The concept is obviously a joke but I can see something like this being a good idea.
People mainly object to ads because of the format in which they're delivered: popups, Flash, spam, etc. People don't have a problem with advertisement-sponsored content itself (well, some do, but fuck 'em).
Well, if we accept that we "pay" for content by exposing our eyeballs to advertisement, wouldn't it be useful to control the way in which we are subjected to adverts? For example, a site could provide meta-data, so to speak, about an ad, and the client will determine how to present it, based on use preference (ie, do you want the ad embedded in the page, or as a popup, or in its own frame, or whatever)
This would be a pretty good concept because it means that advertisement would be delivered to you in a way which you mind the least (or perhaps is the most useful to you)
Go look up some of the premier computer science departments in the country (or even around the world) and take a hard look at the number of Indians (and Chinese) PhD students. Then go look at the average quantitative GRE scores of Asians and compare them to other races. Seeing anything interesting?
Umm it's because the dumb Indians and Chinese stay where they are in their iliterate villiages and smart Indians and Chinese come to the US. So you're talking about the statistics of the best and brightest of these societies that have been clever enough to come to the US, and comparing them to the average population here.
It worked really well for my grandmother. She is now 81 and has a slew of health problems, but she has great vision, can read w/o glasses, etc.
Just remember that there are potential dangers and side effects (to your health overall not just your eyes) as well as the fact that if it costs you less than contacts/glasses, you might want to invest the money instead.
This is such BS. Everyone in the world whose job it is to service tourists, anywhere in the world, speaks some English. American travelers know and expect this because it's the case. Why get offended when Americans speak English to someone they know speaks English? Isn't it more rude to actually know English but get all huffy when you're expected to use it?
I don't have too much faith in this lawsuit. There are actually 2 class action suits against RHAT, both filed yesterday. One of them defines the class as anyone who bought RHAT between sometime in June and July 13th. inclusive. The lawsuit was filed on July 14th, basically the next day after the alleged range of the crime. How much faith do you have in a suit like that?
I think the lawfirm(s) wanted to be the first to file so that they can claim to be represending the CLASS in case some real improprieties surface. I think RHAT is releasing their restatement on Monday. If that statement is nice and clean and happy, the lawsuit will wither away. If some real issues surface, then the lawyers will rape the company.
By which point I'll be screwed anyway because the stock will drop low just on the restatement alone.
Umm well, what RHAT is doing is not really negative. They are basically saying we're going to count earnings towards the end rather than the beginning of a contract. As such, it may make their profits smaller in one year but this will inflate their profits for the next year, since the money taken out of the prior year will end up in the next year.
I actually took this as a buying opportunity and bought RHAT after it's 20% drop yesterday. Since this accounting change doesn't seem like it should alter the overall income of the company in a span of more than a year (or however long their contracts are, I am not sure) I thought that the decrease in price is more emotional than real.
I have not yet seen the movie but from what I've heard and read, the problem is with the editing, the forced conclusions, and the omission of other important information.
For example, let's saying I make a video of myself talking to your sister in the park, and then cut to video of myself violently banging someone in the butt. Technically, there would be "nothing wrong" with what I show, but realistically the effect would be to suggest that I chated your sister up and then banged her in the ass, where in reality the conversation in the park was about puppies and the ass-sex was taken from a porno-film.
I hope the point I was trying to make above, was not lost on you. I think I would define truth as something encompasing all applicable facts. What Moore shows are carefully selected facts arange a certain way which, in a vacuum, could pass for truth but really just form a small fraction of reality.
I understand we had to bomb these people for their own good, we made them sacrifice their security for a potential freedom down the road, but why the FUCK are we going to make them use software that's not ready for the desktop? Haven't they suffered enough?
You're seeking the wrong solution. Using a computer isn't going to teach your son a damn thing about driving.
Why don't you take him out to an empty parking lot show him the basic controls? Have him drown around a bit w/o even touching th gas pedal (presumably you have an auto trans and the car gets rolling as soon as your foot is off the brake). Teach him how to gently use the break to keep the car from going too fast w/o stopping it all together. Once he learns how to work the brake gently, teach him how to do the same with the gas.
Once he's good at making circles in the empty parking lot in a controlled fashion, do not take him to the street - even though he's ready. Get some orange cones or something, set them up in a box and have him park in the box. Teach him to park backwards and forwards, and force him to use the mirrors to do so. Teaching him to use the mirrors before he ever gets onto the street is the best thing you can do. Once he's been driving around the streets, he's going to see the mirrors and the whole parking thing as an annoying hastle. But if he learns to park and use mirrors first, he'll have a better appreciation for the dimensions of the car before he is ever out on the street.
Now take him on an empty road. Teach him that if a car gets behind yours, to signal right and pull over a bit so the car can pass. This will let your kid drive around on a real street but without having to worry too much about other traffic. Teach him to do stop signs, making sure he understands the right of way in the various situations.
As he gets more experience and confidence, you can take him into roads with higher speed limits, red lights. Teach him how to make left turns. Go out with him in the middle of the day and tell him which turns to take. Without him knowing it, take him onto the freeway (do pick a time when it's likely to be empty) and guide him through merging. This is what my dad did when I was learning. He didn't make a big deal out of it, we just "ended up" on the freeway, and he's like "you just did what is probably the hardest aspect of driving - merged into freeway traffic"
In general, use your brain and have patience with your kid. Make sure he knows that cars are dangerous. Explain to him that hitting pedestrians and byciclists is an expensive amusement. Tell him that if the brakes ever fail, aim to crash into the cheapest car rather than the shiny new Benz.
No video game is going to replace your having to go through it with him. Do use your car. Start off in a completely safe area. Let him get a feel for the controls and the dimensions of the vehicle. Then take is gradually from there.
Next thing you know he'll be able to do the 500 mile drive from Cleveland to NYC all on his own, a week after getting his licence, like I did.
If he DOES do that, do teach him how to parallel park first. Because I had to figure it out on my own once I got to Brooklyn:)
Looking at the release notes on the Mozilla side of the browers, I see they've added support for CSS opacity, very cool. Not something I'd incorporate into the core design of my pages yet, but I might toss it in as a bonus to Moz users.
Eh? I am not sure if the CSS opacity they're refering to is different from what I am thinking of, but CSS Opacity won't be a "bonus" to Moz users. Take a look at the (never finished) page in my sig. Click on the image. You see those yellow "sticky notes" that show up? Do they look transparent to you?
If they do, you're using MSIE (or maybe the new Mozilla?)
So it's not like it's something new Mozilla has as an advantage over other browsers. It's something Moz is catching up to. The page in my sig was done at least a year and a half ago and the transparency has been a "bonus" for MSIE users. Mozilla didn't barf on the code (It's standard IIRC) but it just showed the yellow as Opaque.
If these guys mean something else by CSS opacity, I am sorry to rant.
My analogy is not full of holes. By nature of analogy, the relationship is not complete. By your definition comparing software theft to software theft is the only apt analogy. I stand by my analogy because accepting the difference between licencing issues and theft - they exist - does not change the fact that a company is not responsible for a copy of its product (whether car or software) that was obtained illegally.
The other stuff doesn't make sense either. Clearly it's free for MS to give out updates, but why should they? You (and I) stole software from them, why should they be nice to you (and me?) It doesn't make sense.
It made me think that I've never used Caps Lock for its intended purpose. When I type anything in ALL CAPS I just hold the shift key when I type. Maybe it's not optimal, but how much do I type in ALL CAPS? A lot less than other people.
I actually wonder whether the people sending out corporate e-mail actually have their caps lock permanetly on. Never thought about it before. Maybe not having a caps lock key would actually reduce the number of people who appear to be SHOUTING even when they don't mean to be. On the other hand, I wonder how many people legitimately use caps lock. I'd guess not many programmers do, although back in the day when I had to edit Fortran code, I just used shift to maintain upper case, didn't have the inteligence to use caps lock. Are there any people out there who do need to enter a lot of upper-case text?
By the way, the only use I've had for caps lock ever since I could remember, is to switch to Vigilante missions in Vice City:)
I think the morality of the situation can be understood by the following analogy.
I steal a brand new car off the lot. A few months later there is a recall because of faulty breaklines which have caused numerous accidents. People are urged to take the car to their dealer and have the problem fixed. I know that if I turned up with my stolen car to get the part fixed, I would at best be turned away because I wasn't in he computer (more likely, they'd place me under citizen's arrest)
So I would continue to drive a car which is a menace to myself AND to public safety, and should something happen, it would be stupid to blame the manufacturer. Morally, the fault is mine for not having obtained the car a proper way and to continue driving it even as I knew (or even did't know) there was a public safety issue.
Hell, even if I didn't know there was a problem, it's still my fault because I stole the car meaning the dealer did not know to mail me a recall notice.
I don't mean to get on a moral high horse here, as I am writing this on a copy of Windows XP I did not pay for. But should Windows Update fail to fetch me SP2, the responsibility will be mine, not Microsoft's.
Are you sure that you're screwed by Microsoft, not by the user who by refusing to purchase software, has placed himself in position of not being able to easily enhance and update the pirated copy?
The author of the writeup has recieved plenty of advice to "get used to it" and plenty of explanations as to why things are the way they are, but no real answer...
I sympothise with him because I was in the same shoes. Having developed on Suns every weekday of the past year got me used to the X way of copy/paste but the problem remains, and I sometimes mess up:
Very common problem is selecting text and accidentally moving the mouse down a little bit so that the whole line is selected, including the line break. This means that when I paste onto the command line (which is where I usually paste into) the line break will get pasted too and submit whatever was pasted to the shell for execution, whether this is what you want or not. It's also common that I select text, then in the process of positioning my cursor where I want the text pasted, I select a bit of text, losing the original selection.
I would assume that a nice Linux distro could package software that mainly supports the Windows-style copy/paste to aleviate this problem somewhat. No such luck in my work environment (but I mainly use the shell and emacs so it's livable)
My big issue with Linux copy/paste is that it's stupid when it comes to... well, here's an example. I have a Word document with tons of formating. I copy it, paste it into something that only supports plain text. No problem. Formatting is stripped, text remains. I could NOT get this to happen with OpenOffice and Mozilla. Whatever magic Microsoft does to "downcast" your selection to whatever the app you're pasting into can handle, is a blessing.
Also....
Sometimes when I use Windows (which I do at home) I end up selecting some text and not doing control-c or right-click/copy and expecting it to be pasted later on. Of course it doesn't. I was looking for a third party app that would simulate the X way of copy/paste on Windows but never found one (I mean, things like mIRC support this internaly, I want to find something that will make it work in all apps - but no such luck.) BLAH. I just pressed control-e to get to the end of the line and Composer opened.... Any way to get emacs keys to work in Windows Mozilla? I believe they work in Linux Mozilla...
The best I've found were a couple of apps that keep your clipboard history (Microsoft Office does this when you have one of the Office apps open) which is sometimes handy when you need to paste say 10 separate things from one app into another. You go to app #1, select text1, copy, select text2, copy, etc, then go to app #2 and paste, then past history item #1, history item #2 etc. No need to switch context 10 times.
Whoever says that weed doesn't make you dumber. It took me about a minute to figure out what this story is about and another two deciding how the hell the headline made any sense whatsoever.
Teach her to write some Excel macros. First, this is somewhat of a valuable skill (using Excel cuts accross many professions) and second, it's very obvious what's going on.
It's more than just adding values in cells. How about taking 2 cells with a time format (eg, 1 pm and 6:15pm) and having a third cell display the number of hours in between (5.25 in this case)... You can get pretty fancy with Excel programming or you can keep it very simple. By the time she grasps the finer points of programming in Excel, she'll grasp much of programming (though probably not of good programming practices) in general.
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The concept is obviously a joke but I can see something like this being a good idea.
People mainly object to ads because of the format in which they're delivered: popups, Flash, spam, etc. People don't have a problem with advertisement-sponsored content itself (well, some do, but fuck 'em).
Well, if we accept that we "pay" for content by exposing our eyeballs to advertisement, wouldn't it be useful to control the way in which we are subjected to adverts? For example, a site could provide meta-data, so to speak, about an ad, and the client will determine how to present it, based on use preference (ie, do you want the ad embedded in the page, or as a popup, or in its own frame, or whatever)
This would be a pretty good concept because it means that advertisement would be delivered to you in a way which you mind the least (or perhaps is the most useful to you)
Just thinking.
Go look up some of the premier computer science departments in the country (or even around the world) and take a hard look at the number of Indians (and Chinese) PhD students. Then go look at the average quantitative GRE scores of Asians and compare them to other races. Seeing anything interesting?
Umm it's because the dumb Indians and Chinese stay where they are in their iliterate villiages and smart Indians and Chinese come to the US. So you're talking about the statistics of the best and brightest of these societies that have been clever enough to come to the US, and comparing them to the average population here.
Doesn't work that way.
It worked really well for my grandmother. She is now 81 and has a slew of health problems, but she has great vision, can read w/o glasses, etc.
Just remember that there are potential dangers and side effects (to your health overall not just your eyes) as well as the fact that if it costs you less than contacts/glasses, you might want to invest the money instead.
At my school library, I work as a semi-admin (well, I know all the passwords and help out a lot).
--Are you with Wendy's?
--Unofficially.
This is such BS. Everyone in the world whose job it is to service tourists, anywhere in the world, speaks some English. American travelers know and expect this because it's the case. Why get offended when Americans speak English to someone they know speaks English? Isn't it more rude to actually know English but get all huffy when you're expected to use it?
A closet racist?
My girlfriend separates her clothes by colors when putting them away. Think the poster's like that too?
I don't have too much faith in this lawsuit. There are actually 2 class action suits against RHAT, both filed yesterday. One of them defines the class as anyone who bought RHAT between sometime in June and July 13th. inclusive. The lawsuit was filed on July 14th, basically the next day after the alleged range of the crime. How much faith do you have in a suit like that?
I think the lawfirm(s) wanted to be the first to file so that they can claim to be represending the CLASS in case some real improprieties surface. I think RHAT is releasing their restatement on Monday. If that statement is nice and clean and happy, the lawsuit will wither away. If some real issues surface, then the lawyers will rape the company.
By which point I'll be screwed anyway because the stock will drop low just on the restatement alone.
Umm well, what RHAT is doing is not really negative. They are basically saying we're going to count earnings towards the end rather than the beginning of a contract. As such, it may make their profits smaller in one year but this will inflate their profits for the next year, since the money taken out of the prior year will end up in the next year.
I actually took this as a buying opportunity and bought RHAT after it's 20% drop yesterday. Since this accounting change doesn't seem like it should alter the overall income of the company in a span of more than a year (or however long their contracts are, I am not sure) I thought that the decrease in price is more emotional than real.
Link does not work properly in Mozilla.
Seriously, there's such a thing as an overabundance of caution.
How many condoms do you wear during sex? Wait, let me guess, you don't even go into a room with anyone who's ever had sex.
You can't live you life like that.
Your Uncle will teach you
I have not yet seen the movie but from what I've heard and read, the problem is with the editing, the forced conclusions, and the omission of other important information.
For example, let's saying I make a video of myself talking to your sister in the park, and then cut to video of myself violently banging someone in the butt. Technically, there would be "nothing wrong" with what I show, but realistically the effect would be to suggest that I chated your sister up and then banged her in the ass, where in reality the conversation in the park was about puppies and the ass-sex was taken from a porno-film.
I hope the point I was trying to make above, was not lost on you. I think I would define truth as something encompasing all applicable facts. What Moore shows are carefully selected facts arange a certain way which, in a vacuum, could pass for truth but really just form a small fraction of reality.
hahaha ROTFL!
you're so funny.
I understand we had to bomb these people for their own good, we made them sacrifice their security for a potential freedom down the road, but why the FUCK are we going to make them use software that's not ready for the desktop? Haven't they suffered enough?
You're seeking the wrong solution. Using a computer isn't going to teach your son a damn thing about driving.
:)
Why don't you take him out to an empty parking lot show him the basic controls? Have him drown around a bit w/o even touching th gas pedal (presumably you have an auto trans and the car gets rolling as soon as your foot is off the brake). Teach him how to gently use the break to keep the car from going too fast w/o stopping it all together. Once he learns how to work the brake gently, teach him how to do the same with the gas.
Once he's good at making circles in the empty parking lot in a controlled fashion, do not take him to the street - even though he's ready. Get some orange cones or something, set them up in a box and have him park in the box. Teach him to park backwards and forwards, and force him to use the mirrors to do so. Teaching him to use the mirrors before he ever gets onto the street is the best thing you can do. Once he's been driving around the streets, he's going to see the mirrors and the whole parking thing as an annoying hastle. But if he learns to park and use mirrors first, he'll have a better appreciation for the dimensions of the car before he is ever out on the street.
Now take him on an empty road. Teach him that if a car gets behind yours, to signal right and pull over a bit so the car can pass. This will let your kid drive around on a real street but without having to worry too much about other traffic. Teach him to do stop signs, making sure he understands the right of way in the various situations.
As he gets more experience and confidence, you can take him into roads with higher speed limits, red lights. Teach him how to make left turns. Go out with him in the middle of the day and tell him which turns to take. Without him knowing it, take him onto the freeway (do pick a time when it's likely to be empty) and guide him through merging. This is what my dad did when I was learning. He didn't make a big deal out of it, we just "ended up" on the freeway, and he's like "you just did what is probably the hardest aspect of driving - merged into freeway traffic"
In general, use your brain and have patience with your kid. Make sure he knows that cars are dangerous. Explain to him that hitting pedestrians and byciclists is an expensive amusement. Tell him that if the brakes ever fail, aim to crash into the cheapest car rather than the shiny new Benz.
No video game is going to replace your having to go through it with him. Do use your car. Start off in a completely safe area. Let him get a feel for the controls and the dimensions of the vehicle. Then take is gradually from there.
Next thing you know he'll be able to do the 500 mile drive from Cleveland to NYC all on his own, a week after getting his licence, like I did.
If he DOES do that, do teach him how to parallel park first. Because I had to figure it out on my own once I got to Brooklyn
Looking at the release notes on the Mozilla side of the browers, I see they've added support for CSS opacity, very cool. Not something I'd incorporate into the core design of my pages yet, but I might toss it in as a bonus to Moz users.
Eh? I am not sure if the CSS opacity they're refering to is different from what I am thinking of, but CSS Opacity won't be a "bonus" to Moz users. Take a look at the (never finished) page in my sig. Click on the image. You see those yellow "sticky notes" that show up? Do they look transparent to you?
If they do, you're using MSIE (or maybe the new Mozilla?)
So it's not like it's something new Mozilla has as an advantage over other browsers. It's something Moz is catching up to. The page in my sig was done at least a year and a half ago and the transparency has been a "bonus" for MSIE users. Mozilla didn't barf on the code (It's standard IIRC) but it just showed the yellow as Opaque.
If these guys mean something else by CSS opacity, I am sorry to rant.
My analogy is not full of holes. By nature of analogy, the relationship is not complete. By your definition comparing software theft to software theft is the only apt analogy. I stand by my analogy because accepting the difference between licencing issues and theft - they exist - does not change the fact that a company is not responsible for a copy of its product (whether car or software) that was obtained illegally.
The other stuff doesn't make sense either. Clearly it's free for MS to give out updates, but why should they? You (and I) stole software from them, why should they be nice to you (and me?) It doesn't make sense.
It made me think that I've never used Caps Lock for its intended purpose. When I type anything in ALL CAPS I just hold the shift key when I type. Maybe it's not optimal, but how much do I type in ALL CAPS? A lot less than other people.
:)
I actually wonder whether the people sending out corporate e-mail actually have their caps lock permanetly on. Never thought about it before. Maybe not having a caps lock key would actually reduce the number of people who appear to be SHOUTING even when they don't mean to be. On the other hand, I wonder how many people legitimately use caps lock. I'd guess not many programmers do, although back in the day when I had to edit Fortran code, I just used shift to maintain upper case, didn't have the inteligence to use caps lock. Are there any people out there who do need to enter a lot of upper-case text?
By the way, the only use I've had for caps lock ever since I could remember, is to switch to Vigilante missions in Vice City
And I cannot remember ever using scroll lock.
I think the morality of the situation can be understood by the following analogy.
I steal a brand new car off the lot. A few months later there is a recall because of faulty breaklines which have caused numerous accidents. People are urged to take the car to their dealer and have the problem fixed. I know that if I turned up with my stolen car to get the part fixed, I would at best be turned away because I wasn't in he computer (more likely, they'd place me under citizen's arrest)
So I would continue to drive a car which is a menace to myself AND to public safety, and should something happen, it would be stupid to blame the manufacturer. Morally, the fault is mine for not having obtained the car a proper way and to continue driving it even as I knew (or even did't know) there was a public safety issue.
Hell, even if I didn't know there was a problem, it's still my fault because I stole the car meaning the dealer did not know to mail me a recall notice.
I don't mean to get on a moral high horse here, as I am writing this on a copy of Windows XP I did not pay for. But should Windows Update fail to fetch me SP2, the responsibility will be mine, not Microsoft's.
Are you sure that you're screwed by Microsoft, not by the user who by refusing to purchase software, has placed himself in position of not being able to easily enhance and update the pirated copy?
But the cameras aren't banned. It was an Onion article....
Once you do get drivers for your superduper 3d card on Linux... what are you going to use it for?
-E
The author of the writeup has recieved plenty of advice to "get used to it" and plenty of explanations as to why things are the way they are, but no real answer...
I sympothise with him because I was in the same shoes. Having developed on Suns every weekday of the past year got me used to the X way of copy/paste but the problem remains, and I sometimes mess up:
Very common problem is selecting text and accidentally moving the mouse down a little bit so that the whole line is selected, including the line break. This means that when I paste onto the command line (which is where I usually paste into) the line break will get pasted too and submit whatever was pasted to the shell for execution, whether this is what you want or not. It's also common that I select text, then in the process of positioning my cursor where I want the text pasted, I select a bit of text, losing the original selection.
I would assume that a nice Linux distro could package software that mainly supports the Windows-style copy/paste to aleviate this problem somewhat. No such luck in my work environment (but I mainly use the shell and emacs so it's livable)
My big issue with Linux copy/paste is that it's stupid when it comes to... well, here's an example. I have a Word document with tons of formating. I copy it, paste it into something that only supports plain text. No problem. Formatting is stripped, text remains. I could NOT get this to happen with OpenOffice and Mozilla. Whatever magic Microsoft does to "downcast" your selection to whatever the app you're pasting into can handle, is a blessing.
Also....
Sometimes when I use Windows (which I do at home) I end up selecting some text and not doing control-c or right-click/copy and expecting it to be pasted later on. Of course it doesn't. I was looking for a third party app that would simulate the X way of copy/paste on Windows but never found one (I mean, things like mIRC support this internaly, I want to find something that will make it work in all apps - but no such luck.) BLAH. I just pressed control-e to get to the end of the line and Composer opened.... Any way to get emacs keys to work in Windows Mozilla? I believe they work in Linux Mozilla...
The best I've found were a couple of apps that keep your clipboard history (Microsoft Office does this when you have one of the Office apps open) which is sometimes handy when you need to paste say 10 separate things from one app into another. You go to app #1, select text1, copy, select text2, copy, etc, then go to app #2 and paste, then past history item #1, history item #2 etc. No need to switch context 10 times.
Whoever says that weed doesn't make you dumber. It took me about a minute to figure out what this story is about and another two deciding how the hell the headline made any sense whatsoever.
It does.
Teach her to write some Excel macros. First, this is somewhat of a valuable skill (using Excel cuts accross many professions) and second, it's very obvious what's going on.
It's more than just adding values in cells. How about taking 2 cells with a time format (eg, 1 pm and 6:15pm) and having a third cell display the number of hours in between (5.25 in this case)... You can get pretty fancy with Excel programming or you can keep it very simple. By the time she grasps the finer points of programming in Excel, she'll grasp much of programming (though probably not of good programming practices) in general.
Though the question remains: why?