It's odd to read posts on here about people making profits from spam. I was always under the impression the emails aren't selling anything. They sound improbably enough. I thought it was all down to people inventing crap to send badly-worded useless emails to annoy everyone.
Don't worry, if it's been designed for an amorphous American market it's probably had all ability to note irony removed, hence you can sit there insulting someone blandly and get the 'smooth-talker' response. Hurrah! Let's try it with Basil Fawlty and see how far it gets as a tester.
Also, if this is ever ported to the UK I request that 'Jerk' be substituted with 'Twat'.
Hmm. I assumed the sections a given article fell into came about through some sort of word association behind the scenes...Didn't realise someone had to put things in these areas manually.
Surely it's in 'Apple' because it is necessarily taking a stance against Apple?
Looks cool, and it even points out it can be used with XP, though it's vague about the features. I'm looking for a new mouse for my PC so I might pic this up...
As for laziness, guilty as charged and proud of it. Larry Wall's quote on the three virtues of a programmer is spot on. (I'd paste it here, but you can find it via Google, so I'd better not spoil the fun.)
Heh. Nice.
I'm actually not sure who's bitching at whom and for what reason, here.
I agree with others about daylight savings time. British Summer Time sucks balls and is pointless and should be got rid of. I'm guessing that the U.S. finds it similarly lacking in reason any more. It's supposedly for farmers, isn't it? But I've never seen the point - they aren't in an office so they can just get up with the sunrise, surely?
I'm sorry, but if I were the judge I'd throw out Google Maps as a source of evidence.
My experience of their mapping of London shows that they can't place a postcode in the right spot so I'd not be convinced of their map being up to date. Streetmap is just as bad. Give me a good old A to Z any day.
I've seen cashpoints with BSODs so don't be so proud of that technological terror.
That said, when I worked for German PC shop chain, Escom, back in 1994/5 they had just got in the first Pentium machines and they had OS/2 free with them. Windows 95 cost £50 extra I think.
Br
That was the first and last time I saw OS/2
I installed Apache and then regular PHP on my XP computer at home. Worked like a dream and wasn't remotely hard.
The tough bit was then going through and making sure the configuration of my hosters matched what I had on my computer so I could reliably test out stuff.
PHP has revolutionised the websites I use. It's fantastic.
It's a weird fact that everyone will bitch and moan but they'll still pay, IMO.
Here in the UK (and I'm not a football - 'soccer' to the North Americans - fan), this happened toward the end of the last century. Sky decided it would make people pay money to see football they'd been able to watch for free for years.
And did the masses of fans do anything about it? Nope they either payed up or sat back and watched highlights. Sky didn't offer the football fan anything special, just quietly made a stack of money...
Slap-stick can work. The two reasons to be dubious here, however, are:
It's very easy to misdirect slapstick and make it shite (e.g. Red Dwarf VII and VIII)
The Hitchhiker's Guide was always about lexical humour and ideas. With such a wealth of those available, it seems cheap to resort to visual gags that might suffer the above point.
Yes, they work on the priciple of saying 'Fair and Balanced' so that people believe it. To draw a nerdy parallel (this is/. after all!) my SAP program claims to be "SAP Easy Access". I don't think I've ever used a more complicated software package. Utter crap!:-D
Actually I'd disagree that the BBC News is biased. The problem is that all the other news services in this country are obsessively shallow and/or right-wing biased. Just watching Sky News for a bit brings home to you how disgusting they are. I remember the rail crash near Paddington in '99. The hotel only had Sky on and they kept showing footage of the crash interspersed with comments about how this footage was exclusive and brought to them by a loyal Sky News watcher.
Essentially the BBC's job is to question the government and the opposition. They are a about as un-biased as you will get but the rest of the media makes them seem biased because they follow the route of hounding after 'celebrities' and the money big business provides. Or else they pander (like the Daily Mail) to small-minded thoughts that cease to have any bearing 3 miles outside someone's home: The "lock up the criminal scum (poor/black/non-christian people) but don't you dare build any prisons near MY house" mentality.
Sorry, that wasn't really clear but I was citing two examples of things that were of greater importance than Firefox, but neither was supposed to be related. I used HL2 as a less utterly OTT one to come after.
Given most girls seem to believe giving a blowjob involves attempt to suck your ball end off like it's a chuba chub, I tend to prefer a good hard shag, though.:-D
Okay, I'll probably get modded out of the place for this but it's just a fucking browser, not the second coming. It doesn't give oral sex and it's not Half-Life fucking 2.
I've got it installed here and at work. I still end up using IE most of the time, to be honest. I only notice a difference when I'm trying to sort out my Stylesheets so they work on both browsers (and IE really needs to sort its shit out there).
Long may FireFox continue because IE's quality really began to dip when Nutscrape disappeared. A bit of competition is healthy but for most browsing IE does the same job just as well...
Well it doesn't seem that way to me. I guess it takes a little longer to correct. I waited over a minute and then refreshed and the number went back down to roughly where it had started when I first entered the page.
To be honest I have no idea if you're saying I'm not a bad ass racist or you think I am. Oh well, I'll take it on the chin.
I don't know where you live over here, though. I'm surprised if you live in London and get a lot of racist abuse. One of project managers is Mexican, but then our software house employs a lot of various nationalities so I guess I'm used to it...
Slashdot Mirror
got circulated throughout the cities financial district
:-D
UGH! I'd fire you for mis-use of the English grammatical system...
Yes, very true. Mod that comment (parent) up!
It's odd to read posts on here about people making profits from spam. I was always under the impression the emails aren't selling anything. They sound improbably enough. I thought it was all down to people inventing crap to send badly-worded useless emails to annoy everyone.
Don't worry, if it's been designed for an amorphous American market it's probably had all ability to note irony removed, hence you can sit there insulting someone blandly and get the 'smooth-talker' response. Hurrah! Let's try it with Basil Fawlty and see how far it gets as a tester.
Also, if this is ever ported to the UK I request that 'Jerk' be substituted with 'Twat'.
It's wrong to love a company. No one should suck corporate cock.
It's a piss-poor article that even a happy user of Windows like myself would hate.
Hmm. I assumed the sections a given article fell into came about through some sort of word association behind the scenes...Didn't realise someone had to put things in these areas manually.
Surely it's in 'Apple' because it is necessarily taking a stance against Apple?
Looks cool, and it even points out it can be used with XP, though it's vague about the features. I'm looking for a new mouse for my PC so I might pic this up...
As for laziness, guilty as charged and proud of it. Larry Wall's quote on the three virtues of a programmer is spot on. (I'd paste it here, but you can find it via Google, so I'd better not spoil the fun.)
Heh. Nice.
I'm actually not sure who's bitching at whom and for what reason, here.
I agree with others about daylight savings time. British Summer Time sucks balls and is pointless and should be got rid of. I'm guessing that the U.S. finds it similarly lacking in reason any more. It's supposedly for farmers, isn't it? But I've never seen the point - they aren't in an office so they can just get up with the sunrise, surely?
I'm sorry, but if I were the judge I'd throw out Google Maps as a source of evidence.
My experience of their mapping of London shows that they can't place a postcode in the right spot so I'd not be convinced of their map being up to date. Streetmap is just as bad. Give me a good old A to Z any day.
I've seen cashpoints with BSODs so don't be so proud of that technological terror.
That said, when I worked for German PC shop chain, Escom, back in 1994/5 they had just got in the first Pentium machines and they had OS/2 free with them. Windows 95 cost £50 extra I think.
Br That was the first and last time I saw OS/2
O.K., so from now on I'm no longer going to listen to any more crap from any of you Canadian Slashdotters criticizing free speech in America.
That's okay, you can just take the bitch-slaps us Brits will give you instead.
Hah hah!
If I could, I'd mod up funny for that. Nice.
!!Mod up the parent!!
I installed Apache and then regular PHP on my XP computer at home. Worked like a dream and wasn't remotely hard. The tough bit was then going through and making sure the configuration of my hosters matched what I had on my computer so I could reliably test out stuff. PHP has revolutionised the websites I use. It's fantastic.
Though bizarrely (and this isn't limited to me) both Horde and Neomail seem to fail after a certain point.
Luckily Squirrelmail is probably the best of the three packages and it has never failed (touch wood).
It's a weird fact that everyone will bitch and moan but they'll still pay, IMO.
Here in the UK (and I'm not a football - 'soccer' to the North Americans - fan), this happened toward the end of the last century. Sky decided it would make people pay money to see football they'd been able to watch for free for years.
And did the masses of fans do anything about it? Nope they either payed up or sat back and watched highlights. Sky didn't offer the football fan anything special, just quietly made a stack of money...
Someone needs to mod the parent up to funny :D
Yes, they work on the priciple of saying 'Fair and Balanced' so that people believe it. To draw a nerdy parallel (this is /. after all!) my SAP program claims to be "SAP Easy Access". I don't think I've ever used a more complicated software package. Utter crap! :-D
Actually I'd disagree that the BBC News is biased. The problem is that all the other news services in this country are obsessively shallow and/or right-wing biased. Just watching Sky News for a bit brings home to you how disgusting they are. I remember the rail crash near Paddington in '99. The hotel only had Sky on and they kept showing footage of the crash interspersed with comments about how this footage was exclusive and brought to them by a loyal Sky News watcher.
Essentially the BBC's job is to question the government and the opposition. They are a about as un-biased as you will get but the rest of the media makes them seem biased because they follow the route of hounding after 'celebrities' and the money big business provides. Or else they pander (like the Daily Mail) to small-minded thoughts that cease to have any bearing 3 miles outside someone's home: The "lock up the criminal scum (poor/black/non-christian people) but don't you dare build any prisons near MY house" mentality.
Well I don't think they do. It's got so much crap to carry round to live up to that you just can't begin to know if you'll like it.
I hope to see it this weekend and, as long as it's about as good as the TV version (which I wasn't a fan of), I'll be happy I guess.
Of course, if it's slapstick city I may have real trouble taking it and will feel cheated of my tenner!
Sorry, that wasn't really clear but I was citing two examples of things that were of greater importance than Firefox, but neither was supposed to be related. I used HL2 as a less utterly OTT one to come after.
:-D
Given most girls seem to believe giving a blowjob involves attempt to suck your ball end off like it's a chuba chub, I tend to prefer a good hard shag, though.
"May it go on swiftly to 100,000,000!"
Okay, I'll probably get modded out of the place for this but it's just a fucking browser, not the second coming. It doesn't give oral sex and it's not Half-Life fucking 2.
I've got it installed here and at work. I still end up using IE most of the time, to be honest. I only notice a difference when I'm trying to sort out my Stylesheets so they work on both browsers (and IE really needs to sort its shit out there).
Long may FireFox continue because IE's quality really began to dip when Nutscrape disappeared. A bit of competition is healthy but for most browsing IE does the same job just as well...
Well it doesn't seem that way to me. I guess it takes a little longer to correct. I waited over a minute and then refreshed and the number went back down to roughly where it had started when I first entered the page.
It's pretty stupid in my view, but there you go.
Okay...er...cheers.
:-)
To be honest I have no idea if you're saying I'm not a bad ass racist or you think I am. Oh well, I'll take it on the chin.
I don't know where you live over here, though. I'm surprised if you live in London and get a lot of racist abuse. One of project managers is Mexican, but then our software house employs a lot of various nationalities so I guess I'm used to it...