But the repression isn't the cognitive dissonance, unless I've been informed wrongly. The repression is a way of avoiding the cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is a state, not an explanation for an action. Iraqi oil wasn't a possible cause for the war; controlling the Iraqi oil might have been, though. Likewise, two opposing ideas aren't cognitive dissonance, but they might cause it.
You apparently do more-or-less know what CD is, though. But I'm still confused by what you meant when you said 'Thinking the internet can free Tibet or Burma is a wee bit of wishful thinking. Thinking it would do so in the infancy of the WWW is really kinda silly and smacks of cognitive dissonance'. What I said you said sounds to me like a correct simplification. Care to explain?
You don't know what cognitive dissonance is. Cognitive dissonance is a state of imbalance, for instance when a mother knows that a diet of chips and lollies will make her child sick, but she wants to make her child happy and her child won't be happy till it's had lots of chips and lollies. I cannot see how thinking the internet can free Tibet and Burma is a state of imbalance.
Because, good sir, Australia is not the world. Australia is the fifty-first, -second, -third, -forth, -fifth and -sixth states. Haven't you noticed our collection of arse-licking Prime Ministers over the years?
I suspect you haven't used the latest Gnome releases. They have for a while had a bar at the top with separate Applications and Actions menus. The taskbar remains at the bottom. There is work going on to unify MIME types (using a library developed for ROX), though many people will tell you it's a bad idea.
As an end user, Gnome seems gratuitously unconfigurable but nicely simple, whereas KDE seems gratuitously configurable and overly complicated (though I've never played with it long enough to see if that's just a surface impression). As a power end-user, I realise that Gnome actually has some quite advanced configurations possible (e.g. I'm using ROX-Filer and XFwm4 rather than Nautilus and Metacity), without compromising its simplicity.
Personally, I think the underlying technologies should be merged as unlikely as that is, but the end-user interfaces should continue to diverge (as they have been, with KDE staying closer to its roots but Gnome developing a more Macky look and feel).
Are you aware that Times New Roman, Verdana etc. etc. are proportionally-spaced fonts, whereas Courier, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono etc. etc. are fixed-width ones? In the former, the space is in proportion to the width of the character; in the latter, the width is the same no matter whether it's an i or a W.
Hmm... Dashboard, I think, manages 0-3 (and is being actively developed so it should make 4 before long; also, I'm not entirely sure if its 0 yet... Nat was asking for objections to relicensing it from BSD to GPL, and I saw none). I have no idea if there's anything like gDesktlets/Super Karamba elsewhere, but then, I stopped looking at commercial markets so for all I know they might be clones. Alternative webbrowsers such as Galeon, Mozilla et al. have made some changes (for instance, a tabbed interface, rather than an MDI or SDI, has its own advantages and disadvantages), and without them popup blocking wouldn't've been going to be added to IE.
But I suspect this is as much a problem of the society at large (i.e. the capitalist/welfare sate system) and the subculture (f/oss). I don't really care where the innovation comes from. I like having a free desktop, and it mostly works good-enough for me. Sure, I look at Windows in a different light to my desktop, but Windows has more problems for me than just the licence.
And of course, free software doesn't end with the GPL. I'm not entirely sure what, f'rinstance, TeX is a clone of; and there's no reason to clone it, because it has a free-enough licence.
And, for instance, if I decided that I thought Rhythmbox was heading down the wrong track, and it should be implemented more as a view to a filesystem that can play what it's specialised to look at, even though this is something I've never ever heard of before but have thought of making if I had the skills, you'd tell me I was cloning something else.
I think there's a book called Earth by David Brin or something like that in which a black hole finds its way to the centre of the Earth. A similar-sounding technology has been developed as a HCI, but hardly anyone uses it because it's hard to get used to because it keeps taking things they didn't want...
Oh, that's interesting; I'd never seen that spelling before and assumed you made the mistake. So I did five seconds of research, and it appears that ruby/rubi is a borrowing from Japanese of a borrowing from English.
From the wikipedia article on Ruby characters:
"Ruby" was originally the name of a British 5.5 pt font. Because of its size, it was originally used for the annotations in printed documents. In Japanese, this word lost its meaning "name of font" and became "typeset furigana". When it was translated back into English, the word was rendered by some as "rubi", which is the standard romanization for the Japanese [RUBI]. However, the spelling "ruby" has become more common since being adopted as a W3C standard.
So I guess I'm sorry for correcting you when you weren't wrong.
(Offtopic, but I wish every piece of software was F/OSS...:)
Well, if you can say 'security' and you can say 'hole', then it's not to difficult to combine them. And I'm sure anyone with clothes would have words for 'patch'. 'Bug' could be borrowed, or they could use 'problem' or similar, or they could take a word that meant creepy-crawlies. Remember: English hasn't always had the word 'security'.
Well, I think Cairo is meant to be an SVG-based answer to DisplayPDF. Future versions of GTK+ are going to (be able to?) use it as a backend, so we will get some benefit from there. I imagine KDE will join the party too, if they haven't already. Additionally, some more MacOSXy goodness comes in the form of freedesktop.org's kdrive-based X-Server (not to be confused with what this article is about), which will provide us with the ability to transparent and such.
I'm pretty sure that the two together gives us the technology to make things like Expos'e possible.
So in short: It's happening, but it's not going to be read tomorrow.
Not true. We have a handful of exceptions, mostly for education/academic stuff. But of course, it's illegal to tape a tv show and watch it an hour later.
Australia doesn't have compulsory voting. Australia has compulsory turning up to voting booths and telling the people there who you are. At that point, you don't have to pick up the ballot. If you do, you don't have to put the ballot in the box. If you do, you don't have to mark the ballot. If you do, you don't have to make a formal vote. It's a strong encouragement to vote because the excuse 'I'm too lazy' will get you a $50 fine, but it's not a requirement to vote.
No. Flash is bad on the net. The idea of the web is to provide information. I should have some sort of control over the display of it (in fact, of any computer-based information source), because no-one but me really knows how I read best. Flash takes that control away from me. (Which is not to say the designer can't make some defaults that are both readable and good looking; I should just be able to over-ride what they do when it's incompatible with me.)
(And I realise that this is not a problem of Flash per se, so much as the implementation of Flash. It seems to me that if I want to be able to change from unreadable 8-point text to nice, clear 12-point, either the designer has to have considered that posibility or I have to look through a hole smaller than the entire thing when I zoom in. A well-designed implementation would allow the text to get bigger while everything else reflows around it; or, conversely, the display area to become narrower and to re-flow the text contained therein.)
Opera's probably your best for that; I think it runs on OS X but I've Heard Bad Things. Galeon and Epiphany remember your webpages and take stabs at window postion, but tends to get them mixed up. Galeon and Epiphany will probly run on OS X with X.
Seasons describe weather conditions, and differ around the world. Time is described using words like 'Monday' or 'January', and are constant (at least in secular english-speaking contexts). I shouldn't need to know what continent you're on...
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Why on earth from scratch? The XFree86 code was meant to be free. Why not just take the last free version and GPL that?
Tthe government is capable of running it _at all_ whereas private operators are not shows that the government is capable of running it better than private operators.
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But the repression isn't the cognitive dissonance, unless I've been informed wrongly. The repression is a way of avoiding the cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is a state, not an explanation for an action. Iraqi oil wasn't a possible cause for the war; controlling the Iraqi oil might have been, though. Likewise, two opposing ideas aren't cognitive dissonance, but they might cause it.
You apparently do more-or-less know what CD is, though. But I'm still confused by what you meant when you said 'Thinking the internet can free Tibet or Burma is a wee bit of wishful thinking. Thinking it would do so in the infancy of the WWW is really kinda silly and smacks of cognitive dissonance'. What I said you said sounds to me like a correct simplification. Care to explain?
You don't know what cognitive dissonance is. Cognitive dissonance is a state of imbalance, for instance when a mother knows that a diet of chips and lollies will make her child sick, but she wants to make her child happy and her child won't be happy till it's had lots of chips and lollies. I cannot see how thinking the internet can free Tibet and Burma is a state of imbalance.
Programmers just don't yoda talking like,
You missed a 'like'.
Because, good sir, Australia is not the world. Australia is the fifty-first, -second, -third, -forth, -fifth and -sixth states. Haven't you noticed our collection of arse-licking Prime Ministers over the years?
I suspect you haven't used the latest Gnome releases. They have for a while had a bar at the top with separate Applications and Actions menus. The taskbar remains at the bottom. There is work going on to unify MIME types (using a library developed for ROX), though many people will tell you it's a bad idea.
As an end user, Gnome seems gratuitously unconfigurable but nicely simple, whereas KDE seems gratuitously configurable and overly complicated (though I've never played with it long enough to see if that's just a surface impression). As a power end-user, I realise that Gnome actually has some quite advanced configurations possible (e.g. I'm using ROX-Filer and XFwm4 rather than Nautilus and Metacity), without compromising its simplicity.
Personally, I think the underlying technologies should be merged as unlikely as that is, but the end-user interfaces should continue to diverge (as they have been, with KDE staying closer to its roots but Gnome developing a more Macky look and feel).
Are you aware that Times New Roman, Verdana etc. etc. are proportionally-spaced fonts, whereas Courier, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono etc. etc. are fixed-width ones? In the former, the space is in proportion to the width of the character; in the latter, the width is the same no matter whether it's an i or a W.
I'm also currently reminded of Dasher, which is GPL and available for Windows and GTK, and is a new accessibility thing in Gnome 2.6.
Hmm... Dashboard, I think, manages 0-3 (and is being actively developed so it should make 4 before long; also, I'm not entirely sure if its 0 yet ... Nat was asking for objections to relicensing it from BSD to GPL, and I saw none). I have no idea if there's anything like gDesktlets/Super Karamba elsewhere, but then, I stopped looking at commercial markets so for all I know they might be clones. Alternative webbrowsers such as Galeon, Mozilla et al. have made some changes (for instance, a tabbed interface, rather than an MDI or SDI, has its own advantages and disadvantages), and without them popup blocking wouldn't've been going to be added to IE.
But I suspect this is as much a problem of the society at large (i.e. the capitalist/welfare sate system) and the subculture (f/oss). I don't really care where the innovation comes from. I like having a free desktop, and it mostly works good-enough for me. Sure, I look at Windows in a different light to my desktop, but Windows has more problems for me than just the licence.
And of course, free software doesn't end with the GPL. I'm not entirely sure what, f'rinstance, TeX is a clone of; and there's no reason to clone it, because it has a free-enough licence.
And, for instance, if I decided that I thought Rhythmbox was heading down the wrong track, and it should be implemented more as a view to a filesystem that can play what it's specialised to look at, even though this is something I've never ever heard of before but have thought of making if I had the skills, you'd tell me I was cloning something else.
I think there's a book called Earth by David Brin or something like that in which a black hole finds its way to the centre of the Earth. A similar-sounding technology has been developed as a HCI, but hardly anyone uses it because it's hard to get used to because it keeps taking things they didn't want...
From the wikipedia article on Ruby characters:
So I guess I'm sorry for correcting you when you weren't wrong.
(Offtopic, but I wish every piece of software was F/OSS...
Australia actually has the ability to send British criminals back to Britain.
Well, if you can say 'security' and you can say 'hole', then it's not to difficult to combine them. And I'm sure anyone with clothes would have words for 'patch'. 'Bug' could be borrowed, or they could use 'problem' or similar, or they could take a word that meant creepy-crawlies. Remember: English hasn't always had the word 'security'.
It's spelt ruby; it's an English term referring to a size of text, not a Japanese borrowing (the Japanese word is furigana IIRC).
Well, I think Cairo is meant to be an SVG-based answer to DisplayPDF. Future versions of GTK+ are going to (be able to?) use it as a backend, so we will get some benefit from there. I imagine KDE will join the party too, if they haven't already. Additionally, some more MacOSXy goodness comes in the form of freedesktop.org's kdrive-based X-Server (not to be confused with what this article is about), which will provide us with the ability to transparent and such.
I'm pretty sure that the two together gives us the technology to make things like Expos'e possible.
So in short: It's happening, but it's not going to be read tomorrow.
If you don't know when to use the word 'whom', don't. In fact, if you *do* know when to use the word, don't.
What on earth is XCell? Sounds more like an X version of Freecell then anything MS would put out.
Not true. We have a handful of exceptions, mostly for education/academic stuff. But of course, it's illegal to tape a tv show and watch it an hour later.
Australia doesn't have compulsory voting. Australia has compulsory turning up to voting booths and telling the people there who you are. At that point, you don't have to pick up the ballot. If you do, you don't have to put the ballot in the box. If you do, you don't have to mark the ballot. If you do, you don't have to make a formal vote. It's a strong encouragement to vote because the excuse 'I'm too lazy' will get you a $50 fine, but it's not a requirement to vote.
I don't think Gnome looks particularly like Windows...
No. Flash is bad on the net. The idea of the web is to provide information. I should have some sort of control over the display of it (in fact, of any computer-based information source), because no-one but me really knows how I read best. Flash takes that control away from me. (Which is not to say the designer can't make some defaults that are both readable and good looking; I should just be able to over-ride what they do when it's incompatible with me.)
(And I realise that this is not a problem of Flash per se, so much as the implementation of Flash. It seems to me that if I want to be able to change from unreadable 8-point text to nice, clear 12-point, either the designer has to have considered that posibility or I have to look through a hole smaller than the entire thing when I zoom in. A well-designed implementation would allow the text to get bigger while everything else reflows around it; or, conversely, the display area to become narrower and to re-flow the text contained therein.)
Opera's probably your best for that; I think it runs on OS X but I've Heard Bad Things. Galeon and Epiphany remember your webpages and take stabs at window postion, but tends to get them mixed up. Galeon and Epiphany will probly run on OS X with X.
Seasons describe weather conditions, and differ around the world. Time is described using words like 'Monday' or 'January', and are constant (at least in secular english-speaking contexts). I shouldn't need to know what continent you're on...
Why on earth from scratch? The XFree86 code was meant to be free. Why not just take the last free version and GPL that?
Tthe government is capable of running it _at all_ whereas private operators are not shows that the government is capable of running it better than private operators.
when has the gov't taken over a previously private role and done a better job?
Public transport. In fact, most cases where you get an effective monopoly.