Dunno what you're talking about. It's not a compliment, it's a criticism of Ms. O'Gara's bullshit. My comment is, as far as I can tell, negative towards PJ. I think she can handle it.
But that's ok. I'm not basing this off of anything in O'Gara's story, because I'm not going to read it, but PJ does enough to make herself look bad on her own website. Her tone is often just on the edge of snide and unprofessional. She is extremely partisan.
But she keeps publishing true shit. O'Gara can trash talk as long as she likes (I think Jehova's Witnesses are idiots too.) but that won't change whether PJ is providing timely factual information. Sure, she might be completely batty. Doesn't matter. She's batty and she's still more on top of it than Ms. O'Gara. Show us that she's a habitual liar (like... O'Gara) and then maybe she'll get less credit. Don't care if she's a religious nut.
Uh, that is exactly what he says. It's not "convenience" it's "good for their shareholders":
First and foremost, we will continue to focus our public policy activities on issues that most directly affect our business, such as Internet safety, intellectual property rights, free trade, digital inclusion and a healthy business climate.
You might disagree with them, but there was nothing unclear about their position.
There's a gay character in the homeworld series who is a hero... because he realized that the right thing to do would be to marry a woman and have children. There are a number of homosexual characters and relationships in his book, and they all behave according to his twisted moral and religious beliefs.
OSC has always maintained that he does not hate gay people. He just wants to forcibly prevent them from doing what they want with their lives. It's in their own best interest, whether they like it or not.
fwiw, Firewalls don't protect against most viruses. They'll stop people from getting directly owned over some RPC port from the internet, but they won't stop people from getting owned by some malicious webpage they visit.
The only way to keep a Windows computer safe is to install patches and virus protection software on the individual computers. Work *must* be done on the individual computers.
At my school, there were paid student techs that fixed stuff like that. These guys need someone who will walk from room to room, fixing computers. Doesn't sound like a volunteer job to me.
Conveniently, this time you didn't even have to RTFA. Right there in the abstract:
'All I'm asking for is that all the clueless people stop talking about the cooperation between Safari/Konqueror developers and how great it is.'
Maybe I missed the part where he said that Apple had to hand-hold him through understanding the code. Oh, no, in the article he points out that Apple has fulfilled all the requirements of the license.
He's basing his dislike of those icons off the HIG. I'm not a huge fan of the icons. If they redid the icons to appease Siracusa, I wouldn't mind. Everyone also based their anti-metal stance on the HIG, which was completely inane. The HIG isn't exactly 100% scientific fact.
And they violated the HIG when they metalifized Safari. And they created a new set of widgets for the latest iPhoto and for their pro software. It looks better this way. And no, it doesn't look like some crap off DeviantArt. Just because Tog said it don't necessarily make it fucking so.Consistency and thoughtful design is what separates Aqua from Luna, Microsoft's toy-box UI skin.That sentence is what separates your post from credibility...
It's an excellent article, and gets at a number of good points. Very worth reading. I'm just through the first quarter.
John Siracusa is a great big whiner. Thankfully, in this article, his Spatial Finder crown of thorns is only employed in one sentence. He also predictably complains about the unified title bar look for aqua Windows. And the new look for Mail.app.
I've been a Mac user from the age of four on. I could move at light speed in System 8's finder, and I'm delighted to be rid of the spatial Finder. I like the unified title bar look, and I like the Mail.app redesign. Does my anecdote cancel his out? The guy at Ranchero Software seems to like the unified title bar look too... now can Siracusa bite it?
Huh. I guess I thought shells usually had some mechanism for automatically regenerating the prompt every time you issued a new command, so you wouldn't have to explicitly reset it whenever you changed directories or something.
You're going to agree with anyone who's a great big geek?
You can be a geek and still think Kevin Smith's taste isn't perfect. He makes fun movies. He's also a fanboy. I hope he's right, and his review is convincing, but he could be wrong.
That quote doesn't contradict what I'm saying. The second two links when googling for astroturf and grassroots yield this and this, written in 1998 and 1996 about ordinary political astroturfing, and both of them make it seem like the term had been around for a little while.
Sure, Microsoft in 1998 might have been the first time a big tech company astroturfed in forums and got caught.
The word was coined when Microsoft was caught doing exactly that on various newsgroups back in the 90s.
Coulda sworn it was coined for political organizations that sent out mailers with skewed pictures of political situations with pre-written, pre-stamped postcards for you to sign and send to your congress critter. Thus creating the illusion of grassroots support for their position, thus astroturf.
But I thought PDF was based on display lists & stuff. I don't see that DjVu supports fonts or curves or anything. Sure, it might be the very best image format, but that's not what PDF does.
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Iduno, man. A couple people were confused by TFA because she mentioned her girlfriend, and they went all haywire, so I informed them.
Also vaguely interesting and along similar lines is Alan Kay's Croquet project.
It's not particularly mind blowing, but it has potential.
Yes, that is true. Also, Hilary Rosen is gay. This has been out of the closet longer than she's been in the public spotlight, as far as I know.
If Steve Jobs said that, it would indicate that he had a boyfriend.
Hilary Rosen (a girl) has a girlfriend.
She's gay. I hope you were joking.
Dunno what you're talking about. It's not a compliment, it's a criticism of Ms. O'Gara's bullshit. My comment is, as far as I can tell, negative towards PJ. I think she can handle it.
But that's ok. I'm not basing this off of anything in O'Gara's story, because I'm not going to read it, but PJ does enough to make herself look bad on her own website. Her tone is often just on the edge of snide and unprofessional. She is extremely partisan.
But she keeps publishing true shit. O'Gara can trash talk as long as she likes (I think Jehova's Witnesses are idiots too.) but that won't change whether PJ is providing timely factual information. Sure, she might be completely batty. Doesn't matter. She's batty and she's still more on top of it than Ms. O'Gara. Show us that she's a habitual liar (like... O'Gara) and then maybe she'll get less credit. Don't care if she's a religious nut.
Given that he's already threatened to steal money from you, tell him that he either needs to pay you ahead of time, or you're walking out the door.
That's my opinion of the ethical situation. If you don't think that'd work, or you don't actually want to walk out the door, you should:
TALK TO A LAWYER. Seriously. They will tell you what you can do if he actually stiffs you. No, no one thinks you should actually work for free.
There's a gay character in the homeworld series who is a hero... because he realized that the right thing to do would be to marry a woman and have children. There are a number of homosexual characters and relationships in his book, and they all behave according to his twisted moral and religious beliefs.
OSC has always maintained that he does not hate gay people. He just wants to forcibly prevent them from doing what they want with their lives. It's in their own best interest, whether they like it or not.
OSC can fuck himself.
fwiw, Firewalls don't protect against most viruses. They'll stop people from getting directly owned over some RPC port from the internet, but they won't stop people from getting owned by some malicious webpage they visit.
The only way to keep a Windows computer safe is to install patches and virus protection software on the individual computers. Work *must* be done on the individual computers.
At my school, there were paid student techs that fixed stuff like that. These guys need someone who will walk from room to room, fixing computers. Doesn't sound like a volunteer job to me.
If all-uppercase were a strong indicator of spam status, we'd wind up blocking 90% of AOL's legitimate outgoing email.
I'm sure that's completely true.
But do you think they did scientific research to determine which windows should be metal vs aqua?
He's basing his dislike of those icons off the HIG. I'm not a huge fan of the icons. If they redid the icons to appease Siracusa, I wouldn't mind. Everyone also based their anti-metal stance on the HIG, which was completely inane. The HIG isn't exactly 100% scientific fact.
And they violated the HIG when they metalifized Safari. And they created a new set of widgets for the latest iPhoto and for their pro software. It looks better this way. And no, it doesn't look like some crap off DeviantArt. Just because Tog said it don't necessarily make it fucking so.Consistency and thoughtful design is what separates Aqua from Luna, Microsoft's toy-box UI skin.That sentence is what separates your post from credibility...
It's an excellent article, and gets at a number of good points. Very worth reading. I'm just through the first quarter.
John Siracusa is a great big whiner. Thankfully, in this article, his Spatial Finder crown of thorns is only employed in one sentence. He also predictably complains about the unified title bar look for aqua Windows. And the new look for Mail.app.
I've been a Mac user from the age of four on. I could move at light speed in System 8's finder, and I'm delighted to be rid of the spatial Finder. I like the unified title bar look, and I like the Mail.app redesign. Does my anecdote cancel his out? The guy at Ranchero Software seems to like the unified title bar look too... now can Siracusa bite it?
Huh. I guess I thought shells usually had some mechanism for automatically regenerating the prompt every time you issued a new command, so you wouldn't have to explicitly reset it whenever you changed directories or something.
Right then.
Uh... aren't there other ways to switch directories aside from cd? pushd & popd for example?
Most prompts that show you pwd do it with backticks or something, afaik.
You're going to agree with anyone who's a great big geek?
You can be a geek and still think Kevin Smith's taste isn't perfect. He makes fun movies. He's also a fanboy. I hope he's right, and his review is convincing, but he could be wrong.
(See subject.)
I think law enforcement agencies have to go to the court just the same. Usually the university runs its own police force, so there's no privacy.
Right?
That quote doesn't contradict what I'm saying. The second two links when googling for astroturf and grassroots yield this and this, written in 1998 and 1996 about ordinary political astroturfing, and both of them make it seem like the term had been around for a little while.
Sure, Microsoft in 1998 might have been the first time a big tech company astroturfed in forums and got caught.
The word was coined when Microsoft was caught doing exactly that on various newsgroups back in the 90s.
Coulda sworn it was coined for political organizations that sent out mailers with skewed pictures of political situations with pre-written, pre-stamped postcards for you to sign and send to your congress critter. Thus creating the illusion of grassroots support for their position, thus astroturf.
But I thought PDF was based on display lists & stuff. I don't see that DjVu supports fonts or curves or anything. Sure, it might be the very best image format, but that's not what PDF does.
Right?