Why not do as you suggest and install the "best" application (of a type) by default, but also make it easy for a neophyte to choose among the variations? I don't think the issue is too many choices, but too little thoughtful organization of those choices.
...but not completely novel. Seems like a combination of a mouse and a Palm Tungsten 5-way navigator. (In fact, I don't think Palm exactly invented that, either.)
I like the idea of algorithm-based walks. But most of the examples given, while interesting from a chaotic standpoint, are too deterministic for my taste--that is, each time a walk is started, it will take the walker on exactly the same path. More interesting walks might be generated by starting with a random seed (say, wall clock time, the calendar date, or how many days until the milk in the fridge "expires").
I think they may already be putting a tax on hybrid vehicles specifically because they don't use as much gas. Pretty ironic for a state with a high environmentalist contingent.
Absolutely it's about fear. It's that fear that made me abandon an idea for a program to let people get around restrictions on how they link to certain Web pages. Maybe I'm being too paranoid, but I'm sure that someone would end up hating it enough to find a way that it violated the DMCA. I love programming, but I'm not ready to go to jail for it.
It refuses to work. Internet Explorer tells me that my security settings forbid it. This is even when I have my security settings set wide f---ing open to accept all signed and unsigned ActiveX controls. This is even after re-installing straight off of the CD and installing Service Pack 1.
Right now, I'm burning through one of my free support requests to Microsoft to try to get to the bottom of it. They've sent me a couple of messages so far with suggestions of things to try. Guess what the most recent one said? "Lower your security settings." This despite the fact that I clearly stated in my original support request that I already tried lowering the security settings.
The only nice thing I can say about Microsoft is that I know someone who works there, who's willing to buy stuff at cost at the Company Store for me.:-)
Who else noticed the interesting timing between this Ask Slashdot question and the link to ESR's "Halloween VII" (which says that Microsoft is going to try making the
I took a look at paypalwarning.com. I'm rather amused to see Citibank recommended as a more trustworthy provider. With friends like those, who needs enemas^H^Hies?
Yup, it's easy. Of course, it'd be almost as easy to write a proxying CGI script that sends a fake "referer" header to the Web site in order to fetch the desired content anyway.
"The ability to refer to a document (or a person or any thing else) is in general a fundamental right of free speech to the same extent that speech is free. Making the reference with a hypertext link is more efficient but changes nothing else. . . . There is no reason to have to ask before making a link to another site."
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It'll be interesting to see what impact this has on a similar law that was just recently signed into law by Washington state's governor.
Why not do as you suggest and install the "best" application (of a type) by default, but also make it easy for a neophyte to choose among the variations? I don't think the issue is too many choices, but too little thoughtful organization of those choices.
...but not completely novel. Seems like a combination of a mouse and a Palm Tungsten 5-way navigator. (In fact, I don't think Palm exactly invented that, either.)
Dang, they must be using better digital media than I am...
Come on, what scientist wouldn't love to see a VW bug burning up in re-entry?
"Wanna know why California had a power crisis?"
I already heard.
Yayy, more leap seconds!
In Soviet Russia, Windows buys access to you!
Um, wait a minute...
I like the idea of algorithm-based walks. But most of the examples given, while interesting from a chaotic standpoint, are too deterministic for my taste--that is, each time a walk is started, it will take the walker on exactly the same path. More interesting walks might be generated by starting with a random seed (say, wall clock time, the calendar date, or how many days until the milk in the fridge "expires").
"Sound Recording Rule of Thumb: There are NO sound recordings in the Public Domain."
Unless, of course, they've been explicitly placed there. (See Negativland, for example.)
I think they may already be putting a tax on hybrid vehicles specifically because they don't use as much gas. Pretty ironic for a state with a high environmentalist contingent.
"Some day I hope you'll understand that there are things more important than paychecks."
Yup. Unemployment benefits.
Absolutely it's about fear. It's that fear that made me abandon an idea for a program to let people get around restrictions on how they link to certain Web pages. Maybe I'm being too paranoid, but I'm sure that someone would end up hating it enough to find a way that it violated the DMCA. I love programming, but I'm not ready to go to jail for it.
It refuses to work. Internet Explorer tells me that my security settings forbid it. This is even when I have my security settings set wide f---ing open to accept all signed and unsigned ActiveX controls. This is even after re-installing straight off of the CD and installing Service Pack 1.
:-)
Right now, I'm burning through one of my free support requests to Microsoft to try to get to the bottom of it. They've sent me a couple of messages so far with suggestions of things to try. Guess what the most recent one said? "Lower your security settings." This despite the fact that I clearly stated in my original support request that I already tried lowering the security settings.
The only nice thing I can say about Microsoft is that I know someone who works there, who's willing to buy stuff at cost at the Company Store for me.
Well, apparently he lives in Turkey. Anyone know what the track record is for extraditing Turkish (h|cr)ackers to the U.S.?
"Thus a poetic metaphor that those who are lead around are heavy and stationary as lead weights."
And they use lead to weight their stationery.
"XP is ROCK SOLID."
Cool. Maybe you can tell me how ActiveX remains broken even after a complete off-the-CD re-installation of XP on my machine?
In cases like this, the appropriate term is not "harvesting"; it's "poaching."
Who else noticed the interesting timing between this Ask Slashdot question and the link to ESR's "Halloween VII" (which says that Microsoft is going to try making the
Disgruntled employee turns boss's workstation into "paper" airplane.
I took a look at paypalwarning.com. I'm rather amused to see Citibank recommended as a more trustworthy provider. With friends like those, who needs enemas^H^Hies?
Watch the DVD version of The Insider sometime and maybe it will start computing for you.
Yup, it's easy. Of course, it'd be almost as easy to write a proxying CGI script that sends a fake "referer" header to the Web site in order to fetch the desired content anyway.
"The ability to refer to a document (or a person or any thing else) is in general a fundamental right of free speech to the same extent that speech is free. Making the reference with a hypertext link is more efficient but changes nothing else. . . . There is no reason to have to ask before making a link to another site."
--Tim Berners-Lee
Why not 802.11b wireless?