Note: I think the comic on the front page changes every so often, so if it isn't Putin, then you were too slow. At the time of posting it was relevant to this discussion.
I think you can find it here too if the original link isn't working.
Hmm that new tag of yours doesn't seem to render properly in IE6, although being 100% standards compliant. How about you fix your code to work on all browsers.
Sincerely PHB.
As an aside I'm working on a web application and myself and the other developer use ie7 & firefox to test and the boss has ie6 only. The amount of bugs to fix before every Friday afternoon progress meeting is really annoying, cause if it doesn't work on his computer than he thinks it doesn't work at all.
Although intended as a joke, I think it is a valid point. A number of things could change the response in your brain: e.g. emotional state, what you've just been doing, events/experiences.
I use adobe reader 8 and it is really slow. acroread 6 & 7 were way faster in comparison, and on much lower end machines than what I currently use. I'm not sure what v8 adds to the viewer, apart from looking a bit sleeker.
I might try some open source readers as suggested by other replies, as Adobe reader 8 is far too slow and bloated.
Well, practice what you preach and stop limiting yourself by cleaving your language to the gutter. People might take your posts more seriously if you remove the flame-bait and leave the actual content.
There was a recent article in choice magazine (an Australian consumer watchdog sort of mag) about restaurant health inspections. There are inspections here but the results aren't published and restaurants which don't comply only need to pay a small fine or are given months to fix problems.
Choice argued that for consumers to make an informed decision about where they eat, they need to be able to compare the hygiene standards of different restaurants and factor that in to their decision making. An earlier poster pointed out the need for informed choices being important for a free market so I won't repeat it here.
Interestingly enough the Choice article claimed that the "bureaucracy" you deride in your post actually has a financial benefit for restaurants. It cited some cities in the USA, UK and Europe where restaurants have to post the results of health inspections (Green = Pass, Yellow = Warning, Red = Fail) on their front door. Those in the green had higher profits compared with restaurants in cities without the scheme, IIRC around 10% better, and those in the yellow had profits going up by 1%.
I guess the relevance to TFA is the free market ain't free without information people need to make informed decisions and for some information government regulations, studies and inspections *are* the best way to get it.
N.B. No link to article because I think you have to pay to read them on the choice website.
"The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin might provide the blending of Western and Socialist styles in space that you are looking for. It also happens to be one of my all time favourite books, and is a great read even if it isn't quite what you had in mind style-wise.
Comic book guy: Oh a sarcasm detector. That's a real useful device.
In all seriousness sarcasm is hard to detect on the net. Smilies and <sarcasm> "tags" make it easier to find but not everyone uses these, and nor should they. I guess just read with your brain switched on and be prepared for the warped sense of humour on/. And enjoy it cause I certainly do.
Uh, this might come as a shock but Johnny Howard isn't real keen on the Environment either. He talks about clean coal too (just marketing spin as no such technology exists and probably never will). Howard is putting Nuclear forward as the just about the only option and not even one he'd implement any time soon, studies have to be done first etc. Plus I think its just a tactic to deflect talk away from the fact that Australia hasn't actually got a plan/done anything about climate change. Its changing the question from "What can we do to protect the environment?" to "Nuclear power yea or nay".
If you want anything done about the environment vote Greens or Climate Change Coalition or Conservatives for Climate Change.
The politics are that the mining and energy companies donate to one of Australia's major parties (some donate to both) and the coal mining and power unions contribute to the other major party. Hence both sides want to maintain the status quo as far as power goes, and don't want to upset their sources of funding by doing something sensible like introducing more than a token amount of green energy.
asa said "google for it". Obviously a conspiracy. If Google and Mozilla weren't in cahoots asa would have said "search for it with the search engine of your choice".
The main complaints I've heard nowdays is that the acoustics inside the concert hall aren't very good - certainly not what you'd expect in a world class opera house. I go to see the Sydney Symphony Orchestra there every now and then and it sounds good enough if you ask me, but I think the complaints are more about the sound from the stage area, and not in the actual audience hall.
I agree though that it's deserving of prizes and the status it has as a landmark and cultural icon.
It could have been angry nerds protesting and visiting bbc.co.uk sites from their linux boxes to boost the market share stats. Or maybe a bunch of BBC stories have been posted to slashdot recently (e.g. this one).
I thought the customer was always right. If they had refunded it chances are the GP would buy from them again and would generate other business for them by telling friends about his good experience dealing with them.
It's not logical at all. Why should moving one folder delete an existing one?
As for the warnings etc, how many users actually read those warning pop-ups? And if they do read them do you reckon they'd understand exactly what was meant?
Mac's are usually pretty good for usability. I'm surprised they'd make such glaring errors, such as not protecting a User's work, not letting them undo, and having strange behaviour which is difficult to learn on the basic file-system interface, which in theory any user should be able to figure out how to operate on the first go.
I think the earlier post of "If it's a snake GTFO", although modded funny was good advice. I've also heard that most snakes are more afraid of you, than you are of them, so make a bit of noise while backing away and it will probably run off.
I think the current Burmese government get their power from their tanks and oppressive police state they've set up, not some mythical mandate of the people. The current regime there weren't elected. You do realise that not every country is a democracy, don't you?
Well here's a thought experiment. Let's say you're a Burmese citizen who wants democracy for his country. I suppose you could find a group of like minded people and conspire together to overthrow the government, either by force or peaceful protest. You'll note that the latter didn't work that well when attempted recently, although it did remind the rest of the world of the situation there. So that leaves us with using force to overthrow the government. How are you going to get weapons? Are people going to join your side? How do you know that there aren't government spies or informers who will imprison you before you can even do anything of significance. And after years of bloody insurgency will you really remember the democratic ideals you were fighting for, or will you have forgotten them and become the new tyrant?
Note I'm not saying I condone oppressive regimes, or police states, I'm just pointing out reality. Democracy isn't easy to get if you haven't got it, and the usual solution of "overthrow the government" isn't so easy in the real world. Back on topic - The free world shouldn't be encouraging oppressive regimes, but should put pressure on them to listen to their people and embrace democracy and the freedoms we take for granted.
Slashdot Mirror
The truth of the Russian elections
Note: I think the comic on the front page changes every so often, so if it isn't Putin, then you were too slow. At the time of posting it was relevant to this discussion.
I think you can find it here too if the original link isn't working.
Objection! Your honour, he's wearing a tinfoil hat.
I object to all this sex on the television! I keep falling off!
From Monty Python I think.
That will never work. You forgot the most important layer: ??????
Hmm that new tag of yours doesn't seem to render properly in IE6, although being 100% standards compliant. How about you fix your code to work on all browsers.
Sincerely PHB.
As an aside I'm working on a web application and myself and the other developer use ie7 & firefox to test and the boss has ie6 only. The amount of bugs to fix before every Friday afternoon progress meeting is really annoying, cause if it doesn't work on his computer than he thinks it doesn't work at all.
Although intended as a joke, I think it is a valid point. A number of things could change the response in your brain: e.g. emotional state, what you've just been doing, events/experiences.
I use adobe reader 8 and it is really slow. acroread 6 & 7 were way faster in comparison, and on much lower end machines than what I currently use. I'm not sure what v8 adds to the viewer, apart from looking a bit sleeker.
I might try some open source readers as suggested by other replies, as Adobe reader 8 is far too slow and bloated.
One of my lecturers at uni described ISO-9000 like this:
"You can have quality while failing to be ISO-9000 compliant, and you can be 100% compliant and have no quality whatsoever"
Well, practice what you preach and stop limiting yourself by cleaving your language to the gutter. People might take your posts more seriously if you remove the flame-bait and leave the actual content.
Off topic, but anyway...
There was a recent article in choice magazine (an Australian consumer watchdog sort of mag) about restaurant health inspections.
There are inspections here but the results aren't published and restaurants which don't comply only need to pay a small fine or are given months to fix problems.
Choice argued that for consumers to make an informed decision about where they eat, they need to be able to compare the hygiene standards of different restaurants and factor that in to their decision making. An earlier poster pointed out the need for informed choices being important for a free market so I won't repeat it here.
Interestingly enough the Choice article claimed that the "bureaucracy" you deride in your post actually has a financial benefit for restaurants. It cited some cities in the USA, UK and Europe where restaurants have to post the results of health inspections (Green = Pass, Yellow = Warning, Red = Fail) on their front door. Those in the green had higher profits compared with restaurants in cities without the scheme, IIRC around 10% better, and those in the yellow had profits going up by 1%.
I guess the relevance to TFA is the free market ain't free without information people need to make informed decisions and for some information government regulations, studies and inspections *are* the best way to get it.
N.B. No link to article because I think you have to pay to read them on the choice website.
"The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin might provide the blending of Western and Socialist styles in space that you are looking for. It also happens to be one of my all time favourite books, and is a great read even if it isn't quite what you had in mind style-wise.
Comic book guy: Oh a sarcasm detector. That's a real useful device.
In all seriousness sarcasm is hard to detect on the net. Smilies and <sarcasm> "tags" make it easier to find but not everyone uses these, and nor should they. I guess just read with your brain switched on and be prepared for the warped sense of humour on /. And enjoy it cause I certainly do.
In Soviet Russia eBook kindles YOU!
Uh, this might come as a shock but Johnny Howard isn't real keen on the Environment either. He talks about clean coal too (just marketing spin as no such technology exists and probably never will). Howard is putting Nuclear forward as the just about the only option and not even one he'd implement any time soon, studies have to be done first etc. Plus I think its just a tactic to deflect talk away from the fact that Australia hasn't actually got a plan/done anything about climate change. Its changing the question from "What can we do to protect the environment?" to "Nuclear power yea or nay".
If you want anything done about the environment vote Greens or Climate Change Coalition or Conservatives for Climate Change.
The politics are that the mining and energy companies donate to one of Australia's major parties (some donate to both) and the coal mining and power unions contribute to the other major party. Hence both sides want to maintain the status quo as far as power goes, and don't want to upset their sources of funding by doing something sensible like introducing more than a token amount of green energy.
asa said "google for it". Obviously a conspiracy. If Google and Mozilla weren't in cahoots asa would have said "search for it with the search engine of your choice".
The main complaints I've heard nowdays is that the acoustics inside the concert hall aren't very good - certainly not what you'd expect in a world class opera house. I go to see the Sydney Symphony Orchestra there every now and then and it sounds good enough if you ask me, but I think the complaints are more about the sound from the stage area, and not in the actual audience hall. I agree though that it's deserving of prizes and the status it has as a landmark and cultural icon.
It could have been angry nerds protesting and visiting bbc.co.uk sites from their linux boxes to boost the market share stats. Or maybe a bunch of BBC stories have been posted to slashdot recently (e.g. this one).
I thought the customer was always right. If they had refunded it chances are the GP would buy from them again and would generate other business for them by telling friends about his good experience dealing with them.
It's not logical at all. Why should moving one folder delete an existing one?
As for the warnings etc, how many users actually read those warning pop-ups? And if they do read them do you reckon they'd understand exactly what was meant?
Mac's are usually pretty good for usability. I'm surprised they'd make such glaring errors, such as not protecting a User's work, not letting them undo, and having strange behaviour which is difficult to learn on the basic file-system interface, which in theory any user should be able to figure out how to operate on the first go.
See: http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html for more info on usability.
It was bound to come up at some point, but grats on the pre-emptive strike.
I agree that the mnemonic is terrible. What about black touches yellow?
I think the earlier post of "If it's a snake GTFO", although modded funny was good advice. I've also heard that most snakes are more afraid of you, than you are of them, so make a bit of noise while backing away and it will probably run off.
Mod parent up! And I encourage everyone to read the linked article.
I was going to moderate the parent, but there's no "-1 Drunk Ramblings" option...
I think the current Burmese government get their power from their tanks and oppressive police state they've set up, not some mythical mandate of the people. The current regime there weren't elected. You do realise that not every country is a democracy, don't you?
Well here's a thought experiment. Let's say you're a Burmese citizen who wants democracy for his country. I suppose you could find a group of like minded people and conspire together to overthrow the government, either by force or peaceful protest. You'll note that the latter didn't work that well when attempted recently, although it did remind the rest of the world of the situation there. So that leaves us with using force to overthrow the government. How are you going to get weapons? Are people going to join your side? How do you know that there aren't government spies or informers who will imprison you before you can even do anything of significance. And after years of bloody insurgency will you really remember the democratic ideals you were fighting for, or will you have forgotten them and become the new tyrant?
Note I'm not saying I condone oppressive regimes, or police states, I'm just pointing out reality. Democracy isn't easy to get if you haven't got it, and the usual solution of "overthrow the government" isn't so easy in the real world. Back on topic - The free world shouldn't be encouraging oppressive regimes, but should put pressure on them to listen to their people and embrace democracy and the freedoms we take for granted.