It's all about extremes. If it gets really warm, parts of the polar ice caps melt, circulate, and lower the temperature.
Global warming doesn't mean that it's always going to be warm, it means that we're going to see extreme weather. Something like days and days of ice storms in Texas...
There is no shortage of rice in the world. There is a surplus. There's absolutely no need to go genetically engineering our food sources and putting them into production without any idea of what the long-term effects are going to be.
There are ways of getting those nutrients into the bodies of those who need them without altering the very structure of plants.
This "technology in the name of farming" is mostly bullshit to all but the chemical companies who profit from it. Every year, more and more subsidies are given to farmers so that they will lessen their production, yet billions are spent on producing hormones that make a single cow produce more milk and a single plant produce more fruit...
The irony here is overwhelming.... and the possibility of deeply screwing up our future is ignored by most, in the name of Progress.
I watch how heavily medicated our children are today, usually as the result of a school study and insistence, and I think about what the future holds for my children...
I was a tough child to raise, although as an adult I'm a fully functioning Helpful Member of Society... but if grade school was *then* like it is *now*, I would have been pumped SO full of medication that God only knows how my life would have gone.
Someday, we'll all be happily functioning busy bees who no longer have to react to emotions or question anything that makes us angry.
....or how about creating a standardized, free platform on which to build apps that runs on all unices as well as Windows?
Look at projects like Eazel, or Helix. If we have a standard gui and things like bonobo across all of the unices *and* MS machines, then we've just nailed pretty much the entire market. With the BSD core of the new MacOS, it's a hop skip and a jump from here to having Gnome capabilities on every major computing platform. I don't see the down side.
As for the car dealer analogy... If there's anything that the "technology age" is going to be remembered for, it going to be bad analogies. We're not talking about cars at all here, we're not talking about anything like them. Cars started out in a standardized atmosphere, and since then have become more and more and more proprietary.
We're talking about going in the opposite direction -- bringing a common, free shell/development environment to, once again, *all* of the major computing platforms.
uh, so you're saying that you don't think "corporate america" is going to demand basically a double-click to full usage?
you're arguing that "corporate america" is fine with nightly builds?
what corporations have you worked for that would put up with this? you're suggesting that I have my salespeople and business development people and the CEO and CTO use nightly builds of mozilla?
Additionally, the Nokia 9210 Communicator is the first Nokia product to support the most commonly used PC office applications - such as Windows - and the first with wireless Java support.
Wow, I never realized that Windows was a PC office application.
I dropped my dishnetwork dish when I got the cable modem... I miss the dish terribly (the reggae was my favorite part), but I wasn't goint to shell out for both services.
BUT... if dishnetwork has a tivo function... is it actually hardware-based, or does it just allow you to program shows to be taped to your VCR? I already have that built into my TV and it kicks ass...
Well, I now have a better idea of what the security issue was with SSH1, and I've already secured some servers with it.
I've also found OmniSky's wireless modems for the Palms, Jornadas and Handsprings. They're currently $99 to purchase and $39.95/month for unlimited access. I've got my boss talked into it, considering that he was going to pay pretty much that price for a cell phone, which would prove worthless if I was out "in the field" and away from a machine with net access.
A shell account anywhere... IRC, Lynx, e-mail and web access... Works for me.
I know what you're saying, I was hoping this would be on the frontpage and there'd be a solid discussion, but I dunno how they choose which "Ask Slashdots" they put on the front page. I thought this one would be worthy, but I guess I was wrong.
Never really got an answer, either, other than "keep with what you've got."
But in the case of Netscape 6 the problems with CSS and DOM support are more in the area of bugs rather than deviations from standards (like in older versions of Netscape).
So they're just bugs, not deviations from standards... By this logic, you feel that they should ship it anyway?
"Hey, they're just bugs, ship it anyway.
What I'm complaining about is having to find workarounds for things that are supposed to work but don't. Label the issues whatever you want to, I'd just rather they shipped a more complete product, since they obviously have the option to do so.
It's not even about bad press, it's about the years that web develoeprs will have to put up with the bugs while waiting for 7.0, which will probably be, given Netscape's track record, no better.
Well, you're ignoring the issue that Netscape is not just a browser, it is, as was stated at O'Reilly, a development platform.
If my company could get back all of the countless hours wasted trying to find the workarounds necessary to get standardized functions to work in Netscape, we'd be way ahead of the game.
As a developer working on a project, you *have* to be mindful of the end user. If we release a web-based software package, like millions of other companies around the world, we'd like to know that building our interfaces to standards isn't wasted time.
We'd like to know that if we're doing something that sticks to the spec, Netscape isn't going to screw us over by deciding that they need to get the browser out the door before it is compliant.
Stylesheet issues, JavaScript issues, session issues... These should be no-brainers, but instead we end up wasting valuable resources trying to figure out if we can work around some Netscape bug or if we'll have to completely throw out some bit of functionality.
Stylesheet support is *essential*. You talk about it like it's not a big deal to you, but when more and more software packages are going to web-based paradigms, things like this become make-or-break issues. Not having full stylesheet support is just... ludicrous.
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I hear ya, I moved out of Oregon back to CT, and brought the rain with me, apparently.
It's all about extremes. If it gets really warm, parts of the polar ice caps melt, circulate, and lower the temperature.
Global warming doesn't mean that it's always going to be warm, it means that we're going to see extreme weather. Something like days and days of ice storms in Texas...
There is no shortage of rice in the world. There is a surplus. There's absolutely no need to go genetically engineering our food sources and putting them into production without any idea of what the long-term effects are going to be.
There are ways of getting those nutrients into the bodies of those who need them without altering the very structure of plants.
This "technology in the name of farming" is mostly bullshit to all but the chemical companies who profit from it. Every year, more and more subsidies are given to farmers so that they will lessen their production, yet billions are spent on producing hormones that make a single cow produce more milk and a single plant produce more fruit...
The irony here is overwhelming.... and the possibility of deeply screwing up our future is ignored by most, in the name of Progress.
Scares the crap out of me.
I watch how heavily medicated our children are today, usually as the result of a school study and insistence, and I think about what the future holds for my children...
I was a tough child to raise, although as an adult I'm a fully functioning Helpful Member of Society... but if grade school was *then* like it is *now*, I would have been pumped SO full of medication that God only knows how my life would have gone.
Someday, we'll all be happily functioning busy bees who no longer have to react to emotions or question anything that makes us angry.
That's about as scary as it gets.
Well, it is "PC Games"...
Interesting, how there was nothing influential before VGA.
I guess we were all stuck playing text-based solitaire... and not enjoying it.
Coolest thing I ever saw was the individual images from an MRI done of my brain...
I was sitting there watching them iterate through the images, and i had to yell "Is that my medula?"
The coolest thing I learned from EEGs is that you could attach all of the electrodes to your head and use them to power a calculator. Very cool stuff.
Actually, it's sEmantics :]
And yes, I see the need for posts like this too.
Syndicate was a really sweet game, and I still love the Tempest on the Jaguar... At the end there, you could snag a console for I believe $39 at elbo.
I'm trying to find someplace that still stocks and sells the old games...
....or how about creating a standardized, free platform on which to build apps that runs on all unices as well as Windows?
Look at projects like Eazel, or Helix. If we have a standard gui and things like bonobo across all of the unices *and* MS machines, then we've just nailed pretty much the entire market. With the BSD core of the new MacOS, it's a hop skip and a jump from here to having Gnome capabilities on every major computing platform. I don't see the down side.
As for the car dealer analogy... If there's anything that the "technology age" is going to be remembered for, it going to be bad analogies. We're not talking about cars at all here, we're not talking about anything like them. Cars started out in a standardized atmosphere, and since then have become more and more and more proprietary.
We're talking about going in the opposite direction -- bringing a common, free shell/development environment to, once again, *all* of the major computing platforms.
uh, so you're saying that you don't think "corporate america" is going to demand basically a double-click to full usage?
you're arguing that "corporate america" is fine with nightly builds?
what corporations have you worked for that would put up with this? you're suggesting that I have my salespeople and business development people and the CEO and CTO use nightly builds of mozilla?
If you want encrypted, secure email, why on Earth would you use Hotmail?
That's like setting out to get a Formula 1 caar and coming home with a Le Car...
Additionally, the Nokia 9210 Communicator is the first Nokia product to support the most commonly used PC office applications - such as Windows - and the first with wireless Java support.
Wow, I never realized that Windows was a PC office application.
I guess it runs CE?
I dropped my dishnetwork dish when I got the cable modem... I miss the dish terribly (the reggae was my favorite part), but I wasn't goint to shell out for both services.
BUT... if dishnetwork has a tivo function... is it actually hardware-based, or does it just allow you to program shows to be taped to your VCR? I already have that built into my TV and it kicks ass...
Well, I now have a better idea of what the security issue was with SSH1, and I've already secured some servers with it.
I've also found OmniSky's wireless modems for the Palms, Jornadas and Handsprings. They're currently $99 to purchase and $39.95/month for unlimited access. I've got my boss talked into it, considering that he was going to pay pretty much that price for a cell phone, which would prove worthless if I was out "in the field" and away from a machine with net access.
A shell account anywhere... IRC, Lynx, e-mail and web access... Works for me.
uhhhhh... so what's all this about then?
Right, but ssh1 has inherent security issues, which is why I'm looking for ssh2.
:]
I'm also not really looking for X11 forwarding to a wireless device...
I know what you're saying, I was hoping this would be on the frontpage and there'd be a solid discussion, but I dunno how they choose which "Ask Slashdots" they put on the front page. I thought this one would be worthy, but I guess I was wrong.
Never really got an answer, either, other than "keep with what you've got."
"Each submission -- whether successful or not -- taught us important lessons about what can and cannot work in the marketplace."
Ok, lesson here is... if you can encrypt it, someone can break it. Plain and simple.
If it can be streamed, it can be recorded.
Why does everyone assume that the Nader votes would have gone to Gore?
/. karma, your real karma's gotta be taking it in the ass at the moment.
It's a very unsafe assumption. From the exit polls you can see that most of the people who voted for Nader wouldn't have voted at all.
But really, thanks for mocking people for voting by their conscience. Screw
But in the case of Netscape 6 the problems with CSS and DOM support are more in the area of bugs rather than deviations from standards (like in older versions of Netscape).
So they're just bugs, not deviations from standards... By this logic, you feel that they should ship it anyway?
"Hey, they're just bugs, ship it anyway.
What I'm complaining about is having to find workarounds for things that are supposed to work but don't. Label the issues whatever you want to, I'd just rather they shipped a more complete product, since they obviously have the option to do so.
It's not even about bad press, it's about the years that web develoeprs will have to put up with the bugs while waiting for 7.0, which will probably be, given Netscape's track record, no better.
Well, you're ignoring the issue that Netscape is not just a browser, it is, as was stated at O'Reilly, a development platform.
If my company could get back all of the countless hours wasted trying to find the workarounds necessary to get standardized functions to work in Netscape, we'd be way ahead of the game.
As a developer working on a project, you *have* to be mindful of the end user. If we release a web-based software package, like millions of other companies around the world, we'd like to know that building our interfaces to standards isn't wasted time.
We'd like to know that if we're doing something that sticks to the spec, Netscape isn't going to screw us over by deciding that they need to get the browser out the door before it is compliant.
Stylesheet issues, JavaScript issues, session issues... These should be no-brainers, but instead we end up wasting valuable resources trying to figure out if we can work around some Netscape bug or if we'll have to completely throw out some bit of functionality.
Stylesheet support is *essential*. You talk about it like it's not a big deal to you, but when more and more software packages are going to web-based paradigms, things like this become make-or-break issues. Not having full stylesheet support is just... ludicrous.
Actually, I've been cranking up "The Democratic Circus" from their Naked album a lot lately. It helps to keep things in perspective...
Found out this morning, there's a circus coming to town....
They drive in Cadillacs using... walkie-talkies and the... secret service...
Their big top imitation of life
And all the flags and microphones
We have to cover our eyes
I talked my wife into one pretty easily, considering the price and the number of consoles we already have....
The main selling point was the DVD player. Hey, it kills 2 birds with one stone.
I don't mean to be sexist, it just seems that the "norm" is that men want to buy these gadgets, and their other halves want to know why...