Cygwin is nice. One of the first things I do on a Windows box (and about the only thing I ever use IE for) is go to start, run, and type iexplore "http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe"/code to launch straight into the current setup program and get myself an xterm, a proper shell and openssh to make my workday considerably less painful. Any OSX fan that spends any time in a shell will probably miss the shell before long, Cygwin provides that in Windows.
It's too bad cygwin doesn't ship a win32 KDE...not having my keybindings, having the Start and Menu keys working as advertised instead of doing something useful, lack of multiple desktops and just overall rigidness makes Explorer get in the way more than anything...
When I lived in downtown Portland, the building intercom just dialed each resident's phone number. I gave my landlord my cell-phone number. I was able to buzz myself into the building from my cellphone.
Passing on the hard shoulder isn't legal in any state except where otherwise posted (and to date, the only place I know that does this is California driving a carpool on the left shoulder immediately next to the wussy chain link fence that's supposed to stop cars from hitting each other head on at 80 MPH on the San Fernando Valley-Simi Valley Freeway just before it turns into a surface street in Simi Valley.
But then again, we're talking about the same state that renames everything after one actor that threatens to destroy our country with his legacy (Reagan's presidency and his protoge Bush and his son), but then turns around and elects another actor like they didn't learn anything the first time. And unanimously votes to eliminate laws regulating utility rates, then expects neighboring states to pick up the bill for them, so we're not talking about very bright people here.
It's usually banned because people need to park on them, and many states allow bicycles on any road. Oregon has a law requiring a bicycle greenway bypass to be built for any road that doesn't allow bicycles, so only the narrow freeways of inner Portland and a stretch through Salem don't allow bicycles. The freeway is a somewhat popular option for bicycle commuters because there's a whopping 15 feet between bicycles and motor traffic, no car doors or driveways to worry about, and the occasional easy merge across an exit or enterance lane: they're safer than surface streets.
In California, it's legal to turn into any lane when you're turning left (assuming there's only one left turn lane).
And the answers to the written portion of the test are available upon request while you're taking the test. You can also get your license with a high enough written score even if you fail the driving portion of the test in California. I don't know why any other state will let you surrender a California license for a local license without taking an actual driver's test first...
Here's another one: If you're stopping in a lane of traffic on a restricted access road where traffic isn't expected to stop (beltway, parkway, expressway, freeway, etc), hit your hazard flashers when you approach a traffic jam to give the people behind you you're about to stop in the middle of a freeway.
And while we're on the topic of being visible and warning other drivers about surprise moves, is it raining or foggy? Turn your headlights on. Are there cars coming the other way or are you behind someone? Shut off your high-beams and fog lights. And the bicycle lane is not for turning or passing unless posted otherwise...
Just because the truth hurts doesn't make it flamebait.
When will people learn...
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AJAX and IE7?
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...that people will not stop using IE until you stop supporting it? Fuck IE, code for the standard, if it breaks IE, tough crap, they can get another browser.
Now you want to sue people because they write software that doesn't work as well as you'd like?
Yeah. Courts generally expect that you get what you pay for. Commercial products should perform better than the free alternatives they compete against. If they can't, they shouldn't charge. At best, it's false advertising to charge money for a product that is obviously inferior to the free competition. Examples off the top of my head (and by no means complete): Trillian Pro as a Jabber client (woefully incomplete and massively unstable by 2001 standards, and it's 2006), Photoshop, Microsoft Windows, any webpage editor other than Amaya, Microsoft SQL, anything made by SCO, Daikatana, Opera, the PDA jabber client iMov (it sucks, but it's still more complete than Trillian), ClarisWorks, Microsoft Office, CD-ROM encyclopedias...
I recommend against using XHTML -- too many problems w/ Internet Explorer (and even Safari will render some things slightly off what you're used to, even when it's complaint XHTML)
It's better to code to the standard than code to a single broken browser. XHTML degrades gracefully: IE users will still get to see it, though (by Microsoft's arbitrary decision) not as cleanly as they would if Microsoft took the time to read the writing on the wall (ie, published standards everyone (but them by their own arbitrary choice) uses).
If you want to lock people into IE and alienate everyone else, by all means, code for IE. If you live in the real world where more than one browser exists and the law requires you to code for accessibility if you run a business, code for the validator instead.
This is apparently what passes for hate speech in Canada- off the cuff philosophical ramblings with no real force behind them whatsoever.
No, that's what passes for hate speech in the US. Canada does maintain a right to free speech, which is why you're wondering what happened to the complaint instead of what happened to freedom of speech. The US, by contrast, does not: Hence Cindy Sheenan and that senator's wife being arrested and charged with disturbing the peace because they wore t-shirts the president found personally offensive to a public speech (2006 State of the Union Address).
Get your facts straight before accusing a functional country of being as corrupt as Pakistan or 1930s Germany.
Target MUST take all reasonable actions to accomodate persons with disabilities.
Sorry, but absolute XHTML 1.0 compliance IS reasonable action to accomodate persons with disabilities. This was very brutally easily avoidable on their part. Why must you defend stupidity and promote the destruction of established standards?
I mean, provided that in doing so their managment fulfills their fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders, that is.
No. Complying to the letter of the law fulfills their fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders. That means everybody (including Target) needs to make reasonable accomodations at all locations (including online) to people with disabilities (including the blind). Breaking the law screws shareholders badly. By screwing the blind, Target screws it shareholders. If you own Target stock, stand with locked knees and hold your ankles with your hands for this one...
Target can still decide not to let this guy -- or, even, any blind person at all -- conduct business with them. Having to make allowances for a disability does not keep you from turning people away.
That might have been true prior to 1988, but since then, Target is subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1988 just like everyone else. If you can't write a website everybody can use, you might as well just rip out the wheelchair ramps, throw away automatic doors and lose the handicapped parking while you're at it.
And the funny thing is some permatourists (as in a tourist that forgot to leave, someone who moved here but doesn't know square one about the local culture and is disinterested in assimilation to the point of forcing their local culture where it doesn't belong. See also Californians.) look at me weird because I drink tapwater and from public fountains. But we know this about tap water in Oregon:
Among the most strict standards in North America
Most municipalities in Oregon (and all major cities), unlike elsewhere in the US, prohibit toxic industrial runoff like flouride in the drinking water (flouride may be great in toothpaste that gets spit back out, but is highly carcinogenic when ingested, such as in drinking water)
Water must be safe to drink without further treatment at the destination tap
A few cents per gallon
Meanwhile, we know this about bottled water
100% unregulated
Usually bottled by soft drink companies: This is water not good enough to even make Diet Tab with!
About $1 per pint
So which would you rather have? Known trustable water on a convieneint tap in at least three rooms of most buildings purchased wholesale on the cheap, or sodacan reject water priced more expensively than gasoline in almost any country's gas prices?
Do you realize that most parents have to work during the day and can't constantly keep an eye on what their kids are doing?
Just because you grew up as a latchkey kid with your parents coming home only to eat, sleep and fuck doesn't mean your kids have to. Besides, if you're old enough to have a family, you probably have the kind of job experience that with a little job hunting you could name your own hours and still bring home the bacon. Failing that, just because you don't want to parent your kids doesn't mean I want to pay to have people do it for you: Hire a nanny, don't have kids, put the fear of the Wrath of [mom|dad] in them without abusing them or don't complain that they turn out screwed up because you don't take the time to care for them and expect "the village" to raise your kids. It doesn't take a village, the village doesn't give a flying fuck. It takes you, the parent. If my mom managed to do that by her self on a single income with my father having run off to go get married to some drunk floozie he met way back in high school (yes, I think that highly of his new wife, and I know her), I would hope those among the slashdot crowd with enough social aptitude to procreate would have the same sense to know that kids don't raise themselves and total strangers shouldn't and probably won't do it for you.
They're your kids after all: We don't have an obligation to do jack shit other than make sure they attend school for you, and please stop pretending otherwise. We're not their parents, you need to be there for them or have a plan for their care for the other 17-24 hours they're not at school every day. Don't want to do that? You should have thought about that before you procreated. Have the guts to put your kids up for adoption and give them a better life. Otherwise, until they all turn 18 or get emancipated, it is your legal and moral obligation to raise them to be productive, thoughtful human beings that aren't going to be a burden on those around them or society at large. How dare you think we should do that for you.
I'm fairly convinced that waiting for the next Duke Nukem is more entertaining than actually playing the next Duke Nukem. If there's a next Duke Nukem. I'm not convinced it's not just a rumor mill scam to allow them to keep pressing the venture capital button eternally...
That way we can all have full opengl support and not the lame opengl game drivers by ATI. Nvidia's gaming card opengl drivers are better than ATIs
Not by enough to matter, and will probably never see the developers it needs to work right because nVidia's too much of SGI's bitch to do anything about the situation so they can open-source their drivers...
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Cygwin is nice. One of the first things I do on a Windows box (and about the only thing I ever use IE for) is go to start, run, and type iexplore "http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe"/code to launch straight into the current setup program and get myself an xterm, a proper shell and openssh to make my workday considerably less painful. Any OSX fan that spends any time in a shell will probably miss the shell before long, Cygwin provides that in Windows. It's too bad cygwin doesn't ship a win32 KDE...not having my keybindings, having the Start and Menu keys working as advertised instead of doing something useful, lack of multiple desktops and just overall rigidness makes Explorer get in the way more than anything...
But I need things like Kontact and X11...
It was Al Gore that claimed to have invented the Internet.
I can order that Debian GNU/Linux-preinstalled Dell desktop when?
Cry me a river. And quit claiming that Hans Island is yours while you're at it...
When I lived in downtown Portland, the building intercom just dialed each resident's phone number. I gave my landlord my cell-phone number. I was able to buzz myself into the building from my cellphone.
Passing on the hard shoulder isn't legal in any state except where otherwise posted (and to date, the only place I know that does this is California driving a carpool on the left shoulder immediately next to the wussy chain link fence that's supposed to stop cars from hitting each other head on at 80 MPH on the San Fernando Valley-Simi Valley Freeway just before it turns into a surface street in Simi Valley.
But then again, we're talking about the same state that renames everything after one actor that threatens to destroy our country with his legacy (Reagan's presidency and his protoge Bush and his son), but then turns around and elects another actor like they didn't learn anything the first time. And unanimously votes to eliminate laws regulating utility rates, then expects neighboring states to pick up the bill for them, so we're not talking about very bright people here.
It's usually banned because people need to park on them, and many states allow bicycles on any road. Oregon has a law requiring a bicycle greenway bypass to be built for any road that doesn't allow bicycles, so only the narrow freeways of inner Portland and a stretch through Salem don't allow bicycles. The freeway is a somewhat popular option for bicycle commuters because there's a whopping 15 feet between bicycles and motor traffic, no car doors or driveways to worry about, and the occasional easy merge across an exit or enterance lane: they're safer than surface streets.
And the answers to the written portion of the test are available upon request while you're taking the test. You can also get your license with a high enough written score even if you fail the driving portion of the test in California. I don't know why any other state will let you surrender a California license for a local license without taking an actual driver's test first...
Here's another one: If you're stopping in a lane of traffic on a restricted access road where traffic isn't expected to stop (beltway, parkway, expressway, freeway, etc), hit your hazard flashers when you approach a traffic jam to give the people behind you you're about to stop in the middle of a freeway.
And while we're on the topic of being visible and warning other drivers about surprise moves, is it raining or foggy? Turn your headlights on. Are there cars coming the other way or are you behind someone? Shut off your high-beams and fog lights. And the bicycle lane is not for turning or passing unless posted otherwise...
Windows Vista Capable Voting Machines Coming and some vague reference to Diebold and California. I think I'm reading too much Slashdot.
Fake award staged, problem of "biopiracy" (as if that's even a word) invented in large conspiracy to make Slashdot's front page.
Just because the truth hurts doesn't make it flamebait.
...that people will not stop using IE until you stop supporting it? Fuck IE, code for the standard, if it breaks IE, tough crap, they can get another browser.
How? You didn't leave a number.
Yeah. Courts generally expect that you get what you pay for. Commercial products should perform better than the free alternatives they compete against. If they can't, they shouldn't charge. At best, it's false advertising to charge money for a product that is obviously inferior to the free competition. Examples off the top of my head (and by no means complete): Trillian Pro as a Jabber client (woefully incomplete and massively unstable by 2001 standards, and it's 2006), Photoshop, Microsoft Windows, any webpage editor other than Amaya, Microsoft SQL, anything made by SCO, Daikatana, Opera, the PDA jabber client iMov (it sucks, but it's still more complete than Trillian), ClarisWorks, Microsoft Office, CD-ROM encyclopedias...
It's better to code to the standard than code to a single broken browser. XHTML degrades gracefully: IE users will still get to see it, though (by Microsoft's arbitrary decision) not as cleanly as they would if Microsoft took the time to read the writing on the wall (ie, published standards everyone (but them by their own arbitrary choice) uses).
If you want to lock people into IE and alienate everyone else, by all means, code for IE. If you live in the real world where more than one browser exists and the law requires you to code for accessibility if you run a business, code for the validator instead.
No, that's what passes for hate speech in the US. Canada does maintain a right to free speech, which is why you're wondering what happened to the complaint instead of what happened to freedom of speech. The US, by contrast, does not: Hence Cindy Sheenan and that senator's wife being arrested and charged with disturbing the peace because they wore t-shirts the president found personally offensive to a public speech (2006 State of the Union Address).
Get your facts straight before accusing a functional country of being as corrupt as Pakistan or 1930s Germany.
Sorry, but absolute XHTML 1.0 compliance IS reasonable action to accomodate persons with disabilities. This was very brutally easily avoidable on their part. Why must you defend stupidity and promote the destruction of established standards?
I mean, provided that in doing so their managment fulfills their fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders, that is.
No. Complying to the letter of the law fulfills their fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders. That means everybody (including Target) needs to make reasonable accomodations at all locations (including online) to people with disabilities (including the blind). Breaking the law screws shareholders badly. By screwing the blind, Target screws it shareholders. If you own Target stock, stand with locked knees and hold your ankles with your hands for this one...
That might have been true prior to 1988, but since then, Target is subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1988 just like everyone else. If you can't write a website everybody can use, you might as well just rip out the wheelchair ramps, throw away automatic doors and lose the handicapped parking while you're at it.
Why not just alphebetize your collection by author and title?
Meanwhile, we know this about bottled water
So which would you rather have? Known trustable water on a convieneint tap in at least three rooms of most buildings purchased wholesale on the cheap, or sodacan reject water priced more expensively than gasoline in almost any country's gas prices?
Just because you grew up as a latchkey kid with your parents coming home only to eat, sleep and fuck doesn't mean your kids have to. Besides, if you're old enough to have a family, you probably have the kind of job experience that with a little job hunting you could name your own hours and still bring home the bacon. Failing that, just because you don't want to parent your kids doesn't mean I want to pay to have people do it for you: Hire a nanny, don't have kids, put the fear of the Wrath of [mom|dad] in them without abusing them or don't complain that they turn out screwed up because you don't take the time to care for them and expect "the village" to raise your kids. It doesn't take a village, the village doesn't give a flying fuck. It takes you, the parent. If my mom managed to do that by her self on a single income with my father having run off to go get married to some drunk floozie he met way back in high school (yes, I think that highly of his new wife, and I know her), I would hope those among the slashdot crowd with enough social aptitude to procreate would have the same sense to know that kids don't raise themselves and total strangers shouldn't and probably won't do it for you.
They're your kids after all: We don't have an obligation to do jack shit other than make sure they attend school for you, and please stop pretending otherwise. We're not their parents, you need to be there for them or have a plan for their care for the other 17-24 hours they're not at school every day. Don't want to do that? You should have thought about that before you procreated. Have the guts to put your kids up for adoption and give them a better life. Otherwise, until they all turn 18 or get emancipated, it is your legal and moral obligation to raise them to be productive, thoughtful human beings that aren't going to be a burden on those around them or society at large. How dare you think we should do that for you.
I'm fairly convinced that waiting for the next Duke Nukem is more entertaining than actually playing the next Duke Nukem. If there's a next Duke Nukem. I'm not convinced it's not just a rumor mill scam to allow them to keep pressing the venture capital button eternally...
Not by enough to matter, and will probably never see the developers it needs to work right because nVidia's too much of SGI's bitch to do anything about the situation so they can open-source their drivers...
Heheh, SternoGL...