It doesn't happen often, but I haven't been able to reach Google for the last three hours. There are other sites that I can't reach as well this morning (BBC, Drudge, etc.), but none that are as critical to me as Google.
So consider this a nod to the "chain as strong as its weakest link" meme...
I don't mean to be too cynical, but I'm sure even the Venezualan people would admit that they are not the foremost force in world IT. Quite right, this is a victory for Open Source, but could we save the dancing in the streets for when a slightly more major player joins our side?
Twit. Who cares whether Venezuela is a "major player"?
If this means that schools in Venezuela are more inclined to teach using OSS, then that alone is a victory. Who knows where the next Richard Stallman or Linus Torvalds will come from?
Why is cross-platform support such a big deal? All you care about is that the client (whichever client on whichever platform) supports the protocol, right?
I HATE the stress and responsability that comes with a the job. To say nothing of being expected as an educated adult to know how to spell "responsibility" and being able to choose "a job" or "the job".
Administer! Administer! Why do you fucking illiterates insist on using "administrate"? It's truly as irritating as taco's reflex use of "then" where the rest of the english-speaking world uses "than".
What is it with you guys? Is functional illiteracy a job requirement at Slashdot? We're not talking rocket science here. "Then vs. Than" is not a subtle concept. It's just basic use of the language, and ignoring the distinction is incredibly irritating to people who might otherwise bother finishing to read what you write.
There's a book (details escape me at the moment) that reproduces very small sections of daguerrotypes made in the US the early 1860's. In case you're not familiar with this process, daguerrotypes record an image at the molecular level, rather than, say, at the level of a silver halide granule. This gives them an astounding ability to render details, limited (I believe) only by the resolving power of the lens. Lenses of the time didn't have a hell of lot of resolving power, but the results are remarkable nonetheless.
One I remember in particular is a tiny portion of a panaoramic shot showing the passengers on the deck of a small steamboat. These people, of course, didn't know they were being photographed. For that matter, the photographer was concentrating on a much larger view and may not even have been aware of them. This lack of awareness is pure magic! Time travel! I love it!
Big deal, you say... until you realize his original B&W glass-plate negatives were created using a clever RGB filter system which he used almost 100 years ago. A little modern "digichromatography"... reapplication of the filtered colours and combining them into a composite colour image... allows for stunning full colour reproductions!
From a technical standpoint, colour separations were probably a lot more likely at that time than anything like Kodachrome. (Actually, RGB is the basis for many modern colour systems as well.)
What I find astounding is that people actually figured out that a separation could produce full-colour images at a time when there were no real scientific antecedents. That takes real imagination!
There's something quite eerie about these photographs. It's as though in our mind's eye we really think that the world in the Victorian era was sepia-toned and monochrome. It's a shock to think that in fact, in terms of natural subjects, it looked much like it does today.
If you find this kind of time travel interesting, you should investigate the various "rephotographic" projects in which the sites of well-known historical photographs are identified, tracked down, and photographed again from a viewpoint and under lighting conditions as close as possible to the original. When you see this stuff, you start looking for the things that have changed. Again, it's a shock to see how little a hundred and fifty years adds to many subjects.
Slashdot Mirror
Replace every second occurence of "then" with "than".
...how about a 25% tax on automobiles to help fight drunk driving?
...how about a 25% tax on junk food to help fight obesity?
...how about a 25% tax on guns'n'ammo to help fight crime?
In fact, how about a 25% surtax on all taxes to help fight unnecessary taxation?
It doesn't happen often, but I haven't been able to reach Google for the last three hours. There are other sites that I can't reach as well this morning (BBC, Drudge, etc.), but none that are as critical to me as Google.
So consider this a nod to the "chain as strong as its weakest link" meme...
These screenshots are nothing less than spectacular!
Nothing less then spectacular, you mean. Come on, that's a Taco post. Show some respect!
I don't mean to be too cynical, but I'm sure even the Venezualan people would admit that they are not the foremost force in world IT. Quite right, this is a victory for Open Source, but could we save the dancing in the streets for when a slightly more major player joins our side?
Twit. Who cares whether Venezuela is a "major player"?
If this means that schools in Venezuela are more inclined to teach using OSS, then that alone is a victory. Who knows where the next Richard Stallman or Linus Torvalds will come from?
Well, a spellchecker might be, uh, "helpfull" for Taco.
Why is cross-platform support such a big deal? All you care about is that the client (whichever client on whichever platform) supports the protocol, right?
No argument there.
One couldn't find a better example of evolving language then Slashdot.
I'm not sure why any of this should be surprising...
Jeez, we can buy it at the Burger King in Victoria. Anywhere, there's a Canadian Forces Base, ya got poutine.
"At the site of the 1969 rock concert at Woodstock, New York, an electrical charge turns a local farmer into a murderous werewolf..."
A staggering 2.4/10 on IMDB.
I HATE the stress and responsability that comes with a the job.
To say nothing of being expected as an educated adult to know how to spell "responsibility" and being able to choose "a job" or "the job".
Hello, it's "it's", not "its". I'm just saying.
There's something sort of arrogant about publishing your acceptance speech when you didn't even win.
I haven't written my book yet, but I've just about finished my acceptance speech.
They give your money to try and prevent you from using anything else than Windows.
That should be "anything else then Windows." Remember where you're posting.
...his paper never gets past being more then just pro-Microsoft
Administer! Administer! Why do you fucking illiterates insist on using "administrate"? It's truly as irritating as taco's reflex use of "then" where the rest of the english-speaking world uses "than".
Hi there...
Is there a way I can tell Win32 Moz to use Outlook for mail, Outlook Express for news, etc?
Thank you!
M.
> thousands of fake bug reports, and costed the
> DSL Provider millions in tech support.
Of course, this would only be an effective tactic if the vendor actually investigated the bug reports. Obviously it wouldn't work for Microsoft...
Wake up.
There's a book (details escape me at the moment) that reproduces very small sections of daguerrotypes made in the US the early 1860's. In case you're not familiar with this process, daguerrotypes record an image at the molecular level, rather than, say, at the level of a silver halide granule. This gives them an astounding ability to render details, limited (I believe) only by the resolving power of the lens. Lenses of the time didn't have a hell of lot of resolving power, but the results are remarkable nonetheless.
One I remember in particular is a tiny portion of a panaoramic shot showing the passengers on the deck of a small steamboat. These people, of course, didn't know they were being photographed. For that matter, the photographer was concentrating on a much larger view and may not even have been aware of them. This lack of awareness is pure magic! Time travel! I love it!
Yes, this was probably the Rephotographic Survey Project which I think was the first large-scale undertaking of its type.
From a technical standpoint, colour separations were probably a lot more likely at that time than anything like Kodachrome. (Actually, RGB is the basis for many modern colour systems as well.)
What I find astounding is that people actually figured out that a separation could produce full-colour images at a time when there were no real scientific antecedents. That takes real imagination!
There's something quite eerie about these photographs. It's as though in our mind's eye we really think that the world in the Victorian era was sepia-toned and monochrome. It's a shock to think that in fact, in terms of natural subjects, it looked much like it does today.
If you find this kind of time travel interesting, you should investigate the various "rephotographic" projects in which the sites of well-known historical photographs are identified, tracked down, and photographed again from a viewpoint and under lighting conditions as close as possible to the original. When you see this stuff, you start looking for the things that have changed. Again, it's a shock to see how little a hundred and fifty years adds to many subjects.
> > "freedom fighters" has more freedom than sense.
> Back that statement up. If you're going to make such a claim it
> requires an argument.
Well, if programmers are "freedom fighters" does that mean the revolution's over when the power fails?