Gnome has long ago lost focus on its goals. It used to be geared towards linux users. It was meant to be a fast and customizable linux DE. Somewhere between 1.4 and 2.0 Gnome development changed. It lost sight of those goals and became geared towards newbies and end-users.
No. I believe its goal is usability. There is a big difference from "newbie friendly" and "usability". Ideally, a computer interface is usable for everyone, from newbies to experts. This is a challenging but not impossible (I hope) goal.
Now, whether or not GNOME can or will achieve this is a different question entirely. But I know they are not trying to cripple so called power-users.
I just see ads for Suziki and Kia all the time. I suspect you would starve to death before your personal advertising-free garden became ripe for harvest.
Ads work. Even if an ad annoys me (most do), and I vow to "boycott" the advertiser, I catch myself thinking that the company must be somewhat "good"; they can afford to advertise, right? Why haven't I heard from their competitors? Bayer(R) Aspirin is certainly better than the store brand, yes? I hate catching myself thinking like that, but I know I do all the time. It's a mindshare thing, and advertisers know it too.
Anyway, I guess my point is that I believe it'd be downright impossible to hurt companies by attempting to boycotting those that advertise in certain arenas. First, who doesn't advtise?, and how are you going to remember or research whose ads you haven't seen in a while? By watching more TV and paying close attention to who advertises?
I wonder if a more effective strategy would be to support groups like Consumer Reports who hopefully make it easy to research products based on quality or other factors unrelated to brand and advertising budget. We need a collaborative product review website; some combination of Wikipedia and Consumer Reports.
I gotta run though. I just shaved with my Mach 3 Turbo and popped in some Dentyne Ice gum and several gorgeous babes are in desperate need of my company.
I believe you still must register your copyright before initiating legal action. You may register after the copyright infringement has occurred, though you're much better off in court had you registered earlier.
Why can't someone make a subnotebook (or any notebook for that matter) with a real keyboard? Take something like a Happy Hacking keyboard, which doesn't try to squeeze Insert, Home, PgUp, PgDn, etc. on the right hand side (i.e. it's no wider than shift key to shift key), and doesn't have an extra row of function keys. The Happy Hacking keyboard is the best keyboard I've ever used (I love the feel), and is only about 2 inches wider than the keyboard on a Fujitsu P series I have sitting next to me (which happens to put the up arrow key on the left half of the right shift key... how many times have I suddenly started editing my previous line in bash?).
Personally, I'd absolutely love a thick but otherwise small laptop that had a real keyboard. I suppose with a lot of work, one could custom build such a computer, but aren't even the VIA Mini-ITX motherboards quite a bit larger than laptop boards? Then there's power adapter problems, no PC cards, etc. Also, I wouldn't know where to look for a suitable LCD screen, but imagine one could be found?
*sigh* Once again I find myself in what appears to be a niche market.
I really dislike all that "Michael Graves" crap at Target. Any fool can make things "curvy". Take the chess board for example; the knights look like eggs. The keyboard especially gets me. It's some stock (ooh, black) keyboard with Graves-ified "internet buttons" (they're round and orange). Needless to say, the control key is miles from the pinky finger. I much prefer clean lines to the whole organic look (in general anyway).
I see many comments questioning the utility of a table PC. Well, I'd love a tablet PC as a replacement of a Wacom style drawing tablet. It'd be very nice to be able to draw directly on the screen onto an image in GIMP rather than onto a tablet seperated from the screen.
exactly, the probability is close to zero, so the product of probability and danger is close to zero... the above table didn't attempt to list all possible values
That is really strange... I am sure Fat was on this list at least last year, and I'm fairly certain Epitaph was on there as well. Anyone know if they recently ended their membership? If so I can only be very happy, for I like a few bands on those labels.
Depends where you live I suppose. In the US, the Consitution grants Congress the right to grant exclusive monopolies to authors to "promote the progress of science and the arts" for the good of the public. This is commonly interpreted to mean "more stuff in the public domain is better". Copyright exists as an incentive to, say, author a work. If I could not make a living by authoring works, then I probably wouldn't; therefore the work would never get to the public because it wouldn't ever exist. So the public agrees to grant *limited* monopoly in the hope that the author will be able to make a living writing books (and so will write books). The deal is fulfilled when the public receives the work fully (when it returns to the public domain).
There is no "creators' rights"; that's hooey invented by copyright cartels who want to convince you that it is wrong to make derivative works. Originality is God. But know this: nothing is truly original. Everyone learned from someone else, it is how humans grow. Every "orginal work" is based on a lifetime of experiences.
With software under the gpl, bsd, etc., I don't have to read the license
or agree to it to use the software. Once I legally obtain a copy, I am free
to do as I wish as long as I do now violate copyright law. Only when I wish
to do something which is not allowed by law (e.g. redistributing) must I
follow the license (gpl, bsd, etc.).
This is very different from an MS style EULA which attempts to limit what
I can do with my copy of the software over and above existing laws.
You are correct that it is easier to deal with software that is
mostly under common licenses, but do not make the mistake that the free
software licenses are anything like standard commercial EULA's.
Oh, and before anyone mentions it, I have no intention of telling
all of my friends to go f*ck themselves if they won't use whatever open source
IM system I happen to prefer.
In a way, they are telling you to f*ck yourself unless you want to use what
they use. I decided that if the feeling was mutual, then so be it. Everyone
I know is currently fscking themselves as I no longer participate in the aim
network but use jabber. Several of my friends have actually switched to
jabber; unfortunately I don't think they understand *why* I don't use aim
(communications protocols should be open and not in the hands of a single
entity).
I no longer participate in the aim network. I am boycotting not because
they try to block competiton but because I believe communications protocols
should be open. I chose Jabber as my alternative. It is open (the protocol
is open, the only server I know of is free software), and anyone can run a
server. It is similar to email in this sense. Buddies come as a
"username@server". This is what I like best about Jabber I think. It does
not lock itself to one entity.
As for my boycott of aim, several of my friends actually use jabber now
(along with aim still).
I can't get my "buddies" to switch off AIM because their buddies
won't. So, if I want to chat with them, I have to use AIM too.
Stop whining. I couldn't get my "buddies" to switch either. Then I made
the initial sacrifice (which it's going to take to make anything change) and
dropped aim completely. I switched to jabber and some of my friends have
actually downloaded it and use it. All it takes is enough people to do it, and
then it's no longer a sacrifice to not use aim.
If it's too much trouble for my friends to run jabber alongside aim, then
it's too much trouble for me to comprimise my principals and run aim alongside
jabber. I don't use aim because I believe a communications protocol should be
open (like jabber). And I know jabber technically can use aim, but it doesn't
work too well and I have no desire to participate in the aim network.
I switched to Jabber. I decided that if it was too much trouble for my friends to use jabber along with aim, then it was too much trouble for me to use aim along with jabber. Several of my friends have downloaded jabber. (I decided to boycott aim not because they block competiton, which I feel they have every right to do, but because I think a communications protocol has no business being in the hands of a single entity. Jabber allows anyone to run a server and is more like email in this sense, and Jabber is an open protocol).
Check EOF (Everything Over Freenet).
Steps are being taken to do what I think you are talking about.
If/when Freenet stabilizes things like this will be *very* cool.
The haiku style of poetry originated in Japan I believe. The ease of
creating rhymes in Japanese (many words have common endings) makes western
style poetry not very interesting to write. IIRC Japanese "syllables" aren't
exactly analagous with syllables in English. In light of this, when writing
haikus in English, some insist on a strict syllable count while others are
content with a "short line, long line, short line" scheme.
Amen to that. Where does one find such treasures though? Off the top of my
head I can name two record companies who are not RIAA members (Asian Man Records and Hopeless Records). I don't
understand the movie industry nearly as well but I imagine I've never seen a
non-MPAA movie (excluding home videos etc.).
Assuming one can find such gems it will still be a difficult road.
Mainstream media is nearly impossible to avoid completely. What's a guy to do
when all his friends go to the movies?
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Gnome has long ago lost focus on its goals. It used to be geared towards linux users. It was meant to be a fast and customizable linux DE. Somewhere between 1.4 and 2.0 Gnome development changed. It lost sight of those goals and became geared towards newbies and end-users.
No. I believe its goal is usability. There is a big difference from "newbie friendly" and "usability". Ideally, a computer interface is usable for everyone, from newbies to experts. This is a challenging but not impossible (I hope) goal.
Now, whether or not GNOME can or will achieve this is a different question entirely. But I know they are not trying to cripple so called power-users.
I just see ads for Suziki and Kia all the time. I suspect you would starve to death before your personal advertising-free garden became ripe for harvest.
Ads work. Even if an ad annoys me (most do), and I vow to "boycott" the advertiser, I catch myself thinking that the company must be somewhat "good"; they can afford to advertise, right? Why haven't I heard from their competitors? Bayer(R) Aspirin is certainly better than the store brand, yes? I hate catching myself thinking like that, but I know I do all the time. It's a mindshare thing, and advertisers know it too.
Anyway, I guess my point is that I believe it'd be downright impossible to hurt companies by attempting to boycotting those that advertise in certain arenas. First, who doesn't advtise?, and how are you going to remember or research whose ads you haven't seen in a while? By watching more TV and paying close attention to who advertises?
I wonder if a more effective strategy would be to support groups like Consumer Reports who hopefully make it easy to research products based on quality or other factors unrelated to brand and advertising budget. We need a collaborative product review website; some combination of Wikipedia and Consumer Reports.
I gotta run though. I just shaved with my Mach 3 Turbo and popped in some Dentyne Ice gum and several gorgeous babes are in desperate need of my company.
I believe you still must register your copyright before initiating legal action. You may register after the copyright infringement has occurred, though you're much better off in court had you registered earlier.
I'd also like to see this question answered.
Aluminum is also found in steel toed boots, brass buttons, and iron filings.
(sorry... :)
Here ya go: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slashdot/. Now, if only slashdot would use it. Can you say "bandwidth savings"?
Why can't someone make a subnotebook (or any notebook for that matter) with a real keyboard? Take something like a Happy Hacking keyboard, which doesn't try to squeeze Insert, Home, PgUp, PgDn, etc. on the right hand side (i.e. it's no wider than shift key to shift key), and doesn't have an extra row of function keys. The Happy Hacking keyboard is the best keyboard I've ever used (I love the feel), and is only about 2 inches wider than the keyboard on a Fujitsu P series I have sitting next to me (which happens to put the up arrow key on the left half of the right shift key... how many times have I suddenly started editing my previous line in bash?).
Personally, I'd absolutely love a thick but otherwise small laptop that had a real keyboard. I suppose with a lot of work, one could custom build such a computer, but aren't even the VIA Mini-ITX motherboards quite a bit larger than laptop boards? Then there's power adapter problems, no PC cards, etc. Also, I wouldn't know where to look for a suitable LCD screen, but imagine one could be found?
*sigh* Once again I find myself in what appears to be a niche market.
I really dislike all that "Michael Graves" crap at Target. Any fool can make things "curvy". Take the chess board for example; the knights look like eggs. The keyboard especially gets me. It's some stock (ooh, black) keyboard with Graves-ified "internet buttons" (they're round and orange). Needless to say, the control key is miles from the pinky finger. I much prefer clean lines to the whole organic look (in general anyway).
I see many comments questioning the utility of a table PC. Well, I'd love a tablet PC as a replacement of a Wacom style drawing tablet. It'd be very nice to be able to draw directly on the screen onto an image in GIMP rather than onto a tablet seperated from the screen.
Are you kidding? People on the telephone can hear my computer. It's damned annoying, that's why.
Projectors are more susceptible to ambient light.
exactly, the probability is close to zero, so the product of probability and danger is close to zero... the above table didn't attempt to list all possible values
That is really strange... I am sure Fat was on this list at least last year, and I'm fairly certain Epitaph was on there as well. Anyone know if they recently ended their membership? If so I can only be very happy, for I like a few bands on those labels.
People that can use PGP are in no danger of "accidentally" opening attachments.
Depends where you live I suppose. In the US, the Consitution grants Congress the right to grant exclusive monopolies to authors to "promote the progress of science and the arts" for the good of the public. This is commonly interpreted to mean "more stuff in the public domain is better". Copyright exists as an incentive to, say, author a work. If I could not make a living by authoring works, then I probably wouldn't; therefore the work would never get to the public because it wouldn't ever exist. So the public agrees to grant *limited* monopoly in the hope that the author will be able to make a living writing books (and so will write books). The deal is fulfilled when the public receives the work fully (when it returns to the public domain).
There is no "creators' rights"; that's hooey invented by copyright cartels who want to convince you that it is wrong to make derivative works. Originality is God. But know this: nothing is truly original. Everyone learned from someone else, it is how humans grow. Every "orginal work" is based on a lifetime of experiences.
With software under the gpl, bsd, etc., I don't have to read the license or agree to it to use the software. Once I legally obtain a copy, I am free to do as I wish as long as I do now violate copyright law. Only when I wish to do something which is not allowed by law (e.g. redistributing) must I follow the license (gpl, bsd, etc.).
This is very different from an MS style EULA which attempts to limit what I can do with my copy of the software over and above existing laws.
You are correct that it is easier to deal with software that is mostly under common licenses, but do not make the mistake that the free software licenses are anything like standard commercial EULA's.
In a way, they are telling you to f*ck yourself unless you want to use what they use. I decided that if the feeling was mutual, then so be it. Everyone I know is currently fscking themselves as I no longer participate in the aim network but use jabber. Several of my friends have actually switched to jabber; unfortunately I don't think they understand *why* I don't use aim (communications protocols should be open and not in the hands of a single entity).
I no longer participate in the aim network. I am boycotting not because they try to block competiton but because I believe communications protocols should be open. I chose Jabber as my alternative. It is open (the protocol is open, the only server I know of is free software), and anyone can run a server. It is similar to email in this sense. Buddies come as a "username@server". This is what I like best about Jabber I think. It does not lock itself to one entity.
As for my boycott of aim, several of my friends actually use jabber now (along with aim still).
Stop whining. I couldn't get my "buddies" to switch either. Then I made the initial sacrifice (which it's going to take to make anything change) and dropped aim completely. I switched to jabber and some of my friends have actually downloaded it and use it. All it takes is enough people to do it, and then it's no longer a sacrifice to not use aim.
If it's too much trouble for my friends to run jabber alongside aim, then it's too much trouble for me to comprimise my principals and run aim alongside jabber. I don't use aim because I believe a communications protocol should be open (like jabber). And I know jabber technically can use aim, but it doesn't work too well and I have no desire to participate in the aim network.
I switched to Jabber. I decided that if it was too much trouble for my friends to use jabber along with aim, then it was too much trouble for me to use aim along with jabber. Several of my friends have downloaded jabber. (I decided to boycott aim not because they block competiton, which I feel they have every right to do, but because I think a communications protocol has no business being in the hands of a single entity. Jabber allows anyone to run a server and is more like email in this sense, and Jabber is an open protocol).
There are no Linux virii. Now viruses are another matter...
Check EOF (Everything Over Freenet). Steps are being taken to do what I think you are talking about. If/when Freenet stabilizes things like this will be *very* cool.
*cough* apago and Cliff, why not use Ogg Vorbis?
The haiku style of poetry originated in Japan I believe. The ease of creating rhymes in Japanese (many words have common endings) makes western style poetry not very interesting to write. IIRC Japanese "syllables" aren't exactly analagous with syllables in English. In light of this, when writing haikus in English, some insist on a strict syllable count while others are content with a "short line, long line, short line" scheme.
Amen to that. Where does one find such treasures though? Off the top of my head I can name two record companies who are not RIAA members (Asian Man Records and Hopeless Records). I don't understand the movie industry nearly as well but I imagine I've never seen a non-MPAA movie (excluding home videos etc.).
Assuming one can find such gems it will still be a difficult road. Mainstream media is nearly impossible to avoid completely. What's a guy to do when all his friends go to the movies?