Not all industries are bad, certainly. Your points are well taken.
But the complaint here, as I see it, is that everything these days is viewed from the perspective of "How much money will it make me?" I'm not bothered about folks wanting to living well, but when that's all they think about- when they can't see that something has merit even if it doesn't have financial value-then that's a very one-dimensional (and unhealthy) view.
I read an article awhile back in some financial magazine about how expensive it was to have a kid, and how people were opting out because of cost. I just shook my head- they just don't get it.
In the prehistoric past, we relied on human storytellers to transmit our entertainment. We depended on their (and our) capacity to remember the stories if we wanted to hear them retold.
Then along came TV and radio, and their attendant recording devices, and we were able to see more-or-less exact duplicates of the events we wanted to review.
Now, with the permission to copy these events gradually being taken away from us, we must return to our ancestral methods of human-human interaction. Perhaps movies and television and radio will slowly be eclipsed by plays and live bands.
IMO gnome just doesn't have all the 'drag and drop goodness' of KDE. It just doesn't seem as integrated.
With Nautilus (and withOUT gmc, blech), I believe gnome will stand out even over Windows- If they integrate it well enough.
My vision is of Nautilus becoming the desktop environment, so that image/document viewing is seamlessly a part of the OS. And since mozilla is already loaded with Nautilus, opening a web page will be as rapid as with m$ (since gnome would be "cheating" in the same way).
stands for Guaranteed Overnight Delivery. I've seen the their trucks driving around (in Brooklyn, anyway). I imagine their unique name might have even gotten them some extra business, and I doubt there was any confusion about industry they serve. If the original name-holder hasn't stopped G.O.D. by now, then QVC should take the hint and lighten up.
(Of course, then I'm comparing QVC to God, the deity. Ugh.)
Nitinol is made from Nickel and Titanium, and changes its shape based on applied current (well, "Ohmic Heating", actually). A search on Google turned up such cute examples as this.
It doesn't seem strong enough for large-scale use, but it does show proof-of-concept nicely.
Is there a way to add menu items to Mozilla's right-click menus? (Without hacking the source, I mean.) If so, then with a tiny bit of shell scripting, you could automatically add URL's to your config files. Or am I clueless?
They could be recording IP addresses; I think that blocking static IPs would be somewhat effective. Of course, people with dynamic IPs can just sit back and laugh.
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Not all industries are bad, certainly. Your points are well taken.
But the complaint here, as I see it, is that everything these days is viewed from the perspective of "How much money will it make me?" I'm not bothered about folks wanting to living well, but when that's all they think about- when they can't see that something has merit even if it doesn't have financial value-then that's a very one-dimensional (and unhealthy) view.
I read an article awhile back in some financial magazine about how expensive it was to have a kid, and how people were opting out because of cost. I just shook my head- they just don't get it.
- Cliff, father of a beautiful 3.5 yr boy
In the prehistoric past, we relied on human storytellers to transmit our entertainment. We depended on their (and our) capacity to remember the stories if we wanted to hear them retold.
Then along came TV and radio, and their attendant recording devices, and we were able to see more-or-less exact duplicates of the events we wanted to review.
Now, with the permission to copy these events gradually being taken away from us, we must return to our ancestral methods of human-human interaction. Perhaps movies and television and radio will slowly be eclipsed by plays and live bands.
Aw hell, who am I kidding...
IMO gnome just doesn't have all the 'drag and drop goodness' of KDE. It just doesn't seem as integrated.
With Nautilus (and withOUT gmc, blech), I believe gnome will stand out even over Windows- If they integrate it well enough.
My vision is of Nautilus becoming the desktop environment, so that image/document viewing is seamlessly a part of the OS. And since mozilla is already loaded with Nautilus, opening a web page will be as rapid as with m$ (since gnome would be "cheating" in the same way).
stands for Guaranteed Overnight Delivery. I've seen the their trucks driving around (in Brooklyn, anyway). I imagine their unique name might have even gotten them some extra business, and I doubt there was any confusion about industry they serve. If the original name-holder hasn't stopped G.O.D. by now, then QVC should take the hint and lighten up. (Of course, then I'm comparing QVC to God, the deity. Ugh.)
Nitinol is made from Nickel and Titanium, and changes its shape based on applied current (well, "Ohmic Heating", actually). A search on Google turned up such cute examples as this.
It doesn't seem strong enough for large-scale use, but it does show proof-of-concept nicely.
Is there a way to add menu items to Mozilla's right-click menus? (Without hacking the source, I mean.) If so, then with a tiny bit of shell scripting, you could automatically add URL's to your config files. Or am I clueless?
They could be recording IP addresses; I think that blocking static IPs would be somewhat effective. Of course, people with dynamic IPs can just sit back and laugh.