That would be true, especially the part about how TV resolution sucks, but special-purpose graphics chips are evolving very quickly, so that if you don't mind the terrible resolution, the graphics' realism is much higher.
Well, maybe he meant that since the basic mesage of the movie is that knowledge is a double-edged sword and is not necessarily desirable, the moneyed creators of the movie might have been advocating crypto-fascism as a means of maintaining popular ignorance.
I hate when people can't take the time to change their weird codes into ASCII. We end up with the replacement of every quote or apostrophe with a question mark, which makes pages hard to read.
Thank you. I was unaware of that. The last time I checked, it was not available. Also, I see that it's an alpha. I'm downloading it now; I hope it works.
raphinou said, "Realplayer is available to Linux users." No, it's not. RealPlayer 5 is available, but nothing will play on it. It's obsolete. Neither G2 nor 7 is out for Linux, nor does Real give any hints that they will be later. Besides that, it segfaults every time I try to run it on my computer.
Does OS X have a way of switching windows from the keyboard a la Alt-Tab in Windows, Enlightenment, Sawmill, and KDE (and probably all the other WMs)? In OS 8.6, which is the Mac OS I'm currently most familiar with, there is no keyboard-bassed way that I know of of switching windows. Apple-Tab works for switching applications, but not for windows. This is a pain for me, because my web-browsing style is to open a new Netscape window for almost every link I want to read. I don't like to have to pick an item from a menu just to switch windows, so the de facto maximum number of windows I can have open is four. I hope OS X will have a solution for this problem. They wouldn't even have to add a new key-combo -- better to just replace Apple-Tab, because after a while, you'd find the program you wanted, even if you went through a few windows of the same program first. Of course, this is a minor issue. They can solve it however they want.
I don't get why Apple doesn't incorporate themes into OS X, since they've become such a popular feature of Enlightenment et al. I understand their desire to maintain a consistent interface (that idea is strongly stressed by the very useful Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, but they could do so by at least offering various Apple-made or -approved themes, if not user-created themes. But apparently they're going to stick everyone with Aqua, which some people will like and others won't. Personally, I like Aqua, but I like being able to change my themes.
That's not entirely true. The collapsible thing, yeah, but not the 255-character file names. I'm not a Mac expert, but I have to use them at school, and OS 8.6 does not support filenames longer than about 25 characters (I'm not at school, so I'm not sure of the exact number, but it's around there). This is a pain when you're dealing with MP3s.
Netscape doesn't interact with Gnome. It uses statically-linked Motif instead of gtk+, and doesn't use any of Gnome's features like drag-n-drop. Therefore, I doubt that Gnome is your problem.
most GUI tools of this ilk are linux-specific. One thing I always tell friends (esp. when configuring apache, bind, sendmail, etc) is that they should go straight to the config files. One of the strengths of linux is that configuring it ives you an introduction to other unices as well.
So? Most people aren't installing Linux so they can be a Unix sysadmin in 21 days. They're installing it because they want to run Linux. Not because they want to run HP-UX. Presumably, they will have to configure each box one time. Therefore, they're probably not interested in the contents of/etc/ypserv.conf . They just want to be able to play Quake and read Slashdot. At least, that's what I want to do.
It doesn't need to split! That's what distributions are for. Debian and Slackware are for the textmode purists, and Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake are for the newbies and non-masochists. They're both great, and there isn't a need for them to fork. SuSE & Co. can just take programs from Debian, while adding their own GUIs and stuff, which the hardcore will then ignore, but which will convert lots more people. That's the way the world goes 'round.
I think you have a slight paranoia/dissaffection/cynicism/apathy problem. True, many politicians lie, but it's also true that many are hard-working, honest, people. Tom Hayden, the founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the 60s, is now a politician in my area. My Congressman, Henry Weinstein, is an honest, uncompromised liberal, as are Senators Barney Frank (D-MA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT). Just 'cause Clinton, Hatch, Gingrish, and the others suck, doesn't mean they all do.
Right. A nitpick, though, is that Moore's law doesn't apply to magnetic media. Although we have seen big increases in HDD sizes and decreases in cost, it's not the same thing. Monitors have gotten better and cheaper, too, but it's different.
I agree with you, but your gratuitous criticism of socialism is a little weird. The central characteristic of a free-market, a.k.a. laissez-faire, economy, is its freedom from regulation in the name of maximised (short-term) profits. No businessman is going to support the inclusion of environmental factors, because that hurts short-term margins. The idea of communal property, like the ocean, is a very socialist and a very uncapitalist idea.
Crypto export regs just got lifted. Open-source stuff (Mozilla, f'rinstance) can now be exported freely except to dangerous nations like Cuba (!), and closed-source programs can be exported with a one-time license inspection.
Here's my friend's translation. He says it's not perfect, but should'nt be too bad. You can email him at: cfarivar@020.co.uk
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Montreal January 12, 2000 - The Quebecan web page psst! was told to cease and desist by the american company, Yahoo! For having pretentously been the author of the parody Yahoo Québec! The head writer of Multimédium, Dominic Fugère, and one named Mathieu, whose names appear on the bottom of the parody, have also been cited in the cease and desist.
The Yahoo! Québec site, a parody of the famous american portal Yahoo!, was created several months ago by Jean-Hugues Roy, an animator of the show Branché for Radio-Canada. As soon as the site was put up, psst! had put a link in its direction.
Shockingly, this was not discussed in the cease and desist and still was not up to date as we have seen this evening. "I will start by reading the cease and desist [letter] and going to review the laws on cybersquatting and other laws on trademarks beeefore deciding if I'm going to take down the site." He said. "I might modify the search engine and the logo graphics."
In his parody, Jean Hugues Roy used the exact logo of Yahoo! To which he added the word "Québec". The search engine of the parody page, he changed the database with a list of pornographic sites. These are two details which have truly excacerbated the susceptibility of Yahoo! Inc. Excepts of the cease and desist, sent by the law firm, Smart & Biggar of Ottawa, confirm this.
"I thought that Yahoo! would be the last important company to have a sense of humor," affirms Jean-Hugues Roy. "There are many parodies of Yahoo! Some of them even use the same search engine!"
Clément Laberge, who is responsible for the psst! web page, to whom the cease and desist was sent to primarily, has until next Monday, the 17th of January, to tell Yahoo's lawyers that he has taken down the site, something that he cannot do himself, as he has absolutely no control over the site.
I agree that the post was intteresting. It was, however, still flamebait. The poster said "feminazi," which is an offensive word. Also, the follow-up posts, which I am assuming were written by the same AC, are offensive and mindlessly right-wing. Eventually, some AC or other said that it was a joke. Of course, it's likely that not all the ACs were the same person. But the original poster said that censorware would be the "greated [sic] blow for freedom and individual rights that your town has seen in decades," which is not intelligent, but merely idiotic. For one thing, individual rights are not served by being subjected to censorship. For another, no existing censorware does its job cleanly, that is to say without either skipping things it obviously should censor in order to be consistent, or censoring things that are obviously legitimate, for instance the National Organization of Women (NOW), the Nation magazine, or the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Even the reactionary anonymous poster isn't going to convince anyone except other reactionaries that political dissent, lesbian writing (I don't mean to imply that NOW is lesbian, although I don't have a problem with lesbians), or socialist theory are unprotected by the First Amendment. All are legitimate points of view, and political dissent in particular is essential to a healthy democracy.
They started off with a dollar a port, which would have made adding Firewire connectivity one of the most expensive parts of any system.
Uh, lemme think now. Hard drive costs me $100. Video card costs me $75. CD drive costs me $50. Chip costs me between $75 and $400, depending on if it's a Celery or an Athlon. Obviously, what I pay at Fry's is much more than the OEM pays, but don't ask me to believe that something important to, say, Dell, or Micron, which would help them differentiate themselves from the other OEMs, is left off because it costs them a buck. They certainly will get more than a dollar from their customers in return for including it, hmm?
Why would they stop when you stopped? Nike doesn't care if you're healthy. From the user's point of view, it would just be irritating. You would get free power with piezoelectrics, and just store the energy in a battery for when you were stopped.
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Well, they did orchestrate that mass Letter-to-the-Editor-writing propaganda campaign a while back. They owned up to that.
That would be true, especially the part about how TV resolution sucks, but special-purpose graphics chips are evolving very quickly, so that if you don't mind the terrible resolution, the graphics' realism is much higher.
C'monnn! The TI's have all that, plus Diamonds, Sub Hunt, 2-player Tetris, and Reddress! Plus Galaxian, Frogger, and Space Invaders.
Hey! RMS is from the East Coast, too!
I'm a Left Coaster myself, so you didn't offend me, but the People's Republic of Cambridge is pretty cool, too.
Ummm, maybe they realized this story has no connection with Katz.
Free as in speech, or free as in beer? Also, what's your source?
Well, maybe he meant that since the basic mesage of the movie is that knowledge is a double-edged sword and is not necessarily desirable, the moneyed creators of the movie might have been advocating crypto-fascism as a means of maintaining popular ignorance.
I hate when people can't take the time to change their weird codes into ASCII. We end up with the replacement of every quote or apostrophe with a question mark, which makes pages hard to read.
Actually, it's ralian's. Don't blame people for things they didn't do.
Thank you. I was unaware of that. The last time I checked, it was not available. Also, I see that it's an alpha. I'm downloading it now; I hope it works.
raphinou said, "Realplayer is available to Linux users." No, it's not. RealPlayer 5 is available, but nothing will play on it. It's obsolete. Neither G2 nor 7 is out for Linux, nor does Real give any hints that they will be later. Besides that, it segfaults every time I try to run it on my computer.
Does OS X have a way of switching windows from the keyboard a la Alt-Tab in Windows, Enlightenment, Sawmill, and KDE (and probably all the other WMs)? In OS 8.6, which is the Mac OS I'm currently most familiar with, there is no keyboard-bassed way that I know of of switching windows. Apple-Tab works for switching applications, but not for windows. This is a pain for me, because my web-browsing style is to open a new Netscape window for almost every link I want to read. I don't like to have to pick an item from a menu just to switch windows, so the de facto maximum number of windows I can have open is four. I hope OS X will have a solution for this problem. They wouldn't even have to add a new key-combo -- better to just replace Apple-Tab, because after a while, you'd find the program you wanted, even if you went through a few windows of the same program first. Of course, this is a minor issue. They can solve it however they want.
I don't get why Apple doesn't incorporate themes into OS X, since they've become such a popular feature of Enlightenment et al. I understand their desire to maintain a consistent interface (that idea is strongly stressed by the very useful
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, but they could do so by at least offering various Apple-made or -approved themes, if not user-created themes. But apparently they're going to stick everyone with Aqua, which some people will like and others won't. Personally, I like Aqua, but I like being able to change my themes.
That's not entirely true. The collapsible thing, yeah, but not the 255-character file names. I'm not a Mac expert, but I have to use them at school, and OS 8.6 does not support filenames longer than about 25 characters (I'm not at school, so I'm not sure of the exact number, but it's around there). This is a pain when you're dealing with MP3s.
Netscape doesn't interact with Gnome. It uses statically-linked Motif instead of gtk+, and doesn't use any of Gnome's features like drag-n-drop. Therefore, I doubt that Gnome is your problem.
So? Most people aren't installing Linux so they can be a Unix sysadmin in 21 days. They're installing it because they want to run Linux. Not because they want to run HP-UX. Presumably, they will have to configure each box one time. Therefore, they're probably not interested in the contents of /etc/ypserv.conf . They just want to be able to play Quake and read Slashdot. At least, that's what I want to do.
It doesn't need to split! That's what distributions are for. Debian and Slackware are for the textmode purists, and Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake are for the newbies and non-masochists. They're both great, and there isn't a need for them to fork. SuSE & Co. can just take programs from Debian, while adding their own GUIs and stuff, which the hardcore will then ignore, but which will convert lots more people. That's the way the world goes 'round.
I think you have a slight paranoia/dissaffection/cynicism/apathy problem. True, many politicians lie, but it's also true that many are hard-working, honest, people. Tom Hayden, the founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the 60s, is now a politician in my area. My Congressman, Henry Weinstein, is an honest, uncompromised liberal, as are Senators Barney Frank (D-MA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT). Just 'cause Clinton, Hatch, Gingrish, and the others suck, doesn't mean they all do.
Right. A nitpick, though, is that Moore's law doesn't apply to magnetic media. Although we have seen big increases in HDD sizes and decreases in cost, it's not the same thing. Monitors have gotten better and cheaper, too, but it's different.
I agree with you, but your gratuitous criticism of socialism is a little weird. The central characteristic of a free-market, a.k.a. laissez-faire, economy, is its freedom from regulation in the name of maximised (short-term) profits. No businessman is going to support the inclusion of environmental factors, because that hurts short-term margins. The idea of communal property, like the ocean, is a very socialist and a very uncapitalist idea.
Crypto export regs just got lifted. Open-source stuff (Mozilla, f'rinstance) can now be exported freely except to dangerous nations like Cuba (!), and closed-source programs can be exported with a one-time license inspection.
Here's my friend's translation. He says it's not perfect, but should'nt be too bad. You can email him at: cfarivar@020.co.uk
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Montreal January 12, 2000 - The Quebecan web page psst! was told to cease and desist by the american company, Yahoo! For having pretentously been the author of the parody Yahoo Québec! The head writer of Multimédium, Dominic Fugère, and one named Mathieu, whose names appear on the bottom of the parody, have also been cited in the cease and desist.
The Yahoo! Québec site, a parody of the famous american portal Yahoo!, was created several months ago by Jean-Hugues Roy, an animator of the show Branché for Radio-Canada. As soon as the site was put up, psst! had put a link in its direction.
Shockingly, this was not discussed in the cease and desist and still was not up to date as we have seen this evening. "I will start by reading the cease and desist [letter] and going to review the laws on cybersquatting and other laws on trademarks beeefore deciding if I'm going to take down the site." He said. "I might modify the search engine and the logo graphics."
In his parody, Jean Hugues Roy used the exact logo of Yahoo! To which he added the word "Québec". The search engine of the parody page, he changed the database with a list of pornographic sites. These are two details which have truly excacerbated the susceptibility of Yahoo! Inc. Excepts of the cease and desist, sent by the law firm, Smart & Biggar of Ottawa, confirm this.
"I thought that Yahoo! would be the last important company to have a sense of humor," affirms Jean-Hugues Roy. "There are many parodies of Yahoo! Some of them even use the same search engine!"
Clément Laberge, who is responsible for the psst! web page, to whom the cease and desist was sent to primarily, has until next Monday, the 17th of January, to tell Yahoo's lawyers that he has taken down the site, something that he cannot do himself, as he has absolutely no control over the site.
I agree that the post was intteresting. It was, however, still flamebait. The poster said "feminazi," which is an offensive word. Also, the follow-up posts, which I am assuming were written by the same AC, are offensive and mindlessly right-wing. Eventually, some AC or other said that it was a joke. Of course, it's likely that not all the ACs were the same person. But the original poster said that censorware would be the "greated [sic] blow for freedom and individual rights that your town has seen in decades," which is not intelligent, but merely idiotic. For one thing, individual rights are not served by being subjected to censorship. For another, no existing censorware does its job cleanly, that is to say without either skipping things it obviously should censor in order to be consistent, or censoring things that are obviously legitimate, for instance the National Organization of Women (NOW), the Nation magazine, or the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Even the reactionary anonymous poster isn't going to convince anyone except other reactionaries that political dissent, lesbian writing (I don't mean to imply that NOW is lesbian, although I don't have a problem with lesbians), or socialist theory are unprotected by the First Amendment. All are legitimate points of view, and political dissent in particular is essential to a healthy democracy.
They started off with a dollar a port, which would have made adding Firewire connectivity one of the most expensive parts of any system.
Uh, lemme think now. Hard drive costs me $100. Video card costs me $75. CD drive costs me $50. Chip costs me between $75 and $400, depending on if it's a Celery or an Athlon. Obviously, what I pay at Fry's is much more than the OEM pays, but don't ask me to believe that something important to, say, Dell, or Micron, which would help them differentiate themselves from the other OEMs, is left off because it costs them a buck. They certainly will get more than a dollar from their customers in return for including it, hmm?
Why would they stop when you stopped? Nike doesn't care if you're healthy. From the user's point of view, it would just be irritating. You would get free power with piezoelectrics, and just store the energy in a battery for when you were stopped.