I wish I could get a 419 eMail. I cannot seem to get one. I would love to mess with these people and waste their time. Of course, it would waste my time too (less for me than for the would be scammer), but hey!, that's the price of entertainment!
gMail doesn't seem to let them through for me. I sure do get enough ads for vliagra and oxly and for mlome morlagges, though.
I was wondering if my money would be better spent at smaller mom-n-pop type place. I will google Fodera (wonder how many references I will find to Fedora?). At least I will more seriously consider a custom shop, since you kind of confirmed my suspicion. Thank you for the insight!
A friend recently bought a custom archtop, and the quality there is just superb (offhand, don't remember the name of the luthier). Of course, that was a lot more than $3k.
This same friend worked at St Louis music, who makes Crate, Ampeg, etc. He said there are some really talented engineers there, it's just that marketing wants an amp with 100 effects and bells and whistles but the price needs to be cheap. Obviously that's just the problem with large companies, they have to pander to the lowest common denominator.
PRS Guitars! I will be modded OT, but who cares. I was wondering, with all the new models (like the bolt neck) is their quality still up to par? Or is it slipping? I was thinking about buying one, but before shelling out $3K it would be interesting to hear an insider's perspective.
I don't think you can compare laws governing meta tags to wire fraud laws. Meta tags are essentially web site content. I can change meta tags at will. I can claim someone defaced my site. How many different words in the meta tags are too many? Which ones really are irrelevant to my site's content?
Of course this legislation is going after those knuckleheads who put lists of unrelated words with the sole purpose of garnering search results. These cases are pretty obvious. But I guess the problem is that it is a slippery slope. The law may be enforcable, however, it is quite ambiguous. Just another law that may have the best of intentions but in reality would end up unenforced because lawyers will find loopholes. Why? You are not checking for a quantifiable condition.
I agree on the whole tubes thing. Ted Stevens should start writing the next TCP/IP RFC.
If you cannot read this, you may need to clean your innernet tubes with Drano. Or it may be next week until this innernet gets to you. Either way, remember: this particular innernet is not a pick-em-up-truck; it's more of a canoe floating down a tube. And the paddles are like the wires or something. And there are ducks in them tubes. You can't shoot at em, cuz you might bust a tube. Then the innernets can get out.
No offense meant here, but if you are not experienced with this stuff, then do the following:
1) stop writing/. posts
2) stop writing code NOW
3) get a book from a reputable distributor like Wrox or O'Reilly
4) understand how to write code properly. Note my emphasis of the word "understand". This is more than simply hacking code together.
5) PROFIT!!! (ok, couldn't resist that one)
I am not a/. snob telling you what a hoosier you are for not having a CS degree. Just learn how to do things properly. This means taking time and forgoing instant the gratification of kludging together a website with little investment in your skills. This also means that you learn PHP or whatever you are using from reputable sources and not some "OMG!!~! Write PHP!" tutorial on happyhacker. Invest in yourself, and learn how to code correctly. Otherwise, you are one of the reasons for all of the SQL Injection attacks.
People, I suspect the OP meant to be funny. Yet here it is with an insighful mod and scads of replies trying earnestly to refute OP's statements about viral marketing. That is funny in itself!
Yeah, and the other funny thing is that they have cheesy G movies like Garfield and Baby Geniuses. I mean, 1) who would want to watch such crap, and 2) what could possibly be objectionable about those movies? I mean, not that I've seen them (really, now) but c'mon! Isn't that going a little bit too far?
I was thinking the same thing. I can see the headline: In Slashdottia, Thousands of Heads Exploded Today.
I was quite surprised to see so many on/. siding against a person's freedom to edit movies he has purchased and siding with the MPAA and overly restrictive copyright laws and in essence, DRM.
Look. It is not censorship if I ASK FOR IT TO BE DONE. Now, this is coming from someone who would find it extremely lame to have someone else edit a DVD for me and replace words like "shit" with words like "gosh". But! If someone wants to do that, who is it hurting? If I want to purchase a DVD and smear dog turd all over it that is my right. All you/.'ers who side with the MPAA and DRM are wrong on this one. It's not like the stupid TheoCons passed some law censoring Hollywood, which as a reminder, is one of the most evil entities around.
Don't confuse protecting personal freedoms from Hollywood's political clout with supporting Red State politics. If you support personal freedoms then you support the right of people to edit DVD's they have purchased as they see fit.
I have one of those. I like it because there are many movies which are otherwise good to allow my children to watch but contain loads of profanity (and I don't mind a little, but sometimes it is just plain gratitous). That's called responsible parenting.
However, I often have a good laugh about some of the movies they have on there too. I mean, this really seems to be geared to nutjob TheoCons and Mormons (I am neither) and so what are they watching the Exorcist for anyhow?
Having said that, this works pretty well, actually. I can watch a movies filtered or unfiltered. I normally watch them unfiltered, but having the ability to block certain content sometimes is a good tool. If systems like this were more widely available, that would totally take the wind out of the sails of the pro-censorship people. This would be a good thing.
Finally, fast-food restaurants. Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behaviour contrary to basic biological drives (nutrition) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
Finally, the tobacco industry. Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behaviour contrary to basic biological drives (breathing) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
Finally, couch-patatoing . Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behaviour contrary to basic biological drives (exercising) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
Doesn't help your argument much, does it? Fast food, tobacco, and inactivity are bad things.
Nah, that's like installing more memory in a box running leaky applications. It doesn't address the problem. Colonise the solar system, then we fight over which planets/moons we want. So we expand outside of the Solar System and we fight over territory there. And so on.
You could argue that man cannot sustain himself indefinitely until he either 1) learns to be less greedy, or 2) has an unlimited supply of resources. Since 2 ain't gonna happen, then you could say that man's situation will not get any better until he becomes just a little bit more altruistic. The old premise that conflict arises from limited resources holds true. Until man learns to share then he is doomed. If only the governments could learn what my three year old knows how to do.
However, he could replace tubes with any other phrase, like clodhopper, flea circuses, or even copper wire and it would still be as ridiculous. See?
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of copper wires.
And if you don't understand those copper wires can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that copper wire enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
See that? He is still a retard. No doubt about it.
Internet Explorer Administration Kit 7 Beta 2 Looks like a real joy. Now every ISP can create their own rambling piece of crap like the Yahoo! browser!
having been brainwashed in Canada that anything not explicitly permitted is forbidden
So obviously the inverse is "If something is not explicitly forbidden it is permitted."
Interesting idea. I was raised in the states but have never given much thought to this concept either way. If I want free refills in the coffee shop for example, I kind of quietly sneak over to the coffee station and get more. I am going to consciously test this out now, though, and shamelessly act like it is assumed these things are OK if not forbidden. I wonder how people will react? That could make for a fun social experiment!
Not sure if I am up to wandering into a restaurant kitchen just because there is no sign, but we'll start with baby steps.
Thanks for the reply. I guess I was talking about CSS2, though not readily apparent from my post, since that is just now being somewhat implemented by browser makers (looking at you, IE.) CSS3 is nice and all, but will be largely academic until well supported by browsers, and by browsers, I mean IE (shame on you, IE). Judging by the timeliness of IE's correct adoption of CSS2 that will take place sometime after the conclusion of the cenezoic era.
Having said all that, this is good information that you have shared with me, so I do thank you for the links. I can only imagine the complexities involved with handling this text, so yeah, whoever is working on it has to be pretty sharp.
I will bookmark these for all of my post-modern civilization web dev.:)
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True, but these books don't usually have to have things like "How to upgrade Firefox" and "How to make your DVD software actually play DVDs". As annoying as Windows is, the stuff that requires "hacks" are normally things that the average user is not interested in anyhow. I like ubuntu, I use Dapper Drake and love it so far. However, to get Totem to actually play DVDs, for example, is beyond what a normal user is capable of doing. Try upgrading from Firefox 1.0.8 in Badger without using the CLI. Good luck with that. Not sure if Dapper fixed that, I guess we'll see when Firefox 1.5.5 comes out...
If only people would devote some time to the OSS community trying to fix stuff like this instead of vehemently refuting every/. that points these things out. Then/. posts decrying legitimate difficulties with Linux distros would not need to exist.
I am not a linux expert. Having never used Linux, I successfully installed Breezy Badger the first time, and sat there amazed as everything just worked. The install is _much_ easier than Windows. Everything just worked. I had a few updates to make, and they were downloaded and installed. It was easy and life was great. Or so I thought. Now to why I also agree with the OP...
Things were working well and I was loving ubuntu. Then I noticed that Firefox was still on 1.0.8. So I tried to upgrade. Well, to make a long story short, I could not find a way to do so without having to use the command line (and _not_ for a lack of trying). Then I tried to play a DVD only to find out Totem, the "DVD player", doesn't actually play DVDs. Again, more command line "magic" (remember, not a *nix expert) to get this to happen, or at best using Synaptic to find some a package (that wasn't there, btw). The I noticed that the web was slow and learned that I needed to disable IPv6. More "hacks" still.
Bottom line is that I still love ubuntu. I recently upgraded to Dapper and was amazed at how easy that was. And I enjoy learning how to do this stuff, that is, work with ubuntu using the CLI. While I don't mind having to do this, you KNOW average users aren't even going to know where to begin. I think this is one of the last real hurdles preventing Distros like ubuntu from being usable by the masses.
Why are aspects of text handling like word wrapping not adequately addressed by CSS2? And yes, I know that IE supports word-wrap, but that is a proprietary attribute (wish MS would have instead spent time implementing the standards correctly, you know?) Are there plans to improve text handling with CSS?
I guess a related question would be: is CSS getting out of scope? As web developers, we well know how a nice simple idea can get twisted and expanded to where it no longer resembles the original intention. Is CSS getting to that point or did you anticipate it getting so massive?
No, no, the solution is really quite simple. You see, there are these large, carniverous lizards from Equador that happen to like to eat these toads. Fortunately, they multiply very fast so they will kill off the toads in no time. Brilliant!
Yeah, I guess what I meant was that ideally browsers would all support standards perfectly and if the markup validated the code would work everywhere. That's what I meant by stating that validation _should_ be enough. Validation and testing are two different things, obviously, since markup is not all there is to a web site/app. And accessibility is kind of its own thing. I was talking terms of the markup rendering correctly.
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I wish I could get a 419 eMail. I cannot seem to get one. I would love to mess with these people and waste their time. Of course, it would waste my time too (less for me than for the would be scammer), but hey!, that's the price of entertainment!
gMail doesn't seem to let them through for me. I sure do get enough ads for vliagra and oxly and for mlome morlagges, though.
I was wondering if my money would be better spent at smaller mom-n-pop type place. I will google Fodera (wonder how many references I will find to Fedora?). At least I will more seriously consider a custom shop, since you kind of confirmed my suspicion. Thank you for the insight!
A friend recently bought a custom archtop, and the quality there is just superb (offhand, don't remember the name of the luthier). Of course, that was a lot more than $3k.
This same friend worked at St Louis music, who makes Crate, Ampeg, etc. He said there are some really talented engineers there, it's just that marketing wants an amp with 100 effects and bells and whistles but the price needs to be cheap. Obviously that's just the problem with large companies, they have to pander to the lowest common denominator.
Thanks again for the reply.
PRS Guitars! I will be modded OT, but who cares. I was wondering, with all the new models (like the bolt neck) is their quality still up to par? Or is it slipping? I was thinking about buying one, but before shelling out $3K it would be interesting to hear an insider's perspective.
Yeah, lots of news here. Let's see:
1) Zango is a company that cannot be trusted.
2) Myspace kids are dumb.
3) There is a lot of ad/spyware on the web.
Yawn. Makes a guy wonder what good old Jerry Taylor is up to these days? Or perhaps Ted Stevens? There's gotta be something else in these "tubes".
WOW.
I don't think you can compare laws governing meta tags to wire fraud laws. Meta tags are essentially web site content. I can change meta tags at will. I can claim someone defaced my site. How many different words in the meta tags are too many? Which ones really are irrelevant to my site's content?
Of course this legislation is going after those knuckleheads who put lists of unrelated words with the sole purpose of garnering search results. These cases are pretty obvious. But I guess the problem is that it is a slippery slope. The law may be enforcable, however, it is quite ambiguous. Just another law that may have the best of intentions but in reality would end up unenforced because lawyers will find loopholes. Why? You are not checking for a quantifiable condition.
I agree on the whole tubes thing. Ted Stevens should start writing the next TCP/IP RFC.
If you cannot read this, you may need to clean your innernet tubes with Drano. Or it may be next week until this innernet gets to you. Either way, remember: this particular innernet is not a pick-em-up-truck; it's more of a canoe floating down a tube. And the paddles are like the wires or something. And there are ducks in them tubes. You can't shoot at em, cuz you might bust a tube. Then the innernets can get out.
It is Pfficial. Evidently /. editors have developed a strange aversion to using the preview button!
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Use the Preview Button!
Seen it. Larger than a Tic-tac. No bluetooth. Lame.
1) stop writing
2) stop writing code NOW
3) get a book from a reputable distributor like Wrox or O'Reilly
4) understand how to write code properly. Note my emphasis of the word "understand". This is more than simply hacking code together.
5) PROFIT!!! (ok, couldn't resist that one)
I am not a
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Why yes, I am a genius!
People, I suspect the OP meant to be funny. Yet here it is with an insighful mod and scads of replies trying earnestly to refute OP's statements about viral marketing. That is funny in itself!
Yeah, and the other funny thing is that they have cheesy G movies like Garfield and Baby Geniuses. I mean, 1) who would want to watch such crap, and 2) what could possibly be objectionable about those movies? I mean, not that I've seen them (really, now) but c'mon! Isn't that going a little bit too far?
I was thinking the same thing. I can see the headline:
/. siding against a person's freedom to edit movies he has purchased and siding with the MPAA and overly restrictive copyright laws and in essence, DRM.
/.'ers who side with the MPAA and DRM are wrong on this one. It's not like the stupid TheoCons passed some law censoring Hollywood, which as a reminder, is one of the most evil entities around.
In Slashdottia, Thousands of Heads Exploded Today.
I was quite surprised to see so many on
Look. It is not censorship if I ASK FOR IT TO BE DONE. Now, this is coming from someone who would find it extremely lame to have someone else edit a DVD for me and replace words like "shit" with words like "gosh". But! If someone wants to do that, who is it hurting? If I want to purchase a DVD and smear dog turd all over it that is my right. All you
Don't confuse protecting personal freedoms from Hollywood's political clout with supporting Red State politics. If you support personal freedoms then you support the right of people to edit DVD's they have purchased as they see fit.
I have one of those. I like it because there are many movies which are otherwise good to allow my children to watch but contain loads of profanity (and I don't mind a little, but sometimes it is just plain gratitous). That's called responsible parenting.
However, I often have a good laugh about some of the movies they have on there too. I mean, this really seems to be geared to nutjob TheoCons and Mormons (I am neither) and so what are they watching the Exorcist for anyhow?
Having said that, this works pretty well, actually. I can watch a movies filtered or unfiltered. I normally watch them unfiltered, but having the ability to block certain content sometimes is a good tool. If systems like this were more widely available, that would totally take the wind out of the sails of the pro-censorship people. This would be a good thing.
Nah, that's like installing more memory in a box running leaky applications. It doesn't address the problem. Colonise the solar system, then we fight over which planets/moons we want. So we expand outside of the Solar System and we fight over territory there. And so on.
You could argue that man cannot sustain himself indefinitely until he either 1) learns to be less greedy, or 2) has an unlimited supply of resources. Since 2 ain't gonna happen, then you could say that man's situation will not get any better until he becomes just a little bit more altruistic. The old premise that conflict arises from limited resources holds true. Until man learns to share then he is doomed. If only the governments could learn what my three year old knows how to do.
However, he could replace tubes with any other phrase, like clodhopper, flea circuses, or even copper wire and it would still be as ridiculous. See?
See that? He is still a retard. No doubt about it.
Internet Explorer Administration Kit 7 Beta 2 Looks like a real joy. Now every ISP can create their own rambling piece of crap like the Yahoo! browser!
Says you!
Interesting idea. I was raised in the states but have never given much thought to this concept either way. If I want free refills in the coffee shop for example, I kind of quietly sneak over to the coffee station and get more. I am going to consciously test this out now, though, and shamelessly act like it is assumed these things are OK if not forbidden. I wonder how people will react? That could make for a fun social experiment!
Not sure if I am up to wandering into a restaurant kitchen just because there is no sign, but we'll start with baby steps.
Thanks for the reply. I guess I was talking about CSS2, though not readily apparent from my post, since that is just now being somewhat implemented by browser makers (looking at you, IE.) CSS3 is nice and all, but will be largely academic until well supported by browsers, and by browsers, I mean IE (shame on you, IE). Judging by the timeliness of IE's correct adoption of CSS2 that will take place sometime after the conclusion of the cenezoic era.
:)
Having said all that, this is good information that you have shared with me, so I do thank you for the links. I can only imagine the complexities involved with handling this text, so yeah, whoever is working on it has to be pretty sharp.
I will bookmark these for all of my post-modern civilization web dev.
True, but these books don't usually have to have things like "How to upgrade Firefox" and "How to make your DVD software actually play DVDs". As annoying as Windows is, the stuff that requires "hacks" are normally things that the average user is not interested in anyhow. I like ubuntu, I use Dapper Drake and love it so far. However, to get Totem to actually play DVDs, for example, is beyond what a normal user is capable of doing. Try upgrading from Firefox 1.0.8 in Badger without using the CLI. Good luck with that. Not sure if Dapper fixed that, I guess we'll see when Firefox 1.5.5 comes out...
/. that points these things out. Then /. posts decrying legitimate difficulties with Linux distros would not need to exist.
If only people would devote some time to the OSS community trying to fix stuff like this instead of vehemently refuting every
I think you and the OP are both right.
I am not a linux expert. Having never used Linux, I successfully installed Breezy Badger the first time, and sat there amazed as everything just worked. The install is _much_ easier than Windows. Everything just worked. I had a few updates to make, and they were downloaded and installed. It was easy and life was great. Or so I thought. Now to why I also agree with the OP...
Things were working well and I was loving ubuntu. Then I noticed that Firefox was still on 1.0.8. So I tried to upgrade. Well, to make a long story short, I could not find a way to do so without having to use the command line (and _not_ for a lack of trying). Then I tried to play a DVD only to find out Totem, the "DVD player", doesn't actually play DVDs. Again, more command line "magic" (remember, not a *nix expert) to get this to happen, or at best using Synaptic to find some a package (that wasn't there, btw). The I noticed that the web was slow and learned that I needed to disable IPv6. More "hacks" still.
Bottom line is that I still love ubuntu. I recently upgraded to Dapper and was amazed at how easy that was. And I enjoy learning how to do this stuff, that is, work with ubuntu using the CLI. While I don't mind having to do this, you KNOW average users aren't even going to know where to begin. I think this is one of the last real hurdles preventing Distros like ubuntu from being usable by the masses.
Why are aspects of text handling like word wrapping not adequately addressed by CSS2? And yes, I know that IE supports word-wrap, but that is a proprietary attribute (wish MS would have instead spent time implementing the standards correctly, you know?) Are there plans to improve text handling with CSS?
I guess a related question would be: is CSS getting out of scope? As web developers, we well know how a nice simple idea can get twisted and expanded to where it no longer resembles the original intention. Is CSS getting to that point or did you anticipate it getting so massive?
No, no, the solution is really quite simple. You see, there are these large, carniverous lizards from Equador that happen to like to eat these toads. Fortunately, they multiply very fast so they will kill off the toads in no time. Brilliant!
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Who are you callin' myopic?!?
Cheddar watch out, the benefits out whey the costs of this study. If you gruyere knowledge about things, you'd let science continue un-feta'd.
Ba dum bum
I'll be here all week. Tip your waitresses!
Yeah, I guess what I meant was that ideally browsers would all support standards perfectly and if the markup validated the code would work everywhere. That's what I meant by stating that validation _should_ be enough. Validation and testing are two different things, obviously, since markup is not all there is to a web site/app. And accessibility is kind of its own thing. I was talking terms of the markup rendering correctly.
Anyhow, back to reality, where nothing is ideal.