I have another site at 'stupendousbadass.org' which will soon be pointed to by 'stupendousbadass.com' as well. None of this is cybersquatting. Cybersquatting is when you purchase a domain name for the sole purpose of selling it at a profit.
But you will be cutting the namespace by half. That's not good. We're dealing with a limited and shared resource here.
Unless you're running a server of some kind or you use your computer at all hours, I don't see the point of uptime for its own sake. Even if you use your computer all day, just flip it on when you get out of bed in the morning (or whenever)...
I'd have to wait the moment while it boots before laboriously reopening all my projects. I like to walk away without a thought and when i return, pick up where i left off. Even if i've slept in between.
Your description of why you like Perl just about sums up why i hate it. I'll take Python. A language that takes little room in my head so i can concentrate on the task, not the language.
So perhaps instead of saying "bad programming language" you should have said not ideally suited to you and those like you:)
Frankly, the rest of the world appears willing to learn English, so those of us that speak it don't really have a compelling reason to learn anything else.
For me there is a reason: English.
The more i study Lojban, the more i feel about English the way i felt about MS Windows before i switched to Linux. It's that hands tied frustration feeling. Where i'm starting to get a glimpse of what could be done, but the thing won't let me. If i try to explore, it breaks.
Sorry, but idea of people working together for the good of "community" failed. It doesn't work. People are at their best when working for themselves.
Ah, but this isn't socialism/communism where people's work is taken for the community, it's a gift economy.
Individuals aren't forced to give up their product for the community. Instead they get something in return. Namely, gifts. So they are working for themselves.
I'm not saying the gift economy doesn't have it's disadvantages, but it has worked well in the zero cost copy environment of the software world, and as far as i know, it could work with real goods.
The beauty of a gift economy is that it removes the "I hate my job of doing something I love" effect and doesn't have to be restrained by force (law) and those not willing to stoop to starving people into paying a better price.
Lynx had it's day but do we really have to keep supporting it?
Nope. If you write good HTML, Lynx, search engines, and the deaf will take care of themselves. You can concentrate on supporting graphical browsers by adding stuff on for them.
Yes, i know, HTML isn't perfect (i'm not blaming anyone in particular), and doing so will limit you from some (usually annoying) site designs. If you want to use one of those (usually annoying) site designs....
If there was a set I'd be willing to pay a pretty penny for it.
But would you work on producing it? That's what has brought us this far, and judging from commercial efforts, it's the only thing that will take us further.
But, on a more immediate subject, do you know know about the -K (that's a capital) switch for man? See man(1) (type 'man man') for more information. Of course, it won't help much with GNU projects, but...
(Yes, i should quote from man(1) but i want people to actually look at it.)
I would have to say that ISPs, especially broadband, need to start taking some responsibility for educating their customers.
I thoroughly agree. Not only do uneducated users know nothing of security resulting in things like DDoS attacks, they know nothing of what's out there and so get much less out of it, and more importantly they know nothing of the culture that has developed to allow the net to survive and so work to wreck it and with it the net.
I know ISP's would claim expense, but when i opened my first account with a small town ISP they sent a guy to my house who expected to spend the lesser part of an hour or two setting up my system. The greater part he spent telling me the things i needed to know to understand the various things (the web, usenet, telneting to hosts, etc.) and a tiny bit of the culture. And this was with no setup fee. Now... they'll mail you a floppy to set things up. The last cable TV guy i saw did better than that; he come in and reprogrammed the TV himself.
And GUI's can do free-form text completion boxes. In fact, they can do some kind of out-complete feature, so I can type "bra" and have the "zil" added automatically.
As can CLI's. I've even done a clumsy form of auto-complete in a 100 line Perl script i use.
What happens if you want to move several files with different types to a directory several folders away? That requires a lot more typing.
Not much more typing with a well organized filesystem and a modern Unix shell which supports tab completion. In short, one or two letters and the tab key per directory. And tab completion will do more than just directory names, the example included with the tcsh distribution is enlightening. Some configuration and you could expect that shell to read your mind.
You select text with the arrow keys? If it's just a couple of words, I can see that, but if you're selecting whole sentences, arrow keys are slow.
Which is why the key repeat rate under Unixes doesn't crawl like under MS Windows and editors like vi(m) rarely require you to actually highlight the text. The vim tutorial (listed in the help) shows how it works.
When I want to get normal work done, I run Mac OS. When I have coding to do, I boot into Unix.:)
Actually, I think the idea of rendering them as tooltips isn't such a bad idea. I mean, what do you usually put in the alt tag anyway?
A line of about 70 dashes for a divider. Users of true audio user agents would probably kick me for that as would anyone using a terminal narrower than 80 columns, but even if i fixed that, it still wouldn't be content for a tooltip.
Of course, the whole idea of alt atributes is broken anyway. The object element is an attempt to fix that, but it may be too little, to late. Hopefully most applications of XML will be better.
The instant online polls at cspan after most of the Republican debates showed that viewers felt Allen Keyes won the debate. This was not picked up and reported by any newspaper that Ive read.
Interesting. I haven't heard anything positive about him here either. I don't suspect race first, religion is far more likely in this forum; but I was curious about the Slashdot readership's opinion since I favor Mr. Keyes.
I read your article in meta moderation. Fine article! May more meta moderators approve of the boost to your karma. But, in a light hearted spirit, I noticed one little thing.
The effort has been likened to building a dam against the ocean; a foolish and useless exercise.
An excellent and expressive parallel, except for one thing. It's been done. They're called dikes. Built by the determined people of the Netherlands.
Beware of your parallels, lest reality bite you!:)
cheers, sklein
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But (true) Case Preserving/Case Insensitive file systems makes the most sense to me: you don't have to worry if you're opening "REAMDE" or "readme", it just works. This is probably my biggest beef with using UNIX-based systems!
But it's a big pain for guys like me who have filenames like "~/DOS" and "~/devel". Why? Filename completion. To change to "~/DOS" I type "~/D[TAB]" and for "~/devel" I type "~/d[TAB]". The shell does the rest.
If "D" and "d" were the same, not only would I have to type an extra letter, I would have to remember which of the directories in my home directory, ("~/" for those of you not familiar with Unix), required one letter and which reqired two to complete.
i've just recently started reading slashdot (i've been told to read it by both a man and a woman),
Welcome aboard. Hope you find the discussion valuble.
and it took me, oh, i don't know, 10 minutes to notice that the vast majority of posts seems to come from men. from men who are pretty positive that they are if not the only ones on the planet, then the only ones who read slashdot and post accordingly.
I assume the next statement is intended as an example to back this up? Since it involves only one gentleman, it may not support such a sweeping statement, but....
i saw an old article--a "dating guide" for geeks--that was in the funny section that was totally sexist not only in its presuming that all geeks were male,
I remember the article, and the discussion that followed. It was written from a gentleman's point of view which is fitting since the writer is a man himself. Actually, I wouldn't be too sure of a lady writing about a man's point of view for the simple reason that she hasn't lived a man's life, and I assume ladies, being people too, think similarly. It was also written to gentlemen, and this might be good for the same reason.
But as I remember the article advised the gentlemen in question not to marry a ladies of the same type. Obviously, the reverse is implied. Ladies might consider seriously a marriage with a similar gentleman. But it also suggests that the writer is familiar with the existance of ladies, does it not?
but also made a bunch of other sexist comments and assumption. i might get blasted as a rabid feminist with no sense of humor,
Since you mentioned the possibility, I don't imagine that will happen.
but i assure you, when humor is part of a culture that is often hostile to anyone not white, male, straight, etc., it's hard to find it funny.
in other words, many people here might think that they're not contributing to biases just because they're not posting _complete_ sexist crap, but acting as if men are the only ones around here adds up to some pretty strong sexism--consciously or unconsciously, it renders women invisible.
Thinking about it, I get the impression that article was unusual in that it specified gender at all. My memory of most discussion is that it leaves the reader free to assume whatever gender they default to. Be that male, female, or neuter. But that's my impression, and I am, indeed, a guy.
I'm going to disagree with Sterling on other grounds: There's nothing about the net which is likely to have any qualitative effect on any "new intelligentsia" which may rear its pointy little head in the years to come..... Intellectuals are people who shoot their mouths off at each other, and the net means they can do it from their home in Sheboygan instead of having to move to Paris like Hemingway did. That's actually a damn good thing, but it's just a change in the interface.
Ahh, but I can't move to Paris. I can get on the net. It lowers the barrier.
It also gives sensible people the chance to evaluate their views and lives in light of lives and views to which they wouldn't have had access.
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GNOME and KDE are not window managers. They are "Desktop Environments". They include a window manager, but they are more.
For the record, GNOME has used Enlightenment, while KDE writes their own window manager.
cheers,
sklein
But you will be cutting the namespace by half. That's not good. We're dealing with a limited and shared resource here.
cheers,
sklein
I'd have to wait the moment while it boots before laboriously reopening all my projects. I like to walk away without a thought and when i return, pick up where i left off. Even if i've slept in between.
cheers,
sklein
Your description of why you like Perl just about sums up why i hate it. I'll take Python. A language that takes little room in my head so i can concentrate on the task, not the language.
So perhaps instead of saying "bad programming language" you should have said not ideally suited to you and those like you :)
cheers,
sklein
For me there is a reason: English.
The more i study Lojban, the more i feel about English the way i felt about MS Windows before i switched to Linux. It's that hands tied frustration feeling. Where i'm starting to get a glimpse of what could be done, but the thing won't let me. If i try to explore, it breaks.
cheers,
sklein
Ah, but this isn't socialism/communism where people's work is taken for the community, it's a gift economy.
Individuals aren't forced to give up their product for the community. Instead they get something in return. Namely, gifts. So they are working for themselves.
I'm not saying the gift economy doesn't have it's disadvantages, but it has worked well in the zero cost copy environment of the software world, and as far as i know, it could work with real goods.
The beauty of a gift economy is that it removes the "I hate my job of doing something I love" effect and doesn't have to be restrained by force (law) and those not willing to stoop to starving people into paying a better price.
cheers,
sklein
Nope. If you write good HTML, Lynx, search engines, and the deaf will take care of themselves. You can concentrate on supporting graphical browsers by adding stuff on for them.
Yes, i know, HTML isn't perfect (i'm not blaming anyone in particular), and doing so will limit you from some (usually annoying) site designs. If you want to use one of those (usually annoying) site designs....
cheers,
sklein
But would you work on producing it? That's what has brought us this far, and judging from commercial efforts, it's the only thing that will take us further.
But, on a more immediate subject, do you know know about the -K (that's a capital) switch for man? See man(1) (type 'man man') for more information. Of course, it won't help much with GNU projects, but...
(Yes, i should quote from man(1) but i want people to actually look at it.)
cheers,
sklein
Those who claim to be something often aren't:
And i'm beginning to think people who really are Christians don't say so.
But bashing everyone to whom that label could be attached is like bashing...
cheers,
sklein
(For the record, the day my library installs filtering software is the day they loose my services as volunteer technical coordinator.
Selecting a candidate is like selecting a web browser these days, but... Alan Keys is certainly my pick.
cheers,
sklein
If anyone is reinventing the wheel, i think it would have to be RPM. tar and sh have been around since long before Linux.
cheers,
sklein
I have. DX7. And surprisingly it wasn't for a game. And then there's the thing required by Active State's Perl when installing on Win 95 systems....
cheers,
sklein
I thoroughly agree. Not only do uneducated users know nothing of security resulting in things like DDoS attacks, they know nothing of what's out there and so get much less out of it, and more importantly they know nothing of the culture that has developed to allow the net to survive and so work to wreck it and with it the net.
I know ISP's would claim expense, but when i opened my first account with a small town ISP they sent a guy to my house who expected to spend the lesser part of an hour or two setting up my system. The greater part he spent telling me the things i needed to know to understand the various things (the web, usenet, telneting to hosts, etc.) and a tiny bit of the culture. And this was with no setup fee. Now... they'll mail you a floppy to set things up. The last cable TV guy i saw did better than that; he come in and reprogrammed the TV himself.
cheers,
sklein
As can CLI's. I've even done a clumsy form of auto-complete in a 100 line Perl script i use.
Not much more typing with a well organized filesystem and a modern Unix shell which supports tab completion. In short, one or two letters and the tab key per directory. And tab completion will do more than just directory names, the example included with the tcsh distribution is enlightening. Some configuration and you could expect that shell to read your mind.
Which is why the key repeat rate under Unixes doesn't crawl like under MS Windows and editors like vi(m) rarely require you to actually highlight the text. The vim tutorial (listed in the help) shows how it works.
And coding isn't "normal" work. *sigh* :)
cheers,
sklein
Sure, but that doesn't prevent them from doing it :) This is politics....
cheers,
sklein
Your statement is FUD. Your favorite license is subject to the same attack. The only thing that isn't is no holds barred public domain.
cheers,
sklein
A line of about 70 dashes for a divider. Users of true audio user agents would probably kick me for that as would anyone using a terminal narrower than 80 columns, but even if i fixed that, it still wouldn't be content for a tooltip.
Of course, the whole idea of alt atributes is broken anyway. The object element is an attempt to fix that, but it may be too little, to late. Hopefully most applications of XML will be better.
cheers,
sklein
In which case it contributed nothing.
Heat would have contributed nothing.
cheers,
sklein
BTW, may i applaud your work on the Mozilla project?
To state the obvious, that's the weakest argument i've read in some time. Consider yourself deservedly flamed.
cheers,
sklein
Interesting. I haven't heard anything positive about him here either. I don't suspect race first, religion is far more likely in this forum; but I was curious about the Slashdot readership's opinion since I favor Mr. Keyes.
Anyone have anything to say on the subject?
cheers,
sklein
I read your article in meta moderation. Fine article! May more meta moderators approve of the boost to your karma. But, in a light hearted spirit, I noticed one little thing.
An excellent and expressive parallel, except for one thing. It's been done. They're called dikes. Built by the determined people of the Netherlands.
Beware of your parallels, lest reality bite you! :)
cheers,
sklein
But it's a big pain for guys like me who have filenames like "~/DOS" and "~/devel". Why? Filename completion. To change to "~/DOS" I type "~/D[TAB]" and for "~/devel" I type "~/d[TAB]". The shell does the rest.
If "D" and "d" were the same, not only would I have to type an extra letter, I would have to remember which of the directories in my home directory, ("~/" for those of you not familiar with Unix), required one letter and which reqired two to complete.
cheers,
sklein
Welcome aboard. Hope you find the discussion valuble.
I assume the next statement is intended as an example to back this up? Since it involves only one gentleman, it may not support such a sweeping statement, but....
I remember the article, and the discussion that followed. It was written from a gentleman's point of view which is fitting since the writer is a man himself. Actually, I wouldn't be too sure of a lady writing about a man's point of view for the simple reason that she hasn't lived a man's life, and I assume ladies, being people too, think similarly. It was also written to gentlemen, and this might be good for the same reason.
But as I remember the article advised the gentlemen in question not to marry a ladies of the same type. Obviously, the reverse is implied. Ladies might consider seriously a marriage with a similar gentleman. But it also suggests that the writer is familiar with the existance of ladies, does it not?
Since you mentioned the possibility, I don't imagine that will happen.
Thinking about it, I get the impression that article was unusual in that it specified gender at all. My memory of most discussion is that it leaves the reader free to assume whatever gender they default to. Be that male, female, or neuter. But that's my impression, and I am, indeed, a guy.
cheers,
sklein
Ahh, but I can't move to Paris. I can get on the net. It lowers the barrier.
It also gives sensible people the chance to evaluate their views and lives in light of lives and views to which they wouldn't have had access.
cheers,
sklein
You still use bitmaps for that? Why not PNG? With PNG you may not even have to keep a separate master copy. Welcome to the present!
cheers,
sklein