Relax. In a year, Yahoo will be like Circuit City, and if you show up early enough at the Big Closeout Event, you'll be able to buy the "You've Got Mail" wave file, along with toilet paper rolls and the portrait of Jerry Yang that he used to whack off to in his private bathroom.
The problem is that most voters are too stupid to understand what you're talking about, whereas food is another story entirely. Also there's lobbyists, as usual.
UAC was "forced" in the sense that it was on by default and you had to go to the control panel to turn if off (not rocket science, but people are stupid). Therefore, it was more of a nuisance than is NoScript, which is only present on your machine if you want it. If you don't want it, have fun de-virusing your computer.
NoScript has clickjacking protection (IE doesn't: A while ago IE made it possible to prevent framebusting scripts from working by adding a parameter to the iframe. Now there's a header that can be used to emulate a framebuster script, but that only works if the browser supports it -- i.e. IE. MS marketed it as clickjacking protection, but it's really nothing more than a protection every other browser already has.)
fine, use Wordpress etc. Just don't try to produce raw HTML files; that would be like buying a (very large and complex) box of tools when you could just buy a Starter's kit in (the metaphor just fell apart in my mind. Sorry.)
I later realized, that such types only get their jobs, because their bosses are such types too. Up to the owner of the company. Which is the only person of the company in many cases. And then they only have to live up to the clients' expectations. Of course the client never knows, that you could save him 90% of the cash by actually using real programming concepts like re-usability and modularity.
Next time anyone gets fired from a job due to their boss's incompetence, please tell a tabloid about how much money you could save them. And back it up with a slashdot/dailywtf story so the technocracy (i.e. the slashdot etc. community) will know that the (un)published story is in fact grounded in fact, or at least is valid and/or sound.
Please do this, so that we can all have something funny to read, and so that the client has some clue that he's being ripped off by a salesman who is too stupid to even take advantage of the high price.
The other thing is that Wordpress etc either are or could be standards compliant. When was the last time Dreamweaver gave you standards compliant code (Actually, as a slashdot user, you probably never used Dreamweaver. I did once (for school, mandatory, but they taught us HTML too.).)?
I think I'd like SCREEM (X)HTML editor more useful if it didn't crash so often... If it didn't, it would be the perfect compromise; it is fundamentally a text editor, but it can generate CSS and DOCTYPE declarations, use templates, etc. so you don't have to know everything to write anything. Also, in my experience it tends to write non-bloated, standards compliant code. Please don't use it for a website involving serious money though, or at least, don't sue me if you do.
IANAL, but the patent seems to be VERY broad. It basically covers "everything that's not FAT12/16 and is within the same class of stuff as FAT32" (of course such patents are invalid IIRC, but that doesn't mean it isn't expensive and difficult to defend against a lawsuit). In other words, if you make a FAT-lookalike (or even an incompatible filesystem that has similar functionality, even with a completely different underlying structure), Microsoft might still decide it wants to sue you. IANAL, this isn't legal advice, use of the word "you" instead of "one" does not make it legal advice.
[snip] I'm not from the US, the thing that grabbed my attention in TFS was "the pile of contracts your doctor dumps on your lap". Why is there a pile of contracts in the first place?
IANAL, but: 1. So you don't sue them (but see also good samaritan laws) 2. To make sure you are legally required to pay your bill (unless you are in an ER) 3. To clog the tubes. 4. To sneak stuff like this past you without your noticing. 5. To ensure their lawyer retains a job. 6. There is no rule six. 7. Because some people will just sign anything you give them, much as most lusers will hit "OK"/"Yes" on dialog boxes without reading them.
What about when that judge told the RIAA to not combine multiple does under one lawsuit again and the RIAA blew it off completely (I'm too lazy to find a link. Sorry.)?
It would be good if this argument made its way into the US legal system, but for all the flak that UK judges get for ignorance, I suspect they are smarter when it comes to technology.
It's more general than that. The ENTIRE EU is more clueful when it comes to tech than the ENTIRE US.
rms is the person who coined "GNU/Linux" and "Free software". If we're going to say "OSS", I think we can get away with "Linux"
The tools themselves are credited; they all have GNU in their titles (see the man pages); thus we don't need to credit them again in the name of the whole thing, especially when doing so confuses everyone who doesn't follow these things.
For the lazy (source): ~Any up-to-date-but-still-stable browser renders it correctly (read: the page doesn't look munged), except for IE, chrome, safari, and other webkit-based browsers. ~Any RC/alpha/etc gets a score upwards of 80, except for IE.
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Relax. In a year, Yahoo will be like Circuit City, and if you show up early enough at the Big Closeout Event, you'll be able to buy the "You've Got Mail" wave file, along with toilet paper rolls and the portrait of Jerry Yang that he used to whack off to in his private bathroom.
I thought "You've got mail" was AOL.
And what idiot decided that was troll?
The problem is that most voters are too stupid to understand what you're talking about, whereas food is another story entirely. Also there's lobbyists, as usual.
Yes he does:
1. Computer BSODs
2. "Fuck"
3. Computer reboots (or not, given you have a BSOD in the way)
is the answer to this question "no"?
[snip]
five.
How many? 5? By comparison, how many are there in JScript?
Also, which is easier to write in?
UAC was "forced" in the sense that it was on by default and you had to go to the control panel to turn if off (not rocket science, but people are stupid). Therefore, it was more of a nuisance than is NoScript, which is only present on your machine if you want it. If you don't want it, have fun de-virusing your computer.
NoScript has clickjacking protection (IE doesn't: A while ago IE made it possible to prevent framebusting scripts from working by adding a parameter to the iframe. Now there's a header that can be used to emulate a framebuster script, but that only works if the browser supports it -- i.e. IE. MS marketed it as clickjacking protection, but it's really nothing more than a protection every other browser already has.)
fine, use Wordpress etc. Just don't try to produce raw HTML files; that would be like buying a (very large and complex) box of tools when you could just buy a Starter's kit in (the metaphor just fell apart in my mind. Sorry.)
I later realized, that such types only get their jobs, because their bosses are such types too. Up to the owner of the company. Which is the only person of the company in many cases.
And then they only have to live up to the clients' expectations. Of course the client never knows, that you could save him 90% of the cash by actually using real programming concepts like re-usability and modularity.
Next time anyone gets fired from a job due to their boss's incompetence, please tell a tabloid about how much money you could save them. And back it up with a slashdot/dailywtf story so the technocracy (i.e. the slashdot etc. community) will know that the (un)published story is in fact grounded in fact, or at least is valid and/or sound.
Please do this, so that we can all have something funny to read, and so that the client has some clue that he's being ripped off by a salesman who is too stupid to even take advantage of the high price.
To mods:No, this is not, in fact, sarcastic.
The other thing is that Wordpress etc either are or could be standards compliant. When was the last time Dreamweaver gave you standards compliant code (Actually, as a slashdot user, you probably never used Dreamweaver. I did once (for school, mandatory, but they taught us HTML too.).)?
I think I'd like SCREEM (X)HTML editor more useful if it didn't crash so often... If it didn't, it would be the perfect compromise; it is fundamentally a text editor, but it can generate CSS and DOCTYPE declarations, use templates, etc. so you don't have to know everything to write anything. Also, in my experience it tends to write non-bloated, standards compliant code. Please don't use it for a website involving serious money though, or at least, don't sue me if you do.
Use Krita. It has the features Gimp lacks (like the CMYK colorspace IIRC).
IANAL, but the patent seems to be VERY broad. It basically covers "everything that's not FAT12/16 and is within the same class of stuff as FAT32" (of course such patents are invalid IIRC, but that doesn't mean it isn't expensive and difficult to defend against a lawsuit). In other words, if you make a FAT-lookalike (or even an incompatible filesystem that has similar functionality, even with a completely different underlying structure), Microsoft might still decide it wants to sue you. IANAL, this isn't legal advice, use of the word "you" instead of "one" does not make it legal advice.
[snip]
I'm not from the US, the thing that grabbed my attention in TFS was "the pile of contracts your doctor dumps on your lap". Why is there a pile of contracts in the first place?
IANAL, but:
1. So you don't sue them (but see also good samaritan laws)
2. To make sure you are legally required to pay your bill (unless you are in an ER)
3. To clog the tubes.
4. To sneak stuff like this past you without your noticing.
5. To ensure their lawyer retains a job.
6. There is no rule six.
7. Because some people will just sign anything you give them, much as most lusers will hit "OK"/"Yes" on dialog boxes without reading them.
What about when that judge told the RIAA to not combine multiple does under one lawsuit again and the RIAA blew it off completely (I'm too lazy to find a link. Sorry.)?
At this point, I don't think the RIAA is even trying to profit; they're just trying to survive (albeit by cruel and unusual means).
OP doesn't have a * so the latter is implausible.
They changed it.
[snip]
If songs always cost 10cents, though, I'm guessing the pirate market would dry up quite a bit. It just wouldn't be worth the work.
-Dan
It might be worth the thrill of breaking the law though.
It would be good if this argument made its way into the US legal system, but for all the flak that UK judges get for ignorance, I suspect they are smarter when it comes to technology.
It's more general than that. The ENTIRE EU is more clueful when it comes to tech than the ENTIRE US.
[snip]
That said, if someone has a better recommendation for what I'm trying to do, I'm all ears.
-Trillian
A copyright notice? A polite note? Both?
I thought that GNU/Linux users (let's use the politically correct idiom, since you mentioned OSS ideals)[snip]
OSS == Open source software == practical.
Free software == idealistic.
rms is the person who coined "GNU/Linux" and "Free software". If we're going to say "OSS", I think we can get away with "Linux"
The tools themselves are credited; they all have GNU in their titles (see the man pages); thus we don't need to credit them again in the name of the whole thing, especially when doing so confuses everyone who doesn't follow these things.
If that's the case, WTF was Vista?
I don't know about you, but the only website I've ever had problems with in IE was .... Slashdot.
This? Now try it with ~any browser other than IE.
For the lazy (source):
~Any up-to-date-but-still-stable browser renders it correctly (read: the page doesn't look munged), except for IE, chrome, safari, and other webkit-based browsers. ~Any RC/alpha/etc gets a score upwards of 80, except for IE.
it's more of a burden on the author of the website than on the browser vendor [snip]
Oops, that should say user.