but the Eolas guy specifically says that he wanted to use his patent to change the landscape of the broswer industry; he talks about allowing other browsers back into the market by only enforcing his patent against Microsoft
I fail to see how this will "change the landscape of the broswer industry". Microsoft published instructions on how to create web pages that do not prompt the user. Greater than 90% of web browsers are IE. So every web developement firm (or company that puts up it's own public website) will have to do extra work to fix old sites and write new ones (or else their customers, the people whose content on the sites will complain).
Nothing will change, except for wasted work hours. IE will still be the dominant web browser (which may change in the future, but not because of Eolas).
The best part about Webmin is the logging facility. If you have multiple people admin the same box, the logging will save your ass at least once a month.
I originally learned how to set up our Linux servers manually (emacs, baby - no VI for you!) for mail (Sendmail), web (Apache/Tomcat), database (mySQL), and everything else. We then hired a guy who knew more about networking that I do (especially the low-level details of all of the protocols and whatnot), and he insisted that we switch everything to Webmin.
I was hesistant at first. But once I got into practice of using it, being able to look at the logs and see who made changes to httpd.conf, or when was sendmail last restarted, or anything like that - well, trying to implement that level of logging manually would have been a huge pain in the ass.
The problem with the lecture format is that to get anything out of the lecture, you have to read the material first.
An old professor of mine explained it to me this way: In the "old days"(his words, not mine), students were expected to have read the material first. The lecture was intended to suppliment the readings. It would "answer many questions that the students, in their minds, were already asking themselves". Nowadays, the lectures answer questions that the students haven't even asked, so the lectures themselves become irrelevant.
One solution, obviously, is stress to students that reading the material before class is the only way to get anything from the lecture. Another solution, of course, is to simply do away with lectures (which many classes have done recently).
As I work in webshop (yes, we're still around after the dot bomb), we regularly have clients that don't give a crap about browser compatibility or standards. However, our development team (myself included) do care.
We code and validate our sites to HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0. But we still test our sites on IE (for both Mac and Windows), Mozilla-based browsers, and Safari. Why? Because while coding to standards works great for us developers, these browsers still have bugs (especially CSS bugs). We routinely find CSS bugs in IE 5.5 for Windows, a few here and there in Safari, and (ironically enough) the current worst of the lot: IE 5 for Macintosh (ironic because, as some of you know, this browser used to be considered the most CSS-compliant). We don't sniff for browsers - we just try to avoid markup and style definitions that don't consistently work across the board.
Yes, it takes more work than just validating code. However, it still 10x less work than doing hacks and tricks to make stuff work in that piece-of-crap Netscape 4.
What would happen? How would middle-class America react?
Hmm. I don't hold too strong an opinion of the collective decisions of the American people. I would hope they would recall how our founding fathers acted, but I would probably guess that we'd be more like sheep about the whole thing. Sad, really.
One of my buddies decided that instead of using the phrase
"After September 11th..."
we would just make up random dates instead.
"Ever since March 22nd, it's been a bitch to travel through our freakin' airport".
It reminds us how stupid the whole post-attack mentality has been, it keeps our discussions light-hearted, and best of all, it makes for interesting commentary when someone new is added to our ranks!
there's a big difference between following orders to murder 12,000,000 people and following orders to liberate a country.
I agree that there is a difference - an obvious difference - but aren't you now talking about a matter of degree? One may be "more" immoral than the other, but immoral is immoral (regardless of degree).
... which has now changed to DECAPITATION ATTACK. Nice.
"Support the troops"?
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Strike on Iraq
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Not trying to flamebait or anything, but what does it mean "support the troops" even if you're morally opposed to the war? I just don't get it.
I thought "I was just following orders" was considered by most to be a poor excuse for committing immoral acts. One example of this is statements by Nazi soliders who worked in concentration camps during WWII. A large percentage of people would agree that the concentration camps (both the idea and the implementation) were immoral. I suspect that many of those people would agree that "I was just following orders" was not a morally justifiable reason.
So if one truly believes that this campaign against Irag is immoral, would American soldiers claiming "I am just following orders" be absolved of moral judgement?
Note that I'm not necessarily agreeing with this. In fact, I'm undecided on whether or not the position that the U.S. is taking has a moral component to it. It's just confusing to me everytime I see "support the troops" here on/. or on the news somewhere...
My personal pet peeve is the "name" that each channel has, like Countdown Iraq, Zero Hour, Showdown With Saddam, etc. It's the friggin' news, and we know it's about Iraq, OK? No need to try to establish a "brand" here...
I tried Google'ing to find out if this person has some kind of fund set up to pay her legal fees, but to no avail. Anyone know if such a fund exists? I'd like to be able to use my PayPal account for something useful for a change...
That's the whole problem, if there is a viable alternative then Microsoft will buy the company.
This is where GNU actually makes sense. Write a viable alternative using the GPL, and even if Microsoft buys out the company, the source will still be available for someone to download, compile, edit, and even start another company with.
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>> the best e-mail client ever is still Pine.
> Ahem. Mutt.
You misspelled "elm". Hope this helps.
But if IE doesn't move forward to implement these recommendations, will web sites ever take the time to implement these new technologies if Mozilla/KHTML/Opera are the only browsers supporting them?
As a web programmer, I really hope that Mozilla et. al can achieve some critical mass so that I can actually take advantage of them.
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but the Eolas guy specifically says that he wanted to use his patent to change the landscape of the broswer industry; he talks about allowing other browsers back into the market by only enforcing his patent against Microsoft
I fail to see how this will "change the landscape of the broswer industry". Microsoft published instructions on how to create web pages that do not prompt the user. Greater than 90% of web browsers are IE. So every web developement firm (or company that puts up it's own public website) will have to do extra work to fix old sites and write new ones (or else their customers, the people whose content on the sites will complain).
Nothing will change, except for wasted work hours. IE will still be the dominant web browser (which may change in the future, but not because of Eolas).
The best part about Webmin is the logging facility. If you have multiple people admin the same box, the logging will save your ass at least once a month.
I originally learned how to set up our Linux servers manually (emacs, baby - no VI for you!) for mail (Sendmail), web (Apache/Tomcat), database (mySQL), and everything else. We then hired a guy who knew more about networking that I do (especially the low-level details of all of the protocols and whatnot), and he insisted that we switch everything to Webmin.
I was hesistant at first. But once I got into practice of using it, being able to look at the logs and see who made changes to httpd.conf, or when was sendmail last restarted, or anything like that - well, trying to implement that level of logging manually would have been a huge pain in the ass.
Just don't check out (heck, don't even buy) "Catcher in the Rye". Black helicopters galore...
In the immortal words of Tina Fey of SNL...
"Hey scientist guys... AIDS! We still have AIDS!"
The problem with the lecture format is that to get anything out of the lecture, you have to read the material first.
An old professor of mine explained it to me this way: In the "old days"(his words, not mine), students were expected to have read the material first. The lecture was intended to suppliment the readings. It would "answer many questions that the students, in their minds, were already asking themselves". Nowadays, the lectures answer questions that the students haven't even asked, so the lectures themselves become irrelevant.
One solution, obviously, is stress to students that reading the material before class is the only way to get anything from the lecture. Another solution, of course, is to simply do away with lectures (which many classes have done recently).
As I work in webshop (yes, we're still around after the dot bomb), we regularly have clients that don't give a crap about browser compatibility or standards. However, our development team (myself included) do care.
We code and validate our sites to HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0. But we still test our sites on IE (for both Mac and Windows), Mozilla-based browsers, and Safari. Why? Because while coding to standards works great for us developers, these browsers still have bugs (especially CSS bugs). We routinely find CSS bugs in IE 5.5 for Windows, a few here and there in Safari, and (ironically enough) the current worst of the lot: IE 5 for Macintosh (ironic because, as some of you know, this browser used to be considered the most CSS-compliant). We don't sniff for browsers - we just try to avoid markup and style definitions that don't consistently work across the board.
Yes, it takes more work than just validating code. However, it still 10x less work than doing hacks and tricks to make stuff work in that piece-of-crap Netscape 4.
The tiles are pieces of a Rambaldi artifact. Get them all together, use an image sequencer, and you'll get a picture of Jennifer Garner in a tube top.
Okay, well, uh, candlesticks always make a nice gift ... maybe a place setting, or maybe a silverware pattern is good.
> Therefore!
There castle!
The title of this story remind's me of Calvin's adventures with his transmogrifer. I still wish I had that kind of imagination.
Like this?
What would happen? How would middle-class America react?
Hmm. I don't hold too strong an opinion of the collective decisions of the American people. I would hope they would recall how our founding fathers acted, but I would probably guess that we'd be more like sheep about the whole thing. Sad, really.
And don't forgot how he completely ignored the research and studies by the CDC (amongst other groups) with regards to AIDS.
One of my buddies decided that instead of using the phrase
"After September 11th..."
we would just make up random dates instead.
"Ever since March 22nd, it's been a bitch to travel through our freakin' airport".
It reminds us how stupid the whole post-attack mentality has been, it keeps our discussions light-hearted, and best of all, it makes for interesting commentary when someone new is added to our ranks!
there's a big difference between following orders to murder 12,000,000 people and following orders to liberate a country.
I agree that there is a difference - an obvious difference - but aren't you now talking about a matter of degree? One may be "more" immoral than the other, but immoral is immoral (regardless of degree).
... which has now changed to DECAPITATION ATTACK. Nice.
Not trying to flamebait or anything, but what does it mean "support the troops" even if you're morally opposed to the war? I just don't get it.
/. or on the news somewhere...
I thought "I was just following orders" was considered by most to be a poor excuse for committing immoral acts. One example of this is statements by Nazi soliders who worked in concentration camps during WWII. A large percentage of people would agree that the concentration camps (both the idea and the implementation) were immoral. I suspect that many of those people would agree that "I was just following orders" was not a morally justifiable reason.
So if one truly believes that this campaign against Irag is immoral, would American soldiers claiming "I am just following orders" be absolved of moral judgement?
Note that I'm not necessarily agreeing with this. In fact, I'm undecided on whether or not the position that the U.S. is taking has a moral component to it. It's just confusing to me everytime I see "support the troops" here on
My personal pet peeve is the "name" that each channel has, like Countdown Iraq, Zero Hour, Showdown With Saddam, etc. It's the friggin' news, and we know it's about Iraq, OK? No need to try to establish a "brand" here...
Or cnn.com's STRIKE ON IRAQ...
On the other hand, if I were to catch the babysitter wanking off while looking at them, then in that circumstance I would consider it child porn.
Really? Thus, a new quote is born:
Porn is in the eye of the beholder.
I tried Google'ing to find out if this person has some kind of fund set up to pay her legal fees, but to no avail. Anyone know if such a fund exists? I'd like to be able to use my PayPal account for something useful for a change...
Mr. Burns: "How would you like it if I came and started slobbering all over you and sniffing your crotch?"
Smithers: "If YOU did it, Sir?"
Let's Google bomb them. Everyone add a link to their website/blog extolling the virtues of this internet moron whose actions are big fucking waste of time and money.
Heck, add an entire page of our favorite google bombs for our favorite sites like Scientology and the evil empire.
That's the whole problem, if there is a viable alternative then Microsoft will buy the company.
This is where GNU actually makes sense. Write a viable alternative using the GPL, and even if Microsoft buys out the company, the source will still be available for someone to download, compile, edit, and even start another company with.