Erk mentioned that I haven’t ranted about EULA’s in a while.
There’s a great /. thread following a post about a Microsoft document giving ‘partners’ tips for how to sell MS Office to people considering migrating to the free OpenOffice.org office suite.
Office.
Superior.
Right.
(Do your best Bill Murray for the above three words.)
Don’t get me started on e-mail attached MS Office format files. Gawd.
Gross.
If you’ve forgotten how silly the country has become: red_alert.
Update: I checked out zefrank.com a bit. Very, very, very cool.
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Having enjoyed Eastern Standard Tribe on my powerbook during my flight to New Orleans last month, I’m now looking forward to Doctrow’s newest.
Mike Newdow is suing to get the “under god” bit removed from the official version of the Pledge we all got to recite in school every morning.
It made for an interesting c-span-commute. To hear him debate, go to c-span.org and search for “newdow”. Come back and state your mind.
It is a slight change in the existing design, which is like adding a small fraction to zero and then rounding down. I like it.
The cookie sticks around once you hit it - my browser has been hitting it for the past week or so and I’ve just now noticed it enough times to blog it.
It is always nice when an idle curiosity uncovers the collection of a finely honed mind.
I just wasted 15 minutes learning everything there is to know about shoes.
Do check out his multi-page chronology of the Air Jordan for yet more evidence that the 90’s were ridiculous. Ah memories of being a middle school skater during what I think were the only three years that skating wasn’t cool. Everyone had to have the latest Jordan or Pump
The boss threw a lan party.
Yes, sitting like that with my tongue out improves my rail gun accuracy by 25%. Yes, that is Guinness the boss provided.
Johnathan and I took first in the ctf tourney. I was a one game trick thanks to an extremely short attention span and my powerbook but everyone seemed to have a good time.
Will was impressive for a UT player. David had wicked aim. Ethan was uhm, there too… damned CS players.
Most of the other computer science grad students had the opinion that there were those people who got it and those people who just don’t get it. But once I observed them working, I realize it was not the people who were having the problem, it was the fact that the way our computer systems were designed that was giving them all the problems, and the reason why the people got it got it was because they spent a lot of time learning all the intracacies of how they work. And I realized that we should be designing computer systems to make them easier to use and that was more important than what I was being taught in my computer science classes, such as how to make programs run in minimal time or minimal space and how to do those trade-offs. All of that is interesting and valuable. I used that inflational time in designing systems, but it was the interface that was clearly most at fault.
FL: And this was during the '60s right?
JR: Yeah, I graduated in '67.
computer illiterate people: It isn’t your fault.
power users: Applied free time is not ‘getting it’.
everyone else: Yes, this applies outside of computing as well.
I don’t care.
It is three or more years away. Press releases from idontworkforthem@hotmail.com are not news from an anonymous insider, they are press releases.
K. Now I have a dated url to paste.
No, I don’t think I’m an outsider teasing fanboys for being fanboys when I myself am a fanboy (just not of MS Windows).
Ring Colors And Their Significance
Since 1936, when the concentric circles (called “rings” for convenience) opening was introduced on Merrie Melodies, the first color used was blue because of the advent of blue hues in the new 3-color Technicolor process opened up to Disney’s competitors that year. I Wanna Play House was the first Merrie Melodies with rings, while a later film (not known due to Blue Ribbon reissue policy) introduced the zooming WB shield (a device borrowed from WB’s live-action films) used on virtually every WB cartoon hence.