That all sounds very rah rah, but please do contrast your caped and cloaked "superheroes" with philosophers, who try to lay out the biggest problems people face, and the most significant of whom come from outside the US. (I'm not going to try to explain manga here).
US dominance in technology and business comes from the ashes of WW II, where the rest of the world was in ruins, particularly Russia after losing millions to Germany.
This is not an anti US tirade, just trying to bring some balance...
If your using tables for layout, that's a terrible practice that was deprecated a long time ago, for very good reasons. Tables are for tabular data, get it? Someone using a screen reader has to listen to a lot of crap that has nothing to do with tabular data to access your badly designed sites, and all kinds of other devices can't interpret your site with any meaning.
My feeling is that "Web 2.0" was a giant waste of time distraction, and "we" should have kept on with what xml is doing at a high level. But people got put off by cooperating.
I think Canadians (and others) should get organized to get better prices through group buys, take on carriers, etc. Is there a site for this purpose? I have a facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27303694525 but it only has 16 members.
It is a frigging disaster. I want monsters, bullets, and landscapes jumping out of my flat monitor in Windows XP. It is not longer possible. That sucks.
Well, I hope you feel better now after your swaggering about. Had a couple drinkypoos too many, did you? Made you a bit boorish, maybe?
By the way, drinkypoo, don't you find it kind of funny that Palin was so harshly criticized for calling a continent a country, when the USofA, a country, is often called after a set of lands?
I'm hardly a kid. Sure, visually it may look the same, especially the generic malls, which is often sad. And the similarities are more regional, with areas close to the border on both sides being more similar than the extremes. But the assumptions are very different, things people talk about. I have friends in the US and they're on the same idealogical wavelength as I am, but their issues are totally different. Things like medical insurance. And the effect of their government globally. The "left" Obama government is right of our "right" conservative government in every way. The things that are issues in the US are not issues here. The Usonians who aren't political often have a assumptive exuberance which comes from not travelling. If you're not touching on any of these things with the people you meet, I don't know what you could be talking about.
It's not an "acceptable" shortened name, especially outside the US (I know that may be hard to imagine), but it is one that is used. And I often hear "American," "Americas" used to refer to the continents.
Anyway, I'm not being pedantic. I'm making a sly comment about Palin being criticized for calling Africa a country, when that's very similar to calling US "America." The problem here is that no one has a sense of humour. Damn uptight Usonians!
Sorry, I do not agree at all. There are a lot of things fundamental to Canadians (stronger social services, top down vs bottom up impulses, etc) that make citizens from each different quite different.
I know Usonian doesn't carry any negative connotations. I would suggest people use it instead of "American." That would be clearer and less presumptuous. It's still a mystery to me why I was called a troll in my parent post.
It is more than confusing, it is presumptuous. (I know I'll get marked as "troll" for this observation. Usonians have no sense of humour about some things).
Usonian is the accepted term, but it would be too modernist for politicians (and the populace) to adopt it.
That would be good news. While occasional breakthroughs are good, I really prefer apps that stick to the task at hand in a consistent way, and do an exceptionally good job at it.
Songbird seems nice so far, but it bugs me how much it's obviously meant to look like iTunes, that only makes sense in the case of popular and complex apps like Office. At least I could get rid of the ugly brushed metal look.
I find Amarok functionally awful too. Calling the main menu "Engage" is corny. But that's not the problem. It insists on showing a visualizer, by default, which is gimmicky and pointless, especially considering I use it under VNC. I can't figure out how to disable it in the Ubuntu packaging. It has a bunch of list windows, some of which have a search function, some of which don't, and the use of them is inconsistent. It always loses items I've added to its radio function when I close it. The only reason I use it is rhythmbox is even worse. I'll check out Songbird, but my feeling is this is an area where open source can't find the right combination of simplicity, originality and functionality, instead it ends up being a grab bag of "standard" but tired features (like the visualizer) and half baked elements. I thought nautilus was going to be the be-all "file" manager, but they lost their way too.
Any community/crowd sourcing app should start off with clear terms of use. I don't see them. It looks more like an opportunity for intel/asus to advertise to me.
Personally I am looking for something like the Gigabyte M192 (?) but with a good keyboard and battery life (minimum 5 hours). Current designs are limited by the OS, to a fetish degree. Vista Ultimate? Give me a break.
A notebook should be better than a real notebook, an ideapad in the truest sense, where we can mix text and graphics and reference-able notes easily using the screen and the keyboard, with audio and video. But now it is more about configuration options in the control panel. I would expect to see the "perfect" device based on Android more than what these characters are working on, something that goes back to basics and tries to figure out what we are trying to do and integrates things so that we can rely on the computer as a computing buddy, a means to an end of organizing, computing and sharing rather than a main feature of configuring the computer.
I have had a few cases where Ubuntu has run out of real memory and goes into a swapping loop. Sometimes the whole system will be unusable - cursor updates take minutes. The only solution is to reboot. I haven't seen this kind of behaviour, where essentially one process is taking down the entire computer, on an OS for a long time. It may be related to running Ubuntu 64bit (don't ask), but I've seen a number of other people with this problem, and there are long standing bug reports.
Actually, I think Thinkpads (and probably others) had accelerometers in their laptops before Apple. Unless you are referring to mean something more important than drive protection.
I find it difficult to glean anything other than "enjoy eating Bill Gates' delicious posteriorly ejected waste product" from the ad (they forgot the "and die" part). Basically, if there is something deeper to this campaign, I don't want to know. One thing seems clear, they don't consider the computing experience and associated values to be very important to their target audience.
I agree with your points about flexibility, but the price of flexibility is eternal configuring. So I would not agree that Linux is the most productive, depending what you are doing. Distributions like Ubuntu could have the right idea, offer different themed and task oriented versions built on top of the flexible Linux (open source) base. But some form of consistency and good basic design still has to exist. When programming teams call technical designers "artists," and come to them at the last second to make what they did look good, it's just wrong.
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That all sounds very rah rah, but please do contrast your caped and cloaked "superheroes" with philosophers, who try to lay out the biggest problems people face, and the most significant of whom come from outside the US. (I'm not going to try to explain manga here).
US dominance in technology and business comes from the ashes of WW II, where the rest of the world was in ruins, particularly Russia after losing millions to Germany.
This is not an anti US tirade, just trying to bring some balance...
If your using tables for layout, that's a terrible practice that was deprecated a long time ago, for very good reasons. Tables are for tabular data, get it? Someone using a screen reader has to listen to a lot of crap that has nothing to do with tabular data to access your badly designed sites, and all kinds of other devices can't interpret your site with any meaning.
Learn how to use modern HTML.
Someone in Sun, recognizing what a crock it is, immediately called their efforts "Web N+0" shortly after Web 2.0 was coined.
My feeling is that "Web 2.0" was a giant waste of time distraction, and "we" should have kept on with what xml is doing at a high level. But people got put off by cooperating.
Yes. They should also make it 100% based on Java.
I think Canadians (and others) should get organized to get better prices through group buys, take on carriers, etc. Is there a site for this purpose? I have a facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27303694525 but it only has 16 members.
It is a frigging disaster. I want monsters, bullets, and landscapes jumping out of my flat monitor in Windows XP. It is not longer possible. That sucks.
Well, sorry, but it is against my religion to use emoticons when trying (and maybe failing) to be ironic.
"touching on." not "dwelling on." and, um, taken a look at your sig lately?
slashdot needs a delete comment button, so people like you, who say things then can't be bothered to follow up, can do so gracefully.
Well, I hope you feel better now after your swaggering about. Had a couple drinkypoos too many, did you? Made you a bit boorish, maybe?
By the way, drinkypoo, don't you find it kind of funny that Palin was so harshly criticized for calling a continent a country, when the USofA, a country, is often called after a set of lands?
Now who's being a pedant.
I'm hardly a kid. Sure, visually it may look the same, especially the generic malls, which is often sad. And the similarities are more regional, with areas close to the border on both sides being more similar than the extremes. But the assumptions are very different, things people talk about. I have friends in the US and they're on the same idealogical wavelength as I am, but their issues are totally different. Things like medical insurance. And the effect of their government globally. The "left" Obama government is right of our "right" conservative government in every way. The things that are issues in the US are not issues here. The Usonians who aren't political often have a assumptive exuberance which comes from not travelling. If you're not touching on any of these things with the people you meet, I don't know what you could be talking about.
It's not an "acceptable" shortened name, especially outside the US (I know that may be hard to imagine), but it is one that is used. And I often hear "American," "Americas" used to refer to the continents.
Anyway, I'm not being pedantic. I'm making a sly comment about Palin being criticized for calling Africa a country, when that's very similar to calling US "America." The problem here is that no one has a sense of humour. Damn uptight Usonians!
Sorry, I do not agree at all. There are a lot of things fundamental to Canadians (stronger social services, top down vs bottom up impulses, etc) that make citizens from each different quite different.
What?
I know Usonian doesn't carry any negative connotations. I would suggest people use it instead of "American." That would be clearer and less presumptuous. It's still a mystery to me why I was called a troll in my parent post.
It is more than confusing, it is presumptuous. (I know I'll get marked as "troll" for this observation. Usonians have no sense of humour about some things).
Usonian is the accepted term, but it would be too modernist for politicians (and the populace) to adopt it.
Yeah I know. Although it doesn't directly relate, there's a lot of irony here.
As opposed to the "country" of America, which is what Bush, Obama et al call the US.
That would be good news. While occasional breakthroughs are good, I really prefer apps that stick to the task at hand in a consistent way, and do an exceptionally good job at it.
Songbird seems nice so far, but it bugs me how much it's obviously meant to look like iTunes, that only makes sense in the case of popular and complex apps like Office. At least I could get rid of the ugly brushed metal look.
I find Amarok functionally awful too. Calling the main menu "Engage" is corny. But that's not the problem. It insists on showing a visualizer, by default, which is gimmicky and pointless, especially considering I use it under VNC. I can't figure out how to disable it in the Ubuntu packaging. It has a bunch of list windows, some of which have a search function, some of which don't, and the use of them is inconsistent. It always loses items I've added to its radio function when I close it. The only reason I use it is rhythmbox is even worse. I'll check out Songbird, but my feeling is this is an area where open source can't find the right combination of simplicity, originality and functionality, instead it ends up being a grab bag of "standard" but tired features (like the visualizer) and half baked elements. I thought nautilus was going to be the be-all "file" manager, but they lost their way too.
Any community/crowd sourcing app should start off with clear terms of use. I don't see them. It looks more like an opportunity for intel/asus to advertise to me.
Personally I am looking for something like the Gigabyte M192 (?) but with a good keyboard and battery life (minimum 5 hours). Current designs are limited by the OS, to a fetish degree. Vista Ultimate? Give me a break.
A notebook should be better than a real notebook, an ideapad in the truest sense, where we can mix text and graphics and reference-able notes easily using the screen and the keyboard, with audio and video. But now it is more about configuration options in the control panel. I would expect to see the "perfect" device based on Android more than what these characters are working on, something that goes back to basics and tries to figure out what we are trying to do and integrates things so that we can rely on the computer as a computing buddy, a means to an end of organizing, computing and sharing rather than a main feature of configuring the computer.
I have had a few cases where Ubuntu has run out of real memory and goes into a swapping loop. Sometimes the whole system will be unusable - cursor updates take minutes. The only solution is to reboot. I haven't seen this kind of behaviour, where essentially one process is taking down the entire computer, on an OS for a long time. It may be related to running Ubuntu 64bit (don't ask), but I've seen a number of other people with this problem, and there are long standing bug reports.
Actually, I think Thinkpads (and probably others) had accelerometers in their laptops before Apple. Unless you are referring to mean something more important than drive protection.
I find it difficult to glean anything other than "enjoy eating Bill Gates' delicious posteriorly ejected waste product" from the ad (they forgot the "and die" part). Basically, if there is something deeper to this campaign, I don't want to know. One thing seems clear, they don't consider the computing experience and associated values to be very important to their target audience.
I agree with your points about flexibility, but the price of flexibility is eternal configuring. So I would not agree that Linux is the most productive, depending what you are doing. Distributions like Ubuntu could have the right idea, offer different themed and task oriented versions built on top of the flexible Linux (open source) base. But some form of consistency and good basic design still has to exist. When programming teams call technical designers "artists," and come to them at the last second to make what they did look good, it's just wrong.