Detroit, MI - Ford Motor Company announced today the new Ford Exorbitant. The Ford Exorbitant seats 50 comfortably, and even comes with a spare Ford Explorer. The Exorbitant, built on a standard bus frame is the largest SUV ever manufactured. Aside from the spare Explorer, other standard features include a full kitchen, 3 bedrooms, and 1.5 bathrooms.
"Many people have given up their own home and use the Exorbitant as their only living space. It's much more convenient than finding a place to park the Exorbitant," said CEO Jacques Nasser. He continued, "No longer will you be stranded if you run out of gas, or get a flat tire. Sure you could use your cell phone to call for help, but who wants to wait for help? Just unload your Explorer and take care of the problem when you want to."
"I just love it," said soccer mom, Wendy Glickman, "I feel a lot safer knowing I have the spare Explorer. What if I forget my cell phone? What if the GPS in the Exorbitant fritzes out? Half a million dollars is a small price to pay for peace of mind."
Many environmental groups have voiced concerns over the Exorbitant's nuclear powered engine. "Gee, you make a car that doesn't run on gas and they still complain," responded Chairman William Clay Ford, Jr. "This vehicle gets 70,000 miles per enriched Uranium rod, which makes it the most environmental friendly SUV available."
The Lincoln Gigantro based on the Exorbitant will be available next year.
You mean there are "the best of them" in HTML sk1llz?
Sure. There are a lot of "web designers" that just use programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver that don't even understand HTML or CSS. With the sorry state of affairs with most web browsers today, it takes a lot of effort to create sites that look good in all browsers and still satisfy a client's desire for fancy looking graphics on their site while still loading fast.
Try making a site (without using a programming language like PHP or Perl) that looks good in Lynx, IE, Netscape, and Mozilla, and uses style sheets so you can keep the look and feel consistent. Those point and click programs put a lot of cruft into the HTML like font tags.
Even though HTML is just a markup language, there is a lot you can do with it and CSS. Even though it's limited, once you learn what those limitations are and how different broswers react to different tags, you have a lot of control for creating layout and presentation of information. For the people who can take the time to learn it and overcome the limitations, they definitly have a valuabe skill.
Although the Mozilla projects is making a lot of progress, there are a lot of things in there that I'm sure the average person doesn't want/need. Myself, I just want a plain web browser. I already have a mail and news reader with mutt and slrn. And I can can write HTML with the best of them so I don't need the composer. It's nice to see someone use Mozilla to make just a browser.
If I could help them I would but it's way out of my league unfortunately. I wish them luck, and hope they release it before its too late.
This is a common misconception made by many people. It was even made by myself. "I'm just a hapless Perl coder," I thought. "It's out of my league to help Mozilla."
The truth is that even if you aren't a hardcore C++ coder and can't help on the front lines, there are still a lot of supporting areas that can use your help. Quality Assurance is the main one. We are a bit short handed becuase people still think that helping Mozilla is out of their league. You should go to MozillaZine and look at joining BugDay on Tuesday evenings (EDT). Asa Dotzler at Mozilla.org hosts these and you don't even have to have an IRC client. There is a Java IRC client available right on the MozillaZine web page.
On BugDay, you will learn how you can help build testcases for reproducing bugs, helping to verify bugs, and helping to assign bug reports to the correct contact. If you want to get more involved, there are even daily smoketests that are run to make sure that the previous day's code check-ins didn't break normal usage of the browser. All of these things leave more time for the programmers to code and fix bugs, not deal with bug management. Please read the Mozilla Browser QA page for more details on how you can help out.
I, too, got tired of waiting for the final Mozilla release, so I decided to help out to help out. I think that if each person that feels like I do makes some effort, Mozilla is only going to be a better product and available sooner than if I sat on my ass.
I think that bills should be about one subject and one subject only. If a bill cannot pass on its own and needs to be attached to something more popular to get railroaded through congress, then that should tell you something about that bill.
but it would take about 1 hour before software existed to automatically strip it out: and open source gnapster clients would simply add a plugin interface to offer post download filtering before playing... which would strip the ads
I doubt this would be possible unless the MP3 format were changed to allow for some kind of ad header to be applied to the front or back. If it's just some audio that they encode and stick on the back or front of the MP3, how are you going to know which frames contain the ad audio and which contain the audio you want to hear?
First Apple kills off the clone manufacturers, stranding me with a great Power Computing PowerCenter Pro that I hope never dies. Now my only Mac choice if my well-constructed clone goes belly-up is to buy one of those cheesy, plastic, Fisher Price looking Apple computers. That's smart. You allow people to make clones, then you continue to make your own hardware to compete with them. Then when you're lossing your ass because the clone people are making machines 10x better than yours, you kill the whole situation. BRILLIANT! You guys are fucking geniuses!
Then you take the Newton people, spin them off, and before they can continue to make something even better than the great MessagePad 2000, you reel them back in and kill them off too! Now I'm stuck with a MessagePad 2000 with no where to move up to. "Oh no, a good idea! It must be stopped!"
I don't own a TV, so the only place that I am going to get to see Apple's ads are at Adcritic.com. Hello?! That's free advertising. You don't have to pay to run it on TV. People will click on your ads and view your sales pitch without you incurring any further expenses. I can hear the brainiac in marketing on this one: "What? People are showing our ads and we aren't having to pay for them to do so? That's just not right. They must be stopped. Stop them at once!"
Hey Apple. Why don't you graph this: y=(-x)^2+3. Put 1970s on the left side and Present day on the right. Look familiar? It should. See where you are going? Yep, that line keeps going on down.
How come almost every time there is a post about supersomputers, they are being used for nuclear bomb explosion simulations? While I realize that this is a better thing to simulate than to actually do, aren't these computers being used for anything else? Is it that the people who these computers are being built for only want them for those purposes? I just think it would be great to see an announcement mention that a supercomputer would be used for analyzing weather patterns, help with the human genome mapping effort, or something else, well, different.:-)
At least we can run our own weather simulations at home with the Casino-21 project. How long until a distributed nuclear simulation project? I guess that wouldn't happen becuase of "security concerns," though.
There is a already a digital equivilent of the BBE unit. It's called WowThing. I've noticed that it does exactly what you describe. I've used the WinAmp plug-in version. However, I noticed that when the plug-in is installed, yet turned off, it makes the sound quality worse than if it wasn't installed at all. When you turn it on, it doesn't sound too bad. I figure this is so there will be more of a noticable difference when you use it so you will buy it. It's shareware, BTW.
I'm surprised that it's taking this long to decide to port distiller. They already have Acrobat Reader for Linux. I would think that the Reader would be more complex of a port due to the nature of displaing graphics on X versus Mac or Windows. All distiller does is convert Postscript to PDF. Not something I think would reply on a lot of Winodws libraries to complete.
But it's good to see that we'll have Distiller now. Yet one more program that I won't have to boot into Windows for.:-)
They record operating system sales by hand on sheets of paper.
That's because paper is far more reliable than any Microsoft product. Just think how efficient they would be if they ran Linux. Microsoft's worst enemy for managing their business might be their own creations.
This is a good article, but Dickinson constantly interrupts O'Reilly as he tries to explain his point of view. Eighty percent of the article is Dickinson missing the point because he's the one doing most of the talking.
While MS exams (tests only) are $100, Cisco's cost significantly more.
Well, there's a reason for that. A hands-on lab test where you actually solve problems is going to be better at assessing your skills than taking a multiple choice exam.
Also, have you taken any Microsoft exams? Are you an MCP or MCSE? Do you know any? I'm an MCSE myself. I decided to take the tests which I'll admit were pretty easy. It doesn't take much effort to pass the exams. Because of that there are a lot of MCSEs out there that really don't have a clue how to go about solving problems. 99% percent of the time their answer is to reboot or reinstall. The exams aren't as thorough as they should be. Consequently, my MCSE certification doesn't mean much.
Look at how many people laugh at MCSEs and how worthless the certification is becoming. Cisco certifications, on the other hand, aren't laughed at. No one makes fun of CCIEs. Sure, it's expensive, but that money both weeds out people who aren't really serious about obtaining the certification, and it allows Cisco to put more money into their certification process. Both of those things help the certification to be taken more seriously.
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No, what you need is the new Ford Exorbitant.
Detroit, MI - Ford Motor Company announced today the new Ford Exorbitant. The Ford Exorbitant seats 50 comfortably, and even comes with a spare Ford Explorer. The Exorbitant, built on a standard bus frame is the largest SUV ever manufactured. Aside from the spare Explorer, other standard features include a full kitchen, 3 bedrooms, and 1.5 bathrooms.
"Many people have given up their own home and use the Exorbitant as their only living space. It's much more convenient than finding a place to park the Exorbitant," said CEO Jacques Nasser. He continued, "No longer will you be stranded if you run out of gas, or get a flat tire. Sure you could use your cell phone to call for help, but who wants to wait for help? Just unload your Explorer and take care of the problem when you want to."
"I just love it," said soccer mom, Wendy Glickman, "I feel a lot safer knowing I have the spare Explorer. What if I forget my cell phone? What if the GPS in the Exorbitant fritzes out? Half a million dollars is a small price to pay for peace of mind."
Many environmental groups have voiced concerns over the Exorbitant's nuclear powered engine. "Gee, you make a car that doesn't run on gas and they still complain," responded Chairman William Clay Ford, Jr. "This vehicle gets 70,000 miles per enriched Uranium rod, which makes it the most environmental friendly SUV available."
The Lincoln Gigantro based on the Exorbitant will be available next year.
The one thing I have always wondered about the Insight and the GM EV is why are the rear wheels half covered up?
Umm. I thought we , the Slashdot users, got to ask the questions.
Try making a site (without using a programming language like PHP or Perl) that looks good in Lynx, IE, Netscape, and Mozilla, and uses style sheets so you can keep the look and feel consistent. Those point and click programs put a lot of cruft into the HTML like font tags.
Even though HTML is just a markup language, there is a lot you can do with it and CSS. Even though it's limited, once you learn what those limitations are and how different broswers react to different tags, you have a lot of control for creating layout and presentation of information. For the people who can take the time to learn it and overcome the limitations, they definitly have a valuabe skill.
Although the Mozilla projects is making a lot of progress, there are a lot of things in there that I'm sure the average person doesn't want/need. Myself, I just want a plain web browser. I already have a mail and news reader with mutt and slrn. And I can can write HTML with the best of them so I don't need the composer. It's nice to see someone use Mozilla to make just a browser.
The truth is that even if you aren't a hardcore C++ coder and can't help on the front lines, there are still a lot of supporting areas that can use your help. Quality Assurance is the main one. We are a bit short handed becuase people still think that helping Mozilla is out of their league. You should go to MozillaZine and look at joining BugDay on Tuesday evenings (EDT). Asa Dotzler at Mozilla.org hosts these and you don't even have to have an IRC client. There is a Java IRC client available right on the MozillaZine web page.
On BugDay, you will learn how you can help build testcases for reproducing bugs, helping to verify bugs, and helping to assign bug reports to the correct contact. If you want to get more involved, there are even daily smoketests that are run to make sure that the previous day's code check-ins didn't break normal usage of the browser. All of these things leave more time for the programmers to code and fix bugs, not deal with bug management. Please read the Mozilla Browser QA page for more details on how you can help out.
I, too, got tired of waiting for the final Mozilla release, so I decided to help out to help out. I think that if each person that feels like I do makes some effort, Mozilla is only going to be a better product and available sooner than if I sat on my ass.
Increased controversy == incresed interest just to see what it's all about. It worked for Harry Potter books. Why not for video games?
Evaluate one law at a time, please.
I doubt this would be possible unless the MP3 format were changed to allow for some kind of ad header to be applied to the front or back. If it's just some audio that they encode and stick on the back or front of the MP3, how are you going to know which frames contain the ad audio and which contain the audio you want to hear?
This is just another reason why things such as FreeS/WAN are so very important.
Oops. Remove those parentheses.
First Apple kills off the clone manufacturers, stranding me with a great Power Computing PowerCenter Pro that I hope never dies. Now my only Mac choice if my well-constructed clone goes belly-up is to buy one of those cheesy, plastic, Fisher Price looking Apple computers. That's smart. You allow people to make clones, then you continue to make your own hardware to compete with them. Then when you're lossing your ass because the clone people are making machines 10x better than yours, you kill the whole situation. BRILLIANT! You guys are fucking geniuses!
Then you take the Newton people, spin them off, and before they can continue to make something even better than the great MessagePad 2000, you reel them back in and kill them off too! Now I'm stuck with a MessagePad 2000 with no where to move up to. "Oh no, a good idea! It must be stopped!"
I don't own a TV, so the only place that I am going to get to see Apple's ads are at Adcritic.com. Hello?! That's free advertising. You don't have to pay to run it on TV. People will click on your ads and view your sales pitch without you incurring any further expenses. I can hear the brainiac in marketing on this one: "What? People are showing our ads and we aren't having to pay for them to do so? That's just not right. They must be stopped. Stop them at once!"
Hey Apple. Why don't you graph this: y=(-x)^2+3. Put 1970s on the left side and Present day on the right. Look familiar? It should. See where you are going? Yep, that line keeps going on down.
What a bunch of fucking geniuses.
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At least we can run our own weather simulations at home with the Casino-21 project. How long until a distributed nuclear simulation project? I guess that wouldn't happen becuase of "security concerns," though.
There is a already a digital equivilent of the BBE unit. It's called WowThing. I've noticed that it does exactly what you describe. I've used the WinAmp plug-in version. However, I noticed that when the plug-in is installed, yet turned off, it makes the sound quality worse than if it wasn't installed at all. When you turn it on, it doesn't sound too bad. I figure this is so there will be more of a noticable difference when you use it so you will buy it. It's shareware, BTW.
But it's good to see that we'll have Distiller now. Yet one more program that I won't have to boot into Windows for. :-)
There's already LVM for Linux here:
:-)
http://linux.msede.com/lvm/
Also, and LVM HowTo is available at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO.html
I'll be good to see another implementation though. More choices.
I run the LVM on my server with the 2.3.99-pre8 kernel and it seems to work rather well.
You guys had computers in high school? Sheesh. I'm feeling old.
This is a good article, but Dickinson constantly interrupts O'Reilly as he tries to explain his point of view. Eighty percent of the article is Dickinson missing the point because he's the one doing most of the talking.
Also, have you taken any Microsoft exams? Are you an MCP or MCSE? Do you know any? I'm an MCSE myself. I decided to take the tests which I'll admit were pretty easy. It doesn't take much effort to pass the exams. Because of that there are a lot of MCSEs out there that really don't have a clue how to go about solving problems. 99% percent of the time their answer is to reboot or reinstall. The exams aren't as thorough as they should be. Consequently, my MCSE certification doesn't mean much.
Look at how many people laugh at MCSEs and how worthless the certification is becoming. Cisco certifications, on the other hand, aren't laughed at. No one makes fun of CCIEs. Sure, it's expensive, but that money both weeds out people who aren't really serious about obtaining the certification, and it allows Cisco to put more money into their certification process. Both of those things help the certification to be taken more seriously.
This isn't flamebiat. The correct term is shoutouts.
But... But... That goes against everything that Micros~1 has taught us!