So you are actually complaining to the grandparent because he clicked a link which you followed through two generations to a page that doesn't work outside of IE?
I hereby issue you an order. From now on, every instant that a giant squid or other sea creature is eaten by a sperm whale or other sea creature, you must utter a short prayer/complain, bemoaning the fact that one creature's life was taken merely to make another creature's life more pleasant.
... he didn't. It's an article with a picture (no video), and it works fine in Firefox.
And if it were an IE-only page, the obvious response to your trolling would be: Please don't whine unless you are going to go to the trouble to provide a better link yourself.
Note that the video is not of a giant squid and is from 2001.
The video mentioned in the slashdot post is actually a series of photographs in 30-second intervals. National Geographic has a few of these photographs and the link has been posted numerously already.
Agreed. It's all well and good for Seattleites to believe that the rural areas don't contribute a ton to seattle. We'll see what they think when, say, the rural area I live in (right on the edge of the Cedar River watershed) stops giving them clean water.
The Seattle voters are more than willing to force "Critical Areas Ordinance" legislation and similar measures on the rural areas to ensure their comfortable future, but turn around and act like the rural areas make no contribution. No offense, but the fact that I'm not allowed to develop most of my land is a pretty effing big contribution.
And if anybody really thinks Hobart costs more to the state than Seattle... well, someone hasn't visited Hobart.
If next year's processors are priced the same as this year's processor and have almost no notable improvement, I'll consider your analogy. Cars depreciate more slowly because, frankly, there's very little different between a new 2002 and a new 2003 or what-have-you in most lines, unless they do a major upgrade.
I've got emails that are years old too. I use desktop search to find them, but that's beside the point. I'm not arguing for the deletion of every email. My point is, when I get an email from my Nigerian friend who wants me to help him with his money problems, I don't really care to archive it, whether or not I have lots of space and whether or not it's easy to find. When I get an email from Slashdot saying someone replied to my post, or one of my school's ten official spams a day, I don't want to save that message in perpetuity.
Some messages, like actual personal correspondence, or important order confirmation type stuff, is worth saving forever. But to design a UI that intentionally discourages deleting emails is pretty short-sighted.
"Normally, people listen to music on their car or through their home stereos. If you are a Linux or Mac user, you should consider purchasing a regular CD player."
I can not tell you how ironic that statement is. Of the last four CDs I have bought, three of them fail utterly to play in my home stereo becasue of copy-protection or "enhanced" content. All four of them randomly fail if I try to navigate via skipping tracks in my car stereo. The only way I can listen to music in my home is via my computer, and the only way I can listen to music in the car is by ripping CDs to my iPod and using a tape adapter.
If you're going to tell me I can't listen to CDs on my computer, you'd sure as hell better start making CDs that work in CD PLAYERS, lest you lose another customer entirely to p2p.
If I really want to support my artists, I'll go to a concert or buy a t-shirt, since I can't trust the CDs that the label gives me.
They had stuff like this at the US Naval Academy when I was there for the summer seminar a couple of years ago. IIRC, it was infra-red as opposed to motion-tracking, and was mounted on remote-control/autonomous tank tread things. It was paintball instead of airsoft, but same idea. I understand they use them on plebes in the last phase of Sea Trials.
They also had a shoulder-mounted paintball gun that tracked with the suit's helmet and could be fired via a small remote that you hold in your hand, or hwatever. Nifty stuff.
It's true that many of the Office programs haven't changed enough in obvious ways to warrant an upgrade for the average end-user. However, it's not like MS is just repainting the box and re-reasing, either.
For example: The newer versions of Office (I believe this started in 2000 or XP) offer all sorts of collaborative options that integrate well with all the office applications, especially Outlook, sharepoint, etc. I personally use these at my school, since the student email accounts use an Exchange web access so I can be guaranteed that all other students will be able to understand and work with the collaborative stuff in Outlook 2003 (meeting times automatically added to calendars, etc.).
Another example: Tablet PCs. This is huge in 2003 and XP for me -- it's a manual add-on to XP (free), and integrated in 2003. Users of Tablets PCs (such as myself) can do all sorts of markup on documents in ink, write emails by hand, etc., and trust that other Office 2003 users will be able to view this. It's a great and very helpful feature.
Finally, I may be wrong, but I think certain whole programs such as Visio are new in 2003.
Equivocating Outlook with Outlook Express is a pretty ignorant thing to do. The leap from early versions of Outlook to Outlook 2003 is an enormous one, and for many people (myself included) it's the one program on the PC that is almost always open.
You've obviously never seen the head on a nuclear submarine. I highly doubt anything in the "Personal Living Space" department costs much at all, if dimensions have anything to do with cost.
Doesn't this fail ot take into account that there is already water vapor in regular internal combustion exhaust?
Besides, no doubt much, if not most, of the damage of rainfall is due to the constant erosive impact of rain against the road. That's a lot different than a constant, slow mist of water vapor settling on the road.
I'm sorry, but pardon me? Save my personal attacks? My entire post is an attempt to help you investigate the truth, since you profess to be interested in it. This is a low moderated thread -- I'm not writing for anyone else, and I have plenty of things I could be doing with my time.
I'm sorry I called you European. Please see instead the history every other culture -- yes, including Native Americans -- has of enslaving peoples and using them to form an economic force.
What revisionism? I have supplied original source documents. By definition, this is not revisionism. You have said "Nuh-uh! NUH-UH!!!!" This is not logic, it's peurile.
Finally, what historical experts agree with you? What sociologists? What political scholars? And finally, who gives a flying f*** what lawyers think about the history of slavery and the civil war?
Yes, we do have an idea of what people thought, because we have their letters to their wives and children, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters. They offer deep insights into the mores and motivations of the letter-writers. Please, investigate the source I'll provided, or at least provide some counter-argument besides "You don't know. NO, you don't. NO YOU DO NOT."
I made no personal attacks, veiled or not. You, on the other hand, have made ad hominem the cornerstone of your argument. Please don't attempt to divert the argument by accusing me of things.
Yes, you're right, there was an element of states' rights to the Civil War -- but that was a political line. Few people actually FOUGHT for states' rights, even if that was what the politicians fed them and the pamphlets talked about.
There's a terrific book on the subject called What They Fought For, by James McPherson, which goes through thousands of letters -- all original sources -- from soldiers in both armies in the civil war. The insights these letters give into the base REASONS behind the war are amazing. It's a compelling read, and if you are interested in the truth of the matter, you should check it out.
But to say the civil war wasn't about slavery is appallingly ignorant. I just concluded a very in-depth study with a professor of history from the University of Washington who specializes in the Civil War and reconstruction era. He's also conservative and Christian, since that probably means something to you. If you actually delve into original sources and read the letters, the pro- and anti-slavery arguments from the era, the debates, the pamphlets, I guarantee you'll emerge with a different view.
While few people actually vocalised slavery as the cause, it was always lurking, and behind most of the political forces that ultimately caused the war.
Look into it before you lecture. Finally, the "Euros" didn't "cause" slavery any more than the Jews or Assyrians or any other culture in history "caused" slavery. Slavery is a historical human institution, which many nations have recently had hte insight to do away with. To blame the Europeans is to blame ourselves, for we ARE europeans. We are responsible for importing slavery with us. Yes, it was a different world back then, with different social conventions, and as such I don't harbor the same hate for the historical south, especially given the hypocrisy of most of the northern critics. Yes, the south was in a difficult position, because they depended on their slaves for a lot of their congressional power via the Three-Fifths clause, and depended on slave labor for their economy -- or at least, thought so.
But they DID have a choice. And it certainly WAS a huge issue in the war.
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I can one-up them by playing RTSs online on the toilet on a tablet PC.
Take that, Blackberry.
So you are actually complaining to the grandparent because he clicked a link which you followed through two generations to a page that doesn't work outside of IE?
Amazing.
+5 Funny for the intent,
-4 for the execution.
I hereby issue you an order. From now on, every instant that a giant squid or other sea creature is eaten by a sperm whale or other sea creature, you must utter a short prayer/complain, bemoaning the fact that one creature's life was taken merely to make another creature's life more pleasant.
Furthermore, you're an idiot.
... he didn't. It's an article with a picture (no video), and it works fine in Firefox.
And if it were an IE-only page, the obvious response to your trolling would be: Please don't whine unless you are going to go to the trouble to provide a better link yourself.
Note that the video is not of a giant squid and is from 2001.
The video mentioned in the slashdot post is actually a series of photographs in 30-second intervals. National Geographic has a few of these photographs and the link has been posted numerously already.
He managed to spam and rat out a website in the same post, and he gets Informative.
What am I doing wrong?
P.S. visit my blog. And the terrorists did it.
Agreed. It's all well and good for Seattleites to believe that the rural areas don't contribute a ton to seattle. We'll see what they think when, say, the rural area I live in (right on the edge of the Cedar River watershed) stops giving them clean water.
The Seattle voters are more than willing to force "Critical Areas Ordinance" legislation and similar measures on the rural areas to ensure their comfortable future, but turn around and act like the rural areas make no contribution. No offense, but the fact that I'm not allowed to develop most of my land is a pretty effing big contribution.
And if anybody really thinks Hobart costs more to the state than Seattle... well, someone hasn't visited Hobart.
If next year's processors are priced the same as this year's processor and have almost no notable improvement, I'll consider your analogy. Cars depreciate more slowly because, frankly, there's very little different between a new 2002 and a new 2003 or what-have-you in most lines, unless they do a major upgrade.
I love false analogies.
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we did. In like, January.
I've got emails that are years old too. I use desktop search to find them, but that's beside the point. I'm not arguing for the deletion of every email. My point is, when I get an email from my Nigerian friend who wants me to help him with his money problems, I don't really care to archive it, whether or not I have lots of space and whether or not it's easy to find. When I get an email from Slashdot saying someone replied to my post, or one of my school's ten official spams a day, I don't want to save that message in perpetuity.
Some messages, like actual personal correspondence, or important order confirmation type stuff, is worth saving forever. But to design a UI that intentionally discourages deleting emails is pretty short-sighted.
I've got 200+GB of storage on my hard drive. Yet I delete downloaded POP emails all the time. Why?
BECUASE IT'S A WASTE OF SPACE, NO MATTER HOW MUCH SPACE YOU HAVE.
"Normally, people listen to music on their car or through their home stereos. If you are a Linux or Mac user, you should consider purchasing a regular CD player."
I can not tell you how ironic that statement is. Of the last four CDs I have bought, three of them fail utterly to play in my home stereo becasue of copy-protection or "enhanced" content. All four of them randomly fail if I try to navigate via skipping tracks in my car stereo. The only way I can listen to music in my home is via my computer, and the only way I can listen to music in the car is by ripping CDs to my iPod and using a tape adapter.
If you're going to tell me I can't listen to CDs on my computer, you'd sure as hell better start making CDs that work in CD PLAYERS, lest you lose another customer entirely to p2p.
If I really want to support my artists, I'll go to a concert or buy a t-shirt, since I can't trust the CDs that the label gives me.
They've already got that. I think it says "Enhanced CD" or something.
They had stuff like this at the US Naval Academy when I was there for the summer seminar a couple of years ago. IIRC, it was infra-red as opposed to motion-tracking, and was mounted on remote-control/autonomous tank tread things. It was paintball instead of airsoft, but same idea. I understand they use them on plebes in the last phase of Sea Trials.
They also had a shoulder-mounted paintball gun that tracked with the suit's helmet and could be fired via a small remote that you hold in your hand, or hwatever. Nifty stuff.
It's true that many of the Office programs haven't changed enough in obvious ways to warrant an upgrade for the average end-user. However, it's not like MS is just repainting the box and re-reasing, either. For example: The newer versions of Office (I believe this started in 2000 or XP) offer all sorts of collaborative options that integrate well with all the office applications, especially Outlook, sharepoint, etc. I personally use these at my school, since the student email accounts use an Exchange web access so I can be guaranteed that all other students will be able to understand and work with the collaborative stuff in Outlook 2003 (meeting times automatically added to calendars, etc.). Another example: Tablet PCs. This is huge in 2003 and XP for me -- it's a manual add-on to XP (free), and integrated in 2003. Users of Tablets PCs (such as myself) can do all sorts of markup on documents in ink, write emails by hand, etc., and trust that other Office 2003 users will be able to view this. It's a great and very helpful feature. Finally, I may be wrong, but I think certain whole programs such as Visio are new in 2003.
Equivocating Outlook with Outlook Express is a pretty ignorant thing to do. The leap from early versions of Outlook to Outlook 2003 is an enormous one, and for many people (myself included) it's the one program on the PC that is almost always open.
N- is USA general aviation tail numbers. I'm assuming C- is the same for Canada.
You can do this in Windows, too, by clicking the x on the document window inside Word instead of the X on the application itself.
"few things left in schools today that actually mentally challenges students."
The last thing my high school classmates needed was to be more mentally challenged.
You've obviously never seen the head on a nuclear submarine. I highly doubt anything in the "Personal Living Space" department costs much at all, if dimensions have anything to do with cost.
Modded 3: Interesting?
What the hell?
Doesn't this fail ot take into account that there is already water vapor in regular internal combustion exhaust?
Besides, no doubt much, if not most, of the damage of rainfall is due to the constant erosive impact of rain against the road. That's a lot different than a constant, slow mist of water vapor settling on the road.
I'm sorry, but pardon me? Save my personal attacks? My entire post is an attempt to help you investigate the truth, since you profess to be interested in it. This is a low moderated thread -- I'm not writing for anyone else, and I have plenty of things I could be doing with my time.
I'm sorry I called you European. Please see instead the history every other culture -- yes, including Native Americans -- has of enslaving peoples and using them to form an economic force.
What revisionism? I have supplied original source documents. By definition, this is not revisionism. You have said "Nuh-uh! NUH-UH!!!!" This is not logic, it's peurile.
Finally, what historical experts agree with you? What sociologists? What political scholars? And finally, who gives a flying f*** what lawyers think about the history of slavery and the civil war?
Yes, we do have an idea of what people thought, because we have their letters to their wives and children, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters. They offer deep insights into the mores and motivations of the letter-writers. Please, investigate the source I'll provided, or at least provide some counter-argument besides "You don't know. NO, you don't. NO YOU DO NOT."
I made no personal attacks, veiled or not. You, on the other hand, have made ad hominem the cornerstone of your argument. Please don't attempt to divert the argument by accusing me of things.
Yes, you're right, there was an element of states' rights to the Civil War -- but that was a political line. Few people actually FOUGHT for states' rights, even if that was what the politicians fed them and the pamphlets talked about.
There's a terrific book on the subject called What They Fought For, by James McPherson, which goes through thousands of letters -- all original sources -- from soldiers in both armies in the civil war. The insights these letters give into the base REASONS behind the war are amazing. It's a compelling read, and if you are interested in the truth of the matter, you should check it out.
But to say the civil war wasn't about slavery is appallingly ignorant. I just concluded a very in-depth study with a professor of history from the University of Washington who specializes in the Civil War and reconstruction era. He's also conservative and Christian, since that probably means something to you. If you actually delve into original sources and read the letters, the pro- and anti-slavery arguments from the era, the debates, the pamphlets, I guarantee you'll emerge with a different view.
While few people actually vocalised slavery as the cause, it was always lurking, and behind most of the political forces that ultimately caused the war.
Look into it before you lecture. Finally, the "Euros" didn't "cause" slavery any more than the Jews or Assyrians or any other culture in history "caused" slavery. Slavery is a historical human institution, which many nations have recently had hte insight to do away with. To blame the Europeans is to blame ourselves, for we ARE europeans. We are responsible for importing slavery with us. Yes, it was a different world back then, with different social conventions, and as such I don't harbor the same hate for the historical south, especially given the hypocrisy of most of the northern critics. Yes, the south was in a difficult position, because they depended on their slaves for a lot of their congressional power via the Three-Fifths clause, and depended on slave labor for their economy -- or at least, thought so.
But they DID have a choice. And it certainly WAS a huge issue in the war.