I think they'll do for Blogs what Geocities did for personal websites...
You mean they'll litter the internet with horrible blogs and the ones that are slightly decent will always be down due to bandwidth restrictions?
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The photo-essay is what was titled "Re-imagining Apple," as the Slashdot Entry was. Notice it says, "[b]Plus:[/b] What's next for Apple?" which is the companion story.
That wasn't the premise AT ALL. There were plenty of hard-working ambitious "valids" in the movie. The premise of the movie was basically that with enough willpower and determination, even someone who was genetically supposed to die young could achieve practially anything. It's not that they weren't ambitious, it's just that they didn't have to live with being an "invalid" like he did, which made him more ambitious and willful.
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It might help if the blurb linked to the right part of the story (which is reg free).
Do you believe that Joseph Smith had magic spectacles with which he translated the Book of Mormon?
I assume you're referring to the Urim and Thummim? These were not spectacles, but more like oddly shaped rocks and I don't know how he used them but I don't think he put them over his eyes. Or maybe he did, I don't see why that matters.
Why do Mormons wear long underwear with Masonic symbols on it?
The garments are symbolic of a few things, and particularly they are a symbol of our devotion and obedience. As for the Masonic symbols, what about them? Our rituals are supposed to be much like those of the ancient church. I don't know that much about the Masons, but I gather that they're supposed to have preserved such things, and therefore that there would be overlap seems perfectly reasonable.
Do you believe that Native Americans rather than originating from crossing over from Siberia to Alaska are a lost tribe of the Israelites?
Sort of. As far as I know, there isn't too much difinitive information about this in the church. We definitely believe that Isrealites came over to North America at about 600BC, and it seems to be a popular Mormon belief that current Native Americans are descended from these, but that is not entirely clear. It is possible that there was interbreeding, or that the Isrealites died off entirely.
Do you believe that blacks are the descendants of Cain; an associate of Lucifer as stated by your church?
I guess so, but we most definitely DO believe that one is responsible for one's own sins, not the sins of one's father. Today, there are blacks all over the world who are upstanding members of our church (blacks were given the right to the priesthood in 1978).
Also, even if God set apart black people as Cain's seed and marked them with black skin and said they were not worthy of the priesthood until fairly recently, that does not mean that church members were ever given any excuse to hate black people.
Do you believe you will rule your own planet when you die?
Sort of, yeah, though it's a lot more complicated than that. We actually believe that the most faithful of us will go to the highest level of Heaven after the Millennium (1000 years of Christ ruling this Earth), after which we will continue to grow and learn and then eventually become Gods of our own planets/universes just like the God of this planet/universe.
I suspect your comment was probably lost on someone who seems to think that science has "proven" that the soul doesn't exist (parent), but I found it interesting! (No mod points though.)
Mormons use the King James Version, but it's essentially the same. However, unlike many other Christian faiths, Mormons don't take the Bible completely literally (and have other books). So parent is wrong about traditional Christian creationism, but grandparent is wrong about Mormons.
Bill Nye was the best science teacher because he was also a comedian. I remember seeing him once on some old sketch comedy show (Almost Live?) where he talked about his girlfriend from hell or something.
Incidentally, my 8th grade science teacher looked almost exactly like Bill Nye.
The fact that a dictionary doesn't tell you the origin of the word "rogue" doesn't mean there isn't a perfectly valid reason for it to be spelled like that.
For one thing, it probably has to do with e's in English making g's soft. Thus a more standard spelling of "roge" would evoke the wrong sound.
That's a header, with special text that needs to look a certain way. It's a perfectly justifiable use of a graphic for text. A great many well designed sites do this, including A List Apart and Zeldman.com.
How do they get these net-ratings? A cursory glance of their website didn't reveal much. Is it the same way they get tv ratings? Like, where they send you a little book to fill out and 5 dollars for your time?
This guy is anyway. There's nothing wrong with white hat tactics to get your page to rank well. There are lots of times people are searching Google and really do want product results.
On the other hand, scumbags like this guy are definitely, as you say, search engine spammers.
It's not news per se, it's an editorial. I don't see how a reasonable, insightful article about one of the tech industry's big stars is inappropriate for Slashdot, even if it isn't technically news.
I would argue that it's retarded rants from AC's that make/. go downhill.
And of course, all companies don't only write software for Windows. There are plenty of situations where it's profitable to develop for more than one platform.
Furthermore, web development takes significantly less time and effort than software development (yes, people develop full-blown software for the internet, but it only has to run on their server -- the html it generates is what I'm talking about).
90% of the market does NOT necessarily mean 90% of your customers. Furthermore, why would any company want to automatically lose 10% of their customers anyway?! Imagine if a retail store turned away every tenth customer because they were wearing the wrong shoes.
Look, the table is cool and so are miniatures, but "traditionally?"
First time I ever saw a miniature outside of Warhammer context was that HeroQuest boardgame. The first five or six years I roleplayed, it was pen and paper and books (hence "pen and paper RPGs" not "miniatures and paper RPGs"). And I'm pretty young--so careful how you throw around "traditionally" d^_^b.
Sorry, but no. Dungeons and Dragons was actually an evolution of a miniatures game. That means it's about as traditional as it gets.
Unfortunately, most people are about as interesting as watching grass grow, and they know it. So they spam the search engines and aim for the lowest common denominator. Sad, really.
You don't even really have to be interesting to use white hat SEO tactics. A blog on, for instance, a dress manufacturer's store might not really get read by anyone, but if it's about dresses it will still make the site more visible to people searching Google for dresses.
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I think they'll do for Blogs what Geocities did for personal websites...
You mean they'll litter the internet with horrible blogs and the ones that are slightly decent will always be down due to bandwidth restrictions?
The photo-essay is what was titled "Re-imagining Apple," as the Slashdot Entry was. Notice it says, "[b]Plus:[/b] What's next for Apple?" which is the companion story.
Not true. Russia uses the same more expensive pens the US does.
That wasn't the premise AT ALL. There were plenty of hard-working ambitious "valids" in the movie. The premise of the movie was basically that with enough willpower and determination, even someone who was genetically supposed to die young could achieve practially anything. It's not that they weren't ambitious, it's just that they didn't have to live with being an "invalid" like he did, which made him more ambitious and willful.
It might help if the blurb linked to the right part of the story (which is reg free).
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Yeah, the PodWatch was about the only one I found interesting though.
Do you believe that Joseph Smith had magic spectacles with which he translated the Book of Mormon?
I assume you're referring to the Urim and Thummim? These were not spectacles, but more like oddly shaped rocks and I don't know how he used them but I don't think he put them over his eyes. Or maybe he did, I don't see why that matters.
Why do Mormons wear long underwear with Masonic symbols on it?
The garments are symbolic of a few things, and particularly they are a symbol of our devotion and obedience. As for the Masonic symbols, what about them? Our rituals are supposed to be much like those of the ancient church. I don't know that much about the Masons, but I gather that they're supposed to have preserved such things, and therefore that there would be overlap seems perfectly reasonable.
Do you believe that Native Americans rather than originating from crossing over from Siberia to Alaska are a lost tribe of the Israelites?
Sort of. As far as I know, there isn't too much difinitive information about this in the church. We definitely believe that Isrealites came over to North America at about 600BC, and it seems to be a popular Mormon belief that current Native Americans are descended from these, but that is not entirely clear. It is possible that there was interbreeding, or that the Isrealites died off entirely.
Do you believe that blacks are the descendants of Cain; an associate of Lucifer as stated by your church?
I guess so, but we most definitely DO believe that one is responsible for one's own sins, not the sins of one's father. Today, there are blacks all over the world who are upstanding members of our church (blacks were given the right to the priesthood in 1978).
Also, even if God set apart black people as Cain's seed and marked them with black skin and said they were not worthy of the priesthood until fairly recently, that does not mean that church members were ever given any excuse to hate black people.
Do you believe you will rule your own planet when you die?
Sort of, yeah, though it's a lot more complicated than that. We actually believe that the most faithful of us will go to the highest level of Heaven after the Millennium (1000 years of Christ ruling this Earth), after which we will continue to grow and learn and then eventually become Gods of our own planets/universes just like the God of this planet/universe.
I suspect your comment was probably lost on someone who seems to think that science has "proven" that the soul doesn't exist (parent), but I found it interesting! (No mod points though.)
Mormons use the King James Version, but it's essentially the same. However, unlike many other Christian faiths, Mormons don't take the Bible completely literally (and have other books). So parent is wrong about traditional Christian creationism, but grandparent is wrong about Mormons.
A million may be no harder than four to hijack, but a million dummy sites that would actually fool people is much harder than four.
Bill Nye was the best science teacher because he was also a comedian. I remember seeing him once on some old sketch comedy show (Almost Live?) where he talked about his girlfriend from hell or something.
Incidentally, my 8th grade science teacher looked almost exactly like Bill Nye.
The fact that a dictionary doesn't tell you the origin of the word "rogue" doesn't mean there isn't a perfectly valid reason for it to be spelled like that.
For one thing, it probably has to do with e's in English making g's soft. Thus a more standard spelling of "roge" would evoke the wrong sound.
That's a header, with special text that needs to look a certain way. It's a perfectly justifiable use of a graphic for text. A great many well designed sites do this, including A List Apart and Zeldman.com.
An almost 10% margin of error is pretty huge.
How do they get these net-ratings? A cursory glance of their website didn't reveal much. Is it the same way they get tv ratings? Like, where they send you a little book to fill out and 5 dollars for your time?
This guy is anyway. There's nothing wrong with white hat tactics to get your page to rank well. There are lots of times people are searching Google and really do want product results.
On the other hand, scumbags like this guy are definitely, as you say, search engine spammers.
It's not news per se, it's an editorial. I don't see how a reasonable, insightful article about one of the tech industry's big stars is inappropriate for Slashdot, even if it isn't technically news.
/. go downhill.
I would argue that it's retarded rants from AC's that make
It's a wizard we're talking about. Even at really high level he's probably only got a handful of hitpoints.
And of course, all companies don't only write software for Windows. There are plenty of situations where it's profitable to develop for more than one platform.
Furthermore, web development takes significantly less time and effort than software development (yes, people develop full-blown software for the internet, but it only has to run on their server -- the html it generates is what I'm talking about).
90% of the market does NOT necessarily mean 90% of your customers. Furthermore, why would any company want to automatically lose 10% of their customers anyway?! Imagine if a retail store turned away every tenth customer because they were wearing the wrong shoes.
Yeah, but the really cool feature Firefox has over Opera is that it doesn't have that ad bar across the top.
Look, the table is cool and so are miniatures, but "traditionally?"
First time I ever saw a miniature outside of Warhammer context was that HeroQuest boardgame. The first five or six years I roleplayed, it was pen and paper and books (hence "pen and paper RPGs" not "miniatures and paper RPGs"). And I'm pretty young--so careful how you throw around "traditionally" d^_^b.
Sorry, but no. Dungeons and Dragons was actually an evolution of a miniatures game. That means it's about as traditional as it gets.
Unfortunately, most people are about as interesting as watching grass grow, and they know it. So they spam the search engines and aim for the lowest common denominator. Sad, really.
You don't even really have to be interesting to use white hat SEO tactics. A blog on, for instance, a dress manufacturer's store might not really get read by anyone, but if it's about dresses it will still make the site more visible to people searching Google for dresses.
Bunnicula was a vampire rabbit, silly. They're after a were-rabbit.
Bunnicula drained vegetable of their color, he didn't really eat them!
How is Google punishing anyone? All they're doing is now choosing to follow their own rules.
Yes, and their own rules require a punishment of having the offending pages removed from the index.