I'm the only webmaster of a fairly large and long standing e-commerce firm. I work between 50 and 60 hours a week. I not only handle the whole website by myself including graphic design but around 5 or 6 others, plus since our key java developer left i am doing java coding as well when things break.
i make $9.00 per hour
if this isn't overworked/underpaid i dont know what is
read Moving Mars by Greg Bear. The pseudophysics stuff might be a bit too much for her to absorb, but you can skip by that stuff a bit. The story is much more about human interaction than science anyway. I would imagine a 13 year old girl would enjoy that sort of thing. Then again... I've never been one:).
this is exactly why i just ebayed myself an oldschool ibm clicker keyboard. ill have to wedge some loose change under the caps lock key but other than that its the ultimate keyboard!
Not to offend but 99% of PC magazines have long been repedative crap. The real content these days is online and print magazines are losing out. Then again... i still like to sit down with a real paper magazine and read, if only more pc magazines were interesting and non-repadative... compter game developer is a great read if you ever get a chance...
despite the fact that i probably spelled canable wrong, i'm going to try and post anyway... I caught a little bit of the Y2K movie during the X-Files commercials and let me tell you something. I have rarely been offended this much by a movie. Its not so much that its a reactionary piece of garbage clearly written by people who dont know what they are talking about. well.. no im full of shit. thats exaclty why i dislike it. of course the INCREDIBLY bad acting didnt help either. i couldn't stand to watch the whole thing... I will give them one thing though. I clapped when whatshername went off about how the millenium doesn't start until 2001. if anything comes from america watching this movie i hope it's that they stop calling Y2K the New Millenium. (fat chance right?) oh well. X-files was good though... almost as good as the lighting boy episode. yum!
quick comment today: Since when did anyone including the US government strictly follow the "rules of war?" War is war is war. nobody plays fair. people fight to win, and i find it difficult to belive that any government who is routinly dropping munitions that injure and kill civilians on a regular basis is going to get sqeamish about taking down a network.
Then again... it would be the kind of bassackwards double standard beuracratic crap the US gov has become famous for.
if your are going to say you like it that way then slap your email up there.:) no reason to hide it... and YES. i do have a certain personal interst in this. cope with it.
once upon a time i used netscape. well wait lets go back. once upon a time i used mosaic.:) Then! came netscape and i was much happier. when microsoft whipped out IE i was unenthused. it was just a buggy version of netscape with a little windows throbber instead. so i let it sit. Fast forward to IE 4.0 still buggy. crashed constantly on my machine, and always took the system tray with it.. finally IMO IE 5.0 was a stable and worth using browser. still a ripoff of netscape, but thats microsoft for you...
im rambling, so let me get to the point. I am the webmaster of a small Internet ECommerce Company, and i spend something most of my days making webpages. doing this job kind of forces you to know the browsers inside and out. i dont like netscape and let me tell you why:
netscape is picky as hell. i have missing or extra html tags often netscape will refuse to display the page. internet explorer on the other hand ignores the error, or guesses where tags should go, etc... most of the time this works great in IE. now on the one hand netscape encourages you to write good clean html. and clean html is always the goal. on the other hand netscape FORCES you to write good clean html. while IE is much more forgiving. thats netscape gripe #1. not a huge huge deal..
the other thing that really gets me about netscape is its lack of supported features. take style sheets for example. now style sheets are wonderful things with all sorts of powerful tags to let you design your webpage. but on the average netscape seems to support only about half of the stylesheet tags. now im not saying IE is perfect in that respect. but they are hitting closer to 80%-90% of the tags functioning like they are suposed to. netscape is 50%-50%..
point is. netscape may seem fine and functional to a user, but it's quite limiting to anyone designing html. This is really unfortunate as us poor overworked webdesigners often get stuck making one page layout for netscape and one for IE, or even worse having to cut out some of the stylesheet effects they want to use because netscape cant handle it... i think a lot of companys (especially those doing web design of some sort) are realising that netscape is behind the curve, and if you want the latest thing you need to be viewing in another browser.
ive tried and tried, but i just can't think of anything a 3d enviornment can do BETTER than a 2d enviornment. besides this just being kind of a neat thing what are the advantages of a 3d gui? Can anyone think of any? (besides being able to shoot processes with the plasma rifle i mean:) i DO like the fact that they aren't content to leave gui's as they are There have got to be ways to make a more productive enviornment... any ideas? ive got a few...
what i would REALY like to see is a vector based gui. now that would provide some serious functional advantages...
at my office everything is named after talk show hosts. my machine is Oprah. Springer, Sally, Montel, it goes on. i didnt even know there were so many talk shows before i started working there...:) of course the real important machines all get greek god naming... which is pretty standard..
you know funny thing.. i was thinking about this same thing about a week ago after i watched hackers with some friends. now dont get me wrong i love that movie, its very entertaining... but the hacking is way off base (i want a full 3d unix operating system on a mac!:P). anyway why shouldn't we go and make a movie about hacking that is realistic... holywood is NEVER going to get it right, but independant films dont have the kind of artistic restrictions holywood emposes... seems to me that the technical details don't have to be screwed up to have a good movie..
before i start rambling too much let me get to the point. i started writing a script about a week ago that does just this. its a low budget film about a small group of hackers and their personal lives. its coming together slowly but there is a little bit of law enforcement trouble, but its not really the focus. the film is hopefully going to try and explain why people become hackers/crackers/phreakers. It will be the kind of story that like "War Games" makes kids get curious and go out and start learning some things... not that i encourage trying to break into NASA's webserver;).
right now all i have is a general story outline, and a few scenes laid out in my head but its coming together. since this posting was up today i thought i'd see what you people think about it and give you a chance to throw some suggestions at me. im deffinatly interested in any hacker/cracker movie ideas and or information you would like to pass along. Thanks! facelifter@usa.net
Take a spin over to fruityloops.com and look at the new mp3dj program they are working on. Sounds like that's just what you are looking for. I don't know when its coming out though...
I'm just cynical I guess... Yes there are much better renderings of the base on the website. I just came across these that looked kinda like they were drawn in ms paint and the first thing that came into my mind is that they can't be that serious about this if they are going to post pictures that don't look very professional.
Not a thing against the project I assure you. I would love to go to the moon. If it works out for these guys I'll be there as soon as I can pay for it. Every real geeks fantasy IMO...
Man I would normally be worried about big business' ability to pull off a plan like this safely. Good thing this place seems to have thought this through with these detailed scientific renderings!
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i make $9.00 per hour
if this isn't overworked/underpaid i dont know what is
Just read the book its awsome.
The overpowering stench of death. :) os2-4-L1F3 D00D!
this is exactly why i just ebayed myself an oldschool ibm clicker keyboard. ill have to wedge some loose change under the caps lock key but other than that its the ultimate keyboard!
but walden might encourage kids to be homosexuals!
gasp!
byte magazine forever!
Not to offend but 99% of PC magazines have long been repedative crap. The real content these days is online and print magazines are losing out. Then again... i still like to sit down with a real paper magazine and read, if only more pc magazines were interesting and non-repadative... compter game developer is a great read if you ever get a chance...
despite the fact that i probably spelled canable wrong, i'm going to try and post anyway... I caught a little bit of the Y2K movie during the X-Files commercials and let me tell you something. I have rarely been offended this much by a movie. Its not so much that its a reactionary piece of garbage clearly written by people who dont know what they are talking about. well.. no im full of shit. thats exaclty why i dislike it. of course the INCREDIBLY bad acting didnt help either. i couldn't stand to watch the whole thing... I will give them one thing though. I clapped when whatshername went off about how the millenium doesn't start until 2001. if anything comes from america watching this movie i hope it's that they stop calling Y2K the New Millenium. (fat chance right?) oh well. X-files was good though... almost as good as the lighting boy episode. yum!
quick comment today:
Since when did anyone including the US government strictly follow the "rules of war?" War is war is war. nobody plays fair. people fight to win, and i find it difficult to belive that any government who is routinly dropping munitions that injure and kill civilians on a regular basis is going to get sqeamish about taking down a network.
Then again... it would be the kind of bassackwards double standard beuracratic crap the US gov has become famous for.
Thank you and goodnight,
ha. damn anonymous cowards...
:) no reason to hide it... and YES. i do have a certain personal interst in this. cope with it.
if your are going to say you like it that way then slap your email up there.
OH MY GOD ITS THE INVASION OF THE BISEXUAL GEEKS
eh hehe
once upon a time i used netscape. well wait lets go back. once upon a time i used mosaic. :) Then! came netscape and i was much happier. when microsoft whipped out IE i was unenthused. it was just a buggy version of netscape with a little windows throbber instead. so i let it sit. Fast forward to IE 4.0 still buggy. crashed constantly on my machine, and always took the system tray with it.. finally IMO IE 5.0 was a stable and worth using browser. still a ripoff of netscape, but thats microsoft for you...
im rambling, so let me get to the point. I am the webmaster of a small Internet ECommerce Company, and i spend something most of my days making webpages. doing this job kind of forces you to know the browsers inside and out. i dont like netscape and let me tell you why:
netscape is picky as hell. i have missing or extra html tags often netscape will refuse to display the page. internet explorer on the other hand ignores the error, or guesses where tags should go, etc... most of the time this works great in IE. now on the one hand netscape encourages you to write good clean html. and clean html is always the goal. on the other hand netscape FORCES you to write good clean html. while IE is much more forgiving. thats netscape gripe #1. not a huge huge deal..
the other thing that really gets me about netscape is its lack of supported features. take style sheets for example. now style sheets are wonderful things with all sorts of powerful tags to let you design your webpage. but on the average netscape seems to support only about half of the stylesheet tags. now im not saying IE is perfect in that respect. but they are hitting closer to 80%-90% of the tags functioning like they are suposed to. netscape is 50%-50%..
point is. netscape may seem fine and functional to a user, but it's quite limiting to anyone designing html. This is really unfortunate as us poor overworked webdesigners often get stuck making one page layout for netscape and one for IE, or even worse having to cut out some of the stylesheet effects they want to use because netscape cant handle it... i think a lot of companys (especially those doing web design of some sort) are realising that netscape is behind the curve, and if you want the latest thing you need to be viewing in another browser.
biggest mistake i ever made in my life
it was worth it though. i think..
ive tried and tried, but i just can't think of anything a 3d enviornment can do BETTER than a 2d enviornment. besides this just being kind of a neat thing what are the advantages of a 3d gui? Can anyone think of any? (besides being able to shoot processes with the plasma rifle i mean :) i DO like the fact that they aren't content to leave gui's as they are There have got to be ways to make a more productive enviornment... any ideas? ive got a few...
what i would REALY like to see is a vector based gui. now that would provide some serious functional advantages...
Praise the Lord in Heaven!
I have long waited for this day.
Thank you. Goodnight.
at my office everything is named after talk show hosts. my machine is Oprah. Springer, Sally, Montel, it goes on. i didnt even know there were so many talk shows before i started working there... :) of course the real important machines all get greek god naming... which is pretty standard..
pi was pretty badass...
i saw it about 9 times in one week when it was on my university movie channel (talk about media overload...)
but i wouldn't call it exactly technically sound, just because it was missing mac advertisements and virtual reality bullshit...
when i was little my mother told me not to look into the sun...
you know funny thing.. i was thinking about this same thing about a week ago after i watched hackers with some friends. now dont get me wrong i love that movie, its very entertaining... but the hacking is way off base (i want a full 3d unix operating system on a mac! :P). anyway why shouldn't we go and make a movie about hacking that is realistic... holywood is NEVER going to get it right, but independant films dont have the kind of artistic restrictions holywood emposes... seems to me that the technical details don't have to be screwed up to have a good movie..
;).
before i start rambling too much let me get to the point. i started writing a script about a week ago that does just this. its a low budget film about a small group of hackers and their personal lives. its coming together slowly but there is a little bit of law enforcement trouble, but its not really the focus. the film is hopefully going to try and explain why people become hackers/crackers/phreakers. It will be the kind of story that like "War Games" makes kids get curious and go out and start learning some things... not that i encourage trying to break into NASA's webserver
right now all i have is a general story outline, and a few scenes laid out in my head but its coming together. since this posting was up today i thought i'd see what you people think about it and give you a chance to throw some suggestions at me. im deffinatly interested in any hacker/cracker movie ideas and or information you would like to pass along. Thanks!
facelifter@usa.net
interesting comparison. choice of religon and choice of OS...
/bin/user/god/holy.spirit
sounds like a precurser to a Linux based religion.
repeat your mantra and pray to root:
#!/bin/sh
echo Ohm Ohm Ohm
echo Oh lord do create us a symbolic link to the heavens.
ln -s
echo Ohm Ohm Ohm
ehhehehehe
Not a thing against the project I assure you. I would love to go to the moon. If it works out for these guys I'll be there as soon as I can pay for it. Every real geeks fantasy IMO...