But wouldn't google want people who can manipulate an algorithm to work for them? Until, of course, there are step-by-step instructions on "How to Outwit Google's Application for Dummies" floating about the net. Then they change the algorithm.
The best story I can come up with is this. At the private school I'm a techie at, they don't have the resources to get Windows Server proper, so I had to set up Windows 2000 as a server for Windows 98 clients. It wasn't so bad, as the Windows 98 would look to the Windows 2000. But then all the machines were upgraded to Windows 2000, and so I have a small network (10 computers) with Windows 2000 clients looking to a Windows 2000 (standard) server. So if I want to change anything about a user, I have to change it on each computer, and Active Directory doesn't, of course, exist, so many things don't work. But the server is working as a file server with separate folders for each user.
To save wikipedia from the inevitable rush of/.ers, someone has already added it to the disambig page (congrats, Dillee1 and Rvalles).
There isn't actually an article, though...
To bring the subject more off-topic (what else is/. for?):
intolerance/ntlrns/
-noun
1. lack of toleration; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect contrary opinions or beliefs, persons of different races or backgrounds, etc.
I don't think that the general public "respects" creationism.
And if I tell someone that he's wrong because he's gay, I've been under the impression that that is intolerance. I'll have to remember that I'm not being intolerant any more. Thanks, that takes a load off my mind.
Hooray for the old cruzer micros. I really miss my old one, a 512 just like yours. It went through the wash twice, still worked, lasted several years, and then finally barfed on me. I still have it in my room. Now they just have the skins, which are extremely annoying and flimsy. I own a retractable Cruzer Micro, and would own a Titanium if I wasn't a poor college kid.
By the early nineties, Word was well on its way to dominance:
"In the period 1992-1994, Word wiped the floor with WordPerfect in reviews, winning just about all of them." http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2004/0 4/27/120944.aspx
And WordStar pretty much shot themselves in the foot with WS2000. Interesting article.
I agree, javascript is not a good thing. But it's not evil, and for simple things like e-mail concatenation, it'll work on pretty much anything. I once wrote a simple script to do this exact thing for a standard naming scheme (JohnS@yourdomain.com), that can be used for others, where ZOO represents your @yourdomain.com, and you can use ZING for @ if you want to do another address:
function DoEmail(Encoded) { //Encoded e-mail is in the format nameZAPinitial[ZINGotherdomain.com|ZOO]
Encoded = Encoded.replace("ZAP","");
Encoded = Encoded.replace("ZING","@");
Encoded = Encoded.replace("ZOO","@yourdomain.com");
window.location = "mailto:" + Encoded;
}
Any e-mail links would point to the javascript function like so:
<a> href="javascript:DoEmail('JohnZAPSZOO')" alt="Remove underscores in the following e-mail: John_S_at_yourdomain_dot_com">John Smith</a>
It works fine, and exactly like a mailto: link to the end user (except for statusbar stuff)
Actually in the beginning, M$ was popular becuase of their productivity applications - Word and Excel, mainly - primarily for the macintosh. Word stepped in an open door (the mac word processor was worthless) and Excel fought a long battle to beat down Lotus 1-2-3. Only after that did Windows become ubuquitous. And yes, the initial versions of Windows were not well recieved.
Interestingly enough, France turned out to be a far more receptive market to France (for Word and Excel) than the US, and helped support MS's efforts here domestically.
But how many of these over-35ers are actually over 35? And how many are over 100? Is there any accountability check as to the ages?
Looking at their article, they're counting unique visitors - did they pop up a little box that said "Hey, how old are you?"
A very important part is that it says "MySpace Visitors" - not users. So not users, but parents checking up on their little users, or pedophiles looking for their next victim. This just means Xanga is less browsed by those types.
Anyone else see this?
Already partly slashdotted. Very slow and sometimes you don't get in. But this is an interesting idea, fun if nothing else. I drew a tree and I got a pineapple with a guy's face in it, a chinese guy standing in front of a gate, and a dragonfly. Maybe I need to brush up on my drawing skills.
I've heard (no, I'm not a graphics artist and I've never used either product, but I have talked to designers) that Blender's interface is counterintuitive. Granted, the people I've talked to have all used mostly 3D Studio Max and Maya, so 'counterintuitive' to them might be just 'really different from what I'm used to'. But that is the whole point anyway.
As someone who was looking for a 3D modeller to get started in 3D modelling, Blender was pretty much my option, since my budget was just about $0. So I came to Blender with no experience in any other 3D modelling environment. And I hit a wall. Then I found out that you middle-clicked to rotate the environment. Now we're getting somewhere! Hey, I can right-click something to select it, g to grab it and move it around, then r to rotate it, s if I want to change the size...and little by little, I climbed the wall, which turned out to be a very steep learning curve. It was a pain, but with GREAT resources like the Blender Wiki, I quickly learned the blender interface. After that initial learning experience, I can honestly say it is not counterintuitive and is, in fact, the most intuitive program I have ever used. The Blender interface is designed so that with some work, you can get doing things very quickly and efficiently, and as you use Blender more, you pick up more and more, and can do things even more efficiently. I applaud the Blender UI people - they have the courage to design a UI so radically different that it gets rejected offhand by people like your friends, but one that becomes so intuitive that, with practice and experience, my mouse and keyboard become extensions of my hands. That is how a program like Blender should work. I don't think I could work with anything else and be as productive.
Generally speaking, getting to do something you like to do anyway isn't part of punishment.
You have stated one of the fundamental problems with the jail system in the US - the attitude of "heaven forbid that prisoners should be uncomfortable in jail." It would depend on where the hypothetical criminal hypothetically gets sent, but I wouldn't be surprised if inmates had internet/computer access. There's a difference between how things should happen, and how they do.
This comes after a story earlier this morning that co-founder Sergey Brin is pushing for Google to cut back on the volume of products being offered, complaining that 'I was getting lost in the sheer volume of the products we were releasing'. Guess Google Video is one of the products making the approved shortlist."
From the article:
The company does not plan to tell engineers to halt all new products, Google said, nor does it plan to kill little-used services."
What kind of V-chip are you suggesting to deal with [other real-world dangers]? Why should Internet use monitoring take so much of parent's time rather than say, sending the kid to a Karate class?
First of all, I wouldn't say that monitoring takes a lot of the parent's time - setting it up once, then scanning some e-mails or however your program works, doesn't take an hour a day. And it's free - a lot cheaper than, say, a Karate class.
But today's kids are spending a lot more time on the computer than, say, crossing the street. There's a lot of kids that spend a lot more time on the computer chatting/myspacing/what-have-you than they do riding a bike or walking around the city. And that brings up my other point - in most families, it's already pounded into kids heads to look two ways before crossing the street, don't talk to strangers, scream like bloody murder if someone tries to grab you. Kids are told to eat their vegetables, drink their milk. And I don't know of many kids that spend time chatting on the phone with someone they don't know.
The point is, the whole idea of kids online is fairly new, and parents don't have generations of experience on how to deal with it. Parents walk with their kids on the street, they know who their kids are talking to on the phone, they make them eat right. A lot of parents, when the same principles are taken to the internet, are clueless - they're just doing that IM/MySpace/etc thing, it can't really hurt them.
Somehow when the same dangers are transferred to the internet, it all of a sudden becomes a non-issue, with parents and kids, because it's new. Parents don't see it as a danger, and kids say and do things they would never say or do over the phone or on the street. So why should internet monitoring take so much time? Because it's not so hard, and it's a new thing. Parents need to figure out how to deal with this new area of danger, and teach their kids that even though it seems harmless, it can be dangerous. The same basic safety lessons need to be pounded into the heads of today's information age kids that were pounded into ours, the lessons just need to be extended to the realm of cyberspace.
Basic point from the article, for those of you who didn't read it:
There is NO INK involved. It's like thermal paper in concept - chemicals in the paper change color in the presence of UV light. All the printer will contribute to the paper is UV light:
From the article:
The paper has a photochromic compound that changes from a clear state to a coloured state under ultra-violet light. This can create the print face, which will duly fade with time.
That said...
I can see it being useful, but in limited scenarios, as mentioned in the article - putting something from the screen to the paper so it's easier to read. Read it, then put it back in the printer. It could save money/resources, especially if it was a secondary printer - when you wanted to print an e-mail/proofreading copy/etc, print it to your temp printer.
I would assume Xerox would have to come up with some kind of companion UV pen, to do proofreading that creates a slim laserish of UV light to write proofreading marks.
The other question is: how are they going to keep the sun from washing it out, or whatever other stray UV wandering around?
Wow, that was, uh, not funny. That was more..."I don't like cascading, and browsers don't support stuff." Duh. Thank you, captain obvious. I have better things to do than read this junk, like tweak my cross-browser CSS hacks.:-|
Way more likely you'll lose it or run it through the wash or something before it dies, anyway.
I ran mine twice through the wash, and lost it several times, and it still worked (when I found it).
Then again, it did start getting flaky (deciding to chop off all but the first 8k, brobably a FAT problem).
But by that time, I'd gotten a 1GB cruzer micro w/ retractable USB for $25 on sale at CC, so I'm happy.;)
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Naw.... Chuck Norris.
But wouldn't google want people who can manipulate an algorithm to work for them? Until, of course, there are step-by-step instructions on "How to Outwit Google's Application for Dummies" floating about the net. Then they change the algorithm.
The best story I can come up with is this. At the private school I'm a techie at, they don't have the resources to get Windows Server proper, so I had to set up Windows 2000 as a server for Windows 98 clients. It wasn't so bad, as the Windows 98 would look to the Windows 2000. But then all the machines were upgraded to Windows 2000, and so I have a small network (10 computers) with Windows 2000 clients looking to a Windows 2000 (standard) server. So if I want to change anything about a user, I have to change it on each computer, and Active Directory doesn't, of course, exist, so many things don't work. But the server is working as a file server with separate folders for each user.
To save wikipedia from the inevitable rush of /.ers, someone has already added it to the disambig page (congrats, Dillee1 and Rvalles).
There isn't actually an article, though...
I don't think that the general public "respects" creationism.
And if I tell someone that he's wrong because he's gay, I've been under the impression that that is intolerance. I'll have to remember that I'm not being intolerant any more. Thanks, that takes a load off my mind.
Yay for being modded down!
Hooray for the old cruzer micros. I really miss my old one, a 512 just like yours. It went through the wash twice, still worked, lasted several years, and then finally barfed on me. I still have it in my room. Now they just have the skins, which are extremely annoying and flimsy. I own a retractable Cruzer Micro, and would own a Titanium if I wasn't a poor college kid.
A Lockheed-Martin R6000, evidently. 120MB ram, 256MB flash. Perhaps this? According to that page, it was about 60mhz, if I'm reading correctly.
By the early nineties, Word was well on its way to dominance:0 4/27/120944.aspx
. 931991:_The_rise_and_fall_of_OS.2F2 1 990_to_1995
"In the period 1992-1994, Word wiped the floor with WordPerfect in reviews, winning just about all of them."
http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2004/
And WordStar pretty much shot themselves in the foot with WS2000. Interesting article.
Also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#1985.E2.80
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#Word_
On a sidenote, I like Microsoft's early website.
I agree, javascript is not a good thing. But it's not evil, and for simple things like e-mail concatenation, it'll work on pretty much anything. I once wrote a simple script to do this exact thing for a standard naming scheme (JohnS@yourdomain.com), that can be used for others, where ZOO represents your @yourdomain.com, and you can use ZING for @ if you want to do another address:
//Encoded e-mail is in the format nameZAPinitial[ZINGotherdomain.com|ZOO]
function DoEmail(Encoded) {
Encoded = Encoded.replace("ZAP","");
Encoded = Encoded.replace("ZING","@");
Encoded = Encoded.replace("ZOO","@yourdomain.com");
window.location = "mailto:" + Encoded;
}
Any e-mail links would point to the javascript function like so:
<a> href="javascript:DoEmail('JohnZAPSZOO')" alt="Remove underscores in the following e-mail: John_S_at_yourdomain_dot_com">John Smith</a> It works fine, and exactly like a mailto: link to the end user (except for statusbar stuff)
This makes me very glad that I have switched primarily to Ubuntu + Beryl (eye candy - very nice) + QEMU (running WinXP). Yay!
Actually in the beginning, M$ was popular becuase of their productivity applications - Word and Excel, mainly - primarily for the macintosh. Word stepped in an open door (the mac word processor was worthless) and Excel fought a long battle to beat down Lotus 1-2-3. Only after that did Windows become ubuquitous. And yes, the initial versions of Windows were not well recieved. Interestingly enough, France turned out to be a far more receptive market to France (for Word and Excel) than the US, and helped support MS's efforts here domestically.
I still don't play many games...
But how many of these over-35ers are actually over 35? And how many are over 100? Is there any accountability check as to the ages? Looking at their article, they're counting unique visitors - did they pop up a little box that said "Hey, how old are you?" A very important part is that it says "MySpace Visitors" - not users. So not users, but parents checking up on their little users, or pedophiles looking for their next victim. This just means Xanga is less browsed by those types. Anyone else see this?
I love math, and am minoring in it, and I can't count my friends on one hand! Oh, wait...shoot...
Already partly slashdotted. Very slow and sometimes you don't get in.
But this is an interesting idea, fun if nothing else.
I drew a tree and I got a pineapple with a guy's face in it, a chinese guy standing in front of a gate, and a dragonfly. Maybe I need to brush up on my drawing skills.
*groan*
Not a troll, quite funny. Knowing everything about Dr. Who is a requirement for being on Slashdot, right?
You have stated one of the fundamental problems with the jail system in the US - the attitude of "heaven forbid that prisoners should be uncomfortable in jail." It would depend on where the hypothetical criminal hypothetically gets sent, but I wouldn't be surprised if inmates had internet/computer access. There's a difference between how things should happen, and how they do.
But today's kids are spending a lot more time on the computer than, say, crossing the street. There's a lot of kids that spend a lot more time on the computer chatting/myspacing/what-have-you than they do riding a bike or walking around the city. And that brings up my other point - in most families, it's already pounded into kids heads to look two ways before crossing the street, don't talk to strangers, scream like bloody murder if someone tries to grab you. Kids are told to eat their vegetables, drink their milk. And I don't know of many kids that spend time chatting on the phone with someone they don't know.
The point is, the whole idea of kids online is fairly new, and parents don't have generations of experience on how to deal with it. Parents walk with their kids on the street, they know who their kids are talking to on the phone, they make them eat right. A lot of parents, when the same principles are taken to the internet, are clueless - they're just doing that IM/MySpace/etc thing, it can't really hurt them.
Somehow when the same dangers are transferred to the internet, it all of a sudden becomes a non-issue, with parents and kids, because it's new. Parents don't see it as a danger, and kids say and do things they would never say or do over the phone or on the street. So why should internet monitoring take so much time? Because it's not so hard, and it's a new thing. Parents need to figure out how to deal with this new area of danger, and teach their kids that even though it seems harmless, it can be dangerous. The same basic safety lessons need to be pounded into the heads of today's information age kids that were pounded into ours, the lessons just need to be extended to the realm of cyberspace.
Wow, that was, uh, not funny. That was more..."I don't like cascading, and browsers don't support stuff." Duh. Thank you, captain obvious. I have better things to do than read this junk, like tweak my cross-browser CSS hacks. :-|
Then again, it did start getting flaky (deciding to chop off all but the first 8k, brobably a FAT problem).
But by that time, I'd gotten a 1GB cruzer micro w/ retractable USB for $25 on sale at CC, so I'm happy.
To the uninitiated (hopefully not many here), amen, brother.