I think we're moving as a nation from "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" to "the nail that sticks out gets pounded down". Some would argue we've always been like that. I'm just confused. Was I that thick as a kid, a teenager, and in my twenties to beleive that the USA stood for freedom and liberty? Or was it that way and now it's all changing?
Secret arrests? Secret searches? Secret trials? These were horror stories held up to me in grade school to make me thankful I didn't live in the USSR. And now my elected representatives are even considering doing that? The definition of who this can be done to is so arbitrarily broad that I have to worry that even posting a "dissenting" view like this could get me on a list somewhere. Am I missing something? Is this a dream?
Liar. You're just trying to sound like a keyboard snob. Opera gestures don't happen by themselves -- you have to hold the right mouse button down. I also highlight text to break pages apart to make them easier to read, and I have never accidentally kicked off an Opera gesture, and Opera is my primary browser. In addition, you can turn the gestures off. There is no way for gestures in Opera to "get in the way".
A couple years ago there was a similar app for Windows called Popmouse. I cannnot find it now. Does anyone know what became of that software, or Pointix, the company that made it?
...Once you've done that, it's gone, and it's difficult to say why you still deserve it. Which is sort of the point- its an unwise trade.
I agree completely -- it's a very unwise trade. However, that doesn't mean the unwise are undeserving of liberty. Saying that we take away liberty for certain reasons means there is no liberty. Even our worst criminals should have liberty -- from behind bars, of course. I don't think you're confusing liberty and freedom, but a lot of people do that.
The argument is that liberty is endowed by the Creator, and men are not justified to take it away, and the purpose of government is to secure that right. If you start picking and choosing who is undeserving then its easy for you to be deemed undeserving by whomever gets to do the choosing.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty or safety. Nor, are they likely to end up with either."
As much as I respect Ben Franklin, I have to completely disagree with this. Even if someone is stupid enough to want to give up liberty for safety they still deserve liberty. If you start determining who liberty is for based on what they "would give up" or whatever other box you want to check off (skin color, political views, etc) for who "deserves" it, then no one has liberty. Everyone has to have full liberty, or 100% of it is an illusion.
I also made an animated loop earlier this afternoon. Here: http://www.cdedbd.com/shuttle/shuttle.html. It's pretty much identical to the other animation posted here, so if you've seen that one, no need to see this one.
Yep, that occurred to me -- I'm not a student or kid either. But you know as well as I do most of the Slashdotters are kids and beginners. I enjoy the company, but wouldn't trust their advice on high-end hardware.
This question should have gone to the manufacturer or, as you pointed out, a specialized group on Usenet or another forum.
Has it occurred to you to ask the manufacturer (Alias|Wavefront) rather than asking a bunch of high school and college kids on Slashdot? You're going to spend tons of money on the software, but then ask a bunch of beginners and web typists for advice on the hardware? Please.
That's just for documents. What about, say, videos? To make even a single change could leave a single undo level in the order of gigabytes. Can we store diffs that big? With this in mind, is it wise to work hard to destroy the concept of "saving", and decrease performance to unacceptable levels?
That's the kind of stuff we have to figure out. I'm not blowing off the rest of your post, but the question above is where we start. We start by defining the problem, sub-problems, etc. For the way things work now, obviously we'd want to figure out a better way for the example you gave, rather than just saving entire undiffed streams.
Yup, which is where the NT coders got it (same architect). You can do that now on NT too, file.txt:stream2, etc. The problem is most of the file browsing tools don't support it. It should be transparent, anyway.
Yawn, you bore me. These are problems to be solved, and you're just coming up with reasons we can't code them this instant. Anyone can say why it doesn't work now. Why don't you think of how it's possible rather than why it doesn't already exist?
Some people are posting that they can't undo past a save, or don't like the slowdown of multiple apps, etc. By the time we can lose the cruft the author is talking about, you won't have that problem. The system will intelligently swap out applications and you'll be able to undo past save.
If you're fighting for reasons we need the crappy methods we have today, the very methods the author was talking about, then you haven't thought it through. It's obvious there's a better way than we have now. It will take some intelligent design and programming to make it happen. That's all. We're smart enough to figure out how to make this happen, and shouldn't screw it up making excuses for why we have to keep old methods around.
There are already programs that support undo past save. If we do something intelligent like get rid of the save command, we should also do something intelligent like undo past save. For the file-size whiners (like myself), we could have the option to lose prior undo information to reduce the file size.
File systems that support multiple streams (like NTFS) could save undo information in a separate stream. "Not everyone has such a file system," you might say. I say, whatever -- if we're talking about moving forward here, we'll have to go past FAT and other beginner's file systems.
We're not talking about taking away something that's required for usability today. We're talking about improvements for the next generation. Get over your "Save" command. You'll be able to undo beyond the automatic save.
Given your age (27 or so?) your daughter's probably under 10, right, and most likely quite a bit younger -- plenty young enough to forgive whatever negligence has already passed IF you make it right. No matter what, make it right with her. You owe her that, and always will. Even if your ex is an axe-murdering psycho and tells your daughter you're the devil, you've got to be right for your daughter. I know I sound preachy, but your daughter is in for a tougher life if she doesn't have a dad around.
I want to comment on something different than the other replies to your post:
We haven't had children yet because we want to wait for things to become financially stable (we want our kids to have a good home)
Stop waiting. If you and your wife love one another and treat each other well, and you want a child, have one. It will be a good home no matter how much money you owe or how many bed rooms it has. I made $14,000 a year when my wife and I had our child, and it didn't hurt our daughter at all. It's the love you give each other and your child that makes for the good home, not the financial stability.
"Age 32 and piercing-free, Karen Doss . . . has just $5,000 in a 401(k) and $20,000 in home equity. Ideally, someone her age should have at least $100,000 stashed away."
Fuck me, $100,000 by age 32? I'm about $100,000 behind, then.
"Gen Xers managed to survive in that environment by denouncing long-held workplace tenets like corporate loyalty. "
Did we eschew loyalty, or did they treat us like "human resources" and fire us and lay us off? I loved my first computer job , and would still be there if they weren't evil bastards.
"The Campbells' luck dried up in April, when Alex was laid off, rehired as a contractor without benefits, then rehired yet again as a full-time employee but at a lower level. "
Well, sounds like all he needed was company loyalty, huh? I've said for a year this shit was intentional, that the whole "tech downturn" was an intentional ploy to lower our salaries and benefits.
"So is Karen prepared? On this subject, she does her best slacker impression. "
They call people our age "slackers" several times throughout the article. Sorry, I thought we were working? The article says how we keep working jobs, the economy sucks, etc., but it also keeps calling us slackers. How are we different than our parents and grandparents? We work, pay the bills, try to do better, etc. The author of this piece is torn between wanting to tell how fucked up things have been for a lot of us, and wanting to insult us.
Holy crap -- are there really 110 million landmines buried around the world? According to the article 26,000 people are killed or injured yearly by them. This blows my mind. I'm seriously asking: where are these things?
If I'm doing my math right, which I'm probably not, assuming each land mine is a cylinder 1 inch tall and 6 inches in diameter, 110,000,000 of these things would form a cube 33 miles on each side. Are there really that many?
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I think we're moving as a nation from "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" to "the nail that sticks out gets pounded down". Some would argue we've always been like that. I'm just confused. Was I that thick as a kid, a teenager, and in my twenties to beleive that the USA stood for freedom and liberty? Or was it that way and now it's all changing?
Secret arrests? Secret searches? Secret trials? These were horror stories held up to me in grade school to make me thankful I didn't live in the USSR. And now my elected representatives are even considering doing that? The definition of who this can be done to is so arbitrarily broad that I have to worry that even posting a "dissenting" view like this could get me on a list somewhere. Am I missing something? Is this a dream?
Liar. You're just trying to sound like a keyboard snob. Opera gestures don't happen by themselves -- you have to hold the right mouse button down. I also highlight text to break pages apart to make them easier to read, and I have never accidentally kicked off an Opera gesture, and Opera is my primary browser. In addition, you can turn the gestures off. There is no way for gestures in Opera to "get in the way".
A couple years ago there was a similar app for Windows called Popmouse. I cannnot find it now. Does anyone know what became of that software, or Pointix, the company that made it?
I agree completely -- it's a very unwise trade. However, that doesn't mean the unwise are undeserving of liberty. Saying that we take away liberty for certain reasons means there is no liberty. Even our worst criminals should have liberty -- from behind bars, of course. I don't think you're confusing liberty and freedom, but a lot of people do that.
The argument is that liberty is endowed by the Creator, and men are not justified to take it away, and the purpose of government is to secure that right. If you start picking and choosing who is undeserving then its easy for you to be deemed undeserving by whomever gets to do the choosing.
As much as I respect Ben Franklin, I have to completely disagree with this. Even if someone is stupid enough to want to give up liberty for safety they still deserve liberty. If you start determining who liberty is for based on what they "would give up" or whatever other box you want to check off (skin color, political views, etc) for who "deserves" it, then no one has liberty. Everyone has to have full liberty, or 100% of it is an illusion.
I also made an animated loop earlier this afternoon. Here: http://www.cdedbd.com/shuttle/shuttle.html. It's pretty much identical to the other animation posted here, so if you've seen that one, no need to see this one.
That was from a Dark Angel episode, where she did essentially the same thing.
Does 10 times the work of his or her boss.
That's where my digital cash falls sometimes. You might also want to check next to the washing machine.
Yep, that occurred to me -- I'm not a student or kid either. But you know as well as I do most of the Slashdotters are kids and beginners. I enjoy the company, but wouldn't trust their advice on high-end hardware.
This question should have gone to the manufacturer or, as you pointed out, a specialized group on Usenet or another forum.
Has it occurred to you to ask the manufacturer (Alias|Wavefront) rather than asking a bunch of high school and college kids on Slashdot? You're going to spend tons of money on the software, but then ask a bunch of beginners and web typists for advice on the hardware? Please.
You are absolutely right. Thank you for the correction.
I doubt Bush will have to try very hard. Congress seems fairly anxious to do things like this already.
There are tools for that. Google for NTFS streams list. Cmd.exe supports streams (at least partially).
You're assuming the hardware can't handle it. You haven't even fully defined the problem and you're jumping to conclusions.
That's the kind of stuff we have to figure out. I'm not blowing off the rest of your post, but the question above is where we start. We start by defining the problem, sub-problems, etc. For the way things work now, obviously we'd want to figure out a better way for the example you gave, rather than just saving entire undiffed streams.
Yup, which is where the NT coders got it (same architect). You can do that now on NT too, file.txt:stream2, etc. The problem is most of the file browsing tools don't support it. It should be transparent, anyway.
Yawn, you bore me. These are problems to be solved, and you're just coming up with reasons we can't code them this instant. Anyone can say why it doesn't work now. Why don't you think of how it's possible rather than why it doesn't already exist?
Sure it is. We have to aim for something. We shouldn't ignore thoughts of what we want our tools to do based on what they can't do already.
Some people are posting that they can't undo past a save, or don't like the slowdown of multiple apps, etc. By the time we can lose the cruft the author is talking about, you won't have that problem. The system will intelligently swap out applications and you'll be able to undo past save.
If you're fighting for reasons we need the crappy methods we have today, the very methods the author was talking about, then you haven't thought it through. It's obvious there's a better way than we have now. It will take some intelligent design and programming to make it happen. That's all. We're smart enough to figure out how to make this happen, and shouldn't screw it up making excuses for why we have to keep old methods around.
There are already programs that support undo past save. If we do something intelligent like get rid of the save command, we should also do something intelligent like undo past save. For the file-size whiners (like myself), we could have the option to lose prior undo information to reduce the file size.
File systems that support multiple streams (like NTFS) could save undo information in a separate stream. "Not everyone has such a file system," you might say. I say, whatever -- if we're talking about moving forward here, we'll have to go past FAT and other beginner's file systems.
We're not talking about taking away something that's required for usability today. We're talking about improvements for the next generation. Get over your "Save" command. You'll be able to undo beyond the automatic save.
Given your age (27 or so?) your daughter's probably under 10, right, and most likely quite a bit younger -- plenty young enough to forgive whatever negligence has already passed IF you make it right. No matter what, make it right with her. You owe her that, and always will. Even if your ex is an axe-murdering psycho and tells your daughter you're the devil, you've got to be right for your daughter. I know I sound preachy, but your daughter is in for a tougher life if she doesn't have a dad around.
I want to comment on something different than the other replies to your post:
Stop waiting. If you and your wife love one another and treat each other well, and you want a child, have one. It will be a good home no matter how much money you owe or how many bed rooms it has. I made $14,000 a year when my wife and I had our child, and it didn't hurt our daughter at all. It's the love you give each other and your child that makes for the good home, not the financial stability.
"Age 32 and piercing-free, Karen Doss . . . has just $5,000 in a 401(k) and $20,000 in home equity. Ideally, someone her age should have at least $100,000 stashed away." Fuck me, $100,000 by age 32? I'm about $100,000 behind, then.
"Gen Xers managed to survive in that environment by denouncing long-held workplace tenets like corporate loyalty. " Did we eschew loyalty, or did they treat us like "human resources" and fire us and lay us off? I loved my first computer job , and would still be there if they weren't evil bastards.
"The Campbells' luck dried up in April, when Alex was laid off, rehired as a contractor without benefits, then rehired yet again as a full-time employee but at a lower level. " Well, sounds like all he needed was company loyalty, huh? I've said for a year this shit was intentional, that the whole "tech downturn" was an intentional ploy to lower our salaries and benefits.
"So is Karen prepared? On this subject, she does her best slacker impression. " They call people our age "slackers" several times throughout the article. Sorry, I thought we were working? The article says how we keep working jobs, the economy sucks, etc., but it also keeps calling us slackers. How are we different than our parents and grandparents? We work, pay the bills, try to do better, etc. The author of this piece is torn between wanting to tell how fucked up things have been for a lot of us, and wanting to insult us.
Holy crap -- are there really 110 million landmines buried around the world? According to the article 26,000 people are killed or injured yearly by them. This blows my mind. I'm seriously asking: where are these things?
If I'm doing my math right, which I'm probably not, assuming each land mine is a cylinder 1 inch tall and 6 inches in diameter, 110,000,000 of these things would form a cube 33 miles on each side. Are there really that many?