The Romantics suck. They shilled for my alma mater who was marketing the hell out of long-distance services at the time. Haven't they sold that one song like 1,000,000 times?
$954 for *pleather*, though? A bit ridiculous. You could find nicer jackets in actual leather with the 'Matrix-look' from a leather shop or department store from anywhere between $300 (for mid-length) and $600+ (for full-length)...Earth-friendly or not, there's no way any person should dish out almost 1k for pleather *anything*...
We actually found that any email with the word "Microsoft" in the title was being deleted and not sent to MSN users. This was a year or two ago: I sent my mother some Microsoft vulnerability warning, and she forwarded it out to friends, family, and a mailing list. Every single one that went to MSN.com addresses were returned unsent. I don't know if this is still happening, but how screwed up is that?
On Altavista's Free Access/1stUp dial-ups: I'm really disappointed to see them go. I used FreeAV when traveling -- it consistently had more dial-up numbers and fewer problems than anything else i've used, including NetZero, Juno (ugh! i got this to work once out of the 10 times i tried it!), and even Earthlink/Mindspring.
Does anyone have any suggestions for cheap/reliable Internet access while off-site? Free stuff's preferable...i pay $25+ a month for a local ISP (yeah, the access is only local, but the account name is cool, and how many commercial providers give shell access anymore?), so i am too cheap to dish out an extra $25 for travel-access (especially as i would rather put that $25 towards DSL or something...).
I have to admit, i laughed out loud when i saw this article...
Like everyone before me has said, LaTeX is for typesetting, and if anything, XML using XSL is more likely to take over the Web.
For kicks and giggles, try writing a LaTeX template, then take a stab at creating an XSL-stylesheet. Which is more straight-forward and inherently extensible? Which can you actually find training for? I worked with LaTeX day-in and day-out for 2 years, and was completely unable to find any courses or any trainer in the DC area that taught the creation of LaTeX stylesheets. I ended up editing stylesheets using a makeshift "uh, if i change this line, what happens?" kind of methodology. It worked and made me feel all warm and fuzzy and smart, but it was far from an efficient use of time. However, when it came to XML/XSL, my mother taught me how to write a basic XSL stylesheet within a day! How's that for resources?
I really think that the only reason people use LaTeX anymore is its unparalleled handling of mathematics. You really can't find anything that's comparable...Again, for kicks and giggles, find yerself a big complex equation. Grab a LaTeX book as a cheat sheet and code it. Then, open up Microsoft Word and try to create the same thing and see a)how long it takes and b)how horribly ugly it is.
What we really need is mainstream browser support for MathML...or even cooler, LaTeX support as a widely-available plugin for mainstream browsers (as opposed to IBM's TeXExplorer, which is really cool, but a goofy stylesheet can really hack up its rendering). Latex2html's a good solution for LaTeX content-pushing -- but the setup, and then the pre-conversion customization of latex code to reduce the amount of almost-required-cleanup of HTML code is daunting as hell.
(We had an older version of latex2html that aligned degree signs with the bottom of a line...can you imagine the searching and replacing of "align=middle" to "align=top" in all affected pages/articles? Ack. I was too happy when our systems guys set up a new version that fixed that + antialiased the equation-gifs.)
...then why does the scientist discuss pre-dreaming activity? The feeling of skiing and physical vision of falling tetris blocks he describes actually occurs before you fall asleep, in a conscious state...
i agree with the indexing and cataloguing part, though. i wrote a paper about this brain function that was recently published at Bluelawn.com -- mainly about the function of dreaming on precognition. Mostly speculative pseudoscience, but every theory's gotta start somewhere...
I had this idea back in college, and i'm really surprised no one's come up with it yet:
A hockey game, you know, like NHL '[fill in year here] in basic premise. HOWEVER, when you get into a fight with an opposing team member, the game flips into Mortal Kombat-type mode, complete with special hockey-based powers (you could really be creative here - shooting hockey sticks, medusa-style snake-covered mullets, projectile teeth...).
I dunno. I'd buy it. I'd make it were i smart enough to do so.;)
Lojack a good idea, but you can't combat stupidity
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I think that's a great idea. However, it's not a failsafe. Ineptitude's a security breach unto itself. In fact, a relative who will remain nameless was in a COMPUSA a few months back when she overheard a young guy (alone) with a laptop go up to the counter saying that he needed a replacement harddrive. He claimed it was very important because he had to get Madeleine Albright's laptop back to her today. It's a good possibility that this guy was pulling the counter-person's leg to get faster service . . . but if this *was* true . . . what did they do with the old harddrive? Why is the State Department using CompUSA and not someone internally to service their machines? And why not just order a new harddrive w/out bringing the laptop into a public store without security? I think this is definitely scary stuff.
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The Romantics suck. They shilled for my alma mater who was marketing the hell out of long-distance services at the time. Haven't they sold that one song like 1,000,000 times?
A similar story to the soldiers':
http://junkerhq.net/MGS2/MarkIII.html
$954 for *pleather*, though? A bit ridiculous. You could find nicer jackets in actual leather with the 'Matrix-look' from a leather shop or department store from anywhere between $300 (for mid-length) and $600+ (for full-length)...Earth-friendly or not, there's no way any person should dish out almost 1k for pleather *anything*...
We actually found that any email with the word "Microsoft" in the title was being deleted and not sent to MSN users. This was a year or two ago: I sent my mother some Microsoft vulnerability warning, and she forwarded it out to friends, family, and a mailing list. Every single one that went to MSN.com addresses were returned unsent. I don't know if this is still happening, but how screwed up is that?
On Altavista's Free Access/1stUp dial-ups: I'm really disappointed to see them go. I used FreeAV when traveling -- it consistently had more dial-up numbers and fewer problems than anything else i've used, including NetZero, Juno (ugh! i got this to work once out of the 10 times i tried it!), and even Earthlink/Mindspring.
Does anyone have any suggestions for cheap/reliable Internet access while off-site? Free stuff's preferable...i pay $25+ a month for a local ISP (yeah, the access is only local, but the account name is cool, and how many commercial providers give shell access anymore?), so i am too cheap to dish out an extra $25 for travel-access (especially as i would rather put that $25 towards DSL or something...).
I have to admit, i laughed out loud when i saw this article...
Like everyone before me has said, LaTeX is for typesetting, and if anything, XML using XSL is more likely to take over the Web.
For kicks and giggles, try writing a LaTeX template, then take a stab at creating an XSL-stylesheet. Which is more straight-forward and inherently extensible? Which can you actually find training for? I worked with LaTeX day-in and day-out for 2 years, and was completely unable to find any courses or any trainer in the DC area that taught the creation of LaTeX stylesheets. I ended up editing stylesheets using a makeshift "uh, if i change this line, what happens?" kind of methodology. It worked and made me feel all warm and fuzzy and smart, but it was far from an efficient use of time. However, when it came to XML/XSL, my mother taught me how to write a basic XSL stylesheet within a day! How's that for resources?
I really think that the only reason people use LaTeX anymore is its unparalleled handling of mathematics. You really can't find anything that's comparable...Again, for kicks and giggles, find yerself a big complex equation. Grab a LaTeX book as a cheat sheet and code it. Then, open up Microsoft Word and try to create the same thing and see a)how long it takes and b)how horribly ugly it is.
What we really need is mainstream browser support for MathML...or even cooler, LaTeX support as a widely-available plugin for mainstream browsers (as opposed to IBM's TeXExplorer, which is really cool, but a goofy stylesheet can really hack up its rendering). Latex2html's a good solution for LaTeX content-pushing -- but the setup, and then the pre-conversion customization of latex code to reduce the amount of almost-required-cleanup of HTML code is daunting as hell.
(We had an older version of latex2html that aligned degree signs with the bottom of a line...can you imagine the searching and replacing of "align=middle" to "align=top" in all affected pages/articles? Ack. I was too happy when our systems guys set up a new version that fixed that + antialiased the equation-gifs.)
Grrr, my target=new got the html tag cannibalized. The paper's at http://www.bluelawn.com/issue_4/j_harvey.html".
...then why does the scientist discuss pre-dreaming activity? The feeling of skiing and physical vision of falling tetris blocks he describes actually occurs before you fall asleep, in a conscious state...
i agree with the indexing and cataloguing part, though. i wrote a paper about this brain function that was recently published at Bluelawn.com -- mainly about the function of dreaming on precognition. Mostly speculative pseudoscience, but every theory's gotta start somewhere...
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I had this idea back in college, and i'm really surprised no one's come up with it yet:
;)
A hockey game, you know, like NHL '[fill in year here] in basic premise. HOWEVER, when you get into a fight with an opposing team member, the game flips into Mortal Kombat-type mode, complete with special hockey-based powers (you could really be creative here - shooting hockey sticks, medusa-style snake-covered mullets, projectile teeth...).
I dunno. I'd buy it. I'd make it were i smart enough to do so.
I think that's a great idea. However, it's not a failsafe. Ineptitude's a security breach unto itself. In fact, a relative who will remain nameless was in a COMPUSA a few months back when she overheard a young guy (alone) with a laptop go up to the counter saying that he needed a replacement harddrive. He claimed it was very important because he had to get Madeleine Albright's laptop back to her today. It's a good possibility that this guy was pulling the counter-person's leg to get faster service . . . but if this *was* true . . . what did they do with the old harddrive? Why is the State Department using CompUSA and not someone internally to service their machines? And why not just order a new harddrive w/out bringing the laptop into a public store without security? I think this is definitely scary stuff.