Why is deportation always the only solution? I don't mind immigrants as long as they play by the same rules I have to. You want a driver's license in the U.S. but you weren't born here? Become a *legal* immigrant. You want the goodies, you accept the responsibilities.
Then let the states stop going begging to the feds saying, "please please please build Federal highways in our state for free." State governments love it when they can get tax-financed goodies or "revenue sharing" without having to raise state taxes, then complain when they have to meet Federal standards.
Let the states send representatives who believe that the states should finance all their own programs and own all their own infrastructure, and the situation will change. You might even like the result. Or you might not.
"I wonder what kind of things developers put in comments that would be so bad for the rest of us to see?"
If you had done more coding, you would know.:-)
"Stupid pointless [expletive deleted] for Marketing" or "This is dumb but the boss says Do It".
"I have no idea why this works, so don't touch it!"
"Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out!!!" (on an instruction to skip over whitespace).
And some actual examples I'd be embarrassed to repeat.
I guess that when one spends all day writing bloodless prose for an unfeeling machine, commentary seems like the only emotional outlet one has. I've written a few comments which were, ah, amazingly vivid considering the humble nature of the operations they describe.
"In a loser pay system, wouldn't it be possible for SCO to spend all they have, lose the case and simply close shop?"
That would be considered a win for the defendant in this case, I think. IBM doesn't need the money; they need to display SCO's head on a pike as a warning to others.
Unfortunately that whooshing sound you hear is SCO jumping on this statement as evidence of bias so they can get the case moved or restarted or somehow stave off their inevitable failure a bit longer.
Much though I agree with the judge's sentiment, I wish he had saved it for his memoirs.
My point here is that what language you think you are writing affects which characters are "international". Much better, I think, to avoid trying to read the user's mind (which we can't do reliably) and just show him when the script changes (which I believe we can do reliably). Think about the Russian speaker reading a link to a site whose name is a familiar string of Japanese characters, except that one of them is actually a similar character used only in Korean and the link really goes somewhere he wouldn't want to visit. Similarly there are families of languages derived from or influenced by Sanskrit, and there may be similar tricks you could play with various languages which all look (to me, anyway) like Arabic.
Anyway, setting aside questions of multiculturality, it's impractical to decide for the user which language a URL "should" be, but it's not so impractical to indicate that scripts are being mixed, and that mixing is a pretty strong hint that someone is trying to game him.
On another note, I wonder whether it would be useful to code up a filter to cull junkmail for these mixed-script links and build an RBL for them? Do any browsers have RBL support?
How about *fixing the rendering*? If I saw something in the address widget that looked kinda like "paypal" except it has a Chinese character where the 'a' should be, I'd suspect foul play. I'm sure that some bozo marketing genius will concoct such a mixed-script logo for his company some day, but then at least you could compare the logo to the address and it would match. If someone uses, say, the Klingon symbol-for-empire in the middle of his server name, then the browser should by golly render a symbol-for-empire there in all contexts. The current behavior is not just lacking; it is *wrong*. Unicode position #1072 is an unassigned position in the "Myanmar block" and shouldn't render as *anything*, certainly not as a slightly small lowercase Roman 'a'.
Fixing something that's broken should take less time than adding a new feature.
(Okay, if I don't have e.g. a Klingon font installed then I will accept a "no glyph for this position" box. But it shouldn't show something that isn't there.)
Yeah, right. Japanese users will be thrilled to keep being distracted by the little warning dot which tells them that the Japanese site they linked to has Japanese characters in its name. What's the Japanese word for, "duuuh!"?
...does that mean I no longer get charged for donating these recyclable materials? (At the time of donation, I mean. My point is that I would already have been charged and shouldn't have to pay again.)
'The more politically correct term for what happened is "stellar outburst."'
So are stars liberal or conservative? Will we be seeing ultimata from the Stellar Liberation Front? Should we burn our chromospheres to demonstrate solidarity with our celestial siblings?
So we can colonize some other planet and the citizens thereof can pass a law against using artificial auroras for advertising. Then the people who think this is a kewl idea can live on Earth and enjoy it, and the people who would rather think about stars than Cola Wars LXVI can move to Mars, or Fintlewoodlewix, or wherever, and be free of it.
I am serious. It is that bad. Auroral advertising wouldn't be my only factor in deciding to emigrate to another planet, but it would definitely be on the list.
May as well scrap the GPL, Creative Commons, etc. -- they are all built on the existing mechanisms for the protection of IP rights. They will obviously be washed away by the "tide of information freedom".
So, NASA decided that there's nothing left for them to do as far as providing transport for the construction and staffing of Earth-orbital infrastructure -- the X-Prize folk are going to take over and do it as a business? Good news, but commercialization is going to take some time.
I suppose, as long as it takes to create a new space vehicle, there'll be time for the businessmen to get their act together, but what I saw just seemed to completely ignore all the uses of space travel other than going-to-look-at-alien-rocks and it kinda left me wondering what the plan is for all that other stuff.
Can't argue with that. No noise from the speakers, no annoying "shoot the whatever" animations, no Flash, no most of the gunk that makes the contemporary WWW a painful, enervating experience.
Oh, yeah, no fancy mouse-overs. That alone is worth the trouble to build lynx from source.
lynx is also great for those times when the fancy-schmantzy browser just sits there running the throbber, or the maladjusted sites that mark detached signatures in some way that makes them just disappear when you try to download them.
If I want a "visual experience" I will step outside to admire the sunset, or go to a museum. If I'm at your website, I want information. I make my own experiences.
Not to mention that Flash experiences are usually negative.
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Imagine me ignoring the voucher just like I leave untouched a lot of grotty coupons for things I'd never buy when I go through the self-checkout lane.
Imagine receiving a menu which omits the dish you came to enjoy because it's highly caloric and the Surgeon General thinks you're too fat.
Why is deportation always the only solution? I don't mind immigrants as long as they play by the same rules I have to. You want a driver's license in the U.S. but you weren't born here? Become a *legal* immigrant. You want the goodies, you accept the responsibilities.
Then let the states stop going begging to the feds saying, "please please please build Federal highways in our state for free." State governments love it when they can get tax-financed goodies or "revenue sharing" without having to raise state taxes, then complain when they have to meet Federal standards.
Let the states send representatives who believe that the states should finance all their own programs and own all their own infrastructure, and the situation will change. You might even like the result. Or you might not.
Please note that there is a difference between what is just and reasonable, and what a party to a lawsuit might try in order to have his way.
"I wonder what kind of things developers put in comments that would be so bad for the rest of us to see?"
:-)
If you had done more coding, you would know.
"Stupid pointless [expletive deleted] for Marketing" or "This is dumb but the boss says Do It".
"I have no idea why this works, so don't touch it!"
"Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out!!!" (on an instruction to skip over whitespace).
And some actual examples I'd be embarrassed to repeat.
I guess that when one spends all day writing bloodless prose for an unfeeling machine, commentary seems like the only emotional outlet one has. I've written a few comments which were, ah, amazingly vivid considering the humble nature of the operations they describe.
"In a loser pay system, wouldn't it be possible for SCO to spend all they have, lose the case and simply close shop?"
That would be considered a win for the defendant in this case, I think. IBM doesn't need the money; they need to display SCO's head on a pike as a warning to others.
Unfortunately that whooshing sound you hear is SCO jumping on this statement as evidence of bias so they can get the case moved or restarted or somehow stave off their inevitable failure a bit longer.
Much though I agree with the judge's sentiment, I wish he had saved it for his memoirs.
My point here is that what language you think you are writing affects which characters are "international". Much better, I think, to avoid trying to read the user's mind (which we can't do reliably) and just show him when the script changes (which I believe we can do reliably). Think about the Russian speaker reading a link to a site whose name is a familiar string of Japanese characters, except that one of them is actually a similar character used only in Korean and the link really goes somewhere he wouldn't want to visit. Similarly there are families of languages derived from or influenced by Sanskrit, and there may be similar tricks you could play with various languages which all look (to me, anyway) like Arabic.
Anyway, setting aside questions of multiculturality, it's impractical to decide for the user which language a URL "should" be, but it's not so impractical to indicate that scripts are being mixed, and that mixing is a pretty strong hint that someone is trying to game him.
On another note, I wonder whether it would be useful to code up a filter to cull junkmail for these mixed-script links and build an RBL for them? Do any browsers have RBL support?
How about *fixing the rendering*? If I saw something in the address widget that looked kinda like "paypal" except it has a Chinese character where the 'a' should be, I'd suspect foul play. I'm sure that some bozo marketing genius will concoct such a mixed-script logo for his company some day, but then at least you could compare the logo to the address and it would match. If someone uses, say, the Klingon symbol-for-empire in the middle of his server name, then the browser should by golly render a symbol-for-empire there in all contexts. The current behavior is not just lacking; it is *wrong*. Unicode position #1072 is an unassigned position in the "Myanmar block" and shouldn't render as *anything*, certainly not as a slightly small lowercase Roman 'a'.
Fixing something that's broken should take less time than adding a new feature.
(Okay, if I don't have e.g. a Klingon font installed then I will accept a "no glyph for this position" box. But it shouldn't show something that isn't there.)
Yeah, right. Japanese users will be thrilled to keep being distracted by the little warning dot which tells them that the Japanese site they linked to has Japanese characters in its name. What's the Japanese word for, "duuuh!"?
Come back tomorrow when the fixed Firefox starts shipping. :-)
Looks like it just forgets to write the setting out to prefs.js. What happens if you put it in user.js?
I think at least half of the missing mass of the universe is piled on our bathroom counter.
Now, *that* is a good pun! I'm still grinning.
...does that mean I no longer get charged for donating these recyclable materials? (At the time of donation, I mean. My point is that I would already have been charged and shouldn't have to pay again.)
Or, yes.
It depends on what you think "art" is.
'The more politically correct term for what happened is "stellar outburst."'
So are stars liberal or conservative? Will we be seeing ultimata from the Stellar Liberation Front? Should we burn our chromospheres to demonstrate solidarity with our celestial siblings?
Maybe instead of PC, what is meant is "precise"?
So we can colonize some other planet and the citizens thereof can pass a law against using artificial auroras for advertising. Then the people who think this is a kewl idea can live on Earth and enjoy it, and the people who would rather think about stars than Cola Wars LXVI can move to Mars, or Fintlewoodlewix, or wherever, and be free of it.
I am serious. It is that bad. Auroral advertising wouldn't be my only factor in deciding to emigrate to another planet, but it would definitely be on the list.
May as well scrap the GPL, Creative Commons, etc. -- they are all built on the existing mechanisms for the protection of IP rights. They will obviously be washed away by the "tide of information freedom".
Or maybe not. "IP rights" !== copy-protection.
So, NASA decided that there's nothing left for them to do as far as providing transport for the construction and staffing of Earth-orbital infrastructure -- the X-Prize folk are going to take over and do it as a business? Good news, but commercialization is going to take some time.
I suppose, as long as it takes to create a new space vehicle, there'll be time for the businessmen to get their act together, but what I saw just seemed to completely ignore all the uses of space travel other than going-to-look-at-alien-rocks and it kinda left me wondering what the plan is for all that other stuff.
Can't argue with that. No noise from the speakers, no annoying "shoot the whatever" animations, no Flash, no most of the gunk that makes the contemporary WWW a painful, enervating experience.
Oh, yeah, no fancy mouse-overs. That alone is worth the trouble to build lynx from source.
I looked it up. Nope, virii is not a Latin plural of anything I could find.
vir (man) : viri
virus (poison, slime) : viri
"virii" would have to be plural of something like "virius", but I couldn't find such a word.
lynx is also great for those times when the fancy-schmantzy browser just sits there running the throbber, or the maladjusted sites that mark detached signatures in some way that makes them just disappear when you try to download them.
wget is even better for the latter, however.
If I want a "visual experience" I will step outside to admire the sunset, or go to a museum. If I'm at your website, I want information. I make my own experiences.
Not to mention that Flash experiences are usually negative.
"Invalid platform????"
:-)
It means their server is lame.