I would say that window decorations: 1) have to look nice, I know this is slashdot but if the default GUI looks ugly, normals will drop your DE without trying it out). A lot of people moved to around the time that emerald was released this wasn't a coincidence. 2) Are interactive elements, you drag/resize/maximise/shade a window using them. They also give import feedback as they indicate which window is active (this window should stand out)
example, you can barely tell which window is focused. IMO KDE3 had the window decorations right (for the time anyway), but if those are the default buttons (i never stuck with defaults and can't remember) then they needed serious work. I'm not sure what buttons should look like, but kde3=stand out too much and are too ugly, kde4=when not hovering over them are barely noticeable.
As much as i love KDE i have to say generic Grey goo everywhere looks retarded, fortunately, they ship a host of sane themes. I mean grey window decorations around a grey window, with all the widgets in pretty much the same grey, why not just render a grey screen and be done with it! I'm no designer but transparent black or light blue would look considerably better.
Don't you need manual before you can go automatic, this provides the framework for automatic tagging. With something like kross making it simple to add plugins (Python, Ruby, JavaScript and Java on the way?), it shouldn't be too hard to get the add automatic semantics (ofc the tricky part is writing generic auto-tagging code that works)
Using DHTs instead of a tracker is real nice and all, but you're still stuck with the same problem: you have to host some information on a server, namely node information that allows you to bootstrap into the DHT, and information that allows you to get the resource you want.
I'm still waiting for somebody to implement a simple bittorrent client in JavaScript and allow a torrent listing site to be hosted on it, then all the server has to host is generic JavaScript.
Patents are good, software patents are evil (and invalid in the EU)! This is mostly software so they can bottle up the code and sell it, but if the hardware is interesting enough (it;s not really using a standard mouse), they could patent that.
Correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't.net run in a VM which are explicitly banned from the iphone? OFC it's useful on other smartphones but unless it has sybian support i can't see it being a major player.
Trying and stop people seeing a statement saying that image matters, because it's "offensive"* to Americans, guess your irony meter is off this year slashdot.
*As i can't trust mods to not be retards I'll point out the "offensive" statement was meant to be an example of a perceived image.
Image is much more powerful than nukes (that you can't use anyway) these days, The first step to going to war with somebody is to deionise them, then make it clear that your soldiers are just doing a job while theirs enjoy killing, if the general public don't buy that, then when you drop nukes you'll be tried as a war criminal! PR is a much more powerful weapon than a nuke.
But hey your just a stupid fat american so you wouldn't understand that.
My concern is that if an exploit causes a crash, eventually someone can find a way to make the exploit run on injected code. It is likely only a matter of time before someone does this.
It is my understanding that because any such method would immediately turn a whole load of DOS attacks into arbitrary code execution, that all OSes take great care to prevent that (well apart from Linux where ASLR is broken and wine prevents high address space protection). I mean it is possible that an exploit will be found but such an exploit is going to be tricky to develop (something akin to the null certificate, rather than just a windows exploit of the week attack), so don't let it keep you up at night!
or if you'd prefer a little over 11 minutes per lesson
That's not entirely fair, as resources can generally be reused for one year to the next, sure still have to mark the tests but if you already have your marking scheme written out/on tape it is much faster the next year. It would be like a sysadmin counting all the times he runs a script they wrote as separate work, you know when you write the script the first time that it's a larger investment of time, but it pays off soon enough.
but teaching a lesson without a plan is a definite no-no. OFSTED (the UK Schools inspection agency)
FUCK THEM, I get that a system needs to be in place but it tends to punish the experienced teachers who teach, while letting incompetent motherfuckers get by because they spent more time developing a perfect lesson plan that they stick to even if it's useless.
As a grown-up, I pay taxes for a lot of things and many of those don't directly benefit me. However I also realize that living in a country founded on democratic principles, these taxes are my responsibility and duty to pay.
Socialist!!!!!1
I think it boils down to the idea that if the teachers are already being paid to make lesson plans, then those plan are "work for hire" and they should not be able to sell them and profit yet again.
I'm under the impression that if they were teachers are given time to write lesson plans but it's not actually long enough to develop a great lesson plan, so they do have to spent there own time to develop a plan that is good enough to sell, however short of curriculum changes (I live in the UK i'm not sure how the us system works, but there must be some sort of curriculum they have to stick to) a teacher can re-use the same lesson plan for years, so long term teachers probably do get a fair share for their lesson plans. So while i probably agree with you, I think it is better for the plans to be resold than for them to get no re-use at all.
1) If there is a flaw in the software, i can tell you DNS server that I slashdot is at 80.65.228.129 or that your bank resolves to my MITM attack site. 2) I can use up all of your routers resources and then you can't lookup any sites yourself
I'm not allowed to throw a mod chip on my Xbox and sell it.
1) Mod chipping an xbox is not illegal 2) Selling an xbox is not illegal You could sell xboxes that were modchiped upon request.
Alternatively, if I'm not allowed to say, install OSX by EULA on something other than Apple hardware
EULAs are rarely worth the paper they are written on, so while Pystar may break the terms of the EULA, with some clever lawyering they should be able to pass this technicality on to end user, forcing apple to go after Pystar customers not Pystar.
The EULA has this provision, I suspect, is to prevent someone from pulling a psystar but not a hackintosh.
Hackintosh users break the EULA just as much as Pystar, the only difference is that fanboys seam to like hackintosh. By going after Pystar Apple have made it clear that they think hackintoshes are illegal and they have the right to sue you for using them (even if they choose not to)
URL shortners only server for twitter posts and other place where you need to count characters, these links become pointless within days of a post (some think they become useless even earlier than that), so why bother preserving them after that? let alone when a provider goes bankrupt.
p.s I'm only posting this so i can get some karma to go troll apple;)
Shouldn't you respect a countries laws weather you agree with them or not, LOL yeah right when's the last time 23 Italian agents were convicted in the US and not handed over.
It's not a full rewrite/port like kde4.0 was, so most stuff is the same (well the GUI programs anyway, but i've not heard of any huge backend changes either)
exception exists where the cookie is "strictly necessary" for the provision of a service "explicitly requested" by the user – so cookies can take a user from a product page to a checkout without the need for consent.
But don't let fact's get in the way of a good rant.
Flashblock doesn't keep you safe, Flashblock can be tricked by altering file extension and IIRC it can also be tricked by object tags. AFAIK noscript is the only addon that will block flash in a secure way, but IMO it too much of a PITA to use.
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I would say that window decorations:
1) have to look nice, I know this is slashdot but if the default GUI looks ugly, normals will drop your DE without trying it out). A lot of people moved to around the time that emerald was released this wasn't a coincidence.
2) Are interactive elements, you drag/resize/maximise/shade a window using them. They also give import feedback as they indicate which window is active (this window should stand out)
example, you can barely tell which window is focused. IMO KDE3 had the window decorations right (for the time anyway), but if those are the default buttons (i never stuck with defaults and can't remember) then they needed serious work. I'm not sure what buttons should look like, but kde3=stand out too much and are too ugly, kde4=when not hovering over them are barely noticeable.
As much as i love KDE i have to say generic Grey goo everywhere looks retarded, fortunately, they ship a host of sane themes. I mean grey window decorations around a grey window, with all the widgets in pretty much the same grey, why not just render a grey screen and be done with it! I'm no designer but transparent black or light blue would look considerably better.
Don't you need manual before you can go automatic, this provides the framework for automatic tagging. With something like kross making it simple to add plugins (Python, Ruby, JavaScript and Java on the way?), it shouldn't be too hard to get the add automatic semantics (ofc the tricky part is writing generic auto-tagging code that works)
Using DHTs instead of a tracker is real nice and all, but you're still stuck with the same problem: you have to host some information on a server, namely node information that allows you to bootstrap into the DHT, and information that allows you to get the resource you want.
I'm still waiting for somebody to implement a simple bittorrent client in JavaScript and allow a torrent listing site to be hosted on it, then all the server has to host is generic JavaScript.
Patents are good, software patents are evil (and invalid in the EU)! This is mostly software so they can bottle up the code and sell it, but if the hardware is interesting enough (it;s not really using a standard mouse), they could patent that.
Correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't .net run in a VM which are explicitly banned from the iphone? OFC it's useful on other smartphones but unless it has sybian support i can't see it being a major player.
Trying and stop people seeing a statement saying that image matters, because it's "offensive"* to Americans, guess your irony meter is off this year slashdot.
*As i can't trust mods to not be retards I'll point out the "offensive" statement was meant to be an example of a perceived image.
M really can't explamn that one the I/M keys are io where iear each-other!
Image is much more powerful than nukes (that you can't use anyway) these days, The first step to going to war with somebody is to deionise them, then make it clear that your soldiers are just doing a job while theirs enjoy killing, if the general public don't buy that, then when you drop nukes you'll be tried as a war criminal! PR is a much more powerful weapon than a nuke.
But hey your just a stupid fat american so you wouldn't understand that.
My concern is that if an exploit causes a crash, eventually someone can find a way to make the exploit run on injected code. It is likely only a matter of time before someone does this.
It is my understanding that because any such method would immediately turn a whole load of DOS attacks into arbitrary code execution, that all OSes take great care to prevent that (well apart from Linux where ASLR is broken and wine prevents high address space protection). I mean it is possible that an exploit will be found but such an exploit is going to be tricky to develop (something akin to the null certificate, rather than just a windows exploit of the week attack), so don't let it keep you up at night!
or if you'd prefer a little over 11 minutes per lesson
That's not entirely fair, as resources can generally be reused for one year to the next, sure still have to mark the tests but if you already have your marking scheme written out/on tape it is much faster the next year. It would be like a sysadmin counting all the times he runs a script they wrote as separate work, you know when you write the script the first time that it's a larger investment of time, but it pays off soon enough.
but teaching a lesson without a plan is a definite no-no. OFSTED (the UK Schools inspection agency)
FUCK THEM, I get that a system needs to be in place but it tends to punish the experienced teachers who teach, while letting incompetent motherfuckers get by because they spent more time developing a perfect lesson plan that they stick to even if it's useless.
As a grown-up, I pay taxes for a lot of things and many of those don't directly benefit me. However I also realize that living in a country founded on democratic principles, these taxes are my responsibility and duty to pay.
Socialist!!!!!1
I think it boils down to the idea that if the teachers are already being paid to make lesson plans, then those plan are "work for hire" and they should not be able to sell them and profit yet again.
I'm under the impression that if they were teachers are given time to write lesson plans but it's not actually long enough to develop a great lesson plan, so they do have to spent there own time to develop a plan that is good enough to sell, however short of curriculum changes (I live in the UK i'm not sure how the us system works, but there must be some sort of curriculum they have to stick to) a teacher can re-use the same lesson plan for years, so long term teachers probably do get a fair share for their lesson plans. So while i probably agree with you, I think it is better for the plans to be resold than for them to get no re-use at all.
1) If there is a flaw in the software, i can tell you DNS server that I slashdot is at 80.65.228.129 or that your bank resolves to my MITM attack site.
2) I can use up all of your routers resources and then you can't lookup any sites yourself
I'm not allowed to throw a mod chip on my Xbox and sell it.
1) Mod chipping an xbox is not illegal
2) Selling an xbox is not illegal
You could sell xboxes that were modchiped upon request.
Alternatively, if I'm not allowed to say, install OSX by EULA on something other than Apple hardware
EULAs are rarely worth the paper they are written on, so while Pystar may break the terms of the EULA, with some clever lawyering they should be able to pass this technicality on to end user, forcing apple to go after Pystar customers not Pystar.
The EULA has this provision, I suspect, is to prevent someone from pulling a psystar but not a hackintosh.
Hackintosh users break the EULA just as much as Pystar, the only difference is that fanboys seam to like hackintosh. By going after Pystar Apple have made it clear that they think hackintoshes are illegal and they have the right to sue you for using them (even if they choose not to)
URL shortners only server for twitter posts and other place where you need to count characters, these links become pointless within days of a post (some think they become useless even earlier than that), so why bother preserving them after that? let alone when a provider goes bankrupt.
p.s I'm only posting this so i can get some karma to go troll apple ;)
APSL covers
1) bootx
2) darwin kernel
apple can't have it both ways, you cant pretend to be open then sue the crap out of anybody who uses that code.
please explain when psystar did create an altered derivative work?
Also you have the right to do whatever you want to software installed on your computer, the only thing that could possibly be illegal is distribution.
But if you went to Mexico and broke their laws, you should be extradited and punished according to their justice system
*whether
Shouldn't you respect a countries laws weather you agree with them or not, LOL yeah right when's the last time 23 Italian agents were convicted in the US and not handed over.
It's not a full rewrite/port like kde4.0 was, so most stuff is the same (well the GUI programs anyway, but i've not heard of any huge backend changes either)
When i leave your site, the session URL is lost.
login and adjusting text size come under:
exception exists where the cookie is "strictly necessary" for the provision of a service "explicitly requested" by the user – so cookies can take a user from a product page to a checkout without the need for consent.
But don't let fact's get in the way of a good rant.
Flashblock doesn't keep you safe, Flashblock can be tricked by altering file extension and IIRC it can also be tricked by object tags.
AFAIK noscript is the only addon that will block flash in a secure way, but IMO it too much of a PITA to use.
I forgot about pissing of the boycott Novell types, I'm downloading the torrent NOW!