But the One Ring isn't technology, it's a force of nature, and thus magic
Its also vastly overrated. What can it do except make you invisible and go nuts? If it was technology you could at least return it to the shop and get a Playstation instead!
Well, Firebird seems smaller. However one big strike against it is that it saves its configfiles in windows\application files, it does this without asking me and apparently you can't move it. That alone means i'll never use it. If it had saved in the install directory i might. Though: You can't scroll a page with the middle mouse button, like in MSIE (I know there was a hack to mozilla thatm ight work here as well, but its a slowish solution i think should be built in). There are javascript issues, and on the small spin i took it around the web it displayed some pages badly.
When one mentions My Documents people always say its like "/home" so that's why i say its the root of all evil. Nobody's being forced to use My Documents any more than they're being forced to use/home (subject to permission restrictions), and there's not even an attempt to force things. Hell, Microsoft's own Office apps even allow the default save location to be changed right from the Options dialog.
Sure its not "force" as much as it is "intimidate". By now most programs always move their file requesters to the My Documents drawer, you can change it but you have to every single time (and may installs and updates keep creating the folders even if you delete them) - but some programs insist on saving their stuff there without the possibility to remove it (or in windows/applications data - like Mozilla Firebird, one reason not to use it)
My Documents has improved things significantly for most users, since they're not as likely to drop everything into the system root or scatter them in twenty-seven different app-specific directories.
So you admit that now that people have been used to do it your way, things are much better? Well, i disagree.
The folder can be also directed to other locations with little effort for those that really want to do this.
My beef (is well done) is that Microsoft is trying to force me to store all my data IN ONE DIRECTORY. By trying to get all programs to use that as well. "My Pictures" "My sounds" "my films" my this and that. This is totally stupid. I have more than one harddisk, more than one partition, and don't like to be force to place stuff in certain places. Recently I lost my C partition (which was small), a lot of programs on other paritions ran straight away when Windows was back (because i usually select programs that do not store information in the registry or the windows directory or "my documents") but some programs alas, had been nuked back to the stone age because of this.
Anytime there's an article that whines about deep linking, a few dozen people post replies saying that the company could use the referer header to block all such requests. Now that a company is actually doing it, it's suddenly a bad idea. Which is it -- good technical solution or bad censorship?
Simple. "Deep linking" is a falacious term invented by sick greedy lawyers, and anyone objecting is by defintion evil. Simple really:)
" No, officer. I didn't actually READ the posted speed limit. May I go now? "
Which is nonsense. They signs inform you what the speed limits are, they are not telling you to follow them.
Last I checked, being ignorant of the terms of an agreement one enters into,
Except nobody enters into any agreement. 99% of everybody who buys stuff says "this is mine, and that nonsense on the screen is irrelevant" - if they ever discovered the basic amorality of those "licenses" there'd be a riot.
But, as you are given the opportunity to not agree to the terms, logic (not Law, since Law and logic are not always in sync) dictates that the terms are, in fact, binding
You can give me a million dollars or chop your head off. Make a choice and its legally binding.
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The Hugo is not just a "science fiction" award.
But it should be! They made a mistake! Fantasy is for children!
But the One Ring isn't technology, it's a force of nature, and thus magic
Its also vastly overrated. What can it do except make you invisible and go nuts? If it was technology you could at least return it to the shop and get a Playstation instead!
Why are fantasy and horror works winning sci-fi awards?
Because americans can't tell the difference.
User Interface?
Its a fact.
Microsoft already limits access to msn.com and Hotmail to a handful of browsers
That's just because they are monopolist creeps.
Well, Firebird seems smaller. However one big strike against it is that it saves its configfiles in windows\application files, it does this without asking me and apparently you can't move it. That alone means i'll never use it. If it had saved in the install directory i might. Though: You can't scroll a page with the middle mouse button, like in MSIE (I know there was a hack to mozilla thatm ight work here as well, but its a slowish solution i think should be built in). There are javascript issues, and on the small spin i took it around the web it displayed some pages badly.
And this is different from /home how?
/home (subject to permission restrictions), and there's not even an attempt to force things. Hell, Microsoft's own Office apps even allow the default save location to be changed right from the Options dialog.
When one mentions My Documents people always say its like "/home" so that's why i say its the root of all evil.
Nobody's being forced to use My Documents any more than they're being forced to use
Sure its not "force" as much as it is "intimidate". By now most programs always move their file requesters to the My Documents drawer, you can change it but you have to every single time (and may installs and updates keep creating the folders even if you delete them) - but some programs insist on saving their stuff there without the possibility to remove it (or in windows/applications data - like Mozilla Firebird, one reason not to use it)
My Documents has improved things significantly for most users, since they're not as likely to drop everything into the system root or scatter them in twenty-seven different app-specific directories.
So you admit that now that people have been used to do it your way, things are much better? Well, i disagree.
The folder can be also directed to other locations with little effort for those that really want to do this.
Then its just a root somewhere else.
My beef (is well done) is that Microsoft is trying to force me to store all my data IN ONE DIRECTORY. By trying to get all programs to use that as well. "My Pictures" "My sounds" "my films" my this and that. This is totally stupid. I have more than one harddisk, more than one partition, and don't like to be force to place stuff in certain places. Recently I lost my C partition (which was small), a lot of programs on other paritions ran straight away when Windows was back (because i usually select programs that do not store information in the registry or the windows directory or "my documents") but some programs alas, had been nuked back to the stone age because of this.
Yeah, after all they have to find new and bigger bloatware installers to use.
Anthony, I'm sure you're a nice guy and all, but would you trust a random stranger's javascript on every one of your webpages?
Oh come on, its opensource - you check it out before you use it (somewhere else)
Anytime there's an article that whines about deep linking, a few dozen people post replies saying that the company could use the referer header to block all such requests. Now that a company is actually doing it, it's suddenly a bad idea. Which is it -- good technical solution or bad censorship?
:)
Simple. "Deep linking" is a falacious term invented by sick greedy lawyers, and anyone objecting is by defintion evil. Simple really
If you have an opputunity to read it but agree without reading it, a contract is still valid.
I don't agree that clicking a button can be construed as consent.
" No, officer. I didn't actually READ the posted speed limit. May I go now? "
Which is nonsense. They signs inform you what the speed limits are, they are not telling you to follow them.
Last I checked, being ignorant of the terms of an agreement one enters into,
Except nobody enters into any agreement. 99% of everybody who buys stuff says "this is mine, and that nonsense on the screen is irrelevant" - if they ever discovered the basic amorality of those "licenses" there'd be a riot.
But, as you are given the opportunity to not agree to the terms, logic (not Law, since Law and logic are not always in sync) dictates that the terms are, in fact, binding
You can give me a million dollars or chop your head off. Make a choice and its legally binding.
Can any court find those licenses valid when nobody reads them?
What else.
There's a patch for that you know, available here.
I need compatability with MSIE's javascript model.
Besides, i did have a look a few weeks ago. It was big bloatware. What happened to mean and lean anyway?
Patents like copyright are amoral evils, which should at the most last a few years.
...will be that you can actually specify you don't want to load active x components: WITHOUT HAVING TO CLICK NO ON EVERY FUCKING PAGE!
> ...Mr May has had to re-learn some activities, such as skiing...
He could freakin ski when he was blind??!!
They said nothing about avoiding the trees.
It's a very powerful concept that could be the end of the internet as we know it.
We'll just write a distributed firewall.
What the hell have you been smoking lately?
Don't host it on a website.. in the US.
There are plenty of other countries that don't have such a crazy legal system.
Which only lasts until America decides to "liberate" the country...
...if i could actually SEE Mars when i go outside.. grrrr
Well, it would certainly prevent me from using it.