One observation, the popup text seems to appear randomly when you advance the scroller (all of the text will popup sometimes).
Yeah, that's a known issue with the version of WorldKit I used. Need to update that, hopefully they've fixed the bug...
In any case, though I have no evidence to back this up, and am not sure it's even intentional, I believe that by monkeying around in the middle east, we have focused the terrorists on attacking us there, not here (here being the US, not Europe), which, to a large extent, has been successful.
So it's OK if they kill Europeans and Asians, just not Americans. Eh? And people wonder why we've lost the respect of the world?
The Basque/ETA situation admittedly has a completely different historical context so why your refering to it confuses me really.
He didn't refer to the Basque/ETA situation. The 2004 Madrid train bombings had nothing to do with ETA or Basque separatism. The Spanish government in power at the time aggressively asserted that ETA was behind the bombings -- so aggressively that the President of Spain was personally calling major newspapers making the claim -- and when days later it was revealed that they were not, the government lost so much credibility that it was turned out of office.
...more angry about the hassle this causes, than anything else? Terrorists spread terror, so they've hit their mark. By being foiled the plot does an amazing amount of damage on its own, spreading FUD.
Yes, I am certainly more angry about having to check my toothpaste at the gate than I would have been had 1000 people been killed on exploding airplanes over the mid-Atlantic.
With a "war" on "terror" there are going to be casualties, my water consumption/music listening/laptop using/game playing/phone usage habits shouldn't be at the top of the list.
Yes, God forbid you should have to sacrifice a little convenience (and let's be clear, when we're talking about using your cellphone on an airliner we're talking about convenience, not liberty) to protect your life and the lives of others.
There have been plenty of terrorist incidents since 9/11 outside America but i guess being American its a bit of a stretch to expect you to know anything about the rest of the world.
Hey, I'm an American and I actually created an interactive Flash map of all the terror attacks attributed to al Qaeda since we invaded Iraq to make the same point as you're making. Not all Americans are out of touch:-)
I stand corrected -- I was dumb enough to presume that just because something can't really be measured, nobody would claim to be able to measure it;-)
I'd give you mod points if I had 'em...
Advertisers will pay for a billboard without any guarantee from the advertising company about how many people will drive past the sign, how many of those will read it, how many will take the information in and act on it. The client is assumed to be taking a risk in that regard.
But "outdoor advertising" firms make no representations that they can measure these things. You know what you're getting when you buy space on a billboard. AdWords is different because Google sells it with claims that they can track these things (indeed, they bill you based on the results of that tracking). If Google's click tracking is inaccurate, you aren't getting what you thought you were getting. That's the difference.
What do you possibly gain by having a separate search box? I just don't get it.
Predictability.
Power users have no problem absorbing the idea of One Widget That Does Many Things, but less savvy users can find it utterly confusing. "Wait, I type my search in there? I thought you said that's where I type web page addresses." These users benefit from the separated boxes because it becomes clear exactly what you should do with each, and you don't get confusion from failure modes like I-had-a-typo-in-my-URL-so-it-ran-a-search-but-I-di dn't-ask-it-to-search-what-is-going-on.
Firefox is designed for these users, not for power users. So having a box for search and a box for addresses makes a lot of sense.
You know, I used to hear this argument when I was in high school (1992 or so), only then it was about WordPerfect. I should learn WordPerfect, there was a huge market for people with WordPerfect skills, knowing all WordPerfect's arcane keystrokes was the road to a good career. The smart school was the one that focused on teaching WordPerfect, not general computer-literacy.
Do you know anyone today who knows WordPerfect? Do you know any business today that uses WordPerfect? If I had bought that line of bull, would I be more employable today because of my l33t WordPerfect skills?
In a world where the dominant application platform changes every few years, training kids in application-specific ways is a Bad Thing, regardless of what the application flavor of the moment is.
Yeah, but the last time I looked at it (which was admittedly a while ago), Cedega-CVS was hedged around with warnings about it being generally behind Cedega-for-pay in terms of performance and game support. YMMV, of course.
What's the best way to get games to play on Ubuntu?
Probably your best bet is to subscribe to Transgaming's Cedega service, which, while not perfect, is the only solution out there for playing Windows games on Linux with any kind of decent performance that I've heard of.
I've been using Windows since 1992 and hating Macs since they stopped supporting System 7. These "nerds" have come and gone from my chosen platform, and I'm supposed to get in a tizzy about it? They want the best thing out there, and I can appreciate their efforts to achieve it. That doesn't mean I am willing to unlearn everything I've got invested in Windows because some gadfly can't stand to look at another PuTTY window.
Tell me when the nerds shut down Microsoft Corp. That's news.
Not to mention the hardware dimension of the problem. Apple only has to ensure that OS X runs well on a small number of machine configurations, and they're the ones that define those configurations. Microsoft has to ensure that Windows runs well on millions of arbitrary configurations which they have no control over.
In other words, Apple doesn't have to worry about how its OS runs on a random assemblage of hardware from eight different Taiwanese vendors. Microsoft does.
So, unless something has changed in the last few years, Ubuntu is going to have to do the same -- go where the money is (corporations) or die.
As long as Mark Shuttleworth is willing to pour his not-inconsiderable personal fortune into Ubuntu, they're not going to be hurting for money.
Shuttleworth said in his Slashdot interview that he views Ubuntu almost as a not-for-profit:
I'd very much like to make the distro project sustainable, because I've never had the privilege to work with such talented guys who work as hard as this team, and they deserve to be rewarded and to know that people appreciate the value they add every day. If it doesn't work out that way, though, I'm honoured to consider it a gift back to the open source world, which played such a critical role in helping me build Thawte. So I hope it's commerce, though it may turn out to be philanthropy. Either way, it's still cheaper than going back to space, or hooking up with fast planes/boats/women, which I supposed would be Plan B.
But they made it an ALL NEW STORY by taking out the word "blog" (which was all over the 2005 edition of this story) and replacing it with "MySpace" (tres 2006)!
For that matter, I remember seeing the same story in the early 90s, but the magic buzzword was "Usenet". The venue changes but the inane paranoia remains...
If Google pulls out, they'll just use some other censored search engine like Baidu. If eBay pulls out, they'll just use another online auction site. No matter what any corporation does, it won't have a damn effect on the grand scale in China.
If I don't sell drugs to schoolchildren, they'll just buy them from somebody else.
If I don't sell weapons to terrorists, they'll just buy them from somebody else.
Does this make either of the activities above morally defensible for me to do? Discuss.
This sure sounds different to me than the hardware survey. I've taken the hardware survey (twice) and I don't remember it ever asking me if it was OK to monitor me as I play the game -- I was only asked if it was OK if information about my hardware was sent to Valve.
As privacy issues go, this is relatively minor, but it's still annoying. Why ask about the one case and not the other?
Absolutely! I actually just fired up EU2 again the other day for the first time in a while. It's remarkable how well it has held up. (Note to strategy game geeks: you can pick up EU2 now for $15, and it will run on just about anything more modern than a 386, so if you have never tried it, you officially have no excuses.)
My only hope is that the upcoming EU3 is as good, that'll keep me content until 2011 or so;-)
Now why won't they work in XP? Some essential feature of XP missing?
Congratulations, you've just discovered how all of us who run Windows 2000 have been feeling for the last few years.
Microsoft has been holding back features from Win2000 for ages to encourage uptake of XP. Perhaps the most annoying example is their ClearType screen-font technology for LCDs; ClearType is XP-only, for reasons that I've never found particularly compelling. And the last two versions of Windows Media Player have been XP-only too. There's no reason that stuff couldn't be made to run on XP, given that XP is just 2000 with a facelift; so it's no surprise that they would pull the same act with Vista.
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Yeah, that's a known issue with the version of WorldKit I used. Need to update that, hopefully they've fixed the bug...
So it's OK if they kill Europeans and Asians, just not Americans. Eh? And people wonder why we've lost the respect of the world?
He didn't refer to the Basque/ETA situation. The 2004 Madrid train bombings had nothing to do with ETA or Basque separatism. The Spanish government in power at the time aggressively asserted that ETA was behind the bombings -- so aggressively that the President of Spain was personally calling major newspapers making the claim -- and when days later it was revealed that they were not, the government lost so much credibility that it was turned out of office.
Here's some more info if you want it.
Yes, I am certainly more angry about having to check my toothpaste at the gate than I would have been had 1000 people been killed on exploding airplanes over the mid-Atlantic.
Yes, God forbid you should have to sacrifice a little convenience (and let's be clear, when we're talking about using your cellphone on an airliner we're talking about convenience, not liberty) to protect your life and the lives of others.
Hey, I'm an American and I actually created an interactive Flash map of all the terror attacks attributed to al Qaeda since we invaded Iraq to make the same point as you're making. Not all Americans are out of touch :-)
You can see the map here:
If I missed any, let me know, contact information is on the page.
Sounds like these guys have been talking to Grass Valley Greg...
I stand corrected -- I was dumb enough to presume that just because something can't really be measured, nobody would claim to be able to measure it ;-)
I'd give you mod points if I had 'em...
But "outdoor advertising" firms make no representations that they can measure these things. You know what you're getting when you buy space on a billboard. AdWords is different because Google sells it with claims that they can track these things (indeed, they bill you based on the results of that tracking). If Google's click tracking is inaccurate, you aren't getting what you thought you were getting. That's the difference.
Cut them some slack, it's not like YouOS is from MIT or anything!
Oh, wait.
Predictability.
Power users have no problem absorbing the idea of One Widget That Does Many Things, but less savvy users can find it utterly confusing. "Wait, I type my search in there? I thought you said that's where I type web page addresses." These users benefit from the separated boxes because it becomes clear exactly what you should do with each, and you don't get confusion from failure modes like I-had-a-typo-in-my-URL-so-it-ran-a-search-but-I-di dn't-ask-it-to-search-what-is-going-on.
Firefox is designed for these users, not for power users. So having a box for search and a box for addresses makes a lot of sense.
You know, I used to hear this argument when I was in high school (1992 or so), only then it was about WordPerfect. I should learn WordPerfect, there was a huge market for people with WordPerfect skills, knowing all WordPerfect's arcane keystrokes was the road to a good career. The smart school was the one that focused on teaching WordPerfect, not general computer-literacy.
Do you know anyone today who knows WordPerfect? Do you know any business today that uses WordPerfect? If I had bought that line of bull, would I be more employable today because of my l33t WordPerfect skills?
In a world where the dominant application platform changes every few years, training kids in application-specific ways is a Bad Thing, regardless of what the application flavor of the moment is.
Yeah, but the last time I looked at it (which was admittedly a while ago), Cedega-CVS was hedged around with warnings about it being generally behind Cedega-for-pay in terms of performance and game support. YMMV, of course.
Probably your best bet is to subscribe to Transgaming's Cedega service, which, while not perfect, is the only solution out there for playing Windows games on Linux with any kind of decent performance that I've heard of.
I've been using Windows since 1992 and hating Macs since they stopped supporting System 7. These "nerds" have come and gone from my chosen platform, and I'm supposed to get in a tizzy about it? They want the best thing out there, and I can appreciate their efforts to achieve it. That doesn't mean I am willing to unlearn everything I've got invested in Windows because some gadfly can't stand to look at another PuTTY window.
Tell me when the nerds shut down Microsoft Corp. That's news.
Congratulations, you just invented EBaumsWorld!
(see ebaumsworldsucks.com if you don't get it.)
They did know: the commentaries were for Laserdisc.
Let me guess. Jedi?
Not to mention the hardware dimension of the problem. Apple only has to ensure that OS X runs well on a small number of machine configurations, and they're the ones that define those configurations. Microsoft has to ensure that Windows runs well on millions of arbitrary configurations which they have no control over.
In other words, Apple doesn't have to worry about how its OS runs on a random assemblage of hardware from eight different Taiwanese vendors. Microsoft does.
It's already available: Bass Hero!
Oh, you meant the other kind. Whoops.
As long as Mark Shuttleworth is willing to pour his not-inconsiderable personal fortune into Ubuntu, they're not going to be hurting for money.
Shuttleworth said in his Slashdot interview that he views Ubuntu almost as a not-for-profit:
But they made it an ALL NEW STORY by taking out the word "blog" (which was all over the 2005 edition of this story) and replacing it with "MySpace" (tres 2006)!
For that matter, I remember seeing the same story in the early 90s, but the magic buzzword was "Usenet". The venue changes but the inane paranoia remains...
If I don't sell drugs to schoolchildren, they'll just buy them from somebody else.
If I don't sell weapons to terrorists, they'll just buy them from somebody else.
Does this make either of the activities above morally defensible for me to do? Discuss.
This sure sounds different to me than the hardware survey. I've taken the hardware survey (twice) and I don't remember it ever asking me if it was OK to monitor me as I play the game -- I was only asked if it was OK if information about my hardware was sent to Valve.
As privacy issues go, this is relatively minor, but it's still annoying. Why ask about the one case and not the other?
Absolutely! I actually just fired up EU2 again the other day for the first time in a while. It's remarkable how well it has held up. (Note to strategy game geeks: you can pick up EU2 now for $15, and it will run on just about anything more modern than a 386, so if you have never tried it, you officially have no excuses.)
My only hope is that the upcoming EU3 is as good, that'll keep me content until 2011 or so ;-)
No, you're thinking of Kim Jong-il. He likes to listen to his rockbox when he's ronery.
Congratulations, you've just discovered how all of us who run Windows 2000 have been feeling for the last few years.
Microsoft has been holding back features from Win2000 for ages to encourage uptake of XP. Perhaps the most annoying example is their ClearType screen-font technology for LCDs; ClearType is XP-only, for reasons that I've never found particularly compelling. And the last two versions of Windows Media Player have been XP-only too. There's no reason that stuff couldn't be made to run on XP, given that XP is just 2000 with a facelift; so it's no surprise that they would pull the same act with Vista.