Mouse over a folder and get tactile feedback depending on how many items are in it. Clicking and dragging could indicate how close to the edge you are of a window or screen.
No offense, but this sounds like a horrible idea. It's not intuitive at all. What sort of tactile feedback would you use to tell how many items are in a folder? Would you have to count the number of vibrations per second?
A truly revolutionary UI should make more sense than the current state of the art, not less.
I think that this is the reason why OSS has such a big takeup by the techies.
Because we can work on stuff without the whole time-to-market panic. I have been forced to release shit code I have written, and as someone whole takes a good deal of pride in the job, that was _hard_.
Compare and contrast that to OSS; it gets released when it's ready, and then undergoes a lengthy period of peer review - any mistakes I've made get fixed before it is deemed "good".
So why do so many open-sourcers complain about how long Mozilla is taking?
For some reason I found this funny. Organized labor has been on a major downturn popularity- and influence-wise for the last decade or so. Hell, the AFL-CIO couldn't block NAFTA!
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Re:I like the idea, but it defeats the purpose.
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What would stop the MPAA or the RIAA from saying node x is sending out spam (in the form of "pirated" MP3z) and then having him disconnected from the net.
What's to stop the spambot from moving to another IP and declaring to everyone on the net that your node (the original complainer of the spam) is a bad apple and disconnected you from the net.
Think of the potential wide scale mischeif script kiddies could have.
If spam notices are signed, these problems magically disappear. Only accept notices from sources you trust.
And another one of the foundations of economics is that all the arguments in favor of capitalism only hold true in an environment of perfect competition, which the current situation most assuredly ain't.
Right. But this means there is no upper limit due to competition. They can price CDs as high as they want as long as people continue to buy them, without worrying about being undercut.
The whole issue about the cost of the CD coming into play is straight out due to the markup. It costs the record companies very little money to stamp out CDs in such mass quantities as it does, thus it should lower the CD price if more are sold. The amount of artwork and other matierials sent with the CD are also very minimal, making the straightout price to produce very low.
Remember, there is no universal objective "worth" to a CD. One of the foundations of economics is that a commercial product like a CD is worth whatever people are willing to pay for it. That's all.
Expenses are a lower limit on price, but they don't affect the maximum at all.
I've noticed that billboards for IBM's developers website lists Java, XML, and Linux as "supported technologies", but makes no mention of Windows (or any other MS product, for that matter).
So extract the text from the PDF. There's only one diagram that I could see, and it could probably be rewritten in ASCII (it's just text in balloons with arrows). I'd be willing to bet a text-only version would be much smaller. Do you really need all that formatting?
I tried to convince Gav (supreme leader of Keenspot and artist of Nukees) to make a Keenspot slashbox, but he wasn't interested.
In other news, it seems when this article first got posted, Keenspot (and quite a few of its member sites, like College Roomies from Hell, got Slashdotted.
And check out Help Desk. It's awesome (done entirely on OS/2 too). --- Zardoz has spoken!
"Worksforme" is short for "it works on my system, I can't verify this unless you give me some more info on your system". IT's basically punishment for not writing bug reports in enough detail. --- Zardoz has spoken!
The Chat client was developed by an independent programmer. The AIM client is being developed by AOL in a proprietarty way.
What's the point? Neither has any place in the browser. If you hit an irc://... URL, run an arbitrary program (such as rxvt -r irc). If I want an IRC client or an "Instant Messaging" client (such as rxvt -e talk), I'll get them elsewhere.
So don't install the IRC or mailnews modules. His point was, these projects don't take resources away from the main codebase. If Mozilla wasn't accepting things like chatzilla, the guys who wrote it would probably have written a non-Mozilla IRC client, and wouldn't have done any work on Mozilla at all.
If we can map the universe at every wavelength, won't this be data enough to -deduce- the particle laws?
Nope. Deducing particle laws from this sort of data would be very indirect, especially because there could be other unexplained factors. It's still a good idea to be able to perform experiments under controlled conditions.
Also understand that most of the large particle accelerator projects have a hard time getting funding. Remember the Superconducting Supercollider? It may be true that existing particle accelerators have done their work, but particle accelerators in general have a long way to go.
This "feature" isn't very context-sensitive. It bases the link strictly on the text it is linking from, ignoring the rest of the post. For example, someone might post a message, "You do *not* want to use a modem in this case.", and Deja would hyperlink the word "modem" to an ad for one. This could conceivably be confusing to someone reading the message...is the post endorsing or not endorsing the use of a modem?
Or, someone might post "I happen to think that Sony makes the best HDTVs." and Deja links "HDTVs" to some HDTV they're promoting, made by Toshiba. Hell, that borders on false advertising!
So if I send a letter to the editor, or the "Confidential Chat" my local paper runs, it can be altered without notice and still published under my name?,/blockquote>
Um, yes, it can. I work for a newspaper, and I've had to type in letters to the editor from snail-mail and fax. I frequently have to edit the messages in certain ways:
Remove profanity.
Remove large redundant sections. We only have so much space for letters, and paper is money.
Fix spelling mistakes, typos, and poor punctuation.
Begin all of them with "Editor - " instead of "Dear Editor" or "Dear <insert name of writer here>" or "Dear @$$holes" or whatever the original greeting was.
Remove offtopic or overly personal sections.
That's basically it. However, the meaning must be the same in both the original and edited versions. There's a disclaimer printed by the mailing address for the paper.
Usually, for a personal homepage, you don't want anonymity. It defeats the purpose. A homepage is just a "here I am, here's some stuff I like/do" page.
Why would you want anonymity when you're showing off? --- Zardoz has spoken!
Well, MS have just hammered yet another nail into their own coffin with this sidegrade.
Has BillG really forgotten that either the appeal court or the Supremes are going to be asked to judge his actions?
Actually, the appeals court will be asked to judge Judge Jackson's actions, to see whether he held a fair trial, and (most importantly) whether his plan is an appropriate punishment. Higher courts are probably going to stick with the original Findings of Fact, since it is assumed that the lower court (having heard all of the evidence firsthand) is more qualified to say what actually happened.
Still, this certainly won't help ol' Billy Boy any in the courtroom...
This could be done by setting up something like an anonymizer service. Use two servers: one for the authentication, another for vote counting. Votes are sent, encrypted with the counter's public key, to the authentication server with the voter's digital sig. The authenticator checks to see if the sig is valid, if the person hasn't voted already, etc., then sends the vote on, still encrypted (since the authenticator doesn't have the counter's private key), to the counter. The counter verifies that the authenticator's signature is valid and logs the vote.
Simple. The authenticator doesn't know the contents of the vote, and the counter doesn't know who sent the vote.
Of course, you have to take it on faith that the authenticator and counter won't share data they shouldn't. But then, at the ballot box you have to take it on faith that they won't dust your ballot for fingerprints...
Now this is news. I didn't even know that cats could survive on the sun, let alone that they preferred sunspots to other areas.
Just goes to show that Slashdot can be educational!
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This would be funny if it hadn't already been done
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Haven't you heard the hit song by LFO, "Summertime Girls"? (If you haven't, you are one lucky, lucky bastard) At one point they sing "I like the girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch" If that isn't product placement, I don't know what is.
Of course, nobody ever accused bubblegum pop boy bands of having scruples or artistic integrity...
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No offense, but this sounds like a horrible idea. It's not intuitive at all. What sort of tactile feedback would you use to tell how many items are in a folder? Would you have to count the number of vibrations per second?
A truly revolutionary UI should make more sense than the current state of the art, not less.
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Zardoz has spoken!
So why do so many open-sourcers complain about how long Mozilla is taking?
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For some reason I found this funny. Organized labor has been on a major downturn popularity- and influence-wise for the last decade or so. Hell, the AFL-CIO couldn't block NAFTA!
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Zardoz has spoken!
If spam notices are signed, these problems magically disappear. Only accept notices from sources you trust.
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Zardoz has spoken!
Right. But this means there is no upper limit due to competition. They can price CDs as high as they want as long as people continue to buy them, without worrying about being undercut.
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Zardoz has spoken!
Remember, there is no universal objective "worth" to a CD. One of the foundations of economics is that a commercial product like a CD is worth whatever people are willing to pay for it. That's all.
Expenses are a lower limit on price, but they don't affect the maximum at all.
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Zardoz has spoken!
I've noticed that billboards for IBM's developers website lists Java, XML, and Linux as "supported technologies", but makes no mention of Windows (or any other MS product, for that matter).
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So extract the text from the PDF. There's only one diagram that I could see, and it could probably be rewritten in ASCII (it's just text in balloons with arrows). I'd be willing to bet a text-only version would be much smaller. Do you really need all that formatting?
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Zardoz has spoken!
Which is what anonymizer services are great at hiding. Yes, just using PGP won't render Carnivore useless, but there are ways around it.
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I tried to convince Gav (supreme leader of Keenspot and artist of Nukees) to make a Keenspot slashbox, but he wasn't interested.
In other news, it seems when this article first got posted, Keenspot (and quite a few of its member sites, like College Roomies from Hell, got Slashdotted.
And check out Help Desk. It's awesome (done entirely on OS/2 too).
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Zardoz has spoken!
"Worksforme" is short for "it works on my system, I can't verify this unless you give me some more info on your system". IT's basically punishment for not writing bug reports in enough detail.
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Zardoz has spoken!
So don't install the IRC or mailnews modules. His point was, these projects don't take resources away from the main codebase. If Mozilla wasn't accepting things like chatzilla, the guys who wrote it would probably have written a non-Mozilla IRC client, and wouldn't have done any work on Mozilla at all.
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Zardoz has spoken!
Works for me.
Works for me.
Some minor twitchiness (sometimes blank lines show up), but otherwise works for me.Did you submit bug reports?
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In my experience, most political reporters are fairly conservative, or at least centrist.
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Nope. Deducing particle laws from this sort of data would be very indirect, especially because there could be other unexplained factors. It's still a good idea to be able to perform experiments under controlled conditions.
Also understand that most of the large particle accelerator projects have a hard time getting funding. Remember the Superconducting Supercollider? It may be true that existing particle accelerators have done their work, but particle accelerators in general have a long way to go.
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Zardoz has spoken!
This "feature" isn't very context-sensitive. It bases the link strictly on the text it is linking from, ignoring the rest of the post. For example, someone might post a message, "You do *not* want to use a modem in this case.", and Deja would hyperlink the word "modem" to an ad for one. This could conceivably be confusing to someone reading the message...is the post endorsing or not endorsing the use of a modem?
Or, someone might post "I happen to think that Sony makes the best HDTVs." and Deja links "HDTVs" to some HDTV they're promoting, made by Toshiba. Hell, that borders on false advertising!
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Zardoz has spoken!
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Usually, for a personal homepage, you don't want anonymity. It defeats the purpose. A homepage is just a "here I am, here's some stuff I like/do" page.
Why would you want anonymity when you're showing off?
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Zardoz has spoken!
Actually, the appeals court will be asked to judge Judge Jackson's actions, to see whether he held a fair trial, and (most importantly) whether his plan is an appropriate punishment. Higher courts are probably going to stick with the original Findings of Fact, since it is assumed that the lower court (having heard all of the evidence firsthand) is more qualified to say what actually happened.
Still, this certainly won't help ol' Billy Boy any in the courtroom...
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Zardoz has spoken!
I'd consider LTJ Bukem to be more acid jazz than jungle, at least on the album I've got.
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edyoo or eddoo
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And how come you never see these guys in the same place at the same time? Hmm...
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This could be done by setting up something like an anonymizer service. Use two servers: one for the authentication, another for vote counting. Votes are sent, encrypted with the counter's public key, to the authentication server with the voter's digital sig. The authenticator checks to see if the sig is valid, if the person hasn't voted already, etc., then sends the vote on, still encrypted (since the authenticator doesn't have the counter's private key), to the counter. The counter verifies that the authenticator's signature is valid and logs the vote.
Simple. The authenticator doesn't know the contents of the vote, and the counter doesn't know who sent the vote.
Of course, you have to take it on faith that the authenticator and counter won't share data they shouldn't. But then, at the ballot box you have to take it on faith that they won't dust your ballot for fingerprints...
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Zardoz has spoken!
Now this is news. I didn't even know that cats could survive on the sun, let alone that they preferred sunspots to other areas.
Just goes to show that Slashdot can be educational!
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Zardoz has spoken!
Haven't you heard the hit song by LFO, "Summertime Girls"? (If you haven't, you are one lucky, lucky bastard) At one point they sing "I like the girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch" If that isn't product placement, I don't know what is.
Of course, nobody ever accused bubblegum pop boy bands of having scruples or artistic integrity...
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Zardoz has spoken!