If his code looks anything like mine, he's just too damn embarassed to show the world his tangled mess of strings, variables, and "Mystery Science Theater 3000" references that can only be called "code" due to its inarguable existence as electronic data that someone could tentatively try to run through a magical compiler if one were extraordinarily optimistic that the whole wretched thing would somehow do something not all that far from its intended function without damaging anything or anyone else near the computer desk physically or emotionally.
Does anyone else see the UK government laying out the cash to take back Sealand? It'd be a quiet end to what may have been something of an embarassment to them over the years.
It's simultaneously hard to believe that this was only 12 years ago, and that 12 years is all it's been. Is anyone else recounting their grey hairs right about now?
The private trackers, which require login and facilitate banning of users who abuse the system, will simply deal with this as they always have. That's always been one of the protocol's inherent defenses against something like this.
While I certainly can't claim making anything on the scale of Wikipedia, I've had various web presences for almost as long as there has been a web, and have never accepted a single cent of ad money. It's really not that hard.
Without re-echoing all the above "lol bittorrent" posts, I'd like to plug Public Domain Torrents. It's got all the benefits of free and easy torrenting, with the added bonus that it's completely legal stuff that not even the **AA have any power over. There are already iPod/PSP/whatever conversions for everything as well.
I'd just like to point out that I have no less than total and complete respect for and faith in my boss, and I'll stand by that statement for as long as it takes me to get home and post to Slashdot via a connection he doesn't run or monitor.
I'm a luddite I admit, but what makes IM so great? There's no way to archive the messages is there? Is there a way to catalog the information into a searchable index? How can you "forward" an im to another person or group of people? Can you thread the information into a cohesive timeline?
By running a quick text search on my Gaim logs, which are stored in bog-standard HTML files, I see that someone asked me that very question in 2003.
I'm inclined to agree. TFA's title is "NASA's vision lost on Web generation," which is still stupid and meaningless, but at least it's stupid and meaningless without dragging an overhyped brand name into it.
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If his code looks anything like mine, he's just too damn embarassed to show the world his tangled mess of strings, variables, and "Mystery Science Theater 3000" references that can only be called "code" due to its inarguable existence as electronic data that someone could tentatively try to run through a magical compiler if one were extraordinarily optimistic that the whole wretched thing would somehow do something not all that far from its intended function without damaging anything or anyone else near the computer desk physically or emotionally.
Does anyone else see the UK government laying out the cash to take back Sealand? It'd be a quiet end to what may have been something of an embarassment to them over the years.
Hesh wants sex!
Who needs security? Thanks to the DMCA, all I have to do is keep my code proprietary. Then it's illegal for people to hax my code, so it won't happen!
You could have a nice sideline there, taking bets on the battle royale between humidifier and dehumidifier.
Someone's already hit it with "flamebait" but it's actually a very good point.
If robots < canines, where would K-9 fit in?
I love the fact that this is a mere two posts above Bill Gates on Robots.
It's simultaneously hard to believe that this was only 12 years ago, and that 12 years is all it's been. Is anyone else recounting their grey hairs right about now?
The private trackers, which require login and facilitate banning of users who abuse the system, will simply deal with this as they always have. That's always been one of the protocol's inherent defenses against something like this.
While I certainly can't claim making anything on the scale of Wikipedia, I've had various web presences for almost as long as there has been a web, and have never accepted a single cent of ad money. It's really not that hard.
Without re-echoing all the above "lol bittorrent" posts, I'd like to plug Public Domain Torrents. It's got all the benefits of free and easy torrenting, with the added bonus that it's completely legal stuff that not even the **AA have any power over. There are already iPod/PSP/whatever conversions for everything as well.
Maybe they asked him what he ate for breakfast.
I'd just like to point out that I have no less than total and complete respect for and faith in my boss, and I'll stand by that statement for as long as it takes me to get home and post to Slashdot via a connection he doesn't run or monitor.
Perhaps it's something to do with raisins' natural laxative properties.
The formula lies in a particular oleaginous substance which can be manufactured from refined cells of particular reptiles of suborder serpentes.
Hit submit too soon.. while I agree that the title is dumb, I disagree on the space exploration component of your post. Grumblegrumble..
I'm inclined to agree. TFA's title is "NASA's vision lost on Web generation," which is still stupid and meaningless, but at least it's stupid and meaningless without dragging an overhyped brand name into it.