Internment Without Trial. Wtf? They just slapped a happy-happy name on "guilty until proven innocent" and you guys bought it.
In what parallel universe is "Internment Without Trial" a "happy-happy name"? When I hear those words, the my spine quivers and I hope and I pray that no-one I know will ever be subject to it. At least if you're guilty until proven innocent, you have a chance, however slight, of being set free. But if you do not have a trial, you do not even have the option of getting that far.
I fear that you could even have thought that, but not as much as I fear the world as described in the rest of your post.
But then again look at nVidia. Most Linux users are quite loyal to nV for their awesome Linux driver support. Some complain to them that they don't open source their drivers but in my opinion this is their perogative... they support it, and that's great.
I realise you said "in my opinion", but respectfully I suspect your opinion mightn't be fully informed. There's a pretty good case that it's piracy: I believe it necessarily include portions of a GPLed work (Linux), so must itself be GPLed. Piracy (copyright infringement) is against the law, and one does not have prerogative to do that (unless, I think, you're the Queen).
Wow! The put the name of the French version of the site in the IPA on the English version! Shame it'll only help the three of us English speakers who know it:)
Winter might not last the majority of the year in Australia, but summers can... I was in Sydney in July [i.e. winter], and it could've been the middle of December [i.e. summer, but not yet bushfire season]. (In comparison to my home town of Melbourne.)
In Australia, we are plain fools for not having decent insulation. Actually, I've spoken to another Swede who reckoned that she hated winters in Australia because they're so cold: Not because of the temperatures outside, but because fo the temperatures inside, a consequence of the frequent poor (or non-existent) insulation & lack of central heating. Evidently the Swedes have at least half a clue between them, more than I can say for us.
Use VIM. It always has smart indenting for me, at least when running as my local user. Probably it's configured in my.vimrc, lemme check... Ah yes, I have ":set smartindent" in there, that could be what does the trick. (It might be that in conjunction with distro-specific settings, I dunno.)
There's also the fact that as sign languages are typically independent of spoken ones, people who know (say) Auslan will need to learn to read and write English as a second language, and the process is (I'm told) difficult.
I think there's one way to get GNU and Linux on the desktop. Probably it wants someone with a lot of money who really truly believes in free software, and wants everyone to be able to enjoy the benefits without incurring the costs.
J. Random & Company develops hardware comparable to Apple's in the sense that it's fancy and high quality and all there. The Company also releases its own distribution of GNU on Linux that is decently complete and usable: Perhaps somewhat like Ubuntu, but they will invest money to employ full time employees to increase the quality, and it will likely be unrecognisable. It will, of course, be free software even though it's largely only distributed on the computers the company sell. Like Apple, there will largely be no problems with device drivers because you're buying a complete solution.
(A completely optional feature that might be best avoided.) As a security feature & for loading speed, the operating system is distributed on a removable ROM chip (that's as easy to add/remove as any CD, no screws etc). Upgrades are then sold as new ROM chips and can be sold at a decent price. There needs to be some way to install patches/updates securely for free though, I think. (Actually, to abide by the terms & conditions of the GPL, it might be necessary to have two ROM chips, one for the source and one for the binaries. Maybe this isn't such a great plan.)
A lot of GNU/Linux users don't particularly like the upgradeability of Apple's hardware, and might be thinking that this method would never work, because they wouldn't like it. but these people are already GNU/Linux users and are not the target market. The target is more like MacOS X users: People who want a computer that looks fancy and just works. Saying it runs an OS based on GNU and Linux is not a selling-point to these people, and that aspect of the system will be played down in the advertising aimed at consumers.
The first biggest problem I see in this is that I think I've aimed it too squarely at Apple's market. I doubt that's a good idea. The second biggest problem with this is that I'm not a CEO nor particularly skilled in other issues related to this, so there's very likely as many huge gaping holes as their are ideas. I expect the basic plan can be refined though.
How about *when* they're getting their educations? Most of those check-out chicks are students. Unless you're going to pay for them to go to the movies, how do you think they're going to do the stuff people want to do?
(you're not doing it for the OS, or you wouldn't have gotten the Mac in the first place, right?)
Because of the hardware. Does anyone else have a laptop that's comparable to the MacBook Pro? I'm not talking about an equivalent processor and RAM, I'm talking about the cool design, the backlit keyboard, the iSight and the magnetically-held-on power supply thing.
If you know of something similar, link to it---I would be much happier not to have to pay the OS X tax if I'm just going to wipe it and put GNU/Linux on it.
Most people can realistically rip their legal CDs to MP3s.
Not in Australia they can't've. Yet Apple (and Creative and iRiver and whoever else you care to mention) still sell their MP3 players in Australia. In fact, Apple was selling iPods without even their iTunes Music Service available in Oz. What did they think we were going to do, fill it up with 20 GB of indy-rock?
He didn't say "there is no ads" (which is plainly ungrammatical), he said "there's no ads" (which is not ungrammatical). "'s" can stand for many things, including, at times, a plural copula/to be-like verb. It's just as example of informal language, just like "yep", or contracting in the first place.
The iMac is equivalent in power to a PowerMac, it looks like, which only bodes well for the next PowerMac ("MacDesktop Pro"? "Mac Pro"?) - that puppy will be one seriously powerful monster.
Aside from something with a godawful name, what the hell is Netwosix? (Something to do with "Linux" and network security, but *what*? And when it says "Linux" does it mean the Linux kernel, or a distribution based on it?) Submitters, please actually say what something is when submitting an article about it. Editors, please damn well edit submissions to don't.
The interesting thing if is they do as USA (And as Norwegian government tried to do), to make it illegal to circumvent copyright protection measurments.
One thing I've never understood, is what happens if these are purely software implementations, so that they don't work on non-Windows OSes. I've bought a few CDs that have apparently had DRM stuff on it, but I didn't know that while I was ripping it... but do the anti-circumvention laws consider it illegal if they only made an attempt for 95% of the market, instead of the whole 100%?
I'm another who's had tinnitus as long as I can remember so I mostly don't hear it until it's quiet (but see below). I've actually heard that childhood tinnitus isn't usually meant to continue through to adulthood, but obviously the key word is "usually". To be honest I'd have a hard time believing anyone who said they didn't have tinnitus and they actually had heard complete silence.
I also have pretty good hearing in high pitches, hearing the tv and whatnot. What's not so good is hearing people speaking. I don't know whether the white noise caused by the tinnitus is interfering with the message getting to my brain, or whether it's being lost in the ignoring process or something, but whatever, it really does make listening a chore. Every so often the white-noise tinnitus cuts out and is replaced by a high-pitched whine (not unlike (how I hear) a tv, only louder and increasing in pitch), which is much more noticeable, the increase in clarity is really quite amazing. Pity when it happens I tend to pay more attention to the tinnitus than to what anyone's saying:)
Here's one where Americans often use a plural noun as if it were singular:
'That's a savings of $5!'
It sounds odd to my ears, but it's obviously very common in US usage.
Can you provide an example of that usage? I'm not an American, and that sounds so completely ungrammatical and broken and wrong that I just cannot imagine any native speaker saying/writing it.
OS/2 had this nifty feature in menus where a menu item could be both a submenu access point and an action item combined. Maybe menu-based free desktop environments could do with something similar, so you'd get:
|v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v| |Movie player |>| |Grip CD ripper | |^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^|
So that if you clicked "Movie player", you'd run the default, but if you chose the arrow you'd get a bunch of different options, like Xine and Totem. I suppose there's some usability problem with this, though.
Actually, I have to say I'm very impressed by this. Not only is it a reasonble sort of news going by Slashdot's standards, but there was some independent journalism and confirmation of the news reported. I have to give a full ten points to Zonk and Roblimo on this one, even though probably they won't read this post. Well done guys! A few more news items like this and the anti-slashbot trolls will have no idea what to say.
This was very definitely news for nerds, and I think it classifies as "stuff that matters", even though most people don't realise it.
That requires good design which, for textual content, is hinged on good font choices (including faces, spacing and sizing).
You know, I specify my own faces, spacing, sizing, justification, link colors, maximum widths for paragraphs and other common text elements. (Some of these over-ride the web designer's choices, some of these mix with them, some of these act as a default.)
That way, I know every single web page I come across that uses standard HTML in a reasonably standard way will be readable, so if two sites have the exact same information, the one that provides easiest to digest content is the one that mucks around with it less. You can do this too, on your computer. It's bullshit to think that someone who's never met you knows how to make something readable for you. You're much better of fiddling with your own defaults until you get something that's great for you.
Design is not meaningless, and I don't mind if you have a nice border and a nifty background and a cool heading and a classy table of contents, but for the body content? Leave it alone. That's mine.
My question really is "Why is he following the Gnome usability list if he completely disagrees with their objectives?". If he was doing it because he wanted to change their objectives, he would've posted in a completely different way, so that seems out. I'm sure there's some reasonable explanation, but at this stage the simplest seems to be best: He was looking for a flamefight.
Ported? "Is porting", or maybe "started a port". Hopefully once GTK+ Webcore becomes useable rather than an alpha-quality in-development port, Nokia will look at using it...
Why? "Open source" from the beginning has always been a term for the development model, in contrast to "free software", which has only been a term for the software. It'd make more sense to stop talking of "open source software", instead talking of "open source projects" delevoping "free software".
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Internment Without Trial. Wtf? They just slapped a happy-happy name on "guilty until proven innocent" and you guys bought it.
In what parallel universe is "Internment Without Trial" a "happy-happy name"? When I hear those words, the my spine quivers and I hope and I pray that no-one I know will ever be subject to it. At least if you're guilty until proven innocent, you have a chance, however slight, of being set free. But if you do not have a trial, you do not even have the option of getting that far.
I fear that you could even have thought that, but not as much as I fear the world as described in the rest of your post.
But then again look at nVidia. Most Linux users are quite loyal to nV for their awesome Linux driver support. Some complain to them that they don't open source their drivers but in my opinion this is their perogative... they support it, and that's great.
I realise you said "in my opinion", but respectfully I suspect your opinion mightn't be fully informed. There's a pretty good case that it's piracy: I believe it necessarily include portions of a GPLed work (Linux), so must itself be GPLed. Piracy (copyright infringement) is against the law, and one does not have prerogative to do that (unless, I think, you're the Queen).
Wow! The put the name of the French version of the site in the IPA on the English version! Shame it'll only help the three of us English speakers who know it :)
Winter might not last the majority of the year in Australia, but summers can... I was in Sydney in July [i.e. winter], and it could've been the middle of December [i.e. summer, but not yet bushfire season]. (In comparison to my home town of Melbourne.)
In Australia, we are plain fools for not having decent insulation. Actually, I've spoken to another Swede who reckoned that she hated winters in Australia because they're so cold: Not because of the temperatures outside, but because fo the temperatures inside, a consequence of the frequent poor (or non-existent) insulation & lack of central heating. Evidently the Swedes have at least half a clue between them, more than I can say for us.
Use VIM. It always has smart indenting for me, at least when running as my local user. Probably it's configured in my .vimrc, lemme check... Ah yes, I have ":set smartindent" in there, that could be what does the trick. (It might be that in conjunction with distro-specific settings, I dunno.)
There's also the fact that as sign languages are typically independent of spoken ones, people who know (say) Auslan will need to learn to read and write English as a second language, and the process is (I'm told) difficult.
I think there's one way to get GNU and Linux on the desktop. Probably it wants someone with a lot of money who really truly believes in free software, and wants everyone to be able to enjoy the benefits without incurring the costs.
J. Random & Company develops hardware comparable to Apple's in the sense that it's fancy and high quality and all there. The Company also releases its own distribution of GNU on Linux that is decently complete and usable: Perhaps somewhat like Ubuntu, but they will invest money to employ full time employees to increase the quality, and it will likely be unrecognisable. It will, of course, be free software even though it's largely only distributed on the computers the company sell. Like Apple, there will largely be no problems with device drivers because you're buying a complete solution.
(A completely optional feature that might be best avoided.) As a security feature & for loading speed, the operating system is distributed on a removable ROM chip (that's as easy to add/remove as any CD, no screws etc). Upgrades are then sold as new ROM chips and can be sold at a decent price. There needs to be some way to install patches/updates securely for free though, I think. (Actually, to abide by the terms & conditions of the GPL, it might be necessary to have two ROM chips, one for the source and one for the binaries. Maybe this isn't such a great plan.)
A lot of GNU/Linux users don't particularly like the upgradeability of Apple's hardware, and might be thinking that this method would never work, because they wouldn't like it. but these people are already GNU/Linux users and are not the target market. The target is more like MacOS X users: People who want a computer that looks fancy and just works. Saying it runs an OS based on GNU and Linux is not a selling-point to these people, and that aspect of the system will be played down in the advertising aimed at consumers.
The first biggest problem I see in this is that I think I've aimed it too squarely at Apple's market. I doubt that's a good idea. The second biggest problem with this is that I'm not a CEO nor particularly skilled in other issues related to this, so there's very likely as many huge gaping holes as their are ideas. I expect the basic plan can be refined though.
Interesting. What do your students do for money, particularly high-school ones?
How about *when* they're getting their educations? Most of those check-out chicks are students. Unless you're going to pay for them to go to the movies, how do you think they're going to do the stuff people want to do?
(you're not doing it for the OS, or you wouldn't have gotten the Mac in the first place, right?)
Because of the hardware. Does anyone else have a laptop that's comparable to the MacBook Pro? I'm not talking about an equivalent processor and RAM, I'm talking about the cool design, the backlit keyboard, the iSight and the magnetically-held-on power supply thing.
If you know of something similar, link to it---I would be much happier not to have to pay the OS X tax if I'm just going to wipe it and put GNU/Linux on it.
Most people can realistically rip their legal CDs to MP3s.
Not in Australia they can't've. Yet Apple (and Creative and iRiver and whoever else you care to mention) still sell their MP3 players in Australia. In fact, Apple was selling iPods without even their iTunes Music Service available in Oz. What did they think we were going to do, fill it up with 20 GB of indy-rock?
He didn't say "there is no ads" (which is plainly ungrammatical), he said "there's no ads" (which is not ungrammatical). "'s" can stand for many things, including, at times, a plural copula/to be-like verb. It's just as example of informal language, just like "yep", or contracting in the first place.
The iMac is equivalent in power to a PowerMac, it looks like, which only bodes well for the next PowerMac ("MacDesktop Pro"? "Mac Pro"?) - that puppy will be one seriously powerful monster.
"Big Mac" is the name that springs to mind.
one in which the experiment happened and one in which it did.
You mean "... one in which it didn't"?
Aside from something with a godawful name, what the hell is Netwosix? (Something to do with "Linux" and network security, but *what*? And when it says "Linux" does it mean the Linux kernel, or a distribution based on it?) Submitters, please actually say what something is when submitting an article about it. Editors, please damn well edit submissions to don't.
The interesting thing if is they do as USA (And as Norwegian government tried to do), to make it illegal to circumvent copyright protection measurments.
One thing I've never understood, is what happens if these are purely software implementations, so that they don't work on non-Windows OSes. I've bought a few CDs that have apparently had DRM stuff on it, but I didn't know that while I was ripping it... but do the anti-circumvention laws consider it illegal if they only made an attempt for 95% of the market, instead of the whole 100%?
I'm another who's had tinnitus as long as I can remember so I mostly don't hear it until it's quiet (but see below). I've actually heard that childhood tinnitus isn't usually meant to continue through to adulthood, but obviously the key word is "usually". To be honest I'd have a hard time believing anyone who said they didn't have tinnitus and they actually had heard complete silence.
:)
I also have pretty good hearing in high pitches, hearing the tv and whatnot. What's not so good is hearing people speaking. I don't know whether the white noise caused by the tinnitus is interfering with the message getting to my brain, or whether it's being lost in the ignoring process or something, but whatever, it really does make listening a chore. Every so often the white-noise tinnitus cuts out and is replaced by a high-pitched whine (not unlike (how I hear) a tv, only louder and increasing in pitch), which is much more noticeable, the increase in clarity is really quite amazing. Pity when it happens I tend to pay more attention to the tinnitus than to what anyone's saying
Here's one where Americans often use a plural noun as if it were singular:
'That's a savings of $5!'
It sounds odd to my ears, but it's obviously very common in US usage.
Can you provide an example of that usage? I'm not an American, and that sounds so completely ungrammatical and broken and wrong that I just cannot imagine any native speaker saying/writing it.
Actually, I have to say I'm very impressed by this. Not only is it a reasonble sort of news going by Slashdot's standards, but there was some independent journalism and confirmation of the news reported. I have to give a full ten points to Zonk and Roblimo on this one, even though probably they won't read this post. Well done guys! A few more news items like this and the anti-slashbot trolls will have no idea what to say.
This was very definitely news for nerds, and I think it classifies as "stuff that matters", even though most people don't realise it.
That requires good design which, for textual content, is hinged on good font choices (including faces, spacing and sizing).
You know, I specify my own faces, spacing, sizing, justification, link colors, maximum widths for paragraphs and other common text elements. (Some of these over-ride the web designer's choices, some of these mix with them, some of these act as a default.)
That way, I know every single web page I come across that uses standard HTML in a reasonably standard way will be readable, so if two sites have the exact same information, the one that provides easiest to digest content is the one that mucks around with it less. You can do this too, on your computer. It's bullshit to think that someone who's never met you knows how to make something readable for you. You're much better of fiddling with your own defaults until you get something that's great for you.
Design is not meaningless, and I don't mind if you have a nice border and a nifty background and a cool heading and a classy table of contents, but for the body content? Leave it alone. That's mine.
My question really is "Why is he following the Gnome usability list if he completely disagrees with their objectives?". If he was doing it because he wanted to change their objectives, he would've posted in a completely different way, so that seems out. I'm sure there's some reasonable explanation, but at this stage the simplest seems to be best: He was looking for a flamefight.
Ported? "Is porting", or maybe "started a port". Hopefully once GTK+ Webcore becomes useable rather than an alpha-quality in-development port, Nokia will look at using it...
Reading your post, your parent post, and your uncle post together makes for a good laugh. It's a pity you can't moderate groups of posts.
Why? "Open source" from the beginning has always been a term for the development model, in contrast to "free software", which has only been a term for the software. It'd make more sense to stop talking of "open source software", instead talking of "open source projects" delevoping "free software".