I posted to the wishlist asking for a 'top' button to take you to the top level of a particular domain. Actually you could do it like back buttons. One click to strip one level off, or a drop down box to make your way back up to the top domain level.
Is there anything on bugzilla for this and can we vote for it?
...that the only motivating factor for musicians is money? If you want a secure lifestyle, the last thing to be is a musician. People do it for the music. (Well maybe the groupies too.)
I'm not saying 'let em all starve' but there must be some way for them to make a living in the new world. Maybe in future touring _will_ be profitable. It'll be done in a different way, instead of as a teaser for the album which is how the real money gets made.
Hmmph. Are you saying that because we in Britain don't allow people to shoot assault rifles, this is morally equivalent to stopping people having gay sex?
It is true that right now artists do need to get paid. Whatever may evolve in the future is a separate issue.
But
(1) There is loads of music out there by, er, dead people. In some cases, long dead people. This stuff should be copyright free after a certain period. I don't feel bad about downloading Bach mp3s, or Hendrix, or even Nirvana.
(2) There are musicians still alive but who have plenty nuff cash already. I'm not weeping for Madonna or Blur or almost any major artist. They're doing fine. (I'm not taking the moral high ground here. I just amn't that bothered about stealing from the very rich.)
'Because I want precise control over the layout. And because it seriously annoys "real ale" Internet users who do all their browsing on text-based hand-held calculators, and that arouses me.'
One might think that lawmakers would observe that those states with fewer restrictions on citizens ability to defend themselves tend to suffer less violent crime, and remove such restrictions in their own states; but this would be assuming that politicians are capable of rational thought based on factual observation. Ha.
Dude...
Are you aware that your capital city has more murders per year than my entire country?
As for violent crime having increased, yes. But the new restrictions were irrelevant to this, because UK subjects have never been able to shoot people for attacking them. The already tight restrictions were made stricter still. It wasn't like, before we could shoot on sight or something.
Me and a friend were discussing this topic yesterday. I've just installed Linux for the first time, so I have some firsthand knowledge here. (Sorry to say this, but it was rather difficult, and I can't get X Windows to work....)
Anyway, for OS to work on designing UIs, it has to harness end-users as easily as it does expert programmers. There should be a way to do this.
For example, I can configure the pretty pictures on my Sonique mp3 player by editing a plain text file. Scary at first, but not that hard. You want 1000 swirling stars in the background? 'Swirling_stars=1000'. Click save. That's it.
Now if there was something like that for gnome or KDE, people (average non-techie people like me) could make their improvements and the developers could select the best for the new release.
OS shouldn't just be a computer techie thing. In theory it could work for pretty much any design problem.
The trick is to get the innovations that will be genuinely helpful for everyone, not just power-users. I want to configure my Word toolbars and write macros to do particular jobs. But that doesn't help the temp secretary who sits down and wants something easy to use and understand.
there was a business plan that won the MIT 1K competition which planned to do just that... as you were walking down the road with your phone it wd message you 'hey how about a pizza from al's pizza? first left...' don't know if it was ever done though
You don't know that any specific problem is unsolvable. But you do know (it is mathematically provable) that there are some insoluble problems which cannot be proven to be insoluble. You know there are some, but you don't know which they are. Fun huh?
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I posted to the wishlist asking for a 'top' button to take you to the top level of a particular domain. Actually you could do it like back buttons. One click to strip one level off, or a drop down box to make your way back up to the top domain level.
Is there anything on bugzilla for this and can we vote for it?
dave
...that the only motivating factor for musicians is money? If you want a secure lifestyle, the last thing to be is a musician. People do it for the music. (Well maybe the groupies too.)
I'm not saying 'let em all starve' but there must be some way for them to make a living in the new world. Maybe in future touring _will_ be profitable. It'll be done in a different way, instead of as a teaser for the album which is how the real money gets made.
dave
Duh...he's taking the mickey, you idiots.
Hmmph. Are you saying that because we in Britain don't allow people to shoot assault rifles, this is morally equivalent to stopping people having gay sex?
Dave
Yeah, aren't they?
OK, a coupla simple points.
It is true that right now artists do need to get paid. Whatever may evolve in the future is a separate issue.
But
(1) There is loads of music out there by, er, dead people. In some cases, long dead people. This stuff should be copyright free after a certain period. I don't feel bad about downloading Bach mp3s, or Hendrix, or even Nirvana.
(2) There are musicians still alive but who have plenty nuff cash already. I'm not weeping for Madonna or Blur or almost any major artist. They're doing fine. (I'm not taking the moral high ground here. I just amn't that bothered about stealing from the very rich.)
cheers
dave
Once again. You people make me sick.
Pah.
Quote from FAQ of the superb TV Go Home:
'Why use a JPEG for the listings instead of text?
'Because I want precise control over the layout. And because it seriously annoys "real ale" Internet users who do all their browsing on text-based hand-held calculators, and that arouses me.'
Dude...
Are you aware that your capital city has more murders per year than my entire country?
As for violent crime having increased, yes. But the new restrictions were irrelevant to this, because UK subjects have never been able to shoot people for attacking them. The already tight restrictions were made stricter still. It wasn't like, before we could shoot on sight or something.
Er... better than anywhere else in the world apart from major war zones? In the UK owning most kinds of gun is illegal, full stop.
(Un)lucky you.
Anyway, for OS to work on designing UIs, it has to harness end-users as easily as it does expert programmers. There should be a way to do this.
For example, I can configure the pretty pictures on my Sonique mp3 player by editing a plain text file. Scary at first, but not that hard. You want 1000 swirling stars in the background? 'Swirling_stars=1000'. Click save. That's it.
Now if there was something like that for gnome or KDE, people (average non-techie people like me) could make their improvements and the developers could select the best for the new release.
OS shouldn't just be a computer techie thing. In theory it could work for pretty much any design problem.
The trick is to get the innovations that will be genuinely helpful for everyone, not just power-users. I want to configure my Word toolbars and write macros to do particular jobs. But that doesn't help the temp secretary who sits down and wants something easy to use and understand.
Cheers,
Dave
there was a business plan that won the MIT 1K competition which planned to do just that... as you were walking down the road with your phone it wd message you 'hey how about a pizza from al's pizza? first left...' don't know if it was ever done though
You don't know that any specific problem is unsolvable. But you do know (it is mathematically provable) that there are some insoluble problems which cannot be proven to be insoluble. You know there are some, but you don't know which they are. Fun huh?