Vandal (n): a member of a Germanic people who lived in the area south of the Baltic between the Vistula and the Oder, overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., and in 455 sacked Rome.
This to me shows the overwhelming hypocricy of the liberal movement.
No. A single (mad) liberal. If you want to tar all liberals with the same brush, due the actions of one nutter, be prepared that we may start muttering "McVeigh" under our breaths.
I think you will find most good web designers do care about these things...It's the marketing droids that want the shiny spinning stuff and the locked layouts
In which case the good web designers should stop selling out to the man:)
Imagine never having to answer stupid questions like "flash or html?" "800x600 or 1024x768?"
Yes, imagine. Imagine if web designers weren't obsessed with style over content, with special effects over usability, with animated intros over usefulness, with exactly positioned layout over standards that are easily accesible by the visually impaired or degrade well for old browsers.
You're exactly right. People may say Newton's Law of Gravitation was innovative, but he was following Kepler. Likewise, General Relativity followed Special Relativity, which followed Lorenz and others work on invariant transforms of the Maxwell equations. The axled wheel followed the solid wheel which followed moving things by placing them on logs.
To my knowledge there has never been a major scientific discovery which can not be considered an incremental advance on something else.
there has been no innovation in any field of science or technology.
Man, thats an ignorant point of view. Just the list of biological advances (can you spell "genome") could fill this text box. Virology, stem cell research, gene splicing. Go pick up a copy of "Scientific American" or a "Nature" and stop asking such stupid questions.
but many of the decisions are being made by governments or companies
No. The decisions are made by humans. They may work for and represent companies and governments, they may be made by commitees or consensus, but it always comes back to people.
The freedom to create content has never been greater. How could I have had this conversation with you (someone I've never met and whose name I do not know) even 20 years ago?
Ok, this may not be worthwhile content:) but thats just us obeying Sturgeon's Law...
How can the net be out of touch with human beings? Every decision thats being made is being made by human beings, for human beings. Is it out of touch with some ill defined utopia that makes Katz feel all fuzzy inside, certainly, but that should not be mistaken for what humanity is.
If the net is cold, alienating, money obsessed, balkanized and uninviting it is because it reflects humanity all too well.
Seriously, the days when the net was dominated by computer professionals are gone, but they're still there, if you know where to look and demonstrate knowledge and civility, which are also in short supply on the net these days.
Consider pop music: in the 50s and 60s Elvis was outrageous and Beatles records where burned. Now they're national treasures, Elvis is on stamps, and fake rebellion is marketed by megacorporations (will the Real Slim Shady please fuck off), but you can still hear alternatives, be it rave, metal, folk, indie if thats your bag, you just have to be more selective.
So it is now on the net, and people bemoaning the eternal September only need to look a little harder.
but blocking that advertising is nothing but stealing.
So, presumably, if I video a programme from commercial television[1] and fast-forward over the adverts when I'm watching it later, I'm stealing TV too. Gosh, I am immoral. What if I leave the room to put the kettle on? Or hit "mute" or change channels? I never realised how evil I was!
[1]ObTroll: Yes, folks, in some countries non-commercial TV still exists. No, PBS doesn't count, telethons are advertising.
Who else would have turned the English language into the most imperial language on the earth today, not because of any military conquest (though the US does have plenty) but because of corporate conquest?
Whilst I agree with your points about corporations defining US culture, I must take issue with this. The spread of English across the globe is largely due to the rise of the British Empire in the 18th and 19th century. Relatively few countries with large Anglophone populations cannot trace this back to this time.
I'm not *that* young and have been using unix since before Linux 1.0, so I'll tell you why I run out and install "bash" to replace ksh - Reverse ISearch. Ksh has its own version (which resembles many other CLI's like matlab) but readline's implementation is just more usable. Thats it.
I still script in ksh, no point in being a bigot about it.
Slashdot Mirror
I want the old internet back.
To my knowledge there has never been a major scientific discovery which can not be considered an incremental advance on something else.
Goddards early rocket flights were faked. I saw it on the FOX network.
Ok, this may not be worthwhile content :) but thats just us obeying Sturgeon's Law...
Every decision thats being made is being made by human beings, for human beings. Is it out of touch with some ill defined utopia that makes Katz feel all fuzzy inside, certainly, but that should not be mistaken for what humanity is.
If the net is cold, alienating, money obsessed, balkanized and uninviting it is because it reflects humanity all too well.
Most /. readers are trolls, newbies, wannabes, larval stage or just plain linux fashion victims. The digerati are elsewhere, believe me...
Seriously, the days when the net was dominated by computer professionals are gone, but they're still there, if you know where to look and demonstrate knowledge and civility, which are also in short supply on the net these days.
Consider pop music: in the 50s and 60s Elvis was outrageous and Beatles records where burned. Now they're national treasures, Elvis is on stamps, and fake rebellion is marketed by megacorporations (will the Real Slim Shady please fuck off), but you can still hear alternatives, be it rave, metal, folk, indie if thats your bag, you just have to be more selective.
So it is now on the net, and people bemoaning the eternal September only need to look a little harder.
Why the US Patent Office has granted patents that violate his "so-called" theory, and they never make mistakes
[1]ObTroll: Yes, folks, in some countries non-commercial TV still exists. No, PBS doesn't count, telethons are advertising.
Try this link for a working version
You, sir, are a cretin.
Failure to look this up makes you a Juvenal delinquent.
This is also useful for sites which need money to fight plummeting stock value and possible legal action over IPO irregularities.
Thats why its imperative that people get back into the habit of *trimming their messages* instead of quoting absolutely everything they recieved.
The guess of "32" for Debian will also double as a guess for "and in how many months time will it actually happen"
I still script in ksh, no point in being a bigot about it.