Now people are too lazy to type emoticons, which are used by people who are too lazy to express their emotion with words.
Efficiency is one thing, but now laziness is more efficient? But how much more efficient can it be? Instead of typing two characters, you've got to take your hand off the keyboard, locate the specific emoticon button and press it, then return your hand to the keyboard.
Maybe it's not for efficient laziness, maybe it's for stupidity and lack of creativity. I remember when emoticons were emerging and seldom used - back in the BBS/pre-Internet days, back when people who used computers weren't stupid.
Nevada, then Texas, then California, then Nevada again (different school), then California again (different school again). I wasn't in any one school for an entire school year. In each move I was uprooted in the middle of the year.
As I mentioned, my parents used me as a weapon against each other.
Then I was an adult. I stayed with friends and stayed in school until my savings ran out....I almost made it to graduation. When my situation was stable a couple years later, I finished and kept moving on.
Not everyone is as lucky as you to have happy childhood memories. If I wasn't so awesome, I'd probably be pretty screwed up.
I do everything I can to make sure my kids have a happy and stable environment. They know they're safe, that they won't go hungry and that I will do anything to ensure their success. I know how hard it is to overcome the alternative.
Not all high school drop-outs are lazy. Many simply weigh the benefits of an education vs eating and having a place to sleep.
For some, it's not a choice - it's survival. I was one of those. On my 18th birthday, I was told "get out, we don't want you here" by my dad and his new wife. By then, I was so sick of being used as a weapon by my parents to hurt each other that I was glad to get out.
That began a period of riding a bicycle to low paying jobs, working my way back to a position that I could finish high school as an adult, better jobs, a car, certifications, better jobs, going to college on my own dime. Now I'm a network admin and programmer - with much hands-on experience.
On the other hand, take your typical liberal arts graduate. Sure, they may not know shit, or how to do shit, but they have shown that they are willing to ride the easy train and pretend it was hard, do the work and call it hard, think squarely inside the box, and find someone to blame when a task isn't completed.
The degree doesn't matter at all, it's the intestinal fortitude and resolve of the person to achieve a goal.
I think your idea has already been considered by the Go-OO team. From their website:
Go-oo joins forces with LibreOffice
Go-oo shares much of its goals and philosophy with The Document Foundation's LibreOffice project, we're therefore supporting LibreOffice since it's inception, and are in the process of merging most of our patches over, as well as migrating to Document Foundation infrastructure. Going forward, the Go-oo project will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice.
Advertisers and tracking services will fight this to the bitter end.
I doubt that.
This would paint a target on the heads (so to speak) of the people they most want to track! Everyone else is already submitting to their intrusive behavior. The people most likely to fall for this scheme are likely using other methods to hide their identities.
Seriously! This is like putting up no trespassing signs. If someone really wants to trespass, they will.
The best bet is to take the advice of Darryl Zero and lie about everything.
The first was "Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure", while the second was "Bill and Teds Bogus Journey"
Clearly, there isn't a "2" in the second title. Additionally, a sequel to an excellent adventure would be another excellent adventure. The second B&T movie was a bogus journey, which is the converse of an excellent adventure.
If anything, "Bill and Teds Bogus Journey" is an anti-sequel.....with death, aliens and robots.
How many people have all 3 movies on DVD? How many have all 3 on Blueray?
It seems to me that by releasing yet more Matrix sequels, this long after the originals, will cause many to update their existing collection to Blueray versions.
Matrix 4 - The Matrix Strikes Back (at your wallet) Matrix 5 - I saw all 5 moves and all I got was this stupid merchandise.
Then comes the platinum super-ultra-mega special edition collection. Shortly followed by the "Directors Cut", and the limited special edition action-figure release.
I was thinking the same thing myself. The video starts with a hand on the pencil, so you don't get to see the pencil actually placed. At the end, it's like the platform is pulled to the corner while the pencil is removed. It should be fairly easy to snag the pencil while the device is operating, but instead it's a drawn out drag to the corner. And what's the left hand doing off camera at the very end of the video?
Real, fake? I can't say. The way the video is shown makes me suspect it's fake.
Certainly, you're not implying that anything remotely related to music be refused!
With a tld of ".music" everything becomes a music related domain.
Shitty (not related) becomes shitty.music (related) Elevator (not related) becomes elevator.music (related) Rock (not necessarily related) becomes rock.music (related)
I'd love to see ICANN tell them to f-off and immediately prevent registration of riaa.music as well as domains related to any artist represented by the RIAA.
I spend more time testing with Safari and Opera than other browsers because I would rather spend less time supporting my users who use Safari and Opera.
I don't think the "open source development model" is the correct association to make with his statement "open source economic development".
The way I read it is more like recipe sharing. Whoever makes the best apple pie gets their recipe distributed throughout the state. I didn't read anything about mandates in the article, so it sounds like the local governments can take recipes and do with them as they see fit.
One would hope that efficiency would prevail, but I'm sure that some local governments will stubbornly stick with what they already have.
My major problem with it isn't that it represents a collection of technologies. My problem is that it doesn't have a defined standard. Because it isn't defined, it has different meanings to different people.
Ask a graphic designer what Web 2.0 means and he'll give you an answer related to graphics (shadows, rounded corners, 3d...)
Ask a flash programmer and he might say it represents the latest actionscript whizbang-a-doodle.
Ask a businessman and he might say it brings in investors, not knowing or caring about what it actually means....it's just a buzzword.
Ask the average person, and they might say it represents streaming video, forums and social media.
XML/XHTML is a defined standard. It's easily implemented by following the guidelines. XHTML Strict vs XHTML Transitional? RSS vs ATOM? Those are defined too.
The Web 2.0 term is meaningless because there is no consensus on the definition.
Never said anything about trademark. And web browser isn't a specification.
There isn't Web Browser 1.0, 2.0, 3.0. Each manufacturer supports the standards they want to support in their products. They are supporting standards though....defined standards.
I wish we could get away from the "Web 2.0" BS. I work with a bunch of people who love to use that term and it infuriates me. Every time I speak to them about what I'm working on, I re-iterate that "Web 2.0" is a catchphrase that means absolutely nothing. 2.0 indicates that it is a second generation standard, when in fact no standard exists.
I've even heard people say "Web 3.0" and it makes me want to embarrass them publicly by asking "Which standards body maintains that specification?"
Because of the advice of a few of my mentors, I've kept my mouth shut. Better to allow people to be as stupid as they are capable of being rather than waste the time requiring them to prove it.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, it's lame that they didn't notify us about that...last night.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1uCzRXh3ZEk/Slashdot-Launches-Re-Design
Now people are too lazy to type emoticons, which are used by people who are too lazy to express their emotion with words.
Efficiency is one thing, but now laziness is more efficient? But how much more efficient can it be? Instead of typing two characters, you've got to take your hand off the keyboard, locate the specific emoticon button and press it, then return your hand to the keyboard.
Maybe it's not for efficient laziness, maybe it's for stupidity and lack of creativity. I remember when emoticons were emerging and seldom used - back in the BBS/pre-Internet days, back when people who used computers weren't stupid.
It's not even a particularly interesting timestamp: 1296021600 = Jan. 26th, 2011 00:00:00
The real day to watch out for is Jan 19, 2038 03:14:07 GMT
Somehow, I doubt it will be a huge party.
C'mon....he's not going to college to be an English professor.
He's going so he can be recognized as a poor-grammar....er...programmer.
...sounds like you were off to a bad start...
You're telling me...
I went to High School in:
Nevada, then Texas, then California, then Nevada again (different school), then California again (different school again). I wasn't in any one school for an entire school year. In each move I was uprooted in the middle of the year.
As I mentioned, my parents used me as a weapon against each other.
Then I was an adult. I stayed with friends and stayed in school until my savings ran out....I almost made it to graduation. When my situation was stable a couple years later, I finished and kept moving on.
Not everyone is as lucky as you to have happy childhood memories. If I wasn't so awesome, I'd probably be pretty screwed up.
I do everything I can to make sure my kids have a happy and stable environment. They know they're safe, that they won't go hungry and that I will do anything to ensure their success. I know how hard it is to overcome the alternative.
Not all high school drop-outs are lazy. Many simply weigh the benefits of an education vs eating and having a place to sleep.
For some, it's not a choice - it's survival. I was one of those. On my 18th birthday, I was told "get out, we don't want you here" by my dad and his new wife. By then, I was so sick of being used as a weapon by my parents to hurt each other that I was glad to get out.
That began a period of riding a bicycle to low paying jobs, working my way back to a position that I could finish high school as an adult, better jobs, a car, certifications, better jobs, going to college on my own dime. Now I'm a network admin and programmer - with much hands-on experience.
On the other hand, take your typical liberal arts graduate. Sure, they may not know shit, or how to do shit, but they have shown that they are willing to ride the easy train and pretend it was hard, do the work and call it hard, think squarely inside the box, and find someone to blame when a task isn't completed.
The degree doesn't matter at all, it's the intestinal fortitude and resolve of the person to achieve a goal.
Sorry, bad link:
The Go-OO website is located at http://www.go-oo.org/
Go-LO - I like it!
I think your idea has already been considered by the Go-OO team. From their website:
Go-oo joins forces with LibreOffice
Go-oo shares much of its goals and philosophy with The Document Foundation's LibreOffice project, we're therefore supporting LibreOffice since it's inception, and are in the process of merging most of our patches over, as well as migrating to Document Foundation infrastructure. Going forward, the Go-oo project will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice.
Advertisers and tracking services will fight this to the bitter end.
I doubt that.
This would paint a target on the heads (so to speak) of the people they most want to track! Everyone else is already submitting to their intrusive behavior. The people most likely to fall for this scheme are likely using other methods to hide their identities.
Seriously! This is like putting up no trespassing signs. If someone really wants to trespass, they will.
The best bet is to take the advice of Darryl Zero and lie about everything.
I had to say it.
No, no, no.....
The first was "Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure", while the second was "Bill and Teds Bogus Journey"
Clearly, there isn't a "2" in the second title. Additionally, a sequel to an excellent adventure would be another excellent adventure. The second B&T movie was a bogus journey, which is the converse of an excellent adventure.
If anything, "Bill and Teds Bogus Journey" is an anti-sequel.....with death, aliens and robots.
How many people have all 3 movies on DVD?
How many have all 3 on Blueray?
It seems to me that by releasing yet more Matrix sequels, this long after the originals, will cause many to update their existing collection to Blueray versions.
Matrix 4 - The Matrix Strikes Back (at your wallet)
Matrix 5 - I saw all 5 moves and all I got was this stupid merchandise.
Then comes the platinum super-ultra-mega special edition collection. Shortly followed by the "Directors Cut", and the limited special edition action-figure release.
I was thinking the same thing myself. The video starts with a hand on the pencil, so you don't get to see the pencil actually placed. At the end, it's like the platform is pulled to the corner while the pencil is removed. It should be fairly easy to snag the pencil while the device is operating, but instead it's a drawn out drag to the corner. And what's the left hand doing off camera at the very end of the video?
Real, fake? I can't say. The way the video is shown makes me suspect it's fake.
Certainly, you're not implying that anything remotely related to music be refused!
With a tld of ".music" everything becomes a music related domain.
Shitty (not related) becomes shitty.music (related)
Elevator (not related) becomes elevator.music (related)
Rock (not necessarily related) becomes rock.music (related)
I'd love to see ICANN tell them to f-off and immediately prevent registration of riaa.music as well as domains related to any artist represented by the RIAA.
On that note, Futurama Season 6 is out on DVD.
HAHAHA.....if I had mod points...I'd use them on someone else, you're already at +5 Funny.
Seriously though, WTF is up with "wrasslin" on Sci-Fi (I refuse to use their new name).
If for no other reason, I hope Fringe gets canceled and picked up by Sci-Fi to replace wrestling.
I had several more paragraphs written. Then I realized that I'm letting you piss me off. So I deleted it all.
Think what you want. I'll think what I want.
I spend more time testing with Safari and Opera than other browsers because I would rather spend less time supporting my users who use Safari and Opera.
Or smaller, more manageable standards that inter operate.
Nobody can agree on the <video> tag, so remove it and make it a separate standard.
How many layers of the HTML5 onion need to be peeled before the a consensus can be reached?
I don't think the "open source development model" is the correct association to make with his statement "open source economic development".
The way I read it is more like recipe sharing. Whoever makes the best apple pie gets their recipe distributed throughout the state. I didn't read anything about mandates in the article, so it sounds like the local governments can take recipes and do with them as they see fit.
One would hope that efficiency would prevail, but I'm sure that some local governments will stubbornly stick with what they already have.
My major problem with it isn't that it represents a collection of technologies. My problem is that it doesn't have a defined standard. Because it isn't defined, it has different meanings to different people.
Ask a graphic designer what Web 2.0 means and he'll give you an answer related to graphics (shadows, rounded corners, 3d...)
Ask a flash programmer and he might say it represents the latest actionscript whizbang-a-doodle.
Ask a businessman and he might say it brings in investors, not knowing or caring about what it actually means....it's just a buzzword.
Ask the average person, and they might say it represents streaming video, forums and social media.
XML/XHTML is a defined standard. It's easily implemented by following the guidelines. XHTML Strict vs XHTML Transitional? RSS vs ATOM? Those are defined too.
The Web 2.0 term is meaningless because there is no consensus on the definition.
Never said anything about trademark. And web browser isn't a specification.
There isn't Web Browser 1.0, 2.0, 3.0. Each manufacturer supports the standards they want to support in their products. They are supporting standards though....defined standards.
Just because someone changes their name to Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, it doesn't make them the Queen of England.
Though you might be a queen, you're not the Queen of England, nor are you a standards body.
What standards body defines these designations?
Where is the published standard?
Even Tim Berners-Lee says it's "jargon"
For there to be a 2.0, there must be a 1.0. For 1.0 to exist, there must be a definition. No definition exists, because one was never made.
The people I hear saying "Web 2.0" have little clue about what RSS is, and have no clue about ATOM, JSON, XML or many other current technologies.
I know that people won't stop using these terms.
Just because someone changes their name to Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, it doesn't make them the Queen of England.
I wish we could get away from the "Web 2.0" BS. I work with a bunch of people who love to use that term and it infuriates me. Every time I speak to them about what I'm working on, I re-iterate that "Web 2.0" is a catchphrase that means absolutely nothing. 2.0 indicates that it is a second generation standard, when in fact no standard exists.
I've even heard people say "Web 3.0" and it makes me want to embarrass them publicly by asking "Which standards body maintains that specification?"
Because of the advice of a few of my mentors, I've kept my mouth shut. Better to allow people to be as stupid as they are capable of being rather than waste the time requiring them to prove it.