Large organizations usually have some type of a "Help Desk" that employees can call when they are having computer "problems".
For this reason the organization must standardize on products. You canot expect an understaffed department to be able to effectively support 7 different mail applications.
A user who wants to choose their own app will not get support... that may not mean much though, depending on the user's aptitude.
I understand that the Patent Office is under-staffed and under-funded.
Here in Oregon the state of the economy is horrible:
Portland Public Schools will cut out 5 off the school year to save millions of dollars they don't have
nearly 200 inmates of the Portland city jail who are guilty of petty crimes have been released
our unemployment rate is the highest in the nation
gas has hit $1.80 per gallon for regular unleaded
the Silicon Forest has been "clear-cut"
If our kids cannot be educated and honest citizens are forced to live with fewer social services then consideration should be given to disbanding the ineffective Patent Office and other non-essential Federal government services.
Let corporations live without protection of intellectual property for awhile and
redistribute those tax dollars to the People In Need.
Well, consider that Nirvana isn't really that old. 10 years does not necessarily make a grand oldie. Then again, Nirvana didn't do anything that a lot of the old bands didn't do already.. like Pearl Jam, or any other alternative bands may have. IMHO nirvana was only big because of the suicide thing:)
You're a bit off... Nirvana made grunge popular and paved the way for ALOT of bands that would never have had a contract otherwise... BEFORE Kurt offed himself.
Of course, they didn't invent grunge. They were themselves influenced by other Seattle bands -- particularly Mudhoney. The troubled soul of Kurt Cobain spawned some great lyrics. And Dave Grohl was/is an awesome musician. That kinda made them the Lennon/McCartney of the 90's.
You wan't your keyboard integrated with a game controller?
I suppose someone will get the bright idea of melding a mouse to it as well. Of course, you'd have to turn it upside down and call it something like 'TrackBall'.
And when some part of the contoller breaks and no longer functions you get to throw the whole damn thing away and get a new one. What a deal!
No thanks. I prefer keeping my $10 keyboard as a separate component.
I'd guess you're looking at a report slanted to support the late-Clinton- early-Bush-administration policy of providing the Taliban with millions ($43,000,000 just several months ago, from Bush) in exchange for poppy eradication (which is part of why so many impoverished farm families have starved to death while the Taliban has rearmed). Some bureaucrat was giving that pathetic policy cover.
Michael Moore intentionally misrepresented the facts in that story.
The fact is that the Bush administration provided over $40 million of humanitarian aid... most of it in food and medical supplies. These goods were put into the hands of relief organizations and UN people who then distributed it to the people in need, bypassing the Taliban government altogether.
Somewhere along the way Powell made mention that the U.S. was pleased that the Taliban would ban opium harvesting. And then a liberal pundit puts the two together to try and disparage Bush. A worthy act if -- only it were true:-)
[Disclaimer] I'm a moderate Independent who voted for Gore. But I despise made-up stories which undermine the credibility of the rational-left.
-reemul
who wishes 2k wasn't so buggy, either, but doesn't want to hear the bitching from folks who need 2 hours and a phone call to a friend to get a soundcard working
Your term of 'Significant use' is subjective and thus irrelevant. CSS is used on these sites and used well with the exception of ESPN which is obviously developed and targeted for IE (the site uses CSS Positioning)
These are all high-traffic sites but I don't know who's on your Top50 list.
Rob, you're losing it. How many redundant stories have been posted this week?
Apparently, you are the only one posting to the site this weekend. Take some time off. A week would do you good.
And when you get back consider instituting some kind of Quality Assurance program for the site. It's really getting sad to see all the redundant posts... and the legitimate ones are OLD news once they get posted.
BTW, on another topic, this page was updated a good 10 days ago. What's that say about Apple when a geek news site doesn't notice this sort of thing for ten days?
This is the only insightful part of your comment.
I recall seeing '1-click' style mechanisms on several sites prior to Amazons patent.
I still haven't seen a worthy challenge to the 1-Click philosophy. Yes, of course you can say, "Well, duh, it's obvious that you can do that," but these guys did it and said, "Hey, we did it first," and I haven't really seen a conclusive proof against that.
Yes, you can say "Hey, we did it first"... it doesn't mean that it's true. In order to challenge Amazon you'd have show HTML files with datestamps prior to their patent filing AND hire a team of lawyers to go up against Bezos' mob.
This is a classic case of "He who has the deepest pockets wins".
This is a lame post that does NOT deserve a score of 2.
Rob doesn't deserve slack for this at all. If he wants to be considered a 'journalist' he needs to take the criticism and learn from it. Sooner or later he'll get a clue and be better for it.
Get your act together, Malda. Read your own site once in a while.
Now that you have read KDE's official response check out the personal reaction from the KDE developers.
They certainly have every right to be pissed off. Stallman has a chip on his shoulder and is looking for any way -- however unfair -- to trash the KDE project.
RMS has lost alot of credibility in my eyes. It's a shame someone who has done so much good could be so righteous to the point that it actually hurts the 'community' effort.
Dick Stallman is the one who needs to beg forgiveness.
despite what others are saying Mozilla is separate from Netscape. Yes, it's being developed primarily by Netscape. But it is a true open-source project. The new tech borne from this project is being used in many other apps as we speak.
An accurate statement would be 'Netscape6 will incorporate the Mozilla browser'. Netscape will basically be putting their logo and name on it when they distribute it.
And anyone who says Mozilla sucks obviously has not used it in a long while. The Milestone releases suck, yes, but this project is still in development. If you try a nightly build you will be impressed with the improvements in stability and speed.
This post was made from Mozilla BuildID:2000083111 for Linux.
It seems more stable on Windows, but, as we all know, IE loads a lot faster and, IMHO, IE just renders the HTML into a nicer-looking document.
We all know why IE renders faster: it doesn't check for valid HTML in tables.
As for nicer looking docs: your opinion is subjective -- and you're more than entitled to it. But I see no objective reason to say that IE is any better at rendering HTML than NN is.
I have a Windows box so I can check my web sites in IE while developing and I make sure that pages look the same on all browsers... they all render the same to me (except for NN for Linux, of course -- damn Motif).
... about free, open-source software: the sharing of information. And since their goals are not gobbling up as much money as possible in the GUI desktop market they have the freedom to collaborate with each other.
KDE and Gnome are leading by example. Let's hope the rest of the world learns something from them.
He does have a bit of a point that Linux has mostly been about copying others.
Microsoft's so-called innovations this past decade typically have been bought (if they haven't been stolen outright).
It's wrong to think feature packed bloatware is technically superior to efficient system design.
If GUI is the issue then MS can claim the lead here -- for now. But great strides are and have been made in the Linux community with KDE and Helix. I have no doubt that these 2 desktops will both outshine and outperform Windows in the next few years.
The problem here, as I see it, is not that it does not work, it is that all these claims have been made about having a standards compliant browser. MS does it. Netscape does it. XYZ does it.
Yet, when the browser hits the market, it is not. So, we people who write web pages have to find workarounds that end up not being standards compliant. In other words, what is the point in having standards if nobody is going to follow them?
But the workaround_is_ 'standards compliant'. As they say: 'there's more than one way to do it.'
The method you have chosen may work in IE but we all know that MS doesn't conform to proper HTML standards when rendering tables.
Yeah, you're grouchy. And have every right to be.
Me? I'm just pissed that Linux doesn't have a _quality_ HTML editor. A REAL text based editor like Homesite for Windows. Vi and emacs don't cut it because they don't automagically insert height/width tags for IMG (they weren't built to be HTML editors but to be powerful general purpase text editors). Bluefish is getting close but it doesn't compile for me when libungif is installed and it won't get the h/w attributes of gifs w/o it. CoffeeCup has no undo(!). Quanta's make barfs on libpng so I have no idea what it's like. I guess I just suck when it comes to compiling some of these apps.
Linux needs an HTML editor that does multi-line indents, custom code snippets that supports new-line and tab characters, php-perl-js-css syntax highlighting, status bars that show the line number you're on, h/w for IMG tags. We don't need no stinking FTP upload or WYSIWYG previews (can you say 'web browser') or 'project-management'.
If I could code apps worth a damn I would do an HTML IDE for Linux. God knows we deserve one.
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(like at 3-mile island) have proven to be _so_ dependable !
There are currently 104 reactors in the US.
The 3 Mile Island incident happpened in the late 70's.
Yes, American reactors have proven to be very dependable.
Large organizations usually have some type of a "Help Desk" that employees can call when they are having computer "problems".
... that may not mean much though, depending on the user's aptitude.
For this reason the organization must standardize on products. You canot expect an understaffed department to be able to effectively support 7 different mail applications.
A user who wants to choose their own app will not get support
Please prove this claim. I challenge that patent office employees draw a salary just like any other federal employee.
- Portland Public Schools will cut out 5 off the school year to save millions of dollars they don't have
- nearly 200 inmates of the Portland city jail who are guilty of petty crimes have been released
- our unemployment rate is the highest in the nation
- gas has hit $1.80 per gallon for regular unleaded
- the Silicon Forest has been "clear-cut"
If our kids cannot be educated and honest citizens are forced to live with fewer social services then consideration should be given to disbanding the ineffective Patent Office and other non-essential Federal government services.Let corporations live without protection of intellectual property for awhile and redistribute those tax dollars to the People In Need.
Well, consider that Nirvana isn't really that old. 10 years does not necessarily make a grand oldie. Then again, Nirvana didn't do anything that a lot of the old bands didn't do already.. like Pearl Jam, or any other alternative bands may have. IMHO nirvana was only big because of the suicide thing
You're a bit off
Of course, they didn't invent grunge. They were themselves influenced by other Seattle bands -- particularly Mudhoney. The troubled soul of Kurt Cobain spawned some great lyrics. And Dave Grohl was/is an awesome musician. That kinda made them the Lennon/McCartney of the 90's.
I'm dying for the opportunity to use 'synergism' in a conversation.
So, y'all think this is a good idea?
You wan't your keyboard integrated with a game controller?
I suppose someone will get the bright idea of melding a mouse to it as well. Of course, you'd have to turn it upside down and call it something like 'TrackBall'.
And when some part of the contoller breaks and no longer functions you get to throw the whole damn thing away and get a new one. What a deal!
No thanks. I prefer keeping my $10 keyboard as a separate component.
Michael Moore intentionally misrepresented the facts in that story.
The fact is that the Bush administration provided over $40 million of humanitarian aid ... most of it in food and medical supplies. These goods were put into the hands of relief organizations and UN people who then distributed it to the people in need, bypassing the Taliban government altogether.
Somewhere along the way Powell made mention that the U.S. was pleased that the Taliban would ban opium harvesting. And then a liberal pundit puts the two together to try and disparage Bush. A worthy act if -- only it were true :-)
[Disclaimer] I'm a moderate Independent who voted for Gore. But I despise made-up stories which undermine the credibility of the rational-left.
Opinion pieces are not facts. Read the CNN story
A real web server has no use for a sound card.
How about a link, Hemos?
The last 2 lines read:
Note: This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day.
You all tend to sound 'stoopid' when you start saying 'this must be a hoax' and 'this can't be real'
It's not real. What is real is that you're all gullible and 'believe everything you read'.
Name three in the top fifty.
Alrighty then:
Google
Excite
AltaVista
CNN
ESPN
Go.com
ABC News
These all use CSS.
Your term of 'Significant use' is subjective and thus irrelevant. CSS is used on these sites and used well with the exception of ESPN which is obviously developed and targeted for IE (the site uses CSS Positioning)
These are all high-traffic sites but I don't know who's on your Top50 list.
Too many sites use CSS. And most are using it properly (as a replacement for font tags).
Windows NT lacks a commercial quality Journaling File System, too.
Neener neener neener !
Apparently, you are the only one posting to the site this weekend. Take some time off. A week would do you good.
And when you get back consider instituting some kind of Quality Assurance program for the site. It's really getting sad to see all the redundant posts ... and the legitimate ones are OLD news once they get posted.
This is the only insightful part of your comment.
I recall seeing '1-click' style mechanisms on several sites prior to Amazons patent.
I still haven't seen a worthy challenge to the 1-Click philosophy. Yes, of course you can say, "Well, duh, it's obvious that you can do that," but these guys did it and said, "Hey, we did it first," and I haven't really seen a conclusive proof against that.
Yes, you can say "Hey, we did it first" ... it doesn't mean that it's true. In order to challenge Amazon you'd have show HTML files with datestamps prior to their patent filing AND hire a team of lawyers to go up against Bezos' mob.
This is a classic case of "He who has the deepest pockets wins".
Rob doesn't deserve slack for this at all. If he wants to be considered a 'journalist' he needs to take the criticism and learn from it. Sooner or later he'll get a clue and be better for it.
Get your act together, Malda. Read your own site once in a while.
They certainly have every right to be pissed off. Stallman has a chip on his shoulder and is looking for any way -- however unfair -- to trash the KDE project.
RMS has lost alot of credibility in my eyes. It's a shame someone who has done so much good could be so righteous to the point that it actually hurts the 'community' effort.
Dick Stallman is the one who needs to beg forgiveness.
An accurate statement would be 'Netscape6 will incorporate the Mozilla browser'. Netscape will basically be putting their logo and name on it when they distribute it.
And anyone who says Mozilla sucks obviously has not used it in a long while. The Milestone releases suck, yes, but this project is still in development. If you try a nightly build you will be impressed with the improvements in stability and speed.
This post was made from Mozilla BuildID:2000083111 for Linux.
We all know why IE renders faster: it doesn't check for valid HTML in tables.
As for nicer looking docs: your opinion is subjective -- and you're more than entitled to it. But I see no objective reason to say that IE is any better at rendering HTML than NN is.
I have a Windows box so I can check my web sites in IE while developing and I make sure that pages look the same on all browsers ... they all render the same to me (except for NN for Linux, of course -- damn Motif).
KDE and Gnome are leading by example. Let's hope the rest of the world learns something from them.
A big thanks to all involved :-)
Microsoft's so-called innovations this past decade typically have been bought (if they haven't been stolen outright).
It's wrong to think feature packed bloatware is technically superior to efficient system design.
If GUI is the issue then MS can claim the lead here -- for now. But great strides are and have been made in the Linux community with KDE and Helix. I have no doubt that these 2 desktops will both outshine and outperform Windows in the next few years.
It's not 'insightful'. The poster jumped to conclusions.
I'll ask the same question delmoi asked :
This is so completely wrong, how the hell did it get modded up?
Anyone could do that.
I won't be impressed until he manages to optimize his directory structure and shorten those godawful URLs.
Yet, when the browser hits the market, it is not. So, we people who write web pages have to find workarounds that end up not being standards compliant. In other words, what is the point in having standards if nobody is going to follow them?
But the workaround_is_ 'standards compliant'. As they say: 'there's more than one way to do it.'
The method you have chosen may work in IE but we all know that MS doesn't conform to proper HTML standards when rendering tables.
Yeah, you're grouchy. And have every right to be.
Me? I'm just pissed that Linux doesn't have a _quality_ HTML editor. A REAL text based editor like Homesite for Windows. Vi and emacs don't cut it because they don't automagically insert height/width tags for IMG (they weren't built to be HTML editors but to be powerful general purpase text editors). Bluefish is getting close but it doesn't compile for me when libungif is installed and it won't get the h/w attributes of gifs w/o it. CoffeeCup has no undo(!). Quanta's make barfs on libpng so I have no idea what it's like. I guess I just suck when it comes to compiling some of these apps.
Linux needs an HTML editor that does multi-line indents, custom code snippets that supports new-line and tab characters, php-perl-js-css syntax highlighting, status bars that show the line number you're on, h/w for IMG tags. We don't need no stinking FTP upload or WYSIWYG previews (can you say 'web browser') or 'project-management'.
If I could code apps worth a damn I would do an HTML IDE for Linux. God knows we deserve one.