I know Santa Clause isn't real, but it's still fun to get excited about x-mas.
My dad has the same problem, except he puts the spurious "e" before the "s", as in "estatement" or "estore". Maybe it's his Puerto Rican lineage, or maybe he works as a secret Internet trademark lawyer...
Translation: It's Claus--and no, we shouldn't be excited about overhyped systems. If they deliver their promises, then we should be (if my Eminem memory serves me right) "bouncing off the walls" in joy.
When I read a PCWorld article long ago about that phrase embedded (in a DLL? IExplore.exe? I forget), I was laughing like crazy.
I never really felt so great about Netscape. The beta seemed a little weird (disappearing toolbars and the like) but this seems ridiculous.
I would have expected the company to have seen this bug (and fixed it--it is a for-profit group), so I wouldn't have reported it. If it's not fixed by the time I finish this post, then I'll agree with that backwards Microsoft phrase.
I wouldn't mind either of the three. I wasn't too annoyed or mind-raped by the newer Episodes, and I for one want to know the full story behind that number.
What I really want to see (or perhaps write) is a book about how Web forum threads (like this often-viewed one) influence people's perception of others, vocabulary, and way of life--or at least make them utterly perverted.
I don't have many problems with teh clip. Then again, I haven't seen it ask many "It looks like" questions lately either.
As long as it doesn't interrupt me with said questions, and my screen size is >= 1024*768, Clippit's welcome. On a portable device though, he'd be 100 pixels too wide. Seeing my notes is important, and Clippy'd just get in the way of my stylus (and be tortuously swept around the screen in the process, which some of you might want to do to him).
Namco is making records, while refusing to recognize fan-made games as an aid to their business and not theft.
Neave ought to re-release Pac-Man, along with Dig Dug and all five (or so) Tekkens, and yank those money-hungry bastards^W^W^W record-makers out of business.
If people think a movie's "cool" and worth going out for the day it's released, then people will pay for it the day it's released.
If people don't think it's worth the trip, they won't pony up the price.
Movie producers should release their product in every media (online, theater, DVD, etc.) at once (the Deleted Scenes specials can wait), or the producers will continue to suffer from what is now inevitable.
The first time I read her op-eds online, I was drawn by her redhead thumbnail picture on the page. I kept expecting her to look, well...hotter. You know, hotter*.
Then I noticed her opinions and read often.
*Yes I have noticed her new blonde skinny look. I too am somewhat disappointed.
I personally liked the op-eds. Oh well, at least they'll still have their articles. I guess I'll just read blogs. There's enough opinion posted on blogs to fill volumes of their Times.
(to posters: Do you consider the Slashdot news pages blogs?)
...if I made something as capable as that, I'd too make it lease-only, to respected customers.
I mean, I'd be quite mad if my desktop was suddenly wrecked, accidentally or otherwise. Something like this is probably far more <smeagol>presssiousss<smeagol> than a thousand-dollar PC in their opinion. It sure is IMO.
I guess there will be some luxury reseller out there soon, but I haven't heard of one yet.
I remember using Visual C++ 6 once; it came with some sort of viewer that showed Microsoft OLE objects as trees.
I'm not well-versed on the specifics, but a Word document file is one of those OLE "trees," containing "serialized" values (ints, floats, strings, etc.) so it is pretty much a memory dump. In the MFC days, there was an important idea of "document-view" architecture; MFC programs (like Word--I got an awful MFC error from Word 2000 once) can serialize entire objects. Objects can have many ints, floats, strings, etc. so that might explain the ASCII strings in Word docs, embedded in what looks like binary garbage in Notepad.
OASIS OpenDocuments--at least, as OOo saves them--are a sort of PK "zip" file with several XML files for style, content, and meta-info. If that's the only way to save them, then I'll be scared--I'm a fan of XSLT and it's tough (but not impossible) to transform ZIPs into, say, FO with a mere stylesheet (without using OOo or something at least). The editing focus then shifts from structure to display, which could lead to all sorts of scary FONT-tag-type things from other OpenDocument implementors--especially if Microsoft decides to jump in.
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...as long as Maria does the pimping.
Better yet, I do the pimping, and Maria, well...
My dad has the same problem, except he puts the spurious "e" before the "s", as in "estatement" or "estore". Maybe it's his Puerto Rican lineage, or maybe he works as a secret Internet trademark lawyer...
Translation: It's Claus--and no, we shouldn't be excited about overhyped systems. If they deliver their promises, then we should be (if my Eminem memory serves me right) "bouncing off the walls" in joy.
Why do people still call it "file swapping"?
Isn't it more like copying a file, via one or more redundant sources, to your own computer? Sounds more like RAID than a trade to me.
When I read a PCWorld article long ago about that phrase embedded (in a DLL? IExplore.exe? I forget), I was laughing like crazy.
I never really felt so great about Netscape. The beta seemed a little weird (disappearing toolbars and the like) but this seems ridiculous.
I would have expected the company to have seen this bug (and fixed it--it is a for-profit group), so I wouldn't have reported it. If it's not fixed by the time I finish this post, then I'll agree with that backwards Microsoft phrase.
You mean Off Topic Extremist Comments? Why yes, of course.
I wouldn't mind either of the three. I wasn't too annoyed or mind-raped by the newer Episodes, and I for one want to know the full story behind that number.
What I really want to see (or perhaps write) is a book about how Web forum threads (like this often-viewed one) influence people's perception of others, vocabulary, and way of life--or at least make them utterly perverted.
I don't have many problems with teh clip. Then again, I haven't seen it ask many "It looks like" questions lately either.
As long as it doesn't interrupt me with said questions, and my screen size is >= 1024*768, Clippit's welcome. On a portable device though, he'd be 100 pixels too wide. Seeing my notes is important, and Clippy'd just get in the way of my stylus (and be tortuously swept around the screen in the process, which some of you might want to do to him).
That's hot.
...you've not heard of Janeane Garofalo or Daria.
Side note: Damn, that "confirm you're not a script" thingy was put on quick. I too hate stupid offtopic-script bastards.
As long as they don't delay the next Vega Strike just to add unstable 'holes, I don't give a damn.
Well actually, I wouldn't mind that *wonders whether to make feature request*.
Even partially-eaten pizza pies need to get some, uh, affection. After 25 years, he deserves it.
That Pac-Man's a yellow pill-popping playboy, I tell ya.
Namco is making records, while refusing to recognize fan-made games as an aid to their business and not theft.
Neave ought to re-release Pac-Man, along with Dig Dug and all five (or so) Tekkens, and yank those money-hungry bastards^W^W^W record-makers out of business.
If people think a movie's "cool" and worth going out for the day it's released, then people will pay for it the day it's released.
If people don't think it's worth the trip, they won't pony up the price.
Movie producers should release their product in every media (online, theater, DVD, etc.) at once (the Deleted Scenes specials can wait), or the producers will continue to suffer from what is now inevitable.
The first time I read her op-eds online, I was drawn by her redhead thumbnail picture on the page. I kept expecting her to look, well...hotter. You know, hotter*.
Then I noticed her opinions and read often.
*Yes I have noticed her new blonde skinny look. I too am somewhat disappointed.
I personally liked the op-eds. Oh well, at least they'll still have their articles. I guess I'll just read blogs. There's enough opinion posted on blogs to fill volumes of their Times.
(to posters: Do you consider the Slashdot news pages blogs?)
that's . Now there's one more to close, so...
...if I made something as capable as that, I'd too make it lease-only, to respected customers.
I mean, I'd be quite mad if my desktop was suddenly wrecked, accidentally or otherwise. Something like this is probably far more <smeagol>presssiousss<smeagol> than a thousand-dollar PC in their opinion. It sure is IMO.
I guess there will be some luxury reseller out there soon, but I haven't heard of one yet.
I mean, all of us know about the city's history, right? We know about Brussels sprouts and...uh...umm...(clicks link)
...will the Revolution be Live? --no wait, XBox took that...
he he he he he he h--(stabbed in stomach by an annoyed Link's sword)-- GAAAHHHH!!!
(four-note song plays) You received the double-barreled rifle! Now you can blast rabbits and Hyrule soldiers through their ears.
It should have a Javascript DOM-based moving or something. Marquees are, like, so IE3.
Better yet, be thoughtful of screen-reader users, and make it a static list that has scrolling abilities.
Of course it's possible to see symmetry between bosoms and females--
(hears enraged Slashdotters worldwide screaming bosons and fermions)
--what? nah, I've no idea about those.
the story's already out of date? If it was a recent post he'd be skiing in Windows XP.
I remember using Visual C++ 6 once; it came with some sort of viewer that showed Microsoft OLE objects as trees.
I'm not well-versed on the specifics, but a Word document file is one of those OLE "trees," containing "serialized" values (ints, floats, strings, etc.) so it is pretty much a memory dump. In the MFC days, there was an important idea of "document-view" architecture; MFC programs (like Word--I got an awful MFC error from Word 2000 once) can serialize entire objects. Objects can have many ints, floats, strings, etc. so that might explain the ASCII strings in Word docs, embedded in what looks like binary garbage in Notepad.
OASIS OpenDocuments--at least, as OOo saves them--are a sort of PK "zip" file with several XML files for style, content, and meta-info. If that's the only way to save them, then I'll be scared--I'm a fan of XSLT and it's tough (but not impossible) to transform ZIPs into, say, FO with a mere stylesheet (without using OOo or something at least). The editing focus then shifts from structure to display, which could lead to all sorts of scary FONT-tag-type things from other OpenDocument implementors--especially if Microsoft decides to jump in.
I'd say from the utter-treason dept. How dare he turn his back on teh hardcore g4m3z0r!!1
...or something like that. Well I haven't been looking at game news that much either, so I guess I'm lame there too.