Only non-windows? OK, how is a Windows user going to connect up an external modem? The vast majority of the people connected to the Internet from home use a modem. How are they going to do that with one of these crippled machines?
Who has an external modem anymore? I haven't even seen one for sale for years. Do they still use acoustic couplers?:)
If you don't wish to give up your s/w, don't use any open licence. Simple.
Okay. Listen up smart guy, because you apparently have problems with reading for comprehension, because at no point did I attack the concept of open source, I attacked the idea of copyright reassignment.
My problem with the FSF is the new speak coming from them. Restrictions are Freedom! Dismantel intellectual property through copyright! If they truly believed what they preach, they'd release everything into the public domain.
Oh and one other thing. You're apparently confused by the actual legal mechanism at work in open licenses. The author doesn't give up anything, except secrets. If you gave up your software you wouldn't be able to defend any license, because you're not a party to the contract, because you don't own the software. That's the whole reason why you issue a license, it allows you to dictate terms.
The copyright assignment of GNU licensed s/w diminishes noone
It diminishes me, the author. My credit is removed. I am no longer the owner of my creation. That is deeply insulting.
and allows the FSF to act to protect that copyright, regardless of what duristiction it occurs in.
Again. This is a crock. Under what circumstances do you believe they'd simply stand by and not help? It makes no sense, and given the fact that very few pieces of software (when compared to the total number of pieces of GPLed software) are actually assigned to FSF, most people believe that as well.
So, on the blinding chance that you write something good, and a corp decides to illegally take it from you, best of luck pursuing them on your own.
Well given the fact that I very good friend who is an intellectual property lawyer, I don't think that would be such a problem. And even if I didn't "have an in", I can still find a lawyer.
Of course you won't believe me, and I really don't give a damn. I've wasted too much time with you as it is.
Come back when you can make an internally consistent argument, let alone a logically coherent one.
Isn't this one of the senarios where assigning copyright to the FSF is helpful?
Why should I ever voluntarily give up my rights to something I made?
He should get a lawyer. Plain and simple; and if he can't afford one, the FSF will still help him. You really think that they'll say "Nah. We'll pass. We'll let this case go to trial so when you lose everyone can use The Giant Club of Precedent to blugeon our precious "copyleft" (It's a joke! Get it? "Copyleft" instead of "Copyright"! Ha! Ha! Man who doesn't like legal documents filled with jokes written by an overweight long haired nasally geek! Now why doesn't anyone take us seriously?) into oblivion."
Incubus -- The Only Full Length Film in Esperanto
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You've started in the only feature length film done entirely in esperanto, Incubus.
Could you tell us about how you found this role and what why you decided to take it. And more importantly what you thought about the people who would finance, produce, and direct a film that has as its centerpiece and invented language.
I would just like to add this one comment my friend made while watching Incubus: "My God! Shatner speaks that like it's a real language!"
My favorite quote is also from Garak, mostly because I can identify with it.
scene: Garak and the rest of the DS9rs are on the Defiant getting reddy to enter battle
Garak: We're all going to die. Bashir: Thank you Garak. We always look forward to your optimisitcal appraisal of the situation. Garak: Quite the contrary Dr. Bashir. I always try to look on the bright side, it's just that experience has taught me to expect otherwise.
I downloaded libpcap/0.7.1 from tcpdump.org on September 2 of this year (just 2 months ago), and it was not trojaned (I keep a record of md5 sums, and was able to check this just now).
You do realize of course that MD5s only provide limited security. Afterall, if I can replace the.tar.gz, why can't I also replace the.md5?
Mr. Rosen is coming off as an apologist for the broken legal system. Just my impression maybe, but he seems to be sidestepping questions and trying his darndest not to say anything that offends the legal establishment.
My impression is that this whole trial was a joke, and served only to line the pockets of many, many J.D.'s. Maybe I'm wrong and this decision really will stop Microsoft's efforts to squash any innovations that it doesn't own...
And instead of seeking legal remedys your solution would be what? Violence? Hacking? Saving your allowance to purchase subliminal ads on every mass media outlet to brainwash everyone to abandon microsoft and instead run amaturish software that is "supported" by antisocial geeks?
This sound issue, I believe, is very Debian centric, and likely would never come up with Grandma Bessie, who would probably use one of several more user-friendly, desktop-oriented distributions. I use Slackware (not part of that more user-friendly group), and even with that I have never had to read anything to get my sound working.
Fine, this ALSA thing is Debian centric, but it's just endemic of a greater problem with linux: ease of hardware configuration. Or even simpler, ease of configuration period.
How much of your hardware is supported? Fully supported? Working?
Is all your software configured properly? Do you even know where to configure the software?
I've been running linux since 94 and I've never once had my system work exactly right. Take for instance my zip drive.
I have to run devfs if I want to use USB, fine. If I use ide-floppy, the zip drive only gets created if there's a disk in it at boot. If I use scsi-ide on my zip drive, then/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 gets created when I stick a disk in, but/dev/sda4 doesn't get created until I `ls`/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/.
This is moronic. Say what you will about windows, but at least my hardware works right the first time, and more importantly I don't have to fuck 3 hours with it.
Linux isn't mainstream because people like you assume that "it ISN'T INTENDED, and NEVER WAS INTENDED, to run on the desktop."
*bzzz* Sorry. You're wrong. Thanks for playing. Here's your year supply of Rice-a-Roni "The San Fransico Treat".
Linux isn't a mainstream desktop because quite frankly it sucks. Hardware doesn't always work without major work. (Yes, compiling is major work. Hell looking up that my card uses the 3c905 chipset rather than, it's a "3com Whatever" is a pain in the ass.) The desktop environments are annoying at best. (Nautilus only has "clean up by name option"...)
And then of course you have The Community(tm). Post a bug, and if you're not completely ignored, you get a "Damn you you insolent cur! Fix the thing yourself! If you use it your a developer! I do this for free damn it! Show some resepect!"
First off, I'm a user not a developer. I do not have any intention to learn the inner workings of vector based text rendering to learn why the ghostscript drivers you provided don't work.
Secondly, when you release stuff, expect bug reports. Expect that most people don't really give a damn about how your pet project works, they just want it to work. How arrogant are you that you to think that I'm going to drop everything I'm doing to spend a week to help you. It's your piece of software, maintain the damn thing. Is there a known solution? You could have documented it in the time it took you send the 20 "Fuck you" emails you just sent.
The sad thing is that in a few years when Linux has made major inroads toward that goal, we'll still have your claim in the Slashdot archives to look back on and laugh.
BTW: You should probably have a look at the HOWTO for IIS (running on that vastly superior OS where no HOWTOs are needed?). You've got a bit of a problem at http://beaner.dyndns.org.
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Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
You mean like this error I just got on/. ?
Searching For: linux mainstream desktop HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 06:14:43 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_perl/1.27 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6g X-Powered-By: Slash 2.003000 Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 OK The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, pater@slashdot.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
I appreciate your reply and I believe in your sincerity. At the risk of being baited for a flame/troll, I would however ask you to re-read my post. I did not in any way apologize for slavery or say that what the H1B's are going through in the US is acceptable and moral.
I reread it, and I can see where you're not apologizing; but in my defense, I'd say your intentions were unclear from that paragraph. On a personal note, I'm glad to see you're not a nut job.:)
What have I done to help out? I believe that all politics are local so I vote for respresentatives in my area that support (among other issues) immigrant rights.
Availability of IT workers isn't the issue. This is around the cost and quality of the IT workers. They can get them better and cheaper from places like Pakistan, India, and China. They work longer hours for less pay and generally have a higher level of experience and education. The US has a history (hundreds of years) of indentured servatude. That's how my family got here from Europe.
I'm not antiimmigrant like the original poster ("Damn foriegners taken our jobs."), but I am dismayed by you apologizing for wanton exploitation of these workers.
get fired and then sued by their previous employer for breaking the employment contract
are afraid immigration problems
Come from a culture where it is expected/accepted that they will be exploited unfairly.
Accepting and immoral and illegal acts is completely indefensible, but then again what should I expect from someone that just defended slavery, and has been rightfuly outlawed under the 13th Amendment. Past crimes do not justify future crimes.
You also probably think that labor laws in any form are immoral. ("Hey if he wants to dive naked in a vat of carcinogens for two cents a day, why not?" Ummm, because desperate people do desperate things? There's a social contract to protect the weakest? There a minimum standards of human dignity...)
Besides, the company owns the computer and networks you are using for your own personal interest. They have the right to know how they are used when they are responsible for them and while they are paying for them.
This is your strongest argument, but here's a question for you. The companies own the phones. They own the wires (inside the company at least). They pay the phone bills. However they can not listen in to your phone calls? This is an illegal wiretap. What's the difference?
Dress codes are a symptom of authority and order. It would appear to me by your questions that you have issues with both.
Uniforms make sense when your dealing with the public, or when it's a safety issue (think antistatic smocks, overalls, etc.) but when you're not, its simply a petty control issue. It strikes me that those enforcing dress codes have control issues, and those that enjoy them have issues where they feel the need to be dominated.
Call this a flame if you want, but I'd have serious reservations about taking HCI advice from the same group that thought these were good ideas:
The logout button is a computer monitor with a night time scene. This icon has been synonymous with activating the screensaver since the days of After Dark. (Yes they used the flying toasters, but the TSR icon was a nighttime monitor. The icon is a reference to the name "After Dark".) The only connection I can come up with between night and logout is that you logout out at night, but in all honesty, people don't. They lock the screen. The old exit icon (an arrow point to an open door) would make much more sense.
The OK button features a down and to the left arrow. This is THE EXACT SAME ICON on my enter key. Of course the enter key, is not always associated with the OK button. Instead enter is associated with a 5 pixel inset around a button, which is much more obvious than the giant picture THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE A KEY ON MY KEYBOARD. This UI comes from someone who liked Borland's Windows widgets. Of course Borland only used the arrow on default okay buttons, a subtle, yet important distinction apparently lost on the the GNOMErs. (I've been using GNOME since 1999 and I STILL have to think, "wait. The 'enter arrow' doesn't mean enter.".)
Themeability is given a higher priority than usability. Case in point: Nautilus. The Captains of Nautilus stated that they are spending their time fixing Nautilus's theme engines so that nautilus uses the gtk themes (Oh my! Everything should look consistent! Apparently making everything themeable/skinable has fallen out of favor. (Thankfully.)), rather than say fixing Nautilus's iconview cleanup? Want to arrange your icons? Well you can "Clean up by name", and you can...um....uh.... Did we mention "clean up by name"? That's right, you have only one option. Which wouldn't be so bad, if you also had a simple "clean up" option that moved the icons to the nearest grid, say like Finder's "clean up", or Explorer's "Arrange Icons". No, instead we're stuck with either having all our icons alphabetically arranged along the left hand side of the screen, or all messed up.
> Useful content based markup was pretty much DOA when they created the CODE tag [...]
I don't quite understand your argument here.
My point is that even when you do have content based markup (which is undeniably better for searching and whatnot), getting people to use it, let alone use it correctly, is a near impossible task.
So you've traded tables for a collection of nested DIV elements? I guess the semantic web means nothing to you.
Ah yes. Using "Table Data" to indicate a navigation bar makes MUCH more sense than a simple nondescript "division".
I mean just look at this post. Should I, and if I should, how do I, mark up "much". Should it be EM, STRONG, B[old], I[talic], or just capitalize it? Do I markup the previously quoted text as BLOCKQUOTE, since that's the only tag that's even close, even though it's not actually blockquote material since it's only one line?
Useful content based markup was pretty much DOA when they created the CODE tag, over say something much more useful like "name".
After six years of work the Zurich-based researchers say they can fit 1 terabit of data -- effectively the contents of a 100-gigabyte computer hard drive -- on a postage stamp-size piece of plastic.
Reminds me of this Homer Simpson quote:
Lisa! With a 10 thousand dollars, we'd be millionares!
* Good CEOs are very scarce.
* Good CEOs build companies and produce profits.
Therefore, good CEOs are worth a lot of money.
There's two problems with this:
1. Even poor CEOs are paid extremely well.
As seen in the article Edward E. Whitacre has led SBC for the past 12 years, his results? Below average growth. Now he may have done good things for other companies in the past, but he's simply been mediocere for SBC, yet doesn't receive a mediocere CEO salary.
When the board actually does wise up and fire a CEO, the exCEO receive multimillion dollar severence packages. And what did they do to earn this? Balance sheets with wonderful red accents.
There are very real economic issues to be considered. I suggest you read up about how The Market actually works. For starters try United for a Fair Economy.
The episode sucked. There was no truth. It was just a clip show. Fine the black oil is an alien virus that causes aliens to grow inside you and then bust out. But WAIT! That was only for a few episodes, then we go back to the black oil just taking over your body.
The black oil came to earth on a meteorite. Fine, but how does that explain Roswell? The aliens crashed because of the magnetite? So the grays are the same as the super soldiers? That doesn't make sense. So we'll just ignore that...
So everyone in the galaxy except for humans and the renegades are infected with the black oil? Assuming that's true, how could selfdisfigurement keep the renegades from being infected, when they're made of the same green foam as the same as the alien bounty hunters?
And so what was The Big Truth? The Cigarette Smoking Man teased us with revealing it, but never did. Unless it was the invasion occurs Dec 22, 2012. How is the Big Secret?
I personally think since the "MTV-ising" of Nickelodean started they sorta went downhill (then again, I AM an adult -- perhaps I should stop watching cartoons as well?)
Yes. You should sit down and systematically destory any sense of fun you have. That way your existence of being housed in a small carpeted box will be much more tolerable. Instead you should start paying $300 a month to go and walk around a yard with guys named "Tad" that wear sweater vests, while men carry bags containing sticks that cost more than they make a year. And while you spend your mornings with Tad, always remember to laugh at his racists jokes, agree with whatever he says, and most importantly let Tad always win. If you keep that up long enough, maybe you'll get a larger carpeted box to spend your days in. And if you're really lucky you'll get a meager increase in the number of monetary units you take home every week. Of course during this time, the amount of time you spend in your box, and the number of tricks you perform there, will have increased exponentially.
The only cartoon I truely care about nowadays is Dexter's Laboratory,
Samurai Jack. Sublimeness from Genndy Tartakovsky. Not only is it drawn with muted colors, but there will be no dialog for about half the episode. (In episode 1, there was about 5 minutes of dialog total, and this is a 30 minute show.)
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Only non-windows? OK, how is a Windows user going to connect up an external modem? The vast majority of the people connected to the Internet from home use a modem. How are they going to do that with one of these crippled machines?
:)
Who has an external modem anymore? I haven't even seen one for sale for years. Do they still use acoustic couplers?
Lemme guess, you write the VB 'gimmie 30 bux' shareware crap that permeates tucows (get it? tucows == two cows, what a hoot!).
Try again.
If you don't wish to give up your s/w, don't use any open licence. Simple.
Okay. Listen up smart guy, because you apparently have problems with reading for comprehension, because at no point did I attack the concept of open source, I attacked the idea of copyright reassignment.
My problem with the FSF is the new speak coming from them. Restrictions are Freedom! Dismantel intellectual property through copyright! If they truly believed what they preach, they'd release everything into the public domain.
Oh and one other thing. You're apparently confused by the actual legal mechanism at work in open licenses. The author doesn't give up anything, except secrets. If you gave up your software you wouldn't be able to defend any license, because you're not a party to the contract, because you don't own the software. That's the whole reason why you issue a license, it allows you to dictate terms.
The copyright assignment of GNU licensed s/w diminishes noone
It diminishes me, the author. My credit is removed. I am no longer the owner of my creation. That is deeply insulting.
and allows the FSF to act to protect that copyright, regardless of what duristiction it occurs in.
Again. This is a crock. Under what circumstances do you believe they'd simply stand by and not help? It makes no sense, and given the fact that very few pieces of software (when compared to the total number of pieces of GPLed software) are actually assigned to FSF, most people believe that as well.
So, on the blinding chance that you write something good, and a corp decides to illegally take it from you, best of luck pursuing them on your own.
Well given the fact that I very good friend who is an intellectual property lawyer, I don't think that would be such a problem. And even if I didn't "have an in", I can still find a lawyer.
Of course you won't believe me, and I really don't give a damn. I've wasted too much time with you as it is.
Come back when you can make an internally consistent argument, let alone a logically coherent one.
*plonk*
ricocheting the big square bullets off walls to kill the enemy.
o o-doo-doo-doo-dwup* :)
*chhhh*
*bong*
*bong*
*bong*
*bhgh*
*doo-d
What!?! The Founders didn't backup their work?!? ;-)
:)
Does anyone?
Isn't this one of the senarios where assigning copyright to the FSF is helpful?
Why should I ever voluntarily give up my rights to something I made?
He should get a lawyer. Plain and simple; and if he can't afford one, the FSF will still help him. You really think that they'll say "Nah. We'll pass. We'll let this case go to trial so when you lose everyone can use The Giant Club of Precedent to blugeon our precious "copyleft" (It's a joke! Get it? "Copyleft" instead of "Copyright"! Ha! Ha! Man who doesn't like legal documents filled with jokes written by an overweight long haired nasally geek! Now why doesn't anyone take us seriously?) into oblivion."
You've started in the only feature length film done entirely in esperanto, Incubus.
Could you tell us about how you found this role and what why you decided to take it. And more importantly what you thought about the people who would finance, produce, and direct a film that has as its centerpiece and invented language.
I would just like to add this one comment my friend made while watching Incubus: "My God! Shatner speaks that like it's a real language!"
I wonder whether he really was a limited edition.
He wasn't until Dumar attacked the cloning facilities at someplace when he led the Cardasian revolt. In fact I belive it was their first target.
**SPOILER**
Okay now. How exactly can you have a spoiler for a television show that aired almost 5 years ago?
Romeo and Juliet both die. Oh shit. I just spoiled it.
As did that Vorta creep (OK, redundant) Weyun we all wanted to kill.
:)
Which we did. Several times.
Remember when Weyun-3 was activated, but he had a conciounce and wanted to defect, so the Founders activated Weyun-4 to kill Weyun-3?
My favorite quote is also from Garak, mostly because I can identify with it.
scene: Garak and the rest of the DS9rs are on the Defiant getting reddy to enter battle
Garak: We're all going to die.
Bashir: Thank you Garak. We always look forward to your optimisitcal appraisal of the situation.
Garak: Quite the contrary Dr. Bashir. I always try to look on the bright side, it's just that experience has taught me to expect otherwise.
Presumably, the md5sum file was also md5sum'd.
I certainly hope you're being facetious.
I downloaded libpcap/0.7.1 from tcpdump.org on September 2 of this year (just 2 months ago), and it was not trojaned (I keep a record of md5 sums, and was able to check this just now).
.tar.gz, why can't I also replace the .md5?
You do realize of course that MD5s only provide limited security. Afterall, if I can replace the
And instead of seeking legal remedys your solution would be what? Violence? Hacking? Saving your allowance to purchase subliminal ads on every mass media outlet to brainwash everyone to abandon microsoft and instead run amaturish software that is "supported" by antisocial geeks?
Yeah. These are all viable options.
Fine, this ALSA thing is Debian centric, but it's just endemic of a greater problem with linux: ease of hardware configuration. Or even simpler, ease of configuration period.
How much of your hardware is supported? Fully supported? Working?
Is all your software configured properly? Do you even know where to configure the software?
I've been running linux since 94 and I've never once had my system work exactly right. Take for instance my zip drive.
I have to run devfs if I want to use USB, fine. If I use ide-floppy, the zip drive only gets created if there's a disk in it at boot. If I use scsi-ide on my zip drive, then
This is moronic. Say what you will about windows, but at least my hardware works right the first time, and more importantly I don't have to fuck 3 hours with it.
Linux isn't mainstream because people like you assume that "it ISN'T INTENDED, and NEVER WAS INTENDED, to run on the desktop."
*bzzz* Sorry. You're wrong. Thanks for playing. Here's your year supply of Rice-a-Roni "The San Fransico Treat".
Linux isn't a mainstream desktop because quite frankly it sucks. Hardware doesn't always work without major work. (Yes, compiling is major work. Hell looking up that my card uses the 3c905 chipset rather than, it's a "3com Whatever" is a pain in the ass.) The desktop environments are annoying at best. (Nautilus only has "clean up by name option"...)
And then of course you have The Community(tm). Post a bug, and if you're not completely ignored, you get a "Damn you you insolent cur! Fix the thing yourself! If you use it your a developer! I do this for free damn it! Show some resepect!"
First off, I'm a user not a developer. I do not have any intention to learn the inner workings of vector based text rendering to learn why the ghostscript drivers you provided don't work.
Secondly, when you release stuff, expect bug reports. Expect that most people don't really give a damn about how your pet project works, they just want it to work. How arrogant are you that you to think that I'm going to drop everything I'm doing to spend a week to help you. It's your piece of software, maintain the damn thing. Is there a known solution? You could have documented it in the time it took you send the 20 "Fuck you" emails you just sent.
The sad thing is that in a few years when Linux has made major inroads toward that goal, we'll still have your claim in the Slashdot archives to look back on and laugh.
You mean like this article? Or this this comment?
BTW: You should probably have a look at the HOWTO for IIS (running on that vastly superior OS where no HOWTOs are needed?). You've got a bit of a problem at http://beaner.dyndns.org.
* Error Type:
Microsoft JET Database Engine (0x80040E09)
Cannot update. Database or object is read-only.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
You mean like this error I just got on
I appreciate your reply and I believe in your sincerity. At the risk of being baited for a flame/troll, I would however ask you to re-read my post. I did not in any way apologize for slavery or say that what the H1B's are going through in the US is acceptable and moral.
:)
:)
I reread it, and I can see where you're not apologizing; but in my defense, I'd say your intentions were unclear from that paragraph. On a personal note, I'm glad to see you're not a nut job.
What have I done to help out? I believe that all politics are local so I vote for respresentatives in my area that support (among other issues) immigrant rights.
WHOA! A voter!
Yes. The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace. Local 2001 of the The International Federatation of Professional and Technical Engineers. SPEEA represents the 24,500 engineers, technical workers, and other professional employees at Boeing.
Availability of IT workers isn't the issue. This is around the cost and quality of the IT workers. They can get them better and cheaper from places like Pakistan, India, and China. They work longer hours for less pay and generally have a higher level of experience and education. The US has a history (hundreds of years) of indentured servatude. That's how my family got here from Europe.
I'm not antiimmigrant like the original poster ("Damn foriegners taken our jobs."), but I am dismayed by you apologizing for wanton exploitation of these workers.
You're right. Availabilty was just a cover story. It is just a ploy to push down wages. As far as getting them "better", I'd take exception to that. The United States is widely regarded as having one of the best higher education systems in the world. So the relavent education difference between natural born Americans and immigrants, is nothing.
Paying H1Bs less is illegal, plain and simple. Companies get away with it for a variety of reasons.
Accepting and immoral and illegal acts is completely indefensible, but then again what should I expect from someone that just defended slavery, and has been rightfuly outlawed under the 13th Amendment. Past crimes do not justify future crimes.
You also probably think that labor laws in any form are immoral. ("Hey if he wants to dive naked in a vat of carcinogens for two cents a day, why not?" Ummm, because desperate people do desperate things? There's a social contract to protect the weakest? There a minimum standards of human dignity...)
If you think I'm full of shit perhaps you can get a nice warm feeling by reading another slavery apologist.
Besides, the company owns the computer and networks you are using for your own personal interest. They have the right to know how they are used when they are responsible for them and while they are paying for them.
This is your strongest argument, but here's a question for you. The companies own the phones. They own the wires (inside the company at least). They pay the phone bills. However they can not listen in to your phone calls? This is an illegal wiretap. What's the difference?
Dress codes are a symptom of authority and order. It would appear to me by your questions that you have issues with both.
Uniforms make sense when your dealing with the public, or when it's a safety issue (think antistatic smocks, overalls, etc.) but when you're not, its simply a petty control issue. It strikes me that those enforcing dress codes have control issues, and those that enjoy them have issues where they feel the need to be dominated.
Call this a flame if you want, but I'd have serious reservations about taking HCI advice from the same group that thought these were good ideas:
The Captains of Nautilus stated that they are spending their time fixing Nautilus's theme engines so that nautilus uses the gtk themes (Oh my! Everything should look consistent! Apparently making everything themeable/skinable has fallen out of favor. (Thankfully.)), rather than say fixing Nautilus's iconview cleanup? Want to arrange your icons? Well you can "Clean up by name", and you can...um....uh.... Did we mention "clean up by name"? That's right, you have only one option. Which wouldn't be so bad, if you also had a simple "clean up" option that moved the icons to the nearest grid, say like Finder's "clean up", or Explorer's "Arrange Icons". No, instead we're stuck with either having all our icons alphabetically arranged along the left hand side of the screen, or all messed up.
You know, it's not night *everywhere* on the planet...
You truly deserve your +1 infomative.
> Useful content based markup was pretty much DOA when they created the CODE tag [...]
I don't quite understand your argument here.
My point is that even when you do have content based markup (which is undeniably better for searching and whatnot), getting people to use it, let alone use it correctly, is a near impossible task.
So you've traded tables for a collection of nested DIV elements? I guess the semantic web means nothing to you.
Ah yes. Using "Table Data" to indicate a navigation bar makes MUCH more sense than a simple nondescript "division".
I mean just look at this post. Should I, and if I should, how do I, mark up "much". Should it be EM, STRONG, B[old], I[talic], or just capitalize it? Do I markup the previously quoted text as BLOCKQUOTE, since that's the only tag that's even close, even though it's not actually blockquote material since it's only one line?
Useful content based markup was pretty much DOA when they created the CODE tag, over say something much more useful like "name".
Now, if they start inserting pop-up ads in video games, I'm screwed.
I thought they already did that in Crazy Taxi.
"Take me to the Pizza Hut!"
"Take me to The Gap!"
"Take me to our all powerful and benevolent corporate masters"
Reminds me of this Homer Simpson quote:
* Good CEOs are very scarce.
* Good CEOs build companies and produce profits.
Therefore, good CEOs are worth a lot of money.
There's two problems with this:
1. Even poor CEOs are paid extremely well.
As seen in the article Edward E. Whitacre has led SBC for the past 12 years, his results? Below average growth. Now he may have done good things for other companies in the past, but he's simply been mediocere for SBC, yet doesn't receive a mediocere CEO salary.
When the board actually does wise up and fire a CEO, the exCEO receive multimillion dollar severence packages. And what did they do to earn this? Balance sheets with wonderful red accents.
2. When a company does well, those in the company should be rewarded. From top to bottom. But this isn't what happens. In 1999 CEO salaries increased 37%, while the average worker's salary increased a measly 2.7%.
Between 1990 and 2000 CEO pay has increased 571%. By comparison, the US's GDP over the same time period only increased 3.7% anually, or 37%. Since average corporate performance couldn't possibly outstrip the GDP growth by 15 times, something is wrong. Think of it this way. If the minimum wage increased along at the same rate as CEO salaries, a janitor would be making $25.50 an hour, instead of a measly $5.15.
There are very real economic issues to be considered. I suggest you read up about how The Market actually works. For starters try United for a Fair Economy.
The episode sucked. There was no truth. It was just a clip show. Fine the black oil is an alien virus that causes aliens to grow inside you and then bust out. But WAIT! That was only for a few episodes, then we go back to the black oil just taking over your body.
The black oil came to earth on a meteorite. Fine, but how does that explain Roswell? The aliens crashed because of the magnetite? So the grays are the same as the super soldiers? That doesn't make sense. So we'll just ignore that...
So everyone in the galaxy except for humans and the renegades are infected with the black oil? Assuming that's true, how could selfdisfigurement keep the renegades from being infected, when they're made of the same green foam as the same as the alien bounty hunters?
And so what was The Big Truth? The Cigarette
Smoking Man teased us with revealing it, but
never did. Unless it was the invasion occurs
Dec 22, 2012. How is the Big Secret?
Last week's was far better.
I personally think since the "MTV-ising" of Nickelodean started they sorta went downhill (then again, I AM an adult -- perhaps I should stop watching cartoons as well?)
Yes. You should sit down and systematically destory any sense of fun you have. That way your existence of being housed in a small carpeted box will be much more tolerable. Instead you should start paying $300 a month to go and walk around a yard with guys named "Tad" that wear sweater vests, while men carry bags containing sticks that cost more than they make a year. And while you spend your mornings with Tad, always remember to laugh at his racists jokes, agree with whatever he says, and most importantly let Tad always win. If you keep that up long enough, maybe you'll get a larger carpeted box to spend your days in. And if you're really lucky you'll get a meager increase in the number of monetary units you take home every week. Of course during this time, the amount of time you spend in your box, and the number of tricks you perform there, will have increased exponentially.
The only cartoon I truely care about nowadays is Dexter's Laboratory,
Samurai Jack. Sublimeness from Genndy Tartakovsky. Not only is it drawn with muted colors, but there will be no dialog for about half the episode. (In episode 1, there was about 5 minutes of dialog total, and this is a 30 minute show.)