You'll be happy (or possibly appalled) to know that I actually opened up a gvim window, pasted my text in there, and hit control-W, counting the presses till I got the desired result.
Ah, I've spotted your mistake: You opened gvim when you should have opened emacs. If you had tried this in emacs the correct ^W delete word behavior would have occurred.
VML was never adopted as a standard. It was proposed, considered and rejected. SVG is a "better VML" and actually has wide industry support.
Microsoft might be considered a pioneer for adding VML support early, except that now they are not keeping up by adding SVG support even when it's clearly needed. Oh, and VML? Gone in IE8.
As another poster said, they're trying to force people in to silverlight.
Anything can be taken too far and every person is different.
That said, ptrStupidVariableNamesPissMeOff. Things like capitalizing class names, or all caps for constants, whatever; cool by me. But camel casing variables and Hungarian notation annoy the hell out of me, no matter the language.
Density shmensity. if( denotes the beginning of the conditional } denotes the end } else means it continues instead of ending
So. if(...){// begin...// do stuff }// end else{// what?...// uhm }// end again?
Confusing! What's that dangling else doing there? Sure looks funny without its friend the }.
Those arguing in favor of braces on their own lines are usually obsessed by this kind of non-issue. They write like this: if (... ) {... } else {... }
Which is even less readable.
Now every person is different and sees things differently. I find it useful to put empty lines between sets of unrelated code, just for the very reasons you cite for putting } on its own line. Some people criticize that practice for a variety of reasons, but it works well for *me* and makes it easy for *me* to find what I need to find quickly. I happen to think it makes the code clean and maintainable, just as I think that } else { does.
gconf would have been a binary database if users hadn't screamed bloody murder when the original design was proposed. It then got pluggable back ends and XML by default, but by now that's all that gets used. The comparison with the registry is still fair: Some options for your application are only editable by firing up an external tool with a bad UI requiring you to know precisely where to go and what to change.
To say that GNOME 2.x gradually develops features over time is fair, but I would not rush to praise it for adding *options* with every release. At least up through 2.10 options were routinely removed on release; after that I stopped even trying to care. Perhaps there was always a *net gain*, but any time you take some power away from me by removing or hiding functionality I use it's a regression.
And to be equally fair you must forgive some of us if we speak bitterly about GNOME's feature reductionism. The change from an exhilarating charge toward exciting new things and better software to a retreat to a plodding, careful lowest-common-denominator style of development was shocking, disheartening and depressing. Perhaps things have improved since the beginning but GNOME's attitude toward innovation and improvement is still so oppressive that I don't think the project would continue without corporate backing.
KDE4 feels incomplete? Funny, that's *exactly* what I thought when I fired up my nice and shiny GNOME 2.0.0. "Wait," I said to myself, "Where's the rest of it? You can hardly do anything." But I told myself it was the GTK2 transition/rewrite and they'd fix the incomplete part by adding features back in over time.
And I waited. And it got worse. And the GNOME developers said "We aren't putting features back in, features are confusing and hard to use."
With KDE4 a lot seems incomplete, but they at least are swearing up and down that the meat will come back as fast as they can port it.
I'll reprint here what I said the last time (except then it was on OSNews) because it's still true and I can't say it better.
Who's defending Reiser? I am one of the ones who objected to this case in the past and I will do so again today. You will accuse me of blind devotion, but this is not the case. My only devotion is to things I know to be true. I don't know whether he did or did not kill his wife, nor do I care. His guilt or innocence is not important to me. What I do care about is the legal system in the USA, where I have lived all my life. This conviction is against the principles of the American justice system and should not have been handed down.
This is a case where the evidence was slim and circumstantial. Did he kill his wife? Let's say for the sake of argument that he did. Does this mean he should be convicted for it? The answer to that is *only if it can be proven* that he killed here. There was no proof, there was very little evidence, and so there is an objection to this by me. He should not have been convicted, guilty or not, with so little evidence.
For the record, I use ext3 and have never been particularly enamored of reiserfs3 and never tried v4.
For me this is not a matter of fanboyism as I am not a fan of reiserfs or reiser himself.
Fixing the laws after the fact doesn't solve the problem of a lack of proper justice in her case.
I object to this assessment. If it wasn't illegal then justice has been served. Justice is defined as the fair application of the law--it's not always right, but it's just.
If you start saying that actions which are not illegal but are found by some set of society to be deplorable can (or, rather, *should*) be prosecutable, then you've stepped off the road of liberty. How can I be held responsible for doing things that I don't see as wrong and which no law prohibits? Must every person fear that anything not explicitly allowed by law could result in criminal prosecution because *someone* decided they did not like it? This is a direct contradiction of the constitution!
If you want what this person did to be illegal then there's no problem in passing a law banning it, but there is also *no problem* in allowing someone to "get away" with something that is *not illegal yet*.
Step two: use it everywhere online and only in a few areas associate it with your real name.
Result: name scrapers pick up your alias/handle and little harm is done. Your actual name is discoverable if someone knows your handle, but in most cases is not important and is not sought.
People running around with their real name up-front are just plain *stupid* and asking for trouble. Basic security, people.
Just because TIFF *has* been and *can* be used for multi-page faxes doesn't mean it's a good idea. As an alternative to everyone using their own proprietary system it's great, but as an alternative to a true document format it's not so great.
Wide support? That has some virtues, but wide support doesn't make it good. Almost everybody supports (for example) HTML 3, but that doesn't mean HTML 3 is a good format for authoring web pages.
TIFF for faxes was the best of bad choices. There are better options these days.
It's interesting that you cite your long-time usage of top posting as some kind of defense. Clearly I think this behavior is deplorable, so I don't find it positive that you've been doing it for so long. Perhaps you're trying to impress upon me your credentials. It doesn't matter, there can be no justification for top posting.
This is certainly not about attention. I did not originally anticipate nor have I ever sought any reply from anyone. I'd like you to stop top posting, but apart from that your opinion is immaterial to me. if you wont stop then I don't care to hear from you.
I am requesting that you cease top posting in the future. If you don't like the request, tough, as you say, shit.
Top posting is evil, you are evil for doing it deliberately.
You can post in an incorrect, unfriendly and antisocial manner if you wish, but you must accept the kind of criticism you will deservedly receive as a result.
A threaded environment is no excuse for top posting. If you prefer to omit the quote, which you admit serves no purpose, then this is acceptable. I will note, though, that on a web-based forum even when in a thread it is advisable to quote properly as the post directly "above" you may be an unrelated reply and it may be difficult to scroll to and identify the post to which you are replying.
I am no more obliged to fuck off than you are obliged to listen to me. We are in this way--and this way only--equal.
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The trouble is that we're not comparing "dumb" with "popular" or "poor" with "smart". We're comparing apples and apples: In subject FOO, among group X, person Z is the best. This is not controversial at all.
And I'll say, also, that you are the one who brought ethnicity into this. No one is suggesting awards based on skin color.
I am all for fairness, equal access to education, equal rights, etc.. I am not for equality. In reality each person has his own strengths and weaknesses; we are not equal. To suggest that we should not celebrate the strengths of one because somebody else is weak in that area is idiotic.
Well at least you know the teachers aren't vampires!
This kind of argument against smaller class sizes is pointless. Nobody is suggesting paying teachers *more* (although it's not a bad idea to pay the good ones more), we're suggesting spending money on more teachers. It should be *patently obvious* to anyone who is not a troll and is not trying to find an excuse to get the government out of the business of funding schools that you do *not* just throw people without skill at the mess.
Smaller classrooms are *better*. When I say smaller I mean =20 kids per class. More than that is difficult to manage--I used to work school IT, so I have my own observations to go on here. If you hire a sufficient number of competent (or better) teachers that there is a 1:20 ratio with students then I think that the students will get a better education.
Segregating by work ethic and effort is not a bad idea. Doing it with 100% rigid barriers is bad; a lot of underachievers would do better when competing with their peers, as long as 51% or more of the people around them are *better* than they are. At the same time this should be done in stages; never throw the worst in with the best, throw them in with the next-to-worst (at an unfavorable ratio) and see what happens.
Would you care to take a guess at how long that "sneak peak" has been there? Hint: Only since the RCs were out, i.e. not for the betas.
The release notes you reference read more like a brochure for Firefox 3 than any kind of useful information. When I see a beta3, for example, I want to know *what bugs present in beta2 were fixed in this release, with bugzilla references*. I understand that not every bug is significant and there could be a lot, but I expect to see at least a few "we fixed this problem identified in the last beta and here's the bug number" links.
Been on Freenet lately? Ever? It's a haven for the illegal as well as the irrelevant. All it would take is for someone to find a freesite with plans, discussions or anything 'supportive' of terrorism and the Freenet devs would be arrested faster than you can say "first amendment."
Betas are for testing, great! How can I test what I can't find? I get it that on Mozilla.com you want the prominent link to be to the release version, I get that maybe *on mozilla.com* you want no beta links at all. But if I go to mozilla.org I am not one of the unwashed masses who just wants a browser, at.org I am a community member wanting to help test.
When I bought a laptop recently and went looking for the latest Firefox--because I always run the latest Mozilla code, because I'm a geek and its cool and sometimes I can help fix bugs--I went to mozilla.org and... got stuck. No beta5 link anywhere! I eventually resorted to googling to find the news posts about the latest beta release.
How does releasing a beta or an RC help if it's so hidden your testers can't find it?
Remember the good-old days when Mozilla (and Firefox) release notes actually talked about bugs fixed, features introduced, and interesting things? When each version actually informed you about what had changed?
Ever since Mozilla went corporate things have gone down hill. Going to mozilla.org (or.com) and trying to find betas is now impossible. No, really... there are no links to non-release versions.
I miss the time when Mozilla was a user-friendly organization, when everything was public and *easy to find*.
I would caution against dnsmasq. It's dead simple to set up, but even on my very small network (~10 boxes) the load was too much for it. I had a script to recycle it whenever it died, which it would do several times per week. I got so annoyed I just threw ISC bind and dhcpd. Sure they're annoying to set up but at least they don't go down on me.
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xvid and ffmpeg are not comparable, so one cannot be better than the other.
You'll be happy (or possibly appalled) to know that I actually opened up a gvim window, pasted my text in there, and hit control-W, counting the presses till I got the desired result.
Ah, I've spotted your mistake: You opened gvim when you should have opened emacs. If you had tried this in emacs the correct ^W delete word behavior would have occurred.
It's ok, we all make mistakes!
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VML was never adopted as a standard. It was proposed, considered and rejected. SVG is a "better VML" and actually has wide industry support.
Microsoft might be considered a pioneer for adding VML support early, except that now they are not keeping up by adding SVG support even when it's clearly needed. Oh, and VML? Gone in IE8.
As another poster said, they're trying to force people in to silverlight.
Anything can be taken too far and every person is different.
That said, ptrStupidVariableNamesPissMeOff. Things like capitalizing class names, or all caps for constants, whatever; cool by me. But camel casing variables and Hungarian notation annoy the hell out of me, no matter the language.
</rant>
Density shmensity.
if( denotes the beginning of the conditional
} denotes the end
} else means it continues instead of ending
So.
// begin ... // do stuff // end // what? ... // uhm // end again?
if(...){
}
else{
}
Confusing! What's that dangling else doing there? Sure looks funny without its friend the }.
Those arguing in favor of braces on their own lines are usually obsessed by this kind of non-issue. They write like this:
... ... ...
if
(
)
{
}
else
{
}
Which is even less readable.
Now every person is different and sees things differently. I find it useful to put empty lines between sets of unrelated code, just for the very reasons you cite for putting } on its own line. Some people criticize that practice for a variety of reasons, but it works well for *me* and makes it easy for *me* to find what I need to find quickly. I happen to think it makes the code clean and maintainable, just as I think that } else { does.
JAPH.
gconf would have been a binary database if users hadn't screamed bloody murder when the original design was proposed. It then got pluggable back ends and XML by default, but by now that's all that gets used. The comparison with the registry is still fair: Some options for your application are only editable by firing up an external tool with a bad UI requiring you to know precisely where to go and what to change.
To say that GNOME 2.x gradually develops features over time is fair, but I would not rush to praise it for adding *options* with every release. At least up through 2.10 options were routinely removed on release; after that I stopped even trying to care. Perhaps there was always a *net gain*, but any time you take some power away from me by removing or hiding functionality I use it's a regression.
And to be equally fair you must forgive some of us if we speak bitterly about GNOME's feature reductionism. The change from an exhilarating charge toward exciting new things and better software to a retreat to a plodding, careful lowest-common-denominator style of development was shocking, disheartening and depressing. Perhaps things have improved since the beginning but GNOME's attitude toward innovation and improvement is still so oppressive that I don't think the project would continue without corporate backing.
KDE4 feels incomplete? Funny, that's *exactly* what I thought when I fired up my nice and shiny GNOME 2.0.0. "Wait," I said to myself, "Where's the rest of it? You can hardly do anything." But I told myself it was the GTK2 transition/rewrite and they'd fix the incomplete part by adding features back in over time.
And I waited. And it got worse. And the GNOME developers said "We aren't putting features back in, features are confusing and hard to use."
With KDE4 a lot seems incomplete, but they at least are swearing up and down that the meat will come back as fast as they can port it.
I'll reprint here what I said the last time (except then it was on OSNews) because it's still true and I can't say it better.
Who's defending Reiser? I am one of the ones who objected to this case in the past and I will do so again today. You will accuse me of blind devotion, but this is not the case. My only devotion is to things I know to be true. I don't know whether he did or did not kill his wife, nor do I care. His guilt or innocence is not important to me. What I do care about is the legal system in the USA, where I have lived all my life. This conviction is against the principles of the American justice system and should not have been handed down.
This is a case where the evidence was slim and circumstantial. Did he kill his wife? Let's say for the sake of argument that he did. Does this mean he should be convicted for it? The answer to that is *only if it can be proven* that he killed here. There was no proof, there was very little evidence, and so there is an objection to this by me. He should not have been convicted, guilty or not, with so little evidence.
For the record, I use ext3 and have never been particularly enamored of reiserfs3 and never tried v4.
For me this is not a matter of fanboyism as I am not a fan of reiserfs or reiser himself.
Fixing the laws after the fact doesn't solve the problem of a lack of proper justice in her case.
I object to this assessment. If it wasn't illegal then justice has been served. Justice is defined as the fair application of the law--it's not always right, but it's just.
If you start saying that actions which are not illegal but are found by some set of society to be deplorable can (or, rather, *should*) be prosecutable, then you've stepped off the road of liberty. How can I be held responsible for doing things that I don't see as wrong and which no law prohibits? Must every person fear that anything not explicitly allowed by law could result in criminal prosecution because *someone* decided they did not like it? This is a direct contradiction of the constitution!
If you want what this person did to be illegal then there's no problem in passing a law banning it, but there is also *no problem* in allowing someone to "get away" with something that is *not illegal yet*.
Step one: produce for yourself a handle.
Step two: use it everywhere online and only in a few areas associate it with your real name.
Result: name scrapers pick up your alias/handle and little harm is done. Your actual name is discoverable if someone knows your handle, but in most cases is not important and is not sought.
People running around with their real name up-front are just plain *stupid* and asking for trouble. Basic security, people.
Mad props to you for the unheralded Stripes reference.
Try disabling Firebug or any other page-munching extensions (greasemonkey might be an issue, too).
I've used FF3 betas and release for months, no issues with gmail. Very few crashes of any kind.
Just because TIFF *has* been and *can* be used for multi-page faxes doesn't mean it's a good idea. As an alternative to everyone using their own proprietary system it's great, but as an alternative to a true document format it's not so great.
Wide support? That has some virtues, but wide support doesn't make it good. Almost everybody supports (for example) HTML 3, but that doesn't mean HTML 3 is a good format for authoring web pages.
TIFF for faxes was the best of bad choices. There are better options these days.
It's interesting that you cite your long-time usage of top posting as some kind of defense. Clearly I think this behavior is deplorable, so I don't find it positive that you've been doing it for so long. Perhaps you're trying to impress upon me your credentials. It doesn't matter, there can be no justification for top posting.
This is certainly not about attention. I did not originally anticipate nor have I ever sought any reply from anyone. I'd like you to stop top posting, but apart from that your opinion is immaterial to me. if you wont stop then I don't care to hear from you.
I am requesting that you cease top posting in the future. If you don't like the request, tough, as you say, shit.
Top posting is evil, you are evil for doing it deliberately.
You can post in an incorrect, unfriendly and antisocial manner if you wish, but you must accept the kind of criticism you will deservedly receive as a result.
A threaded environment is no excuse for top posting. If you prefer to omit the quote, which you admit serves no purpose, then this is acceptable. I will note, though, that on a web-based forum even when in a thread it is advisable to quote properly as the post directly "above" you may be an unrelated reply and it may be difficult to scroll to and identify the post to which you are replying.
I am no more obliged to fuck off than you are obliged to listen to me. We are in this way--and this way only--equal.
Top posting is evil. Knock it off.
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Hooray for responsible hosts!The trouble is that we're not comparing "dumb" with "popular" or "poor" with "smart". We're comparing apples and apples: In subject FOO, among group X, person Z is the best. This is not controversial at all.
And I'll say, also, that you are the one who brought ethnicity into this. No one is suggesting awards based on skin color.
I am all for fairness, equal access to education, equal rights, etc.. I am not for equality. In reality each person has his own strengths and weaknesses; we are not equal. To suggest that we should not celebrate the strengths of one because somebody else is weak in that area is idiotic.
Well at least you know the teachers aren't vampires!
This kind of argument against smaller class sizes is pointless. Nobody is suggesting paying teachers *more* (although it's not a bad idea to pay the good ones more), we're suggesting spending money on more teachers. It should be *patently obvious* to anyone who is not a troll and is not trying to find an excuse to get the government out of the business of funding schools that you do *not* just throw people without skill at the mess.
Smaller classrooms are *better*. When I say smaller I mean =20 kids per class. More than that is difficult to manage--I used to work school IT, so I have my own observations to go on here. If you hire a sufficient number of competent (or better) teachers that there is a 1:20 ratio with students then I think that the students will get a better education.
Segregating by work ethic and effort is not a bad idea. Doing it with 100% rigid barriers is bad; a lot of underachievers would do better when competing with their peers, as long as 51% or more of the people around them are *better* than they are. At the same time this should be done in stages; never throw the worst in with the best, throw them in with the next-to-worst (at an unfavorable ratio) and see what happens.
Psst, listen....
Vatta's War barely works in book form and would largely fail to translate to film. It's a nice universe, but you'd need a different story for a movie.
Would you care to take a guess at how long that "sneak peak" has been there? Hint: Only since the RCs were out, i.e. not for the betas.
The release notes you reference read more like a brochure for Firefox 3 than any kind of useful information. When I see a beta3, for example, I want to know *what bugs present in beta2 were fixed in this release, with bugzilla references*. I understand that not every bug is significant and there could be a lot, but I expect to see at least a few "we fixed this problem identified in the last beta and here's the bug number" links.
Been on Freenet lately? Ever? It's a haven for the illegal as well as the irrelevant. All it would take is for someone to find a freesite with plans, discussions or anything 'supportive' of terrorism and the Freenet devs would be arrested faster than you can say "first amendment."
Betas are for testing, great! How can I test what I can't find? I get it that on Mozilla.com you want the prominent link to be to the release version, I get that maybe *on mozilla.com* you want no beta links at all. But if I go to mozilla.org I am not one of the unwashed masses who just wants a browser, at .org I am a community member wanting to help test.
When I bought a laptop recently and went looking for the latest Firefox--because I always run the latest Mozilla code, because I'm a geek and its cool and sometimes I can help fix bugs--I went to mozilla.org and... got stuck. No beta5 link anywhere! I eventually resorted to googling to find the news posts about the latest beta release.
How does releasing a beta or an RC help if it's so hidden your testers can't find it?
Remember the good-old days when Mozilla (and Firefox) release notes actually talked about bugs fixed, features introduced, and interesting things? When each version actually informed you about what had changed?
.com) and trying to find betas is now impossible. No, really... there are no links to non-release versions.
Ever since Mozilla went corporate things have gone down hill. Going to mozilla.org (or
I miss the time when Mozilla was a user-friendly organization, when everything was public and *easy to find*.
I would caution against dnsmasq. It's dead simple to set up, but even on my very small network (~10 boxes) the load was too much for it. I had a script to recycle it whenever it died, which it would do several times per week. I got so annoyed I just threw ISC bind and dhcpd. Sure they're annoying to set up but at least they don't go down on me.