PHP has C-like syntax, making it easy to move onto C when she has some confidence. If you couple it with MySQL, HTML and CSS, and then get her some web hosting, she has something to show her friends for her troubles.
I mean, who would have expected anything less? They can already tap phones, why not the Internet. All in the name of protecting the world from terrorism. Hooray.
I guess you have to hate corporations a lot to "get it". Hate isn't really my thing.
Once again, you missed the clue train. Time for a repeat pickup...
IT ISN'T ABOUT HATING CORPORATIONS. I don't hate corporations as a concept (I hate some corporations: AOL, Gat^H^H^HClaria, News Corp, Daily Mail) as a lot of corporations have given the world great shit. What it is about is prioritising those with plenty of sway and cash to back it up over those who have less money which can **HINT** be donated to certain parties which **HINT** employ someone who is the father of **HINT** the chairman of the FCC. It's also symbolic: it's David vs Goliath, but this time Goliath has some kickass ninjas and a few other Goliaths on his side too. End result: David gets squashed.
It would be bad if my rights were somehow jeopardized by some high-school vs. commercial radio station dispute in distant Washington state. Bad indeed.
Don't you get it?
The point is that the FCC is letting large corporations control the airwaves to the detriment of the public (i.e schools). They are prioritising the big and wealthy over the little guy. It doesn't affect your rights online, but holy fuck does it affect your rights.
Put it this way: say that a large corporation wanted your domain name, which coincides with the name for one of their new products. Also say that your web host willingly handed the domain over to them, without giving you a say in the matter. You'd be crying "OMGWTF THE HOSTS TOOK AWAY MY NAME AND GAVE IT TO PROCTER AND GAMBLE!!!111". I think you'd have a right to be pissed then. Same thing here.
"Do they play their own instruments and write their own songs" has always been bullshit.
Example: Hanson played their own instruments and weren't manufactured. That's right, Hanson, girl/boy/indeterminate-band of the 90s weren't manufactured. Crappy pre-teen-attracting "rock" group Busted play their own instruments, but reek of manufacture.
The problem with the music industry is not musicians not writing their own songs/playing their own instruments, it's this. As that Everything2 node says, the music industry can make $3million out of one band, and then the performers would get $4k each. THAT is the problem, and it has a lot to do with lawyers and big corporations (surprise surprise).
It's more profitable to run your own website selling your CDs and MP3s, like this guy, rather than signing your ass over to EMI.
Even tongue in cheek, it's just wrong to say that another person should die for writing computer viruses. It's also wrong to say that another person should die for killing someone.
Mozilla has spent quite a lot of money getting Firefox/Thunderbird branding and trademarks. I think, after all the name changes in the past, they'll probably want to keep the current name. Which is good: it's a good name and a good logo:)
In the UK, the Data Protection Act mandates that companies not withold data about people if they have no good reason to have it. The DPA: wonder why it isn't an idea that's reached the US yet.
Two PHP scripts, plus an additional,.htpasswd protected one to post stuff. It worked a charm, had multiple categories, allowed comment posting...it took me about two hours to do, and even better it allowed me to have the site exactly the way I wanted it, and not the way it would fit around the CMS. It's also a great way to learn how to code. It was fast and reliable. However, I'm just using raw HTML now: only one author, and I'm sitting at the server, so why not? And if it's good enough for Maddox it's good enough for me:)
Firstly, "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot" was by Al Franken and not Michael Moore. Secondly, the title of Moore's book was not "Fat White Men", it was "Stupid White Men (and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation)".
For the record, I happen to enjoy Moore's books and movies (and, like you, want to see Bush gone-and I'm not even American!). He's at least getting people interested in politics, which is always a good thing.
This sort of thing is the best way to get something through to the public. What's more likely to get people interested: pages of plain text or a comic strip?
Norml have some excellent comics which do exactly the same thing: put across an issue in an interesting way.
Slashdot Mirror
So that'd be WindowMaker then.
Silly rabbit. iMesh is just the FastTrack network under a different name.
Come on, that's like actively saying "I want my site to be fucked in the ass by the Slashdot Effect".
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Why no freakin' BitTorrent? That seems obvious, especially if you're the one who submits your site full of absurdly large videos to
(FYI, I'm getting 22k/s, on a link that usually gets about 25. Not too bad, now watch that server burn in about 5 minutes...)
PHP has C-like syntax, making it easy to move onto C when she has some confidence. If you couple it with MySQL, HTML and CSS, and then get her some web hosting, she has something to show her friends for her troubles.
:)
Happy teaching
Look in KDE-Bindings and you'll find kmozilla, an implementation of the Mozilla engine for Konqueror.
Google KMozilla. You can use Mozilla instead of KHTML in Konqueror, I think it's in the kdebindings package.
I mean, who would have expected anything less? They can already tap phones, why not the Internet. All in the name of protecting the world from terrorism. Hooray.
I guess you have to hate corporations a lot to "get it". Hate isn't really my thing.
:)
Once again, you missed the clue train. Time for a repeat pickup...
IT ISN'T ABOUT HATING CORPORATIONS. I don't hate corporations as a concept (I hate some corporations: AOL, Gat^H^H^HClaria, News Corp, Daily Mail) as a lot of corporations have given the world great shit. What it is about is prioritising those with plenty of sway and cash to back it up over those who have less money which can **HINT** be donated to certain parties which **HINT** employ someone who is the father of **HINT** the chairman of the FCC. It's also symbolic: it's David vs Goliath, but this time Goliath has some kickass ninjas and a few other Goliaths on his side too. End result: David gets squashed.
Sorry if that turned ranty
It would be bad if my rights were somehow jeopardized by some high-school vs. commercial radio station dispute in distant Washington state. Bad indeed.
Don't you get it?
The point is that the FCC is letting large corporations control the airwaves to the detriment of the public (i.e schools). They are prioritising the big and wealthy over the little guy. It doesn't affect your rights online, but holy fuck does it affect your rights.
Put it this way: say that a large corporation wanted your domain name, which coincides with the name for one of their new products. Also say that your web host willingly handed the domain over to them, without giving you a say in the matter. You'd be crying "OMGWTF THE HOSTS TOOK AWAY MY NAME AND GAVE IT TO PROCTER AND GAMBLE!!!111". I think you'd have a right to be pissed then. Same thing here.
I bet, thirty years ago, there were loads of geeks who envisaged an online community of sorts, where tech and computing could be discussed freely.
If Slashdot is the product of that, christ knows what 2034 will have...
"Do they play their own instruments and write their own songs" has always been bullshit.
Example: Hanson played their own instruments and weren't manufactured. That's right, Hanson, girl/boy/indeterminate-band of the 90s weren't manufactured. Crappy pre-teen-attracting "rock" group Busted play their own instruments, but reek of manufacture.
The problem with the music industry is not musicians not writing their own songs/playing their own instruments, it's this. As that Everything2 node says, the music industry can make $3million out of one band, and then the performers would get $4k each. THAT is the problem, and it has a lot to do with lawyers and big corporations (surprise surprise).
It's more profitable to run your own website selling your CDs and MP3s, like this guy, rather than signing your ass over to EMI.
Capital punishment is inexcusable. Full stop.
Even tongue in cheek, it's just wrong to say that another person should die for writing computer viruses. It's also wrong to say that another person should die for killing someone.
Confiscate computers, not somebody's life.
And a dupe, from yesterday.
Slashdot is on a roll!
For some reason, this quote from 1984 seems appropriate, from right after O'Brien says that the rule of the Party is simply for power and greed:
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face...forever."
It's just so they can be dominant and push people around. No other reason. So long as they're number one, they're happy.
Blimps in space?
Hindenburg, anyone?
(Sorry, but the idea of airships in space seems insane and unsafe to me)
Isn't this just like admitting that Linus has no idea what's in the kernel and SCO code could be in there?
Er...
And Mozilla doesn't innovate?
It probably won't.
:)
Mozilla has spent quite a lot of money getting Firefox/Thunderbird branding and trademarks. I think, after all the name changes in the past, they'll probably want to keep the current name. Which is good: it's a good name and a good logo
In the UK, the Data Protection Act mandates that companies not withold data about people if they have no good reason to have it. The DPA: wonder why it isn't an idea that's reached the US yet.
...I wrote myself.
.htpasswd protected one to post stuff. It worked a charm, had multiple categories, allowed comment posting...it took me about two hours to do, and even better it allowed me to have the site exactly the way I wanted it, and not the way it would fit around the CMS. It's also a great way to learn how to code. It was fast and reliable. However, I'm just using raw HTML now: only one author, and I'm sitting at the server, so why not? And if it's good enough for Maddox it's good enough for me :)
Two PHP scripts, plus an additional,
Firstly, "Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot" was by Al Franken and not Michael Moore. Secondly, the title of Moore's book was not "Fat White Men", it was "Stupid White Men (and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation)".
For the record, I happen to enjoy Moore's books and movies (and, like you, want to see Bush gone-and I'm not even American!). He's at least getting people interested in politics, which is always a good thing.
I'm sorry, but that second link completely turned me off to reading further.
Any website which needs to mock the physical appearance of someone to make a point shouldn't really be trusted.
Sorry if this sounds a little off, but don't you think it's better to have less negative stereotypes circulating around about geeks?
I'm sick of technical types being portrayed as losers. It's just not funny any more.
I don't mean in terms of educational facilities. Replacing books with comics in schools would be just plain dumbassed.
However, to educate the public about an issue which they would previously have never cared or heard about, comic strips are the shiznit.
This sort of thing is the best way to get something through to the public. What's more likely to get people interested: pages of plain text or a comic strip?
Norml have some excellent comics which do exactly the same thing: put across an issue in an interesting way.