That's because they are flashy and filled with crap. They contain nothing useful for the reader. Newspaper ads are different, they have more connection to you and even contain useful information
Soooo... advertising people, why is it that you insist on putting that annoyong flashing moving and sometimes even sounding crap on your customers' sites? It can and will be blocked. The more annoying, the more likely it will be blocked - and with it usually also the less annoying ads. Why is it that I have no problems with ads in printed media while ads on the net annoy the hell out of me - or used to as I am as avid an ad-blocker as they come thanks to you.
Why is it that I actually used to read ads in eg. those old computer magazines, but would rather get a root canal without anesthesia than suffer the barrage of brain-frying crap you insist on polluting the 'net with? As I did use to read those ads I assume I was part of some target market. Do your ties limit the bloodstream to the withering remains of what used to be brains up there in your empty heads so that you can not see this fact even though it hits you over the head with a gold hammer wrapped in the declaration of human rights?
I'm still using a Thinkpad T23 with a 1.2 GHz PIII-m as my main system. The fastest thing in the house has a 2 GHz P4. Both processors are fast enough for just about anything I'll want to do with them, even though I have to wait a bit longer for my builds to run through and I don't really fancy building eg. OpenOffice with them. Speed is overrated. What is not overrated, and what will finally get me to look for something a bit newer than these ~10 year old systems is memory. These PIII and P4 boxes don't handle more than 1 GB. When memory was expensive that seemed a lot. Now that it is not I'm getting more and more envious of those 4GB+ machines which sit on the desk doing nothing at all while I'm building the software they run on my limited hardware. Even though it is intentional that I use limited hardware to create software - if it runs here it will will run like greased lightning on modern stuff - that trick is getting a bit old now...
I just had to retrieve my ancient, sticky (because of the disintegrated rubbery coating) and mostly forgotten Amstrad PDA 600 from the bottom of a drawer to insert a borrowed CR2032 battery and three half-charged batteries so I could turn it on and watch it do its page-flipping thing......and flip it does. On a touchscreen no less. Click the 'binder rings' and it flips the page forward or back depending on whether you click the upper or lower rings.
The copyright message on this thing says '1992, 1993'. It is quite likely that there are even older copyrights involved in the making of this first of the touchscreen equipped, handwriting recognizing PDA's. It predates the Apple Newton by several weeks...
1993 is a long time ago... but it would not surprise me to find page-flipping somewhere in Engelbart's notes.
So Microsoft, sod off with your useless patent. I hope you did not pay to much to the swindlers who told you it was patentable.
The naming of centuries is actually sometimes confusing. In the Netherlands the space of time between 1900 and 1999 is called 'de twintigste eeuw' (the twentieth century) while in Sweden they speak about 'nittonhundratalet' ('the nineteenhundreds') but also '20:e århundradet' ('the twentieth century). Our house was built in 1700-something so in Sweden it is a 'sjuttonhundratalsvilla' (seventeenhundreds house) while in Dutch is would be a '18de eeuws huis' (18th century house).
Funny, that. I have tried Chromium on my state of the art IBM ThinkPad T23 and found it to suffer from UI lag and stutter way more than Seamonkey does. I keep on trying the most recent versions (now at 6.0.444.0) but the problem remains: open a tab, from within that tab open some links in background tabs and watch the whole thing stutter and halt regularly until the last background tab has finished its business - whatever that business may be as Chromium defers rendering background tabs until those tabs are displayed. Seamonkey (and its sibling Firefox) also have some of these problems but they are not as pronounced and aggravating as they are in Chromium.
Maybe Chromium works better om SMP machines (think multicore or multiprocessor) but as I don't have one of those since I retired my BP6 I can't say. On uniprocessor (or 'unicore' as that fits the bill better in these octacore processor days) configurations Seamonkey and its ilk are better behaved.
One annoying Gecko bug is that it sometimes manages to eat 100% cpu trying to resolve a name. That is a process which should not even show up on the processor statistics but somehow it does.
Well, that is exactly what happened when music started to appear on compact disc. The price was double that of the vinyl version with the excuse of higher production costs and having to recoup investments. It took only a very short time - less than 6 months IIRC - for those production costs to be lower than those of vinyl records but the price stayed the same, double that of vinyl.
Book publishers are trying to pull the same stunt here, only without the excuse of higher production costs. They want to use the shift from paper to electronic paper to jack up prices - and value perception. I have never gotten used to the high price of CD's, records used to cost around 17 (Dutch) guilders - the guilder was probably around half a dollar - when CD's were introduced for 42 guilders so that price has stuck in my head. Record = 17 guilders or now around 8 euro. As I stopped buying full-price records when I finally got a CD player I don't really know what they cost now but it will be more than what they're worth to me. The same goes for books, an electronic book should never - ever - cost more than a printed version. I'd pay half the price of the printed book directly to the author - who will make out like a bandit compared to what they get in the current scheme - but I will never - ever - pay a publisher more for less. They have tried to bite me many times and failed to do so, one more greedy mongrel won't change that.
If 'bottomfeeder' and 'pondscum' were not mutually exclusive I'd call those scumbags @ RIAA 'bottomfeeding pondscum' but alas, that is not possible. I'll be gracious and keep it at 'slimy bottomfeeders' which does has a somewhat pondscummy ring to it.
a priest rape a kid, my parents doing it, a cop assaulting someone
Something is not right with our society's morals... This line should be part of a psychological test, 'which of these does not belong'.
Did your parents truly commit a crime in conceiving you? I can understand that you do not relish the prospect of observing them in the act but to compare it to the actions of the pope's minions or police violence is a bit overboard.
That's the price you pay for unlocked hardware. There are exceptions to the rule, (OS X) but they are very few and far between.
Eh? Assuming that you are talking about the user installing software instead of the software installing itself without the users approval please elaborate why OS X is an 'exception to the rule'? If you install 'see dancing bunnies NOW' on anything Apple you're just as p0wn3d as you would when you install it on anything else.
And 'price you pay for unlocked hardware'? Bovine Excrement de luxe! Those locks are not there to keep the crooks out, did you think that was the idea? I don't have a single bit of locked hardware but have no fears when I apt-get whatever. No locks needed. They are there for YOU.
In search for something to explain the concept of 'money' I ended up with describing it as 'compressed time'. Someone works for you in return for money - he gives up his time in return for your money. He can use that money to make someone else work for him, be it a farmer who grows a head of lettuce or a mechanic who fixes his bicycle. Most uses for money can so be related to time while some of them seem more related to naturally occurring scarcity, eg. the use of money to acquire precious metals. All these 'simple' uses of money have in common that the money directly relates to something tangible: time and scarcity.
This seems wholly disconnected from what is happening in the financial world where they now are looking for even more magical tricks to keep their illusion going. Are they trying to do what seemed impossible to everyone from the alchemists to Einstein and beyond? Are they trying to create more time, to find a way around the fact that one bread or fish divided makes many crumbs but nothing more?
Of course not. They might be devious but they are not stupid. All they want to do is keep the circus going. As long as people hand over their money they will continue to do their magic tricks to bamboozle the onlookers. They know they are just tricks, just like a magician knows that rabbit he just pulled from his hat did not spring into existence spontaneously but was dragged by its ears from a hidden cavity. They want to breed money like you can breed rabbits. Just like rabbits the money wants food to grow. Rabbits eat grass, mostly.
If it's based on GPL code and they don't want to release the whole thing under the GPL, they'll need to rewrite the sections under the GPL before they can have their way with it.
ONLY if they want to distribute the code. If they only want to use it in-house they can lock it up in chains of gold for all the GPL cares. The GPL is a copyright license and thus only deals with limiting COPY rights, not with limiting USE rights. That is what EULA's are for...
It is important to make this distinction. By not making the distinction you only play into the hands of those who wish to denounce the GPL and other free software licenses. They could use your lines to show the dangers of using these licenses, even though what you say is wrong.
it looks like they could have saved a whole lot of trouble by investing in WindowMaker and GNUStep
As soon as GNUStep were to gain traction Apple would aim its cadre of legally-trained rats at it in order to keep it from becoming a viable free source-compatible build target for OS-X software.
How am I going to get rid of the obnoxious ads written in HTML5?
Simple really. Either those ads will be recognizable on the block level...
<someblock id=annoyingad>...</someblock>
...and they can be filtered out that way or the next generation of ad blockers will work like the current crop of spam blockers by comparing block signatures in pages to known ads. If the block matches the ad is blocked or hidden or delayed or greyed or silenced or... whatever the user wants.
This race has been run and the ad blockers have won. As long as computers remain freely programmable there will be ways to make them filter out crud.
As long as they remain freely programmable... so make sure you don't lose that freedom!
As to why Apple wants it to go away, there are lots of reasons but the most important is probably, it is just good business.
Apple wants Flash - and any other platform which can be used to create something resembling an application - to go away because those platforms allow others to target their precious without paying the ferryman. If someone were to find a way to create installable apps using only the stuff installed on their platform they'd find a way to disable it come the next firmware release and/or write some clause into the EULA that explicitly forbids some essential part of the process. Apple goods are to be used as Apple says they should.
By using the concept 'good taste' you push Apple products even further into the realm of fashion. Taste is as subjective as it gets and to claim that preferring Apple products shows you have 'good taste' shows you don't judge Apple products by objective criteria but more by whether they appeal to your sense of fashion.
Some people claim that those who wear clothes which are in fashion show they have 'good taste'. Nobody will claim those fashionable people wear factory-ripped jeans with holes and patches because those jeans are 'better' than a pair of un-worn, hole-free jeans. They are fashionable, the in-crowd wears them. If you want to be seen as part of the in-crowd you wear them as well. Not because they are better.
ISP bandwidth caps and the lack of network neutrality will prevent that from being successful.
No, those two just play into any potential success of a scheme like this. The 'game servers' would be hosted at the ISP's themselves so that there is no upstream bandwidth consumption and the ISP can claim to be generous to their customers - 'we offer unlimited gameplay for "only" $zillion,-'. The ISP can make money by hosting those game servers and receiving part of the subscription fees.
If all this sounds like a pernicious scheme that never should see the light of day I can only say I agree. It also makes it all the more likely that something like this will be implemented.
ah, but you did notice that Sophos is in the business of selling anti-virus software? It should not come as a surprise then that they tell you you need it on your phone. They'd try to convince you you need anti-virus on your washing machine and your microwave.
"Scientific publishers" are parasites which have spread like a cancer. A healthy dose of these ketones would be in order to contain this threat. I do a lot of searches for veterinary medicine articles to help solve difficult cases. In most cases those searches end up producing a host of Elsevier/Wiley/etc pages demanding payment to read the article which they hold hostage. What have those publishers done to be allowed to put up this paywall?
The sooner they are removed from the publishing cycle the better it will be for all, except their shareholders for whom I frankly don't give a damn. These self-appointed tax collectors singlehandedly manage to negate the advantage of modern communications technology by putting up an artifical and costly barrier to entry which does nothing for scientific research but everything for their own wallets.
What made you think that we here in the Olde Worlde thought you would be laughing about our ashy situation? I have not heard anything even remotely resembling such an accusation. Nothing in the media, nothing from 'real people', zilch, nada, niente, nichts...
Reading the proposals by the MAFIAA I can not help but notice that they keep on referring to the act of copyright infringement as 'copyright theft'. As far as I know copyright law does not deal with theft, it deals with infringement on the limited rights given to the copyright holder. Copyright theft sounds more like someone breaks into some fictional 'copyright register' and steals the actual copyrights, denying the original copyright holder of those rights in the future.
I can only assume that the actual laws which they buy are worded more correctly but if ever someone were to be sued for 'copyright theft' I assume this would be grounds for dismissal. After all, the copyrights can not be stolen if the copyright holder still has them and copyright law does not deal with stolen property.
I can't see the video due to Websense at work blocking Youtube
So? You have broadband at home I assume? What keeps you from running a proxy on that? Those silly web filters will only disappear once their utter futility has been proven enough for even the most dimwitted CIO. Those filters are not an alternative for creating a challenging work environment. If people want to waste time on the job they'll find something to waste it on, filters be damned...
Good! Splendid! If this means that infernal twitterbird gets removed from all those sites it has been showing up I'd say have them plaster all their twittertwatter with Re: herbal v14gr4 poker gambling ads 'till the cows come home.
Twitter is a bad idea. It might fit in the attention-span deficient, Idol-aspiring 5 minutes of fame ideal of a dumbed-down happy consumer society but I don't want that fork of the decision tree to become the set future. There is still time to change track.
Throw the switch! Kill the bird! Stamp it down!
Next on the menu: Holler, the new twitter! Scream out loud to all the world!
The completion has nothing to do with the utilities. BASH has programmable completion, and the program usually decides what to do based on the firstr token (i.e. the command name). It will then make finer grained decisions based on the argument before the cursor.
Have a look at the contents of the/etc/bash_completion.d/ directory:
$ ls/etc/bash_completion.d/ ant bzr dd gcc imagemagick lisp mkinitrd p4 qemu samba tar xmlwf apache2.2-common bzr.simple debconf gcl info lvm mock pbuilder quilt sbcl tcpdump xmms
...etc, the list does not come through the lame lameness filter.
Notice those individual tool/command names? Those are completion snippets for the specific command. A tool author can create one of those to tailor bash completion for his/her creation.
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Soooo... advertising people, why is it that you insist on putting that annoyong flashing moving and sometimes even sounding crap on your customers' sites? It can and will be blocked. The more annoying, the more likely it will be blocked - and with it usually also the less annoying ads. Why is it that I have no problems with ads in printed media while ads on the net annoy the hell out of me - or used to as I am as avid an ad-blocker as they come thanks to you.
Why is it that I actually used to read ads in eg. those old computer magazines, but would rather get a root canal without anesthesia than suffer the barrage of brain-frying crap you insist on polluting the 'net with? As I did use to read those ads I assume I was part of some target market. Do your ties limit the bloodstream to the withering remains of what used to be brains up there in your empty heads so that you can not see this fact even though it hits you over the head with a gold hammer wrapped in the declaration of human rights?
Stoopid.
I'm still using a Thinkpad T23 with a 1.2 GHz PIII-m as my main system. The fastest thing in the house has a 2 GHz P4. Both processors are fast enough for just about anything I'll want to do with them, even though I have to wait a bit longer for my builds to run through and I don't really fancy building eg. OpenOffice with them. Speed is overrated. What is not overrated, and what will finally get me to look for something a bit newer than these ~10 year old systems is memory. These PIII and P4 boxes don't handle more than 1 GB. When memory was expensive that seemed a lot. Now that it is not I'm getting more and more envious of those 4GB+ machines which sit on the desk doing nothing at all while I'm building the software they run on my limited hardware. Even though it is intentional that I use limited hardware to create software - if it runs here it will will run like greased lightning on modern stuff - that trick is getting a bit old now...
I just had to retrieve my ancient, sticky (because of the disintegrated rubbery coating) and mostly forgotten Amstrad PDA 600 from the bottom of a drawer to insert a borrowed CR2032 battery and three half-charged batteries so I could turn it on and watch it do its page-flipping thing... ...and flip it does. On a touchscreen no less. Click the 'binder rings' and it flips the page forward or back depending on whether you click the upper or lower rings.
The copyright message on this thing says '1992, 1993'. It is quite likely that there are even older copyrights involved in the making of this first of the touchscreen equipped, handwriting recognizing PDA's. It predates the Apple Newton by several weeks...
1993 is a long time ago... but it would not surprise me to find page-flipping somewhere in Engelbart's notes.
So Microsoft, sod off with your useless patent. I hope you did not pay to much to the swindlers who told you it was patentable.
The naming of centuries is actually sometimes confusing. In the Netherlands the space of time between 1900 and 1999 is called 'de twintigste eeuw' (the twentieth century) while in Sweden they speak about 'nittonhundratalet' ('the nineteenhundreds') but also '20:e århundradet' ('the twentieth century). Our house was built in 1700-something so in Sweden it is a 'sjuttonhundratalsvilla' (seventeenhundreds house) while in Dutch is would be a '18de eeuws huis' (18th century house).
Funny, that. I have tried Chromium on my state of the art IBM ThinkPad T23 and found it to suffer from UI lag and stutter way more than Seamonkey does. I keep on trying the most recent versions (now at 6.0.444.0) but the problem remains: open a tab, from within that tab open some links in background tabs and watch the whole thing stutter and halt regularly until the last background tab has finished its business - whatever that business may be as Chromium defers rendering background tabs until those tabs are displayed. Seamonkey (and its sibling Firefox) also have some of these problems but they are not as pronounced and aggravating as they are in Chromium.
Maybe Chromium works better om SMP machines (think multicore or multiprocessor) but as I don't have one of those since I retired my BP6 I can't say. On uniprocessor (or 'unicore' as that fits the bill better in these octacore processor days) configurations Seamonkey and its ilk are better behaved.
One annoying Gecko bug is that it sometimes manages to eat 100% cpu trying to resolve a name. That is a process which should not even show up on the processor statistics but somehow it does.
Well, that is exactly what happened when music started to appear on compact disc. The price was double that of the vinyl version with the excuse of higher production costs and having to recoup investments. It took only a very short time - less than 6 months IIRC - for those production costs to be lower than those of vinyl records but the price stayed the same, double that of vinyl.
Book publishers are trying to pull the same stunt here, only without the excuse of higher production costs. They want to use the shift from paper to electronic paper to jack up prices - and value perception. I have never gotten used to the high price of CD's, records used to cost around 17 (Dutch) guilders - the guilder was probably around half a dollar - when CD's were introduced for 42 guilders so that price has stuck in my head. Record = 17 guilders or now around 8 euro. As I stopped buying full-price records when I finally got a CD player I don't really know what they cost now but it will be more than what they're worth to me. The same goes for books, an electronic book should never - ever - cost more than a printed version. I'd pay half the price of the printed book directly to the author - who will make out like a bandit compared to what they get in the current scheme - but I will never - ever - pay a publisher more for less. They have tried to bite me many times and failed to do so, one more greedy mongrel won't change that.
My head has a built-in range check and its brain tells me how far behind I am behind the car in front of me.
If 'bottomfeeder' and 'pondscum' were not mutually exclusive I'd call those scumbags @ RIAA 'bottomfeeding pondscum' but alas, that is not possible. I'll be gracious and keep it at 'slimy bottomfeeders' which does has a somewhat pondscummy ring to it.
Something is not right with our society's morals... This line should be part of a psychological test, 'which of these does not belong'.
Did your parents truly commit a crime in conceiving you? I can understand that you do not relish the prospect of observing them in the act but to compare it to the actions of the pope's minions or police violence is a bit overboard.
Eh? Assuming that you are talking about the user installing software instead of the software installing itself without the users approval please elaborate why OS X is an 'exception to the rule'? If you install 'see dancing bunnies NOW' on anything Apple you're just as p0wn3d as you would when you install it on anything else.
And 'price you pay for unlocked hardware'? Bovine Excrement de luxe! Those locks are not there to keep the crooks out, did you think that was the idea? I don't have a single bit of locked hardware but have no fears when I apt-get whatever. No locks needed. They are there for YOU.
Don't believe everything the Apple priest says.
In search for something to explain the concept of 'money' I ended up with describing it as 'compressed time'. Someone works for you in return for money - he gives up his time in return for your money. He can use that money to make someone else work for him, be it a farmer who grows a head of lettuce or a mechanic who fixes his bicycle. Most uses for money can so be related to time while some of them seem more related to naturally occurring scarcity, eg. the use of money to acquire precious metals. All these 'simple' uses of money have in common that the money directly relates to something tangible: time and scarcity.
This seems wholly disconnected from what is happening in the financial world where they now are looking for even more magical tricks to keep their illusion going. Are they trying to do what seemed impossible to everyone from the alchemists to Einstein and beyond? Are they trying to create more time, to find a way around the fact that one bread or fish divided makes many crumbs but nothing more?
Of course not. They might be devious but they are not stupid. All they want to do is keep the circus going. As long as people hand over their money they will continue to do their magic tricks to bamboozle the onlookers. They know they are just tricks, just like a magician knows that rabbit he just pulled from his hat did not spring into existence spontaneously but was dragged by its ears from a hidden cavity. They want to breed money like you can breed rabbits. Just like rabbits the money wants food to grow. Rabbits eat grass, mostly.
And money? What does money eat to grow?
Money eats people. It eats us.
Donner - or Donar in Dutch and Althochdeutsch - is the same god as Thor. No problem there.
ONLY if they want to distribute the code. If they only want to use it in-house they can lock it up in chains of gold for all the GPL cares. The GPL is a copyright license and thus only deals with limiting COPY rights, not with limiting USE rights. That is what EULA's are for...
It is important to make this distinction. By not making the distinction you only play into the hands of those who wish to denounce the GPL and other free software licenses. They could use your lines to show the dangers of using these licenses, even though what you say is wrong.
As soon as GNUStep were to gain traction Apple would aim its cadre of legally-trained rats at it in order to keep it from becoming a viable free source-compatible build target for OS-X software.
Simple really. Either those ads will be recognizable on the block level...
...and they can be filtered out that way or the next generation of ad blockers will work like the current crop of spam blockers by comparing block signatures in pages to known ads. If the block matches the ad is blocked or hidden or delayed or greyed or silenced or... whatever the user wants.
This race has been run and the ad blockers have won. As long as computers remain freely programmable there will be ways to make them filter out crud.
As long as they remain freely programmable... so make sure you don't lose that freedom!
Apple wants Flash - and any other platform which can be used to create something resembling an application - to go away because those platforms allow others to target their precious without paying the ferryman. If someone were to find a way to create installable apps using only the stuff installed on their platform they'd find a way to disable it come the next firmware release and/or write some clause into the EULA that explicitly forbids some essential part of the process. Apple goods are to be used as Apple says they should.
After all, quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi...
By using the concept 'good taste' you push Apple products even further into the realm of fashion. Taste is as subjective as it gets and to claim that preferring Apple products shows you have 'good taste' shows you don't judge Apple products by objective criteria but more by whether they appeal to your sense of fashion.
Some people claim that those who wear clothes which are in fashion show they have 'good taste'. Nobody will claim those fashionable people wear factory-ripped jeans with holes and patches because those jeans are 'better' than a pair of un-worn, hole-free jeans. They are fashionable, the in-crowd wears them. If you want to be seen as part of the in-crowd you wear them as well. Not because they are better.
No, those two just play into any potential success of a scheme like this. The 'game servers' would be hosted at the ISP's themselves so that there is no upstream bandwidth consumption and the ISP can claim to be generous to their customers - 'we offer unlimited gameplay for "only" $zillion,-'. The ISP can make money by hosting those game servers and receiving part of the subscription fees.
If all this sounds like a pernicious scheme that never should see the light of day I can only say I agree. It also makes it all the more likely that something like this will be implemented.
ah, but you did notice that Sophos is in the business of selling anti-virus software? It should not come as a surprise then that they tell you you need it on your phone. They'd try to convince you you need anti-virus on your washing machine and your microwave.
"Scientific publishers" are parasites which have spread like a cancer. A healthy dose of these ketones would be in order to contain this threat. I do a lot of searches for veterinary medicine articles to help solve difficult cases. In most cases those searches end up producing a host of Elsevier/Wiley/etc pages demanding payment to read the article which they hold hostage. What have those publishers done to be allowed to put up this paywall?
The sooner they are removed from the publishing cycle the better it will be for all, except their shareholders for whom I frankly don't give a damn. These self-appointed tax collectors singlehandedly manage to negate the advantage of modern communications technology by putting up an artifical and costly barrier to entry which does nothing for scientific research but everything for their own wallets.
What made you think that we here in the Olde Worlde thought you would be laughing about our ashy situation? I have not heard anything even remotely resembling such an accusation. Nothing in the media, nothing from 'real people', zilch, nada, niente, nichts...
Reading the proposals by the MAFIAA I can not help but notice that they keep on referring to the act of copyright infringement as 'copyright theft'. As far as I know copyright law does not deal with theft, it deals with infringement on the limited rights given to the copyright holder. Copyright theft sounds more like someone breaks into some fictional 'copyright register' and steals the actual copyrights, denying the original copyright holder of those rights in the future.
I can only assume that the actual laws which they buy are worded more correctly but if ever someone were to be sued for 'copyright theft' I assume this would be grounds for dismissal. After all, the copyrights can not be stolen if the copyright holder still has them and copyright law does not deal with stolen property.
So? You have broadband at home I assume? What keeps you from running a proxy on that? Those silly web filters will only disappear once their utter futility has been proven enough for even the most dimwitted CIO. Those filters are not an alternative for creating a challenging work environment. If people want to waste time on the job they'll find something to waste it on, filters be damned...
Good! Splendid! If this means that infernal twitterbird gets removed from all those sites it has been showing up I'd say have them plaster all their twittertwatter with Re: herbal v14gr4 poker gambling ads 'till the cows come home.
Twitter is a bad idea. It might fit in the attention-span deficient, Idol-aspiring 5 minutes of fame ideal of a dumbed-down happy consumer society but I don't want that fork of the decision tree to become the set future. There is still time to change track.
Throw the switch! Kill the bird! Stamp it down!
Next on the menu: Holler, the new twitter! Scream out loud to all the world!
Have a look at the contents of the /etc/bash_completion.d/ directory:
Notice those individual tool/command names? Those are completion snippets for the specific command. A tool author can create one of those to tailor bash completion for his/her creation.