I find it funny that the people bitching about this don't donate the majority of their income like they think the rich should. I'm not talking about you in particular, but a lot of the people complaining about this will be the right wing media and average joes with a middle class existence. People who live comfortable lives with disposable incomes that often go towards their own leisure rather than the plight of others. It's the same as moore just to a different degree. I'm guilty of this, most people I know are too. Get over it, it's humanity.
I'd note a few things about 'logic'. Let's start with newton.
Newton was brilliant yes.
He also was:
Stared at the sun once for an extended period, lost most of his sight. Wrote bizarre raving religious tracts Was an antisocial asshole An Alchemist
Now the point is that skill in science means nothing when it comes to statecraft. The anti-social part is a big part of this. A major part of a politicians job is getting people to do what you want them to do. Being right is only half the battle. Additionally, scientists are not so hard to corrupt. You can get a prestigious professor to flack for just about any lobby if you pay him enough why should a president be so pure?
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That's why I said they should have sent a fax to themselves first.
I would also be paranoid as hell about my usb token. You ever consider copying it and storing one in a safe deposit box?
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What kind of beta test is that? Someone just output PS instead of PDF. that shoulda worked no problem. Maybe they should have just sent a PS fax to themselves first, and learn to make it a habit.
I don't know if I trust these results. Music speaks to people, but almost entirely through the performance. It is the nuance and the timing that the performer put into it that make it speak, the notes on the page are almost secondary as far as expression goes. After all, when was the last time you were moved by sheet music? Or even midi, for that matter.
Is it really that difficult to imagine that you need both a good song and a good performance to achieve good music?
We will have helped them if we succeed. If we fail, and someone else takes over the country we will have left the country worse off. It is becoming increasingly more likely that, at least with W at the helm, we will fail. We've allready pretty much lost Falluja. Reports from commanders on the front lines are almost allways dismal. Everyone there keeps telling the same story: we need more troops we need more money we need more everything. This just may be a nation building attempt we cannot afford from a funding standpoint.
And before I get a few 'free the Iraqis' high horse people saying what a noble cause it is, where've you been when Africa or South America needed help. The U.S. does not, and cannot intervene on soley humanitarian grounds. We have neither the money, and probably as a result of this, the interest in it. Iraq, as far as terrible places to be in 2000 go, was far from the worst place and easily not the place where we'd get the most humanitarian bang for our buck.
This war is nothing but the product of the idiotic neocons misguided policy. (notice how I didn't say conservatives, who were only steered out of their normally somewhat isolationist stance by said neocons).
Well we're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place then aren't we?
On the one hand we have the W3C is has been fine for the non-rich content web and is quite accessible, and on the other we have flash that is accessible only to most and has the rich content.
That being said, thanks for bringin this to my attention, I had no idea flash's accessibility was so bad. However, I'm still going to use it because handling images will be one of the central purposes of my app and, well if you're using a screen reader you probably have no use for it anyway.
Many devices have the wallwart seperate from the actual device, many do not, but this is at least a partial solution. If the power supply is seperate it will probably have the volt/amperage ratings on it. You can use that to build your own super efficient power supply that connects with the standard connectors they use.
I did this myself to power a bunch of guitar pedals, it was cheaper to build my own power supply than to either buy a bunch of small ones, buy a pre-built one (everything for guitar equipment is overpriced), or just keep using batteries for them.
Of course I never checked for efficiency, I just knew it was cheaper to build.
Flash is an open standard. Adobe makes a flash creating product and the open source ming makes flash too. That being said they both suck compared to macromedia's flash authoring.
Furthermore, it's better than XHTML and any rich content ideas the W3C has proposed. It's years ahead and here now. I'm all for collaborative development but it's quite frankly failed as far as rich content and the W3 go. Flash is here, now, openly documented and free to implement.
Flash is accessible too, I'm still learning it, but I see tons of accessibility features built in.
Do you know anything about flash? It seems that you know nothing about it.
Ever been to a hospital? I can't remember the last time I saw a white nurse. Maybe in areas where there are larger numbers of poor white people, but it's irrelevant, the point is that it's a primarily low class profession. I'm not talkinga bout the managing nurses (i forget their official title) with the better degrees. I'm talkinga bout the people that check you in, change the bedpans, and actually administer your medicines.
What makes you think teachers are nurses are noble. Many of them seem to take the job simply because it's there and they can do it. My public school years taught me that most teachers were far from noble and the experiene of relatives in hospitals taught me that many nurses are not so noble and just need a job. They aren't necessarily any special than you or I, and at current rates we can fill their posts so what's the big deal.
Just think, when was the last time you saw a rich white high school graduate shoot for a career in nursing? Contrast that with a poor minority high school graduate. Walk through any hospital and see which group made which decision. People don't choose noble professions for noble reasons. And people do not necessarily act nobly while working in these professions.
Many of the problems with web UIs he describes can be solved by using flash. I'm actually considering using it for a web based since flash + actionscript being driven off server generated XML is convincingly better than XHTML + XSLT (transformed on the server).
If he'd given a month's notice it would be negligible. Only 3000 weblogs? That's it? Since they're mostly text I can't imagine each one being backed up with a wget -mirror having any significant effect on anything. One highly trafficked weblog probably generates as much traffic as a day as a whole backup of 3000 blogs, even with years of entries does. I mean it's almost all very textual HTML. I doubt it was bandwidth.
Sometimes they even abuse the physical metaphor of tabbed browsing by opening multiple pages - not subpages of the same web site! - in multiple tabs of a browser window. I even know few people who never open more than one browser window, viewing all pages in tabs; I hope they do not try to glue a daily set of newspapers together before reading them...
Dead on, the writer of this article is a serious pedantic asshole. The only argument this person has is some bizarre adherance to the rule of a metaphor. I truly am baffled by this person's mind.
Yeah, I spoke too quickly, I was thinking mostly in terms of the person I was replying to who was most likely in a somewaht democratic country. If you'd read my response to the sibling to this post I address this in more detail.
I'm not saying that the UN isn't full of corruption. It's fucking obscene the amount of corruption in it. The question is whether it's an acceptable level of corruption. The US govt. is mired in corruption too let's not forget. It's all about acceptable levels.
I'm not saying I have the answer to this, I'm just saying that if we went after every corrupt organization we'd have exactly 0 institutions left.
Eh, it seems that a large portion of the UN's problems are caused by the controlling interest the democratic governments of the world hold on it.
Speaking in strictly theoretical terms, yes, that's true. Looking at its actual behavior we 1st world democratic governments and our corporations hold the most sway over the UN. In some ways this is good as we can enforce our values on some of the more backwards states. In other cases it is bad because we use it to other less good ends (farm subsidies and the WTO, although this may finally be changing).
Even then these are not simple issues. Most moral conventions we force on other countries are paid but lip service, and that's the way the US likes it. It'd hate to devote resources to everyone humanitarian crises world wide, and sensibly so, it simply isn't possible.
When it comes to things like economic development the UN is pretty bad also, but mostly because of the exploitation of the process by 1st world corps with deep ties with the US govt.
The problem isn't the evil UN hindering good states. It's evil states comming together to make a UN which is at least slightly more fair.
I think that the fact that the latest WTO rounds are showing some more promise for the agro subsidy problem is an indicator that the UN is better than useless.
But I'm rambling, anyway, this is a topic for another time and place. I merely wanted to dispose of the ridiculous assertion that the UN was accountable to no one. It is indeed accountable to people, and that pool of people is no finer than those people and special interests the US govt. is accountable to.
The UN is not an organization I'm a really great fan of, and I did speak to quickly initially, for that I apologize, but I was only trying to address the notion that the UN was unnacountable to anyone. Which it isn't, only the second part of that sentence is wrong.
You have not demonstrated that the UN is sufficiently worse than all the governments underneath it. The UN is no worse than any nation-state, in fact it occasionally goes to those areas of the world the US is so reticent to participate in like africa and provides minimal support. Minimal it may be but it's better than what the US ever does.
You wanna talk UN don't restrict your debate to Iraq or whatever, talk about the whole UN and talk about what the world would look like without the UN and why it would be better.
Anything less is simple finger pointing.
Your arguments are shallow, and a wholesale indictment of the UN would need to be hundreds of pages of foot-noted text. Don't insult my intelligence with this cheap wankery. Since I'm not the one making the ridiculously shallow claim the burden of proof doesn't rest on me.
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No one pretends downloads are as good as a cd.
The days of the "128kbps = CD Quality" proclamation are over (they were only used by pretty lame companies anyway).
I find it funny that the people bitching about this don't donate the majority of their income like they think the rich should. I'm not talking about you in particular, but a lot of the people complaining about this will be the right wing media and average joes with a middle class existence. People who live comfortable lives with disposable incomes that often go towards their own leisure rather than the plight of others. It's the same as moore just to a different degree. I'm guilty of this, most people I know are too. Get over it, it's humanity.
Not that I don't think this is awesome.
It's just that two incredibly dorky hobbies coliding like this is unprecedented.
I'd note a few things about 'logic'. Let's start with newton.
Newton was brilliant yes.
He also was:
Stared at the sun once for an extended period, lost most of his sight.
Wrote bizarre raving religious tracts
Was an antisocial asshole
An Alchemist
Now the point is that skill in science means nothing when it comes to statecraft. The anti-social part is a big part of this. A major part of a politicians job is getting people to do what you want them to do. Being right is only half the battle. Additionally, scientists are not so hard to corrupt. You can get a prestigious professor to flack for just about any lobby if you pay him enough why should a president be so pure?
That's why I said they should have sent a fax to themselves first.
I would also be paranoid as hell about my usb token. You ever consider copying it and storing one in a safe deposit box?
What kind of beta test is that? Someone just output PS instead of PDF. that shoulda worked no problem. Maybe they should have just sent a PS fax to themselves first, and learn to make it a habit.
The CERT bulletin he's referring to was published in the Washington Post actually.
Is it really that difficult to imagine that you need both a good song and a good performance to achieve good music?
What if your co workers are of opposite opinions? Compromise is key.
We will have helped them if we succeed. If we fail, and someone else takes over the country we will have left the country worse off. It is becoming increasingly more likely that, at least with W at the helm, we will fail. We've allready pretty much lost Falluja. Reports from commanders on the front lines are almost allways dismal. Everyone there keeps telling the same story: we need more troops we need more money we need more everything. This just may be a nation building attempt we cannot afford from a funding standpoint.
And before I get a few 'free the Iraqis' high horse people saying what a noble cause it is, where've you been when Africa or South America needed help. The U.S. does not, and cannot intervene on soley humanitarian grounds. We have neither the money, and probably as a result of this, the interest in it. Iraq, as far as terrible places to be in 2000 go, was far from the worst place and easily not the place where we'd get the most humanitarian bang for our buck.
This war is nothing but the product of the idiotic neocons misguided policy. (notice how I didn't say conservatives, who were only steered out of their normally somewhat isolationist stance by said neocons).
Settled down, can we just agree that both the U.S. AND Europe suck at free speech?
Well we're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place then aren't we?
On the one hand we have the W3C is has been fine for the non-rich content web and is quite accessible, and on the other we have flash that is accessible only to most and has the rich content.
That being said, thanks for bringin this to my attention, I had no idea flash's accessibility was so bad. However, I'm still going to use it because handling images will be one of the central purposes of my app and, well if you're using a screen reader you probably have no use for it anyway.
Many devices have the wallwart seperate from the actual device, many do not, but this is at least a partial solution. If the power supply is seperate it will probably have the volt/amperage ratings on it. You can use that to build your own super efficient power supply that connects with the standard connectors they use.
I did this myself to power a bunch of guitar pedals, it was cheaper to build my own power supply than to either buy a bunch of small ones, buy a pre-built one (everything for guitar equipment is overpriced), or just keep using batteries for them.
Of course I never checked for efficiency, I just knew it was cheaper to build.
Flash is an open standard. Adobe makes a flash creating product and the open source ming makes flash too. That being said they both suck compared to macromedia's flash authoring.
Furthermore, it's better than XHTML and any rich content ideas the W3C has proposed. It's years ahead and here now. I'm all for collaborative development but it's quite frankly failed as far as rich content and the W3 go. Flash is here, now, openly documented and free to implement.
Flash is accessible too, I'm still learning it, but I see tons of accessibility features built in.
Do you know anything about flash? It seems that you know nothing about it.
Ever been to a hospital? I can't remember the last time I saw a white nurse. Maybe in areas where there are larger numbers of poor white people, but it's irrelevant, the point is that it's a primarily low class profession. I'm not talkinga bout the managing nurses (i forget their official title) with the better degrees. I'm talkinga bout the people that check you in, change the bedpans, and actually administer your medicines.
What makes you think teachers are nurses are noble. Many of them seem to take the job simply because it's there and they can do it. My public school years taught me that most teachers were far from noble and the experiene of relatives in hospitals taught me that many nurses are not so noble and just need a job. They aren't necessarily any special than you or I, and at current rates we can fill their posts so what's the big deal.
Just think, when was the last time you saw a rich white high school graduate shoot for a career in nursing? Contrast that with a poor minority high school graduate. Walk through any hospital and see which group made which decision. People don't choose noble professions for noble reasons. And people do not necessarily act nobly while working in these professions.
Many of the problems with web UIs he describes can be solved by using flash. I'm actually considering using it for a web based since flash + actionscript being driven off server generated XML is convincingly better than XHTML + XSLT (transformed on the server).
If he'd given a month's notice it would be negligible. Only 3000 weblogs? That's it? Since they're mostly text I can't imagine each one being backed up with a wget -mirror having any significant effect on anything. One highly trafficked weblog probably generates as much traffic as a day as a whole backup of 3000 blogs, even with years of entries does. I mean it's almost all very textual HTML. I doubt it was bandwidth.
He should have been more polite.
Dead on, the writer of this article is a serious pedantic asshole. The only argument this person has is some bizarre adherance to the rule of a metaphor. I truly am baffled by this person's mind.
Yeah, I spoke too quickly, I was thinking mostly in terms of the person I was replying to who was most likely in a somewaht democratic country. If you'd read my response to the sibling to this post I address this in more detail.
I'm not saying that the UN isn't full of corruption. It's fucking obscene the amount of corruption in it. The question is whether it's an acceptable level of corruption. The US govt. is mired in corruption too let's not forget. It's all about acceptable levels.
I'm not saying I have the answer to this, I'm just saying that if we went after every corrupt organization we'd have exactly 0 institutions left.
Eh, it seems that a large portion of the UN's problems are caused by the controlling interest the democratic governments of the world hold on it.
Speaking in strictly theoretical terms, yes, that's true. Looking at its actual behavior we 1st world democratic governments and our corporations hold the most sway over the UN. In some ways this is good as we can enforce our values on some of the more backwards states. In other cases it is bad because we use it to other less good ends (farm subsidies and the WTO, although this may finally be changing).
Even then these are not simple issues. Most moral conventions we force on other countries are paid but lip service, and that's the way the US likes it. It'd hate to devote resources to everyone humanitarian crises world wide, and sensibly so, it simply isn't possible.
When it comes to things like economic development the UN is pretty bad also, but mostly because of the exploitation of the process by 1st world corps with deep ties with the US govt.
The problem isn't the evil UN hindering good states. It's evil states comming together to make a UN which is at least slightly more fair.
I think that the fact that the latest WTO rounds are showing some more promise for the agro subsidy problem is an indicator that the UN is better than useless.
But I'm rambling, anyway, this is a topic for another time and place. I merely wanted to dispose of the ridiculous assertion that the UN was accountable to no one. It is indeed accountable to people, and that pool of people is no finer than those people and special interests the US govt. is accountable to.
The UN is not an organization I'm a really great fan of, and I did speak to quickly initially, for that I apologize, but I was only trying to address the notion that the UN was unnacountable to anyone. Which it isn't, only the second part of that sentence is wrong.
You have not demonstrated that the UN is sufficiently worse than all the governments underneath it. The UN is no worse than any nation-state, in fact it occasionally goes to those areas of the world the US is so reticent to participate in like africa and provides minimal support. Minimal it may be but it's better than what the US ever does.
You wanna talk UN don't restrict your debate to Iraq or whatever, talk about the whole UN and talk about what the world would look like without the UN and why it would be better.
Anything less is simple finger pointing.
Your arguments are shallow, and a wholesale indictment of the UN would need to be hundreds of pages of foot-noted text. Don't insult my intelligence with this cheap wankery. Since I'm not the one making the ridiculously shallow claim the burden of proof doesn't rest on me.
The UN is accountable to its member states and its member states are accountable to its citizens. Don't think so shallowly, such is unwelcome.
Or do you have no idea how the UN operates?