How many adult sites actively hope children view their pages? Really, I think the pron industry is there to make money, and kids don't have it. "Mom and Dad, can I have $$ to subscribe to this adult site?". No, it's the adults who have disposable income to actually spend on that content. Why would they want to attract kids to their sites - what would it gain them?
I believe I will start an adult film agency called He-Man pictures, and as directory and primary actor my film name will be Ken. The first starring actress' name will be penned "Barbie Matel". Then I will build a website. Buwahahahaha!
I thought this was a program that I could drag and drop plot, characters, etc., into, and it would write my novel for me. You're telling me it doesn't do that, and I have to still write all the words myself? Where's my Visual Studio 2005 Novel Edition?
I'm pretty sure that if you sat down at two laptops, one with 512MB RAM, the other with 2GB, you'd feel the difference. And I still don't get the webcam point - do that many people actually user webcams? Wasn't that fad over in the late 90's?
'Ah well'. I'm getting screwed over by a company whose products I paid money for. 'Ah well'. This is just another way it goes in day to day life, guess I'll just live with it. 'Ah well'. Who am I to question the way things are? 'Ah well'.
ALright, and middle clicking on bookmarks in my toolbar (or the bookmarks for that matter) doesn't work...it just doesn't do anything. I have folders of links on my toolbar that I use, and I can't middle click to open them in a new window. Bah! That isn't supported in Opera?
So I downloaded Opera tonight, and am playing around with it. Very impressive - might have to blog about it and I'll probably play with it a few days at least. One glaring thing though I noticed when coming to Slashdot - where is Firefox's AdBlock extension! The "Block Content..." works on images, but can it do iframes and the other things AdBlock does? Hmmmmmmmm.....
No, that's not what I meant:-P I meant that if between Firefox (for 99.9% of what I use) and the IETab extension (which frankly I only use at work), what would I need to use Opera for?
Opera compatibility vs the other two?
on
A Browser War Preview
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Maybe I'll grab the latest Opera and try it out this weekend, but how is it's page compatibility with the greater web out there when compared to Firefox and IE? I know it's touted as having the "most" standards support, but I tried Opera way back when and it hosed up or just plain wouldn't render correctly a number of sites I went to. Does it work on bank sites? Most popular websites? You can say it's a problem with the web designers, but if everything works on Firefox with the IETab extension, but doesn't render right on Opera, where does the problem lie?
Maybe they'll finely curb the inane fad that is Texas Holem' Poker (online or off). Seriously, the poker fad is played out, gone the way of mass produced "retro" emo tees that are unique in that EVERYONE has one.
I had to use LaTeX in school (CSE grad, out in the working word now), and absolutely hated it. Yeah, it was cool if I wanted to build a document from scratch. I hear it's really good for academia and math graphics and crap. But for writing a goddam letter or resume or book report or anything else 99% of the world is going to do most of the time, why in the blue hell would you use that instead of something like Word/WordPerfect/OO? For what we did in class with LaTeX (project documentation), I could have done in a fraction of the time if we'd used MS Word instead. You're only kidding yourself if you believe otherwise.
Better be careful....you can tell what your PIN and SSN numebers are from the tones emitted by your phone, so you should probably disable any sounds that come out of your phone, too, then.
Why not add some basics
on
Talking iPods
·
· Score: 1
before adding all of the gee-whiz crap? AM/FM tuner and voice recorder, anyone?
It reminds me of the MPAA ads before a DVD I rented the other day:
Would you steal a car? Would you steal a purse? Would you steal a cellphone? Then why would you steal a movie?
No, I wouldn't steal a car. But if I could magically make an exact duplicate of the car, leaving the original intact and available to it's owner, damn right I would copy it. Same for the cellphone, money, etc.
What will happen to copyright law when the Jetson's style cloning machine becomes reality?:-P
It must be nice to have friends and family with enough disposable income to have a fleet of Macs. It's hard enough to get my parents to replace their 5+ year old ailing Compaq with a $400-$600 Dell, and my grandmother has an old Pentium Thinkpad I found on a refurb deal, and my sis just doesn't have the cash for anything to replace her Duron system that's giving her fits. It's hard to justify to them to dump twice as much on a computer as they could at Dell, even if it *may* be better.
I know the Slashdot crowd will poo-poo on this release, the zealots will shout for their favorite browser, etc. And for the most part, they're right. The media seems oblivious to this, but I've stopping thinking of IE7 as a competitor to all of the other browsers. Instead, I see it as what a baseline browser that's integrated into the OS should be.
Yes, IE7 is basically where Firefox and everyone else was at years ago. Yes, it has tons of room for improvement. But for the unwashed masses out there, having a PC that comes with IE7, or being forced to upgrade as part of Windows Update is a good thing. Sure, I could install Windows from scratch, open up Write, and begin my novel. Or, if I want and need more features, I can choose from Word, Open Office, WordPerfect, etc. Same goes for the browsers. IE7 will give the average user a higher starting point, but the alternatives will always do the job better, and I don't think IE7 will stop the adoption that Firefox is seeing. Who is seriously going to go back to IE after using and customizing Firefox to how they want it?
I use Firefox at home, and partially at work, but I also have to use IE for our Intranet development (it's easier for now, and they're too ingrained to IE for me to start using FF full time. If something doesn't work right, I'd rather not have to tell the "well, it works right in FF, it's your problem"....anyway....). I grabbed the IE7b3 yesterday and have found it leaps and bounds better that IE7b2. Pages load faster (still not as fast as FF), the UI is snappier (still not as snappy as FF), and some of the quirks of before have been fixed. It's better than IE7b2, and tons better than IE6. Is it going to replace FF at all? Heck, no.
I'm going to create my own currency to compete with the US dollar.
Seriously, competition is good and all, but why? It's success hinges on EVERYONE using it, and EVERYONE already uses Paypal. Even if it's just a little better, is it worth the trouble of switching? Methinks it would have to be revolutionary to replace an existing system, and even then, I'm banking on a lot of laziness and "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" type of mentalities.
I know it's all been said, but I'll throw my two cents in on the Digg vs Slashdot thing.
While they may be similar on the surface, I don't like the comparison, as they each serve different uses. I think Digg gets its publicity because of it's sense of "freshness", of having supposedly current material instantly available. Digg is good because of the mob moderation. But Digg is bad because of the mob moderation. Unless you sit and stare at it all day, you'll miss something that hits the front page. I'll check Digg out because things will show up that wouldn't ever make Slashdot's articles. But they're commenting system is horrible. They took a step in the right direction by having threads at least. But giving every half retarded geek out there to "digg down" comments he doesn't agree with (whether they're insightful or not) is bad.
Slashdot, on the other hand, feels to me like Digg's older, more mature brother. Honestly, one of the best things about Slashdot is the discussion. There's a lot of good info here, and the moderation system seems to work pretty well. Sure, the editors get criticized, but that's going to happen in any sort of community. Perhaps a group editing module that worked like moderating where a rotating group of people approve stories could be fun. But you don't see too many articles on Slashdot where the summary is a single line and it's a link to a blog with a link to a story.
When you're trying to be the fastest, your going to lose the insight and thought that comes with taking your time at something. I'll keep browsing Digg occasionally, and primarily reading here for the group discussion, and we'll all go on our merry way. At this point in the game, though, I don't see Digg having the lasting effect of Slashdot. Where will we be in 5 years?
Ok, I read the comments, and I read the article. First, what in the world does the sex offender part have to do with anything? Maybe he's a bad one, maybe he's one of the youthful misunderstanding ones. But without more information, what the hell purpose does it serve other than to stir up preconceived notions?
Second, I still don't see how he did anything wrong technologically. It's one thing if he's arrested for loitering, or how businesses sometimes have signs saying parking is for customers only. But it says he's charged with stealing a signal?? How?? Unless the AP is locked down, or there's a clickthru or other posting saying wifi is for paying customers, there is otherwise no tacit agreement that you must buy something to use their unsecured, open, AP. If I use a library's free wireless, am I obligated to check out a book, or join and get a library card? You can force someone to leave on the grounds that they're bothering customers, but you can't force someone to leave just because they're taking advantage of your stupidity.
At least one benefit of IE7 will be that those still using IE6 will have to upgrade to a (marginally) better version which is at least a little more secure than the previous version. If the Average Joe baseline is IE7, maybe that'll help cut down on the rampant Internet bugs caused by older IE versions?
Slashdot Mirror
How many adult sites actively hope children view their pages? Really, I think the pron industry is there to make money, and kids don't have it. "Mom and Dad, can I have $$ to subscribe to this adult site?". No, it's the adults who have disposable income to actually spend on that content. Why would they want to attract kids to their sites - what would it gain them?
I believe I will start an adult film agency called He-Man pictures, and as directory and primary actor my film name will be Ken. The first starring actress' name will be penned "Barbie Matel". Then I will build a website. Buwahahahaha!
I thought this was a program that I could drag and drop plot, characters, etc., into, and it would write my novel for me. You're telling me it doesn't do that, and I have to still write all the words myself? Where's my Visual Studio 2005 Novel Edition?
I'm pretty sure that if you sat down at two laptops, one with 512MB RAM, the other with 2GB, you'd feel the difference. And I still don't get the webcam point - do that many people actually user webcams? Wasn't that fad over in the late 90's?
The Dreamcast is coming back? Sweet!
'Ah well'. I'm getting screwed over by a company whose products I paid money for. 'Ah well'. This is just another way it goes in day to day life, guess I'll just live with it. 'Ah well'. Who am I to question the way things are? 'Ah well'.
ALright, and middle clicking on bookmarks in my toolbar (or the bookmarks for that matter) doesn't work...it just doesn't do anything. I have folders of links on my toolbar that I use, and I can't middle click to open them in a new window. Bah! That isn't supported in Opera?
So I downloaded Opera tonight, and am playing around with it. Very impressive - might have to blog about it and I'll probably play with it a few days at least. One glaring thing though I noticed when coming to Slashdot - where is Firefox's AdBlock extension! The "Block Content..." works on images, but can it do iframes and the other things AdBlock does? Hmmmmmmmm.....
No, that's not what I meant :-P I meant that if between Firefox (for 99.9% of what I use) and the IETab extension (which frankly I only use at work), what would I need to use Opera for?
Maybe I'll grab the latest Opera and try it out this weekend, but how is it's page compatibility with the greater web out there when compared to Firefox and IE? I know it's touted as having the "most" standards support, but I tried Opera way back when and it hosed up or just plain wouldn't render correctly a number of sites I went to. Does it work on bank sites? Most popular websites? You can say it's a problem with the web designers, but if everything works on Firefox with the IETab extension, but doesn't render right on Opera, where does the problem lie?
I prefer the hyper-super-saiyan build of Vista, personally.
Maybe they'll finely curb the inane fad that is Texas Holem' Poker (online or off). Seriously, the poker fad is played out, gone the way of mass produced "retro" emo tees that are unique in that EVERYONE has one.
I think I'd personally go for "women's beach volleyball"...
Mod parent up!
I had to use LaTeX in school (CSE grad, out in the working word now), and absolutely hated it. Yeah, it was cool if I wanted to build a document from scratch. I hear it's really good for academia and math graphics and crap. But for writing a goddam letter or resume or book report or anything else 99% of the world is going to do most of the time, why in the blue hell would you use that instead of something like Word/WordPerfect/OO? For what we did in class with LaTeX (project documentation), I could have done in a fraction of the time if we'd used MS Word instead. You're only kidding yourself if you believe otherwise.
Better be careful....you can tell what your PIN and SSN numebers are from the tones emitted by your phone, so you should probably disable any sounds that come out of your phone, too, then.
before adding all of the gee-whiz crap? AM/FM tuner and voice recorder, anyone?
Huh huh huh dick-shunnery....dick shunnery......huhh huh hhuhh huh
It reminds me of the MPAA ads before a DVD I rented the other day:
:-P
Would you steal a car? Would you steal a purse? Would you steal a cellphone? Then why would you steal a movie?
No, I wouldn't steal a car. But if I could magically make an exact duplicate of the car, leaving the original intact and available to it's owner, damn right I would copy it. Same for the cellphone, money, etc.
What will happen to copyright law when the Jetson's style cloning machine becomes reality?
It must be nice to have friends and family with enough disposable income to have a fleet of Macs. It's hard enough to get my parents to replace their 5+ year old ailing Compaq with a $400-$600 Dell, and my grandmother has an old Pentium Thinkpad I found on a refurb deal, and my sis just doesn't have the cash for anything to replace her Duron system that's giving her fits. It's hard to justify to them to dump twice as much on a computer as they could at Dell, even if it *may* be better.
I know the Slashdot crowd will poo-poo on this release, the zealots will shout for their favorite browser, etc. And for the most part, they're right. The media seems oblivious to this, but I've stopping thinking of IE7 as a competitor to all of the other browsers. Instead, I see it as what a baseline browser that's integrated into the OS should be.
Yes, IE7 is basically where Firefox and everyone else was at years ago. Yes, it has tons of room for improvement. But for the unwashed masses out there, having a PC that comes with IE7, or being forced to upgrade as part of Windows Update is a good thing. Sure, I could install Windows from scratch, open up Write, and begin my novel. Or, if I want and need more features, I can choose from Word, Open Office, WordPerfect, etc. Same goes for the browsers. IE7 will give the average user a higher starting point, but the alternatives will always do the job better, and I don't think IE7 will stop the adoption that Firefox is seeing. Who is seriously going to go back to IE after using and customizing Firefox to how they want it?
I use Firefox at home, and partially at work, but I also have to use IE for our Intranet development (it's easier for now, and they're too ingrained to IE for me to start using FF full time. If something doesn't work right, I'd rather not have to tell the "well, it works right in FF, it's your problem"....anyway....). I grabbed the IE7b3 yesterday and have found it leaps and bounds better that IE7b2. Pages load faster (still not as fast as FF), the UI is snappier (still not as snappy as FF), and some of the quirks of before have been fixed. It's better than IE7b2, and tons better than IE6. Is it going to replace FF at all? Heck, no.
I'm going to create my own currency to compete with the US dollar.
Seriously, competition is good and all, but why? It's success hinges on EVERYONE using it, and EVERYONE already uses Paypal. Even if it's just a little better, is it worth the trouble of switching? Methinks it would have to be revolutionary to replace an existing system, and even then, I'm banking on a lot of laziness and "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" type of mentalities.
I know it's all been said, but I'll throw my two cents in on the Digg vs Slashdot thing.
While they may be similar on the surface, I don't like the comparison, as they each serve different uses. I think Digg gets its publicity because of it's sense of "freshness", of having supposedly current material instantly available. Digg is good because of the mob moderation. But Digg is bad because of the mob moderation. Unless you sit and stare at it all day, you'll miss something that hits the front page. I'll check Digg out because things will show up that wouldn't ever make Slashdot's articles. But they're commenting system is horrible. They took a step in the right direction by having threads at least. But giving every half retarded geek out there to "digg down" comments he doesn't agree with (whether they're insightful or not) is bad.
Slashdot, on the other hand, feels to me like Digg's older, more mature brother. Honestly, one of the best things about Slashdot is the discussion. There's a lot of good info here, and the moderation system seems to work pretty well. Sure, the editors get criticized, but that's going to happen in any sort of community. Perhaps a group editing module that worked like moderating where a rotating group of people approve stories could be fun. But you don't see too many articles on Slashdot where the summary is a single line and it's a link to a blog with a link to a story.
When you're trying to be the fastest, your going to lose the insight and thought that comes with taking your time at something. I'll keep browsing Digg occasionally, and primarily reading here for the group discussion, and we'll all go on our merry way. At this point in the game, though, I don't see Digg having the lasting effect of Slashdot. Where will we be in 5 years?
Ok, I read the comments, and I read the article. First, what in the world does the sex offender part have to do with anything? Maybe he's a bad one, maybe he's one of the youthful misunderstanding ones. But without more information, what the hell purpose does it serve other than to stir up preconceived notions?
Second, I still don't see how he did anything wrong technologically. It's one thing if he's arrested for loitering, or how businesses sometimes have signs saying parking is for customers only. But it says he's charged with stealing a signal?? How?? Unless the AP is locked down, or there's a clickthru or other posting saying wifi is for paying customers, there is otherwise no tacit agreement that you must buy something to use their unsecured, open, AP. If I use a library's free wireless, am I obligated to check out a book, or join and get a library card? You can force someone to leave on the grounds that they're bothering customers, but you can't force someone to leave just because they're taking advantage of your stupidity.
At least one benefit of IE7 will be that those still using IE6 will have to upgrade to a (marginally) better version which is at least a little more secure than the previous version. If the Average Joe baseline is IE7, maybe that'll help cut down on the rampant Internet bugs caused by older IE versions?