think about it - the massive enslavement of several other species who don't even get to turn around in their stall, nor see the light of day their entire life... how is that any different from plugging someone into the matrix? (I guess there aren't expensive computer programs entertaining their brains).
Eat veggies - they don't have brains. If you're really concerned about killing living things, then only eat fruit after it's fallen from the tree. But this is really taking things a little too far though, after all many fruits have formed a sybiotic relationship with animals. Why do you think most fruit seeds are coated with sweet nutritious coatings? So that animals will pick them up and spread the seeds around. That's why cherries make you shit - it's their way of getting birds to make new cherry trees that don't have to compete for the same piece of land as the parent.
Yeah, it was just last month that I was grateful I hadn't ditched my last floppies.
I had a digital photo that I wanted to take to Ritz Camera to have printed out on their dumb-ass Windoze-based scanning & enlarging printing stations. The damn thing wouldn't read my zip disk from my OS X machine (which I had formatted as a DOS disk). So I came home and partitioned the zip into DOS, UFS, and HFS+, burned a cd-rom, and -> just in case, shoved a floppy into my linux box.
After doing: mkfs.msdos/mnt/floppy mount/dev/fd0H1440/mnt/floppy cp ~/img.jpg/mnt/floppy
I headed off to Ritz. I tried the first 2 media types first, to no luck, and was finally able to get my damn picture printed by using the floppy. Wow - that was amazingly sad.
Particularly for a shop that *sells* you images on cdrom.
I'm sure that we could start a collection. Hell, a simple slashdot political activism bank account. If we could get as many people hit that as do the greasy pizza-box web server... he'd be out in no time.
A little like how Apple included the Classic and then Carbon compatibility level, so that Mac OS X can run old software. It meant that the first day I got the public beta, sure - there were a lot of little unix apps I could run at the command line, and a few little Aqua apps, but the majority of software I ran was through Classic.
As time has progressed (about 17 months later) there are plenty of Carbon and Aqua apps so that I almost never launch classic anymore.
I've found a method that's a bit more effective. Tell them, "please remove me from your list" before they can stammer out their opening stanza. They're legally obligated to cut you from the list, and they can't make more money off your number by selling it. (at least I hope that's the way it works).
Either way, I've noticed significantly less telemarketing calls since I started doing this.
That doesn't look much at all like a mac case - first of all it doesn't have the trademark handles, and feet that lift it up. Secondly, there's no distinctive trademark on the side.
Just because it doesn't look like a hunk of junk doesn't mean that it looks like a mac.
The first point - nearly all companies advertise, how else do you educate the market about your product/service? Damn, think about your current employer - they most definitely advertise.
Second point, I try really hard not to do this, but sometimes it just happens to be a product or vendor that I was looking for anyways, and have no other really good reason to get something else. I do however go out of my way to procure it in a way so that they shouldn't even know that I saw their promotion in a spam. Go to the company's homepage and navigate to get to the deal.
One more thing to think about, popup ads aren't spam, they're annoying billboards that get in your way. Spam is junk that comes to your personal mailbox (be it electronic or postal).
In the third instance, those customers should be shot. They and the spammers are defecating on the face of humanity.
and much as I may have enjoyed Tron in the day, it's not a great movie.
When was the last time you saw it? I recently picked up the 20th anniversary edition, and it still sucks me into the uber-cool world inside a mainframe. The ideas and concepts in that movie really got me excited about computers as a kid. I used to spend hours in the driveway chucking frisbees at my brother pretending that I was de-res-ing him with each stroke. The damn video game has got to be one of the best that came out of the early 80s arcade scene.
I don't seem to be the only one supporting Tron, as they're currently making a sequel.
I've got a bad feeling about this (check)
May the force be with you (check)
really cheesy line delivered by a male trying to get the interest of a female (check)
R2, what do you think you're doing? (check)
the dark side has cast a shroud over everything (stand up and shout BINGO!)
Ahh - you've just been muddled by the shroud of the Dark Side that has fallen, casting lies and half-truths over *everything*.
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Before you front on the thing, try it out... I've used several computers, and I'm starting to really fall in love with my iBook (the new, white version with 14" screen). In fact, I'm even using my desktop machine less and less - and that has a 21" monitor.
the smart &/or talented programmers don't get stuck with one language. In this industry - that's the dead-endedness.
Imagine, if you were a Zeppelin pilot... well, you wouldn't have much work unless you learned a similar skill, perhaps you could transition to becoming an airline pilot.
Getting stuck in a rut is never good - continuous learning is. The trick is being able to figure out quickly which technologies will tank quickly and hard before you climb on, and which ones will stick around and thrive.
it's all about time...
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OK, sure, I can buy the argument that throughout time there must be thousands of civilizations in the universe that are capable of radio contact... but that's stretched out over the lifetime of the universe.
Not all civilizations will last forever, not all will go into space and continue propigating, not all have invented their radios just yet. After all, we just celebrated the 100th anniversary of a trans-atlantic transmission...
What if aliens had turned their sattelites on our speck in the sky just before our signals went out in the air... What if they died off millions of years before life started evolving on this planet? What if we're the first life to exist in the universe (not ruling out that others could evolve, just that they haven't yet).
We don't know shit about this, and we won't until our Zefram Cochrane comes along and helps us reach to the other stars.
ote that making a simple API available doesn't enable any new kind of access to the Google engine. A clever programmer can already parse the HTML results. The API just makes it easier -- and gives Google another product they can sell licenses for.
I've written a script to pull from google's search results so that I could have a site-only search function built into my page. I've had to rework it about 3-4 times as they keep adjusting the way to connect.
This is definitely about money, and I don't blame them. As long as their pricing model is decent, then I think they'll make a killing. Information is power, being able to find that information is even more power, and when you hold a monopoly because you're so much fucking better than everyone else... you can command money for your services.
I'll probably buy into it if they come up with a decent pricing scheme. I'd like to see something relating hits to cash, but also have some cut-off switches (so you can protect yourself against runs and slashdottings).
Whether it's because the website is down or because you're looking at an html version of a PDF or word document
I highly agree - I often find myself using the cache when google finds an article that has been retired (usually because of time), or when they've decided to put a stupid login on the page to block content to normal users.
Though any search engine worth it's salt has a copy of the original document somewhere (or can re-construct it) and they should be able to implement that feature... but that's probably not their primary focus at this point.
When the average consumer sees this ad, they'll say, "what's unix?", and probably think of neutered people. I'm glad that Microsoft has the way out... I don't want to lose my sexuality.
Has anyone seen this movie? Can anyone comment on the quality of narrative, or the interview continuity, etc.
Is this worthwhile to introduce to my non-tech family members, or will I see Capt. Kirk at the end telling us all to go home, move out of our parent's basements, and get a life?
Mozilla is quickly becoming the poster child of the open source movement. You don't need to know how to recompile a kernel, and yes - it'e easy enough for your grandmother to use.
It has been kicking some major butt on my linux desktop for over the past year, though it's been kicking my butt on OS X for the past 2 months... constant crashes with no log files can drive a man nuts.
In 96-97, it was compuer enthusiasts. People who really felt that having a computer was necessary, because it was a tool that they could use to get great things accomplished. These people (due to their interest) were more interested in running software that was beyond their means, and trying out new things, and were savvy enough to accomplish it. These students tended to be more oriented towards sciences, or digital arts.
Fast forward to today, enter the AOL generation where school registration, bill paying, and even homework assignments are being done online. Every average joe needs to have a computer at school (or at least feels this need), and has little comprehension as to what's really going on when they swap their mp3s on napster. Oh sure, there are still scientific users, but the majority of today's computing users study other topics, like english, philosophy, dance, etc.
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think about it - the massive enslavement of several other species who don't even get to turn around in their stall, nor see the light of day their entire life... how is that any different from plugging someone into the matrix? (I guess there aren't expensive computer programs entertaining their brains).
Eat veggies - they don't have brains. If you're really concerned about killing living things, then only eat fruit after it's fallen from the tree. But this is really taking things a little too far though, after all many fruits have formed a sybiotic relationship with animals. Why do you think most fruit seeds are coated with sweet nutritious coatings? So that animals will pick them up and spread the seeds around. That's why cherries make you shit - it's their way of getting birds to make new cherry trees that don't have to compete for the same piece of land as the parent.
Awz - nice one.
I'd love to have a seat like that with a manual shifter to use for racing games, or maybe a pilot's joystick as a mouse.
Yeah, it was just last month that I was grateful I hadn't ditched my last floppies.
I had a digital photo that I wanted to take to Ritz Camera to have printed out on their dumb-ass Windoze-based scanning & enlarging printing stations. The damn thing wouldn't read my zip disk from my OS X machine (which I had formatted as a DOS disk). So I came home and partitioned the zip into DOS, UFS, and HFS+, burned a cd-rom, and -> just in case, shoved a floppy into my linux box.
After doing: /mnt/floppy /dev/fd0H1440 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy
mkfs.msdos
mount
cp ~/img.jpg
I headed off to Ritz. I tried the first 2 media types first, to no luck, and was finally able to get my damn picture printed by using the floppy. Wow - that was amazingly sad.
Particularly for a shop that *sells* you images on cdrom.
I'm sure that we could start a collection. Hell, a simple slashdot political activism bank account. If we could get as many people hit that as do the greasy pizza-box web server... he'd be out in no time.
A little like how Apple included the Classic and then Carbon compatibility level, so that Mac OS X can run old software. It meant that the first day I got the public beta, sure - there were a lot of little unix apps I could run at the command line, and a few little Aqua apps, but the majority of software I ran was through Classic.
As time has progressed (about 17 months later) there are plenty of Carbon and Aqua apps so that I almost never launch classic anymore.
I've found a method that's a bit more effective. Tell them, "please remove me from your list" before they can stammer out their opening stanza. They're legally obligated to cut you from the list, and they can't make more money off your number by selling it. (at least I hope that's the way it works).
Either way, I've noticed significantly less telemarketing calls since I started doing this.
That doesn't look much at all like a mac case - first of all it doesn't have the trademark handles, and feet that lift it up. Secondly, there's no distinctive trademark on the side.
Just because it doesn't look like a hunk of junk doesn't mean that it looks like a mac.
There is a difference between:
The first point - nearly all companies advertise, how else do you educate the market about your product/service? Damn, think about your current employer - they most definitely advertise.
Second point, I try really hard not to do this, but sometimes it just happens to be a product or vendor that I was looking for anyways, and have no other really good reason to get something else. I do however go out of my way to procure it in a way so that they shouldn't even know that I saw their promotion in a spam. Go to the company's homepage and navigate to get to the deal.
One more thing to think about, popup ads aren't spam, they're annoying billboards that get in your way. Spam is junk that comes to your personal mailbox (be it electronic or postal).In the third instance, those customers should be shot. They and the spammers are defecating on the face of humanity.
and much as I may have enjoyed Tron in the day, it's not a great movie.
When was the last time you saw it? I recently picked up the 20th anniversary edition, and it still sucks me into the uber-cool world inside a mainframe. The ideas and concepts in that movie really got me excited about computers as a kid. I used to spend hours in the driveway chucking frisbees at my brother pretending that I was de-res-ing him with each stroke. The damn video game has got to be one of the best that came out of the early 80s arcade scene.
I don't seem to be the only one supporting Tron, as they're currently making a sequel.
-- passion
Did you play Dilbert's buzzword bingo?
I've got a bad feeling about this (check)
May the force be with you (check)
really cheesy line delivered by a male trying to get the interest of a female (check)
R2, what do you think you're doing? (check)
the dark side has cast a shroud over everything (stand up and shout BINGO!)
the Navy's dead Windows NT ship is tops for the funniest in my book.
Many psychologists have suggested that the emotion of humor has evolved as expressing relief from danger.
I find it truly frightening.
Ahh - you've just been muddled by the shroud of the Dark Side that has fallen, casting lies and half-truths over *everything*.
Before you front on the thing, try it out... I've used several computers, and I'm starting to really fall in love with my iBook (the new, white version with 14" screen). In fact, I'm even using my desktop machine less and less - and that has a 21" monitor.
-- passion
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke
the smart &/or talented programmers don't get stuck with one language. In this industry - that's the dead-endedness.
Imagine, if you were a Zeppelin pilot... well, you wouldn't have much work unless you learned a similar skill, perhaps you could transition to becoming an airline pilot.
Getting stuck in a rut is never good - continuous learning is. The trick is being able to figure out quickly which technologies will tank quickly and hard before you climb on, and which ones will stick around and thrive.
OK, sure, I can buy the argument that throughout time there must be thousands of civilizations in the universe that are capable of radio contact... but that's stretched out over the lifetime of the universe.
Not all civilizations will last forever, not all will go into space and continue propigating, not all have invented their radios just yet. After all, we just celebrated the 100th anniversary of a trans-atlantic transmission...
What if aliens had turned their sattelites on our speck in the sky just before our signals went out in the air... What if they died off millions of years before life started evolving on this planet? What if we're the first life to exist in the universe (not ruling out that others could evolve, just that they haven't yet).
We don't know shit about this, and we won't until our Zefram Cochrane comes along and helps us reach to the other stars.
ote that making a simple API available doesn't enable any new kind of access to the Google engine. A clever programmer can already parse the HTML results. The API just makes it easier -- and gives Google another product they can sell licenses for.
I've written a script to pull from google's search results so that I could have a site-only search function built into my page. I've had to rework it about 3-4 times as they keep adjusting the way to connect.
This is definitely about money, and I don't blame them. As long as their pricing model is decent, then I think they'll make a killing. Information is power, being able to find that information is even more power, and when you hold a monopoly because you're so much fucking better than everyone else... you can command money for your services.
I'll probably buy into it if they come up with a decent pricing scheme. I'd like to see something relating hits to cash, but also have some cut-off switches (so you can protect yourself against runs and slashdottings).
I think this is a left-over April Fool's joke, you know it's late because of the time-difference and all... :)
So... this is how they implement those embedded internet enabled applications for tele-dildonics.
Whether it's because the website is down or because you're looking at an html version of a PDF or word document
I highly agree - I often find myself using the cache when google finds an article that has been retired (usually because of time), or when they've decided to put a stupid login on the page to block content to normal users.
Though any search engine worth it's salt has a copy of the original document somewhere (or can re-construct it) and they should be able to implement that feature... but that's probably not their primary focus at this point.
When the average consumer sees this ad, they'll say, "what's unix?", and probably think of neutered people. I'm glad that Microsoft has the way out... I don't want to lose my sexuality.
Has anyone seen this movie? Can anyone comment on the quality of narrative, or the interview continuity, etc.
Is this worthwhile to introduce to my non-tech family members, or will I see Capt. Kirk at the end telling us all to go home, move out of our parent's basements, and get a life?
Mozilla is quickly becoming the poster child of the open source movement. You don't need to know how to recompile a kernel, and yes - it'e easy enough for your grandmother to use.
It has been kicking some major butt on my linux desktop for over the past year, though it's been kicking my butt on OS X for the past 2 months... constant crashes with no log files can drive a man nuts.
Maybe I should take up Moz hacking
If you act quick, you'll notice that you can't download the new source code from all the mirrors yet...
Let's think about who is using the software.
In 96-97, it was compuer enthusiasts. People who really felt that having a computer was necessary, because it was a tool that they could use to get great things accomplished. These people (due to their interest) were more interested in running software that was beyond their means, and trying out new things, and were savvy enough to accomplish it. These students tended to be more oriented towards sciences, or digital arts.
Fast forward to today, enter the AOL generation where school registration, bill paying, and even homework assignments are being done online. Every average joe needs to have a computer at school (or at least feels this need), and has little comprehension as to what's really going on when they swap their mp3s on napster. Oh sure, there are still scientific users, but the majority of today's computing users study other topics, like english, philosophy, dance, etc.