Cabbage Patch Kid important as Challenger Program
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I recently got the 80's stamp set when I asked for some stamps to mail letters. They must have run out of the regular stamps?? Anyway, I thought they were pretty dumb. ET, the Cosby Show aren't that bad I suppose, but Cabbage Patch Kids? They are saying NASA's Challenger Shuttle Program had about the same impact as a stupid flame resistant doll. When was the jump rope invented? For argument sake, say it was invented in the 1590s. I mean if they did a "20 stamps of the 1590s" would they list the jump rope along with Columbus "discovering" the Americas?
I started driving after I was part of the online world for a few years. I immediatly did not like driving. Bear in mind I live in large crowded city, and I'm sure people are much nicer in other areas. People are rude and mean on the highway. People will drive right up behind an old lady because she is going too slow, sometimes even when they can go around her. They will do things that they would never do person to person. That is what I think is the main problem with online life. However civilized we think we are, when it comes down to it, person to person, when you're on line at McDonald's, you don't start pushing up behind someone who is talking slow because there is a chance somebody will take offense and beat the crap out of you. Not to say this is the only reason people remain civilized in person. For some, they wish to be perceived as nice, they want to have friends, etc. But there are a lot of closet brutes out there who only come out of their shell under anonimity. Perhaps I'm over sensitive, but I sometimes think about installing message lights on the back of my car that say "Thank you" or "You're mean" or a programmable markee. I sometimes wish NYC had a reputation system where drivers could use a computer on their dashboard to issue up to 3 negative or positive reputation points to other drivers. If you received a certain amount, you would be unable to drive for some duration. I'm guessing most people would not mind this type of system because it limits driving, and affects safety. This would not work online because it would violate freedom of speech, and it is easy for many to create multiple accounts from which to vote from. People can run their sites like this, however. Slashdot has a good system, much of it due to the fact they have active and dedicated staff. Not ever site can have this, and I suppose one can argue sites that don't usually aren't worth posting on anyway. But usenet and other systems could be run like this. If some idiot just wants to vent anger in a post, without making any sense or saying anything of use to anyone, users could vote on him and he could not post. But he could just make another alias. There are also many that do not fall into the 'raving angry lunatic' category. There seems to be many many people out there who are self proclaimed experts on one thing or another. I find these mostly in social chat rooms/boards where someone tries to be the authority of the room, belittles certain people. Usually they try to show off some kind of intellect, one of the most popluar methods is to pick out spelling/grammatical errors while criticizing the over idea of someone's post. Usually, their intellect is second rate, and if you ever stop for a minute to compare conversations you've had with people you respect in person, the online conversation pales tremendously. In all, I think it's a sad sign of the anarchical system of the internet. It is hard to use the internet as a reliable discussion forum. Not everyone is trained to debate with purpose. Even a noticable amount of posts on slashdot, one of the best forums, are just flames. Usually I only read the cover story, roughtly half the time I follow the link to read more, I find useless messages written only to provoke others or written in anger. Provoking others to think is one thing, provoking others to piss them off is another that is rarely productive.
Maybe Anime might have been a better choice? It's cheaper, and the full story has a better chance of being captured. I think it would make a great Anime series, but maybe that's because I see a lot of paralells with it and the Evangelion Series. Has Card expressed any interest in this medium? Has anyone else?
Jesus guys, It was a little story. Call me stupid, but It's 6AM EST right now, and I was wondering where I might find the first reports of any Y2K glitches, so I came here first. I wouldn't want to see SlashDot flooded with Y2K news, but let's face it, there *may* be problems, and it's going to be news worthy. Just because every joe blow is going to be talking about Y2K over the next few days doesn't mean SlashDot is too cool for it. You people are too busy trying to ignore something, that it looks like your obsessing over it. Say it's not importance once, fine, say it over and over and overreact to 1 story, and it looks like you're trying to fool yourself. So let's hear what Y2K bugs there may be, and if there aren't any, they'll be plenty of other stuff to read. As for the 2000 vs 2001 battle royal of the minds we have here, agreed, give it a rest. What's with all the Anonymous Coward posts, btw?
I think the best way is to make use of as much HTML as you can. While it may not be the most efficent, it is the most standardized of the 3. We have implemented our own language called PSX, a plug-in dll for most NT based web servers, and expect a linux port soon. We use it to generate HTML reports. HTML is competent for data entry... but might benefit for more tags to facilitate that. There are a slew of rules for displaying output, so much so that compliant browsers can serve as capable reporting tools, why not add standards to make data entry more flexible? I'm not a big fan of Java, and am definatly no expert, but it seems building even simple Java applications isn't easy. GUI elements seem testy and sluggish, ie slide bars not refreshing, scroll bars acting jumpy. And mostly, I see applets out there, not full java applications. From an end-user-ish point of view, it seems silly that we need to load something else once we've loaded our browser up. Check out PSX at www.primedata.org/psx.htm.. our language does a lot, but it doesn't do everything. We use it mostly for reporting systems for the financial sector. For reporting, it's great (we do some trade entry with it), for other things, it's no so great. Lots of development time goes into making your web browsers, might as well make use of them.
All-In-One Linux is due out soon, which should break the barriers set by different Linux distributions, making installation of one package system designed for on distrtibution a breeze on AIO Linux. The only catch is that AIO Linux did not get it's name for it's supposed ability to bring the distributions together. No, no, it got the name because it will not support subdirectories of any kind. Everything is install in one directory. You won't be able to make new directories, but you will be able to have files of the same name, accessable by a special character sequence plus a function key pressed while running commands. The ls program is being re-written from scratch, featuring over 2000 switches to facilitate directory listing. Spintek software has already released a freeware program called AIO Mark, a shell which will cross refrence files in a large master file, creating virtual subdirectories.
Prediction: 2050-2100 A huge asteroid on a direct intersect course to Earth will be discovered, due to arrive in 20 years. Thousands of plans to divert or destroy the asteroid are conceived. The movie industry creates many major motion pictures based on these ideas. The most viable of the plans is picked, but the earth doesn't have the necessary resources required to complete it - they were all spent in computing power and pyrotecnic displays making major motion pictures about asteroids about to hit earth. Widespread panic does not ensue, the populance is well accostumed to the idea of asteroids hitting the earth by now, and many have seen convincing replicas of such an event. 2050-2100 An advanced lifeform inhabiting an asteroid detects a planet on intersect course. The aliens realize there are inhabitants on the planet and try to make contact via electromagnetic transmission. The inhabitants of earth fail to understand the transmission, and for some reason (see above) are unable to divert the course of the asteroid that is the source of the transmission. The alien race is forced to destroy the earth. The aliens' culture is such that entertainment does not consume much of their natural resources.
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I recently got the 80's stamp set when I asked for some stamps to mail letters. They must have run out of the regular stamps?? Anyway, I thought they were pretty dumb. ET, the Cosby Show aren't that bad I suppose, but Cabbage Patch Kids? They are saying NASA's Challenger Shuttle Program had about the same impact as a stupid flame resistant doll. When was the jump rope invented? For argument sake, say it was invented in the 1590s. I mean if they did a "20 stamps of the 1590s" would they list the jump rope along with Columbus "discovering" the Americas?
I started driving after I was part of the online world for a few years. I immediatly did not like driving. Bear in mind I live in large crowded city, and I'm sure people are much nicer in other areas. People are rude and mean on the highway. People will drive right up behind an old lady because she is going too slow, sometimes even when they can go around her. They will do things that they would never do person to person. That is what I think is the main problem with online life. However civilized we think we are, when it comes down to it, person to person, when you're on line at McDonald's, you don't start pushing up behind someone who is talking slow because there is a chance somebody will take offense and beat the crap out of you. Not to say this is the only reason people remain civilized in person. For some, they wish to be perceived as nice, they want to have friends, etc. But there are a lot of closet brutes out there who only come out of their shell under anonimity. Perhaps I'm over sensitive, but I sometimes think about installing message lights on the back of my car that say "Thank you" or "You're mean" or a programmable markee. I sometimes wish NYC had a reputation system where drivers could use a computer on their dashboard to issue up to 3 negative or positive reputation points to other drivers. If you received a certain amount, you would be unable to drive for some duration. I'm guessing most people would not mind this type of system because it limits driving, and affects safety. This would not work online because it would violate freedom of speech, and it is easy for many to create multiple accounts from which to vote from. People can run their sites like this, however. Slashdot has a good system, much of it due to the fact they have active and dedicated staff. Not ever site can have this, and I suppose one can argue sites that don't usually aren't worth posting on anyway. But usenet and other systems could be run like this. If some idiot just wants to vent anger in a post, without making any sense or saying anything of use to anyone, users could vote on him and he could not post. But he could just make another alias. There are also many that do not fall into the 'raving angry lunatic' category. There seems to be many many people out there who are self proclaimed experts on one thing or another. I find these mostly in social chat rooms/boards where someone tries to be the authority of the room, belittles certain people. Usually they try to show off some kind of intellect, one of the most popluar methods is to pick out spelling/grammatical errors while criticizing the over idea of someone's post. Usually, their intellect is second rate, and if you ever stop for a minute to compare conversations you've had with people you respect in person, the online conversation pales tremendously. In all, I think it's a sad sign of the anarchical system of the internet. It is hard to use the internet as a reliable discussion forum. Not everyone is trained to debate with purpose. Even a noticable amount of posts on slashdot, one of the best forums, are just flames. Usually I only read the cover story, roughtly half the time I follow the link to read more, I find useless messages written only to provoke others or written in anger. Provoking others to think is one thing, provoking others to piss them off is another that is rarely productive.
Maybe Anime might have been a better choice? It's cheaper, and the full story has a better chance of being captured. I think it would make a great Anime series, but maybe that's because I see a lot of paralells with it and the Evangelion Series. Has Card expressed any interest in this medium? Has anyone else?
Jesus guys, It was a little story. Call me stupid, but It's 6AM EST right now, and I was wondering where I might find the first reports of any Y2K glitches, so I came here first. I wouldn't want to see SlashDot flooded with Y2K news, but let's face it, there *may* be problems, and it's going to be news worthy. Just because every joe blow is going to be talking about Y2K over the next few days doesn't mean SlashDot is too cool for it. You people are too busy trying to ignore something, that it looks like your obsessing over it. Say it's not importance once, fine, say it over and over and overreact to 1 story, and it looks like you're trying to fool yourself. So let's hear what Y2K bugs there may be, and if there aren't any, they'll be plenty of other stuff to read. As for the 2000 vs 2001 battle royal of the minds we have here, agreed, give it a rest. What's with all the Anonymous Coward posts, btw?
I think the best way is to make use of as much HTML as you can. While it may not be the most efficent, it is the most standardized of the 3. We have implemented our own language called PSX, a plug-in dll for most NT based web servers, and expect a linux port soon. We use it to generate HTML reports.
HTML is competent for data entry... but might benefit for more tags to facilitate that. There are a slew of rules for displaying output, so much so that compliant browsers can serve as capable reporting tools, why not add standards to make data entry more flexible?
I'm not a big fan of Java, and am definatly no expert, but it seems building even simple Java applications isn't easy. GUI elements seem testy and sluggish, ie slide bars not refreshing, scroll bars acting jumpy. And mostly, I see applets out there, not full java applications. From an end-user-ish point of view, it seems silly that we need to load something else once we've loaded our browser up.
Check out PSX at www.primedata.org/psx.htm.. our language does a lot, but it doesn't do everything. We use it mostly for reporting systems for the financial sector. For reporting, it's great (we do some trade entry with it), for other things, it's no so great. Lots of development time goes into making your web browsers, might as well make use of them.
All-In-One Linux is due out soon, which should break the barriers set by different Linux distributions, making installation of one package system designed for on distrtibution a breeze on AIO Linux. The only catch is that AIO Linux did not get it's name for it's supposed ability to bring the distributions together. No, no, it got the name because it will not support subdirectories of any kind. Everything is install in one directory. You won't be able to make new directories, but you will be able to have files of the same name, accessable by a special character sequence plus a function key pressed while running commands. The ls program is being re-written from scratch, featuring over 2000 switches to facilitate directory listing. Spintek software has already released a freeware program called AIO Mark, a shell which will cross refrence files in a large master file, creating virtual subdirectories.
Prediction: 2050-2100 A huge asteroid on a direct intersect course to Earth will be discovered, due to arrive in 20 years. Thousands of plans to divert or destroy the asteroid are conceived. The movie industry creates many major motion pictures based on these ideas. The most viable of the plans is picked, but the earth doesn't have the necessary resources required to complete it - they were all spent in computing power and pyrotecnic displays making major motion pictures about asteroids about to hit earth. Widespread panic does not ensue, the populance is well accostumed to the idea of asteroids hitting the earth by now, and many have seen convincing replicas of such an event. 2050-2100 An advanced lifeform inhabiting an asteroid detects a planet on intersect course. The aliens realize there are inhabitants on the planet and try to make contact via electromagnetic transmission. The inhabitants of earth fail to understand the transmission, and for some reason (see above) are unable to divert the course of the asteroid that is the source of the transmission. The alien race is forced to destroy the earth. The aliens' culture is such that entertainment does not consume much of their natural resources.