You would be absolutely flat-out amazed at how many people don't know what sarcasm is. I dated one gal who basically had no idea what it was (boy was that a short weird relationship). How exactly can someone go through life thinking that everyone else is always saying exactly what they mean???
You know, I almost rented the 2nd and 3rd one the other day (saw them in the theater). Thank you for reminding me again why I shouldn't bother renting the 3rd one again! Though if I rent it I can at least skip the stupid extended death scene from hell, something I wished I could have done in the theater. Oh and the extended car chase scene in the second one, and the neverending rave scene, wow the list goes on and on. Maybe they should just release the last two movies condensed down to 30 minutes each instead of extended versions?
this one really needs to drop into the "over-used lame joke" department
I don't think there is such a department on Slashdot, since we still see people posting "Beowulf cluster", "In Russia", and "3. Profit!" comments all the time. Then again even I am gulity now and then so I can't really complain.
I would have posted this before you did, but ironically firefox died on me for the first time in months. Doh! (Then again, I am running an older version, time to upgrade!)
Everything will become terrorism of one kind or another What I keep wondering is where are we going to house all these new-found terrorists? First we will add floors to existing prisons, next we will wall in Nevada, and then what? Put a huge wall around the whole US to keep people from fleeing our new country/prisonstate? Or we could just vote some people into office to fix this patriot-act-nightmare (riiiiiight).
The point of this post? Things will have to get worse before the average American even notices, but by then will it be to late? Excuse me while I go running down the street, hooting and hollerin' whilst throwing off my clothes.
This reminds me, is there a comprehensive list of vendors somewhere who provide linux drivers with their hardware? Personally if I am going to support a hardware vendor, I would much rather support one who ships linux drivers than one who doesn't. Even if the drivers are lame at least they are making a minimal effort to provide linux support. Ones who make specs freely available for the linux crowd would be nice too. Granted I can look on every single box down at CompUSA to see which vendors provide linux drivers, but if there is a list available somewhere...
Me too. Plus I look forward to running Simcity 4, which seems to only work right after the install under windows, but subsequent executions cause it to blow up:-( Then again these days I don't have time to even play on my PS2, so maybe it is better if I don't go download this... (thank god for slashdotted servers!)
Actually I was just kidding about just looking at the pictures, they both have good articles. The best article I have ever read in any magazine was one in Smithsonian that had pictures from families around the world showing what they typically ate during a week. Talk about an eye-opener, huge difference between what the "average" american family ate and what other countries' familes ate. The author of the article also wrote two great books showing a "typical" family's possessions (again from all over the world). One book is Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel as well as Women in the Material World. If you ever get a chance to look at either of these books they are well worth it.
Smithsonian and Discover are the magazines of choice, but only for the pictures! Oh and Sysadmin Magazine, which always has useful articles in it (can't wait to dig through the CDROM they sent with their back issues on it).
Actually IE already has plenty of plugins. They even install themselves! The downside is they sometimes trash your hard drive or turn your machine into a spam zombie.
Especially the time-travel kernel module in FreeBSD.
This module is the reason why I have yet to install FreeBSD on any of my machines, since I can install FreeBSD anytime before I die and go back in time to make sure I never wasted any time installing Linux.
Commenting on the desktop background imageThis is a still photo of the Stanford University campus. Just imagine what is possible if it were live video.
Heck yeah! Depending on how many people have this "dynamic desktop" one could break the world record for most people mooned at once! Also what if you saw someone getting mugged on your desktop and calling 911? "Well, I am not sure exactly where the mugging is happening, but I can see it on my computer desktop...."
How hard is it to design a page that is usable by EVERYONE?
That all depends on how many people you want to actually use your site. Note how fast yahoo/ebay/google/etc load (used by tons o' people every day). I hate flash sites, and any site that depends on flash must hate having people visit it, I mean how many people actually sit and watch the flash intro on a site? Excuse me while I go outside and throw a I-hate-flash tantrum.
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You would be absolutely flat-out amazed at how many people don't know what sarcasm is. I dated one gal who basically had no idea what it was (boy was that a short weird relationship). How exactly can someone go through life thinking that everyone else is always saying exactly what they mean???
OT, but I have to say, soooooo close to a great user ID number and yet so far :-)
You know, I almost rented the 2nd and 3rd one the other day (saw them in the theater). Thank you for reminding me again why I shouldn't bother renting the 3rd one again! Though if I rent it I can at least skip the stupid extended death scene from hell, something I wished I could have done in the theater. Oh and the extended car chase scene in the second one, and the neverending rave scene, wow the list goes on and on. Maybe they should just release the last two movies condensed down to 30 minutes each instead of extended versions?
I suppose government subsidies are better than the cafe sniffing traffic and using keyboard logging to subsidize the cost in other ways...
I don't think there is such a department on Slashdot, since we still see people posting "Beowulf cluster", "In Russia", and "3. Profit!" comments all the time. Then again even I am gulity now and then so I can't really complain.
I would have posted this before you did, but ironically firefox died on me for the first time in months. Doh! (Then again, I am running an older version, time to upgrade!)
Fix can be downloaded here.
What I keep wondering is where are we going to house all these new-found terrorists? First we will add floors to existing prisons, next we will wall in Nevada, and then what? Put a huge wall around the whole US to keep people from fleeing our new country/prisonstate? Or we could just vote some people into office to fix this patriot-act-nightmare (riiiiiight).
The point of this post? Things will have to get worse before the average American even notices, but by then will it be to late? Excuse me while I go running down the street, hooting and hollerin' whilst throwing off my clothes.
The only really safe browser! Not so good for browsing porn sites, but since you want to download the images anyway, maybe lynx is good for that too!
This reminds me, is there a comprehensive list of vendors somewhere who provide linux drivers with their hardware? Personally if I am going to support a hardware vendor, I would much rather support one who ships linux drivers than one who doesn't. Even if the drivers are lame at least they are making a minimal effort to provide linux support. Ones who make specs freely available for the linux crowd would be nice too. Granted I can look on every single box down at CompUSA to see which vendors provide linux drivers, but if there is a list available somewhere...
Me too. Plus I look forward to running Simcity 4, which seems to only work right after the install under windows, but subsequent executions cause it to blow up :-( Then again these days I don't have time to even play on my PS2, so maybe it is better if I don't go download this... (thank god for slashdotted servers!)
Simply include a picture of the goatse guy or tubgirl in every email and they will be sorry they ever read it.
Actually I was just kidding about just looking at the pictures, they both have good articles. The best article I have ever read in any magazine was one in Smithsonian that had pictures from families around the world showing what they typically ate during a week. Talk about an eye-opener, huge difference between what the "average" american family ate and what other countries' familes ate. The author of the article also wrote two great books showing a "typical" family's possessions (again from all over the world). One book is Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel as well as Women in the Material World. If you ever get a chance to look at either of these books they are well worth it.
For example, I always send my old magazines here. Don't just throw those old magazines away!
Smithsonian and Discover are the magazines of choice, but only for the pictures! Oh and Sysadmin Magazine, which always has useful articles in it (can't wait to dig through the CDROM they sent with their back issues on it).
Actually IE already has plenty of plugins. They even install themselves! The downside is they sometimes trash your hard drive or turn your machine into a spam zombie.
Before I clicked on the link in the article I could swear I could smell something burning, sort of a "tele-psychic smell the server burning" smell.
This module is the reason why I have yet to install FreeBSD on any of my machines, since I can install FreeBSD anytime before I die and go back in time to make sure I never wasted any time installing Linux.
All three people who have software to decode this format and 10 megabit connections are very excited!
About 10 seconds less time than it will take to declare they are a device of terrorism I would guess.
Heck yeah! Depending on how many people have this "dynamic desktop" one could break the world record for most people mooned at once! Also what if you saw someone getting mugged on your desktop and calling 911? "Well, I am not sure exactly where the mugging is happening, but I can see it on my computer desktop...."
Do all the popular free virii and ilk get installed just like the full version of Microsoft Windows or perchance do they just come pre-installed?
Maybe he can use human pyramids of well-wishers instead? Plus there has gotta be some good use for several cows looped together with spidey-thread.
Does it run Linux, and if so will it cause itself to crash into Redmond?
That all depends on how many people you want to actually use your site. Note how fast yahoo/ebay/google/etc load (used by tons o' people every day). I hate flash sites, and any site that depends on flash must hate having people visit it, I mean how many people actually sit and watch the flash intro on a site? Excuse me while I go outside and throw a I-hate-flash tantrum.