That's alot of personal opinion and speculation regarding the reaction of people at large when it comes to new approaches of organizing, displaying and communicating information on the web. Remember the personal web page of the 1990's? Everybody had a personal website with a link begging you to please sign thier personal message board.
Now we have blogs and and wiki's.
Suff evolves; new ways, trends and effencies are central to the expansion of the web. Once I said, "How could something ever replace hotbot? This google is stupid!"
Try using ask.com as your only major search engine for a week, get to know it. You just might find youself taking a shine to it. That's how I made the switch from hotbot to google so very many years ago.
Is it just me, or does communist China have a better grip on the overall "issue" of controlling the internet than the Democratic Peoples Republic of The United Sta....Errr I mean the USA.
I really wish the government could just let well enough alone instead of completely fucking up the economy by way of fucking up the internet.
Yesterday, I sided with those who supported the runner up. Today, if you check out the winning design. You will find that the interface has been cleaned up ALOT, including the Slashdot logo. I now like this design better than the runner up.
I think the point of this contest was to see who could develop the best CSS code, not so much the overall look and feel which has been vastly improved over yesterday's example.
In other words, the reason we, "Know Shit" is because we wallow in it on our way to greater understanding of how things like nature works and how we can reform our technology to avoid doing things like burning holes in the atmosphere and irradiating ourselves.
If you are going to do something, it is best to know what it takes to screw up your endeavor before approaching sucess.
"We're playing with chemicals, eating toxic foods, messing with nature's balance, wasting or restoring ozone layer beyond our comprehension, using electronics that cause tumors and other illnesses..."
This is called trial and error. It is a driving force behind micro-evolution and macroscopic-evolutionary systems such as business, society, politics, etc...
Often times, even very smart human beings must behave in counter-productive error in order to achieve a new understanding of progress.
So yes, as a whole, we, the people of Earth are doing some very stupid and all around ignorant things. We are currently in the infancy of finally appreciating the error and gravity of many contemporary ways.
In time, we will look back upon this age and say, "How foolish we were playing with all those chemicals, disregarding nature, and not to mention: How did humans survive past twenty ingesting all of the toxic chemical-laden so called processed foods? And what was up with all those automobiles burning all that fossil fuel over all that time? My god, it actually rained acid back then!"
It is through these trials with their capacity for error that we learn what to do and what not to do.
When I was three, I put my hand on an electric stove the moment it reverted from red to black in order to see if it was immediately cool at that point. Well, it wasn't. A trip to the hospital and weeks with a hand wrapped in gauze later, I had learned something new and beneficial, and I learned through ignorance and error.
I mean think about it. Prosecuting this case at all was a dumb move. The company only managed to draw attention to itself as a vendor of insecure software. The only company that can get away with that is MS.
So the appeal continued the bad publicity, the company wised up and dropped the case to put a stop to it before losing anymore customers.
Now if only your post made sense. There is a hell of a difference between a 1980 Caprice and the Space Shuttle. I mean, do they even still make brand new external fuel tanks and solid rocket boosers for a 1980 Caprice?
"There is a time and a place to apply standards. "
Yes, such as when they are needed to keep things from exploding with people in them.
Are we that impressed by apocalyptic stories and high technology that we ignore the whole reason we're watching the show?
Yes. We have become those folks you sometimes hear about that stare and watch moth's flying into thier bug zapper. It is the shiny thing effect, like watching fireworks or someones home burning down. People want to see pretty beamed energy weapons, big explosions, trippy wormholes etc...
Wait... have we all become the people watching the moths? Or have we become the moths themselves?
After months of trying to come up with a practical reason to spend $150.00 - $300.00 on an iPod, I just ordered a 1 gig nano a couple of hours ago only to just now run across this story.
Oh well, at least I got it engraved with DON'T PANIC!
Considering that many geeks like me have been all over HD DVD and Blue Ray technology for a long time now, offering Serenity at launch is a very clever move indeed. If HD DVD provides as great of a picture as it is cracked up to, geeks will be buying up HD DVD and players and a copy of Serenity like hotcakes.
In fact, they oughta bundle some of these players with Serenity. How could a geek resist?
Considering what this game has been through...
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It would be a nice surprise if it turned out to be one hell of a game. Then again I haven't been a gamer since quake 1 and quake world over a modem... those were the days
The fact that it started with the quake 1 engine really adds perspective:
Actually, that's control click. Although I prefer a one button mouse, I have also used a five button mouse with all of my expose' features programmed in. So even when I did that, I still used control click.
Well, for some reason that page does not render in Safari, but based on what you are saying, I would not settle for less than the most unrestricted plain vanilla memory stick in a phone.
Now that I think about, all wireless and incognito and whatnot, that would be one potentially malicious piece of equipment.
"Does OS X really offer any applications that would entice me to purchase a new Mac and put up with the tedium of Boot Camp? I doubt it.
He doubt's it? So basically he is saying that he did no research before writing his biased little article? I mean damn, a person would flunk English 102 for that!
This is the most baseless FUD\opinion article I have read in a long while.
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Now we have blogs and and wiki's.
Suff evolves; new ways, trends and effencies are central to the expansion of the web. Once I said, "How could something ever replace hotbot? This google is stupid!"
Try using ask.com as your only major search engine for a week, get to know it. You just might find youself taking a shine to it. That's how I made the switch from hotbot to google so very many years ago.
In a distant way, that's kind of ironic.
back to my cave now. Bad, bad troll...
I really wish the government could just let well enough alone instead of completely fucking up the economy by way of fucking up the internet.
Open the iPod bay doors Hal.
I think the point of this contest was to see who could develop the best CSS code, not so much the overall look and feel which has been vastly improved over yesterday's example.
That is atrocious. If you are using a Mac and OS X, use safari, it renders ans scales the page perfectly.
If you need windows for whatever reason. Get a Macbook and dual boot OS X \ WinXP.
Join us, or fall forever.
If you are going to do something, it is best to know what it takes to screw up your endeavor before approaching sucess.
This is called trial and error. It is a driving force behind micro-evolution and macroscopic-evolutionary systems such as business, society, politics, etc...
Often times, even very smart human beings must behave in counter-productive error in order to achieve a new understanding of progress.
So yes, as a whole, we, the people of Earth are doing some very stupid and all around ignorant things. We are currently in the infancy of finally appreciating the error and gravity of many contemporary ways.
In time, we will look back upon this age and say, "How foolish we were playing with all those chemicals, disregarding nature, and not to mention: How did humans survive past twenty ingesting all of the toxic chemical-laden so called processed foods? And what was up with all those automobiles burning all that fossil fuel over all that time? My god, it actually rained acid back then!"
It is through these trials with their capacity for error that we learn what to do and what not to do.
When I was three, I put my hand on an electric stove the moment it reverted from red to black in order to see if it was immediately cool at that point. Well, it wasn't. A trip to the hospital and weeks with a hand wrapped in gauze later, I had learned something new and beneficial, and I learned through ignorance and error.
This is just how the game is played, that's all.
William
This is not a surprising considering that the MS OS has only just entered into puberity. I would say that some clearesel or Acutane might help.
Personally, I think ever MS OS, and apps like IE should come with a hefty does of aerosel Valtrex to spray in and out of your computer.
Otherwies, all things Micorsoft she be given thier MMR vaccince before entering the world.
"She Bangs" as sung by William Hung. I suppose better that than say, the greatest hit's of ABBA.
So the appeal continued the bad publicity, the company wised up and dropped the case to put a stop to it before losing anymore customers.
You were shooting for score:5, Funny - right?
So you're saying that in Vancouver, you have a police procedure for dealing with improv artists?
That's harsh man.
http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_programming.shtml
Now if only your post made sense. There is a hell of a difference between a 1980 Caprice and the Space Shuttle. I mean, do they even still make brand new external fuel tanks and solid rocket boosers for a 1980 Caprice?
"There is a time and a place to apply standards. "
Yes, such as when they are needed to keep things from exploding with people in them.
Yes. We have become those folks you sometimes hear about that stare and watch moth's flying into thier bug zapper. It is the shiny thing effect, like watching fireworks or someones home burning down. People want to see pretty beamed energy weapons, big explosions, trippy wormholes etc...
Wait... have we all become the people watching the moths? Or have we become the moths themselves?
When I got to that one I nearly spit my coffee all over my iBook. Luckily, my old Win XP machine was beside my desk with it's side panels off.
Oh well, at least I got it engraved with DON'T PANIC!
In fact, they oughta bundle some of these players with Serenity. How could a geek resist?
http://www.gamepro.com/computer/pc/games/previews/ images/50334-1-2.jpg
Then upgraded to the quake 2 engine:
http://games.cnews.ru/trophy/screens/duke-nukem-fo rever/aai.jpg
Not sure what engine this is from 2001: http://www.gamenavigator.ru/pub/gallery/news/news2 005100605.jpg 2001
If you are out of the loop like me:
http://www.planetduke.com/duke4/faq/
I can't find a single current screenshot on the web and am very curious. Anyone got a lead on that?
Actually, that's control click. Although I prefer a one button mouse, I have also used a five button mouse with all of my expose' features programmed in. So even when I did that, I still used control click.
Now that I think about, all wireless and incognito and whatnot, that would be one potentially malicious piece of equipment.
I just want a phone with a gigabyte of flash memory and bluetooth capability to be able to mount as a drive and store data on.
He doubt's it? So basically he is saying that he did no research before writing his biased little article? I mean damn, a person would flunk English 102 for that!
This is the most baseless FUD\opinion article I have read in a long while.