Is this a different Green Pary than the one that put Ralph Nader up for president? Because it's hard to see how a a millionaire lawyer, who's locked out his own workers when they tried to unionize, and has a fortune invested in the stocks of multinational coporations, would be a good voice of the people.
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id439/pg1/
Besides, isn't the Green Pary itself incorporated?
Seriously, I'd feel better about the Green Party if you told me they ddn't accept contributions from trial lawyers, because it's the fear of going bankrupt from endless lawsuits that really keeps people in line.
And to keep this on-topic: Here's a real kicker: the www.gp.org site was created using (ready?)Microsoft FrontPage!
For object-oriented design
Design Patterns by Gamma, et al (Addison)
While this is a good and useful book, it does not do much teaching of OO design. If you don't already have a good understanding of OO analysis and design then the text becomes more of a superficial cookbook than a source of theoretical underpinnings.
You would do better with
Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach, by Ivar Jacobson, or Object-Oriented Analysis and Design With Applications, 2nd Edition,
by Grady Booch
The ACLU has taken a number cases that I find very offensive such as defending NAMBLA.
What, exactly, do you find offensive? That the 1st Amendment applies to NAMBLA, NAMBLA itslef, or that the ACLU defended NAMBLA's 1st Amendment rights?
I don't see how you can pick and choose who gets free speech and who doesn't. It tkes no balls or brains to support free speech for *popular* groups.
I'm no fan of NAMBLA, I think they're a sick lot, but I want to be sure they can express their sick ideas, least one day somebody decides my *ideas* are sick, and I should be silenced.
The Fringe is hardly the sort of festival that would accommodate the comedic equivalent of the Backstreet Boys. It's more of a Sex Pistols sort of event (but without the spitting).
I've only been to one Fringe, about 8 years ago, but it was hardly a "Sex Pistols sort of event." Many things were quite good, but too much was artsy hippy shit. It was more of a Grateful Dead sort of event.
I'll say it again, and a bit more bluntly this time: Microsoft has not produced a single innovation with regards to GUI design, even in terms of look-and-feel.
Gee, I guess if you repeat it often enough it becomes true. The site you linked is, judging by the snide comments abut Windows' "features", a tad biased. Do you have any other sources?
What were the predecessors to the Visual Studio IDE? To IntelliSense? To drag-n-drop GUI building? Dropdown menus that show frequently-used items, adjusting themselves over time?
I'm not trying to troll here, and it's not entirely off-topic. As with a previous post on MS projects that failed, debates about the future of.Net need to be framed in an accurate asessment of Microsoft's history of success and inovation.
It seems most folks on slashdot believe Microsoft can simply bully its way to the top of any field, forcing people to adopt anythning it produces. Yet products like Bob suggest this isn't true. So, why do some, but by no means all, Microsoft products succeed? Clever copying of proven ideas? Subtle innovation? Reinvention of older ideas, with improvements based on 20/20 hindsight?
People snipe at the idea of a.Net VM as a Java ripoff. The Java VM is a Pascal P-code VM ripoff, but done better. Java swiped ideas from C++, and improved certain things. Could it be a similar case for C#/.Net?
US Asian? What about US Europeans? Or US Africans? Is there something special happening on Asian TV shows in the States?
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This is from the W3C XHTML spec:
4.6 Empty Elements
Empty elements must either have an end tag or the start tag must end with/>. For instance, <br/> or <hr></hr>. See HTML Compatibility Guidelines for information on ways to ensure this is backward compatible with HTML 4 user agents.
CORRECT: terminated empty tags
<br/><hr/>
There is no mention or example of using a space after the element name.
Of course progamming languages need to be human-readable; that's what they're for. Stored data does not; it needs to be efficient.
Do you mean like, say Microsoft's Word binary format? It is much more efficient than plain text, and much more compact. Of course, of you decide to process all of your documents with another application, you are at the mercy of the vendor. Writing conversion tools for some arcane binary format is a pain in the ass. Plain-text, while space-consuming, will always be accessible.
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Learn HTML first; so you'll practice & develop a feel for it.
Comparisons between HTML and XML are useful for those who already know HTML, but there are sufficient problems with HTML that, if both are new to you, then learning XML first is a beter route.
HTML allows various contructs that are not proper XML. Browsers will gladly accept unclosed meta, img, p, and br elements. Most HTML tools do not enforce the same requrements as an XML tool.
Worse, some browser can't handle certain markup; <br/> chokes certain versions of Navigator.
If you care to learn XML for some practical purpose, try learning XHTML. You'll learn about validation, well-formeness, and acquire a useful skill.
AG always seemed to have far more songs, by far more artists, than other P2P apps. Since AG went to hell, I've tried BearShare, Morpheus, KaazaLite, some others, but can't find anything close to what AG offered. That range of choice is what made AG standout; that is was run using Apache/PHP/etc is impressive.
BTW, note to RIAA: AG prompted me to buy more CDs that I would have otherwise. I'm not paying $16-$20 for a CD unitl I get to listen to all of it several times.
It's when you link to a second, third, fourth, etc level of a website.
What's a "level"? If there is a specific, direct URL to a item, then it is already at the "top" level. That there are other ways to arrive at that URL is a conceptual design decsion, not a feature of hyperlinking or the Web itself. There is no "top" of a web site, other than mental contructs people impose on it, unless the web server enforces a particular sequence of URLs.
What's (almost) funny is that this is trivially easy to do, and just has to be cheaper than suing people, unless you are collecting damges each time.
The Great American Experiment has failed, as every government is condemned to do. The Constitution is no longer adhered to, instead we have some flimsy "living document" that means whatever the current instantiation of the Supreme Court wants it to mean.
What? There may have been some dubious rulings, but by and large the Constitution is well adhered to, and American society is doing fine.
The Supreme Court does not just dictate new rules as, and when, they see fit; if you want to bitch about the dilution of the American Experiment, focus on the scores of petty, bullshit laws produced by that parliment of whores, Congress.
From http://www.chaotica.u-net.com/page/streamer.htm
Download the source code
It's been GPL'd now, (mostly for my own personal safety). But please people, don't all do your own versions of it until I've had time to add some of the refinements I want to put in. Volunteer coders wanted please:-).
Welcome to the 21st century: Packaging is content.
Besides, if you don't think enough of your opinions that you can't take the time to express them well, then why should anybody else care about them? As a practical matter, with so may comments to read, if a post doesn't make a salient point up front, then I'll use some heuristics to see if it is worth reading all the way through. Sloppy spelling and poor grammar tend to indicate that the poster didn't take any time formulating a message.
Well, if they're using public right of ways and monopoly contracts granted by government, they can't really complain if the government demands something back for their setting them up in business, can they?
True, but layering bad rule on top of bad rules seems a sure way to choke progress and service. Still, it's funny how many (i.e., all) company owners cry "laize faire!" while enjoying special protection from liability.
Gee, I wonder why Google discloses this information without the State stepping in and twisting its arm? Hm. And I wonder why people like Google so much. Hm.
Maybe this is a non-problem. People will go towards the site that gives them the most reliable results. It's easy enough to learn which search engines are upfront about paid links, and which aren't. Caveat emptor, the better sites will win out. Having the State mandate behavior just encourages users to stop taking responsibility for their own behavior. People start assuming everything is safe and on the level, because hey, the State must be controlling it.
Who cares if we can or not, we have to at least TRY! What would this country be like if our forefathers just rolled over and payed the tax?
Yeah! The US was founded by people who believed the goverment should control the marketplace, and step in to force companies to provide services in a manner most convenient to customers.
How about this: remove the government-sanctioned monopolies enjoyed by the cable companies, and let competition drive services.
I wrote to my senators in AZ, Sen. McCain and Sen. Kyl, regarding the first version of the CBDTPA. I sent the letters certified mail, but never got any receipts. *Many* weeks later I got a reply for Sen. Kyl, though I never heard from McCain.
Yes, your letters will take time. They do get through, and sometimes they get read and answered. Are they better than faxes or e-mail? I don't know. I suspect e-mail is easy to ignore, and I don't have a fax machine.
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Um, the LP wants to eliminate all drug laws.
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id439/pg1/
Besides, isn't the Green Pary itself incorporated?
Seriously, I'd feel better about the Green Party if you told me they ddn't accept contributions from trial lawyers, because it's the fear of going bankrupt from endless lawsuits that really keeps people in line.
And to keep this on-topic: Here's a real kicker: the www.gp.org site was created using (ready?)Microsoft FrontPage!
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
While this is a good and useful book, it does not do much teaching of OO design. If you don't already have a good understanding of OO analysis and design then the text becomes more of a superficial cookbook than a source of theoretical underpinnings.
You would do better with Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach, by Ivar Jacobson, or Object-Oriented Analysis and Design With Applications, 2nd Edition, by Grady Booch
There's more good info here.
It presumes the reader already knows something about programming, but wants to learn the essentials of a new language.
A smart book by smart people, for smart people, about a smart language.
What, exactly, do you find offensive? That the 1st Amendment applies to NAMBLA, NAMBLA itslef, or that the ACLU defended NAMBLA's 1st Amendment rights?
I don't see how you can pick and choose who gets free speech and who doesn't. It tkes no balls or brains to support free speech for *popular* groups.
I'm no fan of NAMBLA, I think they're a sick lot, but I want to be sure they can express their sick ideas, least one day somebody decides my *ideas* are sick, and I should be silenced.
Tim Berners-Lee collapsed? Does that mean the Web will be closed?
I've only been to one Fringe, about 8 years ago, but it was hardly a "Sex Pistols sort of event." Many things were quite good, but too much was artsy hippy shit. It was more of a Grateful Dead sort of event.
Gee, I guess if you repeat it often enough it becomes true. The site you linked is, judging by the snide comments abut Windows' "features", a tad biased. Do you have any other sources?
What were the predecessors to the Visual Studio IDE? To IntelliSense? To drag-n-drop GUI building? Dropdown menus that show frequently-used items, adjusting themselves over time?
I'm not trying to troll here, and it's not entirely off-topic. As with a previous post on MS projects that failed, debates about the future of .Net need to be framed in an accurate asessment of Microsoft's history of success and inovation.
It seems most folks on slashdot believe Microsoft can simply bully its way to the top of any field, forcing people to adopt anythning it produces. Yet products like Bob suggest this isn't true. So, why do some, but by no means all, Microsoft products succeed? Clever copying of proven ideas? Subtle innovation? Reinvention of older ideas, with improvements based on 20/20 hindsight?
People snipe at the idea of a .Net VM as a Java ripoff. The Java VM is a Pascal P-code VM ripoff, but done better. Java swiped ideas from C++, and improved certain things. Could it be a similar case for C#/.Net?
US Asian? What about US Europeans? Or US Africans? Is there something special happening on Asian TV shows in the States?
4.6 Empty Elements
/>. For instance, <br/> or <hr></hr>. See HTML Compatibility Guidelines for information on ways to ensure this is backward compatible with HTML 4 user agents.
Empty elements must either have an end tag or the start tag must end with
CORRECT: terminated empty tags
<br/><hr/>
There is no mention or example of using a space after the element name.
Do you mean like, say Microsoft's Word binary format? It is much more efficient than plain text, and much more compact. Of course, of you decide to process all of your documents with another application, you are at the mercy of the vendor. Writing conversion tools for some arcane binary format is a pain in the ass. Plain-text, while space-consuming, will always be accessible.
Comparisons between HTML and XML are useful for those who already know HTML, but there are sufficient problems with HTML that, if both are new to you, then learning XML first is a beter route.
HTML allows various contructs that are not proper XML. Browsers will gladly accept unclosed meta, img, p, and br elements. Most HTML tools do not enforce the same requrements as an XML tool.
Worse, some browser can't handle certain markup; <br/> chokes certain versions of Navigator.
If you care to learn XML for some practical purpose, try learning XHTML. You'll learn about validation, well-formeness, and acquire a useful skill.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
If you can get your pages online, you can check them using the W3C html validation service:
http://validator.w3.org/
Actually, I just installed it today, and yes, it is much better than the others. Thanks.
BTW, note to RIAA: AG prompted me to buy more CDs that I would have otherwise. I'm not paying $16-$20 for a CD unitl I get to listen to all of it several times.
What's a "level"? If there is a specific, direct URL to a item, then it is already at the "top" level. That there are other ways to arrive at that URL is a conceptual design decsion, not a feature of hyperlinking or the Web itself. There is no "top" of a web site, other than mental contructs people impose on it, unless the web server enforces a particular sequence of URLs.
What's (almost) funny is that this is trivially easy to do, and just has to be cheaper than suing people, unless you are collecting damges each time.
Exactly.
Unfortunately, online, Borders *is* Amazon.
What? There may have been some dubious rulings, but by and large the Constitution is well adhered to, and American society is doing fine.
The Supreme Court does not just dictate new rules as, and when, they see fit; if you want to bitch about the dilution of the American Experiment, focus on the scores of petty, bullshit laws produced by that parliment of whores, Congress.
Welcome to the 21st century: Packaging is content.
Besides, if you don't think enough of your opinions that you can't take the time to express them well, then why should anybody else care about them? As a practical matter, with so may comments to read, if a post doesn't make a salient point up front, then I'll use some heuristics to see if it is worth reading all the way through. Sloppy spelling and poor grammar tend to indicate that the poster didn't take any time formulating a message.
True, but layering bad rule on top of bad rules seems a sure way to choke progress and service. Still, it's funny how many (i.e., all) company owners cry "laize faire!" while enjoying special protection from liability.
Maybe this is a non-problem. People will go towards the site that gives them the most reliable results. It's easy enough to learn which search engines are upfront about paid links, and which aren't. Caveat emptor, the better sites will win out. Having the State mandate behavior just encourages users to stop taking responsibility for their own behavior. People start assuming everything is safe and on the level, because hey, the State must be controlling it.
Yeah! The US was founded by people who believed the goverment should control the marketplace, and step in to force companies to provide services in a manner most convenient to customers.
How about this: remove the government-sanctioned monopolies enjoyed by the cable companies, and let competition drive services.
Yes, your letters will take time. They do get through, and sometimes they get read and answered. Are they better than faxes or e-mail? I don't know. I suspect e-mail is easy to ignore, and I don't have a fax machine.