Bodhicat has an alternative. I spend my free time reading A German translation of the Lord of the Rings at the local coffee hang-out, Black Dog. When I get tired of reading I can usually find someone to play chess with or have a chat. And its only $1.75 for some really great coffee from a locally owned establishment. Now that is entertainment for nurds.
Can you really use a cell phone by touch? I never have, I have always had to have at least the back light on the keys. A desktop or laptop keyboard, yes, I can touch type on them, but the iPhone is not meant for typing any large amounts of text. Most execs and nurds have several computer/e-mail/text typing devices that they use for different situations. If you want to type your dissertation on the iPhone, good luck.
... its almost impossible for Cupertino to maintain contact with reality
Does Cupertino have any sort of contact with reality to begin with? The only saving grace of Apple is that once in a while Steve's reality distortion field comes up with a product that people will actually buy and that makes money for the company.
People want to praise him for his wonderful sucesses (Mac, iPod, OS X), but quickly forget the failures (NEXT, Newton, The Cube) I remember seeing the introduction of The Cube on a closed circuit TV at MacWord in 2000 (2001?). I thought it would be the future and savior of all things electronic. Well that didn't happen, but somehow Jobs and Apple have been able to pull out of the dive bombs and keep on flying. What will happen with the iPhone is anyone's guess, for now I am keeping my money in a sock under my bed and wating on that Apple stock purchase.
People complain about getting too much spam, yet they freely enter their e-mail on web forms, join discussion lists, or give their e-mail address to a bookstore for a chance at an ipod. Guard that e-mail address with your life. If you need one to signup for freebies, get a yahoo or gmail account and use it only for that. Also use javascript to write your e-mail on your web pages. They can't spam you if they don't know who you are. Only give your e-mail to folks who want to contact you. If it still gets overloaded, then start a new one, and only give it to people you like.
Wells, however, had his physics dead to rights. He invented whole new genres of Sci-Fi - Time Travel, The Invisible Man, amazingly accurate social predictions in 'Anticipations' and 'The Shape of Things to Come'. When he did space travel he invented the 'warp drive' with his 'Cavorite' material which rejected gravity.
And as we all know invisibility, warp drive an time travel for human beings are all possible according to the currently known laws of physics. In fact I think I will get in my invisible star ship and travel to the Andromeda galaxy in the year 2,000,000 right now.
Maybe if Yahoo had a web design interface that worked then more people would use it. It has never been able to upload more than one file at a time and always adds in extraneous code that needs to be taken out using their miniscule form window. I could make similar complaints about their e-mail interface (although I like the spam filter). Design a mouse trap that actually works and the world wide web will beat a path to your door.
JavaScript works, saw a dramatic drop in spam when I started using it on my sites. Should have a line on site that JavaScript is necessary for site to work.
Can't print the code here, but use document.write and string variables to write out e-mail links, spambots can't find the e-mail addresses.
Also, don't use real e-mail address when posting to message boards (thank the FSM that Slashdot hides them).
It looks like a great chapter, I am going to print it out then go to my favorite cafe, Black Dog, to peruse it. I think that counts as work hours. Much thanks to Mr. Singh for providing the PDF to Slashdotters and the web community.
The media tends to concentrate on problems with the Shuttle, but we forget that there have been minor problems and glitches with any of the prevous manned space programs. We hear about the missions where they had major problems, such as Apollo 13, but even John Glenn (The first American to orbit the earth) had a problem with his heat shield which could have prevented a safe reenty. What makes for a good space program is not that everything goes perfect, nothing ever does (ask Mr. Murphy), but how mission control handles problems as the crop up. The same could be said for any technological undertaking. A good programmer is not one who writes a program without bugs, but one who is able to find them and make the corrections before they cause larger problems.
Who care's, I would rather sit in a coffee bar and read a German translation of "The Lord of the Rings" or "MySQL and Perl for the Web" (in English). I wouldn't tape a show with people on a desert island throwing up because they ate a posionous lizard anyway, let alone watch the commercials.
I have gotten hacked on a Mac running MySQL. If you use MySQL along with CGI scripts, be sure to use a complex password and don't allow access to MySQL over the web. The CGI scripts only need local access.
Have you noticed that the guy with the glasses in the Mac vs. PC commerical looks like Bill gates and the hip unshaven guy looks like a young Steve Jobs? A little dig and a bit of payback from Steve?
This is like the Read Only option in M$ Word. All you have to do is save it under another name, make any changes, then give the file the original name. It doesn't add any security and only makes it more difficult to make changes for someone authorized to make changes. They use this all the time at my office as if it makes the document more secure.
"It's also a short step from atheism to complete immoraility."
Why do we need to beleve in a God to be moral? Can't people act morally because they realized that thier actions have an effect on society. Can't someone act morally because they believe in the dignity of human life or out of respect for private property? God or religion is not necessary for moral behavior.
If people choose to follow a religion that is their own choice, but, going back to the original discussion, they should do so in the light of science and rational thought. As we see in the world today, its a short step from blind faith to using religion to justify violence. Both the current U.S. administration and the fundamentalist Muslims that they are fighting think that God is on their side. Its time for people to understand that if there is a God that he/she doens't favor one group, tribe or nation. From evolution we can understand that all humans on earth descened from a small group of about 100 or so pre-humans. We are all one family, why can't we all get just along?
Fundamentalist Christians are like a dog in a cage with the back of the cage wide open. There was no Garden of Eden, there was no snake, there was no apple and there's no such thing as original sin. You don't have to follow the rules of some ancient desert tribe. You are free to make your own decisions as long as they are conducive to a functioning society. Yet the fundamentalists are going oo look at this cage, look at how strong the bars are. Scientists have known that the earth is not the center of the universe for 500 years and that humans evolved from other animals for about 150 years, yet the fundamentalists still insist on living their lives racked with guilt and fear of a vengeful God. Get over it. Make your own decisions about morality and learn to live life. Hiding your head in the sand and denying the reality of science is just plain ignorance.
Sort of ironic that this situation is in a country that is supposed to be Marxist. Wasn't the original idea of Communism to create a worker's paradise? Now the People's Republic of China has just become another giant multinational corporation. Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to loose but your ipods.
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Bodhicat has an alternative. I spend my free time reading A German translation of the Lord of the Rings at the local coffee hang-out, Black Dog. When I get tired of reading I can usually find someone to play chess with or have a chat. And its only $1.75 for some really great coffee from a locally owned establishment. Now that is entertainment for nurds.
Can you really use a cell phone by touch? I never have, I have always had to have at least the back light on the keys. A desktop or laptop keyboard, yes, I can touch type on them, but the iPhone is not meant for typing any large amounts of text. Most execs and nurds have several computer/e-mail/text typing devices that they use for different situations. If you want to type your dissertation on the iPhone, good luck.
Does Cupertino have any sort of contact with reality to begin with? The only saving grace of Apple is that once in a while Steve's reality distortion field comes up with a product that people will actually buy and that makes money for the company.
People want to praise him for his wonderful sucesses (Mac, iPod, OS X), but quickly forget the failures (NEXT, Newton, The Cube) I remember seeing the introduction of The Cube on a closed circuit TV at MacWord in 2000 (2001?). I thought it would be the future and savior of all things electronic. Well that didn't happen, but somehow Jobs and Apple have been able to pull out of the dive bombs and keep on flying. What will happen with the iPhone is anyone's guess, for now I am keeping my money in a sock under my bed and wating on that Apple stock purchase.
People complain about getting too much spam, yet they freely enter their e-mail on web forms, join discussion lists, or give their e-mail address to a bookstore for a chance at an ipod. Guard that e-mail address with your life. If you need one to signup for freebies, get a yahoo or gmail account and use it only for that. Also use javascript to write your e-mail on your web pages. They can't spam you if they don't know who you are. Only give your e-mail to folks who want to contact you. If it still gets overloaded, then start a new one, and only give it to people you like.
Wells, however, had his physics dead to rights. He invented whole new genres of Sci-Fi - Time Travel, The Invisible Man, amazingly accurate social predictions in 'Anticipations' and 'The Shape of Things to Come'. When he did space travel he invented the 'warp drive' with his 'Cavorite' material which rejected gravity.
And as we all know invisibility, warp drive an time travel for human beings are all possible according to the currently known laws of physics. In fact I think I will get in my invisible star ship and travel to the Andromeda galaxy in the year 2,000,000 right now.
"A working man voting Republican is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders."
Dark star crashes
pouring its light
into ashes
Reason tatters
the forces tear loose
from the axis
Searchlight casting
for faults in the
clouds of delusion
shall we go,
you and I
While we can?
Through
the transitive nightfall
of diamonds
Maybe if Yahoo had a web design interface that worked then more people would use it. It has never been able to upload more than one file at a time and always adds in extraneous code that needs to be taken out using their miniscule form window. I could make similar complaints about their e-mail interface (although I like the spam filter). Design a mouse trap that actually works and the world wide web will beat a path to your door.
JavaScript works, saw a dramatic drop in spam when I started using it on my sites. Should have a line on site that JavaScript is necessary for site to work.
Can't print the code here, but use document.write and string variables to write out e-mail links, spambots can't find the e-mail addresses.
Also, don't use real e-mail address when posting to message boards (thank the FSM that Slashdot hides them).
Oh, what a tangled hierarchy we weave ...
I agree, why is everyone against software patents except when the judgement is against Microsoft?
When did Janis Ian get old? I thought she was singing songs about being 17 and now she looks like a grandmother with grey hair. Wha happened???
It looks like a great chapter, I am going to print it out then go to my favorite cafe, Black Dog, to peruse it. I think that counts as work hours. Much thanks to Mr. Singh for providing the PDF to Slashdotters and the web community.
FTFA: This law would not be consitutional in the US.
And this would stop the current administration?
The media tends to concentrate on problems with the Shuttle, but we forget that there have been minor problems and glitches with any of the prevous manned space programs. We hear about the missions where they had major problems, such as Apollo 13, but even John Glenn (The first American to orbit the earth) had a problem with his heat shield which could have prevented a safe reenty. What makes for a good space program is not that everything goes perfect, nothing ever does (ask Mr. Murphy), but how mission control handles problems as the crop up. The same could be said for any technological undertaking. A good programmer is not one who writes a program without bugs, but one who is able to find them and make the corrections before they cause larger problems.
Who care's, I would rather sit in a coffee bar and read a German translation of "The Lord of the Rings" or "MySQL and Perl for the Web" (in English). I wouldn't tape a show with people on a desert island throwing up because they ate a posionous lizard anyway, let alone watch the commercials.
I have gotten hacked on a Mac running MySQL. If you use MySQL along with CGI scripts, be sure to use a complex password and don't allow access to MySQL over the web. The CGI scripts only need local access.
Have you noticed that the guy with the glasses in the Mac vs. PC commerical looks like Bill gates and the hip unshaven guy looks like a young Steve Jobs? A little dig and a bit of payback from Steve?
Oooo A JavaScript mouse-over pop-up what other new tech marvels will the Japanese come up with????
This is like the Read Only option in M$ Word. All you have to do is save it under another name, make any changes, then give the file the original name. It doesn't add any security and only makes it more difficult to make changes for someone authorized to make changes. They use this all the time at my office as if it makes the document more secure.
"It's also a short step from atheism to complete immoraility."
Why do we need to beleve in a God to be moral? Can't people act morally because they realized that thier actions have an effect on society. Can't someone act morally because they believe in the dignity of human life or out of respect for private property? God or religion is not necessary for moral behavior.
If people choose to follow a religion that is their own choice, but, going back to the original discussion, they should do so in the light of science and rational thought. As we see in the world today, its a short step from blind faith to using religion to justify violence. Both the current U.S. administration and the fundamentalist Muslims that they are fighting think that God is on their side. Its time for people to understand that if there is a God that he/she doens't favor one group, tribe or nation. From evolution we can understand that all humans on earth descened from a small group of about 100 or so pre-humans. We are all one family, why can't we all get just along?
Fundamentalist Christians are like a dog in a cage with the back of the cage wide open. There was no Garden of Eden, there was no snake, there was no apple and there's no such thing as original sin. You don't have to follow the rules of some ancient desert tribe. You are free to make your own decisions as long as they are conducive to a functioning society. Yet the fundamentalists are going oo look at this cage, look at how strong the bars are. Scientists have known that the earth is not the center of the universe for 500 years and that humans evolved from other animals for about 150 years, yet the fundamentalists still insist on living their lives racked with guilt and fear of a vengeful God. Get over it. Make your own decisions about morality and learn to live life. Hiding your head in the sand and denying the reality of science is just plain ignorance.
"Sounds like an offshoot of Colossus: The Forbin Project"
Yes their computer system sounds like its young and restless, better send the Rat Patrol to see what's going on.
(Obsure references for those over 40)
Sort of ironic that this situation is in a country that is supposed to be Marxist. Wasn't the original idea of Communism to create a worker's paradise? Now the People's Republic of China has just become another giant multinational corporation. Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to loose but your ipods.