Comment better tagline (Score 1) 78
Hi Slashdot. In the tagline beneath the article title, I believe you meant to say "Brand GNU".
Comment Re:Wow. Just wow. (Score 1) 325
4tran
+1 Funny
Comment Old Joke (Score 4, Funny) 105
Microsoft teams up with a vacuum cleaner company, to finally produce a product that doesn't suck. This stuff just writes itself.
Comment Re:These days... (Score 1) 892
There is no good reason to pay a good negotiator more than a bad, except if you want to hire someone for a position where you need negotiation skills.
There is, if you want that particular person to work at your company. Since they are so good at negotiation, they can probably convince some other company, such as one of your competitors, to pay them what they want, if you don't want to.
Comment Re:porn watchers? (Score 1) 203
Ya. That sounds like the right ballpark. BTW, your sig and mine are like two sides of the same coin.
Comment porn watchers? (Score 1) 203
So the summary says that this thing targets porn watchers specifically, but I couldn't find any stats on what percentage of the total net population that is. Does anyone have any data?
Comment Re:Always struggling with a Dodgy NVS mobile... (Score 1) 136
Comment Paranoid thought (Score 1) 83
I read some science fiction once, where the people in power did something like this, then nuked the entire world so they could start over from scratch, with their frozen samples. Just how delusional is Putin anyway?
Comment Re:The next big thing (Score 0) 81
Why so angry?
Comment Re:10000 feet (Score 1) 177
Guess I did miss it the first time. I read it as the AC trying to defend 10k somehow. Been a rough week.
Comment Re:10000 feet (Score 1) 177
Commercial jets typically cruise at 33000 to 40000 feet.
Comment ATC (Score 3, Informative) 330
Air traffic controllers in Canada Use 2000x2000 pixel panels for the Canadian Automated Air Traffic System (CAATS); Pretty close.
Comment Re:ah, I understand (Score 1) 430
I didn't know a person could become gay-tainted after they die if their successor is gay. Hope the next person to have my job after I die isn't gay, otherwise my tombstone might set off someone's gaydar. that would be embarrassing.
It's the viral nature of the GPL.
Comment Re:One word: (Score 2) 352
If someone would pay for it, and build it right, I would let them build it in my house.
CSS Proposed 20 Years Ago Today 180
An anonymous reader writes: On 10 October 1994, Opera CTO Hakon Lie posted a proposal for Cascading HTML style sheets. Now, two decades on, CSS has become one of the modern web's most important building blocks. The Opera dev blog just posted an interview with Lie about how CSS came to be, and what he thinks of it now. He says that if these standards were not made, "the web would have become a giant fax machine where pictures of text would be passed along." He also talks about competing proposals around the same time period, and mentions his biggest mistake: not producing a test suite along with the CSS1 spec. He thinks this would have gotten the early browsers to support it more quickly and more accurately. Lie also thinks CSS has a strong future: "New ideas will come along, but they will extend CSS rather than replace it. I believe that the CSS code we write today will be readable by computers 500 years from now."
