"The sad fact is that most of the folks here have a powerful capacity for outrage that stops *just* short of actually depriving themselves of anything. We all still go to movies and support the MPAA, we all still buy software from corporate bullies, and hell, a whole lot of us still recommend MS product at work rather than battle the status quo."
No, the sad fact is that the Slashdotters who scream about company X may very well NOT be the Slashdotters who keep their mouths shut and go support company X.
I realize that the text-only nature of this site filters out a lot of the things we use to recognize individuals, but it's important to realize that Slashdot (nor any other collective without a manifesto or something) is NOT a homogeneous mixture of opinion.
every time i read the financial page it says stuff along the likes of "well, the economy seems to be getting better, but unemployment isn't going down"
all you need now is a real set of balls and a slashdot account, ya pansy.
Who need more astronauts? Just grab a couple oil drillers!
If a shuttle cannot reenter safely, what's the point of keeping it around?
Let me make a list, I like lists. - keep the shuttle in orbit and send the others up to keep the RMS and OMS boosters topped up every so often - use it to manipulate satellites with the quickness - more space in the ISS! - what happens when it breaks? simple, don't keep too many people up there at once
actually, there is still some mac os documentation and man pages that mention the NXHost option. which of course, no longer exists. oops. The NS prefix is everywhere in the Cocoa API though
spam is becoming a catch-all term for unsolicited direct marketing in any medium. junk mail, phone calls, email. maybe door-to-door salesmen will get a new name.
commercials, billboards, signs, ads in magazines, product placement in films and video games, etc. doesn't count, since it's not direct.
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Here's a great step-by-step procedure for wiping your backside
And then when XML-only browsers pop up, all these old pages become unviewable.
Although, that will probably never happen.
A Web page that was HTML 3.2 compliant is not standards-compliant at all these days.
How do we know the W3C won't change the standard AGAIN in three years?
Ah, so THAT'S what a TPS report is for.
Yes, I fixed the cover page already. Leave me alone.
actually i used to use a RAM disk on my mac as my browser cache.
i dunno, but i can watch aljazeera's headlines on the television every morning!
that was archaeology 101 with dr. henry jones jr., iirc
Oh, I missed the "Ignore me" part. Never mind.
"The sad fact is that most of the folks here have a powerful capacity for outrage that stops *just* short of actually depriving themselves of anything. We all still go to movies and support the MPAA, we all still buy software from corporate bullies, and hell, a whole lot of us still recommend MS product at work rather than battle the status quo."
No, the sad fact is that the Slashdotters who scream about company X may very well NOT be the Slashdotters who keep their mouths shut and go support company X.
I realize that the text-only nature of this site filters out a lot of the things we use to recognize individuals, but it's important to realize that Slashdot (nor any other collective without a manifesto or something) is NOT a homogeneous mixture of opinion.
All technological improvement and acceptance in the past century was motivated by greed. It is and always has been the American Dream.
*sigh* Transmeta would be much more interesting if they had never mentioned what they were doing.
Secrecy under the right circumstances, and with just a tiny little tease of information, can turn into a whole pile of hype.
every time i read the financial page it says stuff along the likes of "well, the economy seems to be getting better, but unemployment isn't going down"
all you need now is a real set of balls and a slashdot account, ya pansy.
relax, i snagged it from someone else's cartoon
Last time the economy was doing poorly WE HAD A GIGANTIC TAX CUT. It ruined everything and caused a recession.
Now another Bush is in power, and the economy is doing poorly. WE JUST PASSED ANOTHER GIGANTIC TAX CUT! (and we'll do it again if we have to!)
but then i realized that i guessed the content of the article before reading it.
Who need more astronauts? Just grab a couple oil drillers!
If a shuttle cannot reenter safely, what's the point of keeping it around?
Let me make a list, I like lists.
- keep the shuttle in orbit and send the others up to keep the RMS and OMS boosters topped up every so often
- use it to manipulate satellites with the quickness
- more space in the ISS!
- what happens when it breaks? simple, don't keep too many people up there at once
gimme a break, the coffee machine is out of order
actually, there is still some mac os documentation and man pages that mention the NXHost option. which of course, no longer exists. oops. The NS prefix is everywhere in the Cocoa API though
as a matter of fact, i have heard of deming.
another interesting japanese industry-related topic is Kaizen, which american businessmen tried to adopt at one point.
spam is becoming a catch-all term for unsolicited direct marketing in any medium. junk mail, phone calls, email. maybe door-to-door salesmen will get a new name.
commercials, billboards, signs, ads in magazines, product placement in films and video games, etc. doesn't count, since it's not direct.
actually, the name NX was used by NeXT for their remote-execution-local-display system. (well NXHost was the name)
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I hope Apple doesn't sue these guys
ok, well if you think the pod race was exciting, you are beyond hope (even a new hope, har har har). sorry. :)
why don't you look it up?
RUN COWARD! I HUNGER!
or you could download a free alternative player or do the applescript thing and quit whinging.
maybe it has to be rehashed because you're still missing it, apparently.
you don't need QT player to play quicktime movies. you need the quicktime library and a player that uses it. this includes the sorenson codec.