you're putting words in Martin's mouth. your passion is commendable, but you're citing it, not Martin when you say "he wants it to fly like the dove in the wind."
Martin has very specific objections to intellectual property, and he does claim that information, specifically the recognition of work, follows a set of rules and guidelines. though i would be silly not to back up the "plagiarism = quoted without source" argument with Martin's own words: Plagiarism means using the ideas of others without adequate acknowledgement.
in fact, that sentence begins two paragraphs that recognise that plagiarism is a bad thing. what he's against here is copyright as a tool to combat it, which he argues is ineffective.
but he DOES NOT call for the removal of credit and the lineage of knowledge. you are blinded by your hatred of corporate greed, which is understandable, but what you fail to take into account is that knowledge is cumulative, and that hard work should be acknowledged. Martin is not so much of a fool as to believe that authors should not be credited with their creation. his argument is against their creations, the knowledge that they provide, is held from those who need it most using corporate funded law to enhance PROFIT. he has nothing against recognition.
She's apparently a vocal opponent of the drug war. i would say US government vs marijuana smokers though, as it'd resonate more with the audience here:)
they've dealt with the idea of a Gau'ould forming a present-day cult, so the idea of them sticking around on Earth still pretending to be gods isn't outside of the rules.
NO, because, Firefox (and I think also Mozilla) now have a function to automatically dowload new versions or security fixes.
too bad it's COMPLETELY BROKEN. the mozillazine forums are littered with complaints (and i've personally seen this in dozens of my own installations) that it incessantly tries to download.9 while ALWAYS thinking it's out of date--always showing the update icon. basically this means that given a week's use, everyone who has far more important things on their mind is going to start ignoring that little talk bubble on the bottom right of the browser and the feature is forever exactly what it is right now - worthless.
it's typography 101. wide columns make for bad readability. the mind loses track of its row and scanning back and forth for each line of text is straining on the eye. for instance, on slashdot, the text would have to be more than 200% its size in order for this simple rule of typography to be obeyed. there are several cases in which Nielsen's recommendations fly in the face of decades and sometimes (as in this case) centuries of applied experience have taught us.
Nielsen, much to his chagrin, is not the voice of god, and he is often flatly wrong if not disrespectful. while it would be nice, as i believe is his goal, to allow the reader to resize their browser to the column width they are comfortable with, the prospect of asking a reader to change their browser window's width for every other page they visit is simply laughable in its utter disregard for the viewer's time and patience.
perhaps if monitors were longer than they are wide, this wouldn't be as much of an issue, but then you run into usability on the desktop where a wider desktop is more conductive to productivity, lessens strain on the neck, and a host of other factors.
mr Nielsen sees things too often in black and white and appears to form many of his opinions in a vaccuum, imho.
I've heard of alternate GUIs for Windows, but since Windows ties you down to using a GUI for nearly everything, I can't imagine that you'd ever have enough flexibility.
you *seriously* need to take another look at the various shell replacements for windows. litestep alone is so ridiculously configurable i'd say you'd feel right at home with it.
my family resists because there's one particular bug that gets them all the time. on long pages, the bottom 10% of the page simply won't render, and will just repeat the 10-20 pixels above it over and over again...
as PHP has grown more complex, it has continued to support and enhance the same basic tools that made it easy to use in the first place. what PHP is doing is making more advanced tools *available*, they're not making them necessary for use of the language. i would compare the maturation more to, say, QuickBasic which added functionality above BASIC while continuing to support its basics rather than the rehaul of Visual Basic into VB.NET
if i were to say PHP has had a change in scope, i would say that it is attempting to bridge basics to mid-level programming rather than leave the basics behind.
I went to a Daily Show taping recently, and before the show, John likes to have a little Q&A with the audience and lighten things up. one audience member asked him how he feels about this trend, and his reply was along the lines of "don't buy the hype." his view is that while people are making a conscious choice to view the Daily Show and enjoy the information presented (and its format), the assumption that this is the old place they're getting their news is profoundly naive. basically, that you can't escape the news. online, on television, talking to your friends, news--local, national, global, what-have-you, is an integral part of our society and claiming that people obtain their knowledge of world events from a single source is ignorant.
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i don't post as AC, so sorry, you've only been showing off how utterly retarded you are (to me, at least) for a couple of posts. :)
you're putting words in Martin's mouth. your passion is commendable, but you're citing it, not Martin when you say "he wants it to fly like the dove in the wind."
Martin has very specific objections to intellectual property, and he does claim that information, specifically the recognition of work, follows a set of rules and guidelines. though i would be silly not to back up the "plagiarism = quoted without source" argument with Martin's own words: Plagiarism means using the ideas of others without adequate acknowledgement.
in fact, that sentence begins two paragraphs that recognise that plagiarism is a bad thing. what he's against here is copyright as a tool to combat it, which he argues is ineffective.
but he DOES NOT call for the removal of credit and the lineage of knowledge. you are blinded by your hatred of corporate greed, which is understandable, but what you fail to take into account is that knowledge is cumulative, and that hard work should be acknowledged. Martin is not so much of a fool as to believe that authors should not be credited with their creation. his argument is against their creations, the knowledge that they provide, is held from those who need it most using corporate funded law to enhance PROFIT. he has nothing against recognition.
She's apparently a vocal opponent of the drug war. i would say US government vs marijuana smokers though, as it'd resonate more with the audience here :)
they're talking about fuel costs, basically. scramjet engines run in oxygen pulled from the very air they're flying through.
you could have looked at the links. MobiTV bills itself as the first *global* cellphone based television network.
no, i can drive myself to the porno shop...
*gets the keys*
THE GRAVITY WELL IS AN ANOMALY!
(for those who don't get it: I DO NOT LIKE THIS GRAVITY!. or perhaps you simply lack the pokey gene)
Real doesn't have any say, but who should is you and me.
Saddam HAD weapons of mass destruction but that was a long time ago. ... right, you pasted that he said exactly that ...
It's mind-numbingly clear that Iraq had WMD
also treason!
and other words that begin with the letter t!
patents protect a specific implementation. you can't patent the idea of putting a light in a box, you patent how you do it.
"Retarded"
pebkac.
PS: I'm sending this from my hospital bed using my 17-inch PowerBook and an Airport Express.
dude's in the hospital and still manages a plug. bravo, mate.
to show you how much you need a deadbolt.
yeah, no, that sounds like a bad idea.
no Yu was the oldest of the system lords, that's why he went senile.
they've dealt with the idea of a Gau'ould forming a present-day cult, so the idea of them sticking around on Earth still pretending to be gods isn't outside of the rules.
episode info
NO, because, Firefox (and I think also Mozilla) now have a function to automatically dowload new versions or security fixes.
.9 while ALWAYS thinking it's out of date--always showing the update icon. basically this means that given a week's use, everyone who has far more important things on their mind is going to start ignoring that little talk bubble on the bottom right of the browser and the feature is forever exactly what it is right now - worthless.
too bad it's COMPLETELY BROKEN. the mozillazine forums are littered with complaints (and i've personally seen this in dozens of my own installations) that it incessantly tries to download
it's typography 101. wide columns make for bad readability. the mind loses track of its row and scanning back and forth for each line of text is straining on the eye. for instance, on slashdot, the text would have to be more than 200% its size in order for this simple rule of typography to be obeyed. there are several cases in which Nielsen's recommendations fly in the face of decades and sometimes (as in this case) centuries of applied experience have taught us.
Nielsen, much to his chagrin, is not the voice of god, and he is often flatly wrong if not disrespectful. while it would be nice, as i believe is his goal, to allow the reader to resize their browser to the column width they are comfortable with, the prospect of asking a reader to change their browser window's width for every other page they visit is simply laughable in its utter disregard for the viewer's time and patience.
perhaps if monitors were longer than they are wide, this wouldn't be as much of an issue, but then you run into usability on the desktop where a wider desktop is more conductive to productivity, lessens strain on the neck, and a host of other factors.
mr Nielsen sees things too often in black and white and appears to form many of his opinions in a vaccuum, imho.
I've heard of alternate GUIs for Windows, but since Windows ties you down to using a GUI for nearly everything, I can't imagine that you'd ever have enough flexibility.
you *seriously* need to take another look at the various shell replacements for windows. litestep alone is so ridiculously configurable i'd say you'd feel right at home with it.
note: i was making fun of litestep there.
my family resists because there's one particular bug that gets them all the time. on long pages, the bottom 10% of the page simply won't render, and will just repeat the 10-20 pixels above it over and over again...
as PHP has grown more complex, it has continued to support and enhance the same basic tools that made it easy to use in the first place. what PHP is doing is making more advanced tools *available*, they're not making them necessary for use of the language. i would compare the maturation more to, say, QuickBasic which added functionality above BASIC while continuing to support its basics rather than the rehaul of Visual Basic into VB.NET
if i were to say PHP has had a change in scope, i would say that it is attempting to bridge basics to mid-level programming rather than leave the basics behind.
"the assumption that this is the old place they're getting their news"
:(
should read:
"the assumption that this is the only place they're getting their news"
stupid inability to edit.
I went to a Daily Show taping recently, and before the show, John likes to have a little Q&A with the audience and lighten things up. one audience member asked him how he feels about this trend, and his reply was along the lines of "don't buy the hype." his view is that while people are making a conscious choice to view the Daily Show and enjoy the information presented (and its format), the assumption that this is the old place they're getting their news is profoundly naive. basically, that you can't escape the news. online, on television, talking to your friends, news--local, national, global, what-have-you, is an integral part of our society and claiming that people obtain their knowledge of world events from a single source is ignorant.
i feel that i agree with his assessment.