A tabbed browser interface--that's a great idea. It would be similar to the mIRC client where, as you point out, one can easily ignore junk windows.
Microsoft IE programmers: are you reading this post? If so, then add this tab feature, and remove that frustrating Media Bar in IE 6. It pops up even when I've told it to use Winamp to play Shoutcast streams.
Why should there be any limit on software included in the OS? As long as MS is not blatantly stealing code, disabling competitor's functionality or the like, then why restrict them? Honestly, I don't like MS much either, but let's not hold them to unfairly high standards.
"it should be pretty obvious to anyone who's written code..."
The problem is, of course, that most people haven't written code. I suspect that much of this surprise at the 30,000 number is simply media hype. It's easy for talking heads to digest -- wow, not a big number, but a smaller one!
I just read about Yahoo implementing software in its auction area to filter out "hate material". And while I'm not a big fan of censorship, Yahoo is company, not a government institution or anything similar, so we can't complain too much.
The fact is, not matter how bad Yahoo or any existing site gets with regard to censorship, we can always create our own new site. Just like in the ongoing crackers versus security warfare ensures that there is never a truly secure system, the opponents to free speech will never be able to keep anyone completely silent.
If you don't like hateful speech, then respond to it, don't silence it. Many oppressed groups flourish because having an enemy unites them. The answer to false, ignorant, hateful ideas, is MORE FREE SPEECH, not less. Respond to ideas that you don't like and everyone will learn. If hate mongers choose not to listen or behave irrationally, let them. They will look like fools, not martyrs.
You're right, of course. And anyone can verify that by going to the November/December 2000 issue of the Skeptical Inquirer, page 58.
P.S. Somehow it doesn't surprise me that Katz would use a post-modernist source -- they have pretenious, pseudo-intellectual babble in common.
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A tabbed browser interface--that's a great idea. It would be similar to the mIRC client where, as you point out, one can easily ignore junk windows.
Microsoft IE programmers: are you reading this post? If so, then add this tab feature, and remove that frustrating Media Bar in IE 6. It pops up even when I've told it to use Winamp to play Shoutcast streams.
Aaron J. Shaver
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(1) SQL Server isn't included.
(2) The other two don't matter anymore.
Why should there be any limit on software included in the OS? As long as MS is not blatantly stealing code, disabling competitor's functionality or the like, then why restrict them? Honestly, I don't like MS much either, but let's not hold them to unfairly high standards.
"it should be pretty obvious to anyone who's written code..."
The problem is, of course, that most people haven't written code. I suspect that much of this surprise at the 30,000 number is simply media hype. It's easy for talking heads to digest -- wow, not a big number, but a smaller one!
I just read about Yahoo implementing software in its auction area to filter out "hate material". And while I'm not a big fan of censorship, Yahoo is company, not a government institution or anything similar, so we can't complain too much.
The fact is, not matter how bad Yahoo or any existing site gets with regard to censorship, we can always create our own new site. Just like in the ongoing crackers versus security warfare ensures that there is never a truly secure system, the opponents to free speech will never be able to keep anyone completely silent.
If you don't like hateful speech, then respond to it, don't silence it. Many oppressed groups flourish because having an enemy unites them. The answer to false, ignorant, hateful ideas, is MORE FREE SPEECH, not less. Respond to ideas that you don't like and everyone will learn. If hate mongers choose not to listen or behave irrationally, let them. They will look like fools, not martyrs.
You called it right on, man.
Try MouseTool.com for a Windows program that allows you to use the mouse without clicking it.
It just became open source, so a Linux version should be in the works soon.
You're right, of course. And anyone can verify that by going to the November/December 2000 issue of the Skeptical Inquirer, page 58. P.S. Somehow it doesn't surprise me that Katz would use a post-modernist source -- they have pretenious, pseudo-intellectual babble in common.