroys Tokyo resulting in worldwide economical problems when the Japanese people pull their money back to rebuild the city.
I think you mean:
2000-2020 A massive mutated sea monster destroys Tokyo resulting in worldwide economical problems when the Japanese people pull their money back to rebuild the city.
next semester I have computer programming. they teach you c++: declaring variables, cin, cout, if , maybey for.. thats IT!!.
You're pretty lucky, then. Like some others, I had the option of BASIC, no more. True, it sounds like they're actually teaching you C coding (procedural vs. OOP) in C++ with the exception of cin/cout, but that's lightyears ahead of what we had.
My old school is probably still plodding along with its "state-of-the-art" technology lab of non-networked 486/33's (networks "scared" the tech teacher, no joke) that was obsolete a year before they purchased the technology... *sigh*
Congratulations, you've found someone who does get it. However, chibi-bytes would have to be small, pink, extremely whiny and annoying and dubbed into an absolutely obnoxious voice every time they're used to represent English text. Oh, and they'd have to be called Reenie-bytes in America.
But then, I thought everyone watched Sailor Moon for the scouts' transformation sequences...
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...says the person too afraid to post with a real account.
Oh, and incidentally:
joke ['jOk] (n). 1a: something said or done to provoke laughter; especially: a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist; b (1): the humorous or ridiculous element in something (2): an instance of jesting: KIDDING ("can't take a joke")
Ah, but thank you for the insight. Please, continue with your scintillating wit.
From the article:
I don't blame him, what with its blocky, 320x200x256-color graphics, 2.5D engine, MIDI music, and lack of any TCP/IP compatible multiplayer capability! Why, the game looks like it's, oh, six years old or something! I'd be appalled too!
(I shudder for the day when the media realizes the existence of Half-Life or Unreal Tournament...)
I have to disagree -- conditionally. While I wouldn't want ALL my software existing on the Net, there are some things that people already have no problem with running off the Internet. AIM Express is the main example that comes to mind; it exists completely as a Java applet, downloaded off the Net to use remotely.
I guess what I'm saying is that, while users may not like having their word processor on some central server somewhere, maybe they'll embrace it when dealing with small to mid-sized applications that are most convenient when accessible from many locations.
Of course, I could be totally wrong.
I would like to note that, thanks to the massive number of April Fools' posts on Slashdot yesterday, I now find myself second-guessing the validity of every story posted. One or two April Fools' stories would've been enough, but Slashdot, you really hurt your credibility a bit in my eyes...
I'm sorry, but this has my "bull-meter" pegged at maximum, and here's why:
Regardless of whether you can get cash by Western Union with an ID (which has been touched upon by others), we're supposed to believe this guy didn't just take the money and run? The same guy who has stolen countless credit card numbers, bought thousands of dollars of merchandise, and is "untraceable"?
Please.
The article says the hackers are hitting the "publish" key, but I've looked all over my keyboard and I don't see anything like that!
There's a good chance advertisers would've used larger ads eventually anyway. With standards set for the size of these new sorts of ads, it'll be that much easier to filter them out with regular expression parsers like Internet Junkbuster and Squid.Redir.
ChuckFlynn and you seem to assume, right off the bat, that blogs are necessarily targeted toward some general public audience. That's not necessarily the case. My friends and I have blogs primarily as a way of communicating between one another, more than anything else. It's sort of a glorified newsgroup, but without the spam and with the ability to practice web design skills at the same time. If someone else happens to stumble upon our communiques, then good for them, but I don't assume that I'm some high and mighty philosopher, spouting my views on a soapbox to the masses. At most, I'm spouting my views to five or ten friends, and whoever else happens to wander in.
At the same time, I could turn your argument on its side: why do you post comments on Slashdot? Because you want others to read them, right? And these comments offer your take on the subject at hand to hundreds, of not thousands of other people, right? To use your own words, why do you assume that your trivial personal views are somehow relevant or helpful to the forum?
I'm confused here -- how, exactly, is posting Slashdot comments that much different from the view of blogging you presented?
Heck, there's already a transparent plane there. And on the line of scrimmage. And on every yard line. And in the bleachers, and in the skyboxes, and piercing through the Goodyear blimp, and threading through the cheerleaders, and passing straight through the centers of both the star quarterback and the couch potato sitting at home...
Oh, they meant a translucent plane. Well, that's different now.
</pedant>But they didn't go to a different candidate. Essentially, they went to no candidate. Therefore, IMHO it would make more sense to throw out the ENTIRE 25 electoral votes in Florida completely. That puts the majority line at 256 or 257 (I'm not going to do the exact math right now). Therefore, Gore got the majority of electoral votes and would win.
Of course, I like the solution proposed by one of the comics in our university paper: Florida is a narrow state, so a few properly placed explosives would break it off and send it floating off into the Gulf. Voila, no more Florida, no more problems!
I'm sure I'll lose karma for being so nitpicky, but... if there's more noise than signal, the signal-to-noise ratio will be between 0 and 1. Not negative.
I have one main problem with Mojo Nation, or any other bandwidth-sharing system: my university imposes a flat maximum of 500MB per day. After that, my port is shut down and can't be re-enabled until I talk with our security folks (which is a real pleasure). If Mojo Nation had a feature to limit total bandwidth used per day, or even better, throttle bandwidth (perhaps even dynamic throttling as a certain maximum is reached), it would be far more preferable to people in my situation!
I just wanted to point out that the TRGpro available from TRG Corporation does the same sort of thing, but uses a CompactFlash card instead, thereby supporting that standard. (This also means you could use an IBM 340MB Microdrive in the thing, if you like your batteries to be depleted every two or three days!) The TRGpro also contains CFPro, which (unlike this Sony unit) DOES let you run apps off of external memory (provided they are read-only and use read-only databases; inline write support isn't possible yet).
In addition, The TRGpro boasts a true speaker instead of the Palm's piezo buzzer, and Benchmark puts my unit at 160% the speed of a Palm IIIx/Palm V. Sure, it's modeled after a Palm III (actually, it's the exact same casing), and it's a bit more expensive than a IIIxe, but the screen is more like Palm V quality (no streaking, and support for 4-bit grayscale with OS 3.5). All around, it hasn't disappointed me yet.
GSL
Ed? She's okay, but EIN is the true master of Bebop. A Welsh Corgi that can hack websites is a winner in my book...
Note to self: preview comments first. End note.
I always felt that the best way to demonstrate how Google weeds out the chaff is the "pseudo-porn-term test". If you can type in "beaver" as the search term, and get all clean results for the top 10 entries, you know the engine is doing the job. Works for other words, too...
It's true! I can't get to their site now! The Slashdot Effect is a DoS being orchestrated against them as an evil commie hippie pinko anarchist terrorist plot to stop the public from hearing their dire cries of warning! We'd all better switch to WinXX, right now!
2000-2020 A massive earth quake destroys Tokyo resulting in worldwide economical problems when the Japanese people pull their money back to rebuild the city.
I think you mean:
2000-2020 A massive mutated sea monster destroys Tokyo resulting in worldwide economical problems when the Japanese people pull their money back to rebuild the city.
...It's only a matter of time.
next semester I have computer programming. they teach you c++: declaring variables, cin, cout, if , maybey for.. thats IT!!.
You're pretty lucky, then. Like some others, I had the option of BASIC, no more. True, it sounds like they're actually teaching you C coding (procedural vs. OOP) in C++ with the exception of cin/cout, but that's lightyears ahead of what we had.
My old school is probably still plodding along with its "state-of-the-art" technology lab of non-networked 486/33's (networks "scared" the tech teacher, no joke) that was obsolete a year before they purchased the technology... *sigh*
Congratulations, you've found someone who does get it. However, chibi-bytes would have to be small, pink, extremely whiny and annoying and dubbed into an absolutely obnoxious voice every time they're used to represent English text. Oh, and they'd have to be called Reenie-bytes in America.
But then, I thought everyone watched Sailor Moon for the scouts' transformation sequences...
(This is a fake tagline. It lets people know my web page is broken.)