Indeed, the Socialism aspect of National Socialism, though it was in the party's Charter, was an embarrassment in the end. Hitler sold out to business interests in addition to his myriad other crimes. William Shirer's Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich is an excellent insight into this and many other aspects of Hitler's rise to power, including the role of a general rise in conservatism, fear of Communists and other leftists, etc among the people, police, and courts of Germany in the rise of the Nazis.
Sadly, there are some disturbing parallels to the climate in this country today, as well as in the 1960's. Hopefully our democracy will survive at least as intact as it was after the 1960's and things will not get even worse.
Hell, last time I went on a plane with a cellphone, they didn't even check my cellphone to make sure that is what it was. They also did not check my altoids tin which went through no xray, etc and is large enough to carry a small pistol. The cellphone could easily have been just a hollow plastic case filled with plastique or something. It could easily have still retained an lcd and keypad which simply blooped and bleeped for the security (though they did not even bother to do that.
Granted this is all pre-9/11. I understand after Richard Reid some airports started making people take off their shoes... funny;).
Hmmph. I am not sure how available it is. They seem to require several registrations, scattered in random parts of that site, to get this file, and even then I seem not to be able to get it. I guess it is very important to protect files you are offering publicly so people can't download them, eh?
And GNU doesn't consider the APL to be truly Open Source, but all that idealistic chatter is pretty much besides the point. Open or not, it's still a pain in the ass to have Macs and Windows and Linuxes all run side by side on the same network.
Actually, to be fair, gnu.org believes that the APSL is Open Source, just not Free Software. But then, so are a lot of other licenses for programs most of us would have no problems using and working on.
As for your contention about Mac, Windows, and unix being difficult to make work together, it really depends. For pretty much ages these have all supported various protocols which would allow collaboration, mostly tcp ones we know and love (ftp, http, etc). The native formats are at issue, but there has always been software available for interoperability. Now I understand Mac OS X comes with SAMBA, as does Linux. So whereas I understand nfs and afs on Windows is not what one would like, the other two in teh mix have come to the plate with software that lets them work with Windows.
Well the problem with that is that they are a coalition of corporations. That is what a trust is, as well. Besides that, they don't create a damn thing. They only take what others make and make money off it by screwing everyone: the artist, the consumer, everyone.
I know all about "open with..." I must have been unclear, and for someone who has never used a Mac this is kind of an odd concept, anyhow (for that matter it is for most Mac Users) but I was saying that you can open files with more than one application. At least one other person had the same reaction to my post, so I suppose anything is possible.
The file associations in Windows let you associate one file with one extension. But on the Macintosh you could set the creator code to other programs and therafter that file got opened by a different program. So I could have a folder full of jpgs that, when double-clicked, open in Photoshop, and another folder, also full of jpgs, which open in Gimp when double-clicked. This is not possible under Windows unless you want to right-click, and in many cases you hold shift and then right click because Microsoft hides the "open with" option under certain circumstances.
Besides, it takes ages for that stupid application menu to open on a lot of machines, and it is kind of silly when I *know* what kind of application I want to open the files with.
FWIW, I never used this functionality, but then I usually had one favorite program to work with a given type of file. I also tend to use File -> Open more often than not. Even in vi I tend to use:e about as often as, if not more often than, I use vi $MYFILE . But that is because I was not used to having it around. A lot of people got used to it, and bitched mightily when they thought they could not do it. (Someone in this thread has said that the current Mac OS X can deal with type and creator codes, but I need to confirm that, and if it does, it is not simple to find, though I rarely even deal with Macs anymore except when helping my girlfriend with her new iBook).
Anyway, I think it would be neat, and anything which empowers the user is good, especially if it makes things easier to do.
I was pointing out that whereas in Windows and the current MacOS you can set what application opens a kind of file by extension, in the old MacOS you could set by individual files which application opens a file. So I can open one jpg in one application, and other jpgs in another application, all by default. Stupid people annoy me, too.:P
Sony has since changed their stance on the aibo hacking. Besides, it is a misunderstanding of Sony's corporate culture to speak of them as one entity. Sony is a very large company which is run as seperate business units acting as self-contained businesses with unique goals. This results sometimes in situations like others have pointed out in this and other articles where one part of Sony is doing something which seems to violate the spirit of what another part of Sony is doing. The Playstation project was a good example of this, where the people working on the playstation were essentially handled as renegades, and had to become profitable on their project's own merits.
To be fair, this kind of thing seems to be a fairly comon business practice, and the resultant social interactions and consequences are fairly representative of any large organization of humans.
Why record twice, im sure dvd's players with 30 second skip will be out.:) Gotta come up with some new features to make you buy new DVD players.
You are probably right, but honestly the whole deal of fast forwarding or skipping forward 30 seconds is just a band-aid. If you don't want to watch the commercials, you edit them out cleanly, and then you get no commercials at all. This is also a good reason to buy your favorite shows on DVD. I have seen a number of shows where the currently running show is already available on DVD, presumably partially because of this.
I would imagine that most Linux servers set up to stream video do not have such things. If they did, then someone should get a boot to the head. On Windows, however, even servers are designed to work like desktop systems, and there is no option to do otherwise.
I don't know how they can suppose that unless they fail to read the article. I mean the articles explicitly compare Mac OS through 9 to Mac OS X. They do not say anything about Linux or Windows being better. That would be silly;).
Oh come now, it is intuitively obvious to anyone who is smart enough to deserve the breath of life by reading the raw file data on their glass tty what kind of file a given file is.;)
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I think the poster was talking about being able to see the result of a given query all the time, much like was available in the BeOS. In other words, I would not have to type a query every time I want to see all config files modified today. I would just click on that and get it. Windows has never had that. Here is a link Google gave me for an article on LifeStreams: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96/proc eedings/videos/Fertig/etf.htm
I should also point out that the problem with the extension approach is that all files of a given type are always opened by one application. That is not necessarily what the user wants to do. What if you want to look at the jpgs in your html folder in Mozilla, but look at the "portraits of models" in a slideshow app? Apparently some people were editing type and creator code info in different areas of their disk so that different groups of files of the same type woudl be opened in a different application. That is something you cannot do with the paradigm where the opening application is decided by the extension alone.
Granted, there are hacks. For instance in Windows I have frequently done something like named Unix text files with a.out extension, which I associate with wordpad, and windows text files with.txt so they will open in notepad. Then if there is some file I know I want to open in wordpad regardless of the real type I make it.out (or use "open with," and by the way isn't it nice that Macs can use usb mice with more than 0 buttons so that you can right-click on things to bring up context windows like even Windows can do?). Of course all of these are things we should consider as we discuss the future of Linux. I am one of those foolish dreamers who sees Linux as the future of computing. But in order to make it so, we must learn from others who have gone through the UI battle.
Also the neat thing about Linux is we aren't tied to one interface necvessarily (though this presents other problems to some degree) so I can use my fvwm2, which serves my purposes best, and my mom can deal with Gnome or KDE since they remind her of Windows. So if someone implemented an interface that includes a Finder with a desktop db, you don't have to use it if you don't like it. Much like I am never going to use RPM again if I can help it at all. Talk about non-robust databases and rebuild functions that don't really work! I'd like to see you delete your RPM database and just rebuild it from nothing!
You know, if your desktop database is corrupt in Classic Mac OS, you can simply delete it. Then when you "rebuild your desktop" you get a whole new database, no corrupt weirdness. That is one of the cool things I miss about the old Mac OS. There were any number of things which could be simply trashed which magically rebuilt themselves, like preferences and desktop db.
Now the major problem of course is that the preferences and desktop database got corrupted in the first place, and rather too frequently for some people. I think the idea was nice enough, it is just that some details in the implementation might have stood some reorganizing. Perhaps a more robust desktop db (imagine MySQL as your desktop db!) or something. Then the whole situation is rather different.
Others have pointed out the possibility of supercooled water; I would point out that whereas 0 centigrade is freezing, 0 fahrenheit is not, though it would seem odd for an englishman in a movie from new zealand would be thinking in Imperial units;).
So install RealPlayer 8 which is the same RealPlayer on Linux. Come to think of it, I *do* remember something about CNN trying to make people use RealOnePlayer at one point. That shit is nasty on any OS! And makes you register for spam!
They do on CNN. Commercial News Network. Besides, even the news on CNN is mostly commercials for Time/Warner/AOL/BMI products anymore. Too bad Ted Turner lost the requisite 8 billion he needs to buy it back:(.
Realplayer is the easiest streaming video client to get working on a linux system or any other open source OS. So why bash RealPlayer? So it is closed source, but they do provide it free as in beer and it works very well. I cannot say the same for *any* Open Source Video Applications so far.
I am sure that someone will say mplayer is easy for them, or something similar, but it was certainly not simple to compile, and even once I got round the unnecessary hoops deliberately placed there by its creator, it still did not work right. And it would not have supported much of anything in the configuration in which it was provided (though much tweaking is said to ultimately make other formats available).
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Indeed, the Socialism aspect of National Socialism, though it was in the party's Charter, was an embarrassment in the end. Hitler sold out to business interests in addition to his myriad other crimes. William Shirer's Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich is an excellent insight into this and many other aspects of Hitler's rise to power, including the role of a general rise in conservatism, fear of Communists and other leftists, etc among the people, police, and courts of Germany in the rise of the Nazis.
Sadly, there are some disturbing parallels to the climate in this country today, as well as in the 1960's. Hopefully our democracy will survive at least as intact as it was after the 1960's and things will not get even worse.
Hell, last time I went on a plane with a cellphone, they didn't even check my cellphone to make sure that is what it was. They also did not check my altoids tin which went through no xray, etc and is large enough to carry a small pistol. The cellphone could easily have been just a hollow plastic case filled with plastique or something. It could easily have still retained an lcd and keypad which simply blooped and bleeped for the security (though they did not even bother to do that.
Granted this is all pre-9/11. I understand after Richard Reid some airports started making people take off their shoes... funny ;).
Hmmph. I am not sure how available it is. They seem to require several registrations, scattered in random parts of that site, to get this file, and even then I seem not to be able to get it. I guess it is very important to protect files you are offering publicly so people can't download them, eh?
And GNU doesn't consider the APL to be truly Open Source, but all that idealistic chatter is pretty much besides the point. Open or not, it's still a pain in the ass to have Macs and Windows and Linuxes all run side by side on the same network.
Actually, to be fair, gnu.org believes that the APSL is Open Source, just not Free Software. But then, so are a lot of other licenses for programs most of us would have no problems using and working on.
As for your contention about Mac, Windows, and unix being difficult to make work together, it really depends. For pretty much ages these have all supported various protocols which would allow collaboration, mostly tcp ones we know and love (ftp, http, etc). The native formats are at issue, but there has always been software available for interoperability. Now I understand Mac OS X comes with SAMBA, as does Linux. So whereas I understand nfs and afs on Windows is not what one would like, the other two in teh mix have come to the plate with software that lets them work with Windows.
More to the point, what other editor *needs* a psychiatrist feature? Ok, maybe Word, but not if you can disable the "damned paperclip."
Well the problem with that is that they are a coalition of corporations. That is what a trust is, as well. Besides that, they don't create a damn thing. They only take what others make and make money off it by screwing everyone: the artist, the consumer, everyone.
I know all about "open with..." I must have been unclear, and for someone who has never used a Mac this is kind of an odd concept, anyhow (for that matter it is for most Mac Users) but I was saying that you can open files with more than one application. At least one other person had the same reaction to my post, so I suppose anything is possible.
The file associations in Windows let you associate one file with one extension. But on the Macintosh you could set the creator code to other programs and therafter that file got opened by a different program. So I could have a folder full of jpgs that, when double-clicked, open in Photoshop, and another folder, also full of jpgs, which open in Gimp when double-clicked. This is not possible under Windows unless you want to right-click, and in many cases you hold shift and then right click because Microsoft hides the "open with" option under certain circumstances.
Besides, it takes ages for that stupid application menu to open on a lot of machines, and it is kind of silly when I *know* what kind of application I want to open the files with.
FWIW, I never used this functionality, but then I usually had one favorite program to work with a given type of file. I also tend to use File -> Open more often than not. Even in vi I tend to use :e about as often as, if not more often than, I use vi $MYFILE . But that is because I was not used to having it around. A lot of people got used to it, and bitched mightily when they thought they could not do it. (Someone in this thread has said that the current Mac OS X can deal with type and creator codes, but I need to confirm that, and if it does, it is not simple to find, though I rarely even deal with Macs anymore except when helping my girlfriend with her new iBook).
Anyway, I think it would be neat, and anything which empowers the user is good, especially if it makes things easier to do.
Yes I did. Did you?
I was pointing out that whereas in Windows and the current MacOS you can set what application opens a kind of file by extension, in the old MacOS you could set by individual files which application opens a file. So I can open one jpg in one application, and other jpgs in another application, all by default. Stupid people annoy me, too. :P
Sony has since changed their stance on the aibo hacking. Besides, it is a misunderstanding of Sony's corporate culture to speak of them as one entity. Sony is a very large company which is run as seperate business units acting as self-contained businesses with unique goals. This results sometimes in situations like others have pointed out in this and other articles where one part of Sony is doing something which seems to violate the spirit of what another part of Sony is doing. The Playstation project was a good example of this, where the people working on the playstation were essentially handled as renegades, and had to become profitable on their project's own merits.
To be fair, this kind of thing seems to be a fairly comon business practice, and the resultant social interactions and consequences are fairly representative of any large organization of humans.
Why record twice, im sure dvd's players with 30 second skip will be out. :) Gotta come up with some new features to make you buy new DVD players.
You are probably right, but honestly the whole deal of fast forwarding or skipping forward 30 seconds is just a band-aid. If you don't want to watch the commercials, you edit them out cleanly, and then you get no commercials at all. This is also a good reason to buy your favorite shows on DVD. I have seen a number of shows where the currently running show is already available on DVD, presumably partially because of this.
I would imagine that most Linux servers set up to stream video do not have such things. If they did, then someone should get a boot to the head. On Windows, however, even servers are designed to work like desktop systems, and there is no option to do otherwise.
This is true. Of course they still have to have the right magic numbers in /usr/share/misc/magic ;).
I don't know how they can suppose that unless they fail to read the article. I mean the articles explicitly compare Mac OS through 9 to Mac OS X. They do not say anything about Linux or Windows being better. That would be silly ;).
Oh come now, it is intuitively obvious to anyone who is smart enough to deserve the breath of life by reading the raw file data on their glass tty what kind of file a given file is. ;)
I think the poster was talking about being able to see the result of a given query all the time, much like was available in the BeOS. In other words, I would not have to type a query every time I want to see all config files modified today. I would just click on that and get it. Windows has never had that.c eedings/videos /Fertig/etf.htm
Here is a link Google gave me for an article on LifeStreams:
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96/pro
I should also point out that the problem with the extension approach is that all files of a given type are always opened by one application. That is not necessarily what the user wants to do. What if you want to look at the jpgs in your html folder in Mozilla, but look at the "portraits of models" in a slideshow app? Apparently some people were editing type and creator code info in different areas of their disk so that different groups of files of the same type woudl be opened in a different application. That is something you cannot do with the paradigm where the opening application is decided by the extension alone.
Granted, there are hacks. For instance in Windows I have frequently done something like named Unix text files with a .out extension, which I associate with wordpad, and windows text files with .txt so they will open in notepad. Then if there is some file I know I want to open in wordpad regardless of the real type I make it .out (or use "open with," and by the way isn't it nice that Macs can use usb mice with more than 0 buttons so that you can right-click on things to bring up context windows like even Windows can do?).
Of course all of these are things we should consider as we discuss the future of Linux. I am one of those foolish dreamers who sees Linux as the future of computing. But in order to make it so, we must learn from others who have gone through the UI battle.
Also the neat thing about Linux is we aren't tied to one interface necvessarily (though this presents other problems to some degree) so I can use my fvwm2, which serves my purposes best, and my mom can deal with Gnome or KDE since they remind her of Windows. So if someone implemented an interface that includes a Finder with a desktop db, you don't have to use it if you don't like it. Much like I am never going to use RPM again if I can help it at all. Talk about non-robust databases and rebuild functions that don't really work! I'd like to see you delete your RPM database and just rebuild it from nothing!
You know, if your desktop database is corrupt in Classic Mac OS, you can simply delete it. Then when you "rebuild your desktop" you get a whole new database, no corrupt weirdness. That is one of the cool things I miss about the old Mac OS. There were any number of things which could be simply trashed which magically rebuilt themselves, like preferences and desktop db.
Now the major problem of course is that the preferences and desktop database got corrupted in the first place, and rather too frequently for some people. I think the idea was nice enough, it is just that some details in the implementation might have stood some reorganizing. Perhaps a more robust desktop db (imagine MySQL as your desktop db!) or something. Then the whole situation is rather different.
We merkins know all about those vixen boxen.. ;)
Blind people can browse with browsers that read the plain html to them. Crap like this makes it harder for them to surf, not easier.
Maybe where you live. But in many parts of the country I have found game shops which sell imports. They also may sell mod eq, however.
Just curious, just who is making the X-Box and new network gear that Microsoft sells?
Flextronics. They make them in Mexico, and their business is making stuff for others.
Others have pointed out the possibility of supercooled water; I would point out that whereas 0 centigrade is freezing, 0 fahrenheit is not, though it would seem odd for an englishman in a movie from new zealand would be thinking in Imperial units ;).
So install RealPlayer 8 which is the same RealPlayer on Linux. Come to think of it, I *do* remember something about CNN trying to make people use RealOnePlayer at one point. That shit is nasty on any OS! And makes you register for spam!
They do on CNN. Commercial News Network. Besides, even the news on CNN is mostly commercials for Time/Warner/AOL/BMI products anymore. Too bad Ted Turner lost the requisite 8 billion he needs to buy it back :(.
Realplayer is the easiest streaming video client to get working on a linux system or any other open source OS. So why bash RealPlayer? So it is closed source, but they do provide it free as in beer and it works very well. I cannot say the same for *any* Open Source Video Applications so far.
I am sure that someone will say mplayer is easy for them, or something similar, but it was certainly not simple to compile, and even once I got round the unnecessary hoops deliberately placed there by its creator, it still did not work right. And it would not have supported much of anything in the configuration in which it was provided (though much tweaking is said to ultimately make other formats available).