I *am* using Firefox (2.0.0.1), and the link works just fine for me. I middle clicked, and it opened in a new tab. Are you having problems clicking?
I used a standard HTML anchor tag, with the url as the href attribute and as the body of the anchor. Slashdot added a space inside the body, presumably to make it page-width friendly.
It's obviously legal to sell (and purchase) an unlocked cell phone in the US. If you learned this in training, you were told incorrectly.
The absence of physical stores that carry unlocked phones means nothing with regard to the legality. It does, however, say volumes about low demand for unlocked phones. An average customer of yours would find little use for a cell phone without service, which is why you don't sell unlocked phones.
The legality of unlocking a phone you received from a specific carrier, however, *has* been called into question before. Here is an interesting article regarding locked phones and how it is now completely legal to unlock a phone you received from your carrier.
That story was posted this Tuesday, the 14th. The "Friday afternoon" in question was *last* Friday, the 10th. The story also says the people had already been waiting in line for about four days.
SP2 really killed running XP on slower, older systems.
Erm, no it didn't; my parents are running XP on an old Gateway P2 450MHz with 384MB RAM. The upgrade to SP2 decreased the boot time and their office apps and web browser (Firefox) are now able to run simultaneously without major speed issues. Pre-SP2, anything running alongside Word and Excel would chug.
I had heard ideas that it was going to be sorta massively multiplayer, kinda along the lines of what Planetside turned out to be (which is a lot of fun).
Unfortunately, I believe it was just talk; the only early gameplay videos I saw involved nothing larger than squad-based combat (~20, or less, players).
It seemed to be more expansive and I believe it was supposed to have a fairly good multiplayer component (I seem to recall hearing massively-multiplayer somewhere... but don't remember where), which Halo 1 lacked. The Halo games that were made were amazingly linear as well, something the early concept game wasn't supposed to be.
Halo might have been one of the best implementations of an FPS on a console, but that's not saying much (Halo PC anyone? C'mon... *anyone*?). 1 and 2 were true successes in terms of marketing (especially Halo 2), but neither match terribly well against their computer-based counterparts.
@eldavojohn, #16786251 (god, this feels like digg now)
Uh, this is a reply to the 8th post down from the top (remember to use this like an array and zero reference). Yes, I'm talking to you, admdrew.
You claim that the 16,777,216th comment would have broke it but I contest that actually the 16,777,217th comment poster would be the culprit. Since it should be able to handle that many comments if it is zero referenced, and it would actually be the one after that one that would break it. You laugh but these kinds of problems plague a lot of coders?
If you don't agree with me, please respond below and reference my comment ID.
I certainly admit I wasn't thinking 0-based when I wrote that. The question is, though, should we blame the person who wrote the last valid comment (therefore ruining the fun for the rest of us), or whoever wrote the first broken comment?
Also, is everyone going to add the obligatory 'parent' link on their posts today?
I'm guessing the poster was referring to the fact that while XP (and vista) are also NT-based like 2k, 2k was the last to not have any sort of activation.
That's all well and good but feng shui practitioners claim it to be a science, which it clearly isn't.
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The serious practicioners (as distinguished from the posers and hacks on Bullshit!) of Feng Shui take offense at implications that their art, and that's truly what it is, is phoney magic, devoid of any skill or value.
These implications arise from the claims by those that think feng shui *is* science. Clearly there can be high value associated with skilled art, but that doesn't make it a science.
The 'natural observations' you mention seem largely based on common sense. Grouping them together can be useful, but can hardly be, as you said, a foundation for a concrete science. I don't want to debase how you describe feng shui, but it should be strongly noted it's an art with large aesthetic components.
Also how often does one view results lower the 10th?
I'd say I end up looking past the 10th result maybe 25% of the time. Sometimes some of the top results are either too obvious that they won't be helpful, or whatever I'm searching for ends up returning a lot of duplicates (that aren't automatically filtered by google) and I'll need to scroll through a dozen entries to get something worthwhile.
So your complaint isn't as much with the apple hardware, but the fact that you're not using the supplied software, and you're mad that whatever you are using doesn't do something the supplied software does? Good arguement.
What if he's using linux? Or what if he finds the itunes software bloated and annoying, and wishes to use a better program? What if he (logically) wants it to function just like an external harddrive?
ah, neato trick. It's not like Apple documents this....
First, *nix is a distant third in terms of OSes Apple cares about their ipods running on, so it's not really surprising they don't give this sort of information.
Second, do you have experience with other external storage devices in linux? I eject my external harddrives before disconnecting them, as it occasionally yells at me if I don't.
Also, my creative zen xtra *sometimes* won't go out of usb transfer mode if I don't eject first (it's interesting that I don't have this problem when disconnecting from my windows box. Wonder if anyone else has had this issue with linux and the zen xtra).
It's really amazing to see what happens when you just let go of something and let it grow organically.
Hey, kinda like spam, viruses, and spyware.
Which really makes MySpace a much better reflection of life than Facebook or anything else. People aren't authenticated in (real life) social networks.
Real life social networks *are* authenticated, to a certain degree; networks are comprised of workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, etc, all places that oftentimes require an 'in' (be it getting hired, moving into a house) before you can join said network.
Comments aren't filtered by a moderator. Bad people are dealt with by market forces: if you're a bad person, you don't have friends. MySpace works the same way.
Comments aren't filtered by moderators on Facebook either. Myspace's problem (regarding comments) lies in users' ability to insert malicious code in comments.
It strikes me that you're the type of guy who is happy to be removed from the ruthlessness of open social networks like High School and, to some extent, College.
Ah, right, because adult social interactions should be like high school. Myspace IS high school, just on a grander scale, and (to some degree) with less mature structuring from role models and adult figures. It's not the ruthlessness of high school, it's the immaturity.
You seek order in your social network. Unfortunately, order goes against the model of these things.
What are you talking about? The very definition of a network implies a semblance of order.
People post about how horrible the skins are, how rediculous the comments, how stupid the technology, how annoying the music, how useless the profile questions, how trivial the blogs. And they make moronic conclusions like 'MySpace users must like things that are unreadable.'
That's a very logical conclusion to make about a site that's filled with horrible skins, rediculous comments, stupid technology, annoying music (and videos), useless profile questions, and trivial blogs. It's also a conclusion you made yourself:
"readability" isn't the most important thing about a Myspace.
Unfortunately for these people, there are lots of us who aren't self-conscience introverts. Above all, we enjoy EXPRESSING OURSELVES. And we enjoy sharing in the ways that our friends express their selves.
The average myspace user's self expression serves to solidify the notion that they're a vapid and insensitive statement of human immaturity. Your ill-place defense of this expression is odd, partly in your point that you're not a myspace user.
As much as I personally hate it, the usual basement-dwelling, final-fantasy-playing, non-showering, black t-shirt wearing stereotype of slashdot users is glaringly reinforced whenever MySpace is brought up.
How, exactly, do millions of pages containing (implied) underage drinking, emo-kid whining, and melodramatic crap say anything about the stereotype that you personally hate, yet perpetuate? The/. pissing and moanining over myspace isn't necessary (myspace pages speak for themselves in terms of quality), but it's hardly the geeky rant you're conveying.
All that being said, I, personally don't have a myspace. My reasons are simple: I spend enough time on the PC at work, I don't need to use it for socializing after work. I find the cell phone, text messages, and a local bar to be a better fit for my life.
So, you just spent 10 minutes defending a high school message board, then smoothly disassociated yourself in a particulary "I'm not a weird computer geek" elistist prick fashion? It's as if you're trying to be better than someone without knowing who that someone is.
Slashdot Mirror
I *am* using Firefox (2.0.0.1), and the link works just fine for me. I middle clicked, and it opened in a new tab. Are you having problems clicking?
I used a standard HTML anchor tag, with the url as the href attribute and as the body of the anchor. Slashdot added a space inside the body, presumably to make it page-width friendly.
Here, I'll try it again:g if - href and body are the same
http://www.darkknight.ca/images/Peanuts_1954_318.
the image - href still links to the image
http://www.darkknight.ca/images/Peanuts_1954_318.g if
Funny thing, I've had to do neither, and I know I'm not alone in that.
What makes you think the parent was referring to Windows specifically? My KDE in FC5 *also* has a maximize button.
It's obviously legal to sell (and purchase) an unlocked cell phone in the US. If you learned this in training, you were told incorrectly.
The absence of physical stores that carry unlocked phones means nothing with regard to the legality. It does, however, say volumes about low demand for unlocked phones. An average customer of yours would find little use for a cell phone without service, which is why you don't sell unlocked phones.
The legality of unlocking a phone you received from a specific carrier, however, *has* been called into question before. Here is an interesting article regarding locked phones and how it is now completely legal to unlock a phone you received from your carrier.
Really? Or, do you mean that all phone sold by providers must be locked?
That story was posted this Tuesday, the 14th. The "Friday afternoon" in question was *last* Friday, the 10th. The story also says the people had already been waiting in line for about four days.
Erm, no it didn't; my parents are running XP on an old Gateway P2 450MHz with 384MB RAM. The upgrade to SP2 decreased the boot time and their office apps and web browser (Firefox) are now able to run simultaneously without major speed issues. Pre-SP2, anything running alongside Word and Excel would chug.
I had heard ideas that it was going to be sorta massively multiplayer, kinda along the lines of what Planetside turned out to be (which is a lot of fun).
Unfortunately, I believe it was just talk; the only early gameplay videos I saw involved nothing larger than squad-based combat (~20, or less, players).
It seemed to be more expansive and I believe it was supposed to have a fairly good multiplayer component (I seem to recall hearing massively-multiplayer somewhere... but don't remember where), which Halo 1 lacked. The Halo games that were made were amazingly linear as well, something the early concept game wasn't supposed to be.
Halo might have been one of the best implementations of an FPS on a console, but that's not saying much (Halo PC anyone? C'mon... *anyone*?). 1 and 2 were true successes in terms of marketing (especially Halo 2), but neither match terribly well against their computer-based counterparts.
I certainly admit I wasn't thinking 0-based when I wrote that. The question is, though, should we blame the person who wrote the last valid comment (therefore ruining the fun for the rest of us), or whoever wrote the first broken comment?
Also, is everyone going to add the obligatory 'parent' link on their posts today?
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Alright, who's the joker who posted the 16,777,216th comment?
:D
Thanks for breaking slashdot, jerk
Did you not read the option to change your home page during the installation? Sure, it defaulted to true, but it was pretty easy to spot and uncheck.
I'm guessing the poster was referring to the fact that while XP (and vista) are also NT-based like 2k, 2k was the last to not have any sort of activation.
I will be sure to link to you when it really happens ;)
Yes, we know.
It's amusing to note that this article correctly (intentionally or not) predicted Gillette's actual 5 blade razor over a year in advance.
Clearly you have the wrong window size / screen resolution. Didn't you know it's your fault you're not seeing it "correctly?"
I mean, it's probably impossible to code one of these web-pages such that it looks decent on a variety of screen sizes.
These implications arise from the claims by those that think feng shui *is* science. Clearly there can be high value associated with skilled art, but that doesn't make it a science.
The 'natural observations' you mention seem largely based on common sense. Grouping them together can be useful, but can hardly be, as you said, a foundation for a concrete science. I don't want to debase how you describe feng shui, but it should be strongly noted it's an art with large aesthetic components.
I'd say I end up looking past the 10th result maybe 25% of the time. Sometimes some of the top results are either too obvious that they won't be helpful, or whatever I'm searching for ends up returning a lot of duplicates (that aren't automatically filtered by google) and I'll need to scroll through a dozen entries to get something worthwhile.
Does spilling a 2 liter of Mountain Dew all over yourself count as a shower?
What if he's using linux? Or what if he finds the itunes software bloated and annoying, and wishes to use a better program? What if he (logically) wants it to function just like an external harddrive?
First, *nix is a distant third in terms of OSes Apple cares about their ipods running on, so it's not really surprising they don't give this sort of information.
Second, do you have experience with other external storage devices in linux? I eject my external harddrives before disconnecting them, as it occasionally yells at me if I don't.
Also, my creative zen xtra *sometimes* won't go out of usb transfer mode if I don't eject first (it's interesting that I don't have this problem when disconnecting from my windows box. Wonder if anyone else has had this issue with linux and the zen xtra).
I *believe* it's being released at noon, pacific time.
Hey, kinda like spam, viruses, and spyware.
Real life social networks *are* authenticated, to a certain degree; networks are comprised of workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, etc, all places that oftentimes require an 'in' (be it getting hired, moving into a house) before you can join said network.
Comments aren't filtered by moderators on Facebook either. Myspace's problem (regarding comments) lies in users' ability to insert malicious code in comments.
Ah, right, because adult social interactions should be like high school. Myspace IS high school, just on a grander scale, and (to some degree) with less mature structuring from role models and adult figures. It's not the ruthlessness of high school, it's the immaturity.
What are you talking about? The very definition of a network implies a semblance of order.
That's a very logical conclusion to make about a site that's filled with horrible skins, rediculous comments, stupid technology, annoying music (and videos), useless profile questions, and trivial blogs. It's also a conclusion you made yourself:
The average myspace user's self expression serves to solidify the notion that they're a vapid and insensitive statement of human immaturity. Your ill-place defense of this expression is odd, partly in your point that you're not a myspace user.
How, exactly, do millions of pages containing (implied) underage drinking, emo-kid whining, and melodramatic crap say anything about the stereotype that you personally hate, yet perpetuate? The /. pissing and moanining over myspace isn't necessary (myspace pages speak for themselves in terms of quality), but it's hardly the geeky rant you're conveying.
So, you just spent 10 minutes defending a high school message board, then smoothly disassociated yourself in a particulary "I'm not a weird computer geek" elistist prick fashion? It's as if you're trying to be better than someone without knowing who that someone is.
Nextel, actually :P
I just remember that distinctive push-to-talk chirp.