I busted a gut on the Bohmeian Rhapsody Mountain Dew ad - the song is so cheesy and the original video even more so that it was hilarious to take it to the next level of cheese with that ad.
Enjoyed the cat herding, the cheetah, and the dog crying too. Missed the E*Trade monkey - too bad.
While this is the first (non-video rental) television I've watched in a couple months and the first ads I've seen in even longer since I usually watch PBS when I watch, I did enjoy many of the ads, even as a true cynic. It seems to be the one time when the ads are truly creative and have a bit of spark to them. Besides, after the recent Doubleclick fiasco having forced me into installing the Internet Junkbuster, I have to stock up on ad impressions for the lean times ahead.
Yes, once it is created, Styrofoam is inert and does little damage in and of itself. However, the process to create the styrofoam, including the oil drilling and refineries have plenty of well documented negative environmental impact on people and animals.
When styrofoam is incinerated, a practice that is becoming more prevalent as landfills fill up (with styrofoam) and close, it is also plenty toxic. I'd love to see you melt that styrofoam into a liquid and drink it instead. Or burn a few hundred pounds of it in a closed, unventilated room. Then I'll be convinced.
Then there's the aformentioned landfills. How many habitats do we need to destroy to have giant holes in the ground full of inert petroleum products?
You imply that the "green spin doctors" will have trouble with dumping trash in the ocean and have no trouble with radioactive waste in Yucca Mountain. You should actually talk to one of those "green spin doctors" once in a while. You'll find none of them advocating burying U238 in that mountain.
I think that's a good idea, except leave out the type of music - considering Shania Twain just won 2 American Music Awards awards, one each for Pop and Country (is there really a difference these days)? Not to mention the difficulty determining the difference between jungle, drum 'n' bass, house, techno, trance, trance house, drum 'n' trance, hip house, hop house, hip hop house, etc. makes it a pain. I say put it under the artist name and let the m3u determine the "type"
Graffiti was available as a 3rd party product for quite a while on the Newton. My MP100 would have gone in the trash without it. In fact, it was Palm Comupting's first product, IIRC. When they developed the Pilot, they stopped making Graffiti for the Newton. Imagine that:-)
And since Apple did all this work, they have all the patents on how it was done... since they are rumord to be in negotiations for co-branding with Palm right now, maybe we will see the Neton technology back out in the field again (I hope!).
Apple actually "did not do all the work," per se. The printing handwriting engine (Rosetta) was licensed from a company that was, I believe, out of Russia. At least their primary developer was. They also released a product for the WinCE. I talked to the guy at Comdex once and he was pretty sharp. Not sure who did the cursive engine, but I believe it was also licensed.
How all that fits in with the future of Palm, I'm not sure. I know both of those engines were huge in the Newton ROMs and, more importantly, needed some major processing power. I suspect they might not fit on the Palm very well at all. Even if they did, I'm not sure it would be a good ergonomic fit with the Palm paradigm - I got pretty great recognition on my MP2100, but I'm not sure I'd want it on the Palm.
For years I've dreamed of making a car windshield that would block billboards and such. I can't stand billboards and would love to replace them with a bright blue sky. Is this algorithm available for Linux yet? Then I could plug my lcd windshield into my empeg and be all set
It seems like this is working for everyone. I tried to start just after the story here on/. and am finding the planning to be a pain. Not enough time to plan with a family and all. My question: is everyone doing the planning part? Are you all eating frozen dinners? I got a program called DietLog for the pilot and it lets you track calories as you go along. It's cool, but I always get hungry at the end of the day and graze. Maybe it's a discipline thing. Any pointers or ideas?
I can say that I got interested in Linux, not because it was not Windows, but because is was/is Unix (like). For someone who taught himself computing and programming just by buying TRS-80s and 8088 PC clones, etc, it was a chance to open up a new world where I had no access to SparcStations or HP-UX boxen.
I still like it for that reason. Unix is elegant and deep and rich. Windows (NT, anyway) is a great desktop system.
MacOS X looks super - I may have to save my pennies for a G4
The gentleman was talking about backups. Without some way to write data to removeable media of some sort (he didn't even use the word "floppy"), backups are a pain at best, useless at worst.
Online backup seems a bit silly to me - if my hard drive takes a crap, how am I going to get online to restore it? Yeah, you could separate your data from your apps (which I do religiously), but how many average users do so?
Because it's free and runs on commdity hardware. That's why I run it anyway. You don't have to be caught up in the endless (expensive) upgrade treadmill. That's assuming Linux apps do the trick for you (or you write them).
I hadn't heard about MacOSX running on Intel. I thought they dropped that some time ago.
I'd love a G4 with MacOSX, but that's gonna be a lot of dough, not to mention the cost of software you'd run on it.
If you're saying government makes laws to increase its population so more taxes are collected, then abortion would have long been illegal. With 3 million (is that the right figure?) abortions per year, that's a big tax base. For the sake of preventing a flame war, you'll notice I've kept my opinion of abortion to myself - I'm just using this as a refutation to your hypothesis.
How in the heck do you do rot-13 nowadays? It seems that Netscape used to have it on one of the menus a few years ago and now it's absent. What a pain.
Indeed, I believe there is a company in Translobia looking at providing Terabit access via sewage lines. All you need is an ethernet-equipped toilet. See ShitNet for more details.
With my cable modem I have a dynamic IP, but a static hostname which resolves right to my NAT/webserver box (Linux running dhcpd). I can access apache on that box no problem just by typing in that hostname provided by @home. I host my mail out of another server some friends own halfway across the country and so have no need to run sendmail at home.
What you might be able to do is use a service like FreeDNS to point a CNAME record from their server to yours to mydomain.org points to ct429536-a.cleveland1.oh.home.com, for example. Not sure if that would work, but it may be worth looking into.
Oddly, this book, according to Amazon.com, is popular in Clearwater, FL (world headquarters to and general stomping grounds for the Church of $cientology). I wonder what the connection is. Do they talk a lot about clams in this book, bychance?
Encrypted data should indeed be incompressible. The data needs to be encrypted before compression. This is how PGP works (or worked in the 2.x source that I once studied).
Indeed. In fact, this year also included the Columbine massacre, of course. Talk about a "hate crime." If those boys weren't as hateful as Byrd or Shepard's killers, then maybe we need to redefine "hate." I think this whole "hate crimes" issue is at best a loss of focus on the real issues in our society that keep minorities and women down (salary equity, housing issues, boldfaced racism, etc.) and at worst a power grab by law enforcement ("tougher laws") playing on people's fears and done in the name of justice and equity.
If this was Compaq going after compaqonline.com, I see no problem with that. However, this is an education instituion trying to go after a.com domain. There's something logically wrong about that.
Does this mean that I should be able to register compaq.org (they're not a non-profit organization) or compaq.net (they're not a network provider - well maybe they are actually)? I think not.
But once again, it boils down to the fact that e-commerce has put too much value on the domain name, which 5 years ago, was of very little importance to any net-savvy person. *sigh*.
5 years ago, netscape.com was important. How else would I have known where down download Mozilla 1.0 beta? ibm.com was important - how could I have gotten drivers for OS/2 (yeah, I may have gotten them via some BBS)?
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I don't know about "Catholic" or "Black" neighborhoods, but I do know the KKK has repeatedly marched through Skokie, IL, a city heavily populated by Jewish people. As much as I'd like to see those pigs all have simultaneous aneurysms, I do defend their right to peacefully march.
I think the judge is out of line in this case. I can see a restraining order for the alleged death threats, but preventing all communication in a public forum is a violation of that person's rights (however much he appears to have abused them).
Per your claim about UI and documentation, I can only disagree on the UI front. I think things have come a long way in that area. Have you used the latest KDE or GNOME? They got some real innovation going there in terms of UI and it's only likely to get better. The various frontends they've built for system admin stuff and office apps are as professional as anything I've seen. We've come a long way from vi and df (in terms of UI - I still like the CLI stuff, personally).
You must not be asking much of Open Source software, then. I still use Windows (simultaneously, thanks to VMWare) for the following which have no Open Source equivalent which has even half the functionality:
That said, I'm simply being patient (and writing code) - I've been using Linux and free software since late 1996 and plan on doing so for the indefinite future. We'll get there.
Mozilla is much more than a "decent web browser." It's a whole communications suite with technologies that will keep it useful for a long ways into the future. If you want a "decent web browser," use Netscape 3 (which, IIRC, was fairly stable on Linux) or KDE's browser or Lynx. If you want the works, i.e. Mozilla - chill. It's coming.
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Forget about Winamp - use XMMS instead
I busted a gut on the Bohmeian Rhapsody Mountain Dew ad - the song is so cheesy and the original video even more so that it was hilarious to take it to the next level of cheese with that ad.
Enjoyed the cat herding, the cheetah, and the dog crying too. Missed the E*Trade monkey - too bad.
While this is the first (non-video rental) television I've watched in a couple months and the first ads I've seen in even longer since I usually watch PBS when I watch, I did enjoy many of the ads, even as a true cynic. It seems to be the one time when the ads are truly creative and have a bit of spark to them. Besides, after the recent Doubleclick fiasco having forced me into installing the Internet Junkbuster, I have to stock up on ad impressions for the lean times ahead.
Wow. who sold you that one?
Yes, once it is created, Styrofoam is inert and does little damage in and of itself. However, the process to create the styrofoam, including the oil drilling and refineries have plenty of well documented negative environmental impact on people and animals.
When styrofoam is incinerated, a practice that is becoming more prevalent as landfills fill up (with styrofoam) and close, it is also plenty toxic. I'd love to see you melt that styrofoam into a liquid and drink it instead. Or burn a few hundred pounds of it in a closed, unventilated room. Then I'll be convinced.
Then there's the aformentioned landfills. How many habitats do we need to destroy to have giant holes in the ground full of inert petroleum products?
You imply that the "green spin doctors" will have trouble with dumping trash in the ocean and have no trouble with radioactive waste in Yucca Mountain. You should actually talk to one of those "green spin doctors" once in a while. You'll find none of them advocating burying U238 in that mountain.
I think that's a good idea, except leave out the type of music - considering Shania Twain just won 2 American Music Awards awards, one each for Pop and Country (is there really a difference these days)? Not to mention the difficulty determining the difference between jungle, drum 'n' bass, house, techno, trance, trance house, drum 'n' trance, hip house, hop house, hip hop house, etc. makes it a pain. I say put it under the artist name and let the m3u determine the "type"
Apparently, according to the discussion over at mp3.com, they intend this to be a pay service at some point.
Graffiti was available as a 3rd party product for quite a while on the Newton. My MP100 would have gone in the trash without it. In fact, it was Palm Comupting's first product, IIRC. When they developed the Pilot, they stopped making Graffiti for the Newton. Imagine that :-)
And since Apple did all this work, they have all the patents on how it was done... since they are rumord to be in negotiations for co-branding with Palm right now, maybe we will see the Neton technology back out in the field again (I hope!).
Apple actually "did not do all the work," per se. The printing handwriting engine (Rosetta) was licensed from a company that was, I believe, out of Russia. At least their primary developer was. They also released a product for the WinCE. I talked to the guy at Comdex once and he was pretty sharp. Not sure who did the cursive engine, but I believe it was also licensed.
How all that fits in with the future of Palm, I'm not sure. I know both of those engines were huge in the Newton ROMs and, more importantly, needed some major processing power. I suspect they might not fit on the Palm very well at all. Even if they did, I'm not sure it would be a good ergonomic fit with the Palm paradigm - I got pretty great recognition on my MP2100, but I'm not sure I'd want it on the Palm.
For years I've dreamed of making a car windshield that would block billboards and such. I can't stand billboards and would love to replace them with a bright blue sky. Is this algorithm available for Linux yet? Then I could plug my lcd windshield into my empeg and be all set
:-)
/. and am finding the planning to be a pain. Not enough time to plan with a family and all. My question: is everyone doing the planning part? Are you all eating frozen dinners? I got a program called DietLog for the pilot and it lets you track calories as you go along. It's cool, but I always get hungry at the end of the day and graze. Maybe it's a discipline thing. Any pointers or ideas?
It seems like this is working for everyone. I tried to start just after the story here on
I can say that I got interested in Linux, not because it was not Windows, but because is was/is Unix (like). For someone who taught himself computing and programming just by buying TRS-80s and 8088 PC clones, etc, it was a chance to open up a new world where I had no access to SparcStations or HP-UX boxen.
I still like it for that reason. Unix is elegant and deep and rich. Windows (NT, anyway) is a great desktop system.
MacOS X looks super - I may have to save my pennies for a G4
The gentleman was talking about backups. Without some way to write data to removeable media of some sort (he didn't even use the word "floppy"), backups are a pain at best, useless at worst.
Online backup seems a bit silly to me - if my hard drive takes a crap, how am I going to get online to restore it? Yeah, you could separate your data from your apps (which I do religiously), but how many average users do so?
Because it's free and runs on commdity hardware. That's why I run it anyway. You don't have to be caught up in the endless (expensive) upgrade treadmill. That's assuming Linux apps do the trick for you (or you write them).
I hadn't heard about MacOSX running on Intel. I thought they dropped that some time ago.
I'd love a G4 with MacOSX, but that's gonna be a lot of dough, not to mention the cost of software you'd run on it.
Mozilla was the first.
If you're saying government makes laws to increase its population so more taxes are collected, then abortion would have long been illegal. With 3 million (is that the right figure?) abortions per year, that's a big tax base. For the sake of preventing a flame war, you'll notice I've kept my opinion of abortion to myself - I'm just using this as a refutation to your hypothesis.
Sure. It's called a wind tunnel.
How in the heck do you do rot-13 nowadays? It seems that Netscape used to have it on one of the menus a few years ago and now it's absent. What a pain.
Flea was born nuts and will die nuts. He's a freak. That's why he's so excellent. Read his nuttiness here
Indeed, I believe there is a company in Translobia looking at providing Terabit access via sewage lines. All you need is an ethernet-equipped toilet. See ShitNet for more details.
With my cable modem I have a dynamic IP, but a static hostname which resolves right to my NAT/webserver box (Linux running dhcpd). I can access apache on that box no problem just by typing in that hostname provided by @home. I host my mail out of another server some friends own halfway across the country and so have no need to run sendmail at home.
What you might be able to do is use a service like FreeDNS to point a CNAME record from their server to yours to mydomain.org points to ct429536-a.cleveland1.oh.home.com, for example. Not sure if that would work, but it may be worth looking into.
Oddly, this book, according to Amazon.com, is popular in Clearwater, FL (world headquarters to and general stomping grounds for the Church of $cientology). I wonder what the connection is. Do they talk a lot about clams in this book, bychance?
Encrypted data should indeed be incompressible. The data needs to be encrypted before compression. This is how PGP works (or worked in the 2.x source that I once studied).
Indeed. In fact, this year also included the Columbine massacre, of course. Talk about a "hate crime." If those boys weren't as hateful as Byrd or Shepard's killers, then maybe we need to redefine "hate." I think this whole "hate crimes" issue is at best a loss of focus on the real issues in our society that keep minorities and women down (salary equity, housing issues, boldfaced racism, etc.) and at worst a power grab by law enforcement ("tougher laws") playing on people's fears and done in the name of justice and equity.
If this was Compaq going after compaqonline.com, I see no problem with that. However, this is an education instituion trying to go after a .com domain. There's something logically wrong about that.
Does this mean that I should be able to register compaq.org (they're not a non-profit organization) or compaq.net (they're not a network provider - well maybe they are actually)? I think not.
But once again, it boils down to the fact that e-commerce has put too much value on the domain name, which 5 years ago, was of very little importance to any net-savvy person. *sigh*.
5 years ago, netscape.com was important. How else would I have known where down download Mozilla 1.0 beta? ibm.com was important - how could I have gotten drivers for OS/2 (yeah, I may have gotten them via some BBS)?
I don't know about "Catholic" or "Black" neighborhoods, but I do know the KKK has repeatedly marched through Skokie, IL, a city heavily populated by Jewish people. As much as I'd like to see those pigs all have simultaneous aneurysms, I do defend their right to peacefully march.
I think the judge is out of line in this case. I can see a restraining order for the alleged death threats, but preventing all communication in a public forum is a violation of that person's rights (however much he appears to have abused them).
Per your claim about UI and documentation, I can only disagree on the UI front. I think things have come a long way in that area. Have you used the latest KDE or GNOME? They got some real innovation going there in terms of UI and it's only likely to get better. The various frontends they've built for system admin stuff and office apps are as professional as anything I've seen. We've come a long way from vi and df (in terms of UI - I still like the CLI stuff, personally).
You must not be asking much of Open Source software, then. I still use Windows (simultaneously, thanks to VMWare) for the following which have no Open Source equivalent which has even half the functionality:
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Quicken
Mastercook
Greeting Card Workshop (no, really)
Kodak DC40 connectivity
SQL-Station
That said, I'm simply being patient (and writing code) - I've been using Linux and free software since late 1996 and plan on doing so for the indefinite future. We'll get there.
Mozilla is much more than a "decent web browser." It's a whole communications suite with technologies that will keep it useful for a long ways into the future. If you want a "decent web browser," use Netscape 3 (which, IIRC, was fairly stable on Linux) or KDE's browser or Lynx. If you want the works, i.e. Mozilla - chill. It's coming.